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🐺Beneath the cut I blather a bit about myself. Beware. 😂
🐺 All About Me (jump to the end if you wanna see my citation library about wolves and wildlife, arhrooo!)
- My birthdate is March 18th 1990 and I am therefore in my mid-thirties. I am therefore no longer a whippersnapper despite my youthful appearance (I get miss-aged constantly) which is due to my autism.
- I am autistic and I have ADHD but I am currently struggling far harder with the autism. Derpy short term memory and happy distractibility? Squirrel! That's my ADHD. Fundamental NEED to hyperfocus strongly on a task without interruptions of any kind whatsoever for hours upon hours upon hours? That's my autism and it is fucking up my life because I get extremely stressed extremely quickly when I have to spend all day masking/fawning (aka pretending to suck up to people who don't have my best interests at heart,) instead of passionately writing, hiking or drawing all day, often while happy as a clam and forgetting to eat. I have Pathological Demand Avoidance which explains why commissions make me extremely uncomfortable, but I'm perfectly happy selling prints! (Pleeeease buy my prints and shirts and stuff! I put a lot of heart into making them awesome!❤️)
- I am permasingle. Please don't try to convince me otherwise, as I am now in early middle age and aromantic asexual I have no capacity to imagine a life where I am devoted to another adult human. Become a mom? Maybe. I have no idea how to flirt and I would never do it if I did. I find the idea of someone looking at my body and wanting to sexualize it is incredibly disturbing to me. My body is nought but a vessel for mine powerful spirit, nothing more.
- I am a grumpy socialist (which is not the same thing as communism, mainly it means that I genuinely care about others,) who supports Universal Basic Income, wildlife advocacy, climate change education, LGBTQA+ (after all I am part of the 🏳️🌈 community,) Transgender🏳️⚧️ (learn about the biological science of transgender here,) Universal Basic Income, neurodivergence, Black Lives Matter, Every Child Matters, Children are People, Housing First/Safe, Comfy Housing as a Basic Human Right, immigration, racial diversity, animal rights (for example tail docking is cruel unless it is done for medical reasons as per the SPCA,) and medical science (trained in the veterinary field, so, y'know, fully vaxxed against all the things.)
- I am trying to base KNIFE EDGE as much as possible on actual wolf biology. I'm doing my best to veer away from the usual fictional wolf fare which is usually very mythical or scientifically inaccurate (or both.) I want KE to help people care about wildlife and the threats that they face like habitat fragmentation, loss of genetic diversity, and climate change. That being said, some artistic liberty has been taken for the sake of my sanity. Production of KE is slow right now for reasons.
I will never censor the sheathes of my male animal characters or their bumholes. The latter because bumholes are hilarious. The former because censoring a blatantly obvious bodypart is incredibly illogical and stupid.
- My favourite Cybertronian (Transformer) is Starscream!✈️ I definitely sympathize with the Decepticons. I don't draw Transformers stuff very often though because bipeds scare me (despite the fact that I can actually draw them quite well,) and I am a wuss. 😅 I sometimes write depraved little stories about Starscream and his trine (as well as other seekers,) and post them here.
- I want to adopt a snake, Gandalf! Here are my plans for their viv!
Creative Help
- Thane's Master List of Printers for Comics & Merch
- How to get a Book Quote from a Printer by Thane
Interesting Stuff
- Tears of the Mountain - EPIC animated short from Gobelins featuring a gorgeous Yutyrannus as the titular character!
- The Sargasso Sea (Thoughty2)
- Hilarious Snowplow Names
- Day Octopuses (Dave) Train Fish to Hunt With Them (SciShow)
- How to Eat Acorns (Adam Ragusea)
- Supervolcanoes (GeologyHub)
- Meet the Most Mysterious Man to Ever Live (Thoughty2, hilarious account of Rasputin)
- Walruses are Terrifying (Henry the PaleoGuy)
- The Great Emu War of Australia (Animalogic)
- How to build a wattle-and-daub thatched medieval house! (Quantum HD)
- Why tomatoes suck now: mechanical harvesting (The History Guy)
- Why babies in medieval paintings look like creepy little men. (A Brush with Bekah)
- The Jewish Doctor Who Tricked the Nazis (Dr Mike)
Links I Keep For Arguments
I'm opinionated. These are the scientific sources that my opinions are based off of.
