Sad Day

I’m sad today. I spent the day drawing… Practicing drawing my wife and I as comic book characters for a comic strip and graphic novel I have planned. We wanted to avoid all mention of what was going on today. Then, when I had reached burnout, I jumped on Reddit, for something unrelated, and I saw on r/interestingasfuck that Elon Musk gave the fucking Nazi salute. What the actual fuck is happening in our country?! Then my incredible wife goes on TikTok and gets all the tea, so to speak. And I hear Trump say, “Officially, there are now only two genders in this country, male and female.” Well, fuck me, right?? What am I now? Illegal? Imaginary? My ID and Passport invalid?

The comic strip I’m working on uses being a werewolf and a vampire as an allegory for being two-spirit. And I’m pretty sure I’m going to have Lycanthropy, or being a Werewolf itself be an allegory for being trans. It’s not all fleshed out yet. But I know some how it’s really important to write/create. Even if no one reads it. I mean, I hope people do… But how many people read this blog??

I’m just sad… I’m doing my best to stay hopeful. Seeing/hearing that shit today really fucked with me… I’m still hopeful though. Because I live in Paradise with my Wife. And at least we have each other. Even if my gender is in question… And at least I’m free to create… This will fuel the fire inside me and great art will come of this…

That’s all I have for now… I want to get started… Thanks for reading, if you do…

-A.K.

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