My story, 'The Love She Wanted' was inspired by metal health and its struggles. The emotion I felt when I put it into words was honestly mixed. I was dealing with an important issue and I think I handled it well (I hope). My story still has a long way to go and so, I still have a lot to deal with. For now, you can look at the truth of dealing with mental health and based on a certain character in this series.
And so this is my story.

My latest novel was inspired by two very different stories, that came to me in very different situations. When those two stories eventually collided in my mind, my novel was born.

The first bit of the story, came to me while I was at a bar, a little drunk, a bit bored and looking around. They had a decoration that was a skull with a rose in its mouth. As weird as that might sound, it sparked a short story in me. I went home that night after spending the last couple of hours thinking of my idea, wrote a draft in a state of drunken inspiration, saved it and went to bed.

The second story is a bit more completed. I remember seeing this cartoon as a kid, and it had a scene that drastically changed the way I looked at stories. The ending was so unexpected to me that I always remembered it with awe. Whenever I had conversations about life-changing moments, I would tell people about that scene and how it had such an unpredictable ending (for my then way too young mind) that it made me fall in love with storytelling. Skip forward about a decade, if not more, I am telling this story to a friend and we decide to watch this scene again (up until this point I was telling people about it but I never went back to watch it again), only to discover that the scene is not how I remember it. It was NOTHING AT ALL like what I remembered. It was a very boring and standard scene in fact with a VERY predictable ending. So my friend said I should write down my version of the scene (I had already told him what I remembered before we watched it) because it sounded way better than what we saw. And that is how the second short story came to be.

Eventually, these two short stories came together and gave birth to the story of my latest novel, Kingdom of the Red Rose. If you want to read it, I am uploading an episode twice a week (every Tuesday and Friday) here on Tapas.

First of all, I got into nonfiction writing as a way to process loneliness awhile back. I'd turn my journal entries into these surrealist, almost fantastical vignettes to try to help myself see the beauty in myself and in life in that empty feeling time. i've yet to combine that feeling with true fiction, but i can definitely see how powerful that can be for creativity. <3333

My comic, like nearly everything I've ever written, was a dream. More specifically, a terrible sleep paralysis hallucination. I've got chronic sleep paralysis, and those experiences have inspired a lot. But it's more than that, because, in addition to this very un-fun hallucination, there was a man there who has been appearing in my dreams for YEARS. An entirely unique person, nobody I've ever seen in my life. And that's not strange for me, I create random people in my dreams all the time, many of whom are reoccurring.

But this this one stands out. Because had the most horrible vibes I'd ever felt. Whenever I'd see him in a dream, I'd get this awful feeling, like I NEEDED to wake myself up. So I combined this man with my hallucination and boom, there's a horror story. maybe it's a way to conquer him, and everything else that haunts me. or maybe it's not that deep and i just wanted to draw my nightmare robots.

Before making his simple, comic depiction, I drew Duckie realistically, exactly how he appeared in my dreams. It was HORRIFYING to look at. I'll make an excuse to include that realistic drawing of him in my actual comic at some point, but for now it just gets to haunt me!!

A friend of mine converted from being a Christian to being a Muslim and it got me thinking about how people can change their entire ideological framework. A couple of hours of thinking and I guess I got hooked onto how people would react if their entire ideological framework was proven to be false. Would people come out better in that situation? Would they come out worse? How would they relate to their reality and themselves? So the book is me being philosophical about it and speculating about it.

https://m.tapas.io/episode/22503271

Check it and give it a read.

In 2019 I went to Iceland, and had an idea for a webcomic about norse mythology, but I never wrote it down. Fast forward a few months, and it was the middle of the 1st 2020 lockdown. I was bored and sad, so I thought to myself "Dammit, I'm writing that viking webcomic."

8 years ago I was lying down and then pop up a thought "how about make a comic from a mute girl I randomly doodled". I'm not joking the starting was really that simple.

Whenever i would read/watch fantasy romance it always had pretty toxic ships, so i would think of a way to make it cute/healthy relationship
Then i actually made plot for my story and it isn't only romance, but romance does play quite a big part in it.

I just kinda wanted to start writing short comics so I picked a theme that I resonated with and ran with it.

Always wanted to write a story, thought having a character using venom as a primary ability would've been interesting so I built on that along with wanting to build a world with unique creatures.

My initial inspiration was some scrapped ideas for a novel I had been intending to write but which I scrapped due to today’s political climate. Needless to say, it was about a snowman terrorist and his time being spent in limbo for one thousand years. The novel was in turn inspired by, who else, that snowman Olaf. I also claim inspiration from Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman and other works about snowmen.

Hi there! I originally created Tabby Rabbit as a set of stickers on stipop (you can go see them if you want) and someone commented that they would like to see more of this chaotic creature, that left me wondering what kind of adventures someone like Tabby Rabbit could have. Just the thought of all the adorable chaos this little creature could create was all it took to start sharing these chaotic adventures with everyone.

People always talk about how scary the dark is. How they fear something is there, watching them, or how they fear the unknown that lurks within the darkness. Me being a horror writer I decided to flip that fear. What if in the daytime, you saw the monsters that you were scared of. You feared the light for it brought them to life and at night you were at rest from them. Since I love writing about monsters, most of the monsters were heavily based on Zdzisław beksiński's untitled paintings of his nightmares.

