#and butterflies and dragonflies and mantises

[paranormeow7]

I drew some bug flapper girls while at the art museum today!! hope y’all enjoy!!!!

[cockyroaches]

At this point let me write my OWN murder bug island horror movie. You would not survive the dragonflies bestie they are not cutesy sillies they're fucking horrible.

[mcytblrconfessions]

i wanna see more bug hybrids of different mcyts so here’s my fav life series member bug hybrids:

Joel as a green snaketail (type of dragonfly)

Lizzie as a monarch butterfly in last life and as an atlas moth in secret life

Pearl as an imperial fruit-sucking moth

Gem and The Scotts all as Orchid Mantises

3rd Life Scott as a ladybug

3rd life Jimmy as a bumblebee or an andrena hattorfiana

Grian as a Carolina mantis or as a fire beetle

Martyn and maybe also Etho as devil’s coach-horse beetles

I feel like sometimes insect hybrids are really overlooked, especially in the context of the life series! insects are BRUTAL. but also i find that a lot of people focus on the same types of hybrids, such as always making Jimmy a canary. These aren’t wrong, I love a lot of the common hybrid headcanons that exist over empires, hermitcraft and the life series but I feel like maybe some are overused or don’t connect well to the actual characters, or don’t have enough variety in how they’re designed. I think the idea that these series are bug/animal eco systems is super interesting and really could be used more by the fandom!

[lookinghalfacorpse]

Okay, the butterfly chat hc fr c!dream is awesome and I ablsolutely adore it, but what if c!dream was a butterfly hybrid? And the butterfly chat were his children?

or alternativly, what if c!dream was a spider hybrid and his chat were spiders? That one could be angsty on the idea that arachnophobia is like, what, one of the most common phobias in the world and would be an already easy way to paint him as some sort of monster.

What do you think?

ty i'm glad you like it :) cdream is very bug-coded, and there were actually a few bugs i was thinking about before i wrote the first 'killing butterflies' drabble. grasshoppers, mantises, and spiders were close contenders.

ultimately, my decision to go with butterflies was intertwined with my pretty boy ideas and my overall interpretation of cdream. i'm intrigued by the idea of dream being an undisputed, classic kind of beauty-- a beauty where everyone who sees him will think 'that's a pretty boy' (and, for his chat, 'that's a pretty bug') and have to grapple with what that means for them as characters. i also think that butterflies have a very haunting quality to them, especially when swarmed, that they don't get enough credit for.

i also just enjoy subverting tropes. i like when antagonists are associated with traditionally "delicate" things, like dolls or angels, as it leads to some interesting visuals. i think butterflies convey that a lot better than some other bugs, like grasshoppers or dragonflies.

i think spiders have some potential. i think many people see them as beautiful while others see them as terrifying. i like the idea of the prison being coated in spiderwebs, especially when we see it overgrown during the finale.

i'm not sure exactly what you mean by chat being a person's children, but i generally don't see chat that way. i think the relationship between chat and their person is a bit more complicated than that. i'm planning on putting more of my interpretation of chat in 'blood upon the snow' probably, though it might be vague.

i also see dream (and most other characters) as fully human (minus technoblade, that dude is 100% piglin), but i think it would be fun if he had a small set of butterfly wings. something wispy and useless. kinda fairie-like. it would definitely subvert tropes, like i said. i'm kinda fond of cquackity designs that have small, useless wings that he's embarrassed about or hides, and it'd be fun if they had that in common. cdream would definitely hide them, and they'd be uncovered in the prison. cquackity would have to grapple with the fact that this man he compares himself to (and, in a way, sees as more powerful than himself) shares a trait that he hates in himself. he'd tear them to shreds for sure.

[heavenlyhoundoom]

Sun and Moon show Beastars au.

Two of my hyper fixations put into one.

Just like in beastars, in this universe, predators(carnivores) have instincts to kill and eat prey animals(herbivores) and prey animals have instincts to be scared of or even run away from predators, even when said predator is clearly being friendly.

