#I kept moths and butterflies as pets

[porcelain-animatronic]

Renfield’s got weird girl energy. To me. If you even care.

[conditioned-to-obey]

how do you get to own us,, what do we have to do for you to own us 🤭🤭

What must you do to be owned by me?

You don't have to do anything, doll.

Perhaps I pick you out of a crowd. Watch you for weeks. Learn all I can about you. Waiting.

When it happens, you don't remember falling asleep. You don't remember the rough cloth held against your mouth or the bumps in the road the car hit on the way.

You do however, remember waking up scared. In darkness. Another owned girl comforts you while you cry and beg and ponder why. Until I'm ready for you. You're led blindfolded to a room with only a long cot, a chair and a table with a tray of sterile implements.

You see, every girl I own receives a mark. Each one unique and special in their own way. Like a butterflies wing, no two are exactly the same. That is why I choose one for you. Wings to wear on your back forever. In blues and orange and greens and black. Butterfly wings, moth wings. Marking you as mine.

I lay you across the table topless. The panic doesn't set in until the buzz of my tattoo machine is filling your ears. The sedation helps you not to move, but the numbing isn't provided. I want you to feel yourself becoming mine.

Every intricate line and shadow. Turning you into one of my butterflies forever. After you're mostly healed, you join the rest in my secluded, secret garden.

And there you'll stay as I abuse and rape any fight out of you. Until you are a docile, delicate shell of who you once were. A broken in little fuckdoll. Until I decide it's your time to be spread and pinned. Immortalized under glass and frame. Pinned with your gorgeous wings showing. Such a lovely specimen, hung on the wall for me to admire. My pretty kept pet, remembered fondly. Even after she breathes her last breath.

Would you still like to be a pet of mine?

[flarefighters-fr]

Just a few for now?

I need to do exposure therapy so badly for the new dragons. I want them so much. They're so cool but god damn whyy must they kinda resemble maggots. They're like Caterpillars. I literally have raised butterflies why is this dragon more maggot like than actual caterpillars to my brain.

[rederiswrites]

I think one of the really interesting parts of designing spaces for shared human use and natural habitat is that nature relies on a certain amount of messiness. A lot of the moths, native bees, and butterflies that people explicitly want to help rely on things like standing leaf litter and rotting wood to complete their lifecycles. A lot of birds need dead and dying trees. And yet in order to really catch on and spread, ecological plantings need to appeal to people and work for their needs as well. Our "for the bees" plantings can't be untidy messes or no one will want them, and yet a lot of insects winter in the dead stems of spent flowers and plants, for example.

It's something I'm relatively new to thinking about, but I think if we envisioned plantings as giant terrariums, we might be getting somewhere. A driftwood branch, a large rock, some moss, some occluded spaces--these are things we consider normal and attractive in, say, our pet turtle's enclosure. I think those things have a place in the "flowerbeds" of suburban houses, as well. Translate that to a fallen tree arfully placed under some small trees or large shrubs, with native ground covers growing around it. A mossy boulder. If you have a stump, you can put a cute toad house on it, maybe seed it with mushroom spores if it's in a sheltered area. Think of it as a careful composition.

And we need to let go of the idea of bare ground in plantings, at least in my part of the world. Xeriscaping is amazing, but something I cannot speak to at all in my (usually) humid biome with (usually) regular rainfall. Here, if you leave ground bare, it will fix that for you. Fighting it by weeding and mulching forever and ever is a loser's game.

Framing matters, too. You can communicate that a planting is cared for with a neat frame--a nice edging, a small area of neatly mown grass. Lawns and landscaping, at least in the US, are a big signifier of status, and a messy yard will be frowned on and may even bring problems with the HOA or the township. Things like a neatly-kept path and an area of well-maintained lawn are great signals that this is actually a deliberate design.

My succulent garden has also taught me that working with small areas at once makes it a lot easier to get a design the way you want it and get things established. That bed is a real joy, where some of my larger efforts are either definitely a work in progress or "what were they even going for here".

Anyway, lots of thoughts to be had.

[frango-maconheiro]

Welcome Home

Wally Darling x GN ! reader

reader is a fluffy moth puppet with deficient wings. they can move their wings but can't fly.

♡ From deep in the forest ♡

☆ I appreciate criticism, ideas, and your opinions. ☆

Trigger Warning: none

🌼 while you were looking for shiny stuff to decorate your new cave, you heard a noise, thinking that it was a new cute bug to add as a new pet, you went in the noise direction, but as you got closer, you started to hear that voices, but you were still curious, so you kept walking, only to find a group having a picnic. they all looked like very close friends, and bunch of social butterflies, but you're not their friend and neither are you social nor a butterfly, so you chose to ignore them and go on with your day.

🌼 finally, you had done almost every task of the day. You just needed to pick some berries, and then you could go back home and make a delicious soup to feed you and your bugs. it was starting to get cold. you looked up to see dark grey clouds getting closer. you hate going out on rainy days.

