Welcome, and well met!
I'm a drawer from Brazil trying to carve her own space on the wide web. You can call me Mary.
This is my first time writing html (lightly editing on tumblr and toyhouse doesn't count, ok? ><), so expect some weird bugs and/or errors. Looking forward to learn as this site grows.
As for why this site exists... Well, I am a 90s kid after all, so i'm not imune to Neocities old web nostalgia. Add Social Media's current AI hellscape and it's hard not to wish to go back to 'simpler times'. I have always looked up to people who could make these amazing websites with music that world jumpscare me, fancy looping gifs, adorable little pixel pastel dividers, etc. And I've always wanted one of these of my own, but back then I was just a baby drawer with other focus in life. After all, school and learning how to draw take a lot of effort, and I did that on top of being a mother of many hungry Neopets and a savior of the world in some SquareSoft game (FF9? Probably FF9).
Priorities!
Now I'm a 30+ old (and more experienced) drawer, my Neopets are starving forgotten on some account I lost the password for, and I'm busy saving the world on a Square-Enix game. Huh, how some things never change.
Flourishes aside, what I'm getting at is I'm a freelancer artist with lots of nostalgia and an active FF14 account. My objective now is to try the things kid me would have loved, but never really put effort into. Is that... Is that what midlife crisis is like??? 💦
If you'd like to find me on the other side of the web, my links are as follows:
🐢Active:
🎨Business:
🥀Inactive:
✉Contact
- miruki.mary@gmail.com
- Discord (please ask)
All inactive links are indeed me, but avoid contacting me through them as I'll likely not see it. If you find 'mirukimary' on a site not listed here, feel free to send me an email to ask if it's really me.
I don't really go around e-mailing or DMing people for commissions, so please double-check any account that does that!
Likes and Dislikes:
General Likes:
- Earthly tones and red-ish colors;
- (Romanticized) Autumn (we don't get that down here lol);
- TURTLES;
- Barbies and BJDs;
- Historical and historical-adjacent fashion (think lolita);
- Art;
- Music (is also art, but i love it enough to say it twice);
- Human creativity.
General Dislikes:
- People that are rude to others for no reason (entitlement :>);
- If you yelled at a waiter I'm now in your walls;
- The AI hellscape we're at;
- These days where my brain Does Not Work;
- Failure :D
- Rain.
Favorite Shows
- Natsume's Book of Friends;
- Clannad;
- Revolutionary Girl Utena;
- CardCaptor Sakura;
- Apothecary Diaries;
- Prétear;
- Princess Tutu.
Favorite Games
General:
- Final Fantasy (6, 9, 13 and 14);
- SoulCalibur/SoulEdge (specially Edge and 3);
- Atelier Series (Dusk trilogy+Sophie mostly);
- Fatal Frame (3 and 5);
- Project Diva (any);
- Core Keeper;
- Infinity Nikki.
Visual Novels:
- Code:Realize;
- Virche Evermore;
- The Divine Speaker;
- Heart of the Woods;
- A Midsummer's Day Resonance;
Favorite Musicians / OSTs
Musician:
- Sound Horizon;
- Mili;
- Aimer;
- Florence+The Machine;
- Three Days Grace;
- Flaming June (Jun Maeda + Yanagi Nagi)
- Hitoshizuku x Yama
OST:
- Final Fantasy XIV;
- Atelier Dusk/Ryza;
- DrakneNier series (D1 OST my beloved);
- Alien Stage project
- (SIGH) HOYO-Mix;
- + a bunch of anisong bc yes, i'm a weeb...
Favorite Books and Mangas
Book:
- 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley;
- 'Bird' by Crystal Chan
Manga:
- 'Kobato' by CLAMP;
- 'Helter Skelter' by Okazaki Kyoko;
- 'Vitamin' by Suenobu Keiko;
- 'Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon' by Usui Shio;
Currently microwaving in my head:
Stamps
Imagine cute little stamps here. I have to go hunting for them first.