#OK spiders are arachnids not bugs

[lunastrophe]

"You worship what?"

[humanmaybe]

Phobias are valid and you don’t have to be in love with bugs all the time but I mean it genuinely when I say that becoming interested in bugs brings so much joy in daily life. Bugs are everywhere, and most of them are harmless, and if you rly start to enjoy seeing them all you need for a serotonin boost is to walk outside. Look at all the little guys just doing their thing… really observe them and start to recognize them.

I’m 26 and I’ve just seen a real bumblebee - not a carpenter bee - for the first time and I cannot even describe how happy I am. I ran out to get a closer look at this flying puffball like a kid running to the icecream truck. There’s a tiny jumping spider living in one of our roses right now, so tiny it could fit on the head of a pin. The oak worm caterpillars are everywhere right now, just like they were last year at this same time. I leave water out for the wasps and fish them out of our fountains before they drown, they don’t sting me when I use my hands. As a kid didn’t flinch when a honey bee landed on my hand, and I got to share the sugary syrup of my snow cone with her. She was so soft and sweet. Cicadas are starting to sing all night. The world is so beautiful and full of life if you just look in the little places. I love you

[naomiknight-17]

Had to call my brother Duck over to help me set up my desk before classes started earlier

And we found a huuuuuge dead spider under the desk.

Duck was like "Are you sure it's a real spider? Maybe it's from a Lego set? It's too big to be real"

But he swept it into a dust pan and held it up so we could both get a good look and. Yeah. Real huge dead spider

I wasn't sure if I should have been terrified or impressed

[itsumikorokotoyomonoko]

terrified of actual bugs. actually no i prefer the phrase "giving them a healthy amount of respect" but still. I wish i could work up the guts to pet them. they deserve pets. if you can, pet your bugs/insects/arachnids/things i'm too much of a coward to pet. give em love.

glimpse into my beautiful imaginary world where arthropods are really big and we domesticated them

edit: people are starting to say some "my worst nightmare" or "eeeww no that one is yucky and scary" comments on this like they do on any bug post and id like to say. it's fine if you don't like bugs it's fine if you're scared of bugs but don't put that on MY post clearly talking about how much i like them and how cute i think they are. you can make your own damn post about how much you hate wasps or spiders or whatever. i'm blocking people who make these kinds of comments.

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Daddy

Debut: Daddy Long Legs

Yeah, I'm going to be saying "Daddy" a lot in this post. Sorry. I don't like him in that way! It's ok if you do, though. He's a very charming fellow!

Perhaps you remember Daddy Long Legs (game), from like 2014! I suddenly remembered it. And I smiled. It is silly! If you don't know, it is an extremely simple mobile game where the goal is to control Daddy's legs carefully, tapping to move each leg at a time. Like QWOP! Remember QWOP? Daddy Long Legs is simpler, but 100% more Creaturetastic!

So. Let's discuss the Creature of it all. Daddy himself! A sort of fuzzy cube, with two very long, sort of fuzzy legs. The description of the game confirms that he is indeed a two-legged spider! And various costume descriptions give us some more delightful insight. For example, he is covered in Wool, specifically. On that note, he likes to sneak around while dressed as a sheep. Would you be fooled if you saw a farm animal slinking around on two legs? You'd probably think "That's Just Chicken". Daddy also has no teeth and can only intake liquid food, just like a real spider! But in his case, this is exclusively yogurt. #DairyDaddy

I think it's great when such a simple game finds a way to add in character and even lore! None of this was necessary at all, and the silly costumes would speak for themselves, but we are instead given the privilege of learning what an endearing, yet pathetic guy Daddy is!

Have you fallen for him yet? He sure has fallen for you! Oh wait, he just fell independently of your presence. But I'm sure it'll be for you someday. Chin up, champ!

As long as I am talking about daddy longlegs, I would love to mention what a wacky name it is. Maybe the name was first given by a baby one to its father. Maybe it even had two dads, and one of them had longer legs than the other, so that was his name! Daddy Longlegs. Gay Bugs Lore! But the real wackiness is that it refers to THREE different arthropods: there are the harvestmen, which to me are the "true" daddy longlegses. Basically an orb with long legs. More leg than daddy, those guys! And not actually spiders! Cellar spiders, though, ARE true spiders, and also get referred to with the funny name. They're living in your basement, right now! Daddies in your area! Lastly, silliest of all is that CRANE FLIES get the daddy longlegs treatment too. I guess I can see it from looking at them, but it's funny seeing them with these two spindly arachnids! At least it's better than people thinking they're big mosquitoes.

Final Fun Fact! Harvestmen, unlike spiders, CAN chew and swallow solid food. I learned this by seeing some eating a discarded apple chunk along with some isopods! A decomposition party!

