#bug lore :)

[stevie-petey]

can we get a blurb from dustin’s pov after they leave steve and robin? like when they’re crawling through the vents and bug is j overthinking i’d love to see this from dustin’s pov!!

of course !!

enjoy <3

"are you okay?"

"'m fine," your voice comes out weak, weaker than you had meant for it to, and dustin knows that youre lying.

hes watched you ever since he forced your body into the vents. again his eyes fall to your white knuckles, the shaking in your shoulders, the lost look in your eyes.

its as if all the life has drained out of you, and it terrifies dustin to see.

hes known for a while that you love steve. the moment you called him for help last november, dustin had known that there was something going on between the two of you. though it had surprised him, disgusted him, even, watching the way the two of you danced around each other eased something within dustin.

when your father left, he took all the light with him. the music, the soft humming of july, the honey and sweet tea. dustin was too young to really miss it, the memories more like a hazy dream, but you remembered everything.

after the move to hawkins, you became someone dustin was afraid of. he would never tell you this, but for a while he was scared he would never get the old you back. the sister who played with his hair when he was tired, who raced with him on their bikes and always let him win. dustin feared that he had lost both his father and sister during the divorce.

but then, over time, you came back to yourself.

meeting jonathan served as the catalyst. befriending someone who understood your pain, someone so similar to you, scars to match. soon your light came back, in pieces, then all at once. a month into settling into hawkins, dustin had heard your laughter from the kitchen for the very first time in months, and he knew then that he had his sister back.

then steve somehow came into your lives. dustin still isnt really sure how, but he did. one day it was just you and dustin, and then suddenly there was steve, and it was the missing puzzle piece neither of you realized you were missing.

steve, who set a spark in you every time he looked at you. who made you quick to anger and to melting. who was wrapped so tightly around your finger that dustin almost pitied him. though really he knows that youd do whatever steve asked you to, as well.

seeing the two of you together had eased an uncertainty within dustin that he hadnt known had been there.

he liked jonathan, viewed him as a brother, but when nancy came along, the old fear of losing you came crawling back. that november, you were drifting away from everyone. dustin had sensed it, but he held out hope that jonathan could pull you in again.

only he couldnt. not this time. and dustin was terrified once again.

until steves concerned eyes fell on you when he pulled up to the wheelers. until your exhausted body gravitated towards his. dustin knew, then, that you were now tethered to someone else.

and now steve is gone. locked in some prison with men who want to hurt him.

his sisters tether, the one she loves, the one who dustin has come to view as his own brother as well, is gone.

[chickenchirps27]

DIGITAL COLORING FINALLY CLICKED TO ME HOLY SHIT

Also Magical Girl Bug ☆ 🐛 ☆

[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....

[get-back-homeward]

Stage Play: My Old Friend

i've been here more than 2 years now and gone deep into the tags a decade back. but i've never seen anything about Two of Us 2.0: My Old Friend, a stage play by Stephen Larsen imagining a final meeting with John and Paul on November 5, 1980.

here's the summary:

The play begins on November 5, 1980. John Lennon, alone in his apartment at the Dakota in New York City, is at a crossroads. He has been having recurring dreams of death and is ready to make big changes in his life, that is if he can summon up the courage. Just then, who should appear, unannounced at his door but Paul McCartney.  The two haven't seen each other for about four years.  John is both glad and a bit wary at the sudden appearance of his old friend.  Can they mend fences? Can they come together? Or they forever doomed to be bound by the strands and complications of their shared history?

here’s a copy of the script.

it packs a lot of bug lore into a few acts (probably too much for a general audience) and leans a bit exposition heavy to fit it into J&P conversation (assumes they haven’t talked most of the decade but then they start bearing souls). the dialogue is an acquired taste, and it commits the Two of Us sin of making paul more normal for the sake of plot and using him to talk through to john. it also leans into very dark territory by the end (tarot reading with jayne mansfield among other things), which is probably tough even for devoted fans.

but it notably features some very J&P moments complete with goons humor, spontaneous bursting into song, and wild tonal shifts that are very them. it's funny then that the most authentic bits are the ones that make me doubt it could ever be adapted right to the stage. at least not without a devoted group producing it.

would have made a good fanfic though. it's especially poignant after Now and Then's release, even if i am a bit skeptical about the timelines (the idea john and paul didn't see each other for 4 years, that the fall 1980 meeting was out of the blue, time of writing Now and Then, etc.). with the biopics back in discussion, it's worth taking another look at it.

this script was read onstage in holmdel, new jersey in 2018. did anyone attend the script reading?

more importantly, has anything been done with it since?