🌼 you wrap your wings around your body and go inside your cave to grab your little bag to go on your way. You always make trails, just in case of rain, because when it's raining, it gets harder for you to wander around, and that's why you hate going out on rainy days.

🌼 while you were picking some berries, you heard something behind. you looked behind just to see that it was a blue ball. you haven't traveled to buy a ball to play, maybe you could take this one and play with your bugs.

🌼 but even if you wanted to have the ball all for yourself, you remembered that whoever lost it, is very close to you, and you could get in trouble, so you got very close to the ball and kicked it hard in the air to the direction it came from. some seconds later, you heard a startled voice echoate in the distance. "aack!!" oopsy, looks like it hit someone. At least they got their ball back. you start heading out to your cave because you've already gotten all the berries you needed.

🌼"Are you okay, Wally??" Julie asked while offering her hand to help him up. the ball they were playing with just had gotten in the forest, and when they were about to start entering to go find it, it came flying right at Wally's face! "Yes, but that hurt." Wally responded, rubbing his face with his eyes closed. "i didn't know one of our neighbors liked to explore the woods." he said, staring at the direction where the ball came from, interested in this new, mysterious person around.

🌼 three days after that, when you went around to pick some mushrooms, you heard some humming, and you're a curious little shit, so you went to see who it was and you were at awe, who is that man? he's shining , it's like he's some kind of fairy.

🌼 "For someone so small, this man surely is the most handsome person i've ever seen." you accidently said out loud, blushing from embarrassment right after, "Ha! Ha! Ha! Why thank you, i think you're quite the beauty yourself." Your blush was already strong, and now it got stronger.

🌼 "I am so sorry about that!" you exclaim, focusing your vision on the trees, feeling his stare. "oh don't worry, it's fine." he quickly tells you, you sigh, feeling a little less awkward but still nervous.

🌼 "i haven't seen you around, are you new, neighbor?" he asks, that catches your attention. you've never really interacted with anyone from the neighboorhood so you're a little skeptical, but still, you tell him about the fact that you've lived here for quite a long time and just haven't had the courage to talk with anyone.

🌼 he seems surprised about that, offering to show you around the neighboorhood and introduce you to the others, you tell him you would think about it and say you have to go home already.

🌼 you guys exchange looks before you go back, still feeling his stare on your back until you completely disappear from his view. now you have someone to talk to, isn't that awesome?

☆ I feel like this one was pretty weak.

I had a solid idea for this one, but I just wasn't able to write it the way I wanted, yk?

if y'all want, I can try to write that idea i had in mind.

yhe idea was that the the reader was going to be kinda of an antagonistic little shit that lives in the forest and starts having a crush on Wally, and it's like pretty obvious, but Wally thinks they are just being sweet. ☆

☆ what do you guys think? ☆

[princess-of-the-corner]

Gosh I had a 'fun' thought on the "Butterfly can do the Peacock" thing.

So Butterfly made (Sentimonsters) Familiars, work mostly like regular Sentimonsters are described, save maybe more ethereal looking.

IE, Akumatize item, transmit butterfly magic into subject, transmit emotion out, transform said emotion.

Said emotion however needs constant emotional fuel from its source point. Hence being a Familiar, it is directly connected to the target through the item, & so won't harm what they are an extension of.

They can still be dangerous & go rogue as Feast did. If they exist long enough they eventually stabilize & become their own entity. This bad as they don't need the item, butterfly, or external emotion source.

Meaning they tend to run wild as one would expect of a creature defined largely by simplistic and intense emotional drives and needs with no other instincts, plus magical powers.

Feast still happened as Fu was either that good at manifesting a Familiar, or kept Feast as a secret pet until it turned ravenous.

This process however takes a long time and can be quite fraught.

Making a Butterfly child is worse.

The reason being, Emilie had to transmit every emotion at once, drawing on far, far more of them and then violently cut them off.

Followed up with her trying to incept an independent, human life & not a magical companion, she drew more of the butterflies power at once than any user should.

Add in that she then placed said being inside her to grow and she was being directly exposed to unfiltered & unstable (Because emotions) magical energy.

Suffice to say it was obscenely dangerous and a bad idea to do it once, let alone if she also made Felix or other Butterfly children.

This could also be what nearly kills Nathalie, namely her making a believable Senti-Bug requires her to rip far more from herself all at once than is good for the mind or body. Then draw on far more of the Miraculous's power while still in a vulnerable state to fully manifest her as a physical being. Which also made her more independent.

So yeah, doing all that at once was a bad idea, because unlike say, becoming a permanent Akuma (Imago) this isn't just welcoming a magical transformation of the self via magic. Its literally ripping away one's own essence to make a new and entirely separate thing.

If someone wants a permanent Familiar they should let it grow over a long period of time, & ensure the emotions are stable. IE, Fu did not realize how much he resented the order, or how much his starvation trauma influenced Feast's growth even if it did get other emotions.

