#thank you for the ask beetle!

[myrmica]

ask game! 💛 4, 7, 18? 🪲

4. piece you wish got more love?

maybe this one even though it got a pretty normal amount of attention. i just spent so fucking long on it and it was such an arduous and terrible process that i think they should put it up on billboards or weave a tapestry to hang in a grand dining hall about it or send me $1000 by mail. this one also because it makes me happy to look at

7. easiest thing for you to draw?

clothing folds, which i think is sort of a talent for being something i find easy/relaxing that other people report struggling with? bird wings too... or people embracing/holding each other/touching in general... relaxing and joyful to draw. also shoulder anatomy in a weird way?

18. something you feel like you need to work on?

i'm not sure!!! i don't have any specific goals really. i can always get better at everything but it doesn't feel urgent since it doesn't get in the way of making the things i want to make, and if it does, i can just figure it out. right now i'm thinking about drawing hands because that's most relevant to what i'm working on... i've been wanting to do more environments for a while too but i don't know when it'll ever come up

[dek0pon]

beetle table <3 maple, white oak, walnut

[filobooster]

Have you ever thought about Booster and Ted as the Roman Gladiator and cowboy from night at the museum? 👀

happy pride month 2018, i aint quittin on you…

[feather-bone]

Have you made any art of orcas? I can't seem to find any with Tumblr's broken tag search, so I figured I'd ask in case you haven't. Thank you, and I love all your art! It always puts a smile on my face when I see it. c: ❤️

I have! I was a couple years ago, I also can't find the original post. Broken website lol ;w; So here's a re-upload of The Whale because I am quite fond of this guy !!

[ID: a digital illustration of an orca facing to the right on a simple ocean background. Sunlight is filtering in from above, and there are small fish surrounding it. End.]

[normal-about-the-dca]

Bday moon

Hope you had a good one!

AAAAAA THANK YOU!!!!! HE IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!

I wonder what's in the box? Another smaller Moon holding another smaller box?? With another even smaller Moon with an even smaller box inside???

It was a fun day!

[wazzappp]

y'know the fangs? and the mandibles? what if jaime had to go to the dentist.... bro........................

Oh bro for fuckin real

I like to think that the Justice League has some sort of care structure for nonhuman or recently nonhuman people. That way Jaime can get some like. Decent medical care lmao. I think even by League standards he's still pretty fuckin weird though. How would you test the healthiness of MANDIBLES????

... I have some ideas..... fuck I'm gonna need to draw that.

But him going to a normal dentist oh my GOD. Going to give some poor soul a godamn heart attack. '...ok seeing some. Unique. Canine and molar growth. Can you just lift up your tongue for me- OH MY FUCKING GOD'

[ladychandraofthemoone]

What's the story of Diesel 10? Also, considering that putting a claw on the roof of a locomotive is illegal, did he have his Pinchy removed?

Welp, I don’t have much on him but Diesel 10’s og name was Vanguard but was severely mistreated and emotionally/physically abused and manipulated. He was more of a experiment from pt boomer and dr Owen routh who are both really awful towards him and his former colleagues)where ya think 10 is from)

he was their guinea pig and they wanted to push the limits on certain criteria hence Project 10. Unfortunately since the doctor basically infused the claw into him, it’s potentially fatal in engine terms to remove (or it’s gotta be a very long process but with repercussions)

so now he’s just using it to clar off debris from the tracks or take scrap around.

[jorvikzelda]

Hello! What's your favorite bug?

I’m afraid I don’t know!! There’s so many and they’re all so fascinating and I know so little about any of them!! Lately ive had isopods on the brain but mostly because ive been getting isopod facts fed to me on a semiregular basis so they’re like. the one bug subtype i know some things about lmaoo

Here’s some bugs i have on my cane :)

[kibbits]

colorfull betles👁👁

Jewel Beetle (Cyphogastra javanica)

scarab beetle, i didnt found the species name

Cetoniinae-Cetonischema

Fiddler beetles (Eupoecila australasiae)

!!!!!! OH THEY'RE SO PRETTY THANK YOU!!!

The closest i could find for the unidentified scarab is the rainbow scarab (phanaeus vindex) female? (a dung beetle!) tho i dont think the mandible is as visible

AAA I love iridescent bugs and I love high contrast!! I think the Cetoniinae-Cetonischema and the green Fiddler Beetle are my favs in this batch but i love them all!!!

[zeawesomebirdie]

🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction? 🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings 🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately? 🪲 ⇢ add 50 words to your current wip and share the paragraph here. Two can play the beetle game!

[for this ask game here]

Thank you so much for the ask Sun!!

🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction?

