#enjoy this mothman

[rhan-hastur]

Body horror mothman? 👀

Oh no, he's substancing

[clockworkreapers]

Jerry brought a moth into the store!

[grizarts]

Like a giant moth to a tiny bus stop

[semisolidmind]

I'm curious Semi, if you had to pick one AU to live in with Monster bf (yandere or not) who would it be? Or who would be your top 3 picks?

im gonna assume you meant just...monsters i wouldn't mind dating in general and not my own ocs

1. Shadow monster—idk man, they've always kinda appealed to me. the half-corporeal aspect, the fact that the only visible feature is usually eyes...i feel like a shadow monster would be like, soft? like when you hug them they'd feel kinda fuzzy or smth idk. gimme a loving asexual relationship with a cutie made outta darkness and im set 😎👌

2. Mothman—id love, LOVE, to be able to cuddle a big fluffy mothman. favorite cryptid. best boy. if i have a waifu/husbando/whatever, it's mothman. i have a plushie baby mothman and i joke constantly that it's my adopted son given to me by the main man himself. wanna hug this guy irl so bad

3. Secret Third Option—i hearby designate this space as perpetually open to whatever my third preference happens to be at any given time. the types of monsters i like changes like the weather and i refuse to be completely tied down

[sarahmackattack]

Philadelphia Weirdos, this event is for you.

On July 14th, we're gonna go into the Pine Barrens and enjoy the hell outta some moths.

This is the 3rd year we've run this event, all to support science education nonprofit Skype a Scientist.

We'll gather at dusk and take a walk around the pond, We'll enjoy some of the crepuscular critters, hopefully see some bats and carnivorous plants, and then set up for a night of bug appreciation! What we'll see on these nights is unpredictable, but in past evenings, we've seen snakes, slugs, wolf spiders, bats, longhorn beetles, many many moths, and more!

Bring some beverages, a chair, a head lamp and any photo equipment you'd like! We'll have some head lamps you can borrow, but won't have enough for everyone. 

Get tickets here!

[stealthnoodle]

Current BG3 bullshit: Dishonour* Mode with SMT's Mothman. The song in the video is "Mothman (YMCA Parody)" by Studio Bunny, which felt right.

*Honour Mode but I choose Continue when I wipe because I've never had a spontaneous bad idea that I didn't relentlessly pursue, and I'm not abandoning that ethos for a mere cheevo

For this run, my terrible son has three guiding principles:

Always choose violence when violence is a dialogue option

When violence is not an option, choose [Intimidation] or at least being a rude little bitch

Ignore anything that is not immediately interesting

Also he's a Durge because of course he is.

Examples of how this has played out include running right past Shadowheart without even looking at her on the ship (she was surprisingly not mad about this later), killing both Astarion and Lae'zel in camp when their actions presented a prompt to do violence, and never recruiting Gale because his hand was so succulent and severable.

He also ran right through the Inquisitor's Chambers in the creche to the Blood of Lathander and never looked back. Githyanki ambush before leaving Act 2 didn't even happen. Just blipped right off their radar. Iconic.

Something new-to-me in this run was discovering that if you start a fight in the grove and subsequently have to kill all the druids, Karlach is REAL MAD, so she never made it into the party. I then decided to tell Minthara an invasion sounded fun, planning to stab her in the back, but it turns out that there's no invasion proper if the druids are dead, so after a long rest she and the goblins had overrun the grove on their own. Wyll never even got a chance to object!

Luckily there was still an [Attack] option when I talked to her, so Mothman got to carry out his cunning scheme, aggroing all the goblins in the grove in the process.

(There's a reason I'm letting myself Continue, and it's that all of Mothman's choices might be politely described as "sub-optimal.")

In this case I didn't even need to, though, because I threw my Spectator-in-a-bottle into the midst of the goblins and it turned out to be a great strat. Spectator killed all the goblins in the area, goblins got Spectator down to single-digit HP on their way out, and Mothman finished it off with a li'l sneak attack.

I love this game.

So long story short, I essentially raided the grove without losing Wyll by doing it in the most ass-backward way possible. Yay?

And it's a good thing I kept him, since Astarion got himself staked early on trying to snack on Mothman, and then Lae'zel had her "we're all infected" freakout in camp, so he and Shadowheart were the only companions still around. Since Lae'zel was the last to go out, I honored her with this hireling homage:

Turns out my biggest challenge on this stupid run has been shopping. Mothman finished Act 1 with zero vendors still alive. Obviously he killed Isobel in Act 2 as soon as his butler offered him a shiny reward for doing so, and he drew his weapon on the Moonrise Tower guards as soon as he met them, so he ended up with a sea of corpses and nobody who would talk to him but Araj Oblodra (an uneasy alliance which ended in Act 3 when she caught him rifling through her stuff and oops there's an [Attack] response to that).

My second biggest challenge, and what I thought would be my run-ender, was fucking Myrkul. Did I jump down the big hole without adequately prepping? Yes. Did I forget the single-use healing pod near the boss isn't actually a long rest and doesn't restore abilities or short rests? Yes. Did I have a very stupid loadout for a boss I have fought at least five times now? Also yes. After I had to hit Continue for a fourth time, I began to despair. Had the single save file cooked me?