[studentinpursuitofclouds]

howdy!! hope ya don't mind but for vanilla and sve bachelors, got any hcs for a farmer with a massive interest for entomology and generally all things creepy-crawly (so this includes worms, slugs and snails, arachnids, etc)? To where they tend to excitedly catch any little critter they can find to passionately tell their spouse a whole novel's worth of information of what they're holding, down to the taxonomy? ...Even if they happily explain that what they're currently holding in their bare hands is dangerous, and that bites and stings can be extremely painful, cause permanent damage, or even be deadly. - 🐇

Good to see you again, bunny anon ❤️ Thank you for the question, hope you and others enjoy some headcanons 😊 🫶

SDV and SVE bachelors react to Farmer who are into entomology, herpetology and other creepy creatures:

SDV bachelors:

Sam:

Ewww! But also wow!

Sam didn't understand a lot of the complicated terms and names that Farmer started showering the young musician with when telling him about the bug species, but Sam was still curious!

Man, it's so ugly and so cool at the same time!

(Is Sam allowed to touch it? Or at least take a picture of it?)

Although he will be a little worried when he finds out that a particular bug is poisonous. Sam will ask his lover not to hold this thing with their bare hands.

Scary, but it's still pretty cool!

Shane:

*deep breath* "Are you out of your fucking mind?"

Ok, that was rude of him, Shane didn't mean to insult his spouse in any way. But the fact that Farmer was holding a black snake with such a naive smile, saying it was deadly poisonous...

"You can tell about those creeping vipers without holding that fucking black snake in your hands!"

Well, he has no aversion to the rest of the creatures, especially the Farmer is so detailed and interesting about the same snails and worms.

They're even kind of cute.

But, for Yoba's sake, not deadly dangerous creatures!

Harvey:

When the Farmer told Harvey they wanted to show him a "cool snake they found," the doctor expected a harmless one. But not, by golly, a giant python!

And the fact that Farmer is holding the huge predator calmly in their hands as if they weren't talking about a dangerous creature, but a little puppy.

Despite the horror, Harvey is very admiring of Farmer's knowledge of herpetology.

But don't even ask Harvey to hold the snake in his hands. No thanks, he's not crazy.

Constantly worried about Farmer's health, because they already have a couple snake bites on their bodies.

Alex:

For all his love for Farmer, Alex would be a little skeptical of their hobby.

"Hon, are you sure it's okay to touch that? I don't think it's even safe to look at."

He suppressed the overwhelming urge to knock the creepy insect out of Farmer's hand, figuring he'd make it worse that way.

Didn't understand anything the Farmer was telling him, but it was still pretty interesting!

(As long as he doesn't hear the words "deadly", he's cool with his spouse's little weird hobby).

Sebastian:

In Sebastian's eyes, Farmer is the coolest person on the planet.

He is bothered by the fact that Farmer can hold very biting (and sometimes poisonous) spiders, but thinks their spouse knows what they are doing.

He loves to listen to Farmer for hours when they pick up a random worm or spider and start talking about these creatures in detail.

At times he will pick up a found crawling creature himself and ask the Farmer what it's called.

"Cool" - the most frequent word Farmer will hear from his spouse when they tells another story.

Elliott:

It took Elliott a lot of effort not to shriek in terror or faint.

He and his dear spouse walked through the woods and chatted about the weather until Farmer found a nest of live snakes. A whole nest with a dozen of the crawling critters, and the first thing Elliott's love of his live decided to do was to take the ball of snakes in their hands.

Unfortunately, the writer was too absorbed in his inner screaming to hear Farmer's interesting account of this species of snakes.

For Yoba's sake, tell him that the snakes in the Farmer's hands are not poisonous...

SVE bachelors:

Lance:

Lance is also an explorer of sorts, and although it's mostly about monsters, he's very interested in learning something new about the local fauna from his love.

That, however, does not prevent the adventurer from scolding his beloved Farmer for such a careless attitude to their own safety and health.

Lance will load the Farmer with vials of antidotes for poisonous snake and tarantula bites.

Maybe even cast a protective spell. And don't let the Farmer complain or grumble about it - Lance has every reason to worry about them.

He'll still be amazed at Farmer's deep knowledge.

Victor:

*Worried husband mode activated*

Victor is as amazed by the Farmer's intimate knowledge and their bravery as he is horrified by their utterly calm attitude towards the poisonous bug they have in their hands.

Wouldn't the Farmer rather put that bug back where they found it? So that, you know, Victor would stop worrying about the health of his precious spouse?

Still amazed at how accurately Farmer tells him about the classification of various reptiles and insects. Even his books don't go into that much detail, wow!

("Just don't get all the bugs and spiders in your bare hands again, please. Especially dangerous ones, okay, dear?")

