Hey, everyone. Odd day to start this, considering it’s April Fools and all, but as I started doing monthly State of the Writer updates, I figure I might as well post them here, too. Just so everyone knows how things are going. So, here we go.

Hey, everyone. It’s April now, and that means it’s another month, another chance to be awesome, and another time for updates and plans.

Well, first off, updates. March was…interesting. Due to visitors and other bits of chaos, my writing wasn’t the best, but there was a bigger problem than that. After some realizations, I think I can officially say that I’ve been operating out of a cave of depression for a very long time. The best I’ve been able to say about my writing for a very, very, very long time is that it ‘isn’t bad,’ and a lot of the time, it’s been ‘get this shit done and off my desk so I don’t have to see it.’ I can believe that others like it, but I couldn’t see that it was good myself. I couldn’t see that a lot of things were good, even though there were bursts of happiness here and there. But they were very tiny bursts, indeed.

Over the course of March, I’ve done a lot of introspection, looking at myself, seeing what I have done for and against myself over the years. Through music, I was able to get in touch with my inner child again and appreciate that in a way that I haven’t for decades. I felt a sort of forgiveness for colluding with a lot of self-oppression over the years. I was able to turn something of a corner.

It all came to a head at the end of the month – in a good way – when I was coming back from the store and had this realization while walking down the hall to my apartment.

This is where I live now. This isn’t some vacation. This isn’t some gap before going back to my ‘normal’ life. This is where I live now, and this isn’t going to just end.

And from there, things have gotten…oddly better.

I edited a story for a patron and thought “Holy shit, I’m good at this.”

I have treated myself to more things – healthy soups, mini-symphonies, reading new things – and found pleasure in them again rather than merely distraction.

I did a three-parter for patreon, and I felt that it was one of my strongest bits of writing and character work in a very, very long time. Not perfect, because what is, but I actually LOVED it.

I don’t know what’s going to happen going forward, but it’s like a key has turned in a lock, and something that hasn’t seen the light for eons is finally being allowed to again.

As for plans?

Still figuring that out. I want to treat April as something good, to hit the ground running, to do some good stuff, but I don’t know what those things are yet. I’m trying to listen to myself, find what I want so I can enjoy it the whole way through, but regardless…it’s going to be different. And hopefully, amazing.

Because – and I know this sounds arrogant – I’m pretty amazing myself.

Sorry for the delay, everyone. Had a few very distractible days, but here's the results. Congrats to all that won.

 Quarian for 4 miniseries chapters
 AkimitsuSevecan for 2 miniseries chapters
 Anthroperson_18 for 1 10-pager
 Thecosmicwolf33 for 1 10-pager
 DariusWhitefur for 3 miniseries chapters
 Roureem for 3 miniseries chapters and 1 sponsored chapter
 3rdHarleyJoe for 1 9-pager
 ankhwuff for 1 sponsored 10-pager
 Vanrixie for 1 sponsored 10-pager
 Jagger8090 for 1 10-pager
 alabastertortoise for brainstorming and 1 slot
 nagafide for 1 10-pager
 Gezro for 1 10-pager
 GlynWolf for 2 sponsored slots

Congrats all. Please get to sending me your write-ups as fast as possible. You can find the template here, so please go ahead and fill that out and email it to me at spencer-gorman[at]hotmail.com . Looking forward to working with you.

Good morning, everyone. Another little thought that’s crossed my mind, and this time, a little less controversial.

I was thinking about commissions – both writing them and maybe getting some eventually – and I couldn’t help but think about the difference between clients. Some of them are very open and flexible about what they’re getting, while others are very specific. Some of them give me just a little bit and let me go with that, while others will give me write-ups that are almost as long as the commission that they’re getting (which is…a lot, sometimes).

In the past, I’ve had my moments of annoyance with both types, at least once they go past a certain point. I’ve felt irritated that someone hasn’t given me enough to go on, or felt like someone might as well write the thing themselves if they’re going to hit me with that much information at once.