Oh man this is a story. So, when I was a little kid, my family used to go on road trips all the time, and to pass the time, I would tell stories to my siblings about whatever movies we had watched recently. I didn't know that fanfiction was a thing until I was 11, when one of my friends at school told me about ff.net, and then I started writing down my fics, so that when I turned 13 I could make an account over there and post my fics too

🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

Bruce was Dick's very first crush, and he never ever gets over that, even if it's a universe where they don't end up together

🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?

I answered this here, but another thing that makes me click away is preachy writing, where the author appears to be using their fic as a soapbox for whatever moral argument they're trying to make

🪲 ⇢ add 50 words to your current wip and share the paragraph here.

Thank you for this, I just added like 500 words to the Britt/Kato fic I've been avoiding for the last two weeks!!

full snippet below the cut

Britt led him down the hall, flicking the parlor lights off as he passed the switch. Once in the bedroom, Britt released his hand, and instead of the usual running commentary on what they would be doing come morning, Britt stayed quiet as he began preparing for bed.

That wasn’t the odd thing, in and of itself; after all, Britt was usually more reserved after a night where the Hornet had to save Kato rather than the other way around. But there was something decidedly off about Britt’s behavior, about his silence, Kato was sure of it by the time Britt slipped into bed beside him, tenting his knees under the covers as he leaned back against the headboard before turning to look at Kato with an unreadable expression.

“Can I ask you something, Kato?” Britt asked, his hands fisting into the quilt as though he was fighting the urge to hide beneath it.

Kato had been expecting this, but when he nodded for Britt to go ahead, the question itself was entirely unexpected.

“Would you ever want a family?”

It seemed that all the air in the bedroom had been sucked out the windows all at once. Kato stared back at Britt, a million answers on his tongue, yet none of them the right ones, not when Britt was twisting the quilt between his hands and clearly waiting for some sort of reply. Even after a deep breath, which did nothing to steady his now racing thoughts, Kato couldn’t formulate any kind of sentence that would adequately express just what it was he wanted.

“I mean,” Britt said after a long silence, “would you ever want a family with me?”

“How would that work, what with Miss Case?” Kato managed to ask, his heart in his throat.

That was the wrong thing to say.

Britt deflated, looking down at the quilt bunched in his hands, his lips drawing down in a frown though he was visibly trying to not let his face betray him.

“I haven’t got a clue.” His voice was no longer the confident tone Kato was used to from him; instead he sounded almost lost. “It was just a— just a thought, a whim. Nothing meant by it.”

Whatever emotions crashed within Kato’s chest, he couldn’t bear the sight of Britt’s clear dejection, and Kato took one of Britt’s hands in his own. Britt didn’t react whatsoever, his hand limp in Kato’s, even when Kato tried to lace their fingers together.

“No, Britt, please,” he said softly, and somehow that got Britt to look back at him, “I would want— I do want a family with you.” He paused for a breath, just in case Britt wanted to say something, and when he didn’t, Kato continued. “We just need to think about how we can go about it. Miss Case would be happy to help, would she not?”

[spongebob-connoisseur]

i truly and honestly admire your dedication to slappy laszlo from spongebob it's like nothing ive seen before (positive) it has given me motivation to watch the newer seasons of sb and watch the patrick star show

AHHHH!✨ NEW FOLLOWER FOR THE SLAPPY CULT‼‼‼‼💕💕💕💕

Welcome! There will be bugs! Beetle juice! and live executions!

Also here's a little something something for ya <3

[corviiids]

I like the alpine longhorn beetle. It's blue! 🩵 Sort of grey-leaning blue but still neat, especially when compared to other longhorn beetles or, well, most other bugs in central europe. It also has black markings so it can blend in with the bark on beech trees, where they live. Sadly they're a threatened species, with their numbers falling greatly in recent years. They're classified as a protected species in several countries because of it.

thank you for being the only person who actually told me about bugs.

[mikey-stardust-way]

Who is your favorite Sonic idw character? And no you have to skip Clutch!

...well that's unfair-(I'm kidding)

I like a lot of the characters!! Even if I can't tell you much on them-(it's been a minute since I read some of the comics) I at least love their look/names!

Which was a big reason I liked clutch, he's just sooo...Wild looking, he reminds me more of a Sly Cooper villian vs. Someone I'd see in a sonic work!! So yeah- but this sint about him.

So...realistically? Favorite-? I know he wasn't created BY or FOR IDW...but Nack/Fang...the jerboa...the purple- him- HES SO SILLY LOOK!!

(PETITTION TO SEE HIM IN MORE IDW COMICS PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE-!!!! HIM AND CLUTCH TEAMUP WHEN-!!??!?)

Again however, he wasn't created for IDW, but they do have some comics for him! So yay🎉💕💕

For very real, created by IDW characters, my beloveds include: Mimic, Whisper, and Belle.

Mimic? He's just fun to me, and I LOVE his cat form it's so so silly SO silly to me. Whisper? Also amazing, very fun, looks super cool and sci-fi to me- veeery...makes me think of rachet and clank for some reason? Belle? I'm a sucker for puppet like things.

