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The person behind Tuli isn’t very much different. I sometimes worry that people think I’m playing a character, that I’m somehow less authentic. I wish I had the energy and skill necessary to keep up with something like that, but alas, that’s not me. Tuli’s just the more extroverted part of me. The introverted part of me isn’t as fun - a lot of quietly doing my own thing. And trying not to worry. And a lot of naps.

Creating is one of my major drives. I’m cursed with “I know how I could make this myself”. I’m sure I got it in part because my father’s a pretty decent handyman and I was very often the flashlight holder. And maybe some came from necessity - the “oh just buy it/pay someone to do it” attitude was something my family couldn’t afford when I was younger. But it’s given me the drive to be able to brute force learning new skills. All my digital-based skills were self taught this way: just too much time on my hands, a middling computer, the internet and stubbornness that would not allow software to defeat me - I wanted that thing that I was learning the software to create, and I wasn’t going to stop til I got that thing.

Digital art is probably what I’m best at - enough that I vended at anime and comic cons for a bunch of years. Covid changed the vibe of cons for me, and economic troubles are just that, and vending has gone on the backburner. But I got a lot of fun tools from it, particularly a wide format photo printer and vinyl cutter. More tools for the tool hoard!