About

This blog is dedicated to all the blood, sweat, and inky tears that is writing! 

About Me:

People sometimes call me Merida!

    

         Hi! I'm Tana! A former homeschooler, I went on to graduate summa cum laude from the University of New Orleans in 2009. My love is writing, but fine art and illustration are both close friends. As long as a beautiful story is told, I don't care what the medium is. You can find a sample of my artwork in the links above, or see the two samples posted below!

If you want to know more about my past, read Felicia Day's autobiography's first couple of chapters. I've never related to another person's childhood before reading that hilarious book!

My best friend/ daughter Ockey!

 I love my adorable calico cat, and my old VW Super Beetle (It's a '72 that used to belong to my mom! She took it to college and so did I!)! Growing up I did tumbling (think gymnastics and cheerleading) and I still try to go as an adult -- although I'm less good at flipping these days, and much better at injuring myself. Because of tumbling and the amount of time I have spent walking on my hands, I believe I see the world from a different perspective than most people. If you couldn't tell, I also really love bad jokes.

This is my '72 VW Super Beetle

 I'm one half of the game design team Bird and Butterfly, and we hope to get our first game out soon! We actually got a revise and resubmit from Mattel itself!
In my free time I love listening to audiobooks, binging Netflix or Crunchyroll shows, or playing D&D with my friends. Casting FIREBALL solves so many problems!




-------------------------My art and things I like!----------------------------------------------

one of my Alice illustrations!

Books and series I love:
YA or Sci-Fi/Fantasy: The Raven Cycle, Harry Potter, The Lunar Chronicles, Hunger Games, Lord of the Rings, Battle Royale, Incarceron, Chronicles of Prydain, Anna Dressed in Blood, Song of Ice and Fire, The Seventh Sun, The Fault in Our Stars, Good Omens

Classics/ Others:
Don Quixote, 1984, Candide, Fahrenheit 451, Lord of the Flies, Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf, anything else back Jack London, Edgar Allan Poe, My Sister's Keeper

Manga: Azumanga Daioh, Naruto, Tokyo Ghoul

One of my fine art drawings!

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Music: Joe Hisaishi, Howard Shore, Hans Zimmer, Yoko Kanno, 2 Steps from Hell, Florence + the Machine, Mumford and Sons

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TV:
ANIME! Anything Studio Ghibli, Cowboy Bebop, Death Note, Fullmetal Alchemist/ Brotherhood, Attack on Titan, YYH, Nichijou, One Piece, Ouran High School Host Club, Gundam Seed, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex/2nd Gig, Samurai Champloo, Your Lie in April, Yuri on Ice, Saiki K., Death Parade, My Hero Academia, One Punch Man, Mob Psycho 100, Code Geass

Other: Breaking Bad, Supernatural, earlier Walking Dead, Stranger Things, Futurama, Bojack Horseman, Simpsons, Star Trek (esp TNG)

Movies: Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Guardians of the Galaxy, Shawshank Redemption, Nightmare Before Christmas, Princess Mononoke, What We Do in the Shadows, Zombieland, Coraline, Pirates of the Caribbean, How to Train Your Dragon, Mulan, Thor Ragnarok, Catching Fire, Love Simon, Into the Spiderverse