Today on Virtual Fossil Friday, we were talking about the dwarf sauropod Magyarosaurus and how it was the perfect size for riding, and Ashley and Maggie Jo wanted me to draw this. :)
Friday, May 1, 2026
Return to Lynwood, Chapter 8
“Millie!” Lexora grimaced and stood up. “I’m sorry, dear, did all this fuss wake you up?”
The grey Ogrin nodded, still staring at the odd scene below her. “Yes, and my brothers—“
A scrawny little yellow Moehog and a slightly larger, portly white Skeith pushed past her, scrambling halfway down the stairs before they, too, saw the Werelupes and stopped. “Wow!” the Skeith said as he and the Moehog poked their heads through the banister. “Mummy, are those real Werelupes?”
“We certainly are,” one of Isengrim’s thanes said with a toothy grin.
“We’ve got real Werelupes in our house!” the Moehog
squeaked, although he looked as though he couldn’t quite decide whether to be
excited or terrified.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
The trope of an awkward nerd endlessly spouting scientific information is subverted when somebody actually wants to hear that information.
I find scientists so easy to strike up conversations with. All you have to do is ask them what they've been working on lately, and they get to talk at length about their current research, and you get a free lecture. Everybody wins.
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Monday, April 27, 2026
Return to Lynwood, Chapter 7
Lexora’s tail bushed and she looked down as if she could see the curse on herself, putting her paws on her blouse. “I—what?” she gasped. Mr. Fitchet sat up in his chair and leaned forwards anxiously.
“You can see curses?” Suhel asked Pharazon. To her Werelupe vision, nothing looked wrong with Lexora at all.
“Well, they are a type of magic,” the faerie Draik said. “Magic to me is what smell is to you. I could see Connor’s curse on him, plain as day.”
Did some doodling last night for a novel concept I've been working on. I kept trying to draw these characters in my usual style, but they just didn't look right until I switched to more of an anime style. Which makes sense as this whole story concept is like an 80's cyberpunk anime that never happened.
Kitsuko "Kit" Nonaka is a 370-year-old kitsune living in late-21st-century Kyoto and working for the city's Youkai Defense Forces. She usually works in the IT department, but also helps on youkai neutralization missions because, kitsune and swordswoman. After a devastating human-youkai conflict a decade ago, Japan became divided between human-inhabited cities and youkai-inhabited wilderness called the Nightlands. However, sometimes youkai make their way into cities (either accidentally or malevolently) and need to be apprehended and returned to the Nightlands.
Kit left the Nightlands a few years ago because she's always been fascinated by human culture and wants to be a part of human society, and her friendly, easygoing demeanor has earned her many friends in the YDF, despite a lingering distrust of youkai in general in the city.
When not at work, Kit can be found in her apartment playing online games where nobody has to know she's a youkai.
Kit's usual partner on missions is Kaede Mizutani, a snarky and blunt ex-soldier with amnesia still trying to adjust to civilian life. She empathizes with Kit as they're both outsiders trying to find their place in their society, although Kaede still has to contend with her own past being more complicated than she assumed.
Together with the rest of the YDF, Kit and Kaede have their hands full managing the fragile balance between humans and youkai... and things get more complicated when a new youkai-battling organization crops up, this one spearheaded by a vengeance-driven part-youkai antihero, and whose objective is not to keep humans and youkai safe from each other, but to eliminate youkai entirely.
It's a story about understanding and having compassion for those who are different from you, about the importance of forgiveness, and how conflicts are not truly resolved unless all parties' needs have been addressed.
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