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

my special interest eras

circa 2005-2010: my tom and jerry era. i literally had those two as imaginary friends when i was really young.
 
2009-2011: my zimmer twins era. anyone remember zimmer twins? i was hanbanana2.
 
2011-2014: when i really started geting into animation. TAWOG came out in 2011 and it became my first fandom. i began researching animation and watched a ton of cartoon network and disney channel during this time.
 
2014-2019: i was 12 years old, and therefore wanting to watch more "big girl" stuff. i got into normalboots/hiddenblock and they were basically my 4*TOWN lmao. i settled on caddicarus because of my playstation heritage. i guess i can also say i had a secondary special interest for video game history.
 
2020-2022: my pixar/onward era. onward, both the film and its small-town fandom, felt like it was made especially for me.
 
late 2022-early '24: i resdiscovered caddicarus through checking out his 2020s videos and falling in love with the show all over again. since then i've done a lot of history/archival work in the community.
 
2024-present: i watched smiling friends and that seems to be where i'm heading special interest-wise. i'm hoping that's the case.