#cicada wing

[cigga-rette]

[katarinanavane]

Curio collection charm necklace with glow in the dark elements. If this doesn't sell at the Columbus Oddities and Curiosities expo (4/22-23/23) or the Indianapolis one (4/30/23), it will go on my Etsy afterwards.

[daredevil-vagabond]

And I know it's true, that visions are seldom what they seem

Cicada Jason.

[verrixstudios]

GUYS I DID ANOTHER COMMISSION!! SECOND ONE FOR TUMBLR!!

LOOK AT THIS ADORABLE DRAGON?! He belongs to @wingsoflegends and AAA LOOK they gave me a PAID excuse to draw an adorable Mudwing hybrid AND A BUNCH OF BUGS?! AND HIS NAME IS BUG????

[heartnosekid]

stained glass cicada lamp | cady_the_creator on ig

[mabaki]

It's summer and Anet teased us with the beachwear armor, so of course I had to draw him in it LMAO

topless ver. below lmaoooooo

Cuz you know, I keep separate layers and I always draw his body first anyway might as well alkjsdflkjLKJSDLFKJ

Someone said he's on vacation from all his affecitonate bullies LMAO

And also to apolgize to him, for putting him in the bikini version earlier HAHAHAHA

[kaisumisucreations]

kinda relating to last post, heres some art i made of my bug dragon critter thing. i originally drew these a while ago but never posted/kept tweaking them

[quitealotofsodapop]

Mentioned in a Post a while back about a Jttw/LMK AU I had regarding the "Yellow Robed Demon" Arc when Tripitaka got turned into a tiger.

Book Summary;

Tripitaka manages to escape his capture (for once) and passes on a message to the King of Baoxiang from his daughter, Baihuaxiu, explaining that she was kidnapped and made the forced bride of a demon (ironically making it a magical version of what befell Tripitaka's mother when he was a baby).

Kui Mulang rolls in with a human glamour and goes: "Nu-Uh! I'm but a humble human hunter. THIS guy is a tiger demon who attacked a girl some time ago. I save her and we've been living a simple life for the last 13 years!" (Lie)

So the dude pulls an Uno-Reverse and transforms Tripitaka into a tiger (or in some versions, glamours him into one). The King and his subjects believe this 100% since Tripitaka and the Pilgrims don't look so great without Wukong there to act as PR (he was exiled at the time for the White Bone Spirit incident).

Tripitaka is apparently aching-beautiful no matter his form though;

Wukong even feels kinda bad for his Master, since the transformation is so good that he can't even see through it with Gold Vision. Also imagine a sad giant kitty, that would bum anyone out.

Of course things are resolved by the end of the arc; the gang reunite with their monkey, Ao Lie gets his own badass chapter, the Princess is saved, Bajie kills the couple's two half-demon wolf children, the Yellow Robed Demon is revealed to be Revatī - the Wood Wolf of Legs after Wukong catches the demon commenting on his performance during the Havoc (Wukong has a few Columbo moments in the book like this), and Tripitaka is transformed back into his squishy monk self.

Bonus - Tripitaka as a tiger from a book illustration + the 1999 cartoon.

The book illustration + description suggests he's a rare Pseudo-melanistic "Black Tiger" seen in India, possibly an Indo-Chinese Tiger, or a South China Tiger with a darker back.

So here's where the timeline shifts...

The Wood Wolf of Legs ain't happy to be dragged away from (what he believed to be mutual) his true love on earth + his two kids, so he curses the Tang Monk to not only retain part of the glamour he imposed upon him, but to transform him fully into a carnivorous feline demon. Also as an extra "F-k you!" to the Jade Court he and his past love fled from, since the Queen Mother is a celestial tigress herself.

The Pilgrims freak out, obviously.

Guanyin is called up and is like;

Guanyin: "Well, you did unjustly punish and exile your best bodyguard because you didn't trust his judgement, seeing him only as a murderous beast... so *your* punishment is to deal with the rest of your Journey as one of the very same creatures you see as mindlessly bloodthirsty." Tripitaka, now cursed to stay a catboy: "Dang it." (≽^╥⩊╥^≼)

He still gets to wear the robes and walk upright -think Master Tigress from Kung Fu Panda but as a wimpy, twink-shaped, monk.

