Howdy, Welcome to my Website!

I'll be making a writing/creator blog here. I hope you enjoy the stuff I post on here. Some things I'm working on:

Mini-essays

Interplanar

A girl leaves home to explore the multiverse and gets caught up in a conflict between two guilds

Ultra

Super heroes exist, the supernatural and a government agency to monitor it exist, aliens exist and are finding their way to earth

Chiaroscuro Chronicles

The world has been mostly abandoned, and those that live there still are no longer human, powers and monsters clash

Swordverse

A vampire gets sent to the dawn of multicellular life and has to live their way back to the present. Explores the world through various other stories; the creation of swrods that bleed and bite, a throuple faced with the destruction of their medieval home, a family fighting to get a son and brother back from a circus, and a college dropout learning how to live again in the multiversal slums

Editing on wikipedia

I've been working on updating pages for rural Indiana and researching religious cosmology

Big Mech + Starscream

A story built in the Universe rpg lore system, and partially a dream I had. Its set in the far future, pre-star trek era, on the planet Marrgen. The plot follows a team of mech pilots and engineers, an escaped slave, and a shamed unemployed genius

Some things I'm working on with other people

Artemis Fowl: Incident Report Podcast (youtube channel)(writer's room)
The Assembly, or the Penrose Archives(Assembler)
Dungeons and Dragons and Dumbasses (player) (I don't think we'll be playing again)

I'll tweak this website as I learn how to use it, I'll add on and refine as I go.

I'm a graphic designer and writer, but I dabble in music making and art as well. I've not produced any completed notable projects yet. Hopefully I will at some point. I have a few webcomics on MSPFA, but while there are seeds of potential in there, they're largely not great. As a creator I bounce from project to project, refining, winnowing, and weaving (I have ADHD). They're all getting better bit by bit, and maybe someday completed, or at least published. Come to think of it I tried to get help making a password system in MSPFA. I might have the code around somewhere? It didn't exactly work, but I'm ok at programming in general, even after taking a college level html and css class.

My main objectives here are to figure out what I want to put on here and how, and figure out how to either turn the mouse cursor into a cicada or make a cicada follow the cursor. I have the CUR file on my computer and everything. Here, I'll give you the link to the page where I got it from and you can install it yourself. It was pretty easy.(I miss the cicadas at night)

I guess if I just keep adding on to this page I won't necessarily need to make more pages, you just need to hit ctrl+h or ctrl+g and search for words on the page to find where you left off or wherever whatever it is specifically you want to see. I don't know what that is for MAC or if thats even an option. The only apple device I've ever used was a classic ipod I got 6 years ago-ish. I should really dig that up.

I could put some playlists on here, as well as a listening guide to go with it. I remember talking to my parents about their youth and apparently making mix tapes was a thing you'd do for eachother. You'd write down the song list on the paper slip inside the casette case. I like the physical aspect of that. I think it makes up for the lack of a listening guide. It might just be because I'm pretty dense when it comes to any kind of emotional overture, but it helps if I know why you picked those songs. If I toss something like Two Trucks by Lemon Demon in between This is Home by Cavetown and Twin Sized Mattress by the Front Bottoms, you'll want to know why I did that. I suppose the other edge of the blade of sharing media I produce is that you'll get opinions like this. If I were some popular creator or something and I said this in an interview folks would gobble it up, or just ignore it. Here I might be accused of being a bore. Thats fine, its my pace and I'll keep it.

I'm back after a break and I'm sure no one noticed, as I've yet to share the link to this page with anyone. Maybe I prefer it that way, as a log someone could see but won't, and no one who will see it will care. Anyway I'm here to post about my cicadafolk species. They're large somewhat humanoid bug people with a symbiotic relationship with a brain fungus. They evolved together and work together to thrive. The cicadafolk live in various villages (each village is modelled after a real-life cicada species) and often don't stray too far. Cicadafolk live around 13 years above ground and 140 years below ground, which sounds like a lot I grant you, but while they're down there in the dirt they're learning the history of their people. They have sectioned off plots where the symbiote fungus grows, turning the dirt into a rich criss-cross of mycellium where all the memories of those buried there (its both cradle and grave) are transferred to the growing grubs. The fungus is incorporated in the brain, and the knowledge learned before birth(emerging from the ground) is learned as instinct. Debts owed by the village to another village or nation will be felt, while a grievance perpetrated by an enemy will also be remembered. Cicadafolk also have bright orange fungal horns protuding from their heads, which they use to sense atmospheric conditions and can be used to "mind meld" with other cicada folk. While mind melding is much faster and complete than speaking on a 1 on 1 basis, its also very slow when trying to communicate with multiple people or over distances. Their voices are generally a bit on the quieter side, but using their wings they can call over long distances.

Swordverse

Part 0: Vampire Out of Time. 1920s (Dawn of Multicellular life)

Overarching framing device. Maybe a page or two of it is put in between each chapter, and longer passages are put between each part. They take the form of journal entries first, then art and writing on stones, poetry, time-mushed poetry, and finally structures.

Part 0.7: In Which the Swords are Made. mesopotamian times

A dragon(?) threatens a growing civilization, a blacksmith seeks help from a man older than time. Swords are made out of his teeth, sheathes made of his skin and bone. The swords devour the beast, and the man disappears.

Part 0.8: In Which the Comulan Came Together. Pre-pre medieval

The heirs of the swords, and others, and their myths and legends as they face the trials of their times, as well as play games and travel.

Part 1.0: Country Girl, City Boy. Pre-Medieval

Period romantic comedy, occasional letters and journal entries, twist where the city boy is dating another boy from a neighboring town, ends with a present tense passage where the country girl finds a bleeding sword

Part 1.1: Ruination Field. Pre-Medieval

Period war drama, the bleeding sword is wielded by the country girl to devastating effect. The choice must be made to continue, and turn the tide of war, or to stay home, and risk losing the war.

Part 1.4: How Vampires Came To Be. Medieval

Part 2: Murder in Murdertown. 1870s

Murder mystery, based on Blood on the Clocktower. A small town is shocked by a gruesome murder. There is discussion of a demon(vampire?) among us. The town must find the murderer before they are outnumbered by the powers of evil.

Part 3: Circus of Stolen Souls. 1999

Childrens Horror, Family finds their late son at a circus training ground and have to go their separate ways to either free him or save themselves/cope with their grief.

Part 4: Fossilcore. 3110, far future

Sci-Fi semianthology. College dropout (financial reasons), finds meaning in their life in reanimating the long long long dead, interspersed with sci-fi snippets with ambiguous relations to the present