These rules apply to doing it to one's self or others.

Though generally there's enough raw survival instinct in a person, Akuma, or even partially manifested Familiar to destroy the item if Hawk Moth tried to force it.

Plus he'd still be exhausted after & given the emotions fueling it would be negative and manic, the resulting creature wouldn't be useful to him anyway.

Final thought:

I imagine the Familiar design serve as sort of mirrors of their source, or more like windows into their head-space and specific emotions. Meaning they tend to be a little abstract but also a bit more like primal representations of the subjects identity & emotions.

With Akuma, they tend to be more specific and exaggerated, continuing that reflection theme. But overall major changes in overall design, or powers, likely rely on the person's identity changing heavily & radically different needs.

Hence why Gabriel always gets a Moth with the same abilities regardless of the emotion he's using. As well as why even if Fu made another critter it would have looked like Feast & shared his ingrained starvation trauma & turned out the same. A modern Fu would have something different.

Oh that's fascinating.

[welcome-to-ratterrock]

How do the mice, rats, and bats see butterflies?

I like to imagine Sorcha has kept a pet butterfly before

As talked about in this post, Baji had the wonderful idea that the rodents have domesticated caterpillars into big fat fluffy weird breeds, and I know for a fact that Rilla definitely had dainty, darling pet butterflies when she was a wee girlie. There’s competitions for showing off your special breed of caterpillar/moth/butterfly, and flight demonstrations.

I could see Sorcha with a Luna moth, but honestly, I see her with a spider more. She found Samite when he was a tiny little thing and had hurt one of his legs. She cared for him, sang to him and fed him drops of water and crumbs, and in return he became her devoted companion. Samite knew she loved beautiful things so he spun stunning patterns in his webs for his rescuer - dewdrops could dazzle on them in the morning and in the wintertime, snowflakes alighted on them very prettily. He kept away all manner of pests and creepy crawlies from her room, and in return, Sorcha continued to feed him and croon to him as he spun above her bed. He was her first and last pet - losing him was too much to go through again, and she had already been through far too much loss.

[mcrololo]

What are some bugs that you love?

First and foremost butterflies. Always. Moths are up there too, which has been a fairly recent appreciation despite me loving butterflies since my teens. (.. honestly, I've had weird encounters with butterflies as a kid, too, nvm) I'm pretty sure I just love winged creatures.

Speaking of which, when I was a kid we ALWAYS had a ladybug infestation around the same time of year in our bathroom. And since my bedroom was adjacent to it, these little buggers would come crawling into the corners of my bedroom as well 🐞 I didn't mind, I thought it was hilarious and a but of a wonder even though it was a yearly occurrence. My mother, on the other hand, was less amused... lmao

I've also always been fascinated by grasshoppers and their anatomy. How high they jump, the shape of their faces, the sounds they make. As a kid I somehow became one of the boys because I'd hunt them with the boys for a fisher at a camping site in return for free ice cream. It felt like a rite of passage when the boy turned to me and said "I'll teach you how to catch them, you're more like a guy anyway." Suddenly I felt Seen. At one point we befriended another girl there who joined us, but she thought it was a little cruel and wanted to keep them as pets (she already kept stickbugs as pets, so she wasn't your typical girl either). And so we stopped catching them for the Cruel Exchange of Nature (fish bait > ice cream for our own tummies) and only caught a few for her to keep and nurture. It's interesting, because both grasshoppers & ladybugs are associated with abundance and luck iirc.

[hibiscera]

Have you ever kept a bug as a pet or grown butterflies or anything like that

In my first year of high school, I remember my science teacher just randomly gave me a mealworm to take care of. It was fun watching it grow, but sadly it escaped at some point so I never saw it pupate. ):

Otherwise, I actually have a small garden of corkystem passionflower where I raise the caterpillars who eat that plant!! It was a lot of zebra longwings at first, but as I had to move things, now I'm mostly getting gulf fritillaries.

I've never gotten a lot of Julias in my entire time of raising corkystem though?

I also used to have milkweed for monarchs, but currently I don't.

I want to add more plants soon, I would love to add plants that attract swallowtails. 😭

AND I really want to raise moths one day as well!! I do want to see what host plants we have that are native here so I can have some in the yard, but one day when I have my own place and space, I would LOVE to also raise more specific moths in enclosures...

[the2amrevolution]

This red-shouldered hawk's family has nested in our yard for around 15 years now.

