LocalFox's Blog Adventures

A Quick Clarification & More About Me

11/04/25

okay, so, this one is moreso just a cleanup of the last two blogposts really, the one that was ages ago and the one i wrote yesterday. it'll also be learning more about me! for the two of you who care about that.

so in the first blogpost i stated that i am a person who only exists on the internet and not in the real world, that was originally going to be the concept of the whole blog. someone who was just a product of the internet and had no clue about the real world and its happenings, someone who only got information from what people posted on the indieweb. I've since decided that I don't really want to do that anymore, i know, one blogpost and I give up but I think I want this blog to feel a little more personal, and doing that with a fake persona just isn't the best for that.

perhaps at some point in the future I might make a story out of that idea in the form of fake blog posts but that just isn't what I want to do with this blog.

now lets get into like, actually me, who am I and why should you care? starting simple, I am LocalFox, a hobby dev and moderately bored helpdesk worker, i'm not going to provide any real sensitive info but i will provide my genuine backstory on how i got here and what i do now.

i was born in the early 2000s and had an insane level of internet access for a child, but my mom cared about me enough to check on it every now and again. this was also before we had a lot what we'd call "brainrot" in the current age, sorta. Regardless, I had access to computers in school and found myself one day for a class, making a blog on blogger. I don't remember if it was like, actually posted publicly but i do remember the interface and I remember writing blog posts, since that day i had the idea of going back to blogging in my mind, but never really took it anywhere due to constant distractions with other things.

eventually i dropped the idea completely, having forgotten about it and sorta just moving on, social media became a big thing and I never got into it as much as I did youtube specifically. I loved youtube, youtube shaped who I was as a person and its part of who i am today as a result. there's a lot to be said on the type of content I consumed, mostly youtube lets plays and game reviews, but one guy stuck out to me a bunch, and some call him johnny. okay well his youtube name is SomeCallMeJohnny so, yknow, whatever.

Anyway, he reviewed games and boy did he give me a love for Sonic the Hedgehog, his reviews were always funny and I don't think anything has ever lived up to the joke of combining Sonic 1, 2, 3, Knuckles, and CD to make some horrid abomination, then at the end plugging in a game genie and getting Sonic 4, just mwah, a masterpiece. I will always put him at the top of my list for reasons why I loved Sonic as a game series and enjoyed animation as a medium.

I want to say he's part of the reason I got into retro gaming as a whole but I don't really remember the specifics. Around the same time I had found The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and oh boy did I eat that show up as a kid, it was genuinely really amazing and it had this cute little fox named Tails who I thought was even cooler.

I eventually saw Sonic Shorts by Sonic Paradox and while some of the jokes really did fly by me as a kid, it stuck with me to an absurd degree and probably had a drastic effect on my humor in the modern age, I still occsaionally go back to watch them every now and again because they are.. probably not timeless but nostalgic enough for me to not care.

I almost wish I had a better memory for these things so I could give you an in-depth lore dump on what happened when and why, how exactly I got into retro gaming and Sonic and whatnot but these vague memories are all I have to go on really and I think at this point its not super relevant.

Regardless, I got into Sonic a whole lot, and even made a shitty little sonic OC, if I can find a photo of it, i'll attach it. (future me: i found an image of it, but its on a custom hoodie design that was VERY bad. im glad the company never let me print it.) its probably somewhere on deviantart (future me: couldnt find it) along with the little sonic figurines i taped to the top of my pc back then. being on the internet as a kid with no restrictions was rough for my internet persona.

if you ever interacted with a TailsFan9000 or TailsFan10000 in the late 2000s i'm sorry, that was me and i was only a kid, forgive me for whatever stupid shit i said back then.

nowadays though, it doesn't matter. i just gotta believe in myself, live and learn and all that. some of you might find that string of words stupid, others just caught 3 different sonic song references and now either feel incredibly proud or very, deeply embarassed for it. i feel you, dont worry.

to get back on relative track though, I got into Sonic as a kid and really, REALLY loved Tails, he was my idol and everything i stood for as a kid, and nowadays i'm kinda sad i repressed that part of myself for like 10 years because being a sonic fan between 2010 and 2020 was ROUGH. i'd say he's only really now being, just sorta okay in the public eye again with Frontiers being pretty good and the comics being well loved.

