#lil crab fella

[lunarthing159]

Funky Lil Fella!

Cruppy design exploration!

As I said yesterday on this poll I wanted to draw Cruppy more like a sea monster, so here I mixed a lot of things like horseshoe crabs, hermit crabs, krakens (?) and sea urchins

[directdogman]

my power went out in the middle of me coding in the hobo interaction in my game and i feel like the little shit shart did it on purpose

like 4 HOURS WASTED THAT AINT NO ACCIDENT THAT FELLA DID IT ON PURPOSE I KNOW IT. THEIR GOD IRL CONFIRMED !!???!?

God: "Wow, your power went out? That's craaazy. While you were using it? Man, that's not really all that considerate, is it? Maybe the grid hiccuped. That happens sometimes. It sucks, but it's true. Nothing is dependable ALL of the time, after all. Y'know there's an acceptable amount of bug pieces that can turn up in candy? If they're able to legally sell you a candy bar with a centipede inside it, I guess it's to be expected that sometimes, power just kinda goes out. I mean, ya'd think they'd figure out a way to pump out stuff to chow down on without spiders in it before they'd figure out how to make electricity that never shuts off (even IF a spider falls into the reactor), right? Electricity is complicated, after all, way more than spiders and centipedes. Y'ever seen a spider create music? It's been known to happen, but it's rare is what I'm sayin'.

Y'know, actually, I think it's funny: If ya place a mass of spiders on a hamster wheel, they basically won't produce any amount of electricity worth talkin' about. They just kinda dart around aimlessly. Can't really coordinate spiders. Too many legs. More legs means more chaos. That's a rule. Ever stare at a crab? 'Scuttle, scuttle, pinch', that's a crab's motto. Lobsters aren't much better, but they have their own deal going on the side, which I won't go into now. All that being said, GOOD LUCK keeping insects from sprinting into reactors and frying the power grid for a moment, though! I mean, it's no wonder they keep appearing inside candy. They're skeevy lil fuckers, y'know. Like I said, lots of legs. An excessive number, even. 4 pairs. That's eight legs. Don't even get me STARTED on centipedes! No creature that isn't up to SOME kind of malarkey would need that many legs. Me, I've just got the two and boy, do I get a lot of use out of 'em. I mean, I stand around a lot, of course. Granted, I could sit or lie down, but then people'd assume I'm lazy... which maybe I am, but a lil bit of effort's gotta count for something, eh? Wait, what were we talkin' about again? Oh right, how to keep spiders out of reactors. Honestly, I think we'll figure it out some day, but as marvelous as the wonders of modern science are, I just don't think we're there quite yet. Maybe some day. All I know is, it won't be ME to figure the mystery out, that's for damned sure. Anyway, ya got any change?"

[ralucafarcas]

🦀MASSIVE ANNOUNCEMENT🦀

YES!! I designed a backpack! After all the love that my Stardew tote bag received, I decided that I wanted to experiment further!

The backpack is very soft and fuzzy, like a plushie! This is my favorite kind. I SCREAMED when I first saw the sample! It came out so well😭

Why a crab? Well, I have some crab socks on the way, and decided why not make it a small collection? Socks, the backpack and... a coin purse too perhaps👀 Besides, who wouldn't want to hold this lil fella's claw 🥺

The sample above is a prototype. And I need YOU to help me decide wether I should or shouldn't order a bulk of these! Please, with complete honesty, if this is something you would purchase online or at conventions, LET ME KNOW! You made the stardew bag happen! WILL THE CRAB BAG HAPPEN TOO?🙉

[onenicebugperday]

Saw this funky lil thing pull itself onto the table on like a web! Never seen em before, would like to know its name if I may :}

(Selangor, Malaysia)

Ohohohoho long arms for giving nice hugs :) Love this fella. It's a crab spider, for starters. Most likely an elongate green crab spider, Oxytate virens.

[valle-de-sombra-de-muerte]

Homestuck Reread: Act 3, Part 1/3 (p. 760-891)

Read the previous post here.

Time for the beginning of Act 3! An inauspicious start, since the Act begins with Jade's introduction.

So I guess the "reader" is still acknowledged as a thing. And they're actively attempting to manipulate Jade. I wonder how much longer this will last for.

Jade has so many interests, you guys! So many! And I'm sure each and every one of them will be relevant to her character as well!

