FAQ

How long have you been drawing?
LITERALLY since I could hold a pencil. I don't know where they are any more, but I used to have dozens of little fat notebooks filled with drawings and "stories" that were just retellings of my favorite movies. I eventually started making up my own stories though. Almost always about animals or people who could turn into animals. I can't remember ever not drawing in some capacity. I got really serious about it when I got into highschool though and sold my first commissions around 2006.

Did you go to art school?
No. I took art class in highschool from about 8th grade to 12th. I learned a lot from books, studying comics, and watching the artists in the online community around me. I was lucky enough to find a close-knit group of friends who were all artists and we all learned from each other as we grew up.

When did you start writing?
I was in middleschool when I started seriously started typing up stories on the computer. I can't remember if Neopets or my Nightmare Before Christmas fanfic came first. It probably depends on what year I took typing class in school. That finally gave me the freedom to record my stories outside of drawings in my sketchbook. Handwriting was always hard for me to focus on and I made so many spelling mistakes that I'd often ruin the paper from erasing. Writing in a word processor and later, straight onto websites and fanfiction.net, I was able to write as quickly as I thought.

In college, I took several creative writing courses, sometimes just auditing them without officially being in the class. The critique circle was very important for me.

Another way I developed my writing skill was through online text roleplay. Forums, AIM, Yahoo, email, Furcadia, Dreamwidth/Livejournal, and Discord are all places I have written colaborativly with folks. It's a great time! I published my first novel in 2023.

You talk a lot about your mental health in your art. What's going on with that?
HAHA OH BOY. Well, I've been living with OCD my whole life but I didn't get a formal diagnosis or any form of help until 2016. It's kind of a nightmare. I deal a lot with obsessions and intrusive thoughts and phobias. Whenever somebody says 'haha I'm so OCD" when they simply like their house to be tidy, I wanna fight them.

Are you part of the LGBT community?
Oh yes, I've been some shade of "queer" since like the end of middleschool. My sisters knew way before I did. My late sister would call me "rainbow brite' and "super dyke" and I'd get so mad hahahaha. Oh, I miss her. My other sister is queer so I have a family member to talk about this kind of stuff with and its' nice. I don't think the rest of my family knows. It hasn't really come up. I am sure they will tell you though that being queer is the LEAST weird thing about me.