We have finches, sparrows, cardinals, wrens, chickadees, blue birds, robins, grackles, phoebes, tufted titmice, yellow-throated vireos, brown headed cowbirds, mourning doves, and mocking birds galore. Sharing space with the hawk family is a great horned owl, and theres a kestrel family a few houses down. We have green tree frogs, grey tree frogs, squirrel tree frogs, leopard frogs, southern toads, spadefoot toads, narrowmouth toads, and marbled salamanders. We have green anoles, five lined skinks, broadhead skinks, rat snakes, common watersnakes, and black racers. We have innumerable bugs including unique butterflies, moths, native bees, beetles, dragonflies, and spiders. We have mice, wood rats, squirrels, opossums, raccoons, armadillos, and sometimes larger mammals like deer and foxes. I've not seen any skunks in our yard or the neighborhood, but they're probably around too.

What makes our yard so attractive to wildlife? We don't do any yard spraying and we only use targeted insecticides for fire ants (invasive species) and mosquitos (dunks that only kill larvae, mostly we just avoid having standing water). My mom and I have finally convinced my dad to mow more minimally, and we try to id volunteer plants and protect them if they're native species. Our purposefully planted native and non-spreading ornamental plants get watered, but thats it. Volunteers get water if they're close to the other stuff, but they usually don't need it unless there's a serious hot and dry spell. We want ground cover, but we don't care about grass, so we don't mind the Carolina ponysfoot and vigina buttonweed over the backyard.

Wildlife likes our yard because we are lazy! We only mow as needed (we have dogs so needs to low enough to not totally hide snakes or be attractive to ticks), leave leaves, and don't spray poison everywhere (also because we have dogs and lawn chemicals increase canine cancer risk). We don't leave lights on outside on purpose and our dogs and cats are primarily indoors. Our next door neighbors also have primarily indoor pets, but they do leave lights on that aren't needed. Theres only one cat that is ever roaming, she's spayed, and she's kept inside most of the year. We've seen her less often in general since she's gotten older, and now allowing cats to roam is illegal in my county.

One of our next door neighbors mows excessively. One across the street has a full, obnoxious service that comes, poisons their yard, partially blocks the road, and makes a bunch of noise. The neighborhood our yard backs up at least at one point did mosquito spraying, which kills way more than just mosquitos.

We don't have an HoA, which helps, and we live outside city limits, but the city has no rules against leaving leaves anyway. Our yard never looks messy either. We put decorative stakes to mark volunteers we don't want mowed so it looks purposeful, and the dandelions and henbit and such honestly look prettier in the spring than a golf course lawn ever does.

The wildlife will find the pockets of refuge if we make them, and its pretty easy to make them if you have a yard while also campaigning for more ecologically friendly city planning, commercial development, and infrastructure. If you have time, you can also loiter in local/neighborhood groups on Facebook or nextdoor and leave comments that are anti-lawn, pro-wildlife, and anti-outdoor only/free roaming dogs and cats on any relevant posts. You can harass lawn and pest companies about how much the "services" they offer suck too if you want, but generally telling some one a fan for their patio will keep mosquitos off them just as well as expensive lawn spray without killing off butterflies works better.

"There's no wildlife here. The land is barren and stripped from farming chemicals"

I just saw two blue herons fly super low over our house, which means they've been fishing in the creek behind us, which means there's fish there. Which means there's bugs to feed the fish and algae to feed the bugs, which means the water and soil is worth something damnit.

Yes, I'm sorry the suburb isn't the grand, sweeping swath of uninhabited land that you so desperately crave but would learn to loathe, but saying that the land here is barren and that there's no wildlife here and that there's nothing to salvage- that's a You problem. Nature might be struggling, but against all odds it is at least trying.

[moth-shaped-goblinslut]

Sharing art. Commission from Jam Funtilar

these are a pair of my OCs. I really liked this piece and the artist (@jamfntlr on Artstation and Insta) does gorgeous work, super sweet and super chill with my chaotic instructions

Anyway this is Alex and Francesca, I made them because I heard about "rich widow" dresses, they looked unbelievably luxurious and I had a Very Long Inner Tangent that kept developing into this increasingly elaborate idea... And here they are.

Alex (she/her) is the moth gal on the left, Francesca (she/her) is the crow woman.

They are gay

For each other

Their rich husbands both disappeared under mysterious circumstances, shortly after they filed suspiciously large insurance claims. They're both very dēd, with no evidence of foul play, and there's no motive, method or opportunity for either Alex or Francesca to have kélled them. So they *might* be innocent. but it's my headcanon, so they're getting away with actual mörder (it's fine, they were millionaires). So they are literal rich widows. they remarried each other only a few months later

Alex is peppy, energetic and lively, loves to go clubbing, laughs really loud, never stops dancing in these restless little mannerisms, drinks (but doesn't smoke), and listens raptly to anyone she focuses on. She's also got glowy eyes, for literally no reason. Alex packs every possible moment with energy, and she's the kind of person who remembers everyone's name just to greet them personally. she has five braincells and four of them are kinky and easily distracted. If she gets upset, she gets *loud.* have fun getting cussed out at 100db by an angry moth

