I'm Thunder Chicken, a Big Gay Auto Mechanic living in Nova Scotia, Canada. While not working on cars, dodging wildfires, or fighting floods I'm usually either reading, writing, or drawing. Because I've got the attention span of a golden retriever on crystal meth, I'm often doing all three.
I've got three series on Tapas. Here they are:
Title: Finding Daecon's Way
Genres: Shapeshifter fantasy, Magic, LGBTQ, BL, Slow Burn
Synopsis: Daecon Doe is a young affluent gay man who, after finding himself facing near certain death, discovers quite by accident that he is a shapeshifter. Follow along as he makes some new friends, discovers old secrets, encounters unknown enemies, and tries to find his way in this new world of magic, betrayal and murder that he didn't even know existed. Story will eventually develop into a modified Omegaverse/MPreg type universe (the characters are shapeshifters, not werewolves, but there will be some similarities)
Format: Illustrated webnovel. Reads like a novel but each episode contains imagery as well.
Status: Ongoing. Updates Saturdays. Occasional Wednesday updates as well, with bonus content such as character profiles and holiday specials.
Title: Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy Days
Genres: LGBTQ, BL, Coming of Age, Slice of Life, Coming Out, Nonfiction
Synopsis: This is a story about Carmen, a perfectly normal young man with a secret. Join him as he navigates puberty, the teenage years, and his 20's trying to find love and happiness in a world seemingly determined to keep these things away from him. Set in the 1980s, 1990's, and early 2000's.
Content Warning: This is based on a true story. I am Carmen. Many disturbing things have happened to myself and people that I care about, and those things are presented here as they happened. Subjects such as childhood death, mental illness, homophobia, substance abuse, religious fanaticism, and self harm/suicide are all covered. It's not all bad news though: interspersed among the angst there are plenty of happy moments as well, even if some of them may be fleeting... Also contains sexual content in later chapters as characters age
Format: Illustrated Webnovel. Like Finding Daecon's Way, this story reads as a novel but has illustrations. In the early chapters the illustrations are infrequent, but toward the end every episode gets a new one.
Status: This story is complete. While the main story is complete it is not marked as such because there will be sporadic updates with new short stories related to the main novel. Currently at 83 episodes, roughly 182,000 words.
Title: Side Glances: The Art and Extras of Thunder Chicken
Genres: LGBTQ, BL, Fantasy, and all of the other tags that the other two series use
Synopsis: Unlike the other two, this one does not really tell a story. It is merely a showcase for the art featured in the other two stories along with some extra stuff like character profiles, holiday specials, and extra art. Each image featured here is accompanied by a description, some context, and often some humour.
Format: Because this series is all about the images it is presented in webcomic format.
Status: Ongoing. This series updates every Saturday and some Wednesdays, as well as whenever there is a special (such as a holiday). Art featured here from the main series wil be presented one week after it appears in the main series.