But today, I had a bit of an insight, and to be honest, I feel a bit stupid for taking this long to realize it.

The few times that I’ve been involved in getting myself a commission – or been the beneficiary of one where I’ve been involved in the process – I have been painfully aware of the sort of picky bitch that I am with my characters. I have invested so much time and energy into making them what they are that I will become a nightmare to an artist that isn’t insanely patient. I make myself cringe with how much I keep going “No, it’s not…quite like that” in terms of body angles and proportions and fashion and everything else. It’s always made worse by having a hard time pointing to what I want changed and being clear about it, because my brain doesn’t want to work that way, and I can’t clearly visualize a thing until it’s actually in front of me.

So, knowing myself, I can look at the write-ups that I get and go “These people that give me so little are trusting me to be awesome, and have the confidence to be able to forgive little mistakes, and the ones that give me huge ones are probably a lot like me, enthusiastic but nervous.”

Now, does that mean that I’m not going to be frustrated sometimes? Nah. There are times when I appreciate the confidence, but I need just a little more, and there are times when the novella of a write-up needs to be trimmed down to allow me to work, after all. But it does give me a place of understanding, and it helps me feel nicer toward those that are trying to make it work.

So, to all those that are nervous, thanks for at least reaching out and trying to give me something to work with.

And to all those that have the confidence to be so blasé about your descriptions, good on you. Cheers for you.

I had a thought this morning, and it gives me a little insight into the whole Lovecraftian ‘going mad from seeing the scope of the universe’ thing. You know, that whole thing where people that see the Old Ones and the such go crazy because of the ‘indescribable’ things that they encounter? How it often feels like Lovecraft was using that as a cop-out for horror by not getting into the details and all that?

Well, I kinda had a bit of an insight into myself in a different vein, and it gives me a little understanding into those that he described going mad or sliding into bad mental states. Not in the same way, but in something sideways to it.

I see myself as fairly good at what I do. I write well, and I write mostly reliably. My fiction, while not spread super far and wide, is known enough that my name gets mentioned from time to time. I’d like to think that I’m one of the more successful and well-skilled people in my particular field, though I have no way to back that up completely. It should be something that feeds my ego and my sense of self-worth and tells me that I’m good.

The problem is, I’ve seen the next level.

I’ve seen the next level of writers, and I see the talent, and the success, and the discipline, and everything else that I constantly feel that I do not have. Seeing that, seeing what they have accomplished, both makes me want it and makes me realize that the minute that I take even that tiny step forward, I move out of the top of my bracket and into the bottom of another. And that new bracket is terrifying with what it demands of people in it.

There is a fear, and a madness, in seeing that difference between the world that you’re in and the world that you could partake in. It is a fear and madness that I feel that those who saw the Lovecraftian creatures would have seen: that our universe, our world, our skills, are nothing compared to the next step, to the realization of what else is out there and what else can be done.

And don’t get me wrong. That can be motivating. To a lot of people – far more than Lovecraft ever penned – that would be something that pushed them to get better, to try and leap into that, to fly into the storm and see if they could fly with it or would come crashing down in a blaze of glory.

On the other hand, it is also terrifying to know that all that you’ve built up, all the good things that you were proud of, is nothing compared to that next step. That you have to up your game a hundred times over to be able to get even a few steps up from the bottom. That this is so much more than you’ve invested.

I fight a sense of complete inferiority every time that I look at that gap between where I am and where I want to be. I have to work so hard to not feel like my previous work has been mediocre, at best, regardless of the pride that I used to have in it. It’s like, once I saw that, there was a split in me, a new piece that could understand what was needed, but that piece cannot be anything less than blunt. And the part of me that was proud of what I used to do looks at it and can’t feel the same pride and love for those pieces, because that ‘taste’ voice – that part that knows what the next level of quality is – is right about the stuff we need to do.

