What I have been writing in the past week is an original story about my tumblr OC, Speck the Rat. A mutated lab rat who was put though some tests involving rapid evolution and is now able to speak and think on the same level as human beings. She had her own character blog for years which I used for roleplays and such. Anyway, I'm piecing together her full origin story. I don't want to go into any details as it's still in the early stages and deciding what exactly will make the cut or be tossed into the trash bin.

What I will tell now is that she has a split personality, her friendly musical Speck self, and a bitter misanthrope with some military training called SPECIE-011. What I have never revealed until now is that Speck isn't the only surviving guinea pig of those tests, just the first.

There's also another story I've been playing around with in my head for years, going through several revisions, settings, and entire plot changes but never could settle with just one solid idea. So I thought why not turn it into one long anthology type series? A couple elements for sure have hardly changed since the beginning is it's a high fantasy setting with original races (save for humans and one or two fantasy races already existing for centuries), with magic, mythical beasts, the works. The one overarching plot is there is a powerful, seemingly benevolent queen who had been conquering other lands for years expanding her own empire with the one goal of eliminating all those who would dare speak badly of her. She has a large organization of spies keeping tabs on everyone they can in her growing empire. Each book will focus on a different set of characters and how they manage to live under her rule. I'll likely make that my main focus after Speck's story.