#firebugs

[kojtolina]

In Love's Secret Domain

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Two pages, because I just couldn't wait for The Firebugs Moment any longer 😭

[xhilki]

YEAAHAHHHH!! JRWITOBER DAY 4-5!! I didn’t know day 5 so I decided to just finish this for it so I hope you like it! (Day four is bugs, rember the fire bugs?)

[im-an-anthusiast]

*chants*

bug rant! bug rant! bug rant!

tell us about your favorite bug :3

Most people, when saying bug, mean insect, though bugs are actually a specific type of insects! And, as I have already talked about my favourite insect(s) here, I figure this is a better alternative.

So, out of the order Hemiptera ((True) Bugs), my favs have, since childhood, always been Firebugs. They used to be all over the place back in kindergarten, and they look(ed) like the ladybug's cooler cousin. Huge batches of them look(ed) so pretty, and not only that, but one could often see two Firebugs connected at the abdomens, scuttling around a little awkwardly but still dextrously. Now, a child hardly understands that these pretty little things... connect like that for up to a week due to reproductive purposes, where the male, er... ejaculate-guards. Basically, he tries ensuring that his competition isn't the one to pass on their genetic information via offspring instead of him. But! To kids? That is the most horrifyingly cool and coolly horrifying stuff you can see! I love(d) them, man. Though they were killed a lot more than they deserve. Also yeah they're called Firebugs just cos of that patterns, nothing else. Little lame.

Here's (low-res) pics of the pretties:

Something that is not a little lame, though - not lame at all, even, is that they are racist. Kinda. Not really. When having experiments ran on them, Firebugs responded differently in American labs than they had in Czech ones, where experiments had been previously run (by the very same scientists). Instead of developing into adults, Firebugs in American labs would either enter an additional, unprecedented juvenile stage, or enter adulthood with nymph characteristics. This turned out to be due to American paper towels being different (- as they were used in the rearing process)! Not just that, even paper overall! This was because American paper was made out of balsam fir trees, which produced a hormone similar to the juvenile hormone of Firebugs! They even tested it with American and European newspapers, with the same result! However, this result hasn't reared it's unique head with any other species! Really makes me unsure what to think, because, while it's super cool that they are so unique even in their hormone receptors, but it's also a little silly, isn't it? A random tree makes you a teenager forever until you die of not growing up. Now that's a YA book I'd read!

[eidola-eidola]

A gathering.

[lunaticobscurity]

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[chlopieno]

Did i spend whole mass observing firebugs?

Yes.

Do i regret?

Nope i saw one changing from nymph into imago!

Look qt the dude :3

[sock-to-the-third]

Firebugs

By Nino Bulling

What a comic!

As someone who read a crap ton of comics as a teen, it was awesome to read one with such a cool style. The character designs complimented the round curvy designs? Not sure how to describe it but I loved it!

Also, did not expect a they/them-er to pop up. As someone who uses ze/zir, it always is like a happy clap on the shoulder whenever it comes up and you weren’t actively looking for it.

Ingken (they/them) is 30, going through some gender troubles. Figuring out whether a new name is a thing while also having a girlfriend who seems to have the hots for someone else.

I love how Lily is simultaneously the supportive trans elder (while still being young herself) trying to give advise but it just not geling XD.

I think Lily is binary and if that’s the case, that adds to the silly vibes of giving an androgynous person advise for that sort of thing.

Transitioning when there is no clear “gender” your going to. There isn’t a “passing.” Hell, we don’t even got bathrooms depending how far you’re from a big city (where I live).

For me, I early transitioned I was all about that masc-4-masc sort of look to now more leather jacket, plaid skirt in between with a silky mustache I’m working on growing out. Pronouns shifted.

Anywho, it was cool seeing the party scene as someone who spends their days indoors. The way that Bulling drew the world as viewed through drugs was fun. Very trippy.

I also liked how the scene between Lily and Ingken were also contrasted to them hanging with their own friend groups.

There’s wasn’t really any catering to straight or cis people. They only come up a for a couple misgenderings but it’s brief.

It’s nice just having them not being the focus. It’s amazing how fast you can slip into the world and just embrace it, you know?

PS. I don’t tend to read the description too closely for books before I check them out. I hate spoilers. So I didn’t realize it was a comic, lol.

