An incomplete list of some of the projects we have done, are doing, or at least are planning to do.  We also have a Telegram channel with an update feed, if you'd like to stay updated.

The Afflicted

Years after the outbreak of a deadly plague, after all quarantines failed and the outside world became a lost cause, uninfected survivors live under the protection of an oppressive domed city. The law declares that exposure to the wilderness means death. Under these conditions, a tribe of eight infected outcasts begins a journey. They mean to reach the only other living city of which they know, chronicling their lives along the way. As they struggle with disease, exposure, hunters, and even their own disagreements with one another, can they pass on their legacy before they pass on?

The Afflicted is an anthropomorphic dystopian adventure novel, weighing in at roughly 120,000 words in its most current released version (and already well more than that in the upcoming future revision.) It is a story of love, loss, sacrifice, remembrance, life, death, honor, and redemption. It is a story of legacies and living on, either through heroic deeds or simply through the lives one has touched.

Featuring a cover illustration by Owly (with lettering by RKTDWG) and chapter illustrations by Sparkyopteryx.

There were plans for a massive revision of this novel, but a combination of busyness, other projects, and real life intervening ensured the project's demise. At this point, I don't want to return to this setting because it bears uncomfortable similarities to events that hadn't yet happened when I first wrote it. Version 1.55, the latest release before the planned revision, is available on Smashwords on a Pay-What-You-Want pricing model and on the Amazon Kindle store for as low as the system would allow it to be set. I set it up this way mostly due to discomfort over charging too much for an "older" version while knowing that a newer, better one was in the works, but then the newer version never materialized... oops. The scraps of what I'd written so far of the new revision may yet be assembled and released in some form at some point; we will update this page if that happens. In the meantime, please enjoy this story as it is now.

The first three chapters (out of eight) are available as a free sample in our Weasyl gallery.

The Poison Skies

Inarguably the most successful follow-up project to The Afflicted that actually saw the light of day, The Poison Skies is a power metal concept album by a collaboration of DavidN (under the musical project name Albion, which now goes by Ambersun) and us Woodlings (under the musical project name Tharotia.) It retells the story and explores the themes of The Afflicted across two discs and twenty songs.

David/Albion/Ambersun sings vocals and does all final instrumental rendering. Our contributions as Tharotia, in addition to having written the novel that inspired this project, mostly lie in the composing end: most lyrics and melodies came as shared ideas, and we even wrote the song "Rescue Me" in its entirety by ourselves. In addition, we do the backing death metal growl voice used for effect in songs such as "Perfect Hatred."

Album art and cover by Sparkyopteryx.

Furry Found Footage Vol. 1

Mistress Aurelina of Furry Found Footage has compiled the inaugural issue of the Furry Found Footage digital zine and we are among its assembled contributors!

Per the description on the product page:

Based on the hit YouTube show, Furry Found Footage is a celebration of forgotten furry media, from obscure films to overlooked games, vintage commercials, and print advertisements. Forty contributors from around the furry community have come together to present the first Furry Found Footage zine, packed full of illustrations, fiction, comics, and essays appreciating the unappreciated. 

78 pages of pure magic rated PG-13 for beefcake and cheesecake.

No generative AI was used in the creation of the contributed works.

Our contribution is a non-fiction essay, "Arcade Antics and Animal Awakenings: How Video Games Made Us All Furry."  It is a fond look back at video gaming's trend of games wherein the player character transforms into an animal or furry character and, in so doing, becomes more powerful and generally better than the original human shape.  Is it any surprise that growing up with so many examples of this trope left an impression on so many furries, therians, and otherkin?  After giving a nod to just a few of the countless examples of the genre, our article then focuses on the one game that spoke particularly hard to us.

The entire zine is full of such musings, making for an experience that is every bit as introspective as it is celebratory of that one franchise you half-remember.

Other works

Other stories, writing, and artwork are available in our Weasyl gallery.

Smaller-scale writeups on miscellaneous games we've beaten or decided to abandon are available under their own tag on Dreamwidth.

Music available on our Bandcamp page.

For our Twitch video series, see the Warm Fuzzy Game Room website.