about me

hey - thanks for checking out my about page! that means a lot to me!
i'm hannah - but most people on the internet call me mel, which is short for melis. not melissa or melinda. i'm 22 years old, autistic as HELL, and i'm currently a senior in college studying graphic design!
as a young autistic girl, i was always infatuated with web and graphic design. i always wanted to have my own website decked out with blinkies and buttons and all sorts of stuff. but unfortunately, my parents wouldn't let me have a website, and by the time i was able to get on social media, this type of internet experience was being phased out for the same few websites we use every single day. personalization was going away, and i wasn't able to have that old web experience...until i found out about neocities, of course!
i began learning HTML and finding out about websites like blinkies.cafe. i was collecting and making my own buttons and stamps and placing them onto my own website. and now i have this wondrous personalized corner of the internet!

my interests

• animation! i love all cartoon channels but i especially adore cartoon network/adult swim, as well as animated movies. my favorite genre of cartoons are sitcoms. favorite shows are the amazing world of gumball, smiling friends, foster's home, regular show, flapjack, chowder, kid cosmic, spongebob, ducktales (both versions), gravity falls, and amphibia.


• i don't play video games as much as i used to (apart from katamari and the sims 3!), but i love learning about the history of them. i love watching video game-focused youtubers and streamers. i was in the normal boots/hidden block fandom in the 2010s...that was certainly a time.


• i have an encyclopedic knowledge of both iterations of the caddicarus show and the respective channel from 2012 to present day. if you want a history lesson about...pretty much anything caddicarus, i will gladly give you one. i'm a fan from 2014. i've seen hell. (in all seriousness, THE CADDICARUS SHOW MY BELOVED. ESPECIALLY THE 2020'S ONE.)


• other favorite online creators are scott the woz, vinesauce, vargskelethor, swoop, hbomberguy, dead domain, izzyzzz, defunctland, lady emily, psychicpebbles, michael cusack, among others.


• i LOVE the scott pilgrim franchise (i'm mostly a fan of the comics and the anime).


• pixar's onward is my absolute favorite movie ever. i used to run a blog dedicated to it on tumblr, i've written a whole season for a fanmade series for it, among other things.


• i love logos and motion graphics!


• i LOVE cats with all my heart!! i love researching about them. i have three of my own and they mean the world to me.


• i also love stuff like TV bumpers, commecials and idents. when i was younger i liked creating my own commercial breaks for hypothetical networks like "goanimate network". yes, i used goanimate. i wasn't toxic though. and even when i was 16 i created fake commercial breaks for caddicarus and vinesauce on a hypothetical "screenwave network"! i foresaw scott the woz heading to G4.


• my favorite genres of music are jazz, funk, R&B, shibuya-kei, city pop, and old-school hip hop/rap.