Fox

Fox • Fox ͙͘͡★star
Writer
Species	Fox(star)
Gender	Girl
Height	Long
Sign	Capricorn
Fave Movie	The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Hi, that's me! By some tellings, I'm a whimsical forest spirit and master of illusions who's descended from a lineage of fae storytellers. By others, I'm just a young lady with her head in the clouds who likes blindly chasing dreams inspired by a troubled background and hilariously typical pile of autism traits. It's up to your interpretation which is more true.

I grew up in the northeast US but I think my young life isn't really anything worth talking about. I live in Portland now, which has been pretty rad. I believe I've always had a fixation on being a storyteller, but what drove me here is this: when I was little it took me a long time to learn how to communicate properly. Most people around me during my childhood couldn't really understand me, which is what I think made me end up wanting to be a prose writer. It feels very empowering to be able to sit down and hone the craft of the written word and enable yourself to put what's in your heart and your brain right on the page; writing is one of the most "unfiltered" forms of expression, in that you're directly laying down what you want to communicate to the audience, and planting ideas right in their head. I had a poor education experience, but thankfully I read a bunch and used the internet a bunch and came out the other side being respectfully smart.

Moonset is something I have technically been working on since I was roughly eight years old, but describing it like that is sorta like saying dogs have existed for 50 million years because Miacis existed. Just a typical childhood fantasy, and yet it stuck with me... I added so much to it and scraped away even more; every idea I've thrown into a sifter and sorted through over and over and over and over until I ended up with one cohesive project where everything ties into and bleeds through everything. In the end, I think I've settled on something truly special.

Honestly I don't think there's a lot to say about myself that you don't pick up on just from looking at the book. I like alt fashion, and astronomy, and movies, and emotionally messy romances; thrillers and psychological horror and the aesthetics of whimsigoth trying to persist through the horrors like an extremophile bacteria living in the Arctic. So I wrote a story about all of those things... Moonset really is my psyche overflowing in the form of marketable girls. It's really flattering to me that what I thought was such a me-centric thing ended up striking a strong cord with everybody else. I hope it will end up being something precious for us all...

Tresh

Tresh
Editor
Species	European Seabass
Gender	Boy
Height	Short
Sign	Aries
Fave Movie	The Road to El Dorado

One time I told a guy an idea I had for part of a fanfic, and he told me that it was a bad idea. And then I realised, it was in fact a bad idea. That guy was Tresh, and since then I have trusted him with my life.

Tresh is my editor, which is to say he broadly "looks over" everything I make. Really, he's more of an all-purpose right hand man. That includes actual proofreading, of course, but - to be honest - most of what Tresh does is me telling him something and asking "Is that a bad idea?", to which he mostly responds that it is not a bad idea. This is not meant to be minimising description mind you, as I sincerely find this to be very important. Like many maladapted creatives, I have a lot of paranoia and self-doubt over if my writing is actually good. Tresh is a very no-nonsense and levelheaded kind of guy, so I totally trust his opinions. I rely on the knowledge that if I was going to do something stupid, he would definitely warn me of it. So if he says he likes something, I have outside confirmation that it's good, which does wonders for my psyche.

I really appreciate Tresh because he'll sit with me on VC trying to encourage me for hours, and read messages I send him about whatever I was being fixated on at 2 in the morning. Funnily enough, he's actually a pretty mysterious guy all things considered... Compared to most of my friends he's pretty anonymous. Perhaps Tresh is more an idea than a man... how comforting. We know he's from Turkey; despite coming from a country that shares a name with a bird, he is a very fish-coded individual. He's the only one on-staff who's not a straight up furry. I kept bugging him by going "Hey man, I'm gonna have all of us as fursonas on the website, what do you want yours to be" and he just kept saying "fish: without elaborating. He has pretty cool music taste, and he cares for my well-being.

Chen

Chen
Artist
Species	Chen
Gender	Chen
Height	Short
Sign	Sagittarius
Fave Movie	Kung-Fu Panda 2

Chen is a super cool and super talented artist. I've been using the internet for as long as I can remember, and I'm not sure I've ever seen any artist I like better than them (at all, let alone who would be realistic to have working for me...). I got introduced to Chen via other people telling them they should draw my characters, which embarassed me at the time because I assumed from the skill level that they were a super popular hotshot fandom artist. Thankfully, they actually were really into everything Moonset. Not only are they exceptionally good at drawing, they might be even better at matching my vibe; I'm somewhat impercise at articulating how I like things to look, but Chen always gets it (early on, I would often bother them about redrawing things to match some detail I was persnickity about, only to later decide I liked their version better anyway. After a certain point, I learned to shut up and trust the process, haha). There's a lot of character details which stemmed off of something Chen added while drawing. He always shades his drawings with really really cool highlights too, especially on hair. Chen hair highlights are in my top 5 favourite things.

Chen lives in London which I'm jealous of, because it means always having an excess of cool stuff to do. His family is also pretty interesting, so overall he's much more cultured than I am. We've known Chen since they were in high school, and they've grown a lot since then, so I'm really proud of them all the time. He always acts like a cat, but I think because of that I've come to see him as more of a proud tiger or leopard... I expect someday they're gonna be a really famous illustrator or animator and it's super rad to have them in my life.

Irene

Irene Cleveland
Musician
Species	Oregonian
Gender	Boygirlthing
Height	Short
Sign	Pisces
Fave Movie	Donnie Darko

Irene is my roommate!! Which is to say that because of her, I've ended up living in the splendid and dreamy place of the Portland metro area... (She is honestly the one who does all the heavylifting with our place). I would describe her as being like a feisty little rabbit, or some small creature like that. She's a very cool rockstar and has a super cool media collection she shares with me and a sick personalised guitar. I made a joke about a friend of ours having a JRPG battle theme, and she actually composed one, so I then joked "Okay we can use it in the Moonset soundtrack." Then she actually made the aforementioned soundtrack. I really love the idea of bleeding into different mediums, and she put together some really powerful and haunting stuff. I listen to it all time... In addition to becoming so enthralled by my story that she made several hours worth of electronic prog soundtrack music, she helped me get out of a pretty bad situation, and in general is exceedingly sweet to me.

She has a really big heart and an endless passion for the human spirit, and I admire that a lot. I wish I could love as much and as deeply as she does. I think Irene really meshes with my vision for things, so I really appreciate her and that she appreciates me. The reason we live together is because she completely saved me from a really bad situation, all because she believes in my dreams...