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Published: 2013-01-15 23:22:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 964; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 0
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Just a crazy little idea forTo go towards his "Buggin' Out" Art Jam thingee...
Depicting my characters as they might look as insects.
It seems Danbuster, Frederick and Spencer have discovered some very interesting insect specimens...
Edit: Added "Buggin' Out" logo.
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Well, top marks on correctly guessing the insect species!
Yeah, as you see, the terms of Mark's Art Jam was the draw an OC as a bug or insect of some sort... the best reason I could think of was to have insect counterparts...
Ah, and the coloured eyes has always been part of my style for years... I think it came from the fact that when I look at the eyes on real animals, they seem to be either black beads (which is usually just very dark irises) or just all colour with little or no white to be seen...
Anyway, thanks for the critique!
Spencer: Hey, put that swatter down! These bugs are our counterparts! You can't hurt THEM!
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*nod* I understand, but still theres going to be rooms for improvement ya know? Also to answer Spencer's comment, I was going to put it away before someone gets hurt!
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Well, hopefully something good will come along during the year, if I can only stop procrastinating...
Spencer: Ah, well that's all right, then!
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Well it's a new year, new opportunities! They wont come to you, YOU need to go to them!
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That's what I mean... I've got to focus and get on with these ideas!
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Well no more procrastiating! Marquila and Aquilliam will even command you!
TD: So will I! GO FORTH YOUNG DANBUSTER!
Soryu: STEP UP! GO FORTH!
Teong: YOU! DRAWING! NOW!
Gale: MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!
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I intend to!
On the other hand, Dad also suggests I "do something useful" today contrary to my own plans... it's always the way!
My own plans will probably have priority, though...
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You need to be your own boss and ignore what everyone else says at times.
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Well, this something was going towards a job I'm doing for a friend we know from church - trying to organise a website for an eShop he hopes to start.
Because we invited him over for dinner tonight, so we could discuss things (we needed Dad's help for a few technical points that I don't understand myself)
As it turns out, today was one of those days where a lot of stuff happened and I barely had time to cram in doing the bulk of the scene I was doing for the Flash cartoon AND the beginning to a webpage template...
"Exterior, Danbuster's house, rear of premises and garden, autumn, day" - that's the opening establishing shot... and I hope to complete this Flash cartoon before the year ends at the very latest... but preferably before the year is half-gone! 
But now, I also have the added deadline of doing the barebones webpages for our friend too, within the week.
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What kind of bug is Bug Fredrick? A pinching bug?
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A stag beetle. I was thinking in terms of a strong and hardy fellow.
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I think "pinchin' bug' is just a generic term and not an actual insect.Β
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I guess so... I'm not so up on insects as I am with mammals and birds...
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I don't think most people, at least hereΒ are aware that "polecat" is is just a wild ferret. Ferrets are just domesticated polecats.
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Well, I release ferrets are the domesticated variety of polecat.
Just that in Frederick's case, he developed great physical strength from being raised by otters...
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But then Black-footed ferrets aren't domesticated.
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Ah well, Frederick is just a plain sable ferret, when it comes to that. He's hardly a savage character...
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How'd he come to be adopted by otters?
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Well, that's part of his backstory, really.
His mother was a single ferret who apparently got into trouble with some rake who only stayed the one night... and disappeared. So she was alone when she had Frederick, passing away after giving birth. As providence had it, the orphaned kit was discovered by Todd Wilkinson, a fatherly otter who was wandering along the river on a day off from his job as a barge captain. He and Willow did the only decent thing they could and adopted him, as well as making arrangements for the dead mother (whose identity remains a mystery)
To Frederick, Todd & Willow Wilkinson and their own cubs Cedar, Cedric and Freda are the only family he has ever known and he has always been happy with them, even though there is that slight tinge of regret that he may never know who his real parents were.
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I was adopted for real. Have no real desire to know who my biological parents were.
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Ah, I see.
Yeah, as I say, Frederick has only ever known life with, first the Wilkinsons, and then living with Danbuster as joint owners of the hare's house. So he's ultimately happy.
The only side-effect of knowing his true origin is that he's a strongly moral ferret, not wanting to make the same mistakes. For this reason, he and Felicity are in agreement that they will marry before they ever have sex...
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That is a very good reason to wait.
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Indeed... as much as Frederick and Felicity love each other, they at least have more self-control than Spencer does with Jenny...
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I get that too..and K.M. will probably still pester them to adopt Gina and Tommy...two rat kits she rescued.
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Heh, well... if Spencer and Jenny start producing kids of their own, Dan and Fred are already going to have a full house...
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But Tommy and Gina are just two and they're well behaved.
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So Jenny and Spencer should adopt them LOL
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Or something could work into my own canon...
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This is amazing and funny I like it a lot.
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Hilarious! 
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Seems you have hit the nail on the head there!
Thanks very much!
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Heh, heh... strangely true, at that...
Horton: Suppose there's somewhere waaay up there, lookin' down on OUR world... and to them, WE'RE the specks?
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You can't help but wonder....
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lol I like how the bugs look like them xD
its interesting to think about when you're a bug
its a different world out there when you're small. XD
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Heh, yeah... I liked the idea of looking at it from both perspectives!
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Like i always says:
There always someone similar to us. XD
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Heh, so it would seem...
Thanks very much!
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Who would know the world of insects would remind our one that much... 
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'Tis a funny old world!
Thanks very much!
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A bit like a parallel universe under the magnifying glass, I see.
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Pretty much that, yeah...
Thanks very much!
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