#bugs for ts

[the-october-country]

The New Yorker in autumn...

[kedreeva]

These little fuckers are round gobies. They are a freshwater goby that's invasive in Michigan, and they're in the nearby lake. They're distinct from the four native species due to their fused pelvic fins (middle pic) and a big black dot at the rear of their front dorsal fin. Though some other gobies have spots on their fins, NO Michigan-native species has a fused pelvic fin. These guys are very aggressive feeders and are very good at outcompeting native gobies.

They're also extremely good at stealing bait off big hooks as people on the docks reel in their lines. In particular, the bastard in the bottom photo stole my bait two days ago, so I caught him and filleted him for Bug.

Today, after acquiring smaller hooks, I went back and got 16 more, and educated several other fishers about their invasive nature. I got two turned over to me by others, and caught 14 more myself.

One man wandered over and asked why I was catching them on purpose. It was too much trouble to explain my feelings about invasive species, so I just told him, one of them stole my bait two days ago. He stopped watching my bobber and boggled at me and goes:

"You're doing this for revenge?"

So now there's some guy in town that thinks I am exacting revenge upon fish kind for a single stolen worm.

[mythicalcrumb]

the 'honestly i don't really care about law' to being unhealthily obsessed with him to the point he haunts my entire waking and sleeping time was not something i expected. when is he going to leave me alone

[generalsdiary]

Moze x Jiaoqiu

warnings: none

word count: 900~

description: just them being domestic (pre-2.5 events)

moze is the type of husband who always cleans, keeps everything neat, he will run (quite literally) anywhere and do any errand without complaint, nothing is too hard or difficult for him. he is v protective, „I promise I will bring him back“, nothing is stopping him from getting his husband back, he is confident in his abilities, to the point he isn't even worrying. he always attentively listens to jiaoqiu’s ramblings, his full attention on the foxian. he will eat anything jiaoqiu puts before him, no matter his preferences. uttering simple praises after the meal and never letting his husband clean up.

at night he cuddles with him, being the big spoon, holding his husband close, face buried in the orangey pink hair. like a touch starved kitten, he gravitates to him during the day, always hugging him- backhugs are his favorite. jiaoqiu always smiles, a sparkle in his eyes with each embrace. moze is often quiet, very thoughtful- usually ending up blunt in his words but not cold, never cold. the care and love for each other shown in the soft words, gentle embraces and lingering gazes. moze doesn’t do causal touches, his hands don’t wander to jiaoqiu’s soft tail, or even softer ears, or to caress him. he doesn’t want to overwhelm his husband or make him uncomfortable. yet when they stand close he bumps his nose against his. and when he is so so tired he rests his forehead on the shorter man’s. recharging, seeking comfort, love. luckily for him, his husband knows his main love language is physical touch. jiaoqiu bringing his hands to cup his cheeks, thumbs caressing the rough skin. he misses the smile that brightens the foxian’s face, his eyes shut relishing in the sensations. such a sensitive and responsive man. jiaoqiu is the only person moze allows to touch him, to drag those soft fingers across his scars, through the silver hair, to see him shirtless. he is the only one with whom he makes and keeps eye contact. moze is the type of husband that even without being close jiaoqiu can feel his touch on him. sitting across him, over a hotpot. lilac eyes on him. full of love. as if he is caressing his husband’s cheek at that moment. making jiaoqiu’s chest feel warm from the feeling of such a silent expression of admiration.

on the days jiaoqiu voices that he feels tired a quick response is given in turn “I can carry you.” a blunt, straightforward, and the same offer every time. he is more than happy to carry him + he enjoys showing off for his hubby. not caring for the public opinion or any observers; it doesn’t even cross his mind, jiaoqiu’s happiness the only thing on his mind. sadly, he is always rejected (occasionally making him pout). moze doesn’t even know why (painfully obvious why, the rare blushed jiaoqiu further confirming it). shadows are his safe haven, but jiaoqiu is his peace. they fill each other's needs, like puzzles fitting together, completely domestic in their behaviors; perfect for general feixiao’s safety and well-being. despite working together they don’t get tired of each other. work is work and their house is home.

