u/FVCarterPrivateEye

I've accumulated a few hundred of these over the years and only recently thought to start posting them to Reddit. I'll stratify them so I won't spam

I really enjoy nighttime walks, and I had a lot of fun at first tonight because it was foggy outside and I love fog (the pictures really don't do justice how very foggy it was, it was beautiful). I was running around out there from about 1-3:30AM EST this time. Less than a minute after I took the second-to-last picture, which is my favorite one I took this time, a fox ran across the street right in front of me while barking(?) really loudly. It startled me enough that I shouted "Ahhh! Fuck!" and tripped while running. I had my MP3 player attached to my belt loop by a lanyard, but it slipped out of my hand and smashed on the ground. As you can see from the last picture I attached, the back came off. Luckily, my micro SD card didn't get lost. I heard either the same fox or maybe its friend make its noise again from a different yard. It also started raining on me as I walked home. In case anyone's wondering, the book cover I have my busted MP3 player sitting on is Darwyn Cooke's graphic adaptation of "The Hunter," and I used it partly because Parker's expression there is pretty relatable to how I felt on the way home.

I don't understand how anyone could slander Elmer Fudd like this, it frustrates and baffles me because their dynamic is practically handcrafted to be "the jerk who's fun to root for versus the endearingly hapless chump"

Elmer Fudd is honestly one of the least mean Looney Tunes characters I can think of, aside from Marc Anthony and his kitten and Ralph Phillips the little daydreaming boy

He's just a mild-mannered fellow who tries to follow the hunting season which is important for population control, and sometimes he doesn't even wield a gun, just wants to take photos of nature or wants a cute little fluffy thing to pet (and his predecessor Egghead is similarly harmless)

And to any naysayers who somehow claim that (and this is specifically from a reply I priorly received to this rant) "he's just a jerk who enjoys shooting animals," one of the running gags is he's reluctant to shoot any animal that's currently out of season, and whenever he actually shoots Bugs or Daffy (or whenever he thinks he did), he becomes distraught over it, often to the point of crying for the "poor wittle creature"

Meanwhile, Bugs Bunny is a sadistic psychopath who's not even doing it to defend himself most of the time, he's just bored, he literally sawed off Florida, committing crimes against humanity to raise what he views as an offensively low bounty for hunting rabbits, incentivizing a higher death toll of his own brethren

TLDR you might even say it *bugs* me when people portray him as a hateful villainous character when it's literally so very the opposite that Friz Freleng created Yosemite Sam so that Bugs could bully someone who actually deserved it

(Tagged as "Roleplay/In-Character" because my client Elmer Fudd is a [respected actor](https://vimeo.com/75457120) whose reputation has been unfairly tarnished by tabloid caricature... I have way too much time on my hands)