#lycidas

[sleepyyghostt]

a baby werewolf, held in his mother's arms

- original characters -

[themistymountainscold]

frenchie would be an amazing captain

[rhianna]

Milton's Lycidas, edited by H. B. Cotterill.

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Main AuthorMilton, John, 1608-1674.Related NamesCotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), 1846-1924, ed. Language(s)English PublishedLondon [etc.] Blackie & son, limited, 1902. Note"On rhythm in English verse": Appendix I (p. 97-105) Physical Description112 p.[bfront. (facsim.) 19 cm.

[jaysen-vor-hee-hees]

<+> The Ramirez Family <+>

CW/TW: workaholic(?), implied murder, mentions of blood, mentions of bladed weapons, That Fear of Eyes Or Whatever, mentions of chemicals(?), implications of death(?), implied abandonment, implied isolation.

(Note there’s more I may not have noticed or not been able to label, but uh- yeah. just be careful. (also (?) means i didn’t know if it was the right wording or something i had to warn for but did anyway))

Author’s note: Very vaguely inspired by Something to Hide by grandson? I dunno I got bored. It was originally meant to be poetry but I gave up. Uh- I also tried to organise them by age order! I eventually found the note that listed their ages so that’s cool.

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His jaw is set and his word is final, yet his crown sits crooked on his head and there’s dark intentions that linger behind his eyes. Deceiving, vicious, cruel. He calls himself a ruler but he cowers behind his guards like a shield. If I were you, I wouldn’t consider even trusting him for or about anything.

Gentle voice and hands as soft as a Mother’s touch, she was a regalia of perfection and formality. A sweet bliss and an easy life. But if only people knew what she did once the curtains close. Oh, if only they knew.

A mess of bright green and inky black, limbs and eyes, things I can’t quite put the words to. A creature of Hell itself, sentient but terrifyingly savage. Misunderstood isn’t a label it falls under anymore, and in my honest opinion it never was in the first place.

A demon with a voice of gold and a tongue of silver. A frightening elegance and a distressing grace. It knows what it wants, and what it wants it gets. Unhindered, ethereal. Blood on it’s clawed hands and roses in it’s razor teeth. Charming and terrifying. It’s like there’s two personalities behind those glowing eyes that somehow work in harmony with each other.

Her retreat is sanitary halls, buzzing lights, whirring machinery and chemicals that probably weren’t verified by any branch of official. But her choice comes with a price. Isolation, a sense of guilt. A life of work and strain and fatigue and more work and more work and more work and-

Innocence and wide eyes, he sees the world like a small child. Colours and shapes and simplicity. A comfortable, easy lie. Sure, he has his moments, anybody at his age would, but his persistence breeds progress. He’s sort of like a puppy, really.

She’s just so… pure. And warm. She’s like a safe haven, a place to feel welcomed and protected and wanted. Hair like a cherry blossom and eyes like the sky they grow below. Her voice is soft, reassuring, and reminds me of a cup of hot chocolate after a long day.

A heavy blade but a heart of gold, he’s a picture of romance and charisma. Natural charm, sleek and beautiful. What else could you want from a man? He’s a sweetheart really, very kind hearted. If they could there’d be a whole lot of people bowing at his feet. Not that he’d ever want that flattery.

Everything just feels so new to him. He doesn’t quite understand anything that’s happening and he feels lost. He just wants guidance, someone to hear his desperate cries for help, but there’s always no response. There’s never anybody there to help him, to hold his hand and show him what to do. He’s scared, and he’s fully accepted it at this point.

Those that were forgotten? Or otherwise discarded? Oh, don’t you worry about them. I’m sure you’ll find them somewhere else. They’re around. Most of them at least.

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[stastrodome]

Poems evoking the myrtle Swains who are tossed in the sea Being the simplest Urkel Dreaming of East Tennessee

[herpsandbirds]

Trilobite Beetle (Platerodrilus paradoxus), female, family Lycidae, Sarawak, Borneo

The males are much smaller, and look like a typical yellow and black net-winged beetle. The females... look like this (retaining a larval form).

The females can grow up to 8 cm (3.15 in.) in length.

photographs by Nick Volpe

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: JUNE 29TH, 2024 | Image IDs: Three photos of a black and orange net-winged beetle on the end of a thin brown and grey log /End IDs.]

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

The world of entomology has been shaken by a recent discovery: a beetle without wings! Xenomorphon baranowskii is a small beetle found in Oaxaca, Mexico, is the only species of beetle where wings and their hard coverings (elytra) are absent in both males and females; among beetles, wings are particularly important for seeking out mates, so their absence in X. baranowskii is truly one of a kind.

(Image: A museum specimen of Xenomorphon baranowskii by Ferriera et al. 2023)

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[snototter]

A female trilobite beetle (Platerodrilus sp.) in Malaysia

by Anthony KeiC Wong

[creatureimages]

lycid beetle and its belid weevil mimic!

[sirhinkjinks]

open mic poetry night what is bro SAYING

[sleepyyghostt]

cosplayed my oc (dnd character's dad) last night :D

[platycryptus]

a trio of banded net-winged beetles (Calopteron reticulatum or C. discrepans) engaged in some sort of indescribable debauchery

net-winged beetles (Lycidae) are one of several families closely related to fireflies, but while most members of this group are carnivorous as larvae, those of lycids feed on slime molds and fungi.

(Massachusetts, 8/11/23)

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

Can you do trilobite beetles, the aggregating anemone, shipworms, the chuckwalla, and the spotted cuscus? Thank you!

Good choices all around, I like the variety! I'll cue up the others :)

The first image is of a female, the second is of a male. I recommend looking up pictures of what the face of the females look like, they're very cute.

[iersei]

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[newvegascowboy]

Look, I'm not necessarily mad that izzy has died, but the WAY he's died is so unsatisfying I'm just baffled.

I said it in the tags of my previous post, but Izzy dying doesn't actually make narrative sense imo. The narrative goes to grea lengths to show us that Izzy is a survivor, firstly, and secondly, he has people and things worth surviving for. His suicide attempt and metaphorical death + rebirth was SO impactful because it shows us an Izzy who is finally living for something other than Ed, who if finally making choices for someone other than Ed. If shooting him in the storm was supposed to be their breakup, that's where it should have ended.

So much of S2 was devoted to showing us what Izzy is like without Ed around and growing in to a life he thought was unreachable. In a lot of ways, I think Izzy mirrors Ed's belief that he's unlovable. While Ed's storyline is primarily driven by a romantic relationship, Izzy is surrounded by, loved, and accepted by the crew of the Revenge. He's their Unicorn.

Having him die in Ed's arms undercuts the entirety of the storyline they wrote out for him. Not only that, but having him claim to WANT to die? You can't tell me that's anything other than a bold faced lie. Izzy has so MUCH to live for, and this is repeatedly shown to us in his interactions with the crew, with Stede, and other people.

If Izzy had to die, he should have done it surrounded by the crew of thr Revenge holding his hand. If he had acknowledged that he didnt want to go, that would have made his death so much more meaningful. Instead, we get Izzy once again throwing out his own agency for Blackbeard and minimizing the entirety of his arc for S2.

Izzy SHOULD have left blackbeard behind, but he should have gone on to captain the Revenge and not. That.