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The Writer in Question

The Roots

Hi there! I go by a lot of names, so you can call me pretty much any variation of firejay, umigumo, Anaia, the list goes on, and I’m sure there will be more. I am the owner of this site, and the author of everything written here!

 

My vocation is in the biological sciences, and I am currently working on my PhD, but I used to say that if I’m married to my work, I have a torrid love affair with writing. I’ve always had a bit of a wild imagination, and after I started writing as a teen, I somehow never wanted to stop.

 

Besides my personal writing, I have been most prolific as an RPer on Iwakuroleplay, but I also like to sing/write music and draw clothes designs (very poorly) and blueprints. I am attempting to learn how to draw, so hopefully one day I can stop using pictures found using Google Images for characters and use my original art for face claims instead, but that is still a far-off dream. Outside of my writing, I also enjoy swing dancing.

 

I am terrified of horror, and my favorite mediums of storytelling are American crime shows, Korean webtoons, shounen anime, and animated films. I do occasionally also appreciate the rare Korean drama. The genres I love the most to write are fantasy, action-adventure, and romance, and I like to think my greatest strengths in writing are my in-depth worldbuilding and carefully crafted characters. My weakness probably lies in totally new original ideas, and most of my works draw inspiration from a variety of places, but I’m decent at adapting ideas into something that at least feels fresh.

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This Site in Particular

Little Branches

The reason I decided to open up this website was well, a bit of a selfish one. After several transitions of moving my RP writing and showcases around… I got kind of sick of it. Rather than hosting my writing on sites with more transient functions, like deleted blogs, etc, I decided I wanted to have a place to store my writing where I wouldn’t have to go back and copy and paste scenes into long disorganized word documents, etc.

 

A more secondary reason was that I wanted a place to showcase my work in a consolidated and organized fashion, including works completely unrelated to my RPing career, since all other work I’d shown other people thus far had been somehow related to roleplaying, but I have been writing on my own for much longer than I’ve been roleplaying.

The works that you find here will range quite a bit in length, completion, and content. As it stands, at the beginning of 2019, I’m not planning to add too much content to it retroactively. Items that I wrote or finished a long time ago will mostly not feature here. I’ve been writing a long time, and I have stores of a lot of ideas that I no longer think are really viable, and a very small selection of fully written short stories that are frankly kind of embarrassing for me to look at now. I’m kind of trying to put a good foot forward, so those things may be mentioned or even linked, but not given their own space to really be explored.

 

On top of more current pieces of writing and ongoing stories, though, I am also planning to showcase things I do to supplement my writing! This will include blueprints for some characters’ houses, links to my original songs and the stories behind them, and the rare drawings I make of logos, characters, or maps.

I truly hope you enjoy what I have to offer!