Regarding my writing, and other activities outside this fandom

Regarding Éadóchas: I'm in a bit of a bind at the present moment. The words are actually coming, for once, a few little chunks at a time -- and yet I can't figure out what order the chunks should go in. I've already written the actual climax of the story, and the pieces that are building up to the climax are showing up as I hoped they would, but it's turned out to be more like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. I'd ask for editing help, but I'm hesitant to show it to anyone just yet; the pieces read like random, indiscriminate chunks of build-up, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to arrange them for maximum impact.

As for other stuff I've done: I'm a frequent lurker and occasional poster on 4chan's /tg/ board, devoted to RPGs and other tabletop games, and there's a small group of enthusiasts -- myself among them -- who are putting together a surprisingly lighthearted post-apocalypse game setting called CATastrophe. In it, most of the Earth's surface is underwater after a pair of ice comets crashed into the North Pole sometime around the beginning of the 23rd Century; human beings were unable to survive the oceans' rise and the change in climate unaided, so they began splicing their own genes with those of animals in an effort to find hybrid species hardy enough to withstand the new world.

Cut to a few hundred years later. The unaltered humans have all either died or emigrated clean off the face of the planet. The Earth is now the Endless Blue, a vast ocean in perpetual summer, inhabited by the Kemomimi -- the surviving hybrid-humans, who have taken forms similar to humans except that they possess the ears and tails of their animal ancestry (the name of their race comes from a word meaning "animal ears" in one of the old human languages). Instead of a grungy, Waterworld-like struggle for survival, the Kemomimi have reached an equilibrium with the Endless Blue, and their days are spent in farming the oceans for food (or growing it, if they have the luck to live on a surviving island or skyscraper), sailing the high seas in search of new and wonderful sights, lounging around on beaches and boat decks, partying around bonfires at night, or diving into the infinite ocean's depths in search of salvage from the lost civilization of the humans -- the Earless, as they call us.

The CATastrophe setting was inspired by several factors, chief among them being: 1) RPG players sometimes get sick of all the intense, dark, depressing, intense, black-and-grey-morality, "grimdark" (or worse, grimderp), oh-so-edgy, no-hope settings found in such games as Shadowrun, Vampire: the Masquerade, Call of Cthulhu, Warhammer 40000, and -- occasionally -- even D&D, and want to play something a little more laid-back and positive in attitude. (It actually reminds me, thematically, of Friendship Is Magic, but you probably won't get anyone else on /tg/ to admit it.) 2) Some RPG fans want a setting that's good not just for hack-and-slash and experience-point grinding, but for actual storytelling. 3) Geeks love catgirls; the picture that directly inspired the setting depicts a bus station on a platform in the ocean, inhabited by catgirls -- plus one rabbit-girl and one (apparent) fox-boy.

My own contribution to the setting consists -- at this point -- of a few random pieces of art, one story that appears in the 1d4chan wiki, and (here's the part I'm proud of) some tentative attempts at an actual soundtrack for the game; so far as I can tell, very few tabletop games have that latter luxury.

Relevant links:
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/CATastrophe -- the gathering page for up-to-date information on the setting, along with links to the original threads where stuff has been getting hammered out. (Be warned, the wiki tends to use 4chan-style terminology, so much of it is probably NSFW.)
https://soundcloud.com/arizona-music/sets/catastrophe-soundtrack My soundtrack. Pretty basic stuff, just noodling around, but apparently I struck a chord with a lot of people interested in the game.