The Defiant Heart Behind the Work

🕯 About Me

My name is Anastasia — though for a long time, I lived behind the name Stacy.
I’ve spent much of my life surviving more than I ever admitted out loud, moving through years that felt heavy, quiet, and shadowed. But somewhere inside all that weight, something kept pulling me back to one truth:

I need to create.

I write when my chest is too full to speak.
I build when my hands need to release what my voice can’t carry.
I turn scraps, neon glow, memory, and darkness into something alive — something that feels like a piece of the world I’ve always carried in my mind.

There were years when I didn’t write at all.
Years when I convinced myself my voice didn’t matter.
Years when survival was the only thing I knew how to do.

But I’m here now — rebuilding, unburying, reclaiming.

This site is the place where all my pieces meet:
the reflections that cracked me open,
the stories I’m finally brave enough to speak,
and the haunted, glowing creations I make when words fail me.

If you’ve found your way here, welcome to the maze.
These pages are pieces of me — the truth, the shadows, the grit, the heart.
I hope something inside it helps you feel a little less alone.

💜 Why I Create

Creativity has been my lifeline.

Every breakdown, every haunted build, every late-night sentence is me trying to understand the things I’ve carried — and refusing to stay invisible while I do it. The things I make and the things I write are how I breathe, how I process, and how I prove to myself that I exist beyond what I’ve survived.

🌒 What You’ll Find Here

• The Things I See – song and movie breakdowns that hit harder than I expected and forced me to face myself.

• The Things I Write – personal stories, reflections, and the weight I’ve carried, turned into words.

• The Things I Make – haunted, glowing DIY creations built from scraps, spray paint, fog, and stubborn imagination.

Together, they’re all just different ways of telling the same story:
a defiant heart that refused to stay quiet.

🖤 What “Defiant Heart Creations” Means to Me

“Defiant Heart Creations” isn’t just a brand or a project.
It is the place where every part of me — the wounded, the brave, the haunted, the rebuilding — finally has somewhere to live.

It’s the creative world I built out of the pieces I once thought were too broken to show.
It’s the pulse that kept beating when everything else went still.
It’s the voice I lost and clawed my way back to.

Defiant Heart Creations is where my truth lives out loud —
in the writing, in the art, in the haunted builds, in the purple glow,
in every strange, beautiful thing I make from the darkness I survived.

It’s not just a name.
It’s my identity, my resilience, my defiance —
turned into a world you can walk into.

✨ Where to Go Next

• Read the reflections: [The Things I Write]

• See the mirrors in movies & music: [The Things I See]

• Explore my haunted builds: [The Things I Make]