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So this is me
A shadow on the internet...
A person who writes both fanfic and stuff that straddles the edge of transformative works that I never have decided are too original to go on AO3 or not. Most of those works are based on folklore motifs, some mythological.
My most important work online is A Tale of Ever After,
a huge continuing story set after the end of the InuYasha manga. It's kind of an outlier - it starts out as an InuKag fic, but quickly morphs into InuYasha and Kagome as an integral part of a community of somewhere around 150 villagers, and goes into their role as an important set of players. So far it covers 17 days of story time and is over 670,000 words long.
I have written fic based on Greek myth and Arthuriana as well.
Currently, besides deciding to continue TEA, I am working on two WIPs based on folklore:
Once Upon a Dragon Web
(or possibly titled Of Pixies, Pie and Dragons) set in a story universe where most folk are Fae/Mythic beings and humans are not common
The Woman Who Loved the North Wind,
a spin-off of two major folk tale motifs, the Twin Brothers and the Lost Husband, inspired originally by East of the Sun, West of the Moon, but rather radically different enough I can't call it fanfic of that tale.
I like nature, pretty flowers, animal vids, and art, so a heads up.
I like History so much I majored in it in college before switching to English Lit. I am especially interested in the lives and times of everyday people any place, any time.
I used to teach college level English.
Science is another area that is high interest to me - especially geology and evolutionary biology because of what it tells me about the earth over time (maybe another way of doing history?)
Folklore and myth and religious views across time and space are another thing I find fascinating.
Crafting things in the old ways, especially textiles is one of my big things. Therefore I spin and weave and embroider and do simple nalbinding and braiding and so on and so forth. Experimental archaeology of a type.
I read....some of everything, but especially histories and how to dos and how it was done and Science Fiction. I have over 2000 paper books and more than that in ebooks. And don't ask me how many crafting mags I have.
I'm incorrigibly curious about everything.
Therefore, you never will know what sort of thing I'll post here - it will be a mix.
Always willing to talk. Just ask.
