#little lightningbug

[hssprimefan]

Last year was weird right?

The following conversation takes place on loading screens, easy matches, and snack breaks, across several games, and many hours one weekend. The time between dashes (-) is arbitrary

Sakura: So, last year was weird right?

Nishan: SO weird! Thank The Andromeda we broke up.

Sakura: If our friendship could survive that, we can survive anything!

-

Nishan: Did I pressure you into it?

Sakura: What?

Nishan: As I started becoming friends with Julian, he kept reminding me he isn't gay. Am I doing someting-

Sakura: No, he has his own to stuff figure out.

Nishan: So you didn't feel pressure to date me?

Sakura: I did, but not from you. It's hard to explain.

-

Sakura: You're my best friend. I was never good at making friends. And I really really worried about losing you. Someone like Payton would notice and say "Awww that's so cute you have a little crush". And I didn't have a better explanation. But it doesn't matter why I was jealous! I had no right to control you.

Nishan: Thanks. I needed to hear that.

-

Nishan opens their old ClanRumble group chat.

AlphaDogg: Oh, wow, what a surprise, White Knight McGee stands up for Sakura!

Nishan: Was it stuff like this?

Sakura: These idiots don't know me.

-

Sakura: The comics, tv shows, and games we play go exactly like that though. Captain LightningBug and Milana.

Nishan: The Doctor and his Companion.

Sakura: Agent Nishan and Sakurabot.

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Nishan: I know I already apologized, but I really don't see you the way I wrote you!

Sakura: I'm over it. Actually, I'm very happy with the way we rewrote it together!

Sources

AlphaDogg- direct quote from prim_0037_games.lua

Milana and the Captain - Lightning Bug - sec_nerd_1.lua

The Doctor and his "pretty and sassy" Companion - prim_0008_mia.lua

Agent Nishan and Sakurabot - premium_0034_fanficion.lua

[bonefall]

Glowworms

(because i keep getting asked about them)

[ID: An adult female glowworm of the species Lampyris noctiluca. It has a bright green glow and clings to a plant.]

Before I even get started, let me lay down some education on the entire Lampyridae family so that we're all on the same page about the specific species that I'm going to talk about for the UK. I've done more research on this topic than the last time I brought it up, and I come bearing knowledge

Lampyridae is a family of beetles, descended from a bio-luminescent ancestor. There are more than 2000 species of Lampyridae, and they can be VERY different. This family is called "fireflies," "glowworms," and "lightningbugs" but ALL of those common names are AWFUL for referring to the full family becaaaaaauuuusee...

Not all lampyridae can fly

Not all lampyridae can glow as adults

Not all lampyridae light up passively; some use it as a lure or a warning

Not all lampyridae light up during flight

In the US, our most iconic species light up during flight, and our most common species have males and females capable of flight. So when I'm talking about "glowworms," remember that those traits are not shared by ALL species of Lampyridae, and especially not this one.

The UK has one species of glowing Lampyridae, Lampyris noctiluca, the Common Glowworm. There's one other, non-glowing species but it's extremely rare and only in the south, and an occasional visitor from mainland Europe.

GLOWWORMS

Only the female lights up, and her final stage is not capable of flight. This is called a "larviform female," because she looks like the wormy adolescent stage that all Lampyridae go through.

The female will climb up to the highest blade of grass she can find and wiggle her butt around until a male, who CAN fly and does NOT glow, finds her. Then she lays eggs and dies.

So because the adults do not eat and quickly die after reproduction, most of a glowworm's life is spent as a larva.

The larval glowworm is a SPECIALIZED predator of gastropods. They hunt snails and slugs for ONE or TWO YEARS (depending on how much food there was in the first year), hibernating over the winter, then waking up and doing it again. All movement in the species is done by the larvae; they have a REALLY hard time establishing new colonies because of this.

This is NOT a pioneer species. You need to have undisturbed grass, moor, or heath, no pesticides, not overgrazed, not brightly lit, for generations of these insects AND their prey. It's REALLY easy to decimate the glowworm population in an area via carelessness.