Also, she needs reminders so she doesn't forget about the things she's interested in? What?

Why does Jade have so many variants of fetch modus when none of these will ever show up again? Actually, the whole modus system continues to be really dumb and that's probably why it's rarely mentioned in the later acts.

Jade's precognition again being treated as just a fun lil' quirk. Gosh, she's just so quirky, right fellas? So many modi, so many interests. She's just so silly and fun, right? Right???

Honest confession time. When I first read Homestuck, I had no idea that a "eureka lemon" was an actual variety of lemon. Of course I've heard of crab apples, key limes, and mandarin oranges, but it never occurred to me that a eureka lemon was also a real thing. I didn't figure this out until years later.

Wait wait wait. Hold the phone. Jade is a fan of old cartoons? When is that ever referenced again outside of the occasional mention of Squiddles (a show that isn't real)? What the fuck? John likes movies, has posters in his room, and name drops his favorites on a regular basis. Why does Jade not talk about any cartoons she likes???

Physics, gadgetry, and gardening are all shit that aren't ever mentioned again either, but I was at least aware of those things being related to her, at least on a surface level. Jade's whole thing (well, what I assume Hussie ostensibly intended to be her thing) is that she's this genius wiz kid. And her username is gardenGnostic, so of course horticulture has to be somehow related to her character. This whole cartoon thing is seriously new knowledge to me, though.

Grandpa Harley was a real renaissance man with a multitude of interests, so it's natural that Jade takes after him. The problem is that Grandpa is dead and he's less of a character than he is this mysterious symbol that Jade both admires and resents. It doesn't matter whether or not he's fleshed out, but Jade is a main character, so by necessity she must be or else she comes across as half-baked.

Jade has two pages dedicated to her interests, yet none of them are relevant to her character. She never talks to anyone else about gardening or anthros or anything like that. She doesn't use her scientific knowledge to help solve a problem. Her guns only serve the same basic combat purpose as the other kids' kind abstratus, but beyond that she isn't a gun nut.

One can point to stuff like John's interest in programming or Dave's love of photography as examples of extraneous character traits that don't ever manifest later on in the comic. But in Jade's case, it's nearly all of them. Hussie could've filled these pages with anything he wanted, but nothing would alter the existing perception of Jade being nothing more than "silly, upbeat girl who can see into the future." This is what I meant when I said earlier that she doesn't have any character to speak of. Or rather, she's just extremely shallow.

And because Jade doesn't have enough quirks already, her shirt randomly changes designs. Wow! Incredible!

These "manthro chaps" are honestly more unnerving and sexually charged than the smuppets. I don't ever see anyone reference them nearly as often, and probably for good reason. Unlike the smuppets, they're too close to resembling humans and are very uncanny. This feels like a deranged fetish thing, but it's being played off as more silly, quirky bullshit. "Slop trough" is a phrase I never want to read again.

Right. Hating furries was very much en vogue back in 2009, I'd say more so than the present. However, Hussie is going to great lengths to portray Jade as one of the "good ones." Her interest in anthros is non-sexual in nature and she does not partake in "cringe" furry activities like wearing fursuits and engaging in sexual activities with other furries. As stated before, the manthro chaps are being depicted as wholesome make believe, not in a feral/pet play context (despite the fact that that's exactly what it looks like).

This is just Hussie taking pot shots at a subculture that has historically been a very easy target for ridicule. I'm not even sure why he decided to make Jade a furry in the first place if he was going to draw lines in the sand like this. What an incredible dickhead. And since this is written from Jade's perspective, it makes her a dickhead too.

There are a few times later on where Jade comes across as rude or judgmental, coming at odds with her otherwise unflinchingly polite and optimistic disposition. Needless to say, this does little to endear her to me.

Like John, Jade also has a chest full of shit that doesn't end up mattering. Come to think of it, this whole intro sequence feels extremely drawn out, kind of like John's. John at least had the excuse of being the first character and he required a long intro in order to establish the tone and mechanics. We've gotten a good handle on things by the time we reach Rose and Dave, so their intros weren't nearly as involved. So why the fuck is Jade's taking so long? We know this whole routine, we've done it three times now. Can we get the fuck on with the story already!?

This is a really bizarre sequence of pages where the "reader" is forced to match the memory cards of Jade's modus, only to fail at it repeatedly while both Jade and Hussie judge them for it.