Tripitaka aint' having fun. He's a life-long vegetarian who's suddenly an apex hypercarnivore. He tries his best for the longest time to stay on the veggies (and durian weirdly enough since tigers like those), but eventually he will need to chow down on some bleeding protein.

And his team literally consists of the main diet of a tiger...

Wukong, a monkey: "Master isn't looking too good." Zhu Bajie, a pig: "I don't like the way he's been looking at us. I burnt my finger making the campfire and he looked ready to pounce!" Sha Wujing, a fish: "I'm not surprised. Cats are of few beasts that absolutely require meat protein to survive." Ao Lie, currently a horse: "If he goes feral, I vote we sacrifice the pig first." Wujing & Wukong: "Agreed." Zhu Bajie: "HEY!!" (₍•̀ ⚇•́ ₎) Tripitaka, meditating hard: "Perhaps if I eat a watermelon, it would sustain my desire for flesh?"

What worse?

Tripitaka is still considered smoking hot. Now by demon standards too!

The Trio of Lion Camel Ridge prepare to attack the Pilgrims when;

Azure Lion: (*sees that the Great Monk is actually a beautiful tiger.*) Azure Lion, lowering his sword: "Guys, do not mess this up for me." Peng & Yellow Tusk: (*annoyed groans!*)

[wof-headshots-daily]

Cicada is a more historical at some point previous hivewing queen but there's nothing to go off drawing wise for her.

Day 151- cicada

[completeoveranalysis]

[1]

Chapitre 219 - Magic Passed Down, or Inherited Magic

The splash text reads something like All this time she has lived a distant path, All for the sake of this moment

In which HOW DARE YOU. I will never recover. 

I don’t think we’ve seen such an unfiltered look at the heartbreaking side of Yuuko’s existence before. Even just the emotion on her face is enough to wreck me, but the rest of it makes it even worse!

She is reclining in her sakura tree - technically, but not really. The strands of her hair stretch out behind her, looping endlessly over the branches until she is tied there. Just like her inbetween-place in reality, she is fixed here and unable to move. Add in the wings on her kimono and the overall effect is that of a butterfly caught in a spider web. She is frozen, head caught at an unnatural angle, and stuck here until she dies. She can’t even look up at the moon shining in the sky behind her. All she can do is look sadly down. 

Fun ;_;

I also really enjoy how her right hand is half in shadow, but the blackness of her fingers melds into the visual effect of the butterfly shadows on the fabric. It has a touch of that “moving between existence and non-existence” that many of the xxxholic covers had leading up to this, but I think this steers a bit away from that and lands her squarely in the 'non-existence' side of things. The living butterflies don’t overlap or get confused into the pattern of the fabric like they used to - now they are cleanly distinct, a separation between real and not real,  and Yuuko herself is the one fading into the side of the shadows, the reflections, the imitations. Her existence is ending. She will soon no longer be real - and to some, will never have existed at all. 

But she paid this price willingly, to save the future. 

[addystuffs]

FANART OF SNAPDONNIE AND OPEN YOUR SHELL DONNIE FROM @onejellyfishplease I AM GOING INSANE

[indoorscreamingvoice]

Cicada painting plus a one of just the wing cos I didn’t do it justice [im so ill (autistic) about cicada wings] :-)

[katarinanavane]

Curio collection earrings! Just listed a backlog of earrings (link in bio if you want one!) Featuring doll eyes, snake bones, beetle shells, sea urchin spines, and more!

[gummi-stims]

Cicada wing stained glass by ak_stainedglass on tiktok!

[sketching-shark]

3rd panel of a comic about Golden Cicada's background. Here I imagined him as a being that started off as a cicada that the Buddha changed into a human when he noticed the bug listening intently to his teachings. In Buddhism only humans can reach enlightenment, but the loss of the innocence of insects may be a terrible thing.

This may be particularly true if you now understand that of your over 400 brothers and sisters, only you will live beyond a few weeks.

[cloudsofteeth]

A little morbid…