A long foxlike creature painting pictures of insects with their paws.

Hello there!

Hi! I am a small fox covered in mutalist insects and other arthropods, that can shapeshift (somewhat), often attempting to blend in with the peculiar animals known as humans (for reasons I don't quite know myself yet??? kinda fun though!!!)

I'm not very good at talking about myself at length as I am a shy critter, so here's what you need to know (WOWEEE!!!):

Autistic and dyspraxic ball of fluff, snoot and bugs
Hatched from a bugfox egg in the 1990s.
I am asexual, aromantic (hardline ace/aro) and non-binary, of a somewhat xenogender flavour (they/them are my preferred pronouns!).
I am also an Otherkin, specifically a hybrid foxkin (Vulpes vulpes, black/melanistic colour morph, as well as traits of Vulpes zerda too at times) and arthropodkin or "bugkin", identifying with various arthropods, namely certain beetles, cockroaches, cicadas, stick insects, mantids, spiders and centipedes (especially Scutigeromorphs). ΔΘ

Names I go by

SupermarketCordyceps (my primary pen-name/alias)/Super/Soops/Soup/Soober/Soup (made from Anomalocaris meat)
CambrianBeast
Pepper
The house centipede living in the corner of your cellar that feeds upon household pest bugs (you're welcome!!)
Possibly the only member of the fandom for Poinie's Poin (unconfirmed)
Unidentified quadruped creature sighted at an abandoned roadside restaurant, carrying an Eevee plush and multiple fungi-ID field guide books
*Various nondescript stridulated sounds*
*Various nondescript vulpine noises*

Special interests

(I will excitedly make fox noises and Orthopteran chirps at you about them!!)

Biology and natural history, with entomology, mycology, marine and freshwater biology, wild canids (ESPECIALLY the Vulpini tribe :3), anthropology, virology, cell biology and the Cambrian period (IN THIS HOUSE WE STAN THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION AND MOURN OUR FALLEN FRIENDS THE TRILOBITES AND RADIODONTA!! ♥) being things I think about constantly
Collecting various special interest items, such as fox plushes, fossils and found animal bones
Cultural depictions of animals I identify and feel deep resonance with (namely foxes, tanukis and various bugs) in folklore, art and popular media
See also RE: above: Eevee and their Eeeveelutions I LOVE THE LITTLE BROWN FOX AND THEIR UNSTABLE GENOTYPE, FIGHT ME YOU RAMBUNCTIOUS CLIPART GRANDPA!!!!
Delightfully odd and surreal RPG Maker games (SPACE FUNERALLLLLLL ♥)
Lost media
Obsolete storage media and media formats, especially the more obscure and comically impractical ones. To this day I would love to be able to track down a GBA Video cartridge of Shrek!
Pet Monster-type media such as vintage/early Digimon (MY BELOVED), Pokémon, Telefang and Yo-kai Watch.
Also related to above: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, with Explorers of Sky especially being one of my most beloved and sentimental favourite pieces of media or art, period. The ending still makes me cry so much, as does In The Future of Darkness.I love Gates to Infinity too.
Plushes, especially of foxes (obviously)! My favourite brands for foxies include Wild Republic, Douglas Cuddle Toys, Ark Toys and Wildlife Artists :3
PSAs/PIFs
Raising insects and other arthropods in captivity; the beetle breeding hobby is a particular long-time fascination of mine!!
Unfiction/ARG-adjacent media, as well as general indie horror that is otherwise akin to that description. My favourites include Petscop, AlanTutorial, Welcome Home, We'll Be Right Back and Lasagnacat.
Virtual pet toys and games
Xenofiction (Hunter's Moon by Garry Kilworth being one of my all-time favourites!)

Favourite media and other items!

MOVIES (in no particular order)

Marcel, the Shell With Shoes On
Smoking Causes Coughing
The Foxes of Chironup Island
Mandibles
Brigsby Bear
Chicken Run
Pom Poko

BOOKS (also in no particular order, both non-fiction and fiction)

Hunter's Moon by Garry Kilworth (one of my most beloved pieces of fiction <3)
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Silverwing trilogy by Kenneth Oppel
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
Life on Earth by David Attenborough
At the Water's Edge by Carl Zimmer
Red Fox: The Catlike Canine by J. David Henry
Insects of the World by Walter Linsenmaier

VIDEO GAMES

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky (MY BELOVED <3)
Digimon World (ALSO MY BELOVED <3)
OFF
Space Funeral
Antonblast
Wario World
KinitoPET
Digimon World 2
MUSIC ALBUMS
Asleep Next to Science by ORBS
Mother Earth's Plantasia by Mort Garson
Gliss Riffer by Dan Deacon
A Winter Passage by Shire Oak
Conversation Piece by A Lot Like Birds
A number of video game soundtracks, the primary ones being the soundtracks for Digimon World, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, OFF, Antonblast and Nuclear Throne.

