1997: The X-Men Fanfic Site
In January of 1997, my cousin and I wrote these really, really stupid “round robin” X-Men fanfics that mostly just included Cyclops dying in a multitude of silly ways. For some reason (!) no serious X-Men Fan Fiction websites would accept our stories, so I decided to make my own website on AOL to put our stories on. I learned basic HTML in order to build a simple little members.aol.com site and then decided I ought to add some more content; why not add some of my X-Men fanart, too? I had done “chibi” portraits of my favourite X-Men characters and quickly learned I really enjoyed maintaining a site and sharing my art.

1998: A Merry Good Page
In Dec of 1997, I had outgrown the AOL members website, so I begged my parents to forego giving me a monthly allowance, and instead pay for monthly hosting so I could move my website to simplenet. I chose “carp” as my username (because my best friend Ash and I thought “carp” was a funny word), and named my site “A Merry Good Page!” It had already quickly expanded from being an X-Men site; it was now my personal art portfolio site. I had become a huge fan of FF7, and from there, into other anime and games, so a lot of my art posted throughout 1998 reflects that.
And also in 1998, I began work on my online comic, SunDowner!

1999: Bad Candy
In 1999 I renamed my site “The Brother Makes Bad Candy” — a name you can thank magnetic poetry for, and later in 99, I moved to my own domain name.
I continued adding new issues of SunDowner, new art and fanart, as well as redesigning my site countless times. Too many to ever post them all here!!

2000: Super Freak Out
Going into 2000, I expanded my website and made a “base camp” called “Super Freak Out” – which linked to Bad Candy, SunDowner, my blog, and all of my other countless mini-sites – I had an Utena mini-site, a Xenogears mini-site, a Star Wars mini-site, and Astronomy Domine, my Harry Potter site. For Halloween in 2000, I realized I was getting into this costume thing enough to make a page dedicated to my costumes, and thus “Lazy Eternity” was born (More magnetic poetry for you),

2001: Whisky a*go*go
The madness continued into 2001. More redesigns, more SunDowner, more art, and more costumes, and I renamed my blog Whisky a*go*go. I also attended my first anime cons, Animazement and MTAC, that year, and got more heavily into costuming – it wasn’t just for Halloween anymore! I made around 10 costumes that year in addition to going to school, posting art, and redesigning my website a gazillion times.

2002: A Day at the Races
In 2002, I self-published a re-drawn edition of SunDowner 1 and 2 as one volume. It was super exciting! I also went to a bunch more cons – Animazement and MTAC again, and Otakon and Dragon Con for the first time. I also redesigned my blog again and again and again, renaming my blog A Day at the Races and my costume site A Night at the Opera. I closed down a bunch of my mini-sites to focus on my blog, costume site, and portfolio. My site didn’t get redesigned NEAR as much because I was so busy!

2003: Lunatic Dingo
In 2003 I burned out. Between college, the intense work of producing and self-publishing SunDowner, and my growing interest in costuming, I neglected my sites a bit and focused a lot more on sewing and blogging. In late 2003, Bad Candy officially became Lunatic Dingo. (Where did the name Lunatic Dingo come from, you may ask? I actually cannot remember LOL. I THINK it also came from magnetic poetry silliness around the same time as Bad Candy. I still like it, because it means nothing!)

2004-2008: A Night at the Opera
For the next several years, my main site stagnated as I focused more and more on my costume site. In fact I think it had the same black “tree sketch” front page for nearly 3 years!! Over time my costuming site took over as the main section of my website. By 2008, my blogger version of my blog had become nothing but a place for me to post surveys and quiz results, and eventually I abandoned it. (And hey I also got married in 2008! Yay!)

2009-2016: Kelldar.com
In 2009, I pulled the plug on my old domain and officially moved everything over to kelldar.com, which I’d already been using as a forwarding address. Blogger also stopped supporting posting to outside hosts, and since I still used blogger for adding updates to my costume site, I scrambled to find a replacement. I switched over to wordpress, and ported over my old livejournal posts (both regular livejournal and costume livejournal) to try to keep everything in one place.

2016-Now: Lunatic Dingo: the Exhibition of Questionable Content
Since 2009 my site has functioned as both my costume portfolio and blog. In 2016, I finally made the decision to port over all of my old blogger posts, in addition to going back into my 1998 HTML files and digging up what I could find of my old “Free Talk” segments my original site! I’ve also added back ALL of my old artwork, going back through 1998 – and I also went back to the site name “Lunatic Dingo.” (because kelldar.com was super boring right?!)

In 2025, the wordpress theme I’d been using for yeeears started to break. Turns out it was no longer being maintained by the creators, so every wordpress update was breaking it a tiny bit more. My blog headers stopped working, then my portfolio headers. I held out as long as I could patching it together, but I finally had to bite the bullet and in January 2026, I’ve migrated to a new theme, Ashe Pro. Yay!

(And, if for some reason, you’d like to read a bit more about my site’s looks and designs over the years, I dedicated a full post to here during my blog’s 20th birthday celebrations!)