I just don’t know if I have the skill to do it.

Ramble aside, just felt like an interesting insight into the way that the whole ‘reveal of the bigger world’ can be so crushing for people. If it can be like this in such a mundane way, seeing the next level of talent and skill and all that, how much more potent could it be if it was something that broke one’s understanding of the universe?

(And for those that worry, I am kinda okay. Not depressed, just in this state of mildly hating my current output and feeling like I’m not nearly as good as I should be. Eventually, it will pass, I hope.)

Hey everyone. Just thought I’d throw a little thought up since I’ve been seeing this bantered around again. Seems like ‘positivity’ is a theme that people can’t entirely let go of, heh, nor can they agree on the right way to spread it. While I don’t claim to have the answer, I’m just going to put out my particular spin on it and what works for me, and I’d be curious what you do that works for you.

For me, positivity is kinda necessary in life. You need at least a little bit to keep moving forward, to feel like there’s a reason to keep throwing yourself into the shit that you don’t like. Maybe this positivity is a hope for the future, more like a happy dream, or maybe there’s something good in the doing of it that you can focus on rather than the drudgery of the stuff you don’t like. Maybe there’s good words offered by a friend, a little praise that’s reminded you of good things about yourself and what you do, or a little happy memory that keeps you chugging along. There’s many different sources of it, but it all comes down to the same thing: happiness, joy, that helps buoy you against the things that aren’t good in life.

However, as much as positivity is necessary, so is realism.

While we need positivity to keep moving forward, we need to stay in touch with the real world around us just as much. Positivity gives us momentum while realism keeps us grounded. Sticking completely to positivity means that we stop being aware of the things happening around us and the pain other people are in. It removes our ability to be empathetic because we refuse to acknowledge or understand that those things are happening. At the same time, if we only listen to the world around us and don’t seek out the positivity that we require, we burn out trying to move something that’s too heavy to be shifted.

We are a species that requires a balance of being informed and being happy. Too much of one or the other, and we cease being able to function together. And the important point is finding the balance point for each person, and being able to negotiate that point with others so that you don’t become either someone so far removed from reality that you become almost toxic to those stuck in it, or so rooted in it that you make everyone else miserable.

Prioritize balance in your life, if you can, but if you must choose one, lean just a little more toward positivity. Eventually, you’ll have to come back down, but better to hold onto something good and keep moving forward than to shut down completely.

That’s my take. What’s yours?

Feeling pretty good after yesterday. I've managed to get a number of things done, and that's always a nice feeling (I'm a workaholic, productivity is required to keep the bad feelings at bay) but it was also nice to put out that bit of discourse regarding something more personal yesterday.

It was one thing to put to words why disability representation and more means a lot in fantasy, and why it belongs there rather than being shuffled off to the side. It was another thing - and a good one - to have other realizations about my thoughts while putting it into words. It was something else entirely to see so many people responding in good ways. Yes, there were a few bad eggs in there as well (and thank you so much for telling me who you were so I could bring out the block bonk), but by and large, there's been a lot of good responses, all of which show me how a lot of us have our heads in the right place on this.

It makes me feel good for days ahead, and it was nice to interact in the comments a bit.

Take care everyone, and have a wonderful day.

Okay, saw something that kinda pissed me off, so rant incoming. Reposting from twitter.

Someone posted that the existence of disabled people - and adventurers in particular - in fantasy settings goes against the worldbuilding. That, in this case, magic should 'heal' them. This was in response to a post of someone showing a mage in a wheelchair in a dungeon, and the posited theory that the existence of magic in fantasy shouldn't be easier to accept than disabled people in fantasy. The responder believed that magic is easier to believe, because it 'fixes' disabled people.

I highly disagree.

Hitting that from the non-biased standpoint, let's think about magic systems that don't include healing. Sure, D&D and Pathfinder do, but a lot of video game settings don't. A lot of magic in fantasy engages in more specialized forms, not a catch-all. And even when there is healing magic, it is rare that it regens limbs and more.

