O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion:
✒ Robert Burns, To a Louse

It would also make writing "About Me" pages significantly easier. The task as it stands feels much like trying to analyse my own analytical process. There's a recursive loop at some level, and I find myself lost in the weeds of self-analysis, epistemology, and—

Oh. Hello, there. I was meant to be giving you sensible information about who I am and what I do, wasn't I?

I write character-driven fantasy fiction set in a world called Summātiō. My current projects centre around a diversion house called the Sanguine Horse, which caters to people with niche interests such as BDSM. This setting gives me interesting people testing their own limits and through whose minds I can explore the world. That I'm also systematically exploring how people navigate consent, learning, and personal growth at the same time is sort of accidental.

I also stream my writing process, which means you can watch me work through everything from character psychology to medieval dining customs. Fair warning: I tend to fall down research rabbit holes. One minute I'm writing dialogue, the next I'm explaining why fantasy characters in a world with approximately fifteenth-century tech levels can't use forks, and somehow that leads to a discussion about how to serve different types of pie — meat-based or custard-based — and the ethics of sharing discarded portions of 'edible, but not fit for the nobility' foodstuffs with the poor.

The quantum theory understood through the causal interpretation implies the need for a radical change from the classical notion of analyzability of the world into independently existent parts, each of which can be studied in relative isolation, without our having to consider the whole, and which can in turn be put together conceptually to explain this whole. Rather, the basic qualities and relationships of all the “elements” appearing in the theory are now seen to be generally dependent on the state of the whole, even when these are separated by distances of macroscopic order.
✒ David Bohm, On the intuitive understanding of nonlocality as implied by quantum theory

Everything is connected to everything else, and I have the sort of mind that is prone to grabbing ideas and following them through more convoluted pathways than most find useful or desirable to consider. I have an often-inconvenient mind that wants to understand not just what happens, but why it had to happen that way given the constraints of the system. Whether I'm building fantasy worlds, researching historical details, or exploring character motivations, I follow logical chains to their conclusions and complicate 'simple answers' that many would find completely satisfying.

Whether or not this is a good thing depends on your perspective. If it sounds like a nightmare, you're probably right. I may not be the ideal writer for you.

The recent movement in healthcare from psychology — the study of the mind (or, in Greek, the soul) — to 'behavioural health' that centres observable actions and rational cognitions is, in my mind, a betrayal of what matters. When I write, I'm interested in characters' subjective experiences, why what they're doing is the best they can do in the world as they perceive it, rather than simply in what behaviours they exhibit. Even my antagonists have reasons to believe they are the heroes, if only the story were about them. Readers won't often see it; everybody who has read the draft for "Dancing Attendance" so far has hated Mercurio, and with good reason. In his own mind, however, the harm he did was kindness and he doesn't understand why it was censured so hard. Should I have left him as pure villain? For the reader, I largely did. But for me to write him without knowing him would have been disingenuous of me at best, and perhaps entirely impossible.

She used to think any sort of physical business must be hateful and disgusting. She didn't know how people could; she always wished men and women would just be content talking about books and music and things. But lately, she didn't know why exactly, she felt she must have thought prudishly and stupidly over various things. After all, if one was fond of a person, and he was gentle and at the same time rather overwhelmng, if he took care of one and saw that one wasn't embarrassed, it ought to be more or less bearable, almost, perhaps, rather lovely.
✒ Daphne DuMaurier, The Progress of Julius

I'm asexual, which means I don't experience sexual attraction to people. This gives me a particular lens for writing; while I'm not asocial and do value relationships with other people, the lust-at-first-sight dynamic others seem to experience is alien to me.

This means that I approach BDSM and kink interactions from a framework allosexual readers might not expect, though there is in fact a significant asexual minority in kink communities. In writing about sex and kink, I tend to be more drawn to the consent negotiations, power dynamics, and emotional connections between characters rather than centring physical desire

In a world of quick takes and intuitive responses, I offer systematic analysis. I'm interested in the underlying structures that make human interactions work—or fail to work. Whether it's the epistemology of how we know what we know, or the psychology of how people actually change, I'm looking at the frameworks beneath the surface phenomena.

You can find me streaming my writing process on [platform], where I work through these ideas in real time, complete with research tangents and the occasional Latin translation project. If you're interested in fiction that takes psychology and consent seriously, or you just enjoy watching someone think through problems methodically, you might enjoy the work.

Currently working on several books set in the world of Summātiō, scheduled for release in 2026.