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I'm excited to be here and do one of these!
About me: You can call me Jay! I'm 20 and go by They/Them pronouns. I'm in college and fighting everyday lmao.
I've been writing for a long time, lots of fan fiction in elementary school I wrote in notebooks. I play a ton of D&D and have a bunch of weird interests that you'll probably see me talking about here.
I've always had a passion for experiencing and telling stories, along with that I like trying to understand why certain works effect me so much. The emotions that things inspire in me are important and I want to understand why they make me feel that way, I want for people to feel as strongly as the things I make as I do with my favorite works of art.
My writing: I write about a lot of things but my current big WIP is a fantasy story. I really love fantasy, high fantasy and dark fantasy specifically.
I like exploring themes of systemic oppression, religious and parental trauma, as well as people trying to overcome these things and form connections with others. I really like to play with the more fun aspects of YA but infuse it with more mature themes and problems for the characters to grapple with.
My inspirations for my writing comes a lot from authors like Kentaro Miura, Go Nagai, and Katsura Hoshino. Each of their stoires have left profound impacts on me not just as a writer but as a person. Their work showed me that fiction can change people and inspire incredible feeling and emotion that I want to inspire in my own work. I also take a lot of inspiration from Matt Mercer's DMing, the way he tells his stories in the realm of D&D I think is so engaging and I think it could be used in mediums like books to engage readers more.
My current WIP is called Darksider! It deals with a bunch of fantasy monsters like vampires, werewolves, and harpies with them being the main characters. I felt like a lot of stories don't let them be protagonists and I really wanted to change that.
The main idea is that it's about the world's of monsters and men waring against each other. The leader of the nation of monsters is known as the Shade Lord, an eternally reincarnating soul that acts as the ruler to the nation. A young vampire child, Arlin, is the newest Shade Lord. However, he doesn't want to be a king. He's a young man who's whole life has been planned out for him and who is trying to fight against that fate to build his own path.
I'll be posting some WIPs and drafts for Darksider and maybe some other things soon, hope you stick around and read my stuff! It would really mean the world for people to read my work.
You can read the story so far, right here!
