hi TC!! it's midnight and technically saturday!! you've got so many neat projects, which have been some of your favorite to work on? Are there any character types or themes you gravitate toward? Also, if you were a griffon, what would your feathers and fur look like :0
@muddshadow
Hello, thank you!!
Favorite projects!
Let's see. One of my favorite projects to work on is Second Chances, which has immense personal meaning to me. But I'm always a little worried if I let other people read it, they'll just to think I'm a complete freak ahahahaha
I really like Laero because I love the characters! Sometimes working on that one in the past actually has made me cry though, because the main character struggles with depression in a way that hits very close to home. Unfortunately, as much as I love the characters the story needs a ton of work which I have not worked up the strength to do yet, but I have always wanted to make the story work and I will do it someday.
I really like Coyote Song even though it's incredibly pretentious, basically unreadable, and possibly even unsalvageable? But I had so much fun writing it at the time even though it's bad.
I also generally find Miracles very fun to work on :3
Character types and themes!
I love fairy tales. Fairy tale tropes, set ups, and themes show up in my work all the time. I especially love selkies and swan maidens and Beauty and the Beast, so my work involves a lot of shapeshifters. But there's generally just fairy tale references everywhere in everything that I write. Also, I love storytelling in general and so very often my characters will spend time in stories telling legends and fairy tales and ghost stories to each other because that's such a human thing to me and I just love including it. (Also when they do, the stories usually end up having something to do with the plot literally or symbolically~)
As for character types, I think I have four that I love the most.
I love to write women who are incredibly ambitious and ruthless and manipulative. I love to write women who are very practical and have low emotionality. I love to write men who are soft and sweet and maybe a little stupid. I love to write men and women (but mostly men) who are incredibly dramatic and theatrical and who are just really having a good time all the time. Bonus round: characters who are dumb and emo.
Me as a gryphon!
I see you're out here asking the important questions!!! I'm small, loud, and gregarious so I feel like realistically I would probably be some kind of crow/black cat gryphon. But if we want to go with the standard raptor/big cat set up and I could pick anything, I would go with a laughing falcon and a snow leopard~
I have a very talented friend who actually made me a little stuffed version of this and she's super cute!
The fur spots are hard to see in photos but they are there. If I can go really crazy, I wouldn't mind matching my avatar and being pink. ^__^