[flightyalrighty]

Perhaps Rouge and GUN already know Shadow has a bug in his brain. With a head injury like that, surely they did a brain scan and would be scrutinizing it to death. Plus I can't imagine GUN passing up the opportunity to look in his noggin either. Also, do the bugs eat the brain, or do they merely control the host while they take nutrients (from their blood, most likely)?

To preserve the mystery and horror that comes with the unknown for folks that don't wanna lose that, I've placed my answer under this cut:

When the parasite is active (and it is most active during the "moving in" phase before it grows large enough), it produces an invisible field around itself that messes with all electronics within a range. The range is small, of course, when it's just a larva, and increases either with size or, in the case of the cave, numbers.

For most of the time while Shadow was unconscious, the parasite was active and settling in. Any electronics that got too close to his brain during that time would freak out.

This would cause some fear and confusion in the med-bay when, for instance, his heart monitor would randomly go bananas, even when nothing's actually going wrong.

Electronics can be protected from this by being wrapped in aluminum foil, but let's not get ahead of ourselves :P

As for what the parasites eat, they like to feed off of various chemicals that get sent to the brain, but mainly adrenaline. This is why they force their hosts to produce more and more and more of it.

[bugisbonkerz]

earliest drawing of duck i can find that i made…… must’ve made it when i was a wee 12 year old

[mysterygears]

bugs me and bf have conjured:

snuggle bug

hot bug

bug ass (resummoned)

pain bug (catchphrase: "twist it left or twist it right") (i hate him)

bug bug (catchphrase: "bug it left or bug it right")

buddy bug (he is your friend :))

spider bug (spider and bug at the same time)

shit bug (in relationship with buddy bug)

i will add on if the bug lore expands

[beepccore]

there’s lots of fake ass duality. there’s tons of old swinging pendulums.

you were tailor made for this era!

tick. tock. tick. tock.

[lilybug-02]

Plan has been thwarted.

Bug Fact: Researchers have observed REM-like behavior in Jumping spiders. Suggesting that spiders may experience dream-like sleep.

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[tin--can]

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[chippedlore]

it's 4-sweater weather, im feeling snug as a bug 🪲🐛🐞🦋

[stevie-petey]

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[nyehilismwriting]

im sorry this has probably been asked before but i cant seem to find anything about it sooo how do you pronounce rhaxa and imxa?

no worries! i have answered this before but i couldn't find it either lol so: rhaxa is pronounced like "raks-a", with the x as in words like taxi; imxa is pronounced 'im-shah', with the x as an sh- sound.

there is going to be a third alien character introduced in ch5 part 2 (in some routes) who's name is xadi, with the x pronounced similar to a z- sound. just to keep things complicated:-)

[get-back-homeward]

In the last two years, I’ve encountered the quote “Ringo’s not even the best drummer in the Beatles” attributed to John more times than I can count.

It always hits my brain as wrong not just because I’m nothing if not a Ringo defender but because John knew how freakin lucky they were to have Ringo. If John did say it, it was almost surely intended as a joke and not one to be repeated by Ringo detractors as any kind of evidence of his skills 60 years later.

Fab Four Archivist says it never happened:

There are fans in the comments who swear they’ve seen video of the 1966 New York press conference where John says this. I’ve watched what I thought was the complete presser and do not remember it. It may be a case of the meme writing over memories.

Does anyone remember actually seeing this clip anywhere?

[swordy-da-goat]

A warlock whose expertise is in the medical field. They use their insectoid and arachnid appendages as surgical tools. Don’t worry, they always wash their hands. They are a professional after all.

[bugisbonkerz]

my brother is so mean bro walking around the neighborhood and replaying the ice cream truck theme on his phone