It had not! I just needed to ferment the perfect cheese.

I wish I had screencaps of this bullshit but I was too frustrated to remember to take them by the time I figured this out, lolsob. If you are stuck in a hole with Ketheric Thorm and short on options, here is your ticket out:

You can get a surprise round, thank you Invisibility. One good sneak attack with Cull the Weak can take out the mindflayer.

Shadowheart's reward spear for killing the Nightsong lets you cast Shar's Darkness as an action as often as you like. If you cast it around your party from way back near the entrance, Ketheric becomes confused and does not summon more necromites. He just stands on the platform and yells. Old Man Yells at Cloud, literally.

Once you have slowly chipped his health away without expending resources, your biggest problem is that you have mostly piddling attacks, and Myrkul has a big health pool and can heal himself. OR CAN HE?

Bro can't see shit in the dark. Drop darkness centered on him and he gets blinded. His necromite snacks can run up to him, but he can't see them to gobble them up.

Do damage as fast as you can with whatever you have. Throw shit. Read scrolls. Give the magic spear to Skyrim Mod Lae'zel to handle Darkness from a distance and park Shadowheart up on Myrkul's ass with Spirit Guardians. Make Wyll summon Connor over and over to distract Myrkul from hitting her.

CONGRATULATIONS, you've spent half your Saturday on this.

Things got better in Act 3. Mothman can't have beef with every vendor in the city at once.

But you know what he can have? Specific, stupid beef with Gortash.

This keeps happening.

Also I can't believe I pulled that off without wiping even once. (The game crashed three times because my bell tower ladder strats were too elite, but I finally found a compromise that didn't make the game shit itself while I slogged through the fight. With only three party members, because I didn't have anything to make Wyll fly and couldn't be bothered with shopping. The only survivor of my nonsense was Skyrim Mod Lae'zel, who chugged an invisibility potion and climbed down vines to escape. Still!)

A funny consequence of my timing was that Mizora showed up in camp the night Gortash kicked the bucket and did her usual "I'll tell you where to find your dad in exchange for your soul" spiel, so I thought, well, let's see how that works out for us. Wyll, sell your soul. Again.

(I would feel worse about putting Wyll through that on top of everything else he's suffered this game, but look. He stayed in the party. His approval is HIGH. Somehow. He is Mothman's little Mothstan. This is what it's like on the dark side, buddy.)

The answer is that I got a quest maker for the sub that goes to the Iron Throne, but obviously the sub is not there, because Gortash is dead. "Sorry, Wyll, guess you sold your soul for nothing!" is what I would have said, except when I went down for my next long rest, the Duke popped out of thin air next to Mizora. As you can see in the video, he didn't quite have his being-alive-legs yet, but he figured out how to stand up in the morning. So I did his Wyrmway quest. As a treat.

Anyway, now Mothman just needs to beat up his sister with his cool Slayer form that he loves to pop as often as possible, and then he's off to the endgame! I expect everyone will be shocked when he takes control of the Netherbrain even though he's been loudly and proudly making his intentions known all game.

I'll close this out by saying that I let the randomizer make me a guardian again, and I forgot what it made until I was surprised and delighted by sexy facetats Santa:

[thedisablednaturalist]

I never get to actually enjoy fall and halloween bc I would always be busy with school but now that I've graduated im going all out. Im getting gourds. Im dressing up. Im enjoying fall foliage. im foraging. Im baking seasonal treats. Im being a cozy guy in my bed on a cloudy cold autumn morning.

[justablah56]

as per the reblog of one @lunarrosette , have some Jane x Lizzie y'all <3

(click for better quality)

they've ordered some less-mean-ravioli <3

[mothmussy]

*insert awooga sound here*

[lycanaether]

Look at the cool stuff

[bluesodatab]

So anyway, there was this group of weirdos right?

[thejugheadparadox]

OKKK BUT WHH MOTHMEN OF ALL THINGS AND NO EVEN KEEPING JUG APART OF THE SERPENTS IS JUST MEAN

MOTHMAN IS MOTHMAN FOREVER IM SORRY ONE THING I CANT HANDLE IS MOTHMAN SLANDER!!! THAT WAS ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA UNDER THAT SUIT!!!!

[pyreshe]

like i say this often, but livvy is very wary about the idea of hurting anyone she doesn't explicitly believe to be deserving of that hurt. if someone doesn't register to her as a threat, she'd be horrified to hurt them even on accident! HOWEVER. if she feels someone IS deserving of being hurt, if they Are a threat, she often can't bring herself to care if they get get hurt, whether by her hand or someone else's.

[dapper-nahrwhale]

O! Added another name to my growing list of names I enjoy to be called<3 moth! (wren, bugs, moth, clover, olive in no particular order) I am so indecisive abt names so any of those are good, as are literally any pronouns ever idc

[argyleandfriends]

MOTHMAN MOTHMAN MOTHMAN MOTHMAN

Little doodle of the PRINCE of the cryptids, MOTHMAN!

Couldnt take out my paints today but pretty happy I was still able to doodle!!:D