Pokemon and D&D will always be my second loves. While I've slowed down a little, RP groups and D&D games have helped me make characters that will stay with me forever, and maybe one day have their own Terrarium stories too:

Some of my first ideas and stories for Terrarium centered around these two: River and Sage, my oldest characters. River, Sage, and the whole setting has deep roots in my queerness and exploration of that identity, as well as empathy and the complexity of relationships.

"People are still valuable even after they're done having children or doing heavy labor" and "my understanding of family is so expansive that it includes other species" are incredibly rare in the animal kingdom, and people who forget that deny our history and our inheritance.