#wiggly little critters...

[magistralucis]

dance cryptek dance

THEY NEVER HAD A CHANCE

[thorndrool]

i made one of one of my characters yeyy

[tawnysoup]

Good news! Noodle science has progressed far enough that I can finally introduce to you the Odile Critter, or Ophidile for short! (a contraction of ophidian and odile) though many other names seemed to work for her... I'll put the alternative names under the cut!

She's a little tiny eastern dragon, or perhaps a snake, or perhaps a ferret, or all three! What matters is that she's wiggly and small and has so many modes of transport... slithering, hopping, flying?!

She stands as tall as Isabird, but she's longer in the back so she ends up being technically the biggest critter of the main 5. She is good at collecting hoards of books inside of small spaces you don't want them to be, like your vents.

Finally, you can add an Odile critter to your collection! Thank u for ur patience, this beastie went through so many ugly drafts before I found her.

Alternative names... Odyrm, Serpendile, Dragodile, Odilisk, Komodile, Cobrile, Anacondile, Odrake, Odile (pronounced oh-dial), Odochi (brin's suggestion), Ferrodile...Maybe I'll never truly settle. But isn't that fitting? It took me much longer to settle on a design for her than the others, hehe!

[oinkinpigprince]

Charlie and/or Pim x ticklish!reader? Or ticklish Charlie/Pim x reader? (Or both? :))) )

I am severely ticklish, but I also get very very aggressive. Like legit violent

Tickling head canons for Charlie and Pim

Charlie dompler

Charlie does it to be a dick ngl, you two are sitting down and he just reaches over and wiggles his fingers on your side and you jump and gravel on the floor like a fish

He laughs every time, it’s his favorite thing. Watching you freak your shit after he just brushed your neck never fails to put a evil smile on his face

It is a rare thing though, which makes it worse. You forget and feel completely safe, just walking down the street with him and then he brushes your ribs and you are totaled

Ya know, Charlie just doesn’t strike ya as a person who would be ticklish ngl. Like his sides, feet, neck, nothing. Try as you might nothing. You’ve tried to get him back, trying anything to take revenge, nothing 😔😔

That was until one day you accidentally brushed his knee cap and he jumps. You two just stare at each other, bewildered and amused.

Oh my god, you made him regret ever even meeting you. At any given moment you’ll tickle his knees like a silly little critter, you abuse this fact. Sometimes when you go to reach he’ll jerk his knees away from you

It becomes an all out war at home, you two wrestling on the floor trying to get the other, it’s a lot of screaming and giggling. Your neighbors think you two are, interesting to say the least

When you two play competitive videogames like smash bros or racing games, he’s low key a sore looser. So he’ll tickle your neck to distract you

Pim pimling

He loves being cutely playful with you. Pim will tickle your sides just to hear you giggle, he thinks it’s precious.

Does it very lightly, like brushing his fingers on your side and watching you try and wiggle away from him, stifling laughter makes him feel giddy.

Pim does it frequently at home, maybe when you two are with friends and he’s bored. Sitting on the couch watching a movie and he’ll blow on your neck and giggle as you jump around

When you two are cuddling though he accidentally brushes his hands against your side which makes you just. He feels so bad but it’s also really funny

Pims very ticklish, like, embarrassingly so. He’ll flail his arms every time you even graze his sides and if you have him in your grasp, Pim will wheeze laugh and start crying

He’s screaming uncle, uncle but he’s tickled you one too many times. Revenge must be had. Pim has tiny arms so he can’t exactly get you back as easily, it’s fun for him to try!

Very wiggly, when you get him. He’ll fall to the floor like a fish, it’s really cute. You feel a little evil looking at his poor face as you mercilessly tickle him, but it’s quickly forgotten when you remember all the times he’s gotten you

Pim will also blow raspberries on your tummy, not rlly tickling it’s just rlly cute. You giggle and poke his head, it’s really cute couple moments that he enjoys with you.