Magnus Rasmodius:

"No. Not that. No, no, and no. NO."

Magnus uses magic to instantly teleport the bug that was in his lover's hands as far away as possible into the forest where the Farmer got the dangerous critter from.

A heavy scolding in three... two... one...

Magnus understands their passion, but they can also talk about this interesting fauna without putting his and their lives in danger.

He happens to have a book in his library describing the same snails, worms, beetles, and snakes. Only these creatures have magical properties.

Magnus will give them the book because of their fascination with the subject. But on the condition that his spouse will be a goody-goody and not look for trouble. Deal?

[imthepunchlord]

I apologize I’m a little confused: I’ve seen Miraculous, Calamitous, and Prodigious mentioned in your Bugettes AU; which is which again? I thought that it was that only the bug ones from canon exist in this world with a few added on or changed to be bugs making 9 total (spider and scorpion are the villain ones), but am I misunderstanding the layout?

It's OK! I'll clarify here.

For Bugettes au:

Miraculous are tied to the bugs and are benevolent. There are a total of 7, mainly working off the 7 colors of the rainbow.

Calamitous are tied to arachnids and are malevolent. There are only 2 (Spider and Scorpion) and work off the two main monochrome: black and white.

Both are mainly tied to Europe, and the beings tied to them are fairies.

For this au, if they do appear, the Prodigious are what kwamis are tied to, and originate from China. There are 15, the Chinese Zodiac (with Turtle in place of Dragon), and the big 3 who monitor it, Fox and Peafowl to represent yin-yang instead, and Cat to represent wuji (absence of yin-yang, the void/emptiness).

This has them set up to be more neutral in their use, and to work off their big number, as by definition, Prodigious means:

I will say, they're not going to be the priority, I can't promise if they'll appear, it's a maybe. But the Prodigious are just working off the non bug kwamis and how they exist if they do appear.

I hope that clears it up. Sorry for the confusion.

[buggybuggs]

Hi I was sitting around gawking at my wallpaper and wanted to share it again since i have uhh 300 more followers now

(please don't make fun of me for using large icons)

also because i use firefox instead of opera now

Made myself a tile wallpaper of 2 kinds of my favorite arachnid, the Whip Scorpion!! The Tailed and Tailless variety :) Free to use if you want it!!

ID/ A drawing of a blue whip scorpion and a red tailless whip scorpion against an orange background that's littered with yellow dots and red jigsaw lines. The two bugs are drawn in a simple style and are outlined with a pale yellow. The blue whip scorpion sits in the center facing upwards while quarters of the tailless whip scorpion sit at the corners of the drawing, facing downwards. /END ID

ID/ A screenshot of a windows desktop showing the tiled wallpaper described before being properly used. The two whip scorpions are repeated across the screen in an alternating pattern, with the red jigsaw lines sitting between each whip scorpion. /END ID

i love these two buggies so much <3 i want to hold them!!!!!

[kabutoden]

re: crab larva

baby horseshoe crabs being shaped like tiny adults absolutely checks out because they're way more closely related to arachnids than actual crabs or any other crustaceans. so they're basically like baby spiders and baby scorpions who also don't have larval forms and just look like tiny adults. I <3 TAXONOMY I <3 ARTHROPODS

OK THIS IS SO DELIGHTFUL. thank you for sharing with me i love you taxonomy i love you arthopods.... took this oppurtunity to look at some bb scorpions too and oh my GOD. you are so fat. so delightful. such a tiny tail and wide body...,,,, EEEEE. oh bugs

apparently they call baby scorpions SCORPLINGS??? ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......... BWAHHHH

[mara-and-its-the-same]

There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort 🌷: maybe a study session turned cuddle with tasm peter parker?

I don't know if you were expecting science but I just cannot. So r has a test on Othello and yeah, it's cute, I like it. thank you for requesting <3 I had fun writing it

WC: 910 (yay my first blurb under 1000 words, improvement)

The very second you sat back down at your desk, half convinced you’re focused enough from another session of pacing around your room, the buzzer went off. You’d almost be annoyed but you didn’t have the time with the half second it took you to realize it had to be Peter. Any other day you’d run over to the door, but today the exhaustion was getting to you. Settling for a rushed walk instead, you leaned down to speak into the little microphone. “Come on up, bugboy.”

“Actually,” you nearly screamed at the voice from outside your half open window. You had your hand over your heart and your back leaning on the wall while Peter watched, hanging upside down with that stupidly adorable smile. “Spiders are arachnids, not bugs.” He lowered himself to the floor and pulled the web down from your fire escape and you practically ran to open the window the rest of the way. You didn’t give him the chance to duck under the window on his own with the way you pulled him down with a hand to the back of his neck. He had to hold himself up with one hand on the sill and the other on the wrist of your hand in his hair. The kiss itself was much gentler than the way you wrapped him into it, but he was alright with that, though with how much he missed you he wouldn’t have minded more. “I haven’t seen you all day.”

