About Dreaming in Celadon

Hi there! My name is Sabi, and I started the first version of this site in early 2024. The plan was to use it as a space to put words that I had bottled up. In time, it grew as I devised all kinds of little ideas to play with. Most ideas were abandoned, though! I never did make a shrines section. But I realized that is because there was no need to declare one area a shrine. My site as a whole is a shrine to the written word. Not much has brought me the sheer amount of comfort, love, and joy as it has. So instead of extolling the value of Ghibli, tea, and shitty music (which I still love even if not I did not digitally enshrine them), I realized that this is enough.

This space also serves as a statement of sorts. By letting it exist quietly, with no goals, monetary ambitions, or need for recognition, it became a powerful reminder that not everything I do needs to be tied to “value”. That what I value as a person matters more than the molds that I did not choose. And that if I had a frustration at the ubiquity of everything being tied to value, that change starts from a single step. A step where instead of wishing for better, I create something that aligns with my beliefs. On my terms, with no apology, and with the exhilarating freedom of doing something I love.

As a name, Dreaming in Celadon was a bit of an accident. I really wanted to be Dreaming in Neon. But neon was taken, as people before me knew the coolness of it :p But I like celadon more now. Because every dream I have is bundled in the very desire to live serenely. I'm autistic, and I already live in neon intensity more often than not.

What I mean is, each act of speech stands on the belief that someone will hear.
– Helen Oyeyemi (White is for Witching)