I'm Ghast, the zombie running this place. I'm a filth artist, a self-taught digital illustrator, though I'd like to branch out, and I have an interest in the grungy, grimy, horrific and perverse. Art's my biggest passion and something I've dedicated to since I was 8.

I'm into things like punk, goth, metal, I'm really into industrial both musically and aesthetically. I've loved horror and gore my entire life, from watching happy tree friends in elementary to having a gore blog in high school, I've always been kind of an edgy faggot. None of this stems from any desire to be transgressive I've just always liked what I like and my work is masturbatory in nature.

Though I do believe the world needs more blood, sex, vomit, dirt, kink, fetish, and vulgarity and that's part of my goal with my work, my main goal being "make art that's sick as fuck/i'm happy with". It's why I self ascribe as a filth artist, I'm into rapeplay and have a gore fetish, the shit I make is indecent. Everything is so sanitized and consumable these days, sex is bad, fetish is bad, you have "serial killer vibes" for enjoying dark things and I can't fucking stand it, especially as a gay man with an interest in queer history. The fact people are calling themselves queers while getting up in arms about shit like pup masks and leather pride "it gives gay people a bad name" makes me sick.

There's a quote from Kid Congo Powers of The Cramps, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and currently the Pink Monkey Birds, it's about being in a band but it still resonates with me:

For me, the whole art of being a band—and I do think it's an art—is to create a whole world, a whole language, that is every aspect. The Gun Club, we kind of made it up as we went along, but what I learned from The Cramps and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds is that they created a whole uncompromising world, and it's all kind of sprung out of that. You want to communicate with people, and I think through all aesthetics—artwork, the look, and music—you get to keep your world, and you get to let people enter your world and live in your world with you.

My internal world is one that scratches and scrapes against the larger society around it, not intentionally but just by being. This website and my art is me carving out a space in the world to create what I want and be my sincere self, and any who may be enamored by the same or similar obscenities, or have an interest in things strange and weird, or simply just curious are welcome here! Honestly even the people who think I'm a freak who should seek help are welcome here cause it's funny.

Rewrote my about again, probably will rewrite it again for V3. I kinda feel like I should remove the quote but I do really like the quote.

I'm still working on finishing this anatomy course, and I still need to get shit set up for taking commissions. I'm also dealing with real life stress document stuff because of hospital bills. The thing I'm working on with friends is making some progress.

Will rewrite this section eventually

I guess this is a thing I've seen on other sites so maybe I should write one as well. I started this site back in 2017 originally as basically a wiki for all of my original characters, Toyhouse is nice for what it is but leaves a lot to be desired and all the alternatives suck worse, so making my own site seemed like the best option even if when I started it I didn't know how to code for the longest time. Originally the intention was to keep this site fairly minimalist focusing entirely on getting shit filled out and worrying about making it look good later and I created a second site for where I could be indulgent and put whatever, but as I was looking at that second site I went "actually no I want my art website to look cool too" and as I've made my art website cooler I realized trying to code two seperate sites is too much for me, one larger site is better, so here we are.

Some of my desire is fueled by having been on the internet since 2008, I miss the customizability that's degraded over time, a site with code is very customizable. I consider art to be an extension of my self-expression like the clothes I wear and so my website is also like that, a sorta virtual house where you can see my Ghostface figurines and coffin shaped coaster. It also means no matter what happens on other sites I've still got here and honestly these days I prefer here than going on other sites, the bluesky link on the side is honestly just there to put something there, I hate using bluesky. Though I don't put my whole stock in neocities after all something could possibly happen to it and then I'd have to find a new place always be ready for possibilities like that yknow? Basically the only social you'll really see me active on is a fediverse instance run by one of my friends.

I think the biggest push to having my own site is simply that there is no good art posting website, don't try to recommend me one I've tried several, deviantart, artfol, inkblot, cara, fucking buzzly, unvale, characterhub, refsheet, instagram (gags), you get the idea. Closest that I've liked is sheezy and I think sheezy has potential but it's still not quite there you know? It really seemed like the only way I could post my art in a way I truly like is on my own website. Another thing too is that many of these sites don't allow adult content or have restrictions on them and I am a normal adult man who likes gore and porn so that immediately detracts for me. I hope over time more artists make good personal sites, with RSS feeds that I can follow, please get an RSS feed.