These are all the itty-bitty baby versions of common insects, those being (from top to bottom) Assassin bugNymph,Grasshopper Nymph, and a Stinkbug Nymph (I believe!)
[ID: A full-body drawing of an anthropomorphic honey bee wearing a blue-ish purple bow around her neck. She stands upright facing to the left. They are bipedal, with their backmost legs holding them up. Her frontmost legs are a normal size, and her middle legs are very small, almost vestigial. Their wings are pointed out behind them. Signed vespidaze. End ID.]
[ID 1: A digital drawing of Ena from Joel G’s webseries. She has many wasplike features, including antennae, mandibles, a long, pointed abdomen, and 3 simple eyes on her forehead. She has 4 floating arms. Her yellow left limbs are sectioned like a bug’s, while her blue right limbs are rectangular. Her feet are each just one toe. Her left leg has some spines on the end of it. The signature on her abdomen reads “vespidaze”. The background is a purple and green hexagon pattern.
ID 2: The same image, but transparent, without the background. End ID.]
some mosquito addisons designed by @ocularose! I really like them :)
[ID: A digital drawing of 2 Addisons from Deltarune, one pink, one orange. Both of them have fluffy antennae, 2 pairs of arms, a pair of mosquito wings, and a bug abdomen that sprouts from their lower back like a tail. The pink one is short and fat, and they look to the left with a sharp-toothed smile and a hand on their face. He has a round, fluffy ponytail that matches the cotton candy he is holding. The orange one is much thinner than the pink one, though just as short. He looks to the right with a smug smile, and a hand on his hip. He wears an orange turtleneck sweater under his jacket. The drawing is signed “vespidaze”. End ID.]
My boyfriend has to go to the ren fair for work but i can come and he wanted to do a matching costume. He was like “I want to be Frodo” and I was like “oh cool I can be Shelob” which was, apparently, not the couples costume he was thinking of
I was like “babe she has the most screen time of any woman in Return of the King” and my boyfriend was like “that cannot be true,” looked it up, and said “i can’t believe that’s true”
finally a strong female character who doesn’t shave her legs
(ESP) ¡Bichos, muchos bichos! Aquí la portada que hice para “Brujas de Arena” de Marina Tena Tena y publicada por Pluma de cristal. Espero que os guste :D
(ENG) Insects! So many insects! Here’s the book cover I made for the novel “Brujas de Arena” (Sand Witches) ((No, it has nothing to do with sandwiches)) by Marina Tena Tena. I hope you like it!
Imagine you are lost, flying through a black night in a vast world, blown by fierce winds and hunted by strange creatures. Wild and disorientated, you stumble into a cave, and seek sanctuary there. It is a dark, wet place, but you only have to survive until daylight.
And then you look up, and see the stars. And you think that you are saved….
Let me tell you about
Glowworms
Glowworms are essentially a magical fantasy creature that wandered into our world by mistake. They are unlikely and unreasonable, and I am extremely fond of them for the following reasons.
They imitate the night sky…
Glowworms, which live only in caves and riverbanks in New Zealand, are the larvaeof a species of gnat. As the name suggests, they are indeed wormlike while in larval form.
They live in large colonies, clinging to cave ceilings, and oh how they glow. They glow so brightly, in fact, that at first glance it’s easy to miss all those oh-so-fine silk strands.
Millions and millions of yards of silk, wet and sticky, dangling overhead. The fact that all this knotless netting is hidden in the dim light is no accident. It’s there for a purpose.
…in order to hunt.
Glowworms are enthralling to watch, but at the end of the day they are larvae. And larvae only really have one job in life: to EAT. Unlike fireflies (which are an unrelated type of beetle) glowworms use bioluminescencenot for mating but for hunting. In this way, they are more like angler fish. The light is their bait–the silk is their lure. Even at close range, their traps are quite beautiful to see, like strands of pearls or the crystals of a chandelier.
These threads are essentially fishing lines. Each worm drops its own thread…
…and waits patiently to reel in its catch…
…which it then consumes alive.
And this is where the glowworm gets its scientific name, Arachnocampa luminosa, or more literally: glowing spider-worm. Interestingly, the light-emiting molecule responsible for the glowworm’s luminesences is called luciferen, named for the Latin lucifer, “bringer of light.”
After months of feeding, these larvae will build their cocoons, emerge as adult gnats, live just long enough to lay eggs, and so die. Gradually the eggs hatch, the night sky is reinvented, new constellations are born, and the cycle begins anew.