[markerofthemidnight]

Okay so Wiggly is a squid for obvious reasons and will never not be a squid (unless you’d prefer to call him an octopus) but if anyone ever wants to liken him to any other type of animal for whatever reason, consider the otter:

Aquatic mammal (fluffy underwater creature)

Looks like a stuffed animal (is a stuffed animal)

Have the highest fur density of any animal (since they lack blubber and need to stay buoyant through other means), and spend a lot of their time grooming (vain)

Mustelid (probably lacks bones)

Collect pretty rocks (associated with attachment to possessions)

Carnivorous (fucked-up little critter!!!)

Hold each others’ hands when they’re sleeping (brought his brothers with him to help take over the world)

The bigger species LITERALLY EAT CAIMAN FUCKING CROCODLES (looks cute, secretly fucked up)

i could go on but I think you get my point

[naamahdarling]

Do you have a favorite creepy critter/misunderstood species that the rest of the world irrationally hates/is terrified of?

A lot of them. Spiders, stinging insects. I'm scared of them a lot of the time (or of flying stinging things anyway) but also they are just little guys who don't really mean any harm and are just going about their business. They eat bugs, they mostly leave us alone. I feel bad they are so despised. I wish we strove for neutrality and practicality instead of praising violence against the occasional creature so much smaller and weaker than us. I don't want aggressive wasps on my porch, either, but I don't hate them. I just need them to move. You can feel that way about any animal.

It's the same with snakes. People are so violent about it. It makes me angry and sad. That black rat snake or bullsnake is eating something you really don't want around. If you have chicks or eggs, that's one thing, but if you just have a suburban yard and see the occasional wiggly boi passing through, you can just leave them alone, or figure out what kind they are before reacting badly.

And they aren't creepy but definitely pigeons. Oh I'm soooo sorry you got inconvenienced or grossed out by "flying rats". They're soooo awful, these pretty little animals your forebears domesticated and abandoned, and which we have failed so badly we don't even remember that the contract of domestication ever existed. Morally speaking, pigeons are a real big L for us. We owe them better. It isn't any different than feral cats, it's just that we still keep cats in our homes, and the problem with feral cats isn't as bad.

[taradiddled]

Eve: You are wanted here, my little crumb. I WANT you here. Don’t you let this nasty thoughts bear fruit in your head. You have ALWAYS been wanted. From the day your dad and so decided we wanted to bring someone new to the First Family team, you’ve been wanted.

Cain: I thought I wasn’t planned? I just…happened?

Eve: Well, no shit, kiddo. It’s not like you just sprang up in my womb the first time your dad and I decided to do some actual baby-making. Took some time for us to perfect our conception rate. And we were kinda on our own with the whole pregnancy and birth shtick, so it took a bit of time to figure out. But as soon as we knew you were coming along, holy shit, kiddo. We wanted you. We had no fucking clue what we were doing, aside from what we were told in that Garden, but we wanted you.

Cain: Yeah. And how did that turn out?

Eve: It turned out that I could love someone with every bit of me and more. More than I loved your dad, even. This little, wiggly, wrinkly, screechy little critter — first of your kind, and allllll mine. My little crumb. And yeah, shit went down in the end, but I’d never regret bringing you into the world, Cain.

[thorny-person]

marine aliens again

I was thinking up some world beholding things for my aliens again, mainly the manatee based one but some aspects could work for the rest unless I get a different idea later

More information about the doodles below if you’re interested, like a lot of info lol.

Top left corner: I was thinking how they manatees may depict themselves or simplify their image and I ended up with these little idols! They would most commonly be carved from drift woods or stone in common use such as toys, decor, art, etc. with the exception of larger more intricate idols used for offerings, statues or alters with the swirls on them showing areas of importance or strength

Left middle: manatee patterns tend towards rounded shapes, circles and wiggly lines as it reminds them or various shapes of water, stones, swaying plants in the currents and so on. This also carries over into their food prep in some ways, such as the small rounded shapes of stuffed knotted plants for common meals while the larger ‘leaf’ patterns are used in mass storage of stable plants such as kelps and seaweeds.