COMFORT CHARACTERS :3

Eevee from Pokémon, especially as the Hero or Partner in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. I love the Eeveelutions in general, but Eevee will always be my favourite little brown fennec foxy. <3
Further to the above: some of the other fox-based Pokémon species: Vulpix, Zorua, Fennekin and their evolution lineages!
Tentomon from Digimon, (plus their canon evolutions, the Kabuterimon lineage and the Kuwagamon lineage too) as well as some of the other insect Digimon species such as Kunemon, Dokunemon and Snimon!
Glep and Pim from Smiling Friends
O-ha from Hunter's Moon
Horror from Nuclear Throne
Wallace and Gromit
Sanpei from The Bug Boy
Sundae from The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald (Yes, I know, I know. Don't ask...)
The Bossbusters (Smallbuster, Tallbuster, Maulbuster and Brawlbuster), Annie and Satan from Antonblast.
DYNASTINAE (RHINOCEROS BEETLE) SPECIES
Dynastes tityus
Megasoma actaeon
Allomyrina dichotoma (Honourable mention to Allomyrina pfeifferi, too!)
Chalcosoma atlas
Dynastes grantii
Megasoma elephas
Xylotrupes gideon
Dynastes hercules

CANINE SPECIES

Vulpes vulpes (obviously... <3)
Vulpes zerda
Nyctereutes procyonoides
Otocyon megalotis
Chrysocyon brachyurus
Canis lupus crassodon
Vulpes cana
Vulpes lagopus
Nyctereutes viverrinus

Some miscellaneous facts about me I guess

(I DON'T KNOW!!!! WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME DON'T MAKE ME DANCE I CAN'T DANCE EHHHHHH!!!)

Rain makes me extremely happy, I love to go for walks in the rain and watch the terrestrial gastropods go about their lives. :3
I've been hyperfixated a lot on stop-motion animation since I was a tiny first instar larvalkit, frequently watching on loop a bootleg VHS tape containing the original first three Wallace and Gromit shorts, Creature Comforts and a couple of music videos Aardman were commissioned to animate. I also often found it variably and subtly unsettling, to the point I had nightmares about various claymation characters prodding me and or taunting me. I was scared of just about everything as a larvalkit!
As above, one of the more unsettling nightmares (relative to my perception at the time) from that period was when a group of claymation-animated bananas kept bumping into me and making strange, low-pitched laughing noises that felt mocking. This all took place in front of a still image of a mountain peak.
As said, as a larval bugfox I was scared of EVERYTHING, and I have specific recollection of being so terrified of this commercial for a brand of paint. I used to run out of the room screaming if it came on the television.
I one day aspire to own an abandoned former Little Chef restaraunt site, and maybe live inside it and make funny stimming noises!!!! BUGFOX EARTH HIDEOUT!!!!!
...Failing the above, I'd love to make a replica room based on a Little Chef branch in Manchester, England in 1995, and then open it as a LARP experience. I'd then kidnap a bunch of middle-aged Tesco clerks and force them to LARP as a bevy of medieval serfs who decide to go to Little Chef for an Olympic Breakfast and avoid their lord who is angry about the fact they have relieved themselves from ploughing the fields to eat microwaved polysacchardies!!!!!!
I once got to feed and hang out with some fennec foxes that lived at a zoo (it was a gift experience)! They were a paired dog and vixen. They were cuties even though quite shy around me, the strange presence joining the human zookeeper who supervised me feeding them. The dog did eventually warm up to me as I fed the foxes both live mealworms and crickets as instructed, and though the other fox, the vixen, was still quite shy around me, she did eat up a few crickets quite happily. It was lovely to meet some fellow fox friends in person!
I've raised many pet bug friends since I was a teenage bugfox. At the moment I live alongside a Mexican Red Leg tarantula (Brachypelma emilia) named Sierra! They're my spider friend and I love them dearly.
As above, I have also raised a number of broods of Triops (or tadpole shrimp) over time too, specifically the species Triops longicaudatus. I have also raised a number of Cetoniinid beetles (or flower chafer beetles), stick and leaf insects, cockroaches and terrestrial isopods too!
I still think the Dead Bart creepypasta based on The Simpsons is rather spooky, even as a grown critter. Yes, I am a silly bugfox.