*high fives* And I'm lesbian (and its actually my gf I'm moving in with but I didn't want to come right out and say it), so no worries.
I've always had interest in web development, I think. I'm 23, but the first website I made was in 3rd grade (and I asked my mom's permission and she said
no, so I waited about four months before going ahead and doing it anyway) - it was just a little Pokemon fan site. By 7th grade I was running about four Yugioh websites, which were just shrines to individual characters. It just seemed to be a thing at the time. By 10th grade, I was just using the hosting I had to store my homework, make a few presentations, etc. I took a web design class which used Dreamweaver, and it was all done out of a book, and the teacher had no idea what he was doing... and it was just kind of laughable when I'd been doing all my HTML in notepad since the dawn of time, yknow?
I stopped working on websites for a while, until just a couple years ago when a friend of mine decided to go into college for that. But... what they were taught in their first year of college? Was nothing I hadn't taught myself. By the time they eventually dropped out, they still hadn't learned more than I knew by the end of high school on my own... which I found really strange.
So I decided to get back into things recently (in the last three years or so). I've dabbled with PHP and MySQL and even my own web server through WAMP on my laptop. I've hosted forum scripts and poked at how they worked, then wrote a few basic things myself, and then of course, played with Mysidia here.
But... with the latest advances in server-side Javascript (nodeJS), Javascript frameworks in general (jQuery, Angular, Ember, Backbone, Knockout), and Javascript databases (the JSON format, and even services like Firebase), I've decided I'm going to focus my effort more towards that than PHP. The traditional MySQL/PHP hookup isn't going away any time soon, but alternatives have started to appear on the block. My decision to go the cutting-edge route has the major disadvantage of a distinct lack of documentation and less open-source resources available, but... it'll grow in time. With how fast the tech industry moves, this is a wave I want to surf on top of by the time it gets popular, ya?
I'm also an artist, but I'm unfortunately not that great at dragons. Anime style
humans (and
chibis in various sizes) and
cute monsters, sure, but dragons... I wish. It's nothing some practice and some style reference couldn't remedy, but I sadly don't do pixel art (gif) very well. However, vector art (svg) and raster art (png), yes - and my coloring style is hard to reference without some digging some more (and its different between vector, where its simple cell shading, and raster, where I get into semi-realism).
I'd be willing to help out with your project, in that jack-of-all-trades sort of way. It's not often you get an artist who knows what's going on with both the front end and back end code.
If you wanna talk about your project with me a bit more, I'm signed up with lots of instant messaging services.
