Since the dawn of my memory I have only wanted to make stuff, and that is what I have spent my time doing, aside from gaps during middle & high school.
For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to make stuff. Nothing specific, just whatever the moment or era calls for. Oblivious to consequence, I deeply prioritized my imagination and creativity countless times before my father passed away (age 21), but truly (and unintentionally) abandoned a lot of human growth that should have been prioritized after he passed, very much sinking deeper into my emotional suppression in favour of imagination and creativity, two things that were always there for me.
My earliest artistic inspirations came from our 100+ cats we had growing up on our "farm". Dragon mythology took over for a brief period after I grew out of that, and once my cousin Ian introduced me to Magic the Gathering it was game over. I owe so much of my passion to create the things I do to Magic and the first two Diablo games, both of which were introduced to me by Ian.
After my dad died I really treated art as a therapy before anything else, but as time went on it became much more about me. I am in everything I make. There is a story behind it all and it's always about me.
It took me way too long to realize that the people very close to you just want to see you at your best. A lot of times, or at least in my case, you don't push for your best until you lose one of those people very close to you, as a source of motivation, as a source to make them proud and to leave a mark on the planet. The key to all of this is, that, YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR SOMEONE VERY CLOSE TO YOU TO DIE IN ORDER TO BE YOUR BEST. JUST BE YOUR BEST. GO. RIP Tevin Draper I love you and I miss you. RIP Turnip. RIP Buddy. RIP Pal. RIP Ganz. I miss my kitty cat brethren. Rip daddy-o. RIP BÖBE. RIP sweet little mountain mama Peijão. RIP you avalanche-for-a-heart, Cherry Spritz. RIP Lambo. RIP Weegee. RIP tha Nuzzla.
I'm just trying to get done what I can get done before I die.
Hi Tay & Yuna & Vera :) I love you guys so much
Writing this as of January 2025, my favourite authors are Nikolai Gogol, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka and George Orwell. My favourite books are
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Isihiguro
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Molloy by Samuel Beckett
The Tale... by Gogol
1984 by Orwell
