About Me
Some call me Icarus. Some call me Syd.I'm a gay/ace trans man and stage 3 cancer survivor born in 1982.
I've been making websites since the 90s.
Art and creating things is a survival tool. Before she died of cancer in the aughts, my grandmother encouraged me to draw every time I saw her. She was a painter and an early adopter of personal computers. Working with paint and ink is the best for my mental health, but I also use an ipad and Procreate in addition to sometimes using textiles, carving tools and sculpting.
I spent a year abroad in Japan and then another year teaching. I worked with preschool special needs learners in Australia during grad school. I dropped out of grad school. I worked with kids on the autism spectrum for a while in America before quitting to transition and move. I'd like to go back to working with kids but since 2016 that's been really difficult.
I drive a 2006 yamaha vino moped. I really like coffee. My fav foods are Mexican and Japanese cuisines. I have 3 pet cats and pet fish. I've been married since 2011, or was it 2012? I'm of Eastern European Jewish heritage as well as Irish. I do think Israel is genocidal, has been all my life.
I'm somehow, still, basically Cloud Strife kin. I made myself a Hyena fursuit partial and a Nidoking fursuit partial. The hoodie for Nidoking I did not make. I'm working on making a dragon-armadillo too. I like going to conventions but they are expensive.
I've only been hate-crimed a little.
I've been stalked for over a decade.
My cancer reached my lymph nodes because my GP dismissed my symptoms as melodrama and trying to speed up gender affirming surgery. I almost died because of medical transphobia. Bigotry is more than slurs.
I am a walking pile of well disguised PTSD.
I've had covid twice.
Wear a mask.
All Cops Are Bastards.
Here's some little link buttons
Here's some tip jar links, if you would like my eternal thanks.
