I DON'T WANT TO SLEEP
TO ADMIT THE DAY'S DEFEAT
SLEEP IS SURRENDER

NAME: Denmark Self

AGE: 24

LOCATION: Massachusetts

OCCUPATION: Store clerk/writer

FAVORITE BOOKS: - A Scanner Darkly - House Of Prayer No.2 - Ubik - Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch - Slash - Dracula - Brave New World - 1984

FAVORITE FILMS: Oldboy - Thirst - Exit Through The Gift Shop - The Matrix - The Good, The Bad, And The Weird - Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozer) - A Scanner Darkly - Bladerunner - Star Trek: First Contact - Star Wars - Mary And Max - The Departed - District 9

FAVORITE MUSIC: Linkin Park - The Slot - P.O.D. - Aesop Rock - Deftones - - Shing02 - Love & Death - Die Antwoord - Mr. Lif - Ill Nino - Slash - Guns N' Roses - Nonpoint - Animal Alpha - Djerv - Draconian - Max Richter - Within Temptation - Evanescence - The Pretty Reckless - Nujabes

Needless to say, I'm new to this whole fanfiction thing. I've been having a lot of trouble progressing on my own stories lately, so I figured a good way to solve that might be to create stories within established fictions. I can't say for how long I will write these stories. I suppose if it helps cure my writers block, I'll be here as long as new ideas keep coming.

My favorite genres to write in are science fiction and fantasy, particularly urban-fantasy (such as Lukyanenko's Night Watch). I like to add noir concepts and tragic characters to a genre that typically focuses more on epic conflicts than internal ones. My greatest literary influence is Phillip K. Dick and I only hope I can create one ounce of the reality-bending fiction he mastered.

My fanfiction stories are likely to center around two gaming franchises: The Elder Scrolls and Sonic the Hedgehog. I love Bethesda's Elder Scrolls lore for its darkly surreal mythology, gritty political landscape and focus on common men making a difference in the world instead of kings and wealthy nobles. As for Sonic, I know that sounds like an odd choice for sci-fi noir, but Sonic the Hedgehog was truly gaming's first anarchist, and if you take a close look at the first few Genesis games, you notice that Yuji Naka was creating clever manifestations of pure scientism (Robotnik), corporate control (roboticization), anarchy (Sonic), and the conflict between man and the natural world.

CURRENT WORKS

Fanfiction:

The Elder Scrolls: Shattered Moon
Combining science fiction, noir and the Elder Scrolls universe. Xak Theril sets out to find his long lost brother, only to discover a world hidden from Tamriel where technology has advanced far beyond even the Dwarves. Trapped in this dystopian world by familiar foes, Xak must learn the ways of his enemies in order to survive and return home, if there is one when he gets back.

Original Fiction:

The Anachron Project
When a young thief trying to survive the Great Depression steals a strange ornate watch, he soon finds he must evade rival thieves, Prohibition gangsters and wealthy tycoons to stop a conspiracy that threatens history itself.

Other Projects:

Neverwinter Nights Mod: July Anarchy Prologue
Transforms NWN into a relentless action-RPG set in an urban-fantasy universe.