Webcomic / Foxes in Love

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Foxes in Love is a simple four-panel comic by Finnish artist Toivo Kaartinen, which started in 2019. The comic mainly focuses on the relationship and simple adventures of two foxes (representing the author and his partner), in a lighthearted and wholesome way. The comics usually have no continuing storylines or narrative, and besides the protagonists Blue and Green Fox, no other character has an assigned name.

Four physical compilation volumes have been released so far, which include exclusive comics.

Can be found on Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Bluesky .

Foxes in Love contains examples of:

• Added Alliterative Appeal: In this strip, the Bolivian Balalaika Baboon Band.
• Adorable Abomination: This comic's last panel shows a pair of what the image description refers to as "creatures beyond our comprehension", who exist on another level of reality and are so huge that Green and Blue are smaller than an ant relative to them. Despite their size and otherworldliness, they look remarkably like our two cute vulpine protagonists, but differently-colored and with three eyes.
• The Alleged Car: In this strip, Blue refers to Green's car as "a dingy nightmare" and questions its safety. Green claims that he'd rather not get used to luxury only to lose it and end up miserable, which is why he doesn't upgrade to something better.
• Analogy Backfire: Green notes in one strip how having nice things requires maintenance to keep them that way, including having a car, having houseplants, and being in a relationship.
  Blue: All your houseplants die and your car is barely street legal.
  Green: Obviously you are the most important.
• Ask a Stupid Question...: This strip.
  Green: Was that your stomach?
  Blue: No, we have a whale infestation in the walls.
• Art Evolution: Compared to earlier comics, later ones make the foxes a bit slimmer, their snouts and ears a bit more rounded, and their eyes slightly bigger.
• Art Shift: Played for Laughs. This comic has Blue question Green's plan by asking if he's being "completely realistic." Cue a detailed close-up of Green in a realistic art style saying "Of course." The final panel has them discuss how much effort went into drawing that gag.
• Author Avatar: The artist identifies himself with Green and his partner with Blue in the comic about his top surgery.
• Bait-and-Switch: Green tries to console a sniffling Blue... for having allergies.
• Beautiful Dreamer: Green loves looking at Blue while he sleeps.
  • The very first strip consists of Green cuddling Blue while he sleeps, and thinking about how beautiful his partner is. Then he wakes him up by licking him.
  • In this strip, Green thinks Blue is so beautiful while he's asleep that he decides to paint him. Unfortunately, Blue is insecure about his weight and thinks he looks fat.
  • In this one, Green admires the sleeping Blue and contemplates cuddling with him, deciding against it only because he doesn't want to wake him up. However, resisting the temptation to cuddle makes Green vibrate, and his trembling wakes Blue up anyway (not that he seems to mind).
• Be Careful What You Say: In this comic, Blue gets a lantern... which explodes as soon as he mentions he got it because it's pretty, as the instructions say it's not meant to be used decoratively. Apparently, the lantern can tell whether it's going to be kept hidden in a closet, or displayed on a shelf.
• Big Eater: Green, who is able to eat a whole cake in a single gulp by unhinging his jaw like a snake, and still have room for fries, and orders a "Giant Rocky Two-Layer Meteor Splash" at the ice cream shop even when he's not really in the mood for ice cream.
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick:
  • Blue lists off Green's blanket collection, with a rather sinister one thrown in there.
    Blue: You've got a wool blanket, three cotton blankets, a silk and flannel blanket, an electric blanket, a weighted blanket, a magnetic blanket, a blanket with an ancient curse...
  • A gentle version with Green describing Blue: "This is my favorite person. This is my favorite smile. These are my favorite ears. This is my favorite butt."
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: This comic's punchline involves an Art Shift into a much more realistic and detailed style. This is followed by Blue asking how long it took Green to draw this gag, which he says is a lot longer than he'd like to admit.
• By "No", I Mean "Yes": One strip has Blue asking Green if they want to go out for burgers. Green first protests that they have food at home... then complains the question was unfair because of course he wants burgers.