[ericorsio555]

Happy 22nd anniversary to FIREBUGS!! :D

This is the intro to the game. It was my first game in the Rollcage series I've played (no joke).

Anyway, it's sort of a kid-friendly reboot of the series (also by ATD) with a colorful cel-shaded aesthetic that I still really like. Though it lacked many features from the previous games, especially the destruction, nonetheless, the game was fun and I like to come back to it from time to time. :P

[neontalons]

[hellman55]

Firebugs [PS1] Gameplay Walkthrough FULL GAME [4K60ᶠᵖˢ UHD🔴]

[cobaltqueen]

Bug diary: pyrrhocoris apterus

Firebugs!! Featuring a fly

[about-faces]

—Simon Delart

[alanide-arts]

RoR OCs + tumblr text

(feat. characters by @dragonroilz @keebyz @plutobody @x-direct @dead-litebulb @knucklebl4ster @hayaang1 @alm4nditte)

[thearkman360]

How Batman: Caped Crusader wasted Firebug

(MAJOR SPOILERS for Batman: Caped Crusader & Batman #318)

Hoo-boy, this is gonna be a long one...

When I heard that Firebug was going to be used in Batman: Caped Crusader I didn't pay it any mind outside of "Oh, using an obscure Batman villain that's like Firefly who isn't Firefly" and when I watched the episode with Firebug I found him to be a funny little goober villain played by Tom Kenny, that might as well have been Firefly, and nothing more. I was a bit shocked by his death since it was very sudden but other than that I didn't care.

After this I decided to look up Firebug and discovered that he has this whole backstory and motive not used in the show. In the comics, Firebug is a veteran named Joey Rigger that targets and burns down apartment buildings in Gotham City not out of rabid pyromania but out of a sympathetic cause; the buildings are deathtraps! (well at least the first two, the third was just bad luck)

His baby sister was killed after ingesting lead paint chips from the walls of the apartment the Rigger family lived in, his father was killed after falling through some stairs and breaking his neck in a different building they moved into after Rigger's sister died, and his mother had a heart attack when the elevator she was in got stuck.

Joey was serving the military at the time when all of this happened, leaving him with a strong sense of guilt. After coming back home, now with demolitions expertise, he decided to ensure that nobody would ever be harmed by the apartment buildings again and that's why he burns them down as Firebug. His plan is to just destroy the buildings that killed his family and then go back to normal. He even sends anonymous tips to the police so that people can evacuate in time, though he first encountered Batman when he was saving people that were still stuck in the building. Not saying his actions are morally correct, the third building was literally just a bad elevator, but you can't really blame him.

Eventually, Batman foils Firebug from destroying the skyscraper that killed his mother and Firebug tries to suicide bomb himself, Batman, and the skyscraper but jumps at Batman, who dodges, and Firebug falls out of the skyscraper and explodes.

Firebug is a really interesting and sympathetic character. In a way he's a dark parallel to Batman; their families were killed by a part of Gotham City, they have expert training in their field, and put on a silly animal costume and try to enact vengeance on the part of Gotham that killed their families.

In Caped Crusader, he's Firefly with a name change. They have Flass and Bullock mistakenly call him "Firefly", he's a deranged pyromaniac, and he has nothing more than that. Why?! Why not just have him be Firefly? Firebug has had two successors, Harlan Combs (a suburban father that murdered his kid's babysitter) and the third Firebug was some asshole that bought Joe Rigger's shit from an auction.

In the Caped Crusader episode "The Night of the Hunters", Firebug targets the slums of Gotham and tries to burn them down. Why not incorporate his backstory and have these slums be where his family died? In the comics, Joey Rigger was depicted as African-American in his first appearance and then white from then on. I'm surprised they didn't have that be part of the plot. Joey's neighborhood was a slum overlooked due to its African-American population and that resulted in poor living conditions that killed his family. But nah, they just had him be bootleg Firefly.

TV show screenshot: Batman: Caped Crusader

Comic screenshot: Batman #318

[izunias-meme-hole]

These fellas gave me the impression that Caped Crusader might be a more grounded take on the Batman mythos with a clear golden age comic book flair (guys in suits with quirks, Selina, and Serial Killers with gimmicks)

Oh how wrong I was...

Edit: GUESS WHO'S ALSO HERE?!