#the moth & spider thing

[dosiadove]

i need more friends who love bugs. I cant take telling people i love bugs and there reaction being "i hate them i kill everyone i see", or "ew" ( and then giving me a weird look. where are the bug lovers? where are my friends? let me show you my collection, lets draw insects together, lets make power points of our favorites.

[bugthingsdaily]

today's bug thing are these world of eric carle band aids!

[a-s-levynn]

I have traveled far beyond the path of reason, take me back to Eden

edit: more context in the tags of the root post

[reflectionsofgalaxies]

met a VERY charming lil friend yesterday who i have never (knowingly) seen before!!! 🖤💛

this is the Sequoia Pitch moth (Synanthedon sequoiae), yes, moth! these fascinating little creatures bear an incredible resemblance to members of the family Vespidae, like common paper wasps and yellowjackets, and that’s no simple coincidence!

the appearance of these moths is an example of Batesian mimicry, a type of mimicry where one species mimics the warning signals of another species, but without having the same harmful or undesirable defences.

in this case these moths look like they may give you a nasty sting, but really they’re about as harmless as a moth can be! (plus they have gorgeous slightly iridescent black-lined wings and fluffy little shrimp-like tails! absolute cuties!)

[c-kiddo]

creatures that were walking on me when i sat on a rock to eat my lunch . there was also a grey spider that walked on my trousers but i didnt take a picture . 2 or 3 tiny grasshoppers though

[aastarions]

trying to be brave but i just witnessed (4) different types of bugs in our house this evening and if i see one more im gonna lose it

[roaming-therians]

Intro

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ENDOS DNI

Welcome to my therian/otherkin ect sideblog !! Here I'll post about being a alterhuman :3

We are a polyfrag DID system, autistic, ADHD, bpd, anxiety and more

Bodily 18, gay, aroacespecs, trans ftm and xenogenders

All types of alterhumanity are welcome without ANY judgement, whether it's spiritual, physical, system born, a mix of reason, ect I love you all.

No matter how many kintypes someone has you are welcome here!! Whether you kin everything or just 1

This is a list of kintypes, reminder that we are a system, some alters identify with the kintypes while others don't, this is a big list

My theriotypes are black cat, brown cat, crow, otter, red panda, fox, sugar glider, fruit bat, pinktoe tarantula, blue peacock tarantula, bold jumping spider, and the poodle moth

My otherkintypes are demon, enderman, tv heads, a starflesh cat and alien

I'm otherhearted as well and my hearted identities are wolves, owls, forests, liminal spaces, space, voids, and stuffies

Main blog: @starry-city-sys

DNI/bmf

All dividers taken from here here here and finally here

[chibifox2002]

Redraw of this post!

Vezzpa belongs to cosmicwhoreo (tagged in linked post)

[barghest-land]

one last look at the moon

[cordycepsbian]

theyre having Cave Dinner

[gsstories]

Poison Maple

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In a swamp, there was a Rosy Maple Moth creature sitting and leaning on a brick wall, talking to something or someone. The moth had blue skin with purple splotches around her face, a bit of green on the tips of her fingers and ears, a fluffy collar that was yellow and pink, light pink hair that reached her mid back with matching wings and a fluffy tail as well. She wore a red crop top with a brown corset with the sides having some holes in them, her pants being dark brown and her thigh high boots being black. Her eyes were blood red, the irises a white color and her antennas red and transparent.

"People keep asking 'Oh, but why ingest poison? It's sooooo bad for you, it could kill you!' I know that, you think I just started eating poison right off the bat? No! I took it little by little! It tasted so good but eating more than I could handle hurt my stomach, it was sooooo annoying!" The Rosy Maple Moth complained to the creature behind the wall, who was watching through the hole.

"That truly sounds frustrating... What did you do with those who asked, hmm?" The voice behind the wall asked.

"I ate them! I didn't want to hear their voices anymore, so annoying! They didn't even taste that good! No poison or venom, nothing!" The bloody moth huffed as she crossed her arms, her fur getting ruffled in her annoyance.

"Do tell, just HOW did you become so obsessed with poison?" The voice, who belonged to a spider creature, asked.

"It started with a mushroom... A simple, inconspicuous mushroom. I ate it. I got high, like, sooooo high! And when I woke up, I felt pretty crappy. But the kick that mushroom had... it was exhilirating! I felt excited, so alive!" Gin, the moth, exclaimed as her wings flapped at the memory. "Back when I was a harmless moth, I was so shy... SO scared to take the risk of anything... But after that mushroom, I saw there was so much to the world, so many things that could make me feel alive, I had to find more!"

