About

Me

You can call me ‘Raven’. I enjoy digital painting, birdwatching, and listening to music.

3 Fun Facts About Me

I like rainy days.

Uchiha Itachi from Naruto has crows as his messengers and incarnation - that’s the major reason I chose ‘Raven’ as my online nickname at 16 yo. From then on I keep encountering more loveable corvids in literature and reality…

During primary and school my online nickname was ‘Nyan-Nyan Elisa’, which was somehow related to Axis Powers Hetalia for some reason I can’t quite remember.

Why Blogging

This blog started as a class project to build a professional profile. Over time, I decided to make it more personal. Blogging offers a peaceful online experience without big company manipulation - no ads, no infinite scrolling, no censorship. You can filter all my articles by tags.

Why ‘Raven’s Nest’

Corvids like shiny trinkets. I think blogging is like collecting and displaying trinkets online - maybe there are some inherent resemblance? When I lived in Baltimore, I used to see flocks of crows gathering on trees, especially during colder times at dusk and dawn. Sometimes what you think that are leaves would actually be a flock of birds. I tried to re-create that effect in the homepage XD