(let alone the horror story in the Glowworm Survey page where a tiny colony was intentionally destroyed, which is why they have a policy about keeping quiet on reports of certain colonies except to researchers ;_;)

so LOOK AT ME

HOLDING YOU BY THE SHOULDERS

You need to protect glowworm populations when you can. If you ever briefly hear posts in passing shouting about sterile lawns, light pollution, and pesticides, THIS IS WHY. If you live on the island and feel like there's a shit ton of slugs in your garden for some reason? Might be because these factors killed off their specialized predators, leaving you with an unfilled ecological niche.

Environment

Hypothetically, glowworms should be distributed all across Great Britain, except the Scottish highlands, though they have the strongest concentration in southern England.

Functionally, their population is incredibly fragmented. They need tall grass or heather, low light pollution, undisturbed (no pesticide) land, and lots of gastropods to eat. While they can work with forest verges and railways, places for them to thrive are getting rarer and rarer in the UK.

So to restate their very specific environmental needs;

Undisturbed land Glowworms and construction don't mix. Pollution, pesticides, and destruction can destroy the little patches of land glowworms have left. They need up to two years to go from eggs to adults, and a safe place for that to happen in.

A population of gastropods Baby glowworms eat slugs and snails. Because of that, they can't live where it's too dry.

Tall grasses, shrubs, or heathers, but not TOO tall A tree won't do! Glowworms do not live in trees! The females need a tall stalk to climb to the top of, so that they can signal to flying males. At the same time, they can't hunt or find each other in a savanna or a wheat field. Well-managed heathlands are excellent habitat for glowworms.

Low light pollution If it's too bright, males can't find females. Highways with heavy traffic, urban areas, and anything else that gives off constant light will affect the glowworm population.

They glow in June to May, in summer, at night. You won't find glowworms in winter, as all the larvae are hibernating at that time.

BB FAQ

When I determine if something will show up in the Better Bones AU and my Clan Culture expansions, I use iNaturalist to suss out if people are seeing it in the modeled region. Lads, there is a bald spot in my modeled regions. It's almost comical. The closest is in DERBYSHIRE, RIGHT out of reach.

So I'm still unsure about adding them. For now, they are not in BB. I GOT A REPORT FROM A FAN I will be adding them to BB.

"How do Clan cats feel about them?" They're unfathomnably holy, especially because they spend their larval stage eating snails which can be used in divination rituals. WindClan in particular considers themselves blessed for living around them.

"Can you use glowworms to light up the night?" Yes but that's really bad for their populations; leave them be! Clan cats wouldn't use something so holy in such a trivial way.

"Can you eat glowworms?" No they taste really bad. The chemical that makes them light up is REALLY bitter, and it's present in both the larvae and adults. Plus Clan cats wouldn't eat something so holy.

[amber-dragonfly]

does this mean I might interest you in thunderbird [rezek + mar'ska] windstorm [rezek + gale] snagglasses [sledge + purah + rezek] and lightningbug [rezek + cross/kehwees] / lightningbugs [rezek + cross + kehwees]

. can you tell I really like naming ratc pairings. UEHUFEHUFEH

i am also IMMENSELY normal about rezek pairings /LYING

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Oh, these all got some crazy potential ngl

Especially with what I have planned for Cross specifically (I SHANT SAY MORE but it'll bang promise)

THESE ARE GREAT NAMES TOO

I especially love how Thunderbird works a little too well name-wise,,,

Man, I gotta write more Mar'ska soon. Not necessarily for plot even I just love writing her,,,

It helps that I have a CRAZY good idea for how to implement her into ToTK's story down the line,,,

[ao3feed-peterparker]

and i will wait for the sun to rise (i'll wait with you)

by RodeoNightmare After all, that's what was happening, right? He was dying. Really, truly dying. OR Peter is a little bit more injured during the building collapse in Homecoming. Somehow, he ends up in a world unlike his own, with no way back, and a colony of bats watching his every move. OR The ship demons got to me so I started another fic, but this time it's lightningbug (duke/peter) Words: 765, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Series: Part 3 of Rodeo's Spidey In Gotham Fics Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Batman - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Peter Parker, Duke Thomas, Tony Stark (mentioned), Adrian Toomes (briefly), Other Character Tags to Be Added Relationships: Peter Parker/Duke Thomas Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Trans Peter Parker, Post-Movie: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Kind Of, Peter Parker Can't Thermoregulate, Peter Parker has Spinnerets | Organic Web-Shooters, everything follows canon up until the building collapse in hc, Near Death Experiences, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, I dont know how to tag this one, but everyone should read this because lightningbug is an underrated ship, Duke Thomas is Signal, (newly though), Peter Parker is Not Okay, Not Tony Stark Friendly via https://ift.tt/H6DSUa4

