#butterfly life cycle

[suprsaturatd]

slowtember #2: bugs :)

Did a butterfly that lives in my area!

Prompts under the cut:

[peachcitt]

metamorphosis // hum hallelujah

for @anna-scribbles (my best girl, my partner in crime, my tumblr/twitter mutual, my silly rabbit right hand girl man arm hand).

metamorphosis was as much your story as it was mine; thanks for all your love<3

[lichen-soup-scribe]

I've been watching this two-tailed swallowtail caterpillar grow up on my wild cherry and was lucky enough to spot it in its final instar, when it turned brown, left home and started looking for a good place to pupate. It obligingly demonstrated its impressive defense display for me, complete with wafts of stink from its osmeterium (the forked orange glands on its head).

It'll be spending the winter in its pupa in a nice roomy jar in my garage -- I'll make sure to take pics when it finally ecloses and I let it free to make more caterpillars!

Here are some more baby pics, ordered from earliest to most recent. The leaves in the first three pictures are all about the same size. You can see how its early stages mimicked bird poop.

[ross-hori]

Saw this one on my walk today. I hope their job was done and the next generation is on its way.

[quotent-potables]

If I could fly away, I would, Build a wall around myself, And dissolve. To be something new, To be something beautiful, To be something else entirely. I would embrace the sun, New colors, new wings, And I would be my own.

— "Cocon", an in-world poem in metamorphosis, a Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir fanfiction by peachcitt.

Read it on AO3

[dent-de-leon]

Caduceus comic gave me one little Mollymauk butterfly and I am still overcome with emotions about it--

[k00293433]

Relief printing: 29/02/24

Today, I also completed my woodblock prints.

I wish I had more time to develop this idea further but I feel that the final product is t too bad.

I also folded paper to make a zine, which I aim to add text to.

Finally I used left over ink to create these patterns on paper.

For this I just rolled the ink roller to create a pattern

And here I moved the damp stamp over the paper to show more movement.

[millipedelee]

Pg 1 of life cycle of a kitterpillar or maybe a kitterfly? XD

Maybe pg 1?? XD.

[abutterflyobsession]

I put on a sock

sock has a hole in it

I take off the sock

I drop the sock on the floor because I'm hurry

the next day I see a sock on the floor

I put the sock in the laundry hamper

later I pull socks out of the clean laundry

I put on a sock

sock has a hole in it

I take off the sock

I drop the sock on the floor . . .

[cosmik-homo]

I am starting to think the issue with the second doctor in official short story anthologies is you CANNOT just put Your Whimsiest Writer on the task. correct prose voice is nice and all but if your tone does not remotely account for theme you are LOST.

[snailsandpuppy-dogtails]

So. One of the most fucked up things I've ever learned is that butterflies remember what it's like to be caterpillars (duh). The remembering isn't the fucked up part, the fucked up part is how scientists learned this. They fucking electrocuted the caterpillars and after metamorphosis the caterpillars avoided the thing that would result in electrocution, leading the torturers scientist to believe they remember experiences and have learned.

[peachcitt]

anna just said that she shares an empathy link like in percy jackson with metamorphosis adrien agreste

[espiritogato]

[quotent-potables]

"You're worried about me," he says, and Marinette raises her eyebrows. "Should I be?" He laughs, looking down at his bowl and tracing his spoon through the melted ice cream and brownie chunks. "You know what one of the things I like best about you is, Marinette?" he asks, and Marinette sighs, pretending to think hard. "My genetic talent for making sweets?" she asks, gesturing to his empty bowl, and he snorts. "Good guess," he says, and he rests the handle of the spoon against the edge of his bowl. He turns his face so that he's looking at her, and she does the same. His smile is easy, unmarred by any heavy emotion. "You never make me feel burdened by your worry." Marinette feels her heart break a little bit, but she just frowns comically down at the last corner of brownie in her own bowl. "Funny, I don't remember putting alcohol in these."

— metamorphosis, a Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir fanfiction by @peachcitt.

Read it on AO3