About The Ahmieverse

The Ahmieverse is a sprawling, character-driven, social-science-infused fictional universe that has been expanding in my brain since my teens. It began as a big bang of "what if" questions, mythic retellings, and alternate versions of my own life, and has grown into overlapping families, neighborhoods, timelines, and worlds. Many of its stories are set in and around Lakewood, Ohio, with a "real life plus an extra-tasty-crispy magical/mythical layer" feel.

The Ahmieverse is designed from the ground up to be a shared playground for storytelling and social imagination. My original sociological frameworks — Intersectional Stoicism and Village Deficit Disorder — are woven through the setting, not as curriculum, but as deep structure: why communities look the way they do, how people co‑regulate (or fail to), and what happens when care systems break or are rebuilt. Readers who just want to live in the stories do not need to know any of that; readers who enjoy theory can explore the underlying frameworks here on the wiki (and eventually in the novels).

Every character and major element documented in this wiki is planned to appear in at least one (and likely more than one) story, novel, or series set in the Ahmieverse. This site is both a series bible for me as the originating author and a public atlas for anyone else who wants to understand or play in this world. It's inspired by the work of The Harry Potter Lexicon, which I leaned into when I was writing fanfic in the first decade of the 21st century.

For how you are invited to use this universe in your own work, see Open Canon & Transformative Works Policy and Why This Universe Is Open.

About Ahmie

I am Ahmie Yeung — a disabled mother of five sons, a sociologist, a practicing Stoic (since the early 1990s), a Unitarian Universalist lay community minister, a voracious creator who doesn't do well mentally if my hands are still for too long, and a polymath who has never quite fit into a single academic box. I have been writing fiction and non-fiction since I was a child. My maternal grandmother's eldest brother, novelist Norvin Pallas (author of the fifteen-book Ted Wilford mystery series, recently republished as ebooks by Wildside Press - you can find a list of the available books from the series here), showed me at the start of my life that writing could be a real vocation for an ordinary person with a day job and a family; Uncle Norvin was a bonus grandparent to me, since he never married or had children of his own.

As a young adult, I honed my craft in Harry Potter fanfiction communities, where I learned how much a shared universe can do for emerging writers — especially those who need an existing structure to anchor their experimentation. The Ahmieverse is my attempt to offer that same kind of apprenticeship space to others.

My life is shaped by chronic illness, multigenerational caregiving, and an intercultural family (I am married to a Chinese husband whose parents have lived with us since 2006). My time and attention are fragmented, but my curiosity is not. I use AI tools as available-in-scraps-of-time collaborators to help me get stories out of my head and onto the page, and I am deliberately comfortable with my work becoming part of the broader digital "collective unconscious." This is why I'm not guarding my "intellectual property" behind locked gates and instead letting it all out here in a public playground.

Two of the central mothers in the Ahmieverse — Eirene Sun and Zofia Warren — are explicit self‑reflections: one forged from the pressures and socialization of my actual life, the other an alternate‑universe version of who I might have become with a more emotionally mature family of origin. Through them, and through other disabled and chronically ill characters, I am working to model self‑inserts that are not Mary Sues and disability representation that feels true to the lives we actually live.

If, someday, these stories make me wealthy, my plan is not to buy a castle but to buy houses near my own, stabilizing a real local village for as many people (including my sons) as possible. Until then, I am here, building the Ahmieverse in the cracks of time, and inviting you to read, think, and play along.