Man... I know it's a common fandom notion that Jade is the most neglected and underutilized of the main cast of kids, but you seriously wouldn't have guessed that based on all these early pages. She feels more like Hussie's favorite, if anything.

Every passage he seems to talk about her with affection and a total absence of snark, not like the other kids who are regarded with bemusement at best or mockery at worst when they do something foolish. Here the derision is solely focused on the reader for their apparent cluelessness, and both Hussie and Jade are on the same side. C'mon, Jade's just offering the reader to play this game and they fail because they're obviously not as smart as she is. Serves them right for that earlier, boorish suggestion that this wonderful girl might be a, gasp, disgusting fursuit-wearing degenerate!

There's something a little off about how this then-30 year old man created this 13 year old girl who's so sweet and perfect in every way, and whom he dedicates so many pages showing us every single one of her quirks and all the amazing things she has in her home. But I don't really want to dwell further on this, so I'll be moving on.

"But he does like his steak well cooked."

"He does prefer his steak rare after all."

Well, which is it??? Does he like his steak well or rare? Does Hussie not know the difference between these terms? Has he never cooked a steak before?

Dave Strider? More like Dave Simper. He is incredibly down bad. She's obviously not online, dude. Get out of her DMs. He's also facetiously engaging her with furry roleplay. God, Dave, get a clue! ERP is something only cringy furries do and as established previously, Jade is most definitely not one of those types of furries!

The Midnight Crew get their own dedicated flash. These guys sure are getting teased a lot, despite just being characters from an in-universe webcomic. I wonder what it could mean...

FINALLY we get to the Strider fight. Well, it's more like Dave vs. Cal rather than Dave vs. Bro. Not to try and crack open more Bro discourse, but the idea that people will try to equate Dave getting clowned on by a puppet with actual child abuse is absurd. I don't see how this is any different than the previous strifes John and Rose had with their parents.

FUCK it was only for one page. We're back to Jade again. You know, if I had a friend who knew whenever I was about to have an internet outage and acted all smarmy about it, I would probably stop talking to them.

"Grandpa Moreau over there on Hellmurder Island" is a good line. Thank you Rose for providing some levity to this slog of pages I've been enduring.

Another GameFAQs page, but this section is written by John for some reason. He brings up a great point about how nobody is reading these damn things. If you're some nudnik who truly gives a shit about how punch card alchemy works, oh boy do I have a page for you!

Jade dislikes hunting and it was mentioned earlier that she'd never shoot an animal. It strikes me as odd that she has such a passion for guns, but not hunting. What does she shoot then? She's a "skilled markswoman" but do we ever see a shooting range or anything to practice her skills? I can't imagine there's much else to shoot on this island aside from wildlife.

Grandpa Harley says Jade will grow up to be like the women in the photos he gets off to. I uh... I don't know how to feel about that. Other than perhaps it's for the best this old man is dead.

Wow! Who's this rude customer? What a crazy guy! Oh well, he was blocked so I don't think we'll ever see him again.

Finally at this point we take an extended reprieve from Jade. For the record, we're 99 pages into the Act. It took Rose 25 pages from her intro before the plot returned to John, and Dave 48 pages from his before turning back to Rose. (I'm not counting brief cuts to other characters for these counts, because the main focus is still on the recently introduced character). Nearly 100 pages of Jade showing off her house before going back to the plot. Augh!

Anyway, Rose actually reaches out and grabs the captcha card, which isn't something we've seen up to this point. This whole inventory system is weird, man.

I think it's all but directly stated that Mom Lalonde became an alcoholic because she has known the exact date the world was going to end. A sad detail.

Part 2 of the Strider fight ends with Bro yeeting Dave down the stairs. Again, I can't see this scene as serious representation of legitimate child abuse, especially with the fucking SBaHJ jokes at the end. The tone is so comedic and outrageous I don't understand anyone who takes it seriously.

Honestly, the earlier scenes with Dave roaming the apartment, being surrounded by weapons and sex toys, making comments of how he has difficulty accessing food, and being videotaped for Bro's fetish films paint a much better image of an abusive household than any of this strife shit. I don't want to try and argue that Bro isn't a bad guardian, because he definitely is, but there's this notion in the fandom that he does all this because he hates Dave and wants him to suffer, and I don't think that's true at all. His actions read more like neglect and carelessness, not malice.

