Recent content by raygungoth

I'm always weirded out by this idea and statements like this. Where I grew up, a song that's supposed to make it rain and the ability to fix a car were both considered what you'd call magical in a book. But let's back up a bit. Technology is defined as a tool, system, or process designed to...

Sometimes it's scary, sometimes it's interesting. The scary dreams I have are usually about failure - losing money, losing home, losing family, mostly about loss, but altogether real, or potentially real, happenings. The instant I see a monster, a creature, or a tree covered in bright little...

Random stacks of paper, dice, candy wrappers, wacom, lots of coins, wood-burning kit, 900 cc plastic cup from the hospital.

John Updike has a bunch of really great stories about otherwise mundane situations - A&P is particularly good, in spite of, or perhaps because, his narrator objectifies the characters he sees. I've always been interested in the day-to-day running of a fantasy setting. Watching the earthbenders...

Been playing Ark, PSO2, and Fallout 2. I want to get back into Starbound. I never finished my goal of hand-building an entire planet.

So, I have this recurring dream theme. Wastelands. I usually dream about where I live or the city nearby as an overgrown, green, post-apocalyptic place with cracked sidewalks and bulging parking lots. I'm alone, of course, and there are questionable stains on everything. Leaves carpet...

Since I filled my world up with dinosaurs, I made "unicorns" be/resemble light-bodied Dryomorphid Iguanodontians. It's not technically "subversion," but multiple cultures in my works use the word spirit, demon, faerie, god, and witch interchangeably. For my urban fantasy work, my vampires...

Just posting my introductory thread, here. I write primarily magical realism, new weird, and literary fantasy, typically focused in fantasy settings patterned after the Americas. I love worldbuilding. I've done world building as a hobby since I can remember. I currently have two published...