i used to argue that Sonic was better than Mario but man did mario really get the last laugh on that one, i don't mind anymore though, its just sorta silly to think about. regardless, back on track again, I love Tails, he's my favorite character in fiction by FAR, and were it not for me repressing my love for the little guy for over a decade, i'd have probably collected an absurd amount of merch of him by now.

i'm here now though, writing a blog. finally accepting within myself that i missed writing and talking about him like i used to do as a kid, both out of nostalgia for how things used to be, and because I feel like I really did him a disservice by not embracing it more. heck, i only started this website back up because I thought LocalFox was a cool name due to LocalThunk and my love of foxes, it had nothing to do with Tails and I feel bad about that because I think that would be a good username for him. if I could retcon something utterly inconsequential, it would be that, i would have my reason for choosing LocalFox as a name, be because of Tails, because i love him so so much and finally able to accept it by writing out this blogpost.

maybe there's something to be said, about cringe and shame, as a trans woman and a furry and enjoyer of niche autistic bullshit now, that I can enjoy Tails again without hiding, without feeling bad about it, honestly, weirdly, thanks to the tails community on reddit for helping enlighten me to return to my roots, and embrace being a tails fan again.

this blogpost was originally going to be about the IDWs, and why I started covering them and going over the first story arc in the series, but then I got caught up in what I wanted to write about and why, and now this post exists in its place. I'll get back to that, don't worry, if that's what you're here for, i've probably already uploaded a post going over it, i've got feelings but that's not what this specific post is for.

this post is about me, and i guess i can finally, with all of the emotional stuff out of the way, go over why i'm looking at the IDWs and what to expect from me in the coming months.

Why the IDWs? Why not Archie? Why not both?

the long and short is laziness, really, there's a LOT of archie to cover and its chronological order is a little wacky to try and nail down, especially with the way i'm choosing to read the comics. IDWs are just, a lot easier and the order everything is in is very simple. again, thanks to ponett for the elaboration on those.

the other reason i'm choosing the IDWs is because of Tails, I wanted to get back into writing fanfiction again, and I started with writing a silly little Tails fic, I haven't uploaded it yet, i've still got to work on it a little bit, run it past my editor (my friend who provides input whenever i beg them to help me write) and get accepted into AO3 to post it there (i want it there for easier feedback.) but that's not as important to me as is getting Tails right. I love Tails, I always have and I probably always will, and how different writers choose to interpret him is beautiful to me, and while I could choose to fully interpret him as I want to, I want it to be a little closer to some source material and imo the IDWs are perfect for it. There's a few issues which focus on him specifically and there's even an entire volume dedicated to issues of him and Sonic being best buds, which I think is really cute.

some people might object to this, Ian Flynn has recieved nothing short of a internet witch hunt over his writing which personally I don't really understand yet. maybe i'll see it later in the comics but so far its been great and I don't really understand. If someone wants to send me an email detailing everything then be my guest. regardless, it seems that most people i've run into in the Tails fan community like the IDWs, and I so far I do too, so having him as a basis for how I write Tails seems fine to me.

This naturally might deviate in the future, and I might end up writing him my own way, seperate from how he has been written before, it might happen immediately, i'm not really an expert in the field yet despite all my love for him and how often i found myself writing. I think the main thing is just, getting back into it again, I miss writing, I miss reading fan fictions and seeing what other Tails fans had to say, filling out polls on FanPop and arguing if Fiona was really worth the damage it did to Sonic and Tails' friendship. some of you might get that, most of you probably won't. but if you do, please stick around, this blog and my writing are essentially love letters to the community i wish i hadn't have abandoned when i did.

ah damnit, got emotional again. anyway, that's hopefully the end of this, very, very long blogpost. I wouldn't expect my posts to be this long in the future, unless I want to ramble about something dumb yet again.

if you want to get in touch, contact me via email at contact@localfox.dev, i check my inbox every day and get notifications every time a new email comes in so i'll be sure to respond when I get the time.