coriander is not allowed under this roof and no big lights are ever on. when they have guests, jiaoqiu compensates with many small lamps, fairy lights, and a bunch of candles. unscented ones. otherwise, they would clash with the meal. sometimes, jiaoqiu will light a scented candle, but it won’t be lit for longer than an hour, otherwise, he would get overwhelmed due to how sensitive his nose is to smells. moze being the clean freak, and insistent on maintaining really good hygiene and not strong perfumes so he can do his job perfectly would just make jiaoqiu purr if he could. type of husband truly only for him. jiaoqiu is quite a social butterfly and he drags his husband with him, who will grumble a bit and then go along, and behave politely to the best of his capabilities. moze cannot read a room to save his life, short in his sentences and straight to the point despite pondering his words prior, they end up always coming off blunt. he means no harm and what he says is usually of little matter, and none of it holds any weight to him when all he needs is to hear his darling chuckle or gaze at him and all is well in his world. the only result he could possibly ever wish for.

and when they kiss? the lighting and shadow with fire and spice? the I talk a lot, flirtatious, rarely flustered with I listen to you with heart eyes, mainly unaffected but you make me smile. well… they keep it private. such actions feel too personal and intimate for them to be shown in public and given for anyone to see on display. they hold it too close to their hearts, it matters in a different way to them. something near and dear. they won’t be caught showing pda, not even holding hands- well they rarely hold hands either way. it is behind closed doors and in the privacy of their home that their lips meet, and hands wander, leaving soft touches in intimate places that they’d never do in public (unlike many others). it means too much to them.

[loganslowdown4]

He pulled that one out of his ear—

So the cupcake one must have come out from this sleeve 🪳

Mmm yummy lol 😂💚🖤

[extasiswings]

“I didn’t know you could bring a date to a bachelor party” (snippily) says the man who isn’t even bringing his girlfriend of several months to the actual wedding.

[where-are-the-spooky-gays-2]

So, Remus' birthday photos. Boy eats a dang cockroach. Because he likes the cronch. But everyone else is grossed out!! Even Virgil!! But not for the reason you might think. It's not the roach that bothers him so much as it's the method Remus uses to eat it. Any good spider knows you bite, digest, and slurp bugs. To him it looks like Remus is taking a bite of a whole kit kat

Y E S XD!!! The chaotic Duke L O V E S his C R U N C H Y extra protein but the poor Emo Spider is gonna have to web Dukey's treats and teach him at this rate cause he needs some class XD

[danderling]

BUG WAARNIIING ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

I headcanon that Paragon owns a ton of little bugs and named them all let me list them

1. A christmas beetle named Rudolph

2. Kentish glory moth named Toby

3. Blotched emerald moth named Cupid (I lowk kimd of. Ship Cupid and Paragon from time 2 time so)

Yah she probably has a room dedicated to her bugs hehehea

[lechiien]

Got a package for you!

[kingofattolia]

Also it's almost inevitably going to be the funniest thing ever when they find Thrawn. Like I have no clue what's going to happen but it's GOING to be funny. Is it going to be Big Forehead Megalomaniac Thrawn from Rebels? Another "somehow: there's a huge enemy fleet gathering just outside the known galaxy" situation? I'm assuming he just happened to be taken to the secret Nightsister location because it's along the Intergalactic Purrgil Migration Zone, so has he been there this WHOLE time? If so WHAT is my mans doing? They act like he's still some huge danger and threat but WHY? For all they know he's living in a cave eating berries, or became the new culture's revered art shaman.

Genuinely what makes them think he will care to bring open war to the galaxy at all? Canonically all Thrawn cares and all he has EVER cared about is safeguarding the Chiss Ascendancy. That's why he was working with the Empire in the first place, and with that goal in mind, it makes sense to strengthen the New Republic not throw the galaxy again into chaos. I cannot overemphasize that buffering the Ascendancy with another strong power is genuinely the ONLY reason Thrawn has had for doing anything outside of the Ascendancy at all ever. (DOES FILONI KNOW THIS? HE MUST, RIGHT? HE'S AT LEAST READ THE THRAWN WOOKIEEPEDIA ARTICLE?) The chance of this being megawatts of dumb is SO HIGH but I still can't wait. It's going to be so funny.

[glacierruler]

@ruined-sketchbook (tagging you because you seemed interested)

Janus as the Corruption from The Magnus Archives

Body horror, bugs, eye horror

@oatmeal-stans-the-trash-rat and @cutebisexualmess since you two are always interested in my Sanders Sides stuff :D

[kedreeva]

Bug somehow managed to deglove a toenail this morning (I believe she got it through some of the hardware cloth in their enclosure), leaving an exposed quick.