Alex was based on domestic silk moths for her design, mostly shown through her fur boa (which is like a silk moth's mane), her layered glasses (meant to have elements of compound-eye and butterfly-glasses aesthetics) the bubble she's blowing (an echo of bubbles that real silk moths blow during their silk-making process (I have to admit my knowledge of silk moths is pretty shallow)), her antennae and her four arms. And their forearms. pun. Chance she actually did it: 12%

Francesca, on the other hand, is a quiet, dignified lady, with a curious, biting cynicism to her. She's Francesca to most of the world, but with friends in private she prefers Franky. no, you aren't her friend - if you have to ask, you ain't it. She smokes (but doesn't drink) and is never without her cigarette holder (held *just so* for optimal femme fatale energy), she loves opera, theater, vaudeville and pro wrestling with the same quiet intensity, has a tendency to find quiet hidden places so she can read trashy romance novels and poetry in peace (she will deny it ever happened if you catch her), and fancies herself a witch sometimes. Massive theater kid energy if she ever warms up to ya - you'll know she's your buddy if she starts showing you stuff from her collection of pulp fiction and art books. As mushy and romantic as she is under the surface, she is incredibly guarded, and prepared to fight her way out of anything trying to capture her. She has a TERRIFYING temper, very quiet and smoldering... and like. she seems like she could really mörder someone.

Chance she actually did it: 80%.

Anyway yeah be gay do crimes, eat the rich, be nice to your pets

[inun4ki]

❛ you’re about as intimidating as a butterfly. ❜

random dialogue / accepting

"Even the beauty of a butterly can be deceptive - belie the venom beneath soft flesh and shining scales; There's a reason, after all, a curious pup will gag on its wings and froth in the grass, made ill by poisonous warnings it was too foolish and too blind by its own hubris to heed."

Cold words, and hands that stilled a hair's breadth from Geto's crown, fingertips once intent upon carding through thick hair now rigid and unmoving. Lips press on to the shell of an ear, measured breaths fanning against soft skin - was there a threat in the barely concealed quiver of his lip, or wanton, unrequited affection? Even he didn't know, busying himself with a light pull on long hair and gentle provocation.

Even as a glorified pet, shackled as fodder for divine cause, he so defiantly demanded undivided attention.

"Do you think I am weak, Geto-sama? Or simply ornamentally beautiful - your little bird kept in a golden cage?" he whispered softly, and at last his fingers resumed their paths, tenderly guiding long strands over Geto's shoulders and carefully pinning up the rest. Then, slowly, he circled his arms around Geto's neck from behind, glassy gaze closing shut. "I think you of all should know I'm far more capable than I may seem; You would not have kept me at all had I not been - had I not come before you and presented myself to you as I do now. I know you don't see me as any common monkey... You would not let the venom in my hands smooth away the strays in your hair, nor relieve the human frustrations that dwell so deeply within you."

Foolish as ever, really; Again and again, there was nothing he could do to stop himself from giving himself away to a wolf in sheep's clothing - unconvinced by pomp and circumstance, but drawn, wholly, to the force of nature he so beheld besides. Like a moth to a flame, he pressed a kiss to Geto's temple and heaved a feather-light sigh.

"But if I am no more than this, then I only ask you do not rip my wings - my loyalty and dedication were given freely, after all."

[healerelowen]

Oh? Ohohoh~? Fluff you say? How does some date night fluff sound?

Photographer - How does a quiet night out beneath the stars sound? Admiring the wildlife and observing the shift as each creature rises and rests... How the fireflies frame you in it's picture perfectly... It's a beautiful sight caught on film~

Unfinished Boss - What about exploring different art mediums? Letting your hearts guide the creation of your pieces... Working together and their claw gently guides your hand... A memento of a delightful evening!

Archivist - Perhaps you'd like a quiet night in together? Cuddling up all nice and cozy as you just talk and listen to eachother's stories... Feeling her speakers rumble so close as she narrates each tale... Dreaming in eachother's hold~

G0lly - Or maybe you're up for infodumping to eachother? Choosing one of your favourite topics at random and presenting it to the other... Sharing the things you love with the person you love... An exciting yet educational time!

-🐭

 Sdjwbowdobjndwln

I am going absolutely feral for these rat thank you

Here is da drabble

I gave you an Eloist one, but if you want something specific don’t be afraid to let me know <3

And I also have your next assignment for the uberbots up and ready whenever you are willing to do it: Pet names + putting them into practice (i.e dialogue).

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“So the hummingbird hawk moth is a more common pollinator amongst moths. But not as common or well-known as the many species of bees or butterflies in terms of popularity, despite the fact that moths outweigh those numbers tenfold. With that being the…” As the Archivist’s partner droned on and on about moths and other insects he found interesting, the Archivist herself listened intently. The two were kept close to each other, such was a comfortable and familiar position for them to be in. The Archivist couldn’t help but admire how knowledgeable her partner was on entomology, it was also so adorable to watch whenever he got excited about seeing a new insect as the days grew warmer. 

