You’ll see it in the essay, but Wells himself has made a comment that the book was partly inspired by the Oscar Wilde trial regarding his homosexuality, sooo it may very well be a conscious theme!

Nono that’s a completely valid lens to view it through! There are definitely allusions to queerness in the book

If you’re curious, the essay “Going Wilde: Late Victorian Homosexuality in The Island of Doctor Moreau” by Ivan Cañadas might be of interest to you!!

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YES. YESSSS 🤌💳💥💳💥💳💥💳💥
The Pygmalion references would go crazy

“You see, fellows, it is perfectly normal to have eyebags the color of ink”

I really like your choices for their designs too! keeping their hair and clothing in check gives the impression that they’re keeping up a sense of normalcy, in hypocritical contrast to their…. “Lab Work” ((plus, aesthetics aside it’ll be really uncomfortable to do surgeries with long hair LOL))

And your Montgomery is so scruffy-looking it’s great

We’re few and far between but we exist 💪💪 thank you! I really love your designs for the cast, your Moreau looks so “squarely”(?) exactly how Wells probably imagined him

All 4 of these are priceless thank you for feeding the moreau-heads 🙏

AUGH THANK YOU!!! I’d ADORE to do that honestly !!

Honestly the album art of ZABA really inspired me when making this fake cover too, both the music and art there is VERY striking
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TOOOOOESSSSS MY LOVE <33 it’s what technically introduced me to the book and I canNOT be more thankful for it

We already know the plot by heart evidently, so we’re not missing out on much LOL 🤝

Of course!!! There’s also an adaptation that genderbends Prendick if you’re curious!

(And there’s another adaptation that only exists in my mind based on Wells’ first draft where Moreau has a wife and child /hj)