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Hi there, its nice to meet ya! Please call me Marie. I'm a digital artist, toy collector, and this site's webmaster from the midwest, USA. And, if you can't tell already, I'm queer and neurodivergent as hell.
I struggle to describe myself, so here are some traits my friends came up with: big sister energy, aloof, dork, optimistic, crybaby, nerd, and shy. I think I'm funny too, but they'd never admit it.
My hobbies are drawing, animation, reading, animanga, toy collecting, fashion, music, and nature. I enjoy learning about paleonology, myth/cryptozoology, and aliens/speculative-biology, aka what I like to call "what was, isn't, and might be". I indulge in most of my interests in a creative or educational way, I'm most happy if I'm making or learning something new.
I have a large collection of fashion dolls, plushies, blind box bjds, horse figures, and anime figures. My absolute favorites are Monster High, My Little Pony g3, and Hatsune Miku figures. I'm in the process of cataloguing them all on my /collections page!
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This website is a little-bit-of-everything site that is webmastered by yours truely. It is my home on the internet, a place I wanted to code from scratch to share my own creations, thoughts, hobbies, and silly pointless webpages. I try to code with basic accessibility in mind. This website is also mobile friendly and stylistically inconsistent, sticking to one single aesthetic or "brand" stresses me out.
Why make a personal site? First of all, social media's issues continue to get worse. To name a few: hostility towards creatives, censorship of marginalized users, right-wing/conspiracy pipelines, data, advertising, and privacy issues, and algorithmically encouraged harassment and misinfomation.
I'm old enough to remember when the internet wasn't centeralized in a handful of mega platforms and was instead spread across who knows how many forums, personal sites, smaller blogging platforms, etc. I think we've lost a lot of connection, expression, and nuance and replaced them with souless algorithms. I think algorithmic complacency is a real problem, and corporations cannot be trusted to guide who and what we see online.
In the year since I made this website and changed how I use the internet, I've been a lot more creative and aware of how much time I spend online. I'm more likely to take people in good faith and at the same time better at spotting patterns of toxicity and deceit. I'm less likely to doomscroll and instead find productive ways to help. I find more stuff I'm interested in and rarely see advertisements, AI slop, and shit-stirers. I look forward to logging on because I get to see real people share their art, writing, hobbies, and talk to them about it aka what the internet should be for.
I use an iPad 6th Generation, Apple Pencil, Procreate, and Toonsquid to draw and animate.
For brushes, I use Jingsketch's Basic 10 Procreate Brushes, TheDawner's Brushset, Fanghaunt's Nasty Brush Pack, Madeleine Bellwoar's Ghibli Inspired Brushes, and Azu's Best Men (unfortunately no longer online ;_;).
That's Marie! They're my fursona and the main character of my project THRIVE IN SPITE! They are a nonbinary bobtail housecat who likes gardening, Minecraft, and dinosaurs. You can read more about them on my /characters page!
YES, of course! I'm always so thankful and honored whenever anyone likes my OCs enough and takes the time to draw them! Please let me know via email or social media, so that I can see it and thank you!
I've known some pretty basic html/css from tinkering with my profiles on sites like Toyhouse and Neopets, but when I wanted to make my own website I took the webcoding courses on freecodecamp! I also spend a lot of time referencing w3schools and mdn web docs walkthroughs.
Sure! Though I'd like to point you to my /resources page first, as I have a ton of beginner friendly tutorials and templates there! If you've already looked through that and would still like help, feel free to email me!
Most likely, the project either outgrew my current self or I wanted to focus on something else. I'm the only person working on my projects and I don't monetize any of them (nor do I want to), so sometimes I need to shelf things until I have the time, energy, and inspiration to work on them again. I also prefer to work on projects when my heart is in it, so I shelf them if I start to get bored or overwhelmed. I do plan to bring them all to some kind of conclusion, someday...
I didn't start drawing until I was 13 years old, and I've been self taught ever since. I went to a couple college demos, but they were not good experiences so I've never gone back. I learn best from books and speedpaints/tutorials on YouTube.
Sorry, no. I'm currently on an indefinite hiatus from commission work to focus on my health and personal projects. If I ever open commissions again, I'll make a page with my prices and terms of service on this website!