So, in many fantasy settings, it's entirely possible for there to be people with disabilities, either as NPCs or heroes, without any issue with worldbuilding.

But let's say that there is healing magic. Let's say that there are churches and healers that pull this off.

Even in post-scarcity societies, such as portrayed in Star Trek and other sci-fi shows, there is still difficulty in seeing to everyone's needs. There are still people who are blind, deaf, stuck in wheelchairs. While there are treatments, they aren't available to everyone.

And that's in a setting where one doesn't have to pay for treatment. That's in a setting where people are taken care of. And even LaForge's visor caused him pain, despite helping him 'see'.

Most fantasy is not post-scarcity. Most fantasy is still pay for healing.

And most people can't pay.

Even adventurers, for all that they disregard death as a temporary thing, have to pay for it. And they're paying a LOT. And doing things most people could never dream to get that cash. And those that can bring back limbs? High-level fuckers.

That's a 7th level spell. You don't get that until 13th level, character-wise, and that's going to be a VERY small percentage of the population.

So, even in settings that have that power, it is still in a world of scarcity.

But what about adventurers that have power?

Think about that. Think about every ‘disability’ there is. Deafness. Paralysis. Various types of neuro-divergency. Everything that you can imagine.

And now think about the person who has it, lives with it.

Some people WOULD want to be healed, yes. Some people would want their hearing back, some people would want the pain to stop, some would want their mobility back.

Others would not.

I know multiple people in the Deaf community that would reject an attempt of a 'cure.'

I know people with autism who would say no, because there's nothing wrong with them.

To say that 'magic would heal this' is a blatant way of ignoring so many factors that it is outright laughable to even consider it as a response to such a statement.

If a world offers no-cost, no-travel, constantly-consequence-free healthcare in the form of magical resources, even then, you can't say that all forms of disability would disappear. Because to some people, it is more than that. And to say that it should ignores their life.

Building a world that erases others (whether by race, disability, sexuality, or anything else) is a means of - consciously or unconsciously - saying you don't like them around. That you would prefer something without them.

We can be better. We should be better.

Before I get started with work-stuff today, I wanted to post this as an apology journal. Some of it is worth apologizing for, some of it is me needing to talk about stuff and explain, but I’m just shoving it all under the heading of ‘apology.’ Feel free to correct me in the comments if you want, heh.

I’ve been going through a lot of ups and downs with work and with most everything else in my life of late. My posting has gone out the window in so many ways, and I’ve struggled to keep up with a lot of the stuff that I used to do. There’s reasons for that, some of them good, some of them less good, but the main point I want to make is that I am trying. Sometimes, I succeed, and the successes are starting to get more numerous than the failures again. For those of you that have hung around through that – and a lot of you have – thank you. Thank you for having faith in me to work through my problems, and for those that have reached out and helped, thank you, too. It’s meant the world to me to know that my work has inspired this much faith and friendship, and I still don’t have the words to say how much that means to me.

Over the past year, I’ve been sorting through a lot of things. From my mom’s death a year and two days ago to moving out into my own place, from going through my past and realizing the low-level neglect and emotional abuse I went through (and my own collaboration with it) to the appreciation of what survived and put itself together through that, from realizing my own ace nature to finding ways to express it while still enjoying my work, it’s…been a year. It’s been a huge year.

But part of sorting through all of that has meant taking time away from working here and there, or working less well, or less often. I’ve gone from a survival schedule to something else, and the something else isn’t quite working. Emotional surges and swells from all the stuff still processing in my head, and all the new things to worry about, keep throwing me off my game, and it takes me a little while to get back to it.

I’m aware that this is reading like a lot of excuses, so I’m going to stop there with all that. I’ll just get back to the topic at hand.

