#crab's music

[fleetn-crab85]

I love Bears in Trees most recent single, Hot Chocolate, so I drew this while listening to it on repeat. It's based of a picture from their Instagram too so check them out there are well!

[anisaanisa]

Hellsite citizens! Tumblr is in the lurch, so to celebrate that, we're going to do what we do best – make a holiday out of it! Blast off in ten days! 🦀🦀🦀

When: July 29th. Or after – Crab Day is a state of mind. How: Buy your buddies or drive-by besties a crab invasion from the Tumblr shop! Why: to let @staff know we're still kicking it! Follow @crab-day-counter to mark your days!

ⓘ Tumblr Blue Hex: #35465C | Pose very much inspired Crab Champions, the game ever!

[crabsnpersimmons]

i like to tuck my sun and moon into bed when i get out of it, but after seeing your chibi sun and moon, i think of them every time i do now hehe!!

ohhhhh this is precious! thank you for sharing with me! blowing them kisses!! sleep well, little plushies ❤️❤️❤️

the minute i saw your photo i dropped everything to draw this:

shhh

they eepy

[crow-n-tell]

I had a lot of trouble with this lil guy. Weird lil music men aren't easy to shift over when their body's are so... Weird. Still, here! Hermit Crab Music Men!

If you wanna see what went on in my mind for this come right this way...

So a lil info about these boys! These lil music men have adapted to live in the safe shallows, as well as some undersea areas if need be - having two different palettes which match... you've probably guessed by the additions of orange in the music mans usual pastels

Acid mushrooms! I realized as I was trying to get it all sorted that they are a nearly identical color scheme so it worked out that their colors are a little wacky. Not that real life crabs aren't a bit audacious in their colorings too. Actually the deep sea version of this guy is based off a purple crab called the Palawan Purple Crab who comes from the Philippines.

Their colors are more so for other crabs of their species to recognize them, or so I've read, but in this particular scenario it suits our lil music man as a sort of camouflage too.

Aside from it being a sort of camouflage, it also gives you insight into these lil guys diet. Most of what (I really need to come up with a name for these guys, but all I keep thinking of is crab rangboom. like crab rangoon? but a sound pun.) they eat are poisonous, which has directly affected how predators view them. Yea see, there are certain families of crabs which are toxic only because they are eating things that should not be eaten.

So music men don't have a lot of predators, other than those who have natural immunities to things like that... ahem, moon.

I imagine that the crabs closer to the surface tend to a little smaller than knee high for an average height human, where as deeper sea versions of them are a lot bigger... Like... I DONT KNOW, Leviathan big? After all these are just lil guys, lets not forget about the big music man!

Next topic is... oh yeah!

Seismic communication is basically communication through vibrations. Not just through the water, actually it's used by spiders which we can all sort of agree is what the OG music boys are. Spiders use seismic communication when it comes to their webs in particular, able to sense through vibrations in their web if they've captured prey.

Similarly a lot of sea creatures use vibrations as means of communication. Not only in the way spiders do, but sensing out prey; but by avoiding predators or talking to each other. Crabs in particular use all three, but in terms of communication to one another its been noted they will rub their legs together like crickets to talk to other crabs.

For our lil crabby boys, their claws are fashioned sort of like the the original music man has. Hollowed out in the center, they are able to click their lil crab claws together to make sounds and vibrations which distress and confuse their prey long enough to snatch em up and eat em.

Of course they also have the very on brand to SB behavior of just being a literal face hugger if they come out of the shell.

m...mmmmm..... no... noo....ooo.......

I guess the only thing left to mention is his lil

Barnacles!

I struggled with how i'd give this lil guy a top hat. Then. I remember how WEIRD barnacles are. You see a lot of barnacles that look a lil something like this:

But they come in many variations!

And I hate all of them! they are great for designs, helpful in this case, but I get nauseous when looking at them and I can't even begin to understand why.

Sorry if my adhd really popped out on this one, I am actually holding back some of the mostly irrelevant information about colors and uh, other stuff.

[aleprouswitch]

Simon Crab, Bourbonese Qualk, c. mid-80s. No photographer listed.

[crab-crab]

This was originally leg practice but it got out of hand so have a purple rabbit man

@breannasfluff you're getting tagged cause you helped with design ideas >:3c PLEASE ENJOY HIM

[traumagician]

I heard a rumor that today was crab day?

Reblog for a surprise....

[starleska]

my favourite headcanon for Nordic Bunny is that he has an absolutely killer metal scream, which he can use as a weapon. and it's so high/powerful that it comes off like a brutal electric guitar riff. i just!!! think it would be sick if he also had musical powers!!! 🎸🤘

[official-crab-posts]

thoughts on maryland

never been. i think its cool they have a state crab though !! the color gradient on blue crabs is very nice. blue crabs ftw. look at them.

theyre so pretty!! theyre freakin blue dude!!!

[terrible-monkie-kid-aus]

Lmk but it's a musical

Fuck yeah! I expect Freenoodles to probably have one love ballad and then a hero’s journey song for Mk.

I dub this the Monkey Musical au btw because alliteration is fun.

[crabmoney3]

Hey blaseball folks so you may know that I am currently working on the script for Blaseball the Musical 2 (A Tillman Henderson Musical)

What you may NOT know is we are currently looking for a director for casting and scene direction! Email mxmahalp@gmail.com to inquire, or DM them on discord at wretchstar !

[fleetn-crab85]

so funny story: during the pandemic my sister and I were so bored we recreated the pro-shot of Newsies in LEGO stop motion. We never finished it, but we got through the entirety of Act One and King of New York. So please, enjoy this small part of the Seize The Day dance break!

(If enough of you people want to see the rest I may post more...)

[honesttoglob]

Me: Man, I should really watch Cats! The Musical so I can understand all these great Bigtop Burger references.

Me: Watches the first minute of Cats! The Musical and sees all the sexy furry cat people shimmying and cavorting and crawling around and rubbing their bodies against each other in skin-tight stripy leotards

Me: Man, you know what, maybe... maybe next time, actually. Definitely next time.

[g1ngerbeer]

Rewatched gridlock. I think that ahghrhhhhshjhjhjahjhahrhhraheowihgoighs

[turbomnstr]

[michaelcerasource]

Michael Cera is Armen in Nickelodeon’s Under the Boardwalk, now playing in select theaters for a limited time only. Streaming will be available November 7th.