Prey animal species

Sheep

Goats

Alpacas

Llamas

Deer

Moose

Pigs

Horses

Donkeys

Zebras

Okapis

Giraffes

Elephants

Rhinos

Gazelles

Tapirs

Cow/Bulls

Monkeys

Gorillas

Lemurs

Koalas

Kangaroos

Red pandas

Sloths

Rabbits

Mice

Rats

Squirrels

Chipmunks

Chinchillas

Groundhogs

Beavers

Porcupines

Chickens

Ducks

Swans

Ostriches

Parrots

Toucans

Tortoises

Iguanas

Moths

Butterflies

Bees

Ants

Crickets

Flies

Predator species

Wolves

Coyotes

Foxes

Tanukis

Dogs

Dingoes

Hyenas

Cats

Lions

Tigers

Leopards

Snow leopards

Jaguars

Cheetahs

Tigers

Caracals

Lynxes

Raccoons

Weasels

Skunks

Opossums

Otters

Anteaters

Bears

Bats

Owls

Eagles

Hawks

Falcons

Seagulls

Pelicans

Secretary birds

Herons

Alligators

Crocodiles

Caimans

Chameleons

Snapping turtles

Snakes

Frogs

Toads

Spiders

Wasps

Hornets

Scorpions

Dragonflies

Mantises

Species of the main characters:

Freddy: Bear.

Monty: Alligator.

Chica: Chicken.

Roxanne: Wolf.

Sun: Lion.

Moon: Snow leopard.

Eclipse: Tiger.

Eclipse: Lynx.

Bonnie: Rabbit.

Lunar: Sheep.

Bloodmoon(old design): Wolf.

Ruin: Deer/Coyote hybrid.

Autumn(me): Red panda/Snow leopard hybrid.

Sun was lucky to be the one in a million animals born without instincts, so he doesn't have the urge to eat prey animals.

Bloodmoon on the other hand has very strong instincts and many prey animals have gone missing because of him, including his old roommate.(a groundhog named Chester) Bloodmoon doesn't want to eat prey animals, but his instincts are too strong. So Autumn, who is part of the predator rehabilitation foundation(P.R.F for short) became his new roommate to keep an eye on him. The main story will be about Bloodmoon trying to become friends with Lunar, with Autumn making sure Bloodmoon doesn't lose control and eat Lunar.

[yandere-writer-momo]

I've seen that it's okay to throw weird ideas in here.

Imagine some of Baki's characters as insect-like creatures (spiders or mantises? Basically insects with females eating males) Male insects bring food to the female as an offering and a chance not to be eaten. I find it funny that Baki's insect-like characters, wanting to mate with the human reader, not knowing how human mating occurs, but they are afraid, and bring her lots of food. So that she gets full and they can fuck in peace.

Or another point to this, if the food offering wasn't there and they just fucked? Insect! character wakes up, in the arms of the reader, and frightened, waiting to be eaten. The character is greatly relieved and happy when he learns from the reader that he will not be eaten before or after sex

I love ‘weird’ ideas. Adore them. Live for them. ❤️🩷

But if they found out they could mate with human reader without the repercussions? Poor little human reader would never be left alone 😭

Also! Here’s what I think the Baki boys would be as Bugs:

Katou: Cockroach (duh)

Hanayama: Rose hair tarantula

Katsumi: Golden ringed dragonfly

Jack: Emperor scorpion

Baki: Jumping spider

Retsu: Orchid mantis

Sukune: Goliath bird eater tarantula

Suedou: Easter lubber grasshopper

Kureha: Rosy Maple moth

Kosho: Death’s head hawkmoth

Oliva: Stag beetle

Yujiro: Hercules beetle

Shibukawa: Bullet Ant

Kozue: Great purple emperor butterfly

Doppo: Japanese giant hornet

[sophieinwonderland]

Do you like bugs

Some?

Praying mantises, butterflies, ladybugs, grasshoppers, walking sticks, dragonflies fireflies... yeah! 😊

Can't say I'm a fan of ants, roaches, termites yellowjackets, mosquitoes, etc.

[gallawitchxx]

tag game tuesday 🤘🏼

oh hell yeah, the pals are OUT today! huge thanks to @celestialmickey @creepkinginc @metalheadmickey @energievie @deedala @whatthebodygraspsnot @michellemisfit @harrowhark-a-vagrant @transmickey @heymrspatel @mmmichyyy @suzy-queued & @whatwouldmickeydo for inviting me to play!

