#idk im not an entymologist

[adhdphilosopher]

had a dream last night that i discovered a new kind of beetle

it was orange, had a big ol' horn on the front of its head, huge mandibles, but a hinged jaw too?? green compound eyes, and its wing casing opened straight upwards like a car door instead of forward on its actual joint

[nymtheflighty]

So....2012 was my 16th birthday party. You know how like your 16th birthday is supposed to be important...? Yeah. So... I had never had a birthday before. We were too poor for it and my mom didnt believe i “needed” them and i wasnt really around any other kids when i was a kid either so there was nobody to invite.

So It was the first birthday party i had ever really had. I threw it by myself and held it in my basement and invited all the people i could think of. But...Nobody showed up because they thought they were going to die. Except for about four people. A boy from science i hung out with all the time, his younger sister, My entymologist friend i knew from elementary school, and my best friend who had just discovered she was a lesbian (this is relevent).

So I’m ace as hell and didnt know it at the time. And when i am around my guy friends im very rough housy and grabby because like.... idk wrestling is a thing i did with them idk. And i had no idea science boy liked me at the time. And i would hang on him and jump around and tease him a bunch because thats just how i interact. Now my lesbian friend who i no longer interact with (because shes a female fuck boy with no respect but thats a different story) had asked me out several times before and i had said no every time because romance is just not my thing outside of video games. Apparently someone had told her i had a crush on her. And seeing me jumping on and “flirting with” this boy made her intensely and ANGRILY jealous. Now im sixteen at my first birthday party ever and now this girl is acting like she wants me to die for no reason. So im thoroughly confused. And her and science boy start fighting. And shes pissed at me and wont talk to me because i “lead her on” despite at every verbal opportunity telling her no. So my confused ace ass is sitting there with two people very clearly angry at me because some third person i do not know said i was romantically invested in them. I thought it would be my last chance at a birthday before i died and picked them because i wanted people i cared about around. Made it real easy later on when i needed to cut them both out of my life and move on after we graduated. But lesbian friend still ruined several more birthdays the same exact way before i finally got away from her. (Bug girl is still killing it tho shes a scientist and rock climbs naked for fun and i would die for her straight up)

Now that the decades ending, where were you guys when 12/12/12 happened?

I’ll go first, I was in eighth grade in science class. As soon as the clock hit 12:12 the whole class went quiet.