“The knowledge you have on insects is impressive, dear. Have you ever been interested in studying entomology?” She queried, and Elowen blinked at her once in slight surprise before responding. “I most certainly have, though the most I got to do was in a 4-H project I only did for a couple years which wasn’t as long as I had hoped compared to other projects I did for much longer.” There was a tone of disappointment as he spoke, showing how he was slightly bitter about not being introduced to it sooner. However, Elowen simply shrugged his shoulders soon after, “It’s fine though. I am perfectly content with finding information on my own rather than letting a summer project hand hold my way through it.”

The Archivist nodded slowly, hanging on his every word. “You seem to do significantly better learning things independently rather than a task requiring you to do as such. I admire that about you, dearest.” A small smirk forms on the Archivist’s screen as she leans in closer. “Plus, with all of this colossal knowledge I may as well start calling you ‘lovebug’~” A wobbly smile makes its way onto Elowen’s features, a bright blush turning his face a lighter red. “I mean, I wouldn’t be opposed to the idea..” The bot gently presses her screen against the side of her partner’s face, mimicking that of a kiss. Elowen leaned himself into the artificial kiss, a gesture he did with affection he was comfortable and familiar with. 

He nestled himself back against the Archivist, feeling content as she wrapped her arm around him. There was a comfortable silence between the two for a while, with them both basking in the peace of each other’s company. “So to continue your discussion of pollination.” The Archivist said suddenly, and Elowen was quick to pick up where he left off. “Oh yeah! So because of how some species are more efficient than others…” And so the ranting starts up all over again, but the Archivist didn’t mind. That just meant she could spend more time listening to her beloved partner’s interests and excitement.    

[dorothea-jpg]

The Comfort Closet

Characters Used/Mentioned:

Una Autumn (Silver Y Moth Insectoid)

Opal Autumn (Silver Y Moth Insectoid)

Moonie Autumn (Silver Y Moth Insectoid)

Liatris Elmpuff (Pixie)

Giselle Crunch (Blue Morpho Butterfly Insectoid)

Juno Crunch (Monarch Butterfly Insectoid)

Nash Grung (Orc)

Ollie Meine (Blue Slime Humanoid)

Kira Oakenhoof (Centaur)

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Ah yes, the comfort closet. A place that would be so sacred to someone who prefers to run and hide from their problems, to someone like Una. She didn't name her old, sticker-covered wardrobe 'the comfort closet', it was actually her mother who decided on it. You see, the comfort closet was where Una would hide whenever she got upset, as the name suggests, it was a huge comfort to her to just... hide away in a dark place.

Una was a generally happy person, she felt as though her life was all smooth sailing so there were only a few times she used the comfort closet.

The first time she ran to the comfort closet was when kids at school began seeing differences in Una's family and pointed it out, rather rudely... you know, as kids do. Growing up without a father was nothing to be ashamed of and I highly doubt it was the kids' own opinion that was being spoken but all it took was one overly cruel boy to send Una running. She sat with her face buried in her knees, in the pitch-black for two hours before Opal's homemade cookies convinced her to come out.

The second time was when she lost one of her best friends, Lia Elmpuff. She and Lia were two very different people but always stayed very close until Lia became more popular and made more friends. She basically just kept ditching Una and acting borderline mean to impress her new friends until she just dropped her altogether. Una should've seen it coming but Lia was the person she made future plans with! They were going to live in a pink princess castle and have like five pet unicorns, they were going to live there with each of their princes and live happily ever after! But of course, that didn't happen. Una didn't leave the comfort closet until the next day. Not even to eat.

The third time was when she rejected a boy from her class. Una didn't want to be in a relationship (Especially not when she was ten years old) and told the boy straight. He didn't take it that well. After that embarrassing display, he made it his life's mission to make Una miserable. He would throw random things at her during lessons, he laugh at her whenever she walked by, he spread rumours about her and he would even spill food and drinks on her when he felt like it. This called for the comfort closet and also one day of running away.

The fourth time was when Giselle first overshadowed Una. Una remembered getting really into sewing, she loved being all creative and colourful with it and even though she wasn't very good at it, she adored it. Opal made sure to show her undying support for Una's hobby no matter what and she showed off her daughter's work whenever she got the chance until Giselle became interested too. Giselle was very good at sewing and her mother, Juno, showed off just how proud she was of her daughter. It would make Una's work look like one big joke! It was obvious how much everyone praised Giselle for being so talented at such a young age while all Una got was 'Oh well you did your best!'. It made her feel so bad about herself.

The fifth time was when Una realised she was never going to have her happily ever after. She would never fall in love with her knight in shining armour and she would never have that romance that she had always dreamed of. She was defeated. For such a hopeless romantic as Una was, it was a devastating conclusion to come to. She would never feel that sparkly feeling you're supposed to feel when you fall in love, she would never experience what it would be like to be in a real romantic relationship and that destroyed her. 

