*2025-12-11* - "We Are Not Evil" -- Whatever Happened To ... In this era of "Stream Everything, Possess Nothing", whatever happened to companies like Magnatune? https://concertinawired.com/2025/12/1...
*2025-12-09* - A Wishlist Item: *University of the People* Behind the Wires In this issue of Concertina Wired Xial discusses the concept of a "University of the People" behind the wire to get better ...
*2025-12-06* - A Fond, Well-Loved Goodbye to CAHOOTS in Eugene. In this Concertina Wired short Xial speaks fondly of the CAHOOTS program in Oregon, a scheme designed to help people in crisis without ...
Hi. I'm Xial. I am not a visually inclined artist. I do like to do color work whenever I have the muse for it. Some of it goes here. Some of it goes elsewhere. My art lies in the realm of the keyboard, if my fickle muse allows it.
I post works that I've finished on SoFurry or Inkbunny as the mood strikes, and I'm also posting them to Lick the Blue Things.
ePub readiness is a priority in my books, and I will try to make my works available as ePubs as I complete segments that can stand alone. Thank you to electronic book devices for making reading cool again.
On nerdworks: I am the author of a conversion stylesheet for FurAffinity called Vaunt Dark. If you use it, thank you. It is no longer maintained, though.
My policy on drawing a Xial, or any other character in my list is fairly simple: "YES YOU CAN DRAW ME!" :)
I am not really big on roleplay these days, but if you talk a good game... I'm still probably going to turn you down politely. :)
I don't mind conversation about technical things, but please don't ask me to help you build a computer. While I'm technically capable of it, and can usually find really decent pricing, I find it tedious to pull together a machine idea for someone for free, only to be second-guessed by someone else.
Speaking of conversation, there's one thing I ask that you respect: If my messenger is set to away, or I've launched a game, please let me play in peace? I like you all, but waiting until I launch a game to suddenly spit messages at me is upsetting. Thank you. :)
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