An old moss-encrusted keyboard...

Normally I tend to stray heavily from a lot more recent mainstream media and live under a rock and eat moss (happily so, as focus group-tested lumps of abiotic shiny emptiness give me psychic damage and bore me so much that any ectoparasites in my fur are transported to a realm of bright lights and monotonous human voices), but the trailer for Smiling Friends Season 3 was released yesterday and I'm a hyped bugfox!!

I have always hoped for an episode focused primarily on Allan and Glep and it appears that it is potentially possible Season 3 may deliver on that (look to the timestamp of 0:52, for what I am specifically referring to). I don't want to assume too much but hopefully this is the case. Yay!

Also I love that the guy on the computer that lived inside the walls of the Smiling Friends HQ in the very first episode is referenced, haha. It all looks rather promising. The past several days have been especially rough on my end (and indeed the world, which is an especially horrid place currently for many reasons we're all no doubt very much abreast of), but this nonetheless has cheered me up a little, I feel. Hopefully it will be worth the wait!

Anyway, be kind to any bugs you see (and indeed each other, as well as yourselves, especially at the moment).

Yip! -SC

I have finally assembled this little blog page, something I intend to use to post about topics that currently hold my interest, rambles about my special interests and indeed a small plethora of other things, I am certain. I had been intending to create a blog page for this site for over a year ago now, so here it is. Fun!

The summer has certainly been rather brutal for me this year (more so than usual, perhaps); aside from many insects being active during this time of year, I can't say I enjoy it particularly. Sensory-wise it is pretty hellish, plus the way humans often behave during the summer makes it drastically worse (which I don't feel I need to elaborate on).

Still, as September is on the horizon, things are slowly getting better. The autumn is my favourite time of the year by far, and I hope this year I might be able to see the mushrooms of some cool fungi species (I was rather disappointed that I was unable to find any fairy rings last autumn...)! After a slump of a fair number of weeks, I'm finally back into making more art, including work on Episode 2 of God Animal finally being in a place that feels much more managable. I don't intend to specify an ETA for its completion and upload until I'm very near the end of production, however.

On another note, I've recently been especially fascinated and invested time in reading about a subspecies of the gray wolf, Canis lupus crassodon, otherwise known with the common name of the Vancouver Coastal Sea Wolf. This particular subspecies is comprised of a small population confined to Vancouver Island and has been observed to engage in behaviours unique to their subspecies, such as active engagement in swimming between islands in search of food or to migrate, as well the use of techniques that allow them to break open the shells of molluscs to feed upon the soft parts of their bodies. Notably, observations and research into the small but hardy population of Canis lupus crassodon has shown that the majority of their diet seems to be comprised of fish (especially salmon) and other aquatic animals. Given my lifelong special interest in the evolution of cetaceans (and of course canids too), learning about this species certainly does enthrall me. Who knows, maybe millions of years from now, this fascinating subspecies could occupy niches that would otherwise seem so alien to canids in the present!

(Here is a blog entry about the aforementioned species on the Fossil Huntress blog, if you're interested in learning more!)

On a last note: when I have played video games lately, I've largely played Digimon World 2. The game is clunky as fuck, as well as full of obtuse and rather peculiar design choices, but somehow they seem to fall in place in such a specific way that scratches the itches of my autistic bugfox brain. It's incredibly crude in design and certainly unfair at times, but I love the fuck out of it! I don't know if anybody reading this is familiar with the game, but my intended plan for my final end-game party of Digimon is to have HerculesKabuterimon, GranKuwagamon and Diaboromon. Maybe also Puppetmon, should I need a spare party member. I love the spooky cybernetic version of Pinocchio that is canonically constructed from cursed wood. Fun!!

Until next time,

Yip! -SC