So remember: this world contains countless miracles of nature, but nature plays by its own dispassionately cruel rules!
When you see the stars, you know you will live. You are a frail thing in a vast world, a sailor in a storming ocean–and like a sailor, you live your life by the stars. You are a navigator, born with wings on your back, born to fly: so you fly. You lift your gaze to the sky and take flight, floating up, up to the stars. You will be home again, you will be safe again, and in the morning the world will be new.
And as you rise to meet the stars, they descend to swallow you.
[Image 1 ID: a photo taken from inside a dimly lit “tunnel” in a cavern. The ground is covered by a large expanse of still water, and at the end of the tunnel is a part of the cave illuminated by warm, yellowish light. The ceiling and walls of the cave are covered with clusters of tiny cyan lights (glow worms), which are too numerous to count. The cyan lights are a much “colder” color than the yellowish light, but their slight greenish tint makes them appear a bit warmer.]
[Image 2 ID: a close up of a black, rock-like surface, which seems to be part of a cave wall. The surface is covered in tiny blue lights (glow worms), which are a darker and colder hue than the cyan lights from the previous image]
[Image 3 ID: a close up of a bumpy brown surface which seems to be the ceiling of a cave. The surface is covered in glow worms, which glow cyan.]
[Image 4 ID: a close up of a slimy-looking grayish worm covered in small white hair-like structures. It’s body appears somewhat jagged and has an overall shape similar to that of a twig. The rightmost half of its body is a darker shade of gray than the rest and becomes slightly wider towards the end, at the section of its body labelled “head.” The leftmost half of the body is a lighter gray overall and has whitish-gray wavy (almost squiggle-like) lines across its surface. These lines are labelled “intestines”. The leftmost tip of the glow worm gives off a bright cyan glow.]
[Image 5 ID: a photo of a cave ceiling from which uncountably many long white strands of silk hang. The strands are covered with small “beads” along their surfaces, which gives the silk strands an appearance similar to strands of pearls or Mardis Gras beads.]
[Image 6 ID: silk strands handing from a cave ceiling, similar to those in the previous image. However, in this image, the ceiling is also covered in glow worms, which give off a cyan light, making the silk strands appear bluish as well]
[Image 7 ID: a close up of more silk strands in front of an out-of-focus background that looks like dirt or soil. The silk strands are similar in appearance to spider silk, except they are covered in clear tear-drop shaped “beads.”]
[Image 8 ID: a close up of a glow worm producing a silk strand like those from previous photos. The silk seems to be coming from the glow worm’s tail, and there are 3 similar silk strands (one of which is extremely blurry) surrounding it]
[Image 9 ID: a close up of a beige and black patterned insect which is either a moth or a butterfly. The insect is caught up in glow worm silk, seemingly unable to escape]
[Image 10 ID: a cave ceiling covered in both glow worms and glow worm silk. The glow worms glow a sky-blue color. The sky-blue is equally as light and bright as the cyan lights from previous images, but the lack of green tint makes it a much colder-looking light].
[Image 11 ID: a tumblr reply from user @ lightlysaltedman who asked “isn’t this how stars also work?”]
They don’t tell you this much, but life will be gross sometimes and that’s okay.
It’s okay when you discover that you aren’t immune to it all, because no one else is either.
At some point you will likely have to deal with some kind of infestation like mice or bedbugs or termites or roaches or rats or ants or ladybugs or wasps. At some point you will have smelly, gross medical problems or you will have to help someone else who does. At some point there will probably be mold in your fridge and you will have to clean it up. You may encounter carpet that smells and can’t quite be cleaned the whole way. Or damp walls that grow weird fungus or black mold, and you might have to move apartments or rebuild part of your house to fix it. If you have pets or children, or if you find old people or disabled people close to you at some point in your life, or even just become old or disabled yourself, you will have to deal with cleaning up poop and urine from clothes and beds and floors and anything else. There will be vomit in your life, and clogged drains, and pet hair, and infections. You may have to learn how to get blood stains out of a sofa or a sweater or a floor. You may have to deal with dead animals. You may have to buy some rubber gloves.
These things can be disheartening. But the important thing is to remember that this is basic evidence of being alive. Alive people clean up. Alive people try again. Alive people see a mess and make it better. Alive people make order out of chaos. Alive people engage in ultimately doomed but still necessary battle against entropy. You’re alive. That’s enough. You’ve got this and you’ll be okay. I believe in you.
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