Of The Wilds

@ofthewilds.bsky.social

RIP 7/15/2025 Fantasy and furry fiction author writing dragons, gryphons and more as characters, not plot devices. Twitch Affiliate. Author of Snowbound in Feral! Occasionally NSFW. Impure on Royal Road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/98443/impure

Hey, folks. Might want to be sitting down for this if you knew @ofthewilds.bsky.social He passed away earlier today. I don't know details yet, please don't ask, but his body was under incredible stress from multiple infections and was starting to shut down over the weekend.

Was moved to one of the best hospitals in the state and national a few weeks back. Had major surgery for invasive fungal sinusitis. Life saving but removed half my palate and part of upper jaw. Can't talk much right now. Surgery #2 today. Hopefully less major. Wish me luck!

Sitting in the hospital bed bored, I'm reminded that fantasy needs more women kicking fantasy monsters in the nuts. Like this! Art by Yiffy1234, characters mine from my story Princess of Beasts.

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Jong-Fast: This would be the largest cut to food assistance in US history—and it will result in hungry kids. It’s also important to mention that this bill grows the deficit. I don’t know how it manages to do the two things you absolutely don’t want—starve children and grow the deficit—but it does.

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

This is a view from the surface of Comet 67P. The busy particles in the foreground are cosmic rays or bits of dust and ice. The dots moving in the background are stars.

Casar: What we discovered last night, which is really breaking news, is that they’re not just robbing Medicaid—it turns out they’re also planning to rob Medicare of nearly half a billion dollars if they pass this bill.

Bush became unpopular - an electoral millstone around the neck of Republicans - so the media invented a fake story where the current crop of Republicans repudiated Bushism even though literally none of their policies changed except for being harsher on immigrants.

Grudgie the Whale@grudgie.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s so fucking funny we just spent a week where pundits claimed Republicans turned on Bushism and now Rs are passing an enormous tax cut for rich people