About

Austin

October 6th, 2015

August 14th, 2023

I reside in northeast Florida, where I collect seashells and glare into the sun every morning.

I wrote this over a decade ago, and it still stands.

About Me

Hey, I’m Tess! My real name is Austin — which you can still call me, if you want — but go by Tess to avoid the wrong pronouns. SPEAKING OF PRONOUNS, I’m non-binary! Names aside: I’m in my mid-30s, I’m an over-the-top cat parent, I’m bi-sexual, my Myers-Briggs score keeps changing, and I’m chronically ill.

  • I am in my mid-30s, born the year of the snake. 🐍 I’m a Scorpio with a hellacious chart; there’s a lot of Earth and Water signs, with one (1) fire sign, but the best one at least (Sagittarius).
  • I love action/adventure and crime movies and TV. I like comedies, too — standup, British sitcoms, adult animation, et al. — but prefer to fall asleep to Criminal Minds or The X-Files.
  • I study tarot, witchcraft, vampirology, and astrology in my free time. Please don’t tell me your birth time, I will compile your chart and use it to analyze your behavior. I also love reading fanfiction and romance novels of any kind.
  • Want to know more about all my animals? Look, I’ve already created a page. You’re welcome!

    About This Website

    My popular posts come from the P & G and Adventures categories, particularly about my deliberately politically incorrect late Dad. Lyone has seen many interations, including Smooth, Suga Suga (I know), mu-equita.net, and finally Noir Vogue. It will include blog entries that date back to 2008.

    Lyone is currently powered by WordPress using my own theme, with help from the following plugins:

  • Advanced Custom Fields
    I use ACF for the userpic (left photo of every single post or page), mood board, and medications list. I also use it for displaying pinned posts for administrators only, and miscellaneous user options when signing up/editing a profile.
  • Flexy Breadcrumb
  • Font Awesome
    Any tiny icon you see before, during, and/or after any text uses Font Awesome shortcodes.
  • Jetpack
  • Mega Menu
  • Real Media Library
    I use this plugin to sort my media files into folders, which makes it easier to choose from the gallery.
  • Really Disable Emojis
  • WP Links Page
    This is the plugin I use for my Projects page.
  • The icons used for posts and pages are credited below:

  • Picons Social Icon Pack
  • Typicons
    All post formats — omitting the quote format — and most site icons.
  • Iconoir Vol.3
    The quote format icon, and the search icon above the header.
  • Emoji Icon Pack
    Mood board on single posts.
  • Addiction/Drugs / Coffee
    For the meds/activity list on single posts.
  • The background image came from: Cyrus Crossan . Anything else was coded or implemented by me; any errors are most likely my fault.