I wanted to edit my front page a little, so I'm going to be putting the more detailed information here instead.

About myself:

I am most often known as CJ or Chase. I would also be alright with people calling me Chess. My nickname among friends or people who want to be is "sunflowre". Or, the correct spelling of "sunflower" and I am associated commonly with friends as a sunflower due to an inside joke dating back to the era of nintendo dsi cameras.

I'm non binary trans and use singular they/them pronouns. I'm mixed black and bear clan Ojibwe, and culturally identify as a two spirit. Please refrain from any anti indigenous peoples sentiment while you are here, I appreciate it. Thinking of the concept of non binary genders and two spiritism as hogwash definitely falls under such things. Note me and I will politely explain why.

At the moment I live in Minnesota in the usa, which I frequently call ice hell. I have 2 cats but might as well say I have 3 because of how often I'm around my fiance's cat as well. Such a beast of burden is :iconsnickerdoodle"

I like to illustrate and write, switching between both depending on what feels most natural. I have taken scattered art courses growing up, as my mother was an art teacher and encouraged me to develop any and all artistic talents. I have her to thank for where I am and having a family supportive with my work throughout the years. Like most people, I am highly self taught, especially when it comes to my most current and recent work. It has taken over a decade to finally arrive at a place of artistic comfort and it inspires me a lot to churn out whatever I can before I pass away.

My goals in life are to do freelance illustrative work, and write stories for all ages in various mediums. I would like to publish at least 5 novels, 2 of which will be practice material in the form of "Fiifa's Tails" and "Soul Vale: Sparrow Squadron" which I will be posting progress to here on FA mostly. One surrounds the misadventure of candy based species and people in a disillusioned candy land, the other surrounds the misadventures of machine based people as creatures in a distorted limbo world of abstract machine landscape and bizarre allusions various things.

My ethnic background is mixed. Despite having a white mother, because I have not had the cultural experience of being white passing or being indoctrinated by an over emphasis on my white European heritage, I do not personally identify as being white in any form aside from genealogy, haha. I hold far closer ties to what most people would correctly assume I am, which is african american, with a certain amount of native american.

Since growing up, I have never "felt" like a "boy" or "girl" and as soon as I had the information and terminology to correctly describe myself as non binary transgender, I did. I've been mostly out for about 10 years now, researching gender and sex history and politics very deeply. All I can say is the rabbit hole on that stuff goes super deep scientifically, nevermind the sociology stuff that impacts it intensely. I assure you that unless you're making gender, sex, transgender and intersex topics a forefront of experience and study, society itself is stacked against you in actively knowing shit about any of it. A lot has to be independently researched or told to people, but only if you are receptive to learning and not spending countless hours arguing will you actually become enlightened on these matters. I learned this the easy, medium, and hard way all at once.

I don't think it's anyone's job to educate people (people are dense and shit is hard if they already are stuck in their ways) outside of education specific environments, but any polite inquires to me via note on any topic will warrant you an equally polite response. The less polite the question, the less polite the answer, be assured. All complaints about trangender people or special snowflakes may go here.