Boa lover, new here

Hello!

My name is Dante (I'm also known as Alek, but I preferably go by Dante), I’m a 21 year old freelance illustrator and junior (will be a senior in two months) college student. I’ve grown up doing oniric art (based off of dreams) and am also an aspiring boa/oddly-specific-animals breeder. I'm a tad delayed in my introduction since I was busy waddling all over the internet this week for my newest addition (a kahl albino motley female I decided to buy off Mike Weitzman), as well as setting down a timeline/spreadsheet for my future projects.

I’m also a pisces, my favorite color is Green/Seagreen (with sometimes a nice fiery orange). My first boa is Carl, a BCI normal, whom I attached a picture of because he's an adorable goof. He's gotten bigger but he's still the big and ridiculous baby I love. When I receive Nagini (the albino girl), I'll be sure to take pictures and post. I know she's going to be stunning. My snakes also have their own blog so I can post and share their silly selves to other reptile lovers. c:

I am working on releasing several herp/animal oriented tshirts I've designed and illustrated to save some money for my breeding projects and pay my loans. I may also be interning as a concept artist at a biomedical animation company and have a startup/entrepreneur internship as well this summer (which I'm incredibly excited for). My art portfolio is available online if you'd like to see what I do (and if you ever need an artist )

Aside from my work life I really like ice cream, chocolate, cars, horses (esp drafting), dogs (greyhound, borzoi, burmese mountain, dobermann), cats (orange tabbies/maine coon), blue tongued skinks, burmese pythons, rhino vipers, emperor scorpions, scrub pythons, green anacondas, some retics, leopard geckos, and coffee (unfortunately I'm not a big fan of ball pythons...). I’m also a Female-to-Male transman, I’ve been on Testosterone for three and a half years (since age 18), had surgery in 2012, and my name change in 2013. If any herpers, lgbt+ or not, would like someone to talk to or have questions concerning that topic, I am open and available for you. Since there's a lot of stigma/lack of knowledge on that topic I'm here to lift the veil.

Sorry for the long post! I'm probably going to lurk 90% of the time from my schedule, but I will be popping up like a groundhog from time to time on the forum/classifieds.

Hello and welcome!