you can call me: bee 🐝

pronouns: she/her

sun sign + favorite flower: cancer & big pink lilies! 🦀 🌸

what time did you wake up today? 5:30am.... but ask me about my bedtime 😉

what kind of phone do you have? i think an iphone 12 mini? it's blue! i love it! i just got a new skull pop socket for it! 📱

pick one: beach, mountain, desert, or forest? beach bayybeee 🏖

favorite vegetable: a child would gag around me -- asparagus or brussels! 🌱

last person you talked to on the phone: my health insurance LOL & it was surprisingly helpful! ☎️

last person you texted: leah 🥰

you’re at the smoothie shop, what are you getting? something fruity & sour or something with a creamy almond flavor 🍓🍋

you’re at the zoo, which exhibit are you seeing first? monkeys! 🐒

last movie you saw in theaters: barbie 💄

last movie you watched at home: jumanji 😅

something that sparks joy: my backyard has really been doing it for me lately -- there's so much variety! so many plants & trees! so many bees & other pollinators! plus, at least 3 different types of butterflies, dragonflies, hummingbirds, praying mantises, lizards, crickets... i've spent so many years living in a concrete jungle & to have such diverse flora & fauna right in my yard is such a treat! 🐝🦋🦎☀️🌳

and finally, what’s your current obsession? i'm not obsessed, but the current season of love island usa is packing a serious punch! i don't usually love the hometown series, but i am not mad about it this summer! 💖🌴

i'm going to tag some folks that have been in my notes lately, but who i've never interacted with! wanna be friends? if not, that's cool too! have a lovely day! 🥺 @mybrainismelted @lupeloto @jadepetals @astralwashboard @propan-3-ol @gembu-tortuesouscafeine @carlgallagerswife @gillyp (we are already buds, but including you anyway) & also @just-allovertheplace & @pleaseignoremme (tumblr won't let me tag you but I SEE YOU 👀🖤)

[sebastienblommephotography]

Radiations 📷 @sebastien_blomme 🇫🇷 À Toulouse, les épisodes pluvieux du printemps ont retardé les fauches. Je ne sais pas si c'est lié mais j'ai alors observé une explosion de la biodiversité. Lors de cette séance, j'avais ainsi noté avoir croisé: Au moins une dizaine d'espèces de papillons, près de 5 espèces d'odonates, un phasme, des mantes religieuses, une empuse, sans compter tous les espèces de coléoptères que je ne parviens pas encore à identifier ! 🇬🇧 In Toulouse, the rainy episodes of spring delayed the mowing. I don't know if it is related but I then observed an explosion of biodiversity. During this session, I noted that I had come across: At least ten species of butterflies, nearly 5 species of dragonflies, a stick insect, praying mantises, an empuse, not to mention all the species of beetles that I cannot yet identify! https://ift.tt/eASWIJ2

[dictyop7era]

hi i have polls

[theropoda]

summerset really should have had bug stuff like in morrowind but in the opposite direction. bizarre but in a beautiful way. morrowind bug stuff is like icky makes your skin itch like lice and grubs and stuff. summerset couldve been all bug stuff too but pretty ones especially flying ones like butterflies andmoths and treehoppers and dragonflies and wasps n bees. mantises also because theyre incredible. i will not let go of the fucking "glass made of insect wings" thing idc it was probably not literal its COOL so i will take it absolutely literally. in the average upper class altmer wedding 100000 bugs are released like doves and everyone thinks its the most beautiful thing ever and theyre right!

[doctor-roman]

I saw you rebloged the ask for asks posts which means I have to ask you about bugs.

Do you like bugs, are you afraid of them sometimes? How do you feel about beetles and do you want to see my handsome pet darklings?

I like some bugs! Dragonflies, ladybugs, butterflies, moths, bees, mantises, and spiders are all neat!

That said, I prefer to look at most bugs through a screen or window.

I would love to see your beetles!

[mantisgodsdomain]

Okay we're done getting really mad about bug game worldbuilding. If you are interested in seeing us get extremely mad about Bug Fables' consistently shoddy worldbuilding, then it is below the cut. We'll tag this properly in like a week so it doesn't haunt the main tag for everyone who might not want to read 1.8k words of a random author getting really fucking mad about shoddy worldbuilding.

We've done a lot of stuff with worldbuilding for Bug Fables. Our handling of Bugaria itself is, we will admit, not quite canon-typical. There's a lot going on, and not all is easy to work with. We know from the game itself that Bugaria is surrounded by hostile deadlands, making outside trade difficult and often-lethal - we also know, from being able to observe the in-game map as a human with outside perspective, that Bugaria is contained within a single backyard.

For the game proper, this is fine. It lends itself well to the "borrower" type aesthetic that the devs appear to prefer, limits the scope of the in-game map, and allows for them to do significantly less legwork trying to figure out how to design things. We, however, are a man obsessed with semantics, and we know too much about the amount of food and territory generally required for one hive of wasps or bees to buy into one suburban backyard that's... what, 60 square meters of backyard?