I’m sorry for the disruption to what used to be a very reliable schedule. I’m taking steps towards getting back on track with that, including:

-Daily minimums of work
-Focusing on one-day-off a week to try and build up good times there, rather than feeling pressed to find break times every day
-Better scheduling
-More communication

When I fall down on this, please call me on it. I have slipped and not been great about things in the past, and I want to make sure that I remain one of the reliable people.

Thank you for your patience over this year, and thanks for your continued faith in me being able to make you good stuff. I hope I can keep fulfilling that for years to come.

Yep, time to go through the winners again. Let's hear it for:

SF

Mizzukat, with 4 miniseries chapters

FA

 RayoElgatubelo for 2 miniseries chapters
 SaltirePhoenix for 2 10-pagers.
 TogSwitch for 1 10-pager.
 Catsithx for 1 10-pager.
 JCFoxman for 1 10-pager.
 GlynWolf for a sponsored story and an upload sponsorship.
 NerubianKnight for 3 miniseries chapters.
 FriskeCrisps for 1 9-pager.
 TallowCro for 4 miniseries chapters.
 Gezro for 1 10-pager.
 Jehander for 1 10-pager.
 Drackonthanri for 1 10-pager.

Congrats all. Please get to sending me your write-ups as fast as possible. You can find the template here, so please go ahead and fill that out and email it to me at spencer-gorman[at]hotmail.com . Looking forward to working with you.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55666056/

Can be found here, and the raffle closes tomorrow night.

Congrats all!

 Johnzaloog for 2 sponsored chapters
 HeruAnubisSolares for 3 miniseries chapters
 Leon_Therma for 1 10-page story
 NerubianKnight for 3 miniseries chapters
 GlynWolf for 3 sponsored chapters
 Gezro for 1 6-page story
 LiberWolf for 2 miniseries chapters
 sonic232 for 2 miniseries chapters and brainstorming

One Inkbunny User

2 SF users

As per usual, go and find the write-up template here and fill it out, then email it to me at spencer-gorman@hotmail.com. Please get the write-up to me as fast as possible. If you do not get it to me within four days, I will give your slot to someone else, and I would prefer you to keep what you've won.

Can't wait to see what you have for me to write.

I hope you're all appreciating the dragons in your life.

Well, look at that, time to go through this again. Congrats to the winners! Here's the list.

From SF:

Mizzukat, for 1 10-pager.

From IB:

 bbbuuu for 1 6-pager and 1 3-pager.

From FA:

 Engy for 4 miniseries chapters.
 Rickochet for 2 sponsored Dark Soles chapters.
 a-lycotonum for 2 miniseries chapters.
 giver for 3 miniseries chapters.
 RayoElgatubelo for 1 10-pager.
 Drakesis. for 1 10-pager.

Congrats, everyone. As per usual, go and find the write-up template here and fill it out. Please get the write-up to me as fast as possible. If you do not get it to me within four days, I will give your slot to someone else, and I would prefer you to keep what you've won.

Can't wait to see what you have for me to write.

Hello everyone.

Just a quick announcement. I’m still going to be announcing the winners of the raffle tonight, but there’s time to sign up still. Just go here:

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55098129/

If you want to get a chance at the raffle and you haven’t signed up yet.

For those that are still waiting on their comms (there’s not many, but a couple) yours will be done first before the rest of the queue. At the moment, I’m struggling with some stomach issues, but it should hopefully pass by the end of the day. Rather than push myself while writing is a bit difficult, I’ll get some uploads done before announcing the winners, so you at least have something new to look at.

Thank you for your patience, and looking forward to announcing the winners tonight.

Well, everyone, the new year is upon us, and that brings all kinds of reflection time, as well as hopes and dreams of the new year.

2023 was…in many ways, the biggest mixed bag that I’ve ever had. I have had a number of peaks and valleys for just about everything. I lost my mom, I have had a number of depressive moments, and I ended up in a series of very bad places where I really needed help from others. My work efforts have suffered more than once, and I can only thank whatever heavens or good powers exist that you have been as good as you have about that. Anything professional would have kicked me out long ago.

