Fucking hell, man.

In primary school I did a course on HTML and website building, understood and absorbed jackshit. Every time I had an encounter with HTML since then, I had no idea what I was looking at let alone how to use it. HTML’s not even a “real” coding language and it never clicked for me. Then I was told there were these CSS and javascript and other things which hung out with HTML to make it function??? What do you mean it’s not just HTML itself I have to learn?! Who has the time and energy for that!

But the shittification of social media while being a wannabe creator is a powerful motivator.

So a friend got me onto neocities (which I only sorta promise not to keep calling geocities cause for some reason that’s what my brain is convinced it is). Thus this site came to be. Coded from the ground up by yours truly through many hours of frustrated confusion. I don’t have a designer’s eye, or any sort of eye, really, but I guess that will be everyone else’s and also my perfectionism’s problem.

Created on 8th April 2022, this site will likely forever be a WIP. But hopefully I do finally Learn and Understand and it won’t look and function like ass forever.

Also if you ever think this site will actually be good be aware it is built on a “Ah, fuck it, good enough” policy (check out that distorted favicon I will Definitely Make A Proper Thing For One Day).

If you’ve checked out my worldbuilding project, you’ll know All Good Witches Have Cats*’ story.

To recap: All Good Witches Have Cats* was conceptualised and hit the ground running in March 2018 in its pre-production as a short standalone practice/test comic. It was not to be, though. My attempts to trick myself into loving the characters so I’d see the project through went too well. It quickly escaped from its small constrained box and grew into an unruly mess.

It currently lives on as my worldbuilding project, with ideas for a narrative revival floating around in my head from time to time. If I go through with All Good Witches Have Cats* at some stage, it will likely be a supernatural/fantasy thriller mystery with vibes along the lines of The X-Files, Primeval or Gravity Falls, with a bit of Bourne for good measure. Whenever I have a new project idea pop up in my head and try to steal time and energy, it's usually sneaking in using those vibes. Makes sense to nip those sneaky lil bastards in the bud by arming myself with an existing project heading in that niche’s direction with characters and a world I’m already attached to.

Unnamed and Kevin will be reprising their main character roles with a much-needed refreshed everything as Eirah and Vin.

My Roommate is a Human was conceptualised in 2014 as a serial strip comic about a sly manipulative vampire house-sharing with a bumbling dolt of a monster hunting human. It’s undergone massive changes over the years, with the most recent reboot being in 2019.

Despite seeming to have a clear goal for this project, I was never able to settle on whether I wanted to tell a light-hearted serial strip comic with loose chronological order or a darker longer-form narrative and it never really got anywhere as a result.

Currently, My Roommate is a Human is on the backburner. If I went through with it now, I’d give it an introductory short chapter to establish the cast and setting, but the bulk of it would be serial strip comics or short stories with loose chronological order starring the introduced characters and the shenanigans and discourse of their daily lives. I’d pitch it something like this:

When small pocket dimensions filled with monsters and the human world fused to become one, humanity was set back hundreds of years as the streets outside their homes filled with monstrous beasts. Now, humanity is well on their way to reclaiming a transformed Earth, but it is not to be without caution that the creatures hidden away in the wilderness still bear an unrivalled ferocity. Despite this, it is the beasts that are capable of sneaking about among human civilisation and those that can disguise themselves within the population itself that are the greatest threat…

My Roommate is a Human follows Rhese Chadwick, a young vampire pushed out of his small rural farming hometown by a rapidly changing world. As he makes his way into the human world he’ll encounter a variety of new and odd characters including hunters, awars and other cryptids of the likes he’s never seen before. If nothing else, he’s in for a very sharp learning curve and will have to muster an adaptability and resilience his species is not renowned for.

New Pangaea was conceptualised after I watched a docco on string theory and it proposed in goofy mid-2000s cheap CG ‘what if dinosaurs didn’t go extinct but evolved human-like society’ in 2011. Apparently that just screamed cowboy dinosaurs to kid me despite it very much depicting dinosaurs as 9-5 office workers.

Thus New Pangaea was born.

I don’t think I ever had a plan for this project, but I did work on it between 2011 and 2013. When I rediscovered and rebooted it in 2018, I considered it making a good comic version of a novella-length story in a simpler, but more experimental, greyscale art style. I never got that far with it though. But it can be summarised as this:

Over the horizon of Pangaea’s sprawling coasts lie ancient hills rich with a newly discovered ore with the capacity to launch the world into a technological revolution. Unfortunately, those hills belong to the land-tenders and farmers of generations old who aren’t quite on board with their home and livelihoods being so swiftly thrown aside by these no good wealthy prospectors.

Basically: Dinosaur cowboys! Western setting with sci-fi flavouring.