Bottom left: a manatee tapestry idea depicting a matron, made from various fibers of marine plants. Culture wise weaving, macrame, and other various similar crafts are import to them since they view the actions as essential to their lifestyles for fabrics of various uses like clothing and bedding as well as being able to properly store large quantities of staple foods.

Top right: the common ‘bowl’ types for under water dining, left one is for ‘sinking’ foods that you don’t have to worry about floating away from the table while downturn right ‘bowl’ is for such foods that you would expect to float away. The downturn ‘bowels’ can also come in clear glass varieties depending on location to allow the person to see what they’re getting, larger restaurants normally have this option.

Right middle: common utensils for underwater dining, hooked is mainly for meats or scooping things out of shells/exoskeletons. The two pronged utensil is used for mostly plant based foods or large pieces of a meal. Spoons or ‘tailed’ utensils are for meals with many small pieces that are stuck together which isn’t a common occurrence outside of things like caviar or mushed foods to help a calf struggling to adjust to solid foods after being weened off of milk. Gripped tongs are used for live food that would be unsafe to eat if it wear dead, similar to lobster being unsafe when it’s not fresh but manatees just decide to eat those types of critters live (young calf’s who haven’t had live meals yet will often dare each other to do so while hanging out)

Right bottom: shown here is the dining table preferred by manatees with anchor bars to hold the meal bowls securely, normally with multiple anchors for each person wether it’s for mixed meals or the average meal which compared to a humans (2-3% of their weight) to a manatees (15-20% of their weight) is a lot of food or at the very least calorie rich. The middle groove serves as an arm rest as well as safe spot for each persons utensils to be stored, sanitary items to clean up before and after meals.

Finally on the bottom are ports that have retractable fresh water taps to drink with meals that typically connects to a water tank below the table that’s connected to a large tank of clean salt water that is processed into fresh as needed. Each tap has a twistable ring around the nozzle to stop the one way water flow to help avoid drinking the salt water in the room as well as to prevent waste of fresh water.

[year2000electronics]

OKAY HI HELLO I am utterly bouncing off the walls right now, your takes on Bill and Ford and the ENTIRETY of your lore and world building for your take on Reverse Falls is INCREDIBLE. Absolutely STUNNING. Seriously I never once thought of Gideon being the Mabel personality in that way before and now I can't unsee it thank you for helping me see the light. Will Cipher being a whiny little fuck is perfect.

ALSO. TBH. Your god-tier take on the Lords in Black combined with the bad end VRV guys altered my brain chemistry and I am SO curious as to why you assigned each of them their respective Lord. I can see True-Storyteller because y'know, the Bastard's Box™, and Leading Light being Nibbly because he's desperate & hungry for control, but very VERY curious as to your thoughts on the others (especially Overlord, him being Pokey is intriguing; how would he go about doing all of that?? Does he do the same musical thing like in TGWDLM or something else while still keeping the hivemind shtick?)

THANK YOU!! i’ve always really liked gideon as a character (he would be able to scam me i’m afraid) and i know that being raised by bud “hangs weird clown paintings in his house and pardon this garden signs outside of it” gleeful would ALWAYS have him being the strange little critter that he is just without the homicidal tendencies.. i believe this. AND ALSO PATHETIC ANNOYING LITTLE WILL CIPHER!!

i think for the lords in black- it’s been so long i don’t remember the specifics, truthfully a lot of it was based on colors and what i thought would look good, but for overlord i remember webby describing him as “hating every voice besides his own” and that reminded me of how overlord got on with his science team (not good). gvrv is wiggly because he is the leader and also it felt very in line for him to do wiggly things like making people stand in line for a wiggly their son might not even want. father time is tinky because he is literally the bastard of time and space. loverboy is nibbly because he’s hungry for more and Pink and i feel like hypnos was made blinky because purple and also he was the last one haha

[noideabutsims]