The sixth time was when she felt as if her friends were replacing her. Nash spent way more time with his rugby teammates and Ollie became friends with Kira Oakenhoof and subconsciously ditched Una. She thought it would be fine at first, that was until a certain mean girl planted a negative thought into her brain. That was when she began seeing how she was being left behind. Her insecurities overtook her brain and she convinced herself that her friends were bored of her. It was like Lia Elmpuff all over again.

The seventh time was when everyone forgot Una's birthday. It was a real kick in the teeth because she was looking forward to this specific birthday for ages and everyone just... forgot. She didn't want to jump to conclusions like she always did so she waited. She waited for someone to say a simple 'happy birthday' but they never did. It never came. She sat in the comfort closet the entire night just munching on a cupcake she bought in The Sunny Gull for two crystals. She at least got a happy birthday text from Ollie but he wasn't there to celebrate with her. The real twist was that her family forgot because they were too busy celebrating Giselle's acceptance into Granite Lake University.

The eighth time was probably due to the most devastating of them all in Una's opinion. It was at Elk Grove's prom for final-year students. Ollie had asked Una out. He poured his heart and soul out to her and she just burst into tears because she knew she could never feel the same way about him, or anyone for that matter. She was also scared, scared that she was going to lose one of her best friends in the world over stupid feelings. Of course, Ollie was understanding but he asked Una for some time alone.

That's what got her.

She felt so horrible about it she even attempted to force herself to accept Ollie's feelings, thinking he would never want to speak to her again if she rejected him. 

Not even the comfort closet could help her with this one.

[animeyanderelover]

May I request headcanons for Grell Sutcliff with a S/O, who has an unhealthy obsession with spiders and bugs ? :D

Like, how would Grell react, if being forced to hold any kind of bugs and spiders ? xD

Thanks ! :3

It’s been too long since I’ve written about Grell.

Tw: Yandere themes, unhealthy mindset, unhealthy relationship, possessiveness, obsessiveness, delusions, mentions of kidnapping

Obsession with insects

🟥The reaper gladly indulges into any hobbies her darling might have, there are very little things the redhead adores more than seeing you happy and all smiling. So much more when she is the one making you happy. Your hobby is after all a great distraction after this girl has kidnapped you, she's delighted because of this. After all, you to live together in a cottage somewhere deeper in the forest. Where else can you find more of those crawling and fascinating creatures? Society probably was disgusted whenever you collected bugs and all sort of insects you could find, wanting others to look at them and hold them so you could eagerly explain to them what species they were and what made them special.

🟥Grell certainly won't miss a chance like this, getting closer to you whilst you two search together for butterflies, spiders and moths. As someone who can easily be infected with the excitement of her darling, she always manages to get quickly over her initial hesitation. Her darling enjoys this so she'll enjoy it as well. There are times where she might come to feel disgusted when being met with cockroaches and worms, though she always manages to hide it or forget about it the moment she sees the visible happiness frokm you as you start pointing out some details and tell her something from your knowledge.

🟥From ladybugs to spiders, at this rate you've probably forced her to hold anything at least once. There is definitely a difference between holding a twisting worm and a pretty butterfly for Grell so she'll probably beg for you to quickly take away the insect that she doesn't want to hold for too long. Most of the times she wears gloves so at least the sensation from small legs creeping up her skin is something she can bear, the times where you forced her to hold bugs without gloves on weren't times she couldn't enjoy quite as much. A bit chicken-hearted when holding an insect that constantly crawls up her hands, it's not in her interest at all to have one of those insects somewhere inside her clothes. Also rather sensible when it comes to the topic where you hold one of those animals too close to her face. One of Grell's favorite part on herself is her face after all so please refrain those small things from touching her face.

🟥There are still some things she probably wouldn't allow you to do, including bringing insects into your house. Even if the house is already a bit more on the messy side, she refuses to have insects hiding in every corner. You have the forest and the garden to catch insects and admire them for as long as you want, but she doesn't want them spreading inside her house. Begging her has been since the beginning of her infatuation an easy way to break her resolve, though she clarifies even if you desire to hold a few insects as pets when she isn't there, they have to be kept inside a cage. But being aware of your bug obsession, she never kills an insect when she happens to find some that got otherwise in. Your reactions are always theathrically when she'd just smash an insect.

[naruto-littlespace]

team 8 littlespace hcs

tw for child abuse in the hinata section, mainly the first n third bullets

universe is the same as the akatsuki ones w/ transformation jutsu and memory loss

Hinata

-When she's young (original Naruto, not Shippuden) she has almost no control over when she regresses so she does it during school, during training, alone at night in her room etc. If her dad catches her doing it he'll shut down her chakra channels that are responsible for holding the transformation jutsu because "she needs to stop acting like a little kid" and sometimes she's still in the headspace she just isn't visibly little. It's a terrible experience.

