TL;DR: I started a new pen name. "The Dragon Tamers" is going to be moved over to it. "The Rat and the Dragon" is getting a revival to be posted on Saturdays. And I highly suggest clicking on the song....
So, I had forgotten this site had separate pen names. I've been here almost 20 years, I still don't know shit. XD I'm still trying to process the 00s, okay? Well, I decided that, rather than clutter up this old account with a bunch of [old] in the titles and a zebra print of yellow lines, I would simply start a new pen name and there will be no dreaded yellow lines.
I have no intentions of being known separately from Woofajuana. I am one in the same. But, I will leave that name for my were-stories, FFFs, and anything else fur and bestiality related. The new pen name for all continuing revivals will be the same as my Inkitt. Cly Anders. Enough people still like my old stories and read them on occasion so that is why they stay. Also, as a writer, I think it's really fun and helpful to see how rough drafts can change over time, what things stay and what changes. It wasn't something I saw a whole lot of at the start of my journey. Books were finished products on the shelves. Maybe it will help someone to know that it doesn't have to be right the first time... or the 500th time (looking at you, Roscrow...).
I make this announcement because well... I heard a song and, uh, Roan's short enough that he can just walk right under Roscrow's strangle hold and slip right to the front where he hasn't been for *checks notes* almost 15 years and have a little fun with his elf... and Roscrow has been okay with this. In fact, he might be taking notes.
Ugh, but c'mon, Roscrow! You're, like, 4 more chapters to your own elf sex. Let's goooo! "Yeah, but they're doing it now." But- "And you gave him ropes? Why don't I get ropes?" Yeah but- "He gets knife play?" He's an asshole... "I'm an asshole!" I swear to god... "Yes, that's me." *head in hands* I'm going back to the werewolves....
Here's a little kernel of internal lore... Roan is older than Roscrow. I have roleplay skits of good ol' "Silvereye" from when I was 13. Ah, the old forum roleplays that never went anywhere.
So, Roscrow and Roan can share space. I've been jumping back and forth between them, and it's been surprisingly easy since it was straight impossible to do anything else while writing "ITET" (as Roscrow has put it with perfect clarity, he lives on a planet where everything is scaly, feathery, or leathery, and he will not be made to share a room with barking rugs *cue Anubis in the other corner with a WTF face*).
But it also helps that not that much has really changed other than my skill and the headspaces I can get into. While Roscrow's a bit of an overbearing scoundrel, he was raised as an aristocrat held to strict rules, both to his titles and also his species. Roan, however, was raised to be a cold, soulless murderer because sometimes demons look like children, and even people you know. Probably a good thing I couldn't get into his head so well at that age. So a lot of the same stuff happens, but it's quite a bit rougher, and he's not a nice guy to start.
While Dragon Tamer's a slow climb to a mountain of trouble (run Roscrow, Dane knows!), Roan and Cylthan just plunge head first. There's not much to their world, though, so there's that. No lore, just action. All the "lore" is character based instead of characters already living in and navigating a lore rich world. I could not tell you what planet Roan and Cylthan (no, she was not named after me, it just worked out that way) are on, or even if it is a planet. Maybe it is simply a dimension. I cannot say because I only know of them and their adventure through the world.
So, I will begin posting it over on my other pen name on Saturdays. I will post the first 3 chapters this upcoming Saturday just to get the party started. They are short. I'm working really hard on keeping these 3k words or shorter. Seems to help with actually feeling like I'm progressing.
All that said, one last thing... guys, I got a puppy! A corgi! She's so perfect and cute! I might be dying a little... she has flopped over my feet as I write this. ^.^ May she live to be as old as my old man. So, this will slow down my progress a bit. I have chapters backed up, but if I start getting too behind, I will skip weeks until I can catch up again. No yellow lines.
And seriously... the song is great and perfectly sums up Roan and Cylthan. From the words to the beat. May not seem like it at first, but as the story progresses, it becomes more obvious.