#I love bugs but it is common

[ratcandy]

we just keep naming bugs like this

[mossmx]

some anti insight

I'm in the peculiar position where I have a phobia of a thing and I'm in therapy but NOT FOR THAT

bc I find it so disgusting I don't want to get better about it, that shit is disgusting to me I would rather tomorrow the world burned it all to the ground and no trace of that thing remained than change my mind (at least at the moment XD)

BUT

I'm so disgusted I avoid it

the anti behavious of actively seeking out what disgust them to engage is not normal, they are conditioned to do something that is ultimately harmful for them and others

tl;dr one thing is exposure, but seeking things that elicit emotions that distress us it's self harm

[keexshound]

to me modern ellie will always be that rural tomboy texas girl. you mean to tell me the girl who's had physical labor jobs the entire game suddenly just sits inside all day being a toxic gamer and texting me on snapchat? insane, unbelievable. also why is she still toned if she doesn't do anything at all, that's always been a pet peeve of mine.

to me she's that girl you'd see getting rowdy with friends and she's covered in dirt n' grass. she'd point at cool bugs like a mantis or beetle and go "look at that thing!" modern ellie is a bug girl to me. she's the girl you'd see riding around in a farmer pickup with joel and anytime you come to her house she's always doing some kind of farm work like taking care of chickens, tending to gardens and crops, whatever. you'll see ellie with her friends poking around those old buildings around town that haven't been touched in years

maybe it's how jackson kind of reminds me of my town and the whole farm thing she had with dina that makes me have such a rural connection to her but idk. also texas farmer joel just makes sense, and he's technically her dad. so she deserves to be a texas farmer too.

[retrogradedreaming]

my least favorite thing is when people compliment someone's work by using passive aggressive comments about what they hate about other people's work. like please, just focus on what is actually in front of you

[soulful-rodent]

[nyehilismwriting]

How do the bug aliens perceive humans? Are we intimidating from their pov or just weird/ugly/cute/mid? Do they have any human stereotypes or jokes?

the bugs are pretty diverse in their exposure to humans - the ones that live and work closely with humans tend to regard them pretty casually: it's been a couple of generations since first contact, they're conceptually used to the idea. there's still some frictions, usually caused by communication issues - that's probably the big one..humans are Weirdly Loud, have to express everything in words (so unwieldy) and completely oblivious to more subtle ways of communicating🙄 there's provably some frustration there, which tends to improve with exposure.

the ones that are less used to humans probably run into these issues more - humans are difficult to talk to, easy to frighten or offend, prone to panic, judgemental, fleshy, tiny, loud, smell weird....

[reksink]

Tendrilled Speculations of an Interesting Foe

[guesst]

sometimes i think about sullivan and how his n iruma’s relationship progresses and what made him choose iruma. i mean it was probably something to do with delkira that made him pick iruma up but i also think about that comment he makes early on in the series, that the others in the 3 greats have grandkids and he doesnt and how hed love to have a grandkid. and how he sends iruma to babyls partly because thats what a proper caretaker is meant to do. and how at the beginning maybe hes playacting and thinking yes this is the boy i have brought over for unspecified reasons, My Grandson, and i am the Grandfather (yay!) but its only later on that The Grandson becomes Iruma Suzuki first and then Sullivan’s Grandson second. and then i get happy about it

[skrunksthatwunk]

ok soooo im like 5 episodes into dear brother and i need you guys to know how much i love rei so far if only for her staggering around like a rain-soaked stray dog just haggard and unseeing all the time. like we know very little about her thus far except that every scene she's in she steals the show by flopping and wilting all over the frame

[beautifulfartgalaxy]

finally finished my slightly more technical cockchafer (Melontha melontha) drawing in between dissertation work :') hope you enjoy :D

kind of inspired from the illsutrations of this little bug book (from 1951):

"an insect book for the pocket" one of the cutest guide book names ever

[mimikyufriend]

I was flabbergasted when some guests at the corn maze didn't recognize what I considered to be a very common insect, so

[meetmeinmyden]

Pepper’s story about the Big Bug Crew, and the fact that she has figurines on her shuttle dashboard as well as at home, meant I had to draw them

[spasikonik]

an edek themed collage 🪲

[gukkielu]

Papilio Machaon - Old World Swallowtail

2024, Portugal

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

I think Ezra Bridger and Ty Blackthorn would be good friends 😌

[peliginspeaks]

is null like Aware that theyre only 2 and that thats not normal. i feel like they wouldnt realise xD

Null is not Aware. in general. However funny as that answer is this really did make me think so I'll try to answer it real style too shdhds

Null doesn't remember anything before the last 2 years or remember how they came about. Someone existed prior to that, now that person does not exist in living memory anymore, and Null is-not in her place. I don't think it has a concept of its age...? Since it only recently has developed a concept of being a thing that is alive, due to having been killed before. Null has very little internal dialogue that doesn't surround the feeling of hunger and emptiness and schemes to fill it, and no sense of identity to speak of outside of that, so the sense of being abnormal compared to most humans doesn't register with them much. However, by now they've probably realized that most people have a birthday and parents and a childhood, and from very early on they realized people like it when they appear to be like Most People.

So, if you asked Null about its background, you'd probably get a patched together mix of the information of others that it's heard and filed away. It wouldn't take an especially careful ear to realize that none of it adds up. References to moving from the Surface at age 18 clash with anecdotes of living in the Neath as a child, and if pressed for an age you'd swear you heard tell of a birthday party they hosted with a number that exceeded the one they just gave you. If you are positioned to be talking to Null, you are probably either too polite or too disinterested to pry. ...Or too confused. Most likely too confused.

(...or it will make you want to talk to them more to find out what's going on. Bad idea, overall.)