Hello there!

Hi! I am a small fox covered in mutualist 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??? Sometimes it is fun, though!!!).

I am a funny little bugfox who can be found making art of bugs, foxes and monsters, studying biology and critters (as a hobbyist), snuggling fox plushes or happily making yip-stridulation noises about entomology, foxes, Cambrian Period stem-arthropods, early-era Digimon and indeed other topics. :3

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!!!):

I am an autistic ball of fox fluff and chitinous limbs, hatched from a bugfox egg in the 1990s.
I am Aro-ace and non-binary-xenogender; my pronouns are they/them and it/its.
I am a therian, specifically a hybrid bugkin and foxkin. ΘΔ See the section title My Kintypes, below!

Names I am known by

Fox-Fleas (my primary handle/pen-name for my art and comics)
Pepper
Bugfox
Critter (or a plethora of variations of that noun), Creature, Bugfox Critter, or Funny Little Creature
A Critter who lives inside an old computer monitor, eating a discarded pastry
The house centipede living in the corner of your cellar that feeds upon household pest bugs (you're welcome!!)
The silver fox you very briefly saw in the deep forest, that then darted away into the foliage
The stag beetle you saw feeding on the sap from a deciduous tree
Unidentified arthropod and/or fox-like creature sighted at the site of a defunct roadside restaurant, carrying a fox plush, a Digimon V-Pet toy and multiple fungi and insect field guide books
*Various nondescript stridulated sounds*
*Various nondescript vulpine noises*

My Kintypes ΘΔ

ΘΔ Primary kintypes

Red fox (Vulpes vulpes), specifically a silver/black/melanistic morph individual
A plethora of beetles, with particular emphasis on species from families such as Lucanidae, Scarabaeidae (especially the subfamilies Melolonthinae and Dynastinae), Carabidae and Lycidae.
Fennec fox (Vulpes zerda)
Certain centipede species of the orders Scolopendromorpha and Scutigeromorpha
Terrestrial isopods (Oniscidea) in general
Dictyopterans (the insect superorder containing both cockroaches and mantids) in general
Spiders, in general
Several of the fox species from Pokémon: Eevee, Zorua, Vulpix and Fennekin
A number of the beetle species from Digimon: Tentomon, as well as the Kabuterimon and Kuwagamon lineages

ΘΔ Secondary kintypes

In addition to Eevee as cited above, all of the Eeveelutions, especially Jolteon, Umbreon, Flareon and Leafeon
Fox plushes in general, with the Douglas Cuddle Toys brand Silver Fox plush being the most paramount
The Cambrian period Radiodont species Anomalocaris canadensis
Common raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides)
Longtail tadpole shrimp (Triops longicaudatus)
The chimeric arthropod critter depicted in this cartoon from The Far Side by Gary Larson

My special interests!

(I will excitedly make stridulation-yip noises at you about them!)

Biology and natural history, with entomology, evolutionary biology, mycology, canids both wild (especially the Vulpini tribe!) and domesticated and invertebrate paleontology being things I perennially think about!
Cultural depictions of animals I identify with and or are fascinated by (especially bugs, foxes and raccoon dogs) in folklore, art and popular media
As per the above: I adore Eevee and the Eeveelutions from Pokémon. I will always adore the little brown fox with an unstable genotype and its speciated elemental fennec fox forms!! Similarly, I likewise also adore and heavily fixate upon the zappy beetle Tentomon and their possible successive forms in Digimon!
Delightfully surreal and otherwise unconventional RPG Maker games (Space Funeral, my beloved!)
Indie, obscure or rare media, of many varieties
Lost media, in addition to media preservation
Obsolete storage media and media formats, especially the more obscure and comically impractical ones. To this day I would love to be able to obtain a GBA Video cartridge of Shrek!
Pet Monster-type media such as vintage/early Digimon (MY BELOVED), Pokémon, Keitai Denjū 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, period. The Partner character is an absolute sweetie and the ending still makes me cry, as does the final Special Episode, 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/ARGs and ARG-adjacent media, as well as more general indie horror projects. My favourites include Petscop, AlanTutorial, Welcome Home, We'll Be Right Back, Catastrophe Crow and Lasagnacat.
Virtual pet toys and games, such as Tamagotchi and indeed Digimon.
Xenofiction media, especially the novel Hunter's Moon by Garry Kilworth (one of my all-time favourite pieces of media!).

Favourites, ranging from species to media, among other items...

