ABOUT THIS SITE

The Roshenperium is a personal website and digital archive that acts as a repository for any posts I may share. Here, I can express myself more than any social media app can. Upon navigating my site you’ll find an assortment of writings, images, music, and collections of various things I’m passionate about. This site is my digital sanctum and just like many other sites it will forever be a work in progress. In September 2024, I launched this website with the intention of ditching social media and making something that is personal to me. All due to my growing disdain towards an unknown and bleak technological future.

WHY ROSHENPERIUM?

The name’s origins are from context and wordplay that stems from an old username Roshenbow. It merges my RPG name Roshen with a preexisting word “Roshambo” (a nod to rock paper scissors). I have a strong affinity for portmanteau words and have always enjoyed clever wordplay. With that in mind, I wanted to combine my name with the suffix "-rium" as it refers to a place designed for a specific purpose (e.g. "sanitarium"). I wanted a name that could evoke a feeling of sanctuary for me in this digital age where the direction towards social media and the internet has been plagued with tech giants, commercialization, algorithms, influencers, promotion of AI, and a lack of authenticity or sincerity. For a moment it felt like the internet was dead, and all the while I struggled to find a word that flowed well with Roshen. While brainstorming I was reminded of the word "imperium" which is a rather odd word to choose as it refers to absolute power and domination. Strangely it does describe the current state of the internet that is controlled by tech giants perfectly well, and that word does have a history with me. Back in high school, I wrote a short story for a class project called Imperium, which was albeit a terrible psychological sci-fi that directly ripped off Dead Space and Event Horizon. Still, I chose that word because imperium in my eyes perfectly describes the state of the internet. The Roshenperium is a digital sanctum that actively rejects the tech giants that reign over it.