You can make a list of all Bro's crimes, but hating his brother is not one of them.

John wins his fight against the ogres. There's an earlier page where we see him getting the tar kicked out of him (with the same over the top slapstick animations during the Dave vs. Bro fight, mind you), but it's only after Nannasprite and Rose join to help that he's able to achieve victory. He really can't do anything on his own, can he?

How about a "thank you, Rose, for beating those ogres for me"? Dickhead.

No "thank you" for Nannasprite, either. Instead he asks her to carry him to the gate, since he already knows Rose can't do it. This kid really sucks.

Now that I'm a third of the way done with Act 3, I have to say Jade is some honest to god Mary Sue shit. I don't like using that term because it's been misused to the point of uselessness, but come on. Compare Jade to the three previous kids and tell me that this girl isn't the most ridiculous character in this lineup.

We have John, the goofy cornball that likes pranks and watching bad movies; Rose, the smug pseud that likes the occult and writing lousy fiction; Dave, the aloof hipster that likes rapping and making shitty comics; and Jade, the genius manic pixie furry girl with a randomly changing wardrobe that can see into the future, lives on a private island full of crazy hi-tech gadgets, was raised by a radioactive dog, and likes physics, gardening, sharpshooting, bass guitar, and inventing.

Fuck me. If I was DM for a DnD session and someone submitted a character sheet like that against three normal ones, I'd tell them to leave. Why can't she just be a normal kid like the others? It's all so jarring!

Suddenly I'm wishing I was back reading Act 1 again.

Read the next post here.

[pricklylittleloaf]

My first ever kitbash, and the largest lil fella I've ever painted. This is SIEGE CRAB, and I love him.

[pumpkinsy0]

What if ponyboy was allergic to water but his allergic reaction is turning into a fish and when he gets placed in water he turns back. So whenever he sweats or gets splashed with water he turns into a fish but he can't breathe without water so they put him into his lil ponytank but he's allergic to water so when he turns back human he's allergic and turns back into a fish. It's never ending.

Moral of the story: dont get crabs cause it's fishy

Js a thought 😁🎀

atp putting him down like a dog is the most humane thing here, euthanize old fella

[inanimate-reboots]

To Fan and Testube:

Why don’t you two get along? Is it just because your personalities don’t work well together, or because you were “made” to be friends? Or is it another reason?

And to Lightbulb and Paintbrush:

Have you met Baxter yet? I don’t think he was part of MeLife! He was buddies with the uhh “og versions” of you. He’s a crab :)

🧪 - ... we.. had this discussion earlier. Me and him have very different point of views.

Fan wants to be as much like the original as he can, while I don't have much interest.

We all have.. gaps on who we're supposed to be. Fan thinks following the steps of the past can fill those gaps.

...

I disagree and.. think we need to figure ourselves out without connecting with people who passed. It's why I feel like him wanting to friend me is so... forced.

We have a few memories of the ogs, mainly sometimes appearing in dreams. But it's not enough for us to be them.

Theyre more like visions than anything. Likely just a feature Mephone programmed us with to be as close as possible.

But it just makes me feel more distant from her.

. . .

🖌 - Baxter...?

Oh! Right!!! Yeah, I found him outside before we got all this rooming. During the.. gummy bear stuff?...

💡 - WAIT I DIDNT REALLY SEE THE CRAB MUCH!! Where where???

🖌 - The lil fella wandered off after I had to help with our other dimensional friends. I.. dunno where he went.

🦀 - snip snip

💡 - OMG PAINTY LOOOOKKKKKKK IS THAT HIMM???

🖌 - !? How'd he get in here???

💡 - Picks the crab up and twirls

OH MY GWASH HES SOOOOO CUTTTEEEEE!!! ♡♡♡♡♡♡

🦀 - ...?

🖌 - Lighty be careful with him!!

[crab-princess]

You guys today i was taken to a beach at low tide by friends and was shown many a crab!!!!! I was given the TINIEST lil friend to hold ;-; lil friend made the softest gentlest pitter patters along my hand as it moved about it was like, the best thing ever. Sadly the beach was swarming with invasive green crabs and this includes the one i held :( didn't get to meet any big fellas but one of my friends who took me met a big green fella the other day and got a sick picture of them petting it! Sadly big green fella was killed for crimes of invasion ;-; anyways love those crab fellas they r literally so sick

[handhelld]

Some stardew oc shenanigans some ramblings below vv

Farmer Oc is Maverick! He isn't actually the farmer, but more of a farmhand/freeloader on the farm.

