#non moth post

[mysticmothworld]

Honourary non-moth post: the peanut-head lanternfly

Sometimes mistakenly called the peanut-head moth, these little fellas are part of the order Hemiptera (true bugs) family Fulgoridae (fulgorid planthoppers).

"But why," you may ask, "are they called peanut-heads?" Let me show you.

Goofy fella #1

Goofy fella #2

These ridiculous false heads are shared by both males and females, so it's not a result of sexual selection. It's theorized that it's to avoid them getting their actual heads bitten off, which if you look at a closeup, is behind the false one:

Oh and btw. Even though they're called lanternflies they don't actually glow in the dark. And Costa Ricans believe they're poisonous and if you get bitten by them you have to have sex at least within the next 24 hours, and by some accounts, immediately.

They are distributed across tropical Mexico, Central and South America. And yeah they're just really strange and cool.

[mysticmothworld]

Also to add to this, if you paint with RYB and only have one paint tube for each primary, ur seriously limiting yourself. If you have a cool and a warm version of each primary, u can mix pretty much any colour. This is called colour bias and it literally saved my colour mixing.

To make a long story into a short one: warm blue has more red. Warm yellow also has more red. So when you mix them you're essentially mixing all the primary colours, which creates brown (albeit a very greenish brown). To bypass this problem you can mix cool blue and cool yellow, bc cool yellow has a blue bias and vice versa. So no brown undertone.

I learnt all this after a very frustrated past me decided to google how to paint better green, and i found this article which explains colour bias in more detail:

It's a very interesting read and it's the article that made me go from hating colour theory to liking it, so i highly recommend it :)

[mysticmothworld]

Here's to a year on this hellsite. Love yall :)

[peach-moths]

Goldenrods and Moths

The 2024 Unicorn

[ 2023 ]

[misty-moth]

#birthdaybert 🖤👑🖤

[laced-containment-chamber]

i wanted a goth gf but god misheard me so i got a moth gf instead. she ate all my warm clothes how will i survive the winter

[resident-silly]

scratch project idk i wanted to share my lampert design with the actual colors :3 yes i have the lampert wallmark son hc sorry if thats not ur thing

[chimerabytes]

Cuddles...

[monstersandmaw]

Six spot burnet moth on a wild orchid, South Downs, UK

(C) do not use, edit, reupload

[smileymoth]

being femme presenting non binary is so fucked up bc youll be fighting nail and tooth with YOURSELF that you are infact non binary and not just "girl who thinks shes nb"

[blurry-coining]

Reminder! That asks are open and we are waiting with excitement for when we see your wonderful requests!

[mysticmothworld]

Oohh so many choicess, i read some interesting cixin liu books this year tho so i have to say those (it was 3 body problem and for the benefit of mankind, which is a pretty fire graphic novel) (no seriously the commentary on capitalism and just greed in general is just *chefs kiss*)

Ye ik it was supposed to be 1 but i suck at choosing

drop the best book you read in 2023 in the tags please!

[mysticmothworld]

Sorry for not replying to stuff so quickly recently. Life has been lifeing.

[tomaturtles]

I haven't drawn Viola in too long

[cryptidm0ths]

so so so so so what if i just did research into men's regency fashion to draw the butler shuffle

[mysticmothworld]

My url is so long this might take a while ;-;

Murder on the dancefloor (sophie ellis-bextor) (ye one of my friends convinced me to watch saltburn by telling me it was gay :/)

Your teeth (peach pit)

Summer wine (nancy sinatra and lee hazlewood)

Tunnel of you (cannons)

Im autistic (i dont get social cues) by BJ connolly

Cold (tears for fears)

Mortal projections (djo)

Only a fool would say that (steely dan)

The moth (remastered) by bobby woods and les deaux love orchestra

Honey (drugdealer and weyes blood)

Wet dream (wet leg) (its good i promise just dont listen without headphones)

On the back burner (the reytons)

Runner (djo)

Laid (james) (also use headphones)

Down to the waterline (dire straits)

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And anyone else i left out due to the tag limit tbh

Rules: pick a song for each letter of your URL and tag that many people.

Tagged by @sailforvalinor, and thank you this looks like fun!

Remember and Proclaim (Andrew Peterson)

All I Ask of You (Jackie Evancho)

Innocence (Nathan Wagner)

Níl Sé'n Lá (Celtic Woman)

I Still Need a Savior (Billy Sprague)

No Strings (Ed Sheeran)

Take Me Back Road (Tim & the Glory Boys)

How Great is Our God (Chris Tomlin)

Everything Sad is Coming Untrue (Jason Grey)

El-Shaddai (Amy Grant)

Voice of Truth (Casting Crowns)

Endlessly (Amaranthe)

Not Alone (Red)

I'm an Open Road (Paul Brandt)

Never Leave Your Side (Sam Tinnesz)

Good to Be Alive (Skillet)

Hoo boy, can I think of sixteen people?

@griseldabanks @kraytwriter @kingofattolia @catkin-morgs @clawedandcute @nerdychristianfanboy @steampunk-archer @sergeanttomycaptain @smhalltheurlsaretaken @scribblermerlin @authortobenamedlater @stainedleather @mrtobenamedlater @mrgartist @get-loved-nerd @a-fount-of-blessings (Ignore if this is a repeat tag. Unless you want to do it again. Up to you. :)