#wasp girl

[shubbabang]

its FINALLY UP

[vii-spider]

oops forgot to post them here

oc content babyyyyyyyyy!!!!! *guitar riff*

paper wasp, stag beetle, and millipede respectively

[efraart-mix]

Happy Pocky Day to everyone!!! Especially to the sweet Bug ship 💚💛💚💛💚💛. Hahaha yes xD, just like the year with Polaris and Kevin, now I bring you Pocky Day with Escáloz and Goldie 😊😊😊. They look so cute,

Me: 🪲

lady_shadow_3 🐝

[capozzy]

i AM doing goretober. it DID take me 5 days to start. dont worry about it!

[faunamoth]

vivi

character belongs to RecinerateArt

[chu-art]

Fan art of newly debut E.V.A.A the techno wasp warrior!

[DO NOT STEAL OR REPOST THIS ART]

[seraphonfire]

Cringetober day 22 - Maid Dress. Does anyone remember waspmaid my friend waspmaid? she's a wasp she works as a maid she gets one penny per month she's looking into unionizing

[yourlocalpickle]

Guys imagine if wasps ate humans

I don't need to imagine that, I already have one. Main villain of my comic, who fluctuates between being the absolutely worst and yet least bad person at the same time.

She also built like the ultimate muscle (and also thicc) mommy and has an entire freaking human eating gang.

Before turning to eating and harassing humans, she used to be an aprentice medic/doctor. But let's just say things did not go the expected way.

Oh and she has ultimate beef with Rosie. Two problematic queens ✨️ both with a fucked up interest in humans' anatomy.

Hey if you got so far, here are some more sketches of her cause why not

[myosotis-secunda]

bug girl concepts

[thelocalbard-blog]

Christmas Wasp Girl

The BEE-03W Wasp Girl from Snail Shell, checking out the lights, the tree, the presents, and the fireplace with her pet hornet.

[burnedsilvercookies]

art of a formerly scrapped character, Alphiene, a sort of evil counterpart to my other oc, Sashii

[vii-spider]

very late may-fly 10th: akita nerustes

SORRY i forgot to post this yesterday, and all day friday i was busy moving out of my dorm 😭

regardless! with miku and teto done, i couldn't not complete the trio with neru. i went with a wasp- specifically the genus polistes of paper wasp- since, i felt that fit her. and, honestly, i just LOVE wasps

not a ton to say on this one either! her names comes from neru and polistes, i debated in my head a bit over whether it should be nerustes or neristes, but i think nerustes works a bit better

[intothestacks]

I was flipping through one of the new books I got for the library and I came across this:

Nick Fury canonically owns a guinea pig, y'all.

[cloud-ya]

lost wasp in my house again, might mean that i should draw wasp mei and spider kiana together for once

[realismovisceral]

Monica Wasp

by Ana Dias / Playboy 2019

[inkskinned]

one of the things that i think we should pay attention to, socially, about the disney v. desantis thing is that it is really highlighting the importance of remembering nuance.

in a purely neutral sense, if you engage in something problematic, that does not mean you are necessarily agreeing with what makes it problematic. and i am worried that we have become... so afraid of any form of nuance.

disney isn't my friend, they're a corporate monopoly that bastardized copyright laws for their own benefit, ruin the environment, and abuse their workers (... and many other things). this isn't a hypothetical for me - i grew up in florida. i also worked for the actual Walt Disney World; like, in the parks. i am keenly aware of the ways they hurt people, because they hurt me. i fully believe that part of the reason florida is so conservative is because it's been an "open secret" for years now that disney lobbies the government to keep minimum wage down, and i know they worked hard to keep the parks unmasked and open during the worst parts of Covid. they purposefully keep their employees in poverty. they are in part responsible for the way the floridian government works.

desantis is still, by a margin that is frankly daunting, way worse. the alternative here isn't just "republicans win", it's actual fascism.

in a case like this, where the alternative is to allow actual fascism into united states legislation - where, if desantis wins, there are huge and legal ramifications - it's tempting to minimize the harm disney is also doing, because... well, it's not fascism. but disney isn't the good guy, either, which means republicans are having a field day asking activists oh, so you think their treatment of their employees is okay?

we have been trained there is a right answer. you're right! you're in the good group, and you're winning at having an opinion.

