#get bugged

[plasmara]

Dude I just had a vision. Jay, local bug nerd, teaching Kai, local I fucking hate bugs guy, helping Kai with his fear of bugs.

Maybe they’re our training and suddenly Jay finds a firefly struggling on the ground (maybe they accidentally hit it?) and he goes to gently pick it up and Kai’s like “ew ew we please don’t get near me with that thing” - cue to Jay softly helping Kai get over his fear by having him hold the firefly in his hands and stuff. Eventually the firefly recovers and flies away or some shit but yes.

Even better if Kai remembered these moments when he’s going agaisnt his fuckass centipede great grandfather or smth

YEAGHHHHGGHHH….. buggy plasma i love you. and Btw i like to think the real reason kai is scared of bugs to begin with is actually jay being a little shit when they were younger and chasing him around with all kinds of insects. yeah he threw a beetle at him and called it exposure therapy. But then fast forward he has a change of heart or whatevevrrervrrrr . He has matured❤️❤️❤️ they have their little bonding moment. jay’s like ‘omg why are u so scared lol’ like HE wasn’t the reason kai had to develop bug-specific coping mechanisms . kai’s like 😳 gee maybe bugs aren’t so bad?? and jay’s like wow i’m such a good teacher <33333 as if this isn’t literally just damage control. They hold the firefly AND each others hands it’s super romantic everyone cheers in the background

ALSO CONSIDER HIM SEEING A FIREFLY IN THE LAND OF MONSTERS TOO . and it makes him think of jay and 😞😞😞😞 worst part is idiot jay doesn’t remember any of it now anyway

[dailyloweffortpace]

Day 24: whatever. go my scarab

[gho-zzy]

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Hey.

Did you know.

You gonna get bugged. Look at em go. 💖

[fettyalfy]

complimentary bug photo

[jelliegirl]

@orbees

[hello-there-friend13]

I would like to call attention to the eastern dobsonfly. It is a very good bug and deserves love! I have attached pics of the two times I have encountered one in the wild for your enjoyment. Yes this pupae was the same size as the adult.

[coleopterabyte]

Part of the reason I'm so adamant about encouraging people to get comfortable with bugs, my own interests aside, is because we cannot have a bright, solarpunk future without them.

A green future is not a bugless future. It is, in fact, a fairly bugful future. If you care about ecological stability, then you need to start with bugs, because they're the most at risk with our current use of pesticides.

[ewegenia]

something is wrong with my hamster

[cpericardium]

The time I opened an academic paper titled "parasitoid wasps" and read several sections about thermal temperatures in avalanche flow, wondering when the wasps were going to show up, before realising the file was probably mislabelled. "wow this sounds deadly and to think, the wasps haven’t even attacked yet"

[eggsdoodz]

someday 🐞

[redheadnomi]

@phantomlankypoodles

[ducktracy]

sharing a very sage bit of advice from The Simpsons' own John Swartzwelder that i've been trying to hamper down in my writing and drawing alike. let your inner crappy little elf do his worst

[soothedcerberus]

Does anybody remember Dragon Tales? 🥺

[nimrodimus]

hmu on bug grindr

[teaboot]

Any tips for being a suicidal 15 year old?

When I was a suicidal 15 year old everyone told me “it gets better”, and it sounded like bullshit. And frankly, it still sounds like bullshit. Like oh, what, I’m living in hell and you’re not gonna help me or *do* anything or give me any useful advice and I’m supposed to just hang in there on the nebulous, pithy promise that things are just gonna work out on their own? And you can’t tell me how or why, I’m just supposed to take it on the faith that I don’t have that something might change in ways I haven’t considered?

But yeah. It does. And it’s frustrating as hell.

Yes, things are gonna get better, and they’re gonna get better in ways I can’t describe even after experiencing it myself. Things you don’t even know CAN be different WILL be different. One day you’re just going to step outside and realize things got better somewhere and you didn’t even notice it happening.

And there’s really nothing I can say that makes that sound even a little bit believable.

I guess all I can tell you is that you have to want to believe it.

[heartnosekid]

african peach moth (egybolis vaillantina) | source