"Prefer the you that you are now I assume?" The spider chuckled.

"Of course I do. I am not afraid anymore! I am not a weak moth anymore! Others fear ME now!" The moth said, her eyes widening as her mouth turned into a wide, sharp smile, drooling a bit as she looked crazed.

"Ahhh, bringing others fear really is the best feeling~" The spider, Eclipse, said, grinning behind the wall.

"Truly... I'm getting hungry." Gin said as her fur got ruffled up.

"Do bring something for me for when you hunt, sugarfly..." Eclipse said.

"Of course!" The moth said as she stood up before flying off to hunt.

The spider smiled behind his prison. How fun to have a fellow maniac like himself around...

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I wanted to make it longer but this all I could come up with!

Swamp Things AU belongs to @missterious-figure! I tried my best to write Eclipse as accurate as possible, I apologize if it ain't!

Gin the Bloody Rosy Maple Moth be mine!

[the-lark-ascending69]

Now I'm thinking about a His Dark Materials x Stranger Things AU and the similarities are just enough for it to make a lot of sense but both stories have so much material (pun intended) in them that I don't even know where to start, other than with the fact that the scientists and Brenner and everyone is the Magisterium, Will is taken by the Gobblers/the General Oblation Board, El is probably from Will's World (Will Parry's world, not to be confused with Will Byers - there are just too many Wills here), and she doesn't have a visible dæmon. Barb is a bit too old to be taken by the Gobblers - she probably got caught finding information she shouldn't know and they got rid of her. I feel like the Byers would be gyptians, too, living in a gyptian boat. Henry Creel was probably the one to first open a gate between world by ripping himself apart from his own dæmon, and that's part of how he kills people - severing from their dæmons, killing them, opening a gate. The parallels are just too strong!

But I wouldn't set it in Europe like the original books... I would set it in North America, in their canon location.

The Globetrotter's Map shows that the United States does not exist in this world - instead you get New Denmark, Texas, and Beringia (Alaska), bordering Hispania Nova to the south and New France to the north. That would make them New Danish, right? And maybe the only General Oblation Board facility is in Svalbard and they need to go all the way across New France and Greenland to get there, or maybe this time around there's a facility in Beringia, or simply in the New French far north. Somewhere far away, hopefully where you can see the northern lights. I like that idea, to keep it more North America inspired.

After whatever experiments they perform on Will, he can separate from his dæmon like a witch, but it also kind of feels like his dæmon can cross worlds without need for a portal, and this happens unexpectedly and without them being able to control it. El, of course, is considered an aberration since she does not have a dæmon, but the party pretty quickly figures that she does - it's just "inside of her".

Jonathan is maybe a photographer who got his hands on some special equipment to photograph dust - something he shouldn't be allowed to own. Steve is on his way to joining the Magisterium's law enforcement arm, though he quickly realizes how horrible the Magisterium really is. Jason is the one who stays there and continues to rise through the ranks. Eddie is the town heretic who just wants to enjoy his fantasy books - banned by the Magisterium for promoting subversive ideas about God, or just not having God be present, or whatever. He has a small secret fantasy reading club where he and the boys like to enjoy forbidden literature about dragons and knights and play board games based on them. The town does not like it. El can communicate directly with Dust. She's like a human alethiometer. Robin is New Denmark's most dangerous polyglot who just accidentally intercepted some weird messages on the radio in multiple different languages about missing children in Beringia. Hopper used to work for the Magisterium as a law enforcer until his daughter mysteriously disappeared and they refused to give him an answer. Max is just there to punch God in the face.

It's almost 6 am and I haven't had any sleep so idk if this makes sense... but it makes sense in my little heart

[poolsidepanic]

chrissy to me is the sort of person to catch insects in the house gently to release them outside. she has named the spider that lives out of her reach in the corner behind her wardrobe. she also spends time when chasing moths around trying to catch them telling them how beautiful they are. she speaks soothingly to them as if they understand her :)

[cosmos-fudge]

joy, bug/spider pictures be upon thee

[saintajax]

plagued thinking about the insect theming we’ve had for every fatui boss fight so far* and the greater implications thats holds for possible dottore or tsaritsa fight......