#general comic stuff

That's actually amazing considering how deer are prey animals as opposed to lions and need to be able to outrun predators. Clearly, the buck adapted to the injury and was able to get around to some degree with the rest of his herd's support but it's still incredible nonetheless! Sometimes, people (including myself) also don't realise how resilient deer can be. They may look fragile at first glance but they're super hardy critters. c: - RJ

I appreciate that I rambled a tad here but yeah, just wanted to go over why what you mentioned bothers me too. lol - RJ

Instead, his brother and the rest of the pride tended to him and looked after him. It really demonstrates how there is actually a very deep bond between these animals. c: - RJ

The pair of us have also been burned by a few communities over the years and honestly? If you don't establish boundaries and make your comfort levels known, you're also going to end up utterly miserable with your own community as a creator. Especially if it entails having to pretend you're fine with things when you're not or having to hold your tongue for fear of setting off those who feel parasocial towards you and/or cannot handle rejection well. oof - RJ

Mainly that you're worth something, even if wider society tries to place the value of your worth on how much you contribute, how you present yourself and how well you function in day-to-day life. Also, capitalism sucks. lol - RJ

Scripts are made months to a year in advance. And we have the rest of the whole comic pretty much planned out and have for a while. Some things change here and there if we have time but only if we have time. That's even if we've discussed them on the blog. lol And that's just it, things will change as you work and that's completely OK. I can't really advise you to keep things strictly the same because that's just not how things work when you do things over the course of a year or two. Hell, we're already planning to redo maybe the first two or three chapters long after they're published. Sometimes, you look back on your early work and you realise there's more things you wish to expand upon and incorporate. Which is something I think should be normalised more. c: - RJ

Ahh - thank you so so much. And that was exactly the goal. We've always been meh about the repetitiveness of disability and LGBT+ representation where it's mainly just the characters being subjected to oppression. Or else the audience apparently has no cue as to whether or not they're part of a minority group. oof Fair play if that's the kind of story that appeals to some folks. We're not saying these narratives are always inherently problematic, of course. It's just not for us, personally. Some authors opt for escapism with these things, some don't. Same goes for the audience. Different strokes for different folks, basically. We're personally about media where things are more normalised and subtle. And a comic like this is just an ideal way to show things through visual cues as opposed to idk Jasper not respecting the pronouns of his kids or w/e. They've got enough going on with the trashy names, particularly where Viv/Aggie is concerned. As a sidenote, there's also basic things to show via dialogue too. For example: how we've tried to switch out Joyous's pronouns here and there to show that they use multiple pronouns. The same goes for Forget-Me-Not when we get to the Red Stone arc. And good luck with trying it out yourself! We have seen it here and there in other projects and it's always fun to see how other folks get creative with it. c: - RJ

- RJ