“I know, it’s been too long.”

“Mhm, 12 whole hours, basically eternity.”

“If I remember correctly, it’s been 13.”

“Probably right,” he nudged you back a bit so he could climb in and shut the window without turning from you. “And how many of those did you sleep?”

“Hm,” you clicked your tongue while thinking of the best answer that wouldn’t get you sent to bed immediately, but decided the truth was enough. “Um, 5?” Wrong answer, you could see it on his face. “And a half, 5 and a half.”

“And what were you doing all the other 7.5?”

“I don’t know what it is about this essay but I can’t get it right.” You dropped your face into his shoulder and he tried scratching at the back of your neck in an attempt to comfort you.

“For your lit class? When’s it due?”

“That’s the thing,” you rested your chin on his chest and looked up at him with pleading eyes, not really knowing what you were asking for. “I’m just writing it as a practice for my exam, it’s in two days and if I can’t answer the essay question, what’s the point?”

“She gave you the essay question?”

“Yeah. Well, it’s just to analyze a scene and talk about what it means and blah blah blah whatever,” you talked while he pulled you into your room. “But I can’t focus and it’s like my eyeballs want me to fail.”

You stood behind him while he looked over your desk of loose index cards, open binders and notebooks with margins overrun with scribbles, and of course the half written essay on your laptop.

“You wanna sit down and I’ll quiz you on it? So you don’t have to strain your eyes anymore?” He started picking up the notecards before you even answered, just to organize for you if nothing else. You listened and sat on your bed with your back against the wall. 

“Yeah, that’s ok.”

“Good, ok, yeah. These ones?” He held up the colorful neon flash cards. 

“Mhm, Othello.”

Peter hasn’t even thought of Shakespeare since Macbeth senior year. Too wrapped up in more scientific studies and uh, spiderman-ing. But he’d do it for you. 

Three-quarters of the way through the set he could see your breath evening out and your eyes fluttering. 

“Here, lay down,” he guided you forward by the shoulder. 

“Hm?” 

“I’ll read to you.” He slid in behind you on the bed and pulled the blankets over both of you. 

“You don’t have your glasses.”

“I’ll manage,” he reached over to grab the book off the table then relaxed back down to pull you to his chest. 

“You’ll strain your eyes.” As if he didn’t arrive by swinging from building to building, that’s the danger you were worried about. 

“I’ll manage.” 

Your head was on his chest and he read over your shoulder. 

“Start here,” you pointed to the section your essay was focused on, half way through a passage. 

“She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, in faith, ‘twas strange, 'twas passing strange, 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful: She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man: she thank'd me, And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story. And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake: She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I loved her that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I have used: Here comes the lady; let her witness it.”

He looked down at you to find you sleeping, happy that you finally found a moment’s rest. He kissed your forehead, wherever he could reach. “I love you.” He wasn’t even sure you could hear, but he needed you to know anyway. 

“I love you,” you mumbled into his chest.

[t0talbra1nd3ath]

Facts about Efren? 🙏 (I’m fixating on him at a concerning rate rn)

IVE BEEN WITING FOR THIS QUESTIONNN

Efren Lore + Fun Facts

(May contain some mild spoilers)

I think out of all of the DBM characters Efren has the most mild lore.

He's Filipino, but he was born and grew up in USA. His full name is Danilo Efren Dagohoy (yes he goes by his middle name). He doesn't really know any language other than English, though his parents did try to teach him Tagalog and he did take Spanish in high school.

His family is overall very average: middle class, suburban white picket fence house, church on Sundays, etc. He has 4 siblings - one older brother, and three younger siblings - two sister and a toddler brother.

Despite the pretty average upbringing he was always the black sheep of the family. He was always the biggest out of the five siblings, being born the weight of 8 pounds and 11 ounces. He was a chubby kid, though during puberty he started to grow really tall and with a bit of regular exercise he developed an impressive muscle mass.

He was always freakishly strong and completely unaware of it. In kindergarten and primary school he would get in trouble for accidentally hurting other kids and breaking toys. This self control issue really came to a boiling point when he accidentally killed the neighbours cat while playing with it. After that incident most of the kids his age in the area weren't allowed to talk to him. In middle school he became more of a loner and that stays true even to this day.

He still lives in a suburban-ish area. There aren't any houses near by but there is a road that joggers frequent near by.

Efren works from home as a cyber security guy for a whole array of websites ranging from sketchy to full on illegal. On top of being naturally strong he also has a talent for IT. In high school he would make simple viruses and hack into random websites for shits and giggles. That is actually how he got his job - he broke into one of those sketchy websites and after being tracked down on suspicions of being a fed he was offered to either work for them or perish (lol).