On the other hand, I was able to travel for the first time since COVID hit, I got to reconnect with a number of people, and I finally moved out. Three huge things that I have been wanting to do for a while, but never really got around to doing because of…well, lots of complications, including caring for the now-dead mom.

Yeah, still no easy way to say that.

But that means that this year is probably, easily, the most eventful year that I have had, including coming to grips with a better understanding of myself, my life, and what I need out of it. How that will go, I don’t know, but I know that I have made huge strides, even with everything that went bad.

And now, 2024 is a year to improve things further.

I have no resolutions for this year. Instead, I have a wish list, one that I’m still trying to theme a bit better, but which have the following things I want to do more of or do better this coming year. In no particular order:

Drac’s Life Wish List

Writing

Both my non-furry writing and my own personal furry writing took a huge backseat this year in favor of work writing. Neither saw much in the way of work, despite many attempts to kickstart it and make things better. I can say that I had a lot to think about, but it means a lot less fulfillment than usual. I want to do more things that I like, and I need to start prioritizing that.

This year, I want to get at least one story for myself out a month, if not more, outside of patreon and the sponsored stuff. And I want to get at least the rough draft of something done by June, and hopefully either something short in the hands of an agent, or something longer well on its way, by the end of the year.

My writing needs priority and to be part of me, and I need to work on that seriously.

Self-Improvement

There’s a number of things that I want to be better at, and so I want to take a number of steps to improve myself.

I want to get back on my diet and exercise routine. I had a great one a few years ago and dropped from 250 to just under 190. I want to bring that back and get back in shape and back to eating sanely and healthily.

I want to get back to doing happy cooking, which I’ve started but I want to keep that going.

I want to get back into doing meditation like I used to do, almost daily. I have barely managed to do a few a month for a while, and it would go a long way towards helping me to do that.

I want to look at getting therapy at some point in 2024, go over my new sense of self and break down some of the other barriers I have in my way for actually being happy.

There’s a lot of things that I want to get better with, and saying them might make me do them, eventually.

Self-Care

And yes, there is a huge difference between self-improvement and self-care. Self-improvement makes me better as a person and in my work. Self-care makes me happier with my life and betters my relationship with myself.

I want to have more time to myself, either for the general enjoyment of life (via games or more adult activities) or for the sake of pursuing new, different projects. I am busy with work and other stuff so often that I can’t keep up with that, and often deny myself it until I utterly crash.

I want to build up a cluster of people that can help with those fun times (movie nights, writing/RP partners, and more) so that I am not at loose ends when I don’t have someone immediately available.

I want to actually start having more IRL friends. MeetUp stuff, writing stuff, book clubs, anything to start building up more people in my life that I don’t have to wait for conventions to see again.

I want to take time to really indulge in building up the new setting I made for myself and do something with it. It’s so fun, and I don’t really treat myself to it much.

There’s a lot that I want to do this year, and it’s hard to decide where to start. But one thing is for sure. 2024 is, hopefully, going to be the year of change, and becoming more myself. Let’s find out what that self is going to be.

Hey everyone. As it’s so close to Christmas, just giving you a heads-up with something special.

December 24th, 9:30 AM (12:30 PM Eastern) I will be running a raffle for some open-content three-page stories. Later that same day, I’ll be running a second raffle for six-page stories. These will be done cheaper than you can get by the normal commissions, and done live, as well.

If you’re interested, keep an eye out. Notice of the stream going live will be posted to twitter at https://twitter.com/DraconiconWrite as well as to my discord server. If you’re already there, awesome. If not, you can find it here.

https://discord.gg/BJsHntRj5g

I look forward to seeing you there, and hope to see some cool ideas for the holidays.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays.