• Call-Back:
  • In this comic, Green keeps jumping at random because of Blue thinking of his "ticklish spot". This is a reference to this older comic, where we're told Green is so ticklish that he can be tickled simply by thinking about the left side of his lower back.
  • Blue learns that he's strong enough to pick up Green, and vows to use this power for evil. Around two months later, Blue threatens to carry Green back home when the latter keeps picking more blueberries than they need.
  • A comic from 2021 shows that when the foxes see a falling leaf in autumn, they both stare at it while repeating "Leaf! Leaf!" They do this again in a 2024 comic when they realize the weather's turned autumnal.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Green, whose bizarre solutions to things somehow manage to work.
• Color-Coded Characters: Green and Blue, as well as most other characters that are seen, all have very similar body shapes and are visually distinguished mainly by their colors, which in the case of the two main characters are also literally their names.
• Critical Encumbrance Failure:
  • One strip has Green and Blue carrying a heavy item. Green insists that they take a break, Blue wants to power through and continue. Green points out that a 20 minute break will spare Blue a problem and 20 days of recovery.
  • Green tends to face the opposite: if loaded down with something, it makes Green - an already fast walker - even faster, claiming to lean forward and use the weight as momentum. Blue cannot catch up when Green is loaded down with groceries.
• Cue the Rain: In this comic, Blue and Green are being chased by mosquitoes. When Green points out that at least it's not raining, it immediately starts raining. He then points out that at least the rain means there's no more mosquitoes around.
• Cute, but Cacophonic: The baby in this strip.
  Baby: Ladies and gentlemen, I now present to you: "Miscellaneous Noises" in Bm.
• Delayed Diagnosis: Throughout the comic, Green often acts like an impulsive Cloudcuckoolander with memory and attention span issues. This 2022 comic shows Green being formally diagnosed with ADHD.
• Detergent Overload: At one point Green mishears Blue's instructions to "put in a fourth of a bottle" as "put in four bottles", and since he completely trusts Blue, he puts in sixteen times as much soap as intended.
  Blue: Was that not an obviously insane amount?
  Green: I would follow you blindfolded into Hell.
• Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: Parodied; Green did not, in fact, just say that out loud, so Blue is just confused as to why he asked that.
• Didn't Think This Through: In this comic, Green and Blue are ready to harvest some potatoes. As they gaze upon the pile of spuds, the two struggle to come up with a follow-up to the sentence "We can do so many things with these!" and realize that maybe they shouldn't have planted so many.
  Blue: Like... boil them?
  Green: Make fries?
  We don't actually eat potatoes that often, do we?
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Many of the 2019 comics had more than four panels, something which is extremely rare in later comics. One of them also shows anthropomorphic species other than foxes as Green's friends, while later comics have foxes as the only human-analogue species.
• Ear Worm: In this strip, Green apparently had a song stuck in his head for the past five hours because of Blue mentioning it. Although Blue feels guilty about subjecting his boyfriend to an ear worm, it turns out that Green doesn't mind because he likes the song.
• Elevator Going Down: This comic says that while Blue doesn't do public displays of affection, elevators don't count as public to him.
• EMP: Played for Laughs in this comic, where Blue is working on a "limited-range targeted EMP"... which he wants to use to stop a noisy group of teens from revving their engines and playing loud music.
• Everyone Knew Already: Blue's family is not surprised at all when he tells them he has a boyfriend.
• Exhaustion-Induced Idiocy:
  • This strip has Blue talk about how sleep deprivation causes only the most basic and instinctive brain functions to remain active... which in Green's case is unintelligible lovey-dovey mumbling about Blue.
  • Another strip has Green think that Blue is mad at him. Blue first reassures Green that he is not, then remarks he knows Green is tired, because Green will constantly assume that a tired Blue is mad at him while tired.
• Extreme Omnivore: Green has been known to eat things as weird as roadkill with two-week-old mac n' cheese and hot sauce. The much pickier Blue can get sick just thinking about his partner's diet.
• Fire-Breathing Diner: In this strip, Blue, who doesn't like spicy food, spits flames after kissing Green, who'd just eaten a very spicy meal. Interestingly, in another one, it also happens after Green eats simple barbecue chips.
