PERSONAL

Somewhere among the meandering roads of Nowhere, New England, among the mighty suburban forests, sleeps a young dragon boy, dreaming of worlds far beyond home ...

Hi there! My name is Ensca, aka the Dragon Space Explorer. I've been a writer as long as I can remember. In my littlest years, I would come up with ideas and my dad would help me write them into stories. I've come a long way since then, including learning how to use a keyboard, but I still do my best to chase that spirit of wild imagination. I took some wonderful classes in college with characters like Capt'n Jim, and also set out to get some education from the world by going out and trying stupid things! Which hey, they were all walked away from.

Some things that'll bleed into my writing & might be of interest to you:

-I'm a Scout, of the American variety (though I am interested in learning more about the international movement!). My best friend is my backpack, always stocked for adventure, much to the irritation of certain former teachers.

-I'm queer. My identity's been weird and complex for awhile. I'm pretty comfortable being a man, but queerness is so essential to my worldview that I'm much more comfortable spending time in queer spaces than non-queer ones. I didn't understand romance until I read the Wikipedia article on it in high school, I hate cheating plots with a burning passion (why in Yon's name do you want to control your partner so much??), and every day my buddy Lynx creeps closer to convincing me that straight people don't exist. Also, skirt go spinny.

-I'm both a Jew and a follower of my own religion, Yonism (which you can read about here ... when I get to building a page for it). I believe strongly that more people should make their own religions--it's a great way to create some meaning without taking it too seriously. Gun to my head, I wouldn't call the great Yon real, but after "practicing" since middle school, it's hard to call him not real either.

Speaking of manifesto kind of stuff, you may have noticed this is not your typical 2026 web site. If this is unfamiliar, welcome to the old-style web, baby! I've made this waaaay more difficult than I had to because I'm a computer guy, but I hear Neocities makes setting up your own site like this pretty straightforward. It comes with a lot of advantages, setting you free from a lot of censorship (fuck piss damn government bad), giving you more control over presentation, not letting corpos take a cut of your work, and just being plain fun and creative.

As far as I can tell, Creative Commons is more well known among old-web style sites. If you don't know, click the license link at the bottom of any of these pages--the CC folks do a really good job explaining it simply. But as for why, I really want to see the world push more towards CC-style stuff. Art has always been in conversation, ideas building on ideas, and CC gives you more tools to do that as you want. I'm not totally sure how I feel about copyright reform, but the nice thing is CC is opt-in, so we can build towards a better world one step at a time. And I never wanted this writing thing to be more than a hobby (because I fear instability and losing control), so it wasn't too hard of decision for me.

Someday, I will write about the potential of CC artists still making a living from their work. I took a really interesting course in Open Source Software back in college (so long ago now ...) and there are a lot of creative ideas people in that field have used to create businesses. Most of those have current analogues in the artistic realm, but they're much less used, especially at business scales. For a quick example, "software as a service" is kind of like commissions--all the work is free to view and work with, but if you want to get a customized instance, that's a paid service. But that's usually an individual artist's practice ... could we gain more stability through a collective? I don't know. My thinking is still pretty young on this topic, but my curiosity is deep.

If you want to know any more about me, you'll just have to read my stories and do your own psychoanalyis. I think I remember from English class ... if the curtains are blue ... the author read Wings of Fire fifty bajillion times. Or maybe I'm just remembering reading Wings of Fire instead of paying attention to English class ...