HK★TMK

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

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

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

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

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