[rainbeetleart]

FINALLY NOT A DRAGON! Lol. This is a Wajas wolf, a custom owned and designed by me. I’m LightningBug on Wajas! This piece was done a little smaller than usual so that I could easily turn it into a tag.

Subject is a Wajas African owned by LightningBug (meeeee)

Finished May 31, 2023, on Procreate.

[drakonovisny]

❤ ∠( ᐛ 」∠)_

This gashapon figurine of Vivi in a bikini I brought from Japan that made my parents give me a few questioning looks idigdigdigdgix 💖

[herald-divine-hell]

for do I ship it. inquisitor x Leliana 👀✨

What do you take me as? I’m going to let you finish, but Inquisitor/Leliana is some of the greatest ship of all time, of all time! *hands mic back to T-Swift*

But in all serious, though, the Inquistor would be such a good lover to Leliana, especially since she needs some love and comforting in DA:I. God, I love them so much.

[drakonovisny]

Ahhhh so pretty! Thank you again for making them Ciri!!! 🥺💗

Lahlas Lavellan for @sopml !! thank you fo rletting me make them in all their pink glory  (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ

[poorlydrawnwhispangle]

Lightningbug is ’Surge found someone even shorter than herself’

the real reason Surge dislikes Sonic is because he is two inches taller than her /j

[nolavault]

I have not written fanfic in forever simply since I don't have motivation but ooogh lightingbug has sparked something in me

[plumrabbit]

@little-lightningbug I love Mio 🥺😭

[cobaltash]

It is my pleasure to introduce @little-lightningbug‘s beautiful Mio Lavellan to the Impromptu OC party!

Thank you for attending!

[ao3feed-peterparker]

and i will wait for the sun to rise (i'll wait with you)

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/H6DSUa4 by RodeoNightmare After all, that's what was happening, right? He was dying. Really, truly dying. OR Peter is a little bit more injured during the building collapse in Homecoming. Somehow, he ends up in a world unlike his own, with no way back, and a colony of bats watching his every move. OR The ship demons got to me so I started another fic, but this time it's lightningbug (duke/peter) Words: 765, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Series: Part 3 of Rodeo's Spidey In Gotham Fics Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Batman - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Peter Parker, Duke Thomas, Tony Stark (mentioned), Adrian Toomes (briefly), Other Character Tags to Be Added Relationships: Peter Parker/Duke Thomas Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Trans Peter Parker, Post-Movie: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Kind Of, Peter Parker Can't Thermoregulate, Peter Parker has Spinnerets | Organic Web-Shooters, everything follows canon up until the building collapse in hc, Near Death Experiences, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, I dont know how to tag this one, but everyone should read this because lightningbug is an underrated ship, Duke Thomas is Signal, (newly though), Peter Parker is Not Okay, Not Tony Stark Friendly read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/H6DSUa4

[mahalzevran]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABEYYYYYYYYYYY ❤💝💟💘💜💙💛🧡💚💓💞💕🤍💗💖✨

Thank you ciriiiii! 💕💕💕💕💕

[honeysofte-archieve]

if u receive this u make somebody happy. go and send this to ten of ur followers who make u happy or somebody u think needs cheering up. if u get it back even better 💕💕💕💕💕💕

aww thank you ciri, right back at you 💖

[drakonovisny]

Send me a # - 4: 3 things I love - 10: How tall am I - 13: Favourite color - 34: Favourite holiday - 150: What I’d do if I won in a lottery :3c

Thank you for asking! 💖

4: you, animals and sweets :з

10: 170 cm (5'5" I think?)

13: pink 💗

34: New Year's Eve! 🎆

150: move abroad and get a good masters degree! :D