🐺Wolves & Wildlife
See the citation library here.
❤️🔥Human Rights & 🔥Climate Change
Includes climate change, LGBTQIA2S+, women's/uterine rights, economic survival, discrimination & weird religion/cults. Main citation list here!
- NASA: the sun isn't causing global warming, we are. (The sun is actually in a cooling trend; humans are warming up the planet so extensively that we're countering this cooling trend by over 100%.) Also see 'it's the sun, stupid!' episode of the podcast The Climate Denier's Playbook.
- How to identify a CULT (and avoid recruitment.)
- How Trump abortion bans hurt and kill women.
❤️🩹Human Medicine & Nutrition
See the citation library here. (Coming soon.)
- Current scientific understanding of dying, near death experiences, and the afterlife.
- Vaccines are VERY safe, they do NOT cause autism, and there's more aluminium in breast milk than there is in vaccines. GET VACCINATED!💉💉💉❤️
- A nice simple overview of how all types of vaccines work and their hundreds of years of history!
- How viruses mutate and all about influenza!
- Anti-Covid mRNA vaccines have saved over 2.5 MILLION lives!
- The FACTS about saving kids from famine and how they are extremely difficult to save.
- Sherwin Williams (Dutch Boy) used to specifically market lead paint to kids - after it had already been found to be toxic.
🐶Neurodivergence
- Struggling to Get Stuff Done? Maybe it's More than Motivation. (How to ADHD)
- Times I Should've Realized that I was Autistic (Illymation.)
- Spoon theory explained! (Washington Post)
- Comorbity with Autism - having multiple neurodivergence diagnoses - explained. (AutismBC)
- Dyspraxia/difficulty in motor movements explained - common in neurodivergent folks. (NHS)
- Job hunting strategies for autistics. (AutismBC.)
- Why High Masking Autistics Struggle (Chris and Debby) - I feel all of this so much it's painful, and I desperately wish that I could have shown it to my dad while my mom was still alive, because maybe then he would not have stressed the crap out of her so badly.😣💔
🐈Mammalian Pets (Mostly Cats)
- A global synthesis and assessment of free-ranging domestic cat diet (keep your cats inside)
- Why You Should Adopt Another Cat (Jackson Galaxy)
- How to Introduce Cats (Jackson Galaxy)
- Why kittens are adopted out in pairs (Kitten Lady Hannah Shaw.)
- The Problem with French Bulldogs (thoroughly explained by veterinarian DVMCellini!)
- Why 'Adopt Don't Shop' is a Problematic Attitude and Can Be Harmful (Kat's Kreatures)
- How to Kill a Shelter Dog
- US Police Unnecessarily Kill 10,000 Dogs Per Year because they aren't trained at all in canine body language (or they are personally just assholes.)
- How to clean a wound on a dog or a cat.
- How Cats Purr
- Why cats go nuts for tuna even though it isn't natural for them to eat.
- How to Make Your Dog Puke in Emergancies
- DIY Senior Feed for Horses
- Evidence of domestication of P. bengalensis (Asian Leopard Cat) in ancient China means that cat domestication goes back earlier & that there were once two domesticated species (but not anymore - modern cats descend from Felis sylvestris lybica,) plus that the modern bengal cat isn't a new idea!
- Both dogs AND cats will eat your corpse if you die and they are desperate. (And there's actually more historical evidence of dogs doing it!)
- Domestic cats are obligate carnivores who eat meat and only meat. Hannah Shaw, aka the Kitten Lady, explains this beautifully (and adorably,) here. Do not feed them a vegan diet, doing so is cruel. Cats do not need carbohydrates in their diets; carbohydrates' only use in kibble (dry food,) is as a binder which holds all the other ingredients together. Cats have just one copy of a gene which codes for starch (carbohydrate consumption) meaning that biologically they really haven't changed from their African Wildcat ancestors.