Efren has a very skewed sense of empathy. He doesn't feel much for people, you could confess your undying love to him or shoot yourself in the head in front of him and he wouldn't care either way. On the other hand he has insane levels of empathy towards animals, even the "gross ones" like bugs, snakes, arachnids, etc. He gets genuinely mad if someone kills a spider.

Other than a skewed sense of empathy Efren also has a very odd aggression response. His emotional response to being mad never results in impulsive physical or verbal aggression (yes ik in-game it's not really shown, I'll have to rewrite a few sections). But what does illicit impulsive physical aggression in Efren is something cute. That is the primary reason he won't get an actual pet cat, even though he desperately wants one, he is terrified of hurting it.

Ok now for a rapid-fire-round-up of small fun facts:

Efren hates beer! His favourite alcoholic drinks are a vodka-redbull and a banana daiquiri.

Efren is a massive nerd, he grew up spending all his free time playing video games and nowadays since his schedule is pretty lax he spends a large amount of his time watching anime and playing FPS shooters.

Efren has a two pet tarantulas named Tarantino and Tammy (they are both female).

Ok this turned out much longer than expected, sorry for the info dump Q_Q

Let me know if any on y'all are interested in lore on Isra and Hawk!! (I'm holding off on Orion lore since it would be a major spoiler for the full game)

[finniestoncrane]

uhh the riddlers reactions/opinion on their s/o having a pet rat? Or just an uncommon pet

Uncommon Pet

Riddler Headcanons ok anon i think overall the riddlers would LOVE an uncommon pet that they can spill facts about, so when i was writing this... they all kinda felt the same way! and i didn't want to write nothing, so i thought ok which weird pet would they each prefer? and so i gave all the riddlers uncommon pets instead i hope that's ok! request info • prompt list • send me a request • kofi • masterlist minors DNI!! 🔞 cw: fluff, snakes, spiders, birds, rodents, uh fish?

zero year

he needed a pet that made potential partners go "ooooh" or "eeeeh" or "aaaaaaah"

just something that made them think he was different

dangerous and cool maybe?

and also represented his obsession with phallic symbols

so he is 100% a snake boy

and he will ask if you want to see or stroke his snake and then make horrible suggestive puns afterwards

but he's actually a complete sweetie with his little serpent baby(s)

calls himself their daddy, makes weird comments about how they're just like him when he feeds them mice (like it's obvious he's making some comment about predator and prey but it's weird)

he's not a fan of using them as a prop, so he won't be seen out with them around his neck and using them as a symbol of fear

just in case they get hurt or stressed

gotham

oh ok he is absolutely a bug boy for sure

insects have always been his jam, they are his childhood hyperfixation

man was in love (me too ed) with grissom from csi and wanted to be an entemologist at one point

he got bullied a lot for his love of insects at school, but he found comfort in them

the lesser creatures that were killed without thought

he's owned a variety of different bugs over the years

never any arachnids (too scary)

his favourites were his orchid mantis, his hermit crab, and the butterflies he helped to coccoon one year

right now he's super into snails

he has two giant african snails that he loves with all of his little soul called dill and pickle because of their slight and unusual greenish hue, which is why he chose them duh

arkham

i think i got this exactly right, because he could have had rats, he could have any number of the night time trash animals actually

but he wouldn't have a pet intentionally

it would have to be something that kind of existed in the same space as him, that he vaguely related to

that he caught doing it's thing one night and it just resonated him as their little eyes caught one another and they slowly went back to their own sneaky business

and that's how he ended up becoming the reluctant but semi-caring not-really-an-owner of imp, the possum

he doesn't live indoors with eddie, and he comes and goes as he pleases

but he frequents the dumpster right outside the entrance to the water company

and eddie feeds him leftover scraps and sometimes buys him enrichment toys from pet shops if he's feeling particularly soft

imp probably has some kind of disease, so eddie has never petted him, but he secretly wants to (he could keep his gloves on!)

but it's fine, he sees him more of a colleague anyway, one that is comparatively intellectually equal given how many times he broke into the dumpster

telltale

you know what, i didn't think he would be into pets

and then i looked into his eyes and though

spider boy

something creepy, that is misunderstood but so valuable to society, there's a lesson in there for people to learn about him

slender, poised, quick and strong but nimble

he has a definite preference for the more dangerous species

anything poisonous or completely deadly is something he would be keen to add to his 'collection' at some point

he's spent a lot of time learning how to handle them carefully and respectfully and sees them as little works of art more than pets

and he won't let anyone else touch them or handle them, because no one can be trusted with them

so there's an element of feeling towards them there, definite admiration of his little beasties

unburied

he went into a pet shop and said "what's the spiciest, littlest thing i can get that is also cute"

and he walked out with four terrapins and everything he'd need to give them the best little domestic life possible

they're weird but cute, and so small, but they bite

and he looks at them all the time with adoring eyes like

"they're just like me u-u"

plus he likes how many facts come with terrapins, and that cute thing they do when they stack themselves on top of each other

plus they are absolute catnip for partners

those terrapins have got his dick sucked more than he imagines a puppy would have

hot people like cute sea creatures, who would have thunk it?

