
Name: | Saltmarsh |
Pronouns: | they/them |
Born: | 1997 |
Location: | NSW |
Contact: | ephemeralpool[at]proton.me |
Hello! I'm a digital artist and aspiring many other types of artist, but when people ask what I do for a living I pretend to be a freelance graphic designer. I grew up in Texas. At nineteen I moved to Australia to be with my partner, where we live on Djiringanj country on the Far South Coast. For the time being I'm focusing on starting a small art business, but my ultimate goal is to become a contract wild dog controller.
Feel free to reach out if you have questions, comments, or just want to have a conversation, but please do understand that it may take me up to a month to reply to any messages. Additionally, if you know me from "the real world," I would appreciate if you did not snoop around, thanks.
GET TO KNOW ME
CONTROVERSIES
I'm putting this section first to make it more visible to people who value knowing this sort of stuff beforehand. These are not frequent topics, but I am telling you my views now so that it's not a surprise later.
I don't think being asexual and/or aromantic is inherently queer; I don't think transmisandry/transandrophobia is real; I maintain that words mean things and as such don't think you can be an "AMAB transmac" or an "AFAB transfem" or a lesbian who is attracted to men; xenogender stuff weirds me out; I believe that trophy hunting (IMO an outdated and misleading term) can be an important conservation tool; I support breed-specific legislation.
BOUNDARIES
I can't stop you from looking at my website, but I do ask that you not message me, follow me, or comment on my profile if you create, consume, or condone paraphilic content, whether real or fictional/simulated. To be clear, my issue is with content which eroticizes sexual abuse, assault, and exploitation — I don't care about your foot fetish. I'm a kinkster myself, but also kink-critical and firmly against the pro-paraphile movement.
BOOKS
Areas of interest include queer theory, LGBT history, and anything related to Christian fundamentalism, evangelicalism, conservatism, and other facets which shape and motivate Christian extremist ideology and violence, but Christian theology in general is also interesting to me as an ex-Baptist atheist. Recently I've begun dipping my toes into post-structuralism.
FILMS
I honestly don't watch many films, something I'd like to rectify. I largely watch documentaries, but I do have a weakness for really bad werewolf movies, which all of them are.
MUSIC
I listen to techno, house, ambient, and experimental electronic music. Favorite albums are "Compendium" by Old Apparatus, "Engravings" by Forest Swords, "Arca" by Arca, "Ravedeath, 1972" by Tim Hecker, and "For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)" by Huerco S. I have a growing interest in jazz (especially Ethio-jazz), as well as folk/country from outside of America.
ART
Some of my favorite artists are Francis Bacon, Ana Mendieta, and Tomás Sánchez. Wildlife artists whose work I enjoy include Wilhelm Kunhnert, Bob Kuhn, Paul Jouve, and Maurice Wilson.
GAMES
The few games that I play are the ones that I've been playing since I was a kid. Those would be Zoo Tycoon 1, Zoo Tycoon 2, Rollercoaster Tycoon 1, Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, and Rollercoaster Tycoon 3. I also really love horse games (one of the first computer games I ever played was a Let's Ride! game) even though every single one of them is awful.
HOBBIES
Besides maintaining this site, I like to collect animal figurines and stuffed animals, bushwalk as often as I am able to, and run a Tumblr blog where I upload nature photography that I find online. In the future I would like to pursue sewing, embroidery, painting, sculpting, ceramics, leatherworking, and just about every other craft.
INTERESTS
Paleontology, evolution, and biology in general are the topics nearest to my heart, as are hunting, trapping, taxidermy, and invasive species management. I have a fascination with bigfoot and other hominid cryptids, but I’m not a believer, just enamored with them as a cultural phenomenon.
NET HISTORY
I've been using the internet since around 2005. I launched this site in 2025, roughly twenty years later, so that I could stay connected while committing to using the internet more purposefully.
POLITICS
I am an anarchist communist. Simply put, I belive we should strive towards non-hierarchical self-governance and live in a stateless, classless society in which there is common ownership of the means of production, and goods are distributed freely and according to need. I do not vibe with the "we should abolish medicine and treat all ailments with a poultice of mud and leaves" types, nor the "we should continue having police and prisons, exerting unjustified military force on surrounding nations, and conducting large-scale resource extraction, but with a hammer and sickle flag" types.
This page was last updated on 01/04/2025