hihi & welcome 💜
Okay so. You found it. My website. The one I have been threatening to build since approximately forever, and finally actually built at 2am on a Tuesday fueled by peppermint tea and pure spite for every "clean minimalist portfolio" template I have ever been shown by well-meaning friends. This is not that. This will never be that.
My name is Aurora Moreno — well, it's the name I write under, the name that feels like me in a way my actual legal name never quite managed to. I am a writer. I am extremely a Pisces about it (dramatic, waterlogged, prone to writing entire essays about a single sunset). This corner of the internet is where I keep the parts of myself that don't fit neatly into a query letter or an "about the author" blurb: my actual diary, my drafts and half-finished poems, my unreasonably strong opinions about which candle scent is "a personality," and a guestbook I will absolutely be checking obsessively.
"Build a website like nobody in 2026 is watching." — me, to myself, at 2am, several energy drinks deep
I built this whole thing by hand — every tag, every dumb little animation, every shade of pink — because there is something so satisfying about a website that looks like an actual person made it, instead of a website that looks like it assembled itself out of a template while nobody was watching. If it's a little chaotic in here, that is intentional. I contain multitudes. Several of those multitudes are wearing glitter.
what's new around here 🌟
| date | what happened |
|---|---|
| 07.18 | launched the whole entire site!! be nice, she's new |
| 07.15 | added a new poem to my writing page, it's about a bus stop, don't ask |
| 07.09 | updated faves with my current comfort-rewatch (again) |
| 07.02 | started this website. immediately got distracted for two weeks by font research |
a lil word of the week ✧
"saudade" — a longing for something you loved and lost, even if you're not sure it ever really existed.
I collect words like this the way other people collect stamps. If you have one you love, tell me in my guestbook — I will absolutely use it in a poem and probably not credit you, that's just how this works, it's called the creative process, look it up.