I just wanted to share my stores with the world. With my own comics I don't have to waste thousands on college, just to never get the chance to direct my own content due to competition. Plus, this way there's no corporate executives getting in my way with their amazing idea's.

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My love for the game of hockey

What made me write my novel or story?
I made my novel because of boredom, since I don't have much to do in this pandemic so I write a novel to lift my boredom. And this is my first novel. I also put this one at Webnovel and then here.

No one else was writing the stories I wanted to read, so I wrote them so I could read stories I wanted to read.

I wrote mine because I got really sick of Chinese manhuas were the female lead was a secret assassin or doctor or both in her previous life and got transmigrated/reborn into a fantasy world or the past where she then proceeded to kick ass and get revenge on everyone and their dog for the body's previous owner...

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Hm...I guess my inspiration came from this pandemic? (Sorry for the upcoming short rant below!)

I don't mean to sound edgy or anything but this pandemic has made me have a more pessimistic view towards the world. It feels like nothing has gotten better and alongside that? More and more hate/evil has been exposed (Whether it's police violence against POC, Climate Change etc.) I wanted to write a book that allowed me to appropriately put my pessimism into a character rather than just letting it fester on the inside like a disease.

Hence the reason I recently got into writing darker fantasy! Although It's still about reincarnation and such, I did want to practice/explore having my characters have a more 'darker' air about them. (From what I've seen) Instead of characters getting used to the world they now live in after death, I wanted to explore something where the character isn't used to their environment. They hate it and long for nothing more than to return back to the life that (in my MC's opinion) was stolen from them.

Come hell or high water, whether they must kill one or thousands. Living in a fantasy world where everything is at their fingertips? It doesn't appeal to them in the slightest, they only use their power in order to further push them towards getting home even when the threat of never being able to return or death while trying looms over their head.

If y'all are interested in what you see, feel free to check out my novel! It's now on Chapter 2!

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Title: The Swallow of Storms
Genre(s): Fantasy, Action, Drama

Synopsis: To this boy whose heart is as unmoving as the forlorn and weary expression on his face. After a night of unprecedented tragedy that unexpectantly leaves him in service to a deity who doesn't go to his sister for free, as he goes through this new world, vengeance and the hopes of reuniting with his family are the only things that keep him going.

Content Warning: Violence and mentions of cannibalism in future chapters!

Um well actually 7SSC has technically been in development since I was in grade school...
We were assigned to create a fantasy world for English and that was the creation of Elemental, the main world of the series. From there, it just kind of grew? It's been a culmination of exploring myself and my own morals, the characters and the world are a strong reflection of who I was, who I am, and who I might become. So yeah!!!! That's that lol

Tempest was written out of my need to pay homage to the superheroes/comics I grew up reading, watching, and loving as a kid. I wanted to make my own superhero, but being that there are so many different ones out there, it's hard to come up with something 100% original. So, instead, I used what I knew and tried to integrate it while still coming up with my own type of plot. Lol.

The Last Goddess, on the other hand, came from my love of mythology. There's so many different types of myths, lore, and epics, that I wanted one of my own. Plus there are many things in mythologies that overlap cultures. So, I wanted to make my own multicultural pantheon! Bonus, both my characters kind of represent a different part of my life/personality. So, while they are drastically different, its fun to write in both personas, so to speak.

Centris is formed by some of my personal experiences but seen through a fantasy filter. But every writer does that, so it's not news. I've been developing the story and world for years, so many elements have shifted or represented my mental state at the moment of their creation or modifications.

Currently, I think it was the best possible moment to write it for me. I started a new chapter in my life, so maybe writing the novel right now will allow me to grow it alongside my knowledge of this new phase for me. Plus an important thematic element of Centris focuses on the struggle between the authority and the people who lacks it. And consider how crappy my country situation is, I'm in the right mind set to write something about opposing shitty governments.

Inspiration came from wanting to see Religion flourish in the world again, specifically Islam. My story is heavily focused on Islamic teachings and elements and explores a heartbreaking story of a Prince who struggles with saving his kingdom from the brink of a deadly civil war. His own identity as a practicing Muslim is put to the ultimate test as he faces harrowing and death defying tragedies, one after another.

The King of Roo

https://tapas.io/episode/2270544

My main inspiration came from pure rage of seeing people of authority (cough, politicians, cough) not doing their friggin jobs and taking money baths when small people scrape the streets for basic needs. I'm so done with that sht.

Loneliness was the motivator for me, too. That's even the basis for how the story started and what it's about. Of course, the theme has changed since its inception to match my real life circumstances in a way. My story is almost like a fantasy of what I want but can't seem to have just yet.

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To cut it nice and short(especially since I am half awake right now). I watched Ergo Proxy. That's literally it. Watched an anime from the early 2000s that inspired the creation of my man cast of characters and from there it just evolved into the story I am currently writing.

My story(web novel):

Inspired by works such as Ghost in the Shell, Ergo Proxy, Serial Experiments Lain, and Akira, Technocyte: Beyond Human follows Detectives Beatrice Alice Moreau and Jay Lee Jones, an amnesiac man named Sherlock Lawson, and a mysterious young girl named Mina in a cyberpunk/ dystopian like setting as they uncover the truth behind Sherlock's elusive past and his connection to the Technocytes, enhanced humans who are able to morph metal around their bodies and manipulate technology, and the organization responsible for creating them known as SANCTUARY.

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