Origins

As a kid, the internet was my escape hatch from an often chaotic home life. When I wasn't binging summer-reading books for a free Personal Pan Pizza like my survival depended on it, I was living on AIM and Palace Chat with a ragtag guild of teen outcasts who basically co-parented me through some of the worst chapters of my lore.

Remember these lil btches?

Myspace Era

I built a short-lived graphics site as a teen, then migrated to Myspace, where I became the msypace layout plug for every hardcore band kid within a 50-mile radius. These were boys who could two-step in a dirty basement venue but could not, under any circumstances, figure out how to make their profile background not tile. I was the "Can you make the header look more like blood but also like...tasteful blood?" consultant. And then adulthood happened. A career. Deadlines. Meetings. Suddenly the "fun" stuff...the messy, self-taught magic bits got pushed to the margins. Coming back to it now feels like time-travel therapy.

Leveling Up

Well what do ya know? All that escapism turned into a real career in design and marketing. Turns out the thing I did to survive my childhood became the thing that pays my bills! It's healing. It's honoring the kid who built worlds online because the real one didn't feel safe yet.

Things I Love

• BOOKS
• Sushi
• Noodles in all of their beautiful forms
• Tattoos
• Calico Critters, Miffy, Kirby
• Spyro the Dragon [my forever fav]
• Pochacco, Cinnamoroll, My Sweet Piano
• Crossword puzzles
• Science podcasts
• Medieval weaponry
• Oddity collecting
• Entomology
• Indie & horror games
• Renn faires + cosplay
• Baldur's Gate 3
• Da Lord Da Rings
• THE MUPPETS
• Goosebumps
• Falls & Halloween
• Baking
• Crafting
• Dad Rock, alternative, girliepop, metal

Things I Dislike

• Bigotry
• Fascism
• AI
• Fennel seed
• Book covers when they have THAT texture
• Microsoft Outlook
• LED Headlights
• the Lorax
• People who don't return their shopping carts