Belle is awesome though, like...she's so silly!!! SO SILLY! I love her design she makes me think of a mouse too, and like just so fun :3 silly little wooden gal!

I was imidiatly invested and curious when she showed up so there's that too.

Also worth noting: JEWEL!! Shed like me! Collects gems and rocks because pretry and cool!!

[gloombog]

hi. which of those beetles do you like the most. in that post from like 10:30

HI. i gotta say i am very fond of the diabolical ironclad beetle he is so texture

[normal-about-the-dca]

Going through your blog since I came across a lovely post with Luna and Moon and now! Obsessed with Robots in Ponyville!

So I have a few questions and feel free to answer as many or as little as you want!

How does DCA react to colourful, talking, magical ponies?

Is the virus present here and does that affect much of the story and is there any effort to help get rid of it?

What role do they get (ie childcare, baking, etc) and where do they live during their time in Equestria?

Whats Twilights initial reaction and if this happens post Equestria Girls does she write to have any input from Sunset about these human looking robots?

Since we have an idea of Luna reaction/relationship with Moon whats it like with Sun? And how does Celestia react/interact with either of them?

Thank you so much for an amazing idea to brainrot over!

Anon I am BITING YOU!!! I AM BITING YOU (POSITIVE)!!!! I'll answer with a bulleted list under the cut so as to not clog people's dashboards with a super long post. I am SO EXCITED TO TALK ABOUT IT!!!

Okay! Both are honestly terrified at first, but they react in different ways. Sun is the first to encounter the ponies and Moon's later direct encounter is informed by his memory of Sun's. Sun is a people pleaser, so he seems like he's going with the flow. He's not. He's just biding his time until he can find a way out of this mess. Moon decides to cause as many inconveniences as he can because he's not sure if the ponies are being genuine in their attempts to help them. He operates under a "you can't hurt me if I hurt you first" mindset.

The virus is very much still present! It's not as intense as it was in the Pizzaplex since the Daycare Attendant is no longer connected to the network, but it did fundamentally change them. The effects of the virus play a big role in both Sun/Moon's arcs. If the can get rid of it or not? Time will tell.

They live in Ponyville for the time being! They don't intend to have a permanent residence, so they kind of live with each of the Mane 6 for a while... Minus Rainbow Dash and not just because she lives in the clouds.

Twilight is FASCINATED. Equestria has never seen machinery as advanced as the DCA let alone anything that runs without magic. She's read about the multiverse theory of course, but seeing living(?) proof of it is mind blowing! I'll be honest, I didn't even consider EQG. I'm thinking Equestria Girls happens much later in the Robots in Ponyville timeline, if only for my own peace of mind. So Twilight has no idea what humans are.

Sun is very wary of both princesses. Luna because of the similarities between Nightmare Moon and his own lunar counterpart, and Celestia because he cannot understand her own actions. Moon kind of resents Celestia for what she did to Luna all those centuries ago, even if her sister has forgiven her. Celestia, like Luna, sees herself and her sister in the animatronic's relationship and wants to help them. She is annoyed by Sun's attitude, but doesn't show it most of the time. He may or may not occasionally manage to get under her skin.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ASKING!!!! There's so much more I wanna get into, but that would veer into spoiler territory. I am currently writing a fic for the au, slow going as it may be, and I don't want to spoil it all before it's done. Thank you again for the wonderful ask you made my day!!

[wazzappp]

I saw a little more of the Milagro Green Lantern AU and that kinda got me thinking: so GL rogues, right? Some of them are easy to deal with, most of them not so much and she fights Doctor Polaris as much as her brother does. But eventually the one who does get under her skin the most is Cyborg Superman. He’s a deranged scientist hellbent on revenge and genocide and he’d find out about Jaime and his Reach tech. And the thing with Henshaw, he’s a technopath. So just imagine all the shit Milagro would go through when Jaime and Khaji get re written into instruments of selfish war and death while everyone else she loves is held at gunpoint. Ohhhhhhh the angst caused by one malevolent piece of shit.

AJKLDJKL OH MY FUCKING GODDDD

Oh Milagro would throw that man into the DIRT as HARD AS PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE. Get ready for the overcharged rage of an older sister who has HAD ENOUGH ALREADY of her brother getting mind controlled and forced to fight her. Idk if Millagro could kill Cyborg Superman cause I'm not all that familiar with him. But holy shit you can bet your ass she would TRY.

God Jaime is just getting thrown against the wall so much here lmfaooooo. I feel like because Khaji is a symbiote and is partially machine and partially organic (KHAJI HAS DNA FOR THE FUCKING WINNNNNN) they would eventually be able to develop some kind of defense against the kind of technopathy Henshaw would use. Im not saying that Henshaw wouldn't have a lil bit of WIGGLE ROOM where he could still puppet them around though 👀