She wouldn't leave it alone, and after she scratched her face once with the bleeding toe, it became an aesthetic Problem...

So, despite that there's no way a bandage will stay on (and my own fear that a bandage touching the quick constantly would hurt more), I gave her a bath, cleaned up her foot, and thoroughly wrapped the toe.

And now she's inside preening and peeping, and not bothering her toe or the bandage, which I really hope means it doesn't hurt as much anymore.

Really hoping that since it was just the keratin sheath over the nail and not the bone, that she'll be able to regrow the nail. Could have been a lot worse!

[triangle-strategy-notes]

Cordelia Concept Art

Cordelia concept/reference art. Translation notes and image id below the cut.

Translation Notes

The word for "sash" on this page was literally "obi," the type of sash a woman would tie around a kimono. "Obi" is a valid English word, so I went back and forth between what to use, but since her dress isn't technically a kimono + the sash isn't tied in the style an obi usually would be, I decided to go with the more catch-all term.

"White as snow" was a word that literally just meant "white," but the first character and the word in general had some connotations with innocence/purity, so I added "as snow" to try and give that same connotation.

"Simple" as it refers to the fastener might have also meant "casual."

"Once upon a time" wasn't exactly the Japanese phrase for "Once upon a time," but it was fairly close. A more literal translation would be, "In the olden days, it just so happened that..."

"Girl of innocence" appears to literally be the word "witch". However, if you take the first character as a separate prefix to the second, it would mean something along the lines of "pure/genuine/true girl." I'm not really sure if that's how it works, but it seemed to make more sense than "witch," so that's what I ended up going with.

Image IDs

[id: Five images. The first two are the full pages of Cordelia's concept art in Japanese, the other three are translated versions of the text. On the first page, there is a colored and uncolored version of Cordelia's portrait. Underneath, there is an illustrator's note that reads, "Cordelia's overall tone is pale, so I thought it ended up being pretty difficult to choose a shading color. And actually, her initial facial features were much younger, but Mr. Ikushima redesigned her several times to give her the elegant look she has today. (Rina Yoshiura)". The second page is titled, "Morality's Sister (Healing Hands to Protect) Rough Draft". It has a small illustration/comic of a childhood Cordelia and Roland. It has the notes "Country A," "13 year old," and "girl of innocence." It then has a note that says, "I have to protect," with a large bracket beside it that contains the list, "small, dainty, gentle". There is also the word "pure" nearby. Underneath that is the illustration, titled, "Sister and Morality" with the subtitle "about 8 years ago". In the illustration Roland seems to be throwing a caterpillar-like bug aside. It's labeled, "Weird Bug Arm Bar Throw." Roland has some dialogue that reads, "I've for real gotta catch it!" Cordelia has some dialogue that reads, "huh?" Underneath them both, there's a note that reads, "Once upon a time, a warm fuzzy feeling made him think, 'I have to protect her!'" To the side there are several portraits of Cordelia, some full-body (one of which has a note about her braid being brought in front of her shoulder), and two that are labeled as "Bust portraits". One of the portraits shows Cordelia in a simple cloak with the fastener being labeled, "simple metal fastener." There's a top-down diagram of the metal she wears at her dress's neckline, labeled, "Decoration rough draft." On the second half of the page there is a portion labeled, "Working out the sister's hair ornament….." One version has a large flower on it. Next to it is a small portrait of Groma. A note reads, "Big flower, three strand braid. Doesn't she look like Grandma?" Another section is labeled, "Morality Facial Features and Morality's Sister WIP". There are several drawings of Cordelia's face, along with a full body rendition of an alternate design. She still wears the same sash as she does in canon, and nearby is the note, "For women. If they are wearing a dress, the sash should be wrapped like this." At the bottom of the page, there is another illustrator's note that reads, "She had this more child-like sort of look to her character during the drafting phase. But she ended up taking on a more serious role than I had originally expected, and the design was tweaked to fit. I recall she was a difficult character for us. (Yasuaki Arai)" /end id.]

[biomic]

SHE GETS SO EMBARRASSED SHE STARTS THROWING A FIT

[loganslowdown4]

Why can I see Patton crying over this?? 😭😅🩵🤍

[dailykugisaki]

Day fourty-one | id in alt

Kugisaki looks so wack Everytime she's not paying attention, she's thinking of shopping, meaning a friend or a third more sinister and bad thing.