#Larval stage

[rattyexplores]

"if I cover myself in lichen, no one will notice I'm a caterpillar"

19/08/23

[angel-oftheday]

The Angel of the Day is...

Insubstantial Angel

From Neon Genesis Evangelion

Requested by Anonymous

[haikuckuck]

Reiswanze an Himbeerblatt, Jungtier, Rottenburg a.N. ,Garten der Begegnung .Ende September.

[silverpolish]

eraserhead baby

[daredevil-vagabond]

The Demon provokes me: after you, be my guest! [Demons Banquet]

Hickory horned devil -> Regal moth Damian

[pigswithwings]

im gonna be honest though i dont think angels hatch from eggs i think they pupate 👍

[arctiidaes]

nymph appreciation post

[unlikelytrashcreation]

@mybrainisbigpoop and @banana-zim …..So about that fanart I was threatening you with In the ao3 comments…..

[karkatbug]

sorry ur au is so aborable i was vary happy reading all the posts u made about it :)

aww what the heck thank you ; w;

the grub is at that stage in his growth where he wants to eat everything, even the dolphin finger puppet.

[imperfectercell]

SKITAMON, SHINKAAAAAAA!

[timetravelstudies]

a girl is literally a type of boy but we arent ready for that conversation

[rattyexplores]

Cocoon Creation of Cyana Moths

This lichen-feeding genus of moths have a very strange looking cocoon.

The cocoon is made with the larva’s setae (hair-like structures), with the pupa being suspended in the centre of the cocoon with silk.

These cocoons can be found across Southeast Asia (Hawes 2016), however they can also be found in parts of Australia, with Cyana meyricki being a common species here.

Cyana meyricki

Source and further reading

06/07/22

[shirks-all-responsibilities]

"...one of the things I kept saying to him was because you're so naturally tough and gruff and masculine and Joel, the more you can show me a scared, sad, frightened kid inside of you, the more I will connect with you and feel everything else." Craig Mazin on directing Pedro Pascal early on in The Last of Us (from the official podcast for Episode 1).

Joel's microexpressions that float across his face in this moment—when he sees a girl in Jackson that looks so much like his long-deceased daughter—absolutely broke my heart. I was immediately transported to this moment I giffed of Pedro's raw performance as Ricky Hauk in Touched by an Angel? Joel's repressed "inner child" and emotions that have been buried under all the unresolved trauma and sheer horror of the reality he now lives in, how it's this expression that he accesses in this moment of the most poignant, overwhelming grief? How it's so muted, so subtle, all these many years later, in such a broken man? My heart?

The way that grief never truly leaves you? Something about the echoes and contrasts between the two performances hits me in the feels? Seeing echoes of sweet larval-stage bby Pedro in 50-something Joel is so fkn sad? 🥺

And then, look at how his expression shifts in each scene...his eyebrows morph back down to that furrowed baseline, back to his hardened shell? It's incredibly subtle in his younger self, obvious in his older self, and heartrending in each.

[brothfan1997]

if u guys care about me at all u will look at my pet caddisfly larvae blaine

[moe-broey]

I, uh. Got distracted.

EXHIBIT A:

Oh god these were. Well. The first one I got exactly right, actually! The second one gave me ENDLESS fucking trouble and unfortunately, you can see it's damaged (not in these pics -- I was undoing/redoing So Much). BUT. The important thing (and maybe I'll capture it eventually...?) is that they have a fun dangly effect! They're SUPER CUTE TBH. Made out of jump rings, tiny chain links, and that ball weight thing at the end of an adjustable necklace. All of which, were harvested from necklaces I don't wear anymore/have never worn LMFAOO. I lucked out w the tiny blue beads, I spent forever looking for ANYTHING that would work yesterday, but to no avail. Until I finally found my case of mini mini beads I just couldn't find yesterday LMFAOO (these were the only two like them! Which is also a shame that one did get so damaged, but. What are you gonna do lmfao)

EXHIBIT B:

Not a huge fan of the placement, but. It was a shoddy at home job, anyway (don't pierce your ears at home! 😨😰). These little bead rings are also from a necklace I never ended up wearing, and maybe that's fortunate. They're kinda cheap plastic w paint on em. I imagine, with wear/being pressed against skin, the paint probably would have come off (here's hoping it doesn't here! I feel cheated... but I mean. I don't know why I expected anything different LMFAO). Every time I tried to cut a slot, I just snapped them LMFAOO... they glue back together alright, though. Alls well that ends well! Sharena will have a pair like these too, once her dangly earrings are in!

And. Moe still doesn't have ears, yet. But! Sharena is here to help! 😊

I'm hoping to use these little black beads and layer them in such a way that they look like gauges! I'd prefer to sew them on, ideally. Glue would probably be a last resort... I just don't want to run the risk of losing any parts. At least I have multiple of these ones, but. They're also from a broken bracelet I found on the ground. So. Limited supply.

As for Moe's silver hoops/clickers, I don't want to have Sharena model those. I tried initially, but these (I think they're washers? Also stolen from my dad's stuff) are a lot more heavy duty than a jump ring. I actually scuffed up one of Sharena's ears, trying to fit them on. She's okay, but it was definitely too close for comfort! But that's really good information to have. I think I should insert the earrings to the ears separately, before they're attached to the head. So I have a LOT of room for error and potential destruction LMFAOO 😭🧍 I really like the industrial look the washers give, though! It suits Moe REALLY well tbh, ESPP paired w the angel fangs made out of nails!!!

All in all, I'm EXTREMELY happy w Sharena's dangly earrings! They were really challenging, but sooooooooooo cutes........ I'll def have to like. Post a vid or a gif or something, at a later date (when it's all put together!). And I'm really happy this is the route I chose, for everyone's earrings! LIKE. I had half a thought of using various stitching, which could have been neat too. But. The miniature jewelry............ made out of various beads and chains and objects. Makes me SOOOOO HAPPY. It's just SO fun visually!!!!!! 🥺🥺🥺 I don't know how well matched it'll look when I have to get to shit like armor and buckles, but. Eh. Fuck around and find out. For now, they're CUTE 😤😤😤😤😤

[dingodad]

it's not really elaborated on how long a troll spends in their larval state anyway.. for real bugs the grub stage can often be the majority of their lifespan but the fact that trolls count their birthday from their "wriggling day" or "larval awakening" MAYBE implies that they start counting from the moment they hatch? so are we treating the grub as strictly the same as a human baby, in which case we might say they spend about a year in that form? or since they're called "wigglers" are they more like toddlers, so even 3 years? and if that's the case is karkat even really 13 years old anymore if he's only spent 9 or 10 years in a troll body... though to be fair even just 1 year is a long time for a troll larva to be fending for itself in the caverns