I've been seeing this going around, and some friends of mine have been using it as well.

https://decomytree.com/home?hashedId=GuuOAiPJJXrT

If you want to leave a little Christmas message, I'd love to see that. If not, no worries, but thought I'd put it up.

Congratulations, everyone. It's been great to see so many new faces in here. So, without further ado, let's get announcing the winners.

From SoFurry:

lollopo for 2 miniseries chapters.
Trial64 for 2 miniseries chapters.

From FA (new or unable to get in before):

 HeruAnubisSolares for 3 miniseries chapters.
 ShadyMissionary for 1 9-pager.
 Jimbo_The_Crow for 1 6-pager.
 Silzek for 2 miniseries chapters.
 TerinasTiger for 1 9-pager.
 Harute11 for 3 miniseries chapters.
 Basillisk for 1 10-pager.
 Zohaku for 1 9-pager.
 Guderian for 2 miniseries chapters.

From FA (regulars):

 3rdHarleyJoe for 1 9-pager.
 Jagger8090 for 1 10-pager.
 GlynWolf for 2 sponsored stories.
 Leon_Therma for one uploading slot.

Thank you, all of you.

Here’s what you need to do.

Please copy fill out the write-up template linked here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....it?usp=sharing

A sample write-up can be found after the template itself.

Once you’ve filled that out, please email it to me at spencer-gorman[at]hotmail.com as an attached file.

If you cannot get this to me in 72 hours, you will lose your slot and I will give it to someone else.

Congratulations on your win, and look forward to seeing your idea.

Sorry for delays, been rather distracted, hoping to get back up to where I'm supposed to be soon. Winners will be announced before noon Seattle time on the 15th.

Just to explain something real quick.

With the new opening here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/54760698/ I stated that the priority will be to commissioners that either have not commissioned me before, or have not managed to commission me in the last 8 months. This is due to the way that the raffle has somewhat favored old commissioners over new ones lately, and to give new people a chance.

Normally, I let the random chance stuff take care of things, and I roll to see who gets added to the queue, until we have 22 or so slots filled. This time, I am only rolling among the newcomers and those that haven't been in the queue for the last 8 months first, and including other people if there are not sufficient slots for those 22 slots to be filled up.

We will be back to normal at the end of December, but I wanted to give people a fair shot. Thanks for your patience.

Just feeling a rather intense sort of thankfulness for everyone today, from your patience to your appreciation. I really do try and be worthy of that every day and every story, so thank you for sticking around as long as you have. And for those of you just coming around, thank you for being here, too.

Been looking at updating Drac’s look from the simple robe stuff that he’s been wearing to something more modern. I got a vague idea for some potential color schemes, but I need to start putting together some other ideas.

When I look around for inspiration, I tend to either find steampunk/Victorian pieces, Cyberpunk, or just flat-out old-style fantasy rather than things that’d work for modern fantasy. Anyone have any thoughts of where I should look for inspiration, or how?

https://curiouscat.live/DraconiconWrite

Just in case anyone still likes to do that, since it seems to be working again, thought I'd bring the link back. Will check throughout the day.

Congrats, everyone, hope to hear some good ideas!

Here's the winners.

 Catsithx for 1 10-pager.
 GlynWolf for 2 sponsored stories.
 Leon_Therma for 1 10-pager.
John_Doe12346 for 3 miniseries chapters.
 FriskeCrisps for 1 9-pager.
 alabastertortoise for 1 6-pager.
 Andrew23 for 1 6-pager.
 Johnzaloog for 2 sponsored stories.

Thanks again for being interested. Please fill out the template found here and email it to spencer-gorman[at]hotmail.com and we'll get started ASAP.

Going to be opening for more commissions later tonight. They'll be closed on Wednesday, and I'll announce the winners then. I'm sorry for this being weird, but I'm going through some adjustments IRL at the moment, and trying not to take more than I can deliver on. Thanks for your patience.