IRL honeybees alone will forage up to, on average, 1-6 km away from their hives, potentially going up to 13 km, and though there's been less research done into the habits of other colony bugs, it's fairly safe to assume they'd need similar range - more likely greater range, actually, as any form of what we humans call "higher intelligence" is incredibly demanding, resource-wise. Bugaria has four different kingdoms of social bugs, many of which would have overlapping needs for resources, combined with a whole load of other miscellanous solitary bugs. loaded into the space of a single backyard that likely wouldn't account for the range of a single hive of honeybees, let alone four hives of miscellaneous bugs and venus-knows-how-many solitaries.

In order to survive in any place, you need to fulfil the requirements of life. Food, water, and shelter are basic needs for a reason, and without access to all three, settlements are likely to quickly peter out. In order for The Hive to process nectar into honey, they first need nectar, which would have to come from flowers, which would be the exact same food source that wasps, butterflies, and moths would need, which clearly aren't growing in the needed

Put quite simply, it would be really fucking difficult for a space of this size to support the presented numbers of bugs. Plants are not an infinite resource, and even assuming that there's a density of flowers far beyond what's shown in-game, there's still predatory bugs to consider. Wasps and ants need protein to feed their grubs, dragonflies and damselflies need protein to feed themselves, mantises and mantidflies are obligate carnivores that cannot survive without a steady supply of prey- you can't survive if you never eat, and Bug Fables is incredibly low on lesser bugs that could potentially serve as food for the more predatory bugs.

Canon offers only aphids and cochineals as cattle, and those still wouldn't really serve to feed larger predatory bugs - and that's even without noting the ecological desert that results from only ever having a handful of enemies. We know that there are limits to what you can do in a game, but the second you want to expand on life beyond what's shown, you run straight into the lack of known prey and wildlife like smacking right into a brick wall. Roaches raise scorpions in a wasteland that seems to have only Mystery Berries for food unless they're trying to hunt Deadlanders, which we doubt are particularly edible. The Royal Blade of the Ant kingdom is an obligate carnivore, and there's nowhere he can go if he wants to buy lunch.

Realistically, we know that the answer is "the devs didn't really think about it". This game is built on the work of devs who persistently place "because it looks cool" over doing any of the worldbuilding work to integrate their existing story elements into the world. You only have to look to Yin to see just how many parts of the game are riddled with things added purely because Someone Thought It Might Be Cool, and no one did any further legwork to make it WORK. The Termacade is a living monument to the philosophy, being added A WEEK before release without anyone so much as communicating it was going to happen before it was in active development. 

Unfortunately, we are permanently obsessed with semantics, we can't stand "because magic" as an answer to important worldbuilding questions, and every time we have to do all the legwork to fill massive holes in the setting where no one ever thought that the answers to questions like "how the fuck do these people feed themselves" is relevant, we will be sadly prone to falling into madness.

There is no canon answer to how these bugs feed themselves. There is no indication as to how things that should be basic parts of the setting WORK. The bugs, in the first place, are written persistently as more People With Hats than actual BUGS - there are nods made to biology, sure, but the difference between a wasp and a bee is little more than a set of aesthetics and a silly hat. There are enough elements in the game that are simply thrown in without care of how they interlock that it sometimes becomes genuinely maddening.

Some people, sure, are satisfied with this - there is a madness that we have that we lack, a need for SUBSTANCE that is prone to driving us to inadvisable lengths hunting for a hint - any hint - that there was care put into this detail, rather than a single flippant comment. We have no complaint with things left vague, but we VERY MUCH have a problem when the setting is consigned to being little more than a backdrop decorated with random glittery ideas to act out anime tropes on, rather than something that should be paid attention to all its own.

We've said this before, and we'll say it many times again, but worldbuilding is important for a REASON. Your setting will affect your characters just as strongly as it will affect your story - your plot, your setting, and your characters are fundamentally inertwined, and to affect ANY part of the story will have rippling impacts on the rest of it. Your characters are not created in a void! Whatever structures created one person MUST still be present to shape others! You cannot throw shiny ideas on a canvas slapdash and expect it to turn out well! It's a miracle that the character writing in this game turned out as well as it did, considering that massive swathes of the setting are loosely assembled from anime without even taking the time to learn how certain aspects WORK in their home media!

We enjoy writing. We enjoy crafting plots, doing worldbuilding, tinkering with the little pieces of setting that we feel might create something interesting. We wouldn't be writing at all if we didn't enjoy it on some level, though we sometimes wonder if it's more masochism than care for some aspects. This is the trade that we have chosen to work towards working. Perhaps it is this that makes it so violently infuriating when we run into people who don't seem to care for that which we pay attention to.