- Dogs are not wolves and therefore are not carnivores; they are omnivores. While dogs do descend from wolves (sorry, your chihuahua does not descend from coyotes or foxes,) wolves possess just two copies of a gene that codes for an enzyme capable of digesting starches (which carbohydrates contain,) dogs can have up to 22 copies of it. Dogs who do not consume some type of grain as part of their diet can develop serious health problems which can become life threatening. (Note that legumes like lentils and peas do not count as grains. Neither do root vegetables like potatoes, yams or sweet potatoes.)
🐍Non-Mammal Pets
- Reptile and amphibian keepers are NOT an animal rights issue (and actually are developing better husbandry for these largely harmless animals, are NOT contributing to invasive species, and are even helping to save endangered ones. Most reptile and amphibian pets are captive bred and the community is constantly advocating for ALL species to be captive bred! Additionally, since most species are TROPICAL, they simply cannot survive outside in northern climates. Far more endangered reptiles are killed for their skins than are ever captured to be pets.)
- How To Treat Freshwater Fish Diseases - can apply to marine fish too but avoid copper in any tank with invertebrates (Keeping Fish Simple)
Reef Cleaners Information and How-To Database (very helpful on a miriad of topics!)
- DIY aquarium fish trap!
- Ethical keeping of ball pythons with gentle transitioning to properly mentally engaging vivariums (do NOT keep them in racks! These are sentient, emotive animals which need to be given choices in their existence such as multiple - not just two - hiding places and clutter to help them feel safe!)
- Snake Discovery Reptile Keeper Cleaning Hacks (works for aquarists too, and keepers of anything with a water dish!)
- Reptifiles - concise and well-researched reptile care sheets!
- How to safely free small animals, especially snakes, from glue traps - use mineral oil! (New England Reptile)
- AVOID deep heat projectors for reptiles, they are unsafe!
- Harmful ball python myths! (Spoiler alert: racks are bad for them.)
- How to get your snake to eat.
- Budget small scale mouse breeding!
- Safe rocks & materials (and their chemical properties/effects on PH) to use in hardscaping terrariums and aquariums (including wood too!)
- DIY Plywood Aquarium! (King of DIY)
- DIY effective Hamburg Mat Filter (King of DIY)
- DIY rear sump filter - basically DIY AIO aquarium (King of DIY) This is basically what I did with mine haha.😅
- Cheap household algae control! (King of DIY)
- DIY Reef Dry Rock! Yes, you can make your own! (Australian Aquarist)
- Scaping vivaria with concrete and foam board! (Serpa Design)
- Use pool sand in your (freshwater) aquarium instead of expensive aquarium sand or play sand! (Palmer Aquatics)
- Use medium grit blasting sand in your freshwater aquarium. (Palmer Aquatics)
- Use frameless glass picture frames for glass panels in DIY terrarium builds (Terrarium Designs - video shows how to safely cut it and everything) or Ikea UTRUSTA glass shelves for the same job (Serpa Designs) or balustrade glass for aquariums (Australian Aquarist - this glass cannot be cut but it is super strong so it is worth it to design your wooden aquarium around it!)
- Male and female bettas CAN be kept peacefully together so long as their water has tanins, tonnes of plants to block sightlines, the water is kept slightly colder, and one avoids red specimens as these are more aggressive. (Fishistory)
- Snake Body Language (a twitching tail only means 'I'm happy' in dog language!)
- Budget hacks for rats (and mice)
- Safe and dangerous foods for rats (and mice)
- Scatter feed rats and mice for foraging behaviour (never use a bowl)
- Rat diet options
- Rat and mouse-safe woods for chewing and habitat
Permaculture!🍇
- Easy DIY coddling moth traps that work just as well as pesticides for protecting tree fruit! (Alternatively: bag each fruit with a large organza bag!)
- Permaculture orchard design - far more efficient land use which equals more food and less effort in maintenance!
- Program your seeds by starting them in poor soil for two months then switching them to better soil for much stronger, more vigorous plants!
- Canadian wild plant collecting guidelines (by Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team)
- Municipal rainwater reclaimation in Seattle via rain garden - brilliant, cheap, and far better for the environment!
- Wool for soil improvement, slug/snail repellant, and land reclamation from desertification.
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