HK★TMK

Blog posts and art roundups from Hika/Tām—the OC Art/Comics/Zines guy that loves to yap.

by Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Writing! Healing from Burnout, etc.) @hikatamika.com

From 2025 to 2026

Things I'm leaving behind in 2025. Things I've learned. Did I even accomplish anything? Yes, but it doesn't feel like it.

December 23, 2025

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An Ode to Email

Internet friends are real. But moots and oomfies are not friendship at its fullest potential. Once again, it's the UX's fault.

December 08, 2025

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2025.11 Journal

How I've been doing/feeling, November 2025.

December 06, 2025

Alienated Impostor

What if OCsky was an accident? What if Graphic Design was a fluke? My achievements feel like prisons.

November 23, 2025

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Double Digital-Detox Report

I feel like Social Media detoxing was supposed to make me recentered and rejuvenated for a return to it… Now I just want to Quiet-Quit and be a Social Media visitor instead of a Social Media resident.

November 17, 2025

Small-Web Survival Guide for Social-Web Dropouts

SocMed Brain-Poison makes the Small-Web one hell of a withdrawal experience, but it'll be for the best.

November 09, 2025

Manifesto: An Online Creative's Social Web Dethroning

"Oh great, now he's writing manifestos…" Don't worry. It's just a personal one to solidify and manifest how I want to use the Social Web once my detox concludes.

November 06, 2025

My Posting Pains

Sharing became a stage, my peers became unwilling judges, and I developed a phobia of tomatoes, and even silence.

November 04, 2025

On Audience: Posts are Like Farts in the Wind

How micro-blogging, feeds, and algorithms leave us disappointed sometimes, and what we can do to fix it.

October 11, 2025

Hello World! A Leaflet Exclusive

How I plan to use my Leaflet account, and some feelings on micro vs macro-blogging in general.

October 08, 2025

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