There are a handful of aspects in this game that are well done. There are far more aspects in this game that are half-baked at best and actively difficult to work into the rest of the world at worst. There is a particular handful of aspects that are so poorly done that they could pass as active malice, towards one group or another. Unfortunately, as with many things, to assume ill will often overlooks the far more pervasive, far more common culprit of simple negligence.

Bug Fables, at its core, is a game made by devs with chronic shiny-object syndrome. There is little care spared to its worldbuilding, to the implications of its setting, to the implications of character actions, because the devs have never cared to think on it. It takes tropes from a hundred and one different animes without caring to learn what makes them work in their home context - just that they're cool, and that the authors want them in their own work.

It's something that we've been guilty of ourself, in previous works, but that only makes it easier for us to spot it here. There is an mirror of mistakes we have made ourself written on the walls, and it echoes with every step. We are the sort of author who learned to build worlds by stealing shards from different worlds and patching them into a new quilt. This is a work that takes does much the same, taking pieces from other works to make a new whole, but it makes the mistake of not spending the time to make sure those pieces FIT.

The mosaic on the floor is made of broken, disparate parts that are only partially fit together. The world falls apart more and more the closer you look at its shards. There are pieces of harm in this painting, pictures of pain, things put together and only barely examined. There is prejudice that could pass for malice woven into the threads of even the more comedic writing, an undercurrent commonly present in society and rarely examined. They've made an entire species of bugs into an incomprehensibly racist trope. Perhaps it's foolish of us to spend so much time and energy on a world that does not love us back, but we care for this setting, and we care for the potential of what it could have been.

The prejudice and shoddiness and pieces of poorly-thought-out and tropey writing in this work are not an act of malice. They are an act of ignorance, left over from a development team that wanted to add the latest shiny thing without stopping to think that their favorite anime tropes might have roots in something rotten.

Anyways, the reason that we wind up putting so many fucking footnotes on our fics is that every time we have to answer basic questions like "how does the wasp kingdom fucking feed itself" we have to rewrite, like, half a dozen tropes ripped off from shitty isekai anime, come up with an entire power structure and system of government that could potentially exist in this universe, write 2000 words of geopolitical bullshit minimum, reinvent animal agriculture, create at least one brand new species of bug, and then battle our conviction to avoid cushioning or avoiding the implied Fucked Up Elements that are Very Much Present In The Base Work if chronically ill-addressed vs the question of if we Want to include this particular brand of Fucked Up Bullshit or if we'd actually rather avoid having to reckon with the aftermath of yet another poorly-thought-out trope ripped from Trapped In Another World With My Smartphone.

[adobe-outdesign]

I’m not sure if you’re interested in Super Sentai, but I get the feeling you’d adore Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger, the current Sentai season. Not only is there basically no filler and it’s a lot more drama-oriented and filled with incredibly interesting characters, but both the heroes and villains are based on invertebrates, beetles, dragonflies, bees, mantises, butterflies, spiders, even earthworms, leeches, snails, and tardigrades. Not to mention one of the main villain uses a massive pushpin like the kind you’d use in an insect display case as a weapon. I think you’d like it a lot tbh.

I'm a big fan of some of the Power Rangers' seasons and have caught bits of the original Sentai for them. Haven't heard of this new one though, will try to look into it at some point.

[honey-minded-hivemind]

For the 🐾Animal Witch🔮 AU, What Animal Hybrid Would Y'all Possibly Like Reader To Be??

For mammals, there are cats, dogs, foxes, bears, opossums, goats, sheep, deer, cows, mice, rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, minks, ferrets, raccoons, badgers, martins, seals, sugar gliders, bats, etc. ...

For birds, there are owls, cardinals, crows, ravens, peafowl, hummingbirds, kiwis, hawks, parakeets, budgies, swans, doves, magpies, cranes, seagulls, penguins, orioles, titmice, bluebirds, etc. ...

For amphibians, there are salamanders, frogs, toads, axolotls, and newts...

For reptiles, there are snakes, turtles, tortoises, geckos, lizards, monitors, komodo dragons, tuataras, etc. ...

For fish, there are eels, tangs, angelfish, dories, pufferfish, remoras, sharks, clownfish, octopi, squids, cuttlefish, lionfish, bettas, etc. ...

For insects, there are bees, wasps, hornets, moths, butterflies, beetles, crickets, katydids, cicadas, mantises, dragonflies, etc. ... Not to mention the arachnids, such as spiders and scorpions...

Even mythical creatures, like sirens and mermaids and dragons and hydras and kitsunes and unicorns and alicorns!

So the possibilities are endless!