The Deep Forest beckons...
You find yourself stood in the deep forest; large, lumbering beetles stomp about the leaf litter as a small raccoon dog nuzzles a broken VHS tape.
Hello there! I am a buggy-foxy being named Pepper (the very one you see happily wagging their brush in greeting above this text!), a little insect-vulpine critter with a collective of various arthropods residing in my rather fluffy coat. This is my Digital Forest, a place where I coexist in this little forest with various critters and other beings that live, or at the very least seem to be here often. There's some edible wild berry bushes over there, so help yourself to some if you're peckish and when you're ready, why not explore for a while?
I am the custodian of this forest, a tiny patch I have been cultivating in the vast digital Landscape of the internet as a dedicated place for what I produce with my tarsal bugfox paws, as well as my dearest special interests! Across this Digital Forest you will find my artwork and comics (including my main webcomic project, God Animal!), pages and writings dedicated to my special interests such as biology, fox plushes and Pet Monster media and a clearing in the forest that contains a myriad of links I have cached. There may also be some areas of the Digital Forest that are a little off the beaten path, which may or may not contain some silly critter antics and fun...! This Digital Forest a constantly growing and evolving entity, with new areas appearing often!
However you choose to explore the Forest and engage with it, I hope that you enjoy your time here. Yip! ^w^
Recent sightings from across the Forest...
Featured Critter Art-May 2026
A Japanese Rhinoceros Beetle (Allomyrina dichotoma) in flight! Look at him go, yippee!!
Bug of the Month-May 2026
Dysdera erythrina (Walckenaer, 1802), a species of woodlouse spider (Dysderidae).
A small species of spider with a distribution across much of western and central Europe, Dysdera erythrina is a species of woodlouse spider (family Dysderidae); the family is named as such for their markedly large cherlicerae, a specialised trait that facilitates these spiders being able to feed upon woodlice (and other heavily armoured arthropods, such as beetles). It is incredibly similar in morphology and appearance to another species within the same genus, Dysdera crocata, but is considerably less common in distribution and population sizes. D. crocata, on the other hand, is much more common, even having a cosmopolitan range.
I was very fortunate to encounter a spider of this genus in the previous month. Look at those chelicerae! The family Dysderidae is a lovely family of spiders and I hope to be able to encounter more of them in future! ^w^
Arachnida, Araneae, Dysderidae, Dysdera.
Photograph by Fritz Geller-Grimm (sourced via Wikimedia Commons), 2007.
(Click here to view the Bug of the Month archive!)
Stridulations from the Deep Forest...
22nd April 2026
I have added some additional links to the section containing my Bugfox links cache. Yippee!! :3
4th April 2026
I have created another subpage for the Gallery section, which I have designated as a page for my sketchbook samples. Yip! :3
24th March 2026
I have made some minor tweaks to the Fox Plush Adventures page, creating thumbnails for each of the extant photographs on the page and also resizing each of them (as the previous files were needlessly large in size). In the coming days, I intend to add more photographs of my plush foxies (in addition to a subpage with bios pertaining to each of my plush friends, as per the earlier incarnation of the Fox Plush Adventures page)! :3
On a more tangential note, I also hope to finally produce some pixel icon assets for the navigation menu, in addition to updating other site assets (such as the Gallery page header GIF).
19th March 2026
I have updated the Links page. Among some other minor additions, I have added a section for miscellaneous links. It is where I intend to cache links that do not quite fit into the other designated categories on the page, containing items such as browser toys and other assorted sites. Fun!
7th March 2026
After quite a prolonged period since adding the Biology Writings section of the Digital Forest, I have finally added the first article I have written for the section. It is a short article discussing a rather peculiar and fascinating little stag beetle species, Sinodendron cylindricum! You can read it here! I hope in the coming months to produce some articles that are more extensive in depth, about more of my favourite species of organism, as well as biological and evolutionary phenomena that fascinates me deeply. :3
9th February 2026
My participation in Hourly Comics Day 2026 has now been added to the Hourly Comics Day archive! Yippee!! ^w^
8th February 2026
I have (finally) added the Fox Plush Adventures page to the site, yippee!! As stated on the page itself, it is an area of the Forest that will receive consistent updates on a fairly perennial basis, namely in relation to when I have further photographs to share of my plush foxies. :3
17th January 2026
As of today, I have implemented a new look for the site and overhauled all of the main pages! I plan to add some further tiled background image assets, as well as produce some small icons to accompany the navigation menu. I have now reworked all of the main pages of the site, though if anything that was present before was missing, it will be added again in due course.
If there are any issues with any elements or pages not functioning as intended (or you have any general suggestions or feedback), please by all means do not hesitate to inform me via a comment on my Neocities site profile (if you have a Neocities account, of course). Otherwise, I hope you enjoy the new look of the Digital Forest. It feels a lot more faithful to my intended aesthetic and feel of the site, if I do say so. ^w^
Yip! -Fox-Fleas
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