"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
- Albert Einstein
Meet the Creator
Hiya, everyone! Merlin Patrick O'Toole here! Well, okay. That's actually my pen name. My real name is actually John Fitzgerald Donahue, Jr. Sometimes, I even go by the name Vitus Anthony Talford, or Vito for short, in the Fur Fandom. Three separate identities, one person. Crazy, I know, but it does help me get around different areas in media culture.
Anyhoo, where was I? Ah, yes! When I was a boy, I had a pretty big imagination, often tend to go overboard with it from time to time, even up to the point where some people either don't understand me, or judge me without getting to know me first. Despite being seen as a spoiled, deluded brat with no sense of morality back in the day, I was actually just a lonely, miserable person who not only wanted to fit in with the crowd, but to also settle in one place and not having to move from place to place a lot due to growing up in a military family. And sometimes, I use media and imagination as a means of escape from the reality that I was expected to live in. And I still wore that mask to hide my own insecurity, but when one wears a mask for a long time, it's usually hard to convince those that were hurt by my defense mechanism, and I learned this lesson the hard way- "Actions speak louder than words," especially to those who let their hurt feelings get the best of them. Not to mention nothing is ever easy with some, if not, most people, everything is a test. Now, I started writing stories when I was 18 years old (through my late mother's suggestion) back when I had a near-impossible, yet ultimately overly-obsessed ambition with making video games. Even as a college student at East Carolina University, regardless of my defense mechanism, I still didn't take anything seriously, so busy and obsessed with wanting to live up to everyone's expectations so much that I didn't know what to expect from myself anymore. I even let my ambition go to my head. It took two college major switches to realize where my path belongs, and that is with writing stories, whether it's through books, or plays, or perhaps comics, maybe some parts of media culture. After coming up with a media multiverse by the name of The Multi-Huedonaverse, I thought up of a multi-media company (thanks to my father putting business into my system, even though I'm not really a fan of the business world) that brings inspiration, entertainment, nostalgia, and exploration to the world, the same company where the said media multiverse resides. That company is Creasurgence Entertainment. |
"Need something to blend in with the Universe of Libra. May never know when the Nova Vegan government might come after this Universal Guardian."
- Merlin Patrick O'Toole |
Current Status:
Currently thinking about which stories to publish next (Not right away though, still need to edit and proofread said stories first).