• Fix Fic: In-Universe, Green Fox decides to rewrite the fable of The Grasshopper and the Ants to make the grasshopper more sympathetic.
• Her Boyfriend's Jacket: Someone asks Blue how hoodie-stealing works with gay couples, wondering if it's back and forth or one way. In the case of Blue and his boyfriend, it's one-way.
  We don't even wear clothes, he just likes to nest.
• Hypocrite: In this strip, Blue is very insistent that Green takes his medicine, while Green protests and hides under the couch. Then Green points out that Blue hasn't eaten anything today, and Blue is shown hiding under the couch in a similar way, showing that while Blue is very insistent that Green takes proper care of himself, he fails to practice proper self-care himself.
• Informed Deformity: On several occasions, Blue has been described as having an abnormally huge head, which makes it hard for him to find hats or helmets that fit him. Despite this, he is drawn with a head the same size as most other characters.
• Intelligible Unintelligible: Discussed in this strip, where a mom talks to her baby as if they are having a two-way conversation.
  Baby: (unintelligible)
  Mother: Really?
  Baby: (unintelligible)?
  Mother: They're in the car, sweetie.
  Baby: (unintelligible).
  Mother: Of course we will.
  Green: (listening to the conversation) I've always wondered how parents do that.
  Baby: (unintelligible)!
  Mother: You think so? That's great.
  Blue: I think they're just bluffing.
• Invisible Anatomy: The characters have no visible limbs. Held items look like they're floating, and the foxes "hug" by coiling around the other like a snake Lampshaded in this strip, where Blue is confused by Green's claims of having feet while the latter is doing arts and crafts with a pair of pliers and a sheet of plastic floating before him in invisible hands.
• Isn't It Ironic?: In this comic, Blue is singing "You Are My Sunshine" to Green while they cuddle, not realizing how dark the lyrics are. Once he gets to "Please don't take my sunshine away", Green starts crying and Blue has to reassure him that he's not going anywhere.
• It Came from the Fridge: When the duo hears something in the fridge repeatedly chanting “Soil!”, Green comments that they should probably plant those potatoes.
• Lethal Chef: Green is apparently a terrible chef.
  • His attempt at baking Blue a birthday cake looks more like a rock. At least Green is aware that it's not edible and doesn't take offense when Blue declines eating it.
    Blue: Is that a dead spider?
    Green: I'm bad at baking, too.
    Blue: Do you mind if I don't eat it?
    Green: No, I like you alive.
  • When the foxes get an air quality meter, they notice that it skips over red and turns purple with a picture of a gas mask whenever Green is cooking.
• Loophole Abuse: Blue's little brother has a thing for coming up with exploits in video games.
  • Here, the moderators on a game's server ban certain backpacks. However, the tools to craft those backpacks are still there, so he sells them to other players so they can make their own. When the mods ban those tools, he moves on to selling the tools to craft those tools, which can't be banned due to how important they are to the game. This leads to him becoming the richest man on the server.
  • In a later comic, Blue suffers from Critical Encumbrance Failure and is unable to move. His brother tells him to enable Player Versus Player interactions, then hits him with a harpoon to drag him around.
  • In a non-exploitative example, Blue doesn't like public displays of affection, which can drive Green crazy. Green respects it as best as he can, and even Blue gives him a loophole.
    Green: The rules also need exceptions: elevators don't count as "public".
• Manly Tears: Blue and Green are watching a movie and get to a very emotional scene. Green's response is to focus entirely on not crying, disregarding the fact that Straight Gay Blue is next to him sobbing his eyes out.
• Metaphorgotten: Sometimes Green's rather obscure metaphors for his attraction to Blue land. Frequently, however, Green's mental train means they fall here. For instance...
  Green: I wish I could do the alien symbiote thing with you. I could fuse into your body, see everything you see, do everything with you, meet everyone who has ever been mean to you... and EAT THEM.
  Blue: Please do not.
