Ye gods, where have I been?
I mean, a better question might be if anyone cared? Anyone who's likely to actually read this silly thing, knows me outside of Tumblr.
Heh, honestly, I'm surprised this thing is still even alive, at the end of the day.
Well, for all...[checks notes] two? Two mutuals? Or so? Who still look when they get notifications? I spend a lot of my time and creativity, anymore, with a pile of tabletop RPGs.
I also started taking up writing, a bit more than I had, previously. If anyone remembers those posts about "Unmarketable Movies I'd Actually See" and "Unmarketable Fantastic Four"...
I kept going with that for a bit. Star Trek taking a dive into "grimderp and painfully hamfisted and counterproductive soap-boxing" spurred me to write three seasons and three movies of intentionally horrible ideas...that eventually formed a lot of the framework of my trying out Modiphius' Star Trek Adventures...and making me fall in love with Trek all over again. May it last forever.
Star Wars becoming a systemic murder of everything I loved and a guilt-trip for having ever loved it in the first place, I wrote what *I* would have created, instead. After all, if you reach the point of "I'm an IDIOT and I could have a better story concept"...well, get going with that typewriter, and try to make Hamlet, I guess. I had a Chiss girl as the Jedi, and she managed to SAVE her "Kylo Vader", thankyouverymuch.
Then I had an idea of, "I'm sick of everyone cranking it to human misery in Gundam...what if I wrote an Arthurian Hope-Punk Gundam?". Not as fleshed out as my other ideas, but the lingua franca in Space was Esperanto, so that made me chortle.
Summarizing all of this in an FAQ doc, I explained that a huge reason none of the above would ever fly in today's markets, is that the entertainment industry would only appreciate another "Castle of Sister-Fuckers: the Stabbening", until someone figures out how to independently push "Rainbow Hug Warrior" into a "surprise" commercial success.
Naturally, I had to come up with a few episodes of that, where a Power-Ranger Space-Jesus comes down on his rainbow rocket skateboard, and fixes the world through empathy, reason, and cosmic hugs.
It was after writing all that, I finally realized common running threads on my work. A THESIS of sorts started coming together, a message:
"Camelot is still out there, waiting...even if the Knights forgot it, we can still reach for it and make the world better".
So, at the insistence of some new friends on a Discord chat, I decided to try summarizing the stories that had been brewing in my head since middle school. I'm 42. That is a lot of brewing.
I abridged it as much as I could, but still wound up with a novel. No, seriously, I had to publish the damn thing through Barnes and Noble, because it was easier than sending a Google Docs link, anymore.
The basic concept of the webcomic I wanted to do, and Red Sky, just to sum up my main characters for some friends. It wound up some 390 pages in hard-cover.
By accident.



