but aside from them being a magnet for potential partners, they are also his pride and joy

twojar

ok so he wwanted a tiger, he thought that would be cool as fuck

strong red head just like him? perfect!

but the idea of catwoman on his ass about it put him off

plus having to tame a wild beast? he'd hate for someone to do that to him *wink wink omg shut up eddie*

then he wanted a komodo dragon, cos dragon >:)

but he settled on a monitor lizard, one that had been rescued from some terrible place that had no idea how to care for them properly

and now it lives like a spoiled poodle

it has it's own bed and free range rule of his office

and he swears that it responds to it's name and kisses him on command, which is debatable but god help you if you say anything

he also denies letting it sleep in his bed with him but... yeah

dano

duh, rats, but i think we all knew that

i think it fits him well though

they're misunderstood, they have blame placed on them for things they didn't do (looking at you black plague)

they're the villains of every city, more so than the other pests

but they're geniuses, so clever, capable of intense emotions and acute reasoning

but to look at them, people are either scared or don't think twice

and that's how eddie has lived his life

so taking comfort in knowing that he's there with them, the other outcasts

two lonely creatures sharing in each others space, and their intelligence, and their sadness, and their inevitable entrapment

it's very on-brand for him

btaa

no campy little crime artist would be a true villain if not for his stereotypical dangerous pet

and he really did his research, trying to think about what would be the coolest to have

and which ones weren't already in use by other villains

because god forbid he look like some copycat hack

which is how he ended up with his dramatic fish tank filled with his precious pirahnas

they're an exccellent threat, they're a wonderful water feature

and he genuinely has a lot of feelings towards them

plus the looming threat of having to clean their tank out keeps miss tuesday in line... kind of

also, he's found that people really like the way he rolls his "r" on pirrrrhana

plus he likes how his desk looks in front of it, the lighting really brings out his skin tone and how bright his eyes are

young justice

his desire for companionship and someone to chit chat with

something to stave off the loneliness, to satisfy the need for friendship

and more importantly, that won't leave him or abandon him any time soon

so, while it's not super unique, it is kind of uncommon

that he has a precious little african gray parrot waiting for him at home when he's been beaten up by children

or hogtied by children

or imprisoned by children

or mocked by children

there's someone waiting for him who depends on him

and he doesn't love anything more than his little bird friend

[secrets-of-everwich]

010-4 The Lost Episode

[Click]

[Electronic hum underlies recording]

{Voice}

[Very glitchy]

Tape from- 11th Oct-ber 2-1.

[This recording sounds like it’s being played through a speaker, it keeps glitching out]

{Callie}

Listener, if you’re scared of spiders, I’d advise not listening from this point onwards. If you are tuning out, I thank you very much for listening to this Secret of Everwich, and I don’t blame you for choosing to keep this secret hidden.

{Ash}

I wish I was able to stop listening-

{Rin}

Shut up, and let them speak!

{Callie}

The drawing depicts a small spider, to scale. This is apparently drawn by ‘Anna’, no last name provided. The spider has a green abdomen, with the rest of its body black. It doesn’t have a web producer, instead it has very small, and sharp pincers.

There’s an accompanying bit of information:

‘A parasite. We are dubbing it ‘Cimex Toxissimus’, after the Latin for ‘bug’ and ‘very toxic’. I do not think this is proper Latin, but neither Jill, nor Anna mind.

‘Starting from the head. Its sharp pincers are used to inject a toxin into the host’s nervous system, causing it to move the desired muscles for the parasite’s needs. From what we’ve seen, it lives on the host’s neck, just under the hairline.

‘We don’t know much else about them, other than it takes about a month for an arachnid to be in full control of the host. After the month, it seems to be hard for the host to recover their motor functions if they are saved.

‘I’m sorry to say this happened to Jill and Harvey. What is more, the fabled Everwich Ghost is real, and seems to target those who have links to the Cimex Toxissimus, as it successfully murdered Harvey, and nearly managed to get Jill too, had I not ran over to where she was after finding out about Harvey.’

{Rin}

I can’t believe that thing was on Em.

{Callie}

Do you two wanna tell me, and the record, what happened when you got to Em’s house?

{Rin}

Yeah.

[A pause]

Ash?

{Ash}

Hm? What? I zoned out because that was a lot of info about something I really hate.