-Her little age ranges from 1-4 (think, just starting to walk to starting to read kids books out loud.)

-When she regressed in class Iruka would send her to the nurse. Sometimes when he could get someone to watch the class for a few minutes he goes to visit her. He's deeply disturbed that she uncontrollably regresses because like, she has not seen combat yet. What's causing this? He is one of the only people to investigate the Hyuga clan before Neji's chunin exam speech. He immediately went to the Hokage and told him she needs to be on Kurenai's team, because she will be a good and stable parent figure which Hinata DESPERATELY NEEDS

-When she's placed on team 8 Keeb n Shino already know about her regressing based on the number of times she was excused from class. Unlike some of their other classmates tho, they do not make fun of her for it, Shino because there are members of his clan including himself who regress, and Kiba because when he asked his mom why Hinata kept turning into a preschooler she told him it was a trauma response and how he should treat her in that headspace: that is, like a little sister. He gives her a hug the first day of training (an awkward side hug, because he's still trying to be cool) but it comes with a murmur about how he's going to keep her safe.

-Thankfully, she doesn't regress during sparring ever. She seems a little bit in her element moving with and against her teammate's attacks, which Kurenai hopes will mean that she'll be fine in actual battle.

-Sometimes she'll regress shortly after sparring, esp if she was sparring with her dad recently because she's just Panicked. Kiba'll pick her up and coo to her, sometimes put her on his shoulders and run around or let her pet Akamaru (the last of which will instantly calm her down.)

-Shino will regress with her to be her playmate. He'll take her to a playground or a garden and point out interesting bugs. They do this mostly in their down time rather than during training or anything.

-If Hinata regresses toward the end of a training day Kurenai will take her to her house to hang out and destress before sending her back to the compound. Hinata loves it there! Kurenai is a good mom figure and she has activities for a little kid to do (early reader books, toys, even a wooden kitchen set and rocking horse—they were all in the attic because Kurenai's dad never got rid of anything and Kurenai inherited that trait)

Kiba

-Is a big more than he is a little. He would be a kickass older brother and I feel robbed that he interacts with kids so little in the show.

-He is a little bit rough sometimes, he will see three year old Hinata or Shino and be like 'y'all wanna wrestle in the mud??' just because that's how he spent a lot of his childhood

-HOWEVER he is still very ok with doing whatever the kid wants to do. Hinata wants to use the family sake set as a tea set? Shino wants to sit and watch ants carry food into their hill? Little Naruto wants to go paint Hokage Rock? He's there.

-He and Kurenai bond over being bigs. Both of them feel immensely protective over the little members of their group.

-As he gets older he experiments with actually regressing himself, but for the most part he has other ways to let off steam (like training or running with Akamaru.) He has achieved littlespace once or twice while Shino has been around to be his Big. He likes feeling like a kid, without the responsibilities his adult self has, but at the end of the day he feels better caregiving.

Shino

-When he's young he goes little fairly often. It's simultaneously how he deals with being so different from his classmates and makes him more different, in that he's one of the only regressors and he is even more quiet and more covered in bugs than he usually is (his littler body forces more bugs out of himself and onto his skin and clothes than usual.) It's not as uncontrollable for him as it is for Hinata, like he'll be able to wait until after school to go little.

-In his clan this is treated as ok, more acceptable than in the Hyuga clan at least, but they try to ease the teenagers out of it as they get older by teaching them different coping mechanisms. They're like metamorphosing backwards is unnatural and a little concerning but if that's what you gotta do to be a functioning member of our hive clan you do you babe!

-His favorite activities are hanging out with people (his family or anyone who will spend time with him, cue Iruka again) and/or bug related activities. He will go to the river and count how many dragonflies vs damselflies he sees. He will bring crackers and leaves to anthills to crumble up and offer to the ants. He will find chrysalises and put his kikaichu there to protect them until the butterfly/moth inside emerges. Through all this wandering, he's really difficult to keep track of if you let him out of your sight for one moment because he is fast and completely silent.

Kurenai

-Like 99% big 1% little

-She loves taking care of any and all littles, including the ones in her team, the ones from other teams, the ppl from her generation, the list goes on. More than once Kakashi has come to her little just to vibe with her.

-Already mentioned it but her shelves are stocked with little kid stuff. People a little more ignorant of the little phenomenon just think she babysits a lot (which, in between missions, she will do)

-She had only regressed once before she n Asuma got together, and that was a couple of days after her dad died in the nine tails attack. Tsume found her and took her to her house to help take care of Kiba for the day, which helped her feel better.

-After she n Asuma started dating, he talked her into the idea of trying to regress. He poured some juice into one of the sippie cups she kept around for Hinata and got her a soft blanket, they cuddled up on the couch and he read her some kids books. it was relaxing but she wasn't sure she actually slipped into littlespace. When she asked why he wanted to do it he said he wanted to know what abt caring for people appealed to her.