Ahhh thank you! You’re definitely dreaming bigger for my projects than I do myself, which flatters me deeply. I really appreciate the kind words, they’ve brightened my mood in this gloomy season.
I am the kind of person who enjoys the process more than an end product, so I won’t promise anything; I can’t picture myself posting digital copies of books or animating grand projects (my style is a bit hostile to animation, anyway, even if I ever did more than lightly dabble in that craft). But I would like to maybe one day publish a very small number of hard copies of finished works. More because I would love to play with book binding as a fancy, rather than to make a stock of products. But I’d be pleased to share it when it happens.
Witch Watcher will likely be a series of short novels (each a “case” per story), à la an episodic mystery, with faux-technical illustrations for aesthetic and immersion. And then I have a rough novel written for Hun, but it needs more taming and I want to storyboard out a graphic novel for it; Either in addition to, or as a final product of, the prose version.
ALL OF THIS TO SAY that I am a tinkering, meandering hobbyist and not aiming for any respectable, professional effort… And I hope you’ll enjoy my little random walks around my mind garden as I share them, despite this. It warms my heart, truly.
As for ideas…. Well, I just do a lot of reading on various things LOL. I love people, and history, and complex social matters; And I do Wikipedia deep diving, and listen to topic podcasts, and reads random books or watch documentaries on subjects I like. I’ll audit classes or download lectures if I’m down bad. And sometimes my large area of interests will clump into more targeted topics, with a gothic flare to the storytelling and themes.
Hun was born from my growing up in the American south, religious trauma/abuse, the exploitative nature of true crime content, and all of the nasty, starved emotions that go into the failed relationships between mothers and daughters. And two hot women kissing, duh.
Witch Watcher was born from my obsession with medical history and Abrahamic/Roman/Greek mythos. I am fixated on the Humors and Heroics of medical eras past, and the often horrific sociopolitical part that the church has played in the art of “healing”. Biting into forbidden knowledge is punk, having a martyrdom via a self-infected illness is chic, and a fallen angel/shunned immortal teaming up with a morally grey Eve/Pandora type is sexy.