{Callie}

Do you want to tell me and the record about what happened when you got to Em’s house?

{Ash}

Yes! Rin can start, though.

{Rin}

So, I’d been to see you, obviously, and I dunno. Something clicked in my brain. I knew something was up, I could feel it. You thought something was wrong too, so I needed to go and help her. I called up X and Ash on the way-

{Ash}

Yeah, she called us both up, saying ‘Hi, no time to talk, come and meet me at Em’s, it’s urgent’ and then hung up which got both me and X very very worried and so I cycled to Em’s house, and X ran over, you know he was really out of breath and annoyed that this hadn’t happened in 2 months’ time when he’d have been able to drive over-

{Rin} Anyway. We got outside Em’s house, and I banged on the door, and Aiden answered. He let us in, and we went upstairs. By then, I was starting to doubt myself. If I was wrong, I’d just barged into her room, pulled X and Ash away from whatever they’d been doing.

But, I saw it. Very briefly. Sitting there on her neck. She whipped around when we walked in, but I’m sure I saw it. So I showed the other three the book, and-

{Ash}

I’ve never seen Em shoot down an idea so quickly! It was weird.

{Rin}

So I told her simply to prove it. Normally she’d have thought it a bit odd, but gone along with it, but she was absolutely resolute.

{Ash}

Anyway long story short she was being possessed by that thing, and we got it off her and it was a big struggle but she’s okay now and it was lucky Aiden was yelling with his mum so nobody could hear Em’s shouts and then she had to go eat food so we all left because X really had to go to work or he’d get in trouble and we made sure that the thingy was trapped in a test tube!

{Rin}

Em wanted to do some experiments on it.

{Ash}

Oh yeah then there was that weird crash outside Em’s window but X said there wasn’t anything there so it’s ok.

{Rin}

Probably a fox.

{Callie}

Let’s hope it wasn’t the Everwich Ghost!

{Rin}

Don’t joke about that.

[A pause]

{Callie}

Well, that’s probably as much information as you’re gonna get today, so I thank you so much for listening to this Secret of Everwich if you stayed.

{Rin} Bye.

{Ash}

Byeeee!

[Click]

[vyva-melinkolya]

do u have a favorite arachnid?

 OK so, this might be disappointing but, all of my favorite arachnids are spiders. True scorpions I don’t know enough about, and everything else (whip, scorpions, camel spiders, harvestmen etc) freak me out. When I was a little kid, I loved all sorts of bugs, I don’t know what’s happened to me, but, spiders are kind of the only one I can do now.

As far as spiders go, I love the following

Dolomedes fishing spiders

Wolf spiders

“New World” tarantulas (brachypelma, aphonopelma, grammastola, avicularia etc)

Garden Orbweavers (honestly any Orbweaver, shocker)

Grass Spiders (if you live in America and you’ve seen a sheet type web with a funnel, it’s one of these)

Recluse spiders (idc they’re so very pretty)

Latrodectus species (widows/ red back spiders)

Bolas Spider (they swing a ball of web like a lasso to catch prey)

Huntsmen spiders

Indian Ornamental Tarantulas

Velvet spiders (much cuter than jumping spiders in my opinion)

Southern House Spider (so very pretty in a understated way, I’ve only ever seen one and it was a dead one at Hayden ‘s old house)

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

@intertexts MORE ASSORTED TAYLOR BUG THOUGHTS BC IM SO LOCKED INTO THIS BRAINSPACE RN

ok ok ok. disclaimer i do not know how the power system in worm works yet. so this may all be rendered useless in. however many chapters it takes for me to get there. BUT. there are 2 options in my mind for how to define taylors powers and they are LOGIC and PERCEPTION. basically the way i see this going. until i learn more. taylors powers hinge for me at least on the definition of bug

im gonna talk about perception first bc i have more to say about logic. perception hinges on the definition of bug being the colloquial term and not the scientific term. taylor can control anything that people who arent in the field would look at and go "oh ew a bug" so that includes. worms! spiders! centipedes! isopods! stuff that is NOT insects and not even necessarily arthropods but look/behave similar . this allows for a LOT of leeway with fucking with the rules which i think would be SUPER fun !!!!! however i cannot escape my biology brain so

LOGIC !!!! this is the. assumption that her powers/powers in general follow some sort of scientific rules. i say scientific loosely bc this is ultimately a superhero setting which by definition is not logical BUT i like 2 think about it anyway. i said this before but my first assumption with the word bug would automatically be INSECTS, but we already know that shes not just limited to insects because of the spiders! so the next classification up the taxonomy chart that includes both arachnids and insects would be. arthropods. so maybe taylors powers are scientifically "she can control arthropods" WHCIH OPENS UP. A WHOLE NEW DOOR OF POSSIBILITIES THAT I AM SO INTO. if i dropped taylor into the ocean could she control shrimp and lobsters. what about horseshoe crabs. if i give her a giant isopod could she tell it what to do. i dont think we've seen her do anything with centipedes yet so can she actually control centipedes?!?!? (they are neither arachnids or insects they are their own separate thing)

