#bug fables

[that1tvhead]

team snakemouth taking a stroll /[:]]

[czaneavecg]

Npcs frfr

[liceinmyteeth]

Slightly saddened by the lack of vi animations/ fanart. INKNOW HER STORY IS MORE BLAND AS LEIF AND KABBU BUT SHE DESERVES LOVE AND ARTTT. Sigh I love her stupid ass. She really is just a kid learning to be an adult while accepting the past she hates. FUXK FUCK I love her I need to chuck her at a wall. Sighhh

[ravonosify]

Canonically, the Ancient Crown had innate wasp mind-control powers that it could bestow on anyone. Hoaxe just happened to be the bug to benefit from it. I've also seen the headcanon that Hoaxe, as a wasp mimic fly, had his natural abilities boosted by the Crown in more than one way; he had his fire magic, but he also had such good mimicry that when he put on the Crown, he went from passing as a wasp to passing as the king of the wasps.

But there's a third option that I find a lot more compelling!

Hoaxe is an ivy waspgrabber - Leopoldius signatus. He's a type of thick-headed fly, family Conopidae. Flies in this family are parasitoid and deposit their eggs in the abdomens of Hymenopteran insects like bees and wasps. The larvae hatch and feed on the host as they grow, then pupate in the host's shell before emerging from them as an adult fly.

But one thing separates this parasitoid from the others: the larvae have some kind of ability to control the behavior of their hosts. In later stages of their larva's growth, hosts will leave their nests and dig in the soil. Before they die, they bury themselves alive at the order of their parasite, providing a safer exit point for the fly to later emerge from.

So while I like the other explanations, this is the one I prefer. Hoaxe had the ability to manipulate the wasps because once he put the Crown on, it amplified all of his natural abilities, including the one he had as a larva to literally control the behaviors of other bugs.

[potatobugz]

OOO LOOK AT MY ANIMATION BOY

[zachre]

These are featured in Bug Fables Plus so I might as well share these again

[lizbot]

[trapitorag]

Lorlei for @flame-shadow

Rad roach, the best kind

[hana-bobo-finch]

educating her on what peak is

[spectralgecko]

I made a happier version. Cricket is no longer lonely

Him wif is here naow :3

Bonus version with a little more light that I wasn't quite settled on:

[that1tvhead]

hold her gently...

[fandomfantasyy]

"...We had a feeling something was off."

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prologue of decaying mind au!!

FINALLY finished. holy shit. this is my first time posting my art on tumblr (besides that one sketch) and my first time creating a comic in general!!

my artstyle will likely go thru a lot of changes while this story goes on, but honestly, im not too mad at what i drew here!! i actually kinda. like my art for once. thats a shocker.

anyways yeah so layout might change, art might change, a LOT of things might change, but im really proud of this prologue and i hope i can turn this into a long-formed au </3

(i might. add some leif/zasp content in this. idk. and by some i mean a lot. im having a leif/zasp brainrot someone help me.)

[g0at0ad]

FOLKS!!! this is the creator of HOLLOW FABLES and member of the INVERTED FATE and TS!UNDERSWAP teams speaking!!!

i have decided to sponsor a family from gaza, so i am opening up commissions. this is a verified gofundme.

if you send me proof of your donation, i will draw you (almost) anything you want! so roll in the dough, folks. it's for a good cause.

[longeth-dayv]

beeeeeeeee

here is original its so wholesome

[shrimpdotpng]

team snakemouth's night in