Melindrea aka: Marie Hogebrandt, Antonius M., Antonius Marie
I am an artist and developer who lives with chronic pain together with my spouse and our wonderful cat. I am online a lot, though a lot of times I will more lurk than talk because it takes energy that I don't always have.
Another important detail about me is that I'm queer. I'm non-binary (and while I don't object to she/her or he/him I tend to prefer they/them), and while I identified as bi for most of my adult life I've realised that I'm ace and maybe aro. Thankfully my wonderful co-sinner is too, so we're happy in a more platonic love relationship.
My creative adventures are quite mixed, with everything from water colour painting to digital painting to photo manipulation. In the last category I love to make images that look magical and vintage, with tiny fairies in close-ups being one of my favourite compositions.
The biggest update to give from when I originally made this page: I have an explanation for why I'm such an "inspirational butterfly", why peopling tires me, why changing plans makes me uncomfortable, why I have trouble doing stuff (phonecalls, paper work, talking to someone ...) when I don't know what to expect, why ... Well, you get the picture. It might even explain parts of my pain (my doctor thinks so): I'm autistic. And I was working myself into an early grave trying to do things I assume everyone else was also struggling with (not all are), so that I couldn't do them meant I was a failure (I'm not).
This page has a fairly comprehensive list of my various links, where I'll draw your attention a bit extra to my POD shop at Redbubble, my main Mastodon profile (though you can find me interacting with the good folks at mastodon.art quite a lot) and my page at Ko-fi. There I have a tipjar for if you want to support me once or twice, a monthly subscriber model with a special deal for my 100 first subscribers (do you want to be my first? Only $3/month!), and a shop where I sell handmade stickers, print-it-yourself monthly prompt journals and other goodies.