Movies

Marcel, the Shell with Shoes On

Smoking Causes Coughing

The Foxes of Chironup Island

Mandibles

Brigbsy Bear

Pom Poko

Chicken Run

Robot Dreams

Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Video games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky

Digimon World

Space Funeral

OFF

ANTONBLAST

KinitoPET

Wario World

Spyro: Year of the Dragon

Comfort characters :3

Most of the foxes from Pokémon/Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, specifically Eevee, Vulpix, Zorua and Fennekin. By extension, also the Partner in Explorers of Sky.

Tentomon from Digimon (and its canonical successive forms); this also extends to the context of Tentomon and his human partner Izzy in Digimon Adventure.

O-ha from Hunter's Moon

Glep and Pim from Smiling Friends

The eponymous duo from Wallace and Gromit

Bina Blum and Ayo from Monster Pulse

Sanpei from The Bug Boy

The Bossbusters (Smallbuster, Tallbuster, Maulbuster and Brawlbuster), Annie and Satan from ANTONBLAST

Sundae from The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald (Yes, I know, I know, don't ask...)

Canine species

Vulpes vulpes (obviously... <3)

Vulpes zerda

Nyctereutes procyonoides

Otocyon megalotis

Chrysocyon brachyurus

Canis lupus crassodon

Vulpes cana

Vulpes lagopus

Nyctereutes viverrinus

Parasitic animals (mostly arthropods)

(Note: I would strongly advise against looking up any of these species, if you are particularly unsettled by parasitic organisms.)

Cymothoa exigua (the tongue-eating louse, a parasitic marine isopod)

Linguatula serrata (a Pentastomid, also by the common name of tongue worms/li>

Anilocra capensis (An ectoparasitic marine isopod)

Vandellia cirrhosa (A hematophagous catfish)

Mastoptera guimaraesi (A species of bat fly)

Rhipicera carinata (A parasitoid beetle, specialised to use cicadas as hosts)

Caenocholax fenyesi (A twisted-wing parasite of the insect order Strepsiptera, minutely-sized endoparasites of certain insect species)

Nematomorphs, the phylum of nemtatode-like parasitoids of insects also known by the common name of Horsehair Worms.

Books (mostly non-fiction)

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould

Insects of the World by Walter Linsenmaier

Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey

Life on Earth by David Attenborough

The Red Fox by H.G. Lloyd

Hunter's Moon by Garry Kilworth

Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Bands and musicians

ORBS

Dan Deacon

Mort Garson

Ruth White

Secrets

Erik Satie

Tony Grayson

BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Visual artists

Shigeru Mizuki

Tove Jansson

Jim Woodring

Louis Wain

Splendidland

Lyle Partridge

Erin Roseberry

Hideshi Hino

Dynastinae (rhinoceros beetle) species

Dynastes tityus

Megasoma actaeon

Allomyrina dichotoma

Chalcosoma atlas

Dynastes grantii

Megasoma elephas

Xylotrupes gideon

Dynastes hercules

Oryctes nasicornis

Spider species

Argyroneta aquatica

Stegodyphus dumicola

Nephila pilipes

Deinopis longipes

Trichonephila clavata

Hogna lenta

Lasiodora parahybana

Brachypelma emilia

Lucanidae (Stag beetle) species

Prosopocoilus savagei

Dorcus parallelipipedus

Chiasognathus grantii

Lucanus cervus

Prosopocoilus giraffa

Lamprima aurata

Sinodendron cylindricum

Some miscellaneous facts about me, I guess????

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 that Aardman Animations 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. Notably, this is possibly the earliest dream I can recall.

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 restaurant 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'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.

Of the various verbal stim words, phrases and sounds I have adopted over the course of my life, one I have retained for a plethora of years is "Ultimate Poop Hell". It's the name of an technique that can be used by certain species of Digimon in Digimon World, if you were not aware. (Thankfully, I am usually able to refrain from audible verbal stimming when I'm not alone!)

I have been a fan of YouTube Poop for many years, as far back even as when the inordinate majority of YTPs were comprised of nothing more than running the Zelda CD-I or Hotel Mario cutscenes through Windows Movie Maker and repeating "DINNER" ad nauseam. I think Youtube Poop as a whole has had an irreversible influence on my sense of humour (for better or for worse!). Lotsa spaghetti!!!

Stamps??

The vast majority of these were retrieved from the crumbling hovel that is DeviantArt, interspersed with some I had created myself. Fun!