ABOUT

(But her drawings are mostly harmless!)

WHO?

I'm Marissa, or Psshaw. She/her, please!
I interact with the world mainly through art, design, story concepts, jokes, and morbid curiosity. (And sincerity, in emergency situations.)
 
My absolute favorite thing to do is developing characters and stories! Making stuff is an existential necessity, imo. Playing with dolls is very grounding, and they also make a swell social buffer when I don't feel like talking about myself. That's why most of my stories are funny, violent, and emphasize character– so people will react and talk to me about them!

WHY A WEBSITE?

As a kid, my favorite website of all time was MabsLand.com. I would read every character page, admire every piece of art, and click all the outgoing links. That last thing taught me some fucked-up stuff. But the site iself taught me that you can just make up a roster of characters for fun! And if you build them a shiny enough story or website, maybe other people will care about them, too!
 
The internet is like fishing: you simply cast a tasty idea out there and wait for someone like-minded to bite. But it's hard to take pride in what you put out there when ideas disappear into the bottomless scroll of social media. I want to keep an archive of the things I do. For me, and for anyone else curious enough to bite.
 

MUSIC

Who doesn't like music??
I like it loud, rowdy, genre-defying and dramatic.
Here's some stuff on heavy rotation lately.