• Miniature Senior Citizens: Blue's grandma is depicted as half his height, and she claims she's taller than her own mother was.
  Green: How tiny was your great-grandmother?
  Blue: No idea.
• The Misophonic: Blue is revealed to hate the sound of Green's neck cracking in this strip, because it always scares him. Similarly, Green hates the sound of Blue smacking his tongue.
• Mistaken for Gay: Inverted in this comic: Green and Blue are at a store, and a stranger makes a comment thinking that they're shopping for their wives, prompting Green to clarify that they're actually gay.
• Mood Whiplash: The poem in this strip starts out sweet, until Green threatens to start eating souls.
• Motivation on a Stick: When Green is diagnosed with ADHD, his doctor prescribes him a "shiny thing" on a stick which he can aim towards where he wants to go, which helps motivate him to move forward.
• Mundane Utility: Played for Laughs. When Green is haunted by the darkness within his soul, he retaliates by... using it to chop vegetables.
• Nervous Tics: Apparently, Green's reaction to a stressful situation is to weave an entire rug, and Blue projectile-vomits everywhere.
• Noodle Implements: This comic has Green listing off a long grocery list which includes several seemingly unrelated items, and the purpose of which he forgets before he's done listing them all.
  Green: Hey, when we go get groceries, can you remind me to get duct tape, bleach, tin foil, fake fur, eyelash glue, seven lemons, a watering can, shoe polish and a nail gun?
  Blue: What for?
  (Beat Panel)
  Green: I already forgot.
• Not Me This Time: This strip.
  Blue: If I didn't know better, I would suspect you're behind this.
  Green: It would never have occurred to me to do something that funny.
• Not So Above It All: Blue is the more traditionally sensible and reserved one of the two, but he has his moments of goofiness, sometimes with Green's prompting, and sometimes without.
  • When Green mentions he has a safety blanket, Blue asks him what it's for. Green notes it's for "existential dread". After a moment, Blue joins him under the blanket.
  • One comic has Blue listening to advice from his therapist and talking to his inner child. On Green's asking what it wants, Blue's inner child states it wants to eat glue.
  • The two foxes can't decide on what to eat for dinner. The eventual winner is a place that gives little paper hats with the meal that Blue recommends.
  • There's one strip here with Blue messing with a cardboard tube, and Green tells him to calm down.
  • Usually, Blue isn't too keen on public displays of affection. However, when they're in an elevator, that's an exception (note that elevators have security cameras in them, so someone is seeing them make out).
  • In this comic, Blue is the one role-playing an executioner while swatting a fly, while Green just calmly sits down at his computer.
• Official Couple: Blue and Green are happily in love with each other, as is perhaps noticeable by the title.
• Only Sane Man: Blue tends to be the more down-to-earth fox compared to Green's Cloudcuckoolander tendencies, though his cautiousness can sometimes become unreasonable.
• Opposites Attract: Green is zany, lighthearted and impulsive, while Blue is more held back, cautious and reserved.
• Painting the Medium: In one strip, Green mentions that a certain cashier at their grocery store has the prettiest voice he's ever heard. To get this across through text, she says "Hello!" in cursive.
• Peggy Sue: Conversed here, when Blue asks Green whether he'd accept a chance to start his life over while retaining all of his knowledge. Green says he wouldn't, as most of his life sucked and there's no guarantee that he'd end up with Blue again. Blue, meanwhile, says he'd take the chance to invest in stocks.
• Precision F-Strike: In the first strip:
  Green: If daylight hurts your eye, I'll eat the fucking sun.
• Reality-Breaking Paradox: In this comic, Green notes that the weather seems to be capricious: whenever he prepares for rain, it's sunny, and if he prepares for sunlight, it rains. Then he makes the mistake of using his umbrella as a parasol, making him ready for both: this causes a paradox that makes gravity stop working.
• Really Moves Around: Green mentions that he used to move around a lot, never staying in the same place for longer than a year or two because "there just never was anything worth staying for." Of course, this changed once he fell in love with the sedentary Blue.