Maverick was found by Willy on the shoreline with a ton of ship debris. Maverick had been a ship captain on a crabbing boat, but got caught in a sudden mysterious storm that led to communications failure and then the wreck of his ship and loss of his entire crew. (The green rain)

Maverick was extremely lucky to survive, but lost part of his leg and most of the feeling in his arm as a result of it being wrapped in rope from the mast. (This is what ends up saving him, since it got wrapped so tightly that even when he got knocked out, he stayed floating with the debris instead of sinking.)

Maverick doesn't have anywhere to return to or a place to stay, so the local farmer offers him a room in exchange for helpin' them with the animals.

He drinks a ton though and spends a lot of his nights at the Saloon. He and Shane have a VERY rough start and they end up getting into drunken fights more often than not. Gus has had to kick them out a few times.

Very much enemies to lovers, they skip over the friends part and its very much unhealthy at first but gets better later on as these idiots work out their issues.

Maverick is good friends with Willy, and fishes with him very often. It helps having someone with two working arms to help Mav reel in those fuckin summer Tuna.

Maverick is incredibly gentlemanly to all the ladies in town, Pierre hates his ass because he thought he was flirting with Caroline once. Marnie thinks he's a real charmer and definately smacks shane over the head for saying rude shit about him. Sam had to pull him aside once and be like "My dad is still very much alive, so you better quit it." after seeing him helping Jodi with her groceries. Maverick thinks its fuckin' hilarious because he is very much gay.

The ACTUAL farmer is this weird guy who goes by "Radish" . They rarely speak, have local crypid energy. Sebastian is kinda into them but is also very intimidated by them. Radish is just a weird lil fella. Not even Mav really understands them but they are #1 wingman.

[art-of-dragonheadskilax]

Hrrngg I’m currently drawing the new designs of splatoon 1 characters after that direct but I wanna point out how these lil fellas don’t particularly look like young horseshoe crabs especially because of the tail. They look more similar to triops (tadpole shrimp) which I do have an oc of so if they are confirmed to be the creature that’ll so cool to see an oc species be canon in universe.

edit: they are indeed confirmed to be tadpole shrimp!

[listenupcupcakes]

here, take this lil' fella, i think you'll like him!

*hands you a head crab*

Hmm

It reminds me of the Spy

[onenicebugperday]

@enabi-seira submitted: Recently I had to explore my area to find animals and ID them for a homework, and I came across this lil’ fella that I’ve never seen before. I was so excited! (I just wanted to share my new discovery, no ID needed, although if someone’s curious, it’s from the genus Scaurus)

I also found isopods, slugs, a crab, and a spider from the genus Arctosa with the babies all over her abdomen. She was kind to stay still for a quick photo :) (I don’t know how to put more than one photo in here…)

Sounds like you found some very lovely friends! I will just have to imagine the ones you didn’t share photos of unless you submit them in the future. This beetle is absolutely precious! I like their enormous biceps. They must work out.

[scrunckled-idiot]

soooo...

i got bored again and wanted to create somethin'

so say hello to teddy the head crab!

he is an absolute little fella, a creature if you may, probably one the creetures of all time

it took a few long, painstaking hours and fails but i manages to make him! yes it isn't perfect but im happy how my hard work has paid off! i was kinda worried i would ruin it with the paint and pastels but i think it looks pretty accurate to the ones in half life!

he also has a lil' top hat i made for him, such a dapper lil' fella!

also an ink cap mushroom i made while working on him, i find it actually easier to work on two small things at once, it spices things up so i don't loose interest!

[ii-thelightseekers]

⚡️💡 - Really???

Well we found a crab recently!.. from uh..... actually I dunno where he came from, but my Paintbrush just had the lil fella the other day!

Hes a real cutie.

🖌️- Wait- out of curiosity-

What exactly is your universe like?

[sleepy-kiddo]

Found this lil Calico Crab on their back on the beach all curled up in a ball, so I picked the lil fella up n set them back on their lil feet!