diff --git a/hosts/tsuki/home.nix b/hosts/tsuki/home.nix
index 89b86fb..a435c1e 100755
--- a/hosts/tsuki/home.nix
+++ b/hosts/tsuki/home.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-{config, pkgs, ...}:
-
 {
+  pkgs,
+  ...
+}: {
 
 imports = [
   ../../home
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ imports = [
     username = "notoh";
     homeDirectory = "/home/notoh";
     packages = with pkgs; [
+      (callPackage ../../pkgs/chatterino7 {})
       chromium
       bitwarden
       discord
diff --git a/pkgs/README.md b/pkgs/README.md
index 91d1f4d..3193f14 100644
--- a/pkgs/README.md
+++ b/pkgs/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
 <h1 align="center">:package: pkgs</h1>
 
-not in use yet, will house packages once i get comfortable writing them
+this directory hosts derivations of packages not found in nixpkgs, and overrides.
+
+name            | description
+--------------- | -----------
+`chatterino7`   | [7tv fork](https://github.com/SevenTV/chatterino7)of chatterino2, a chat client for twitch.tv
diff --git a/pkgs/chatterino7/default.nix b/pkgs/chatterino7/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c4ec721
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/chatterino7/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{
+  stdenv,
+  lib,
+  cmake,
+  pkgs,
+}:
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "chatterino7";
+  version = "7.4.2";
+  src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "SevenTV";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "sha256-WHdrFUTTuPN+U9BIsE6Ht2EdwIqWfVJzlwDg0Bwvr/w=";
+    fetchSubmodules = true;
+  };
+  nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [ cmake pkg-config libsForQt5.qt5.wrapQtAppsHook ];
+  buildInputs = with pkgs; [ libsForQt5.qt5.qtbase libsForQt5.qt5.qtsvg libsForQt5.qt5.qtmultimedia libsForQt5.qt5.qtimageformats libsForQt5.qt5.qttools boost openssl libsecret ];
+   configurationPhase = ''
+   mkdir build && cd build
+   cmake ..
+  '';
+   buildPhase = ''
+   make
+  '';
+   installPhase = ''
+   mkdir -p "$out/bin"
+   mv "bin/chatterino" "$out/bin"
+  '' + ''
+   mkdir -p $out/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps
+   cp $src/resources/icon.png $out/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/chatterino.png
+  '';
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/default.nix b/pkgs/default.nix
index 7245960..e69de29 100644
--- a/pkgs/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/default.nix
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{ pkgs ? (import ../nixpkgs.nix) { } }: {
-
-}