• Riddle for the Ages: In this comic, Green and Blue are cuddling. Green starts laughing, and when Blue asks why, he whispers something into his ear that suddenly has him screaming to get away from him (while Green keeps him trapped in his embrace). What Green said that grossed out Blue so much is left to the reader's imagination (the author has claimed on Twitter that it has something to do with pickles and feet).
• Scary Stinging Swarm: Blue and Green are jogging and getting exhausted. Although Green asks for a break, they both get a second wind when Blue points out that stopping here will leave them at the mercy of a swarm of mosquitoes.
• Slice of Life: The general theme of the strip is the daily life of the two foxes. There aren't any antagonists, big adventures, or story arcs, just the mundane, relatable experiences of the foxes.
• Straight Gay: Blue is Straight Bi. He has rather traditionally masculine interests, like guns, camping and video games, and is in a relationship with the transmasculine Green Fox.
• Strange Minds Think Alike:
  • As different as they are, Blue and Green clearly share a wavelength when they simultaneously mistake the sound of a malfunctioning automatic door, sight unseen, as a baby seagull in distress.
  • On a more minor note, an easy method of cheering up a sad Green in bed looking at memes on his phone is for Blue to join him and they both look at memes on Blue's phone instead.
• Talking in Your Sleep: Both Blue and Green do this.
• Tears of Joy:
  • Green visits Blue's family for the holidays, and is moved to tears when he sees that Blue's mom made a gingerbread figure of him, showing that she sees him as part of the family too.
  • Green is again moved to tears when Blue shows him a picture that reminds him of their relationship. Blue tries to comfort him despite Green insisting that he's happy.
    Blue: [hugging Green] Nooo! No. No crying. Don't cry.
    Green: Too late, and you're just making me happier.
• Tempting Fate: Green and Blue are walking through the rain, but note that it's starting to ease up. Immediately after they say this, a torrential shower starts pouring down on them.
  Blue: I think it heard you.
• That Came Out Wrong: This comic has Green cuddling Blue, thinking about how nice his partner's skin feels and how he'd like to be completely surrounded by that sensation. When he tries to express that feeling out loud, he instead says something much more disturbing which horrifies Blue:
  Green: I wish I could make bedsheets out of your skin.
• Thieving Magpie: This comic has a magpie pull a Wounded Gazelle Gambit to distract the foxes, then hotwire Blue's car.
• Together in Death: Invoked by Green, who discusses how he'd like them to be buried together if they die at the same time... so he can be the big spoon forever.
• True Love Is a Kink: Green tries to "torture" Blue, and he thinks it sounds kinky... until it turns out that the torture consists of compliments and gentle validation, which gets him begging for a safeword.
• Uncanny Valley: Discussed in this comic, where Green makes a plush doll of Blue. He wonders if the unblinking eyes look wrong, but Blue points out that it would look even worse if it did blink.
• Webcomic Print Collection: As of January 2026, four collected volumes of the webcomic have been published, including some exclusive extra content.
• Weight Woe:
  • In this strip, Blue feels insecure about his weight. But when he asks Green what he'd change about him, Green says that he'd make Blue slightly fatter.
  • In this strip, Green paints a picture of Blue while he's asleep, but it makes Blue feel insecure because he thinks he looks fat.
• Wildlife Commentary Spoof: This comic has a nature documentary-style narration describing the foxes sleeping under a pile of blanket and cuddling.
• Work Info Title: There are two foxes. They are in love with each other. There's not much to the comic aside from seeing the foxes do in-love stuff together.
• World of Funny Animals: The comic is set in a world much like ours, except that every human is a fox instead.
• Your Size May Vary:
  • Green inexplicably shrinks to the size of a sultana in the 16 September 2019 strip. He seems unbothered by it.
  • Blue and Green are about the same size. Either one of them may grow as long as needed for rule of funny for them to coil around the other, including three coils simply around the others tail all the way up to five coils to completely surround the other.
• You Watch Too Much X: In this comic, Green ponders about the exact purple shade of a vase, to which Blue responds by saying that Green watches too many paint-mixing videos, which the latter affirms.