Writer. Illustrator. Reader.
This is my little corner of the internet, a place where I get to do things my way. I love to write, read, paint, and take photos, and this is where I gather it all: an evolving archive of my creative work, past and present. For years, I shared my art and photography on Instagram and now write a newsletter on Substack, but I’ve grown tired of chasing algorithms and adapting to shifting platforms. This space is my digital studio, journal, and gallery rolled into one — a creative home that’s entirely mine.
Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of it actually happened? Did any of it? Why do I keep a notebook at all? … Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.
— Joan Didion
a newsletter for the chronically online, written by Annika, a millennial who never really fitted in.
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I’m Annika, and the internet and I have a complicated relationship. Let’s just say I tread a fine line between enthusiast, addict, loving, and hating it here. I love to read and write. I started many blogs and deleted them all, always scared that I would not fit in.
Well, I turned 30 a while ago and there is one thing that happens when you turn 30: you stop giving a fuck.
So, welcome to my corner of the internet.