except i have the Internet Prophecy that in 2-3 months, even left-wing people will be ripping apart activists for having "taken disney's side". aren't i an anti-capitalist? aren't i pro-union? aren't i one of the good ones? removed from context and nuance (that in this particular situation i am forced to side with disney, until an other option reveals itself), my act of being like "i hope they have goofy rip his throat out onstage, shaking his lifeless body like a dog toy" - how quickly does that seem like i actually do support disney?

and what about you! at home, reading this. are you experiencing the Thought Crime of... actually liking some of the things disney has made? your memories of days at the parks, or of good movies, or of your favorite show growing up. maybe you are also evil, if you ever enjoyed anything, ever, at all.

to some degree, the binary idealization/vilification of individual motive and meaning already exists in the desantis case. i have seen people saying not to go to the disney pride events because they're cash grabs (they are). i've seen people saying you have to go because they're a way to protest. there isn't a lot of internet understanding of nuance. instead it's just "good show of support" or "evil bootlicking."

this binary understanding is how you can become radicalized. when we fear nuance and disorder, we're allowing ourselves the safety of assuming that the world must exist in binary - good or bad, problematic or "not" problematic. and unfortunately, bigots want you to see the world in this binary ideal. they want you to get mad at me because "disney is taking a risk for our community but you won't sing their praises" and they want me to get mad at you for not respecting the legit personal trauma that disney forced me through.

in a grander scheme outside of disney: what happens is a horrific splintering within activist groups. we bicker with each other about minimal-harm minimal-impact ideologies, like which depiction of bisexuality is the most-true. we gratuitously analyze the personal lives of activists for any sign they might be "problematic". we get spooked because someone was in a dog collar at pride. we wring our hands about setting an empty shopping mall on fire. we tell each other what words we may identify ourselves by. we get fuckin steven universe disk horse when in reality it is a waste of our collective time.

the bigots want you to spend all your time focusing on how pristine and pretty you and your interests are. they want us at each other's throats instead of hand in hand. they want to say see? nothing is ever fucking good enough for these people.

and they want their followers to think in binary as well - a binary that's much easier to follow. see, in our spaces, we attack each other over "proper" behavior. but in bigoted groups? they attack outwards. they have someone they hate, and it is us. they hate you, specifically, and you are why they have problems - not the other people in their group. and that's a part of how they fucking keep winning.

some of the things that are beloved to you have a backbone in something terrible. the music industry is a wasteland. the publishing industry is a bastion of white supremacy. video games run off of unpaid labor and abuse.

the point of activism was always to bring to light that abuse and try to stop it from happening, not to condemn those who engage in the content that comes from those industries. "there is no ethical consumption under late capitalism" also applies to media. your childhood (and maybe current!) love of the little mermaid isn't something you should now flinch from, worried you'll be a "disney adult". wanting the music industry to change for the better does not require that you reject all popular music until that change occurs. you can acknowledge the harm something might cause - and celebrate the love that it has brought into your life.

we must detach an acknowledgment of nuance from a sense of shame and disgust. we must. punishing individual people for their harmless passions is not doing good work. encouraging more thoughtful, empathetic consumption does not mean people should feel ashamed of their basic human capacities and desires. it should never have even been about the individual when the corporation is so obviously the actual evil. this sense that we must live in shame and dread of our personal nuances - it just makes people bitter and hopeless. do you have any idea how scared i am to post this? to just acknowledge the idea of nuance? that i might like something nuanced, and engage in it joyfully? and, at the same time, that i'm brutally aware of the harm that they're doing?

"so what do i do?" ... well, often there isn't a right answer. i mean in this case, i hope mickey chops off ron's head and then does a little giggle. but truth be told, often our opinions on nuanced subjects will differ. you might be able to engage in things that i can't because the nuance doesn't sit right with me. i might think taylor swift is a great performer and a lot of fun, and you might be like "raquel, the jet fuel emissions". we are both correct; neither of us have any actual sway in this. and i think it's important to remember that - the actual scope of individual responsibility. like, i also love going to the parks. Thunder Mountain is so fun. you (just a person) are not responsible for the harm that Disney (the billion dollar corporation) caused me. i don't know. i think it's possible to both enjoy your memories and interrogate the current state of their employment policies.

there is no right way to interrogate or engage with nuance - i just hope you embrace it readily.