DEADPANLAND

name: kathleen gemma mikell
online handles: deadish, deadpanland, cold-as-clay, alexander stonecypher (along with several others from the distant past.)
occupation: nothing but being an idiot online, occasionally creating something, cooking, and feeding my cat.
my favourite quote ever: "fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like." - lemony snicket

i've been online now for about twenty-seven years. i've learned nearly everything i know (except the really obscure stuff) from the web. what a strange place it is, cyberspace.
i learned how to type, lost my ability to capitalize, and started "acting" in double asterisks in an antique HTML chat room named "Polyethylene", that was dedicated to radiohead. hurrhurrhurr.
i furthered myself and lost my mind to nonsense on a messageboard named "Room with a Moose" - started up by the fact that all of us liked the nickelodeon cartoon "invader zim". we soon abandoned zim, in our conversations, though.
the people i call my friends and family are here on the internet, and i probably value them far more than they value me.
i've gained and lost self-esteem here... but i am feeling more and more like i may be worth something. my melange of prescription anti-psychotics and anti-depressants and therapists and psychiatrists seems to be working. yay.
i identify as a gender-fluid person; if you're curious, ask me about it. it's maddening and freeing at the same time.
i am a complete hermit, cowering in fear of "public places" and other people. how do people human? i can't figure it out.
i've made a little tiny name for myself among one piece fans (ahahahaha) and i wish i could make a name for myself amongst other writers and artists... i'm trying! i am!! my dream is to one day accomplish drawing this goddamned comic book i can't help but keep writing... all these people are living in my head, and they can't help but travel down a pen into my notebooks.

i'm a terrible, terrible diabetic; oh yes. for a long time, this fact ruled my life. but now, things have happened, and i am a little better. i know more about diabetes than most people, and often give my friends nutrition advice (that i really need to follow myself). i've had to study this disease and all to do with it for the entire 20 years that i've had it. i should write a book.
uhhhhh i am also, now, on dialysis, because diabetes kills one's beloved kidneys! BOY IS THIS FUN WHEE. but it is doing me good. so there.

i hope you've enjoyed this website; it is an amalgam of alla my talents, i tell you.

love,

kat

elsewhere i am found:

my lonely deviantart account
my almost defunct livejournal
my diaryland diary hoorayyyyy i have reignited my old diaryland account! MILLIONS of entries from through my stupid twenties! HA! (i am also updating it regularly now.)
my stupidly active facebook account
twitter is full of the bestest artists
my tumbleweed-filled tumblr
my old old old flickr
my slightly enhappying soundcloud

i'm sure there're other things... can't think of them now, though. :P

what? you want to contact me?! why?! oh well... cold.as.clay AT gmail.com is my e-mail address.

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	name: kathleen gemma mikell online handles: deadish, deadpanland, cold-as-clay, alexander stonecypher (along with several others from the distant past.) occupation: nothing but being an idiot online, occasionally creating something, cooking, and feeding my cat. my favourite quote ever: "fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like." - lemony snicket i've been online now for about twenty-seven years. i've learned nearly everything i know (except the really obscure stuff) from the web. what a strange place it is, cyberspace. i learned how to type, lost my ability to capitalize, and started "acting" in double asterisks in an antique HTML chat room named "Polyethylene", that was dedicated to radiohead. hurrhurrhurr. i furthered myself and lost my mind to nonsense on a messageboard named "Room with a Moose" - started up by the fact that all of us liked the nickelodeon cartoon "invader zim". we soon abandoned zim, in our conversations, though. the people i call my friends and family are here on the internet, and i probably value them far more than they value me. i've gained and lost self-esteem here... but i am feeling more and more like i may be worth something. my melange of prescription anti-psychotics and anti-depressants and therapists and psychiatrists seems to be working. yay. i identify as a gender-fluid person; if you're curious, ask me about it. it's maddening and freeing at the same time. i am a complete hermit, cowering in fear of "public places" and other people. how do people human? i can't figure it out. i've made a little tiny name for myself among one piece fans (ahahahaha) and i wish i could make a name for myself amongst other writers and artists... i'm trying! i am!! my dream is to one day accomplish drawing this goddamned comic book i can't help but keep writing... all these people are living in my head, and they can't help but travel down a pen into my notebooks. i'm a terrible, terrible diabetic; oh yes. for a long time, this fact ruled my life. but now, things have happened, and i am a little better. i know more about diabetes than most people, and often give my friends nutrition advice (that i really need to follow myself). i've had to study this disease and all to do with it for the entire 20 years that i've had it. i should write a book. uhhhhh i am also, now, on dialysis, because diabetes kills one's beloved kidneys! BOY IS THIS FUN WHEE. but it is doing me good. so there. i hope you've enjoyed this website; it is an amalgam of alla my talents, i tell you. love, kat elsewhere i am found: my lonely deviantart account my almost defunct livejournal my diaryland diary hoorayyyyy i have reignited my old diaryland account! MILLIONS of entries from through my stupid twenties! HA! (i am also updating it regularly now.) my stupidly active facebook account twitter is full of the bestest artists my tumbleweed-filled tumblr my old old old flickr my slightly enhappying soundcloud i'm sure there're other things... can't think of them now, though. :P what? you want to contact me?! why?! oh well... cold.as.clay AT gmail.com is my e-mail address.