#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

[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!

[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.

[rattyexplores]

Strange jelly worms

They almost resemble water droplets. Unidentified of course, but I think these may be maggots of some kind. There’s a variety of strange fly larvae out there.

Unidentified, order Diptera

06/07/22

[brothfan1997]

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

[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

[sleepyyghostt]

maybe i just shouldnt give bdubs arms

[snailsaresnails]

Don’t mind me guys, just playing with my worm :3 no need for alarm :3

[random-iz-stuff]

Everything I could find that points towards something being real strange with Recap Kid:

The fourth wall awareness.

They can use their fourth wall awareness to see the future by creating the comic that is currently taking place and reading ahead.

Recap Kid being able to get their hands on objects that either shouldn’t exist in that universe (the same Invader Zim comics that they appear in, a copy of Enter The Florpus, a plush Zim, etc) or do exist, but Recap Kid REALLY shouldn’t be able to have them (a Gir costume for example, which does exist in universe but only as a unique Irken disguise made by Irken technology).

They CANONICALLY have shapeshifting powers, with Recap Kid briefly changing their physical appearance at least three different times in the comics.

Recap Kid also manages to change positions at least three times in one panel while also recapping everything with only a single text box, meaning that they can move extremely fast. Fast enough to create literal afterimages.

They also have canonical creation powers, with Recap Kid creating objects out of thin air and getting rid of them just as quickly, which does answer exactly where they’re getting the things that they shouldn’t be able to have.

Recap Kid also canonically has some sort of pyrokinesis, not only creating a ring of fire around Zim and Dib on command but also creating an explosion powerful enough to destroy an Irken ship.

Recap Kid is basically unharmed after getting rammed by Zim’s Voot at full speed and also being sucked into the Massive’s heating vents.

I haven’t even mentioned the pocket dimension they live/recap things in.

There are two separate occasions where it’s implied that Recap Kid doesn’t need air to live. First they mention that they hold their breath in between every comic release. And then there’s this line in issue 40 where Recap Kid questions how the Recap Brain can sigh without air or lungs, acknowledging that the space they’re in has no air, but continuing to go around like it’s perfectly normal.

Despite being able to breathe in space, Recap Kid still wears a spacesuit when we see them in space.

On a similar note, how does Recap Kid know that the Recap Brain doesn’t have lungs?

Recap Kid only exists in ONE universe, that being the universe that the main comics take place in. They just straight up don’t exist in Enter The Florpus, the Quarterly Comics and Dookie Loop Horror.

The fucking Recap Brain. A cosmic being with godlike power that looks like Recap Kid with the same hoodie and hair, who’s job it is to observe, record and recap the multiverse.

The Recap Brain implies that they aren’t the only member of their kind while tossing Recap Kid back into the comic universe, mentioning that “only a few people [presumably other Recap Brains] even know it [the comic universe] exists.

Point is, there’s something up with this child and I refuse to believe the wiki when it lists Recap Kid’s species as “human”.