Something I've been working on for a few months, that I have finally decided is done... this is a surprise gift for my dear friend, Amoux (whose own lovely work can be found at  wolphyn - she is far too modest and hasn't uploaded in a long time, but words of encouragement probably would not hurt to get her to start doing so again! ;3).

This gift is my way of saying "thanks" to her, for she LITERALLY saved my shit: one day about two years ago, we were hanging out, and I casually mentioned I had never made any backups of my work or computer. She stared at me in wide-eyed shock for a minute or two, and then told me, "we're going to Fry's RIGHT NOW, and we're going to get you a backup drive. Don't worry about the money, I will buy it for you and you can pay me back later."

So we went, and I got my first ever shiny new backup drive, and backed up all my shit that same day. It was a good feeling and all, but I wasn't TOO concerned: in all my years of owning computers, I had yet to ever have a single hard drive fail. Naively, I had assumed that my luck would not change.

Barely a couple of months later, and what happens? The internal drive on my 2006 iMac starts making the Horrible Clicking Noise. Aka, I am kicking the bucket now, thx bye. But thanks to Amoux's foresight, I had every last little thing safe and sound on that backup drive. 10+ years worth of my digital work (and life), perhaps even more, would have been gone forever if not for her.

I could not figure out a way to say thank you enough with words, so instead I rendered her character, an eclectic gryphon mix of a Philippine monkey-eating eagle and a dhole (asiatic wild dog), as close to how I envision her in my head as I could.

Thanks again, Amoux, for literally saving my shit, and also for just being an awesome friend all these years. <3