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[prokyon]

my WIP and other stuff 🐺🌈

[ID: a continental map of a fantasy world, with blue water and beige landmasses overlayed with a paper texture. A white title reading "The Legend of MoonMoon: a novel by Prokyon" is overlayed on top of the map.]

For the last 2 years I have been working on a novel about queer antifascist werewolves.

Early 2019 I came up with the concept of this novel and launched into hardcore developing it in November 2019. In November/December 2020 I wrote a 20,000 word outline of the book, and in 2021 I took advantage of NaNoWriMo to start drafting. By December the draft was at around 10,000 words and I will keep chipping away at it as long as it takes to finish. Affectionately titled "The Legend of MoonMoon: The Dumb Draft" we're aiming to get all the content down on the page and moving on from there. My plan has always been to finish the first draft, then put the book down for a few months and do a bunch more reading and researching in my genre before coming back to rewrites.

So what's the book about? Here's the NaNoWriMo summary, but in a nutshell:

In medieval times, a metalsmith named Vera* self-actualises for a hot minute and after transing their gender, they unwittingly unlock a divine punishment “fuck you and all your sons” werewolf curse. Gender validation in the worst way. A totally-unrelated mauling victim, a plague, and an encroaching empire full of zealots pushes Vera over the edge, and they do their best to right the wrongs of the world by eating fascists.

*Their name changes throughout the story. I don't consider this a spoiler, and outside of the story I refer to the MC as Kass, their final name. The choice to include "Vera" in blurbs and such is for potential readers who are not yet familiar with their character as "Kass" to reduce any "who is this, where's Kass?" confusion.

This is an #OwnVoices story. I myself being a queer, disabled Aboriginal, have built this story from the ground up with my own feelings and experiences around colonisation, queerphobia, ableism, racism, and the intersections of those issues. My intention is to subvert the way media has historically made monsters minority-coded to other us. This story embraces the role as monster and nonconformity, turns it into a tool of empowerment.

I'm a full-time student of conservation and environmental science, so most of the year I am preoccupied with that, HOWEVER:

I've been working to post more regularly in recent months, and you can look forward to more werewolf stuff (WIP updates, memes, drawings!) to come. I frequently post in the story's telegram channel. If you have any questions about the story or world you can always send me a tumblr ask if that's not your jam.

All stuff related to the book on my blog is tagged the enby werewolf thing.

I also stream art and games often on my twitch channel! Streams are archived on the youtube channel if you miss me going live! I'm an excellent gaymer and my regulars are: Assassin's Creed, Skyrim, Ori and the Blind Forest (& WOTW), and RDR2/RDO.

Happy holidays y'all!