User:Spaztique1

I'm an writer, musician, tutor, animator, voice actor, artist, quasi-life coach, and generally nice guy.

I specialize in satirical comics, animated comedy videos (and one semi-animated movie), and tons and tons of guides. My tools of trade are mostly what I call "prefab" programs: Garry's Mod (the 3D Half Life 2-based ragdoll program) and Create.swf (the 2D Touhou Project-based vector sprite program). I mainly use these programs as outlets for my writing.

If you can tell by half the content on my page, I'm a huge Touhou Project fan. However, you must remember: I'm just a fan, not the end-all-be-all authority on the series. Most of the info I get comes from Touhou Wiki and the official guidebooks. There's a common misconception that I know everything that is everything (or pretend to know everything) about Touhou: I don't. At most, I am critical of the overuse of memes and lack of original thought when it comes to fan content, but at the end of the day, I'm not some "magical Touhou oracle" or a "smug jerk with an inflated ego who thinks he's better than ZUN." I'm just a very vocal fan.

As much as I like making stuff, my goal is to help other people make stuff. I do my best to help people hold higher standards for themselves both online and offline. In addition to all of my writing and Walfas guides, I also write tons of psychology/self-help guides based on stuff that's help me and others. I have a dedicated self-help blog, Advice-A-Day, where I (try to) write daily advice based on stuffed that's helped my life. Whether you're here to laugh or here to learn (preferably both), I want to make something for everyone.

One of my big goals is to help improve both the Walfas community and its public image within the Touhou community. Since 2008-2009, Walfas has had a reputation as a place to make random overpowered OCs in dark-and-dramatic stories. I disagree: what drew me to Walfas was that it was a 2D Touhou Garry's Mod, and when used right, it can be great for animated sketches, vanilla Touhou comics, original content, and community-driven content akin to the Author Avatar-driven comedy comics of Garry's Mod. From 2011 to 2015, there's been a great reform in the Walfas community: 100% vanilla and 100% original content is growing, Author Avatars are mainly used for community shenanigans than for OCs, there's a greater emphasis on comedy than drama, storytelling is favored over OC creation, and stories are shorter and self-contained. Although the Walfas community has improved, its reputation has not: people still believe things are as they were back in the early days, even though OC-driven dark-and-dramatic canon-breaking epics are openly mocked nowadays. My hope is that I can raise the community's standards high enough so that Walfas becomes widely accepted among Western Touhou fandom.

If you meet me, please don't treat me like some superstar or infallible god: I just make the stuff I make as a hobby, and all I really want is to fit in, help people out, and have fun. If you hang out in the Walfas community long enough, you will encounter me, and you'll find I'm just an ordinary guy behind the insanely high production values and personal standards. I'm not omnipotent, so don't treat me as such (it never ends well for anybody). Treat me as you would treat your friends. (Or, if you're socially awkward, treat your friends as you would treat me.)

You may use any of my original characters or my DNA in any of your projects without my permission unless I explicitly say, "Don't do that." Of course, this is extremely rare, so go ahead and use them. All of my OC DNAs are in this thread, but my most used DNAs are down below.

I have a very, VERY sarcastic sense of humor, but if I include you as a cameo, it's because I admire you or your work, so any off-color jokes I make are only out of good fun. (In real life, I actually avoid being a smartass because it's actually quite harmful to both the self and others. I believe it should only be reserved for writing satires because it's a powerful tool for getting points across.)

I am also very, VERY critical: I have absurdly high standards for art of all mediums, but not to be a jerk, but because I think everyone has more potential than they think. We're all prone to mistakes (even me), but some do more than others, and I want to help them become the best whatever they can be. My biggest lesson to everyone is this: you are better than you think you are, always.