I’m a queer and neurodivergent illustrator (any pronouns) who also likes to dabble in writing, animation, and photography from time to time. I mainly draw animals (they’re cooler than people). I’m currently working on a graphic novel series called Wild Thing, you can catch updates on @wild-thing-comic .
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You can take the animal out of the wild… but you can’t take the wild out of the animal. Wild Thing is a queer horror-drama graphic novel series about a fox who joins a religious cult of dogs who worship humans.
Magdalene knows all too well about how difficult it is to survive in the wild, and the uncertainty of what awaits after death looms over her like a dark shadow.
She finds hope when she stumbles across Pure Heart Adoption Center, a home to dogs who follow a religion called the Friends of Man. The dogs preach of unlimited shelter, food, and water that come only to those who dedicate their lives to human masters.
Their teachings of eternal life keep drawing Magdalene back to visit, but there’s a catch- she’s a wild animal. The Friends of Man tell her that if she wants to be adopted and therefore spared from damnation, she must leave the woods and her family behind forever.
Stuck with a paw in both worlds, tensions rise as each side begs Magdalene to abandon the other. She is faced with a choice- give up her life to be a human’s pet, or stay in the woods at the cost of a hellish afterlife she’s not even sure exists?
CONTENT WARNINGS
Wild Thing has content that may be inappropriate or upsetting for some readers, including but not limited to: language, violence, gore, animal death, religious themes, themes of mental illness and trauma, and themes of homophobia/transphobia. Reader discretion is advised.
TAGS
COMIC: Book 1: Induction
ART: covers - characters - concept art - general art
I've got some old adopts (plus a couple new ones) that are still available! Everything here is flat-rate, first come first serve. If interested, please claim either by commenting on this post or sending a message.
Upon adopting this character, it fully belongs to you. You can do whatever you like with it (as long as you aren’t promoting anything hateful or illegal).
Please credit me for the design wherever applicable.
You are allowed to make changes to the character’s design or description.
You are allowed to resell the character, but you may not resell it for more than you bought it for unless the value of the character has increased since purchase (ex. the character has received more art or writing besides the original images and descriptions provided for the adopt).
Please do not use the character for commercial use (UNLESS otherwise stated).
I have the right to refuse a sale to anyone.
I have the right to add anyone to my blacklist, including past buyers.
PAYMENT POLICY
Payment plans are eligible for adoptables priced at least $100 or higher. This is to be negotiated between me and the buyer.
I can hold payment for the adoptable up to a week. If you do not pay within a week, the adopt will be sold to the second highest bidder (and so forth).
The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.
Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"
The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.
Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."
This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.
This torches everything. And I do mean everything.
A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):
ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives
allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason
preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies
requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.
What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.
Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.
Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.
Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:
"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"
But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.
Like they said- get the noise up. The administration has tried lots of ways to ban being transgender, and they've always failed. Make sure to tell community members and ask them to pass the word as well.
Don't let fear or feeling doomed stop you. If you're overwhelmed that's okay, but take a break, take a breath, talk to someone about how you're feeling, and continue.
We've beaten them before and we'll beat them again.
