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The Lore Behind "Sephlow"
Taking into effect on September 27th, 2023.tl;dr
(too long, don't read)I'm changing from my previous alias known as "SkittlesBeats" to "Sephlow" on most platforms in order to grow from my previous interests, seperate my younger years from my upcoming years, and to have a name that resembles me a little bit more. Here's what I'm changing specifically:
- skittlesbeats.neocities.org > fh102.neocities.org
- Discord, Bluesky, Cohost, Mastodon, some other sites I'm probably forgetting > changing "skittlesbeats" to "sephlow"
- Instagram, Threads, Facebook > changing "skittlesbeats" to "someofdevonne"
- Bandcamp, YouTube, Soundcloud, Twitch, Spotify, Tapas, a few others > staying "skittlesbeats" for historical purposes
- Twitter/X, Reddit > going semi-inactive for the time being
Q&A time!
For any more questions, please message me through Discord or send me an email!- Can I still call you Skittles?
- What will happen to Squiddles, your Splatoon OC?
- Why'd you change your name to "sephlow?"
- Why'd you change some handles to "sephlow" & others to "someofdevonne?"
- WHY ARE YOU GOING INACTIVE ON TWITTER/X???
- Where can I see your Twitter-esque posts?
- Why'd you change your website URL?
Yes, please, keep calling me Skittles. I don't want that nickname to ever go away. I love it!
I am and will continue to use him as my online embodiment. I will still continue to use him for profile pictures and whatnot, and will continue to draw them as well!
Please read the long version of the new lore for those details.
SomeOfDevonne is what I'm going to use for more "personal" sites, to distinguish my new creative tag (sephlow) from my more real and less-online self (someofdevonne). For example, I post more selfies on sites with the SomeOfDevonne handle because that's just how I've always done. Can I crosspost things like this? Sure! Will I be promoting my friends' projects with the SomeOfDevonne accounts? Maybe -- these tend to be accounts that I don't check super often. Sorry.
Oh boy, I've been waiting to explain this one.
In short, it's not the same platform that I grew up on, but it's the one I have legacy on. However, it causes enough psychic damage where I don't want to be on it anymore. The ads, the suggested tweets, the For You page... it's all too algorithm-focused and it's going downhill from here.
I don't check the app on mobile, but rather on desktop probably a few days at a time. I'm going to keep using it, but here are my rules:
Will I keep liking content? Of course, when I see it. My friends create and share some amazing stuff, so of course I'll like it!
Will I keep up with my friends on it? I would rather interact with them off of Twitter/X.
Will I promote my friends' posts, via retweets or otherwise? I'll try - sending them to me on another platform is probably the best chance of me seeing it rather than in the moment.
I'm truly sorry if I missed one of your banger posts. Please send it to me on Discord so we can laugh at it together!
Mostly on Bluesky for now. it's a place where you can really curate what you can see. No ads, little to no drama, and I can be myself (for now, anyway.) I don't get as many likes and such on my posts, but I don't really care about that stuff anymore. It's a philosophy I've adapted with this home -- if I cared so much about likes and engagement, I wouldn't have built this webpage from scratch. I just want a place to be myself and share what I care about. I will try to branch out to other places (Threads, Cohost, Mastodon, etc.) but it hasn't been successful so far. I apologize for the inconvenience.
"fh102" otherwise known as Flouder Heights 102, is what I'm calling my not-professional site, consisting of constant/consistent updates from me about my life and creative endeavors. I like it better than using social media because it's something I have to push out rather than hitting "post," if that makes sense. It feels like I'm moving the Earth anytime I update my site, and I really like that feeling. Plus, I already have a website with my name on it: devonne.net.
the long version.
This will explain my thought process behind the name change.Thank you, yes, you, for reading all of this if you decide to, I really appreciate it!
So, why the change?
I wanted to change simply because I'm changing. The way I use the Internet has changed and has been changing for the past few months. I don't really like using social media all that much anymore. I like seeing my friends' posts in a timely manner, though. Does that necessitate social media? For some of my friends, yes, and that's okay -- but for others, not really. And with social media, comes a name for yourself. I wanted a name that meant a little something more to me than anything, without being attached to a brand. Don't get it twisted now though, I do love me some Skittles.
SkittlesBeats is a name I've been using since 2014. It was a name born out of circumstance -- the middle school bully called the multi-colored headphones I was wearing gay, and I retorted with, "at least they're Beats quality!" Turn multi-colored into Skittles, and boom, SkittlesBeats. I didn't start making music for another year, so no, that's not where the "Beats" part came from. But I'm incredibly happy that that's what it turned into.
2014 until 2023 has been so, so transformative for me. Going from high school to college and beyond, to breaking free from my parents' grasps and being independent, it's been a long journey -- and the name SkittlesBeats has stuck through all of that. It's been with me to online parties, it's been with me to MAGFest, it's been with me to friends' houses big and small, it's been with me on business cards and it's even been with me on nametags. SkittlesBeats will forever be who I am, not who I was.
Here's an embarrassing picture that I made when I first started using the name:
A lot of SkittlesBeats grew up on the Internet. All of my current friends know that name by heart, and I love that. They know me from the music I used to create, hence why I want to keep my music up and free for everyone to hear. By listening to that music, you'd be making that little kid in 2015 sitting behind his Compaq Windows laptop who thought he couldn't do it very, very happy. They know me from the stories I used to write as well, so those handles for those platforms won't change either.
If I ever decide to make music again, I will use the new alias. Speaking of which...
This new name, Sephlow, is something new for me -- a change I've been meaning to make for a while, honestly. I wanted to something to feel a little closer to home, something that made sense to me by definition, yet something a little more general instead of "brand name, then noun" type thing, haha. It also had to be short.
After some workshopping with my good friend DINAARI (who's technically only known me by SkittlesBeats since 2016, damn!) I eventually came up with Sephlow.
The Caribbean Reef Squid, scientifically classified as the "S. sepioidea," is typically brown/tan in color, but has the ability to appear very colorful in order to communicate with its kind. Splatoon is a Nintendo gaming franchise that has featured half cephalopod/half humanoid creatures known as Inklings since 2015.
What do I love more than colors and Splatoon? My Trinidadian (yes, Caribbean) roots that make me who I am. Sephlow is a term that means a lot to me. While not wholly, 100% unique, it's my made-up word used to describe myself in more ways than one.
I plan on using this name simply for creative projects going forward. My drawings and designs? Signed sephlow. Any future writing projects or hubs for creativity? Penned under Sephlow. People don't have to call me "Sephlow" in voice calls or anything -- it's a little weird to say out loud. Just call me Skittles or my real name, if you know it!
Anyway, time to wrap this up. Thank you again for reading this. I love you, and will still always love you. Thank you for accepting this change, and for who I am as a whole. Don't be afraid to change for yourself -- nothing won't change unless you push yourself. Thank you for being my friend, for watching me grow up.
With love,
Sephlow > SkittlesBeats > spriterwriter > sjo165 > Devonne