Realization

I write with my right hand, I prefer AMD over Intel (like any sane person should!), and I have an affinity for what most would otherwise call old crap (assuming my fascination with K cars, Beetles, and some Geos are anything to go on), but there's something in there, and I'm not fully sure what it is, though I'm sure that it's something. Still, I, myself, am curious about what vampires, anthros (or furries, if you so desire), crimes against humanity (only when it comes to being insufferable, of course), technology, smarts, aliens, science fiction, and a whole slew of other things have in common... other than the fact that I'm interested in those topics. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if it was only because they're some of my interests, but I'd like to go at it a bit deeper. Yes, I still want you, reader, to reflect on how your interests might tie together, as well. This is just a subset of mine to give you a guide to go by, should you take the thought experiment for yourself and run with it.

Starting off with AMD (and I find this somewhat odd, considering that most computers I've owned have been Intel), I remember a lot of the time I played on a computer as a kid, it was on an eMachines PC owned by my grandparents. Sure, that may not sound like a connection, but the thing is that every eMachines PC I played on as a child did have an AMD Athlon (I believe it was the Athlon 64 processor, but I was just a kid then), as well as when my mother got a laptop during her two-year-stint as the nurse for our county's high school, the laptop is (she still has it, it's just collecting dust) an Acer Aspire 5000 Series with, I believe, and AMD Sempron. Originally, the computers I played on were running Windows 98 and Windows Me (I believe a few ran Windows 2000, and there was a fair subset of computers at my elementary school that were still running Windows 95 in 2008, let that sink in, those were my favorites), with, occasionally, a Windows XP box thrown in there. The tech isn't important, but the dates are.

Anthropomorphic characters, the one that I think I'll touch on next, have always just been interesting to me, and not just because of some "Oh, I'm a galloping, Soviet steed with genes from a Mongolian bat that explains my wings" mentality, no. While I think it's neat that you can play around with genetics in fiction, I also like to keep in mind that there's so much more that can be done when you introduce anthropomorphic animal characters (I'm not a big fan of the term furry, but it's less of a mouthful, should I inevitably use it later). A sillouette of a familiar person, shroud in black and donning a pair of fox ears or bat wings, no visible detail at all, it could mean anything. Impending danger, mystery, adventure, anything, he reiterates. What about a family of Siberian Huskies owning a pet cat? Sheer comedy. Link (as seen to the left) is about the closest thing you'll get to a picture of me. Still, when it comes to anthropomorphic characters, obviously they started out with some piece of Japanese media for me (what weird thing didn't), but, as a writer, I ultimately have a level of control over the universe that I decide to write while having outside influence seep in. I haven't decided what I want to do with Link yet, but the big thing I'll probably end up doing is just using him as an excuse to put more stuff on my Fur Affinity page. In a way, Link represents what Aleks used to: a portrayal of myself, even if he briefly ended up in an AU of a My Little Pony fanfiction that played off of an interesting take on vampires and some form of science fiction that I'm a complete and total sucker for, let's please move on. The interesting thing about fursonas (as they're elegantly called) is that it adds another dimension to the character. Sure, Aleks could just be an insufferable Soviet-Mongol genius, but having him be a Vyatka with batwings gives him another layer of personality. Why has he never flown? Questions.

I'm gonna finish this off with Aliens, partially because I want to bring Azathoth into this article and it's starting to feel like something you wouldn't read in just one sitting. To start with, I was a fan of Steven Universe when it came out, and I still enjoy watching the show. Sure, it's not what animated shows used to be, but the storylines are pretty captivating... Plus it has aliens! (or "Illegal Martian Hippies", as I remember one character saying). Azathoth started out as a gemsona that I never had any good ideas for (or even really finished developing, but it just proves that scraps can be a good thing). Still, the idea that maybe, just maybe, we're not the only life in the universe is an interesting thought to ponder. Sure, the thought of writing about aliens is probably as crazy sounding as looking up into the night sky for "Little Green Men", but take into account the size of the universe, the number of stars and planets. There has to be some other lifeforms out there. We've already shot two plaques and two golden records into space in an attempt to say "Hello from Earth! We're here, and we'd like for you to stop by for a visit!" As crazy as it sounds for me to even suggest the idea of extraterrestrial life, I'd quite publicly say that I'm arrogant enough to belive that we're not a fluke in the cosmos. Honestly, it would answer a lot of questions, even if everyone does think I'm some form of crazy for believing that. Still, though, to counter it... What proof do we have that aliens don't exist? Everyone questions their existence, but nobody questions their lack of existence, and that's a thing that I've always liked to do, question all sides of a topic. Aliens are just the easiest (and admittedly coolest) example to use. Still, I don't think they'd be anything like Marvin the Martian, the Little Green Men from old movies and books, or the Xenomorphs that seem to be what Google believes aliens would look like, no. I believe that, should they be out there, they'd be much more humanlike... at least on the surface, although, if you wanted to take the Rick Sanchez approach... watch any episode of Rick & Morty that involves aliens. Rick uses First Principles Thinking, so he accepts that, supposedly, life can exist in any form, which is ultimately true, but my assumption was based on likeliness with rather-Earthlike conditions.

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