Trivia / Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures

• Ascended Fanfic: The comic started off using the characters played by a group of friends in the Furcadia online chat/roleplaying client. Early strips have a lot of reference to roleplaying terms, game mechanics, internet fads and the like, before it grew into its own setting and story.
• Author Phobia: Amber is frightened by horses. Because of Amber's fear of equines:
  • The main villain is a demonic black horse.
  • One of the other scary characters (Kria) appears to be some sort of zebra with wings.
  • Albanion, the only Fae to curse someone on-screen and the most unpredictable from the heroes' point of view, is also equine.
• Contest Winner Cameo
  • How the comic itself started...
  • Also, a number of characters in the comic were created by fans, such as the aforementioned sociopathic doctor.
  • Most of the characters from the "Dan at SAIA" storyline aside from Mink and Fa'Lina are forum avatars.
• Reality Subtext: The reason for why Aliyka, Merlitz, and Aaryana are either Put on a Bus or don't show up as much is because they were borrowed from Furcadia and when the group broke up and left the website, Amber decided to quietly remove them from the comic, though Aliyka had her castpage removed from the site entirely.
• Schedule Slip: The Author is frequently sick. Doesn't seem to matter as their viewers are addicted to the comic, but it's noticeable. Amber also suffers frequent obnoxious computer breakdowns preventing them from working on the strip. Recently, they started posting rough colored strips that lack fine shading and background details to give the fans their fix of updates sooner than her production schedule would otherwise allow, posting the finished page once completed. The community reaction has been positive to this initiative.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Originally Wildy and Jyrras wouldn't have remained Beings, but that was changed due to the comic having a lack of Being characters.
  • Originally there was going to be a time travel storyline, where Pyroduck would be revealed to actually be a time traveler.
• Word of Gay: For Pride 2019, Amber did a miniseries featuring characters of LGBTQ+ orientation, starting with characters that were already known: Abel - asexual & Jyrras - still figuring it out. The third was Fa'Lina who was outed as lesbian. Amber found it annoying that there was never a good time in the comic to reveal it without it feeling shoehorned in, and also that it's too similar to Albus Dumbledore.
• Writer Revolt: This strip. It's played for laughs, but Amber is definitely making a (valid) point.
• Write Who You Know: A lot of the characters are based off of people Amber knows. A more obvious but different case is Alexsi Ti'Fiona, who was based off of a well-known (and much loved) Furcadia player who passed away of pneumonia named, Alexsi Athenis (read here). Said Furcadia player's in-game persona was a feline, used a mallet, and resided in a location called "Lost Lake".

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