SO MANY POSSIBILITIES. i mainly made this post to ask whether Taylor could control an army of crabs

[gurokichi]

Bon guess whose birthday is going to be tomorrow and won't even be able to celebrate it :D

Yeah tomorrow is my birthday, and I wouldn't celebrate it because right tomorrow I have to go on a school trip (which in fact I was originally going to have an exposition (I don't know if I write right) tomorrow, but the date of the exposition and the trip changed, so now tomorrow will be the trip and the exposition I think it going to be the next week).

But it's not like I'm upset or anything, in contrary I'm very glad that anyone would celebrate my birthday, because for me, my birthday isn't important, for me celebrating my birthday is such a waste of time and money, and I like to see my birthday just like another boring day and not like my "special" day.

But leaving that aside, I don't want to go to school today, I really don't want to, but I have to, and I hate it.

But, I think it's ok, it's not like something so bad is going to happen at school XD (I'm very scared of the words that I just said, because I know that when someone says that, something really bad happens ;-;).

Ah and yet used to me to put "xd" in the end of a sentence, because when I trust someone, whenever I write to them I will put “XD” at the end of a sentence (I don't know why I do it, but it's something I like to do).

And btw.... ERIS I JUST NOTICED THAT YOU FOLLOW ME YESTERDAY, THANKS YOU! :D, I'M VERY HONORED I PROMISE!!!.

Sorry I got excited, it's just I wasn't expecting that, it really took me by surprise, a happy surprise I can say.

So now you were watching KNY when I send you the ask?, wow perfect timing xd.

And yeah I know that already, and I suppose that you was playing dumb with me, but not anymore I thought, so you know at least something about the character of my profile pic, I didn't know that one of your watch amphibia, in my case, none of my friends watched it, well, one of them do but, she didn't finished ;-;.

And talking about her, she answered me this morning :D (she have sleep problems too, so we were talking from 4 to 5 am today, yeah, we need to sleep better we know that) I can live again, I'm so happy that she doesn't seem mad at me, I would die if she was really mad at me, I just love her so much, that I couldn't help it but being so scared, I don't told her that though,she didn't even know that I'm telling you this, but she knows about you bon, I told her that I have a friend on tumblr (however I don't know if you consider me as your friend),and she's happy about that, she's happy that I finally have a friend after what happened to that "friend" (you know what friend I'm talking to).

She knows that my birthday is tomorrow, and told me to have a "good time" tomorrow I know she's trying to cheer me up, but I'm just not excited about tomorrow's trip.

RIGHT? some bugs are just disgusting to me, specially.... Spiders "but unnamed anon spiders are not bu-" I don't fucking care if they are arachnids and not bugs, i'm calling them the way I fucking want.

My father told me that we were going to clean my room on Saturday (because seriously my room is made of shit, with cobwebs, dust, and possibly cockroaches, in short, basically my room is a reflection of myself xD), so, my room isn't going to be shitty anymore :D.

You're welcome, I know that sometimes I said things that nobody but me would understand, so it's ok to me to explain what I was referring to (however sometimes it is annoying, but like I said it's just sometimes, not all the time).

I think it's all for now, goodbye bon! :D (I have school today so, maybe I wouldn't answer you, but if you answer me "sooner" then I'm going to try to answer you back! I promise!).

- Unnamed anon :p

Late to this ask and already sent you something about your birthday in DMs, so I am going 2 mostly skip over those parts… however, before I do, forgive me for pushing here, but your birthday isn’t a waste of time or money. People want to celebrate it because they love you. I do understand that feeling, though, and I hope that your birthday today goes how you’d like it to, whether you celebrate or not!

I’m sorry to hear that you don’t like school. I was the same way when I used to actually attend school. School sucks, but it’ll be okay, and when you get home, you can do the things that you like!

Aw, you’re adorable with the xd thing and the excitement towards Eris following you ����😭

I was! I’m planning to watch some more later today. I really like it so far, but I’m also only a couple episodes in.

I’m glad to hear that you and your friend are talking again! Have you two sorted things out?

Spiders are the worst. Also, it’s just easier to call them bugs!! I’m excited for you that your room’s getting cleaned; it sounds like it wasn’t in too good of a state before. Eugh, I hate cockroaches. Had several in my house recently… actual jumpscare looking up on the ceiling and seeing one above my bed.

How’ve you been? Done anything interesting in the time it took me to write a response?

Alrighty, I’ll be eagerly awaiting your reply! Bye bye! (^^)/