Donut Co. Rugtastic Reset - Randomness Edition Has 74 Swatches All of our CC can be found by typing " Donut " into the search bar! Images in game -  You can find bonus images on our tumblr > HERE Most of my images have my reshade on - it changes the color minimally, so white may look a little off in photos, but in game it will look white/normal!! <3! You can size them up and down using the bracket keys. [ ] <- these ones.  I personally, use the tool mod to size my items up and down, and specifically with these if you are wanting them to be "perfectly sized" i would recommend you grab the tool mod by twistedmexi! If you would like to use it in build-buy mode, you'll need BBB! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Name: Donut Co. Rugtastic Reset - Randomness Edition Buy Mode Description:  Get ready to unleash your inner weird with this delightfully odd collection of rugs! With 74 amazing swatches, there's a quirky critter or nostalgic memory waiting to brighten your floor. From creepy-crawly bugs and charming smiles to funky mushrooms and wiggly worms, this set is a celebration of the unexpected. Rediscover the joy of a classic worm on a string or find a brand new favorite amongst the whimsical designs. So ditch the boring and embrace the bizarre – your floors (and your inner child) will thank you! (Works best if you use the bracket keys "[" + "]" to size up and down, or my personal preference of the tool mod!) Will be releasing more content soon! stay tuned! ❤️ (NOT affiliated with EA or Maxis in any way! We just make CC! ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DOWNLOAD: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102632491?pr=true Curseforge: https://legacy.curseforge.com/sims4/build-buy/donut-co-rugtastic-reset-randomness-edition Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15g0x7UPXauBKKwxAQvmy4mp30jPFMYtZ/view?usp=sharing @alwaysfreecc

[museofthepyre]

Dumping this here for the sillies this is my warriors-sona Deerheart. He is a medicine cat and horrible at it.

Every time he’s actually needed for something, he is untraceable, somewhere off in the middle of the woods. He often drops incredibly ominous and cryptic messages without prompting- and will refuse to elaborate on what he means. Nobody knows if he’s actually receiving messages from something beyond, or if he’s just fucking with everyone.

Also he really likes bugs (especially worms, grubs, wiggly critters of any variety really) and he tends to little colonies which he keeps hidden in the back of camp. He sneaks off prey scraps to them. They clean any remaining flesh off the bones, and then he keeps the bones! He has many hidden collection piles around the territory.

Everything other than the mushrooms got stuck in his fur from reckless forest exploring, he REFUSES to let anyone else groom him. The mushrooms just grow there we don’t ask questions.

[fried-dracula]

this is Spike. and

when he sprawls out like this, I realize how much of a longboi he really is. I'm 5'5" tall and he's not even fully stretched but he's taking up the entire length of my leg. He's a hefty boi. A real Stretch Armstrong of a cat. Totally a rug.

He is also a total gentleman who asks nicely for treats by standing up:

He uses his quiet meow when everyone is sleeping except for the two of us, and opens the door for me:

He sleeps in bed with me all night, he hangs out with me all day. He loves the same kind of music as I do:

Did I mention he's totally photogenic? Look at this! He made lounging in the claw foot tub look like a professional photo shoot.

So yeah, this is Spike. He's my special sweet boy. He keeps me company all day and stays with me when I have seizures. He makes biscuits in my lap every morning. He always comes when I call him. He always makes sure to let me know when a critter is creeping around the yard. He loves to play fetch and chase his wiggly worm on a fishing pole.

He was a feral when I got him. Scared of everyone. Wouldn't come out of hiding for a month. I win him over with little tiny pieces of hot dog I would randomly gift him through the day. Then suddenly one day he walked out of hiding, tail in the air (sign of a happy cat) and just swam around in my lap so desperate for attention. It was just like that. One day a feral, next day my forever cuddle buddy.

He's a very special boy, yep.

[ashswordsman859]

ok hear me out.....

so the small smiling critters are hungry right only going after us with the promise of food and safety.....my head cannon is we can tame them with fruit snacks or beef jerky. Like imagine player is running through the factory and has fruit snacks or something stored and sees the adorable wiggly eared critters and feeds them the fruit snacks then bring them along. They both get food and safety why wouldn't they want to hang around? And in that case we could theoretically save dogday as well. (For the daddy issues.....I should not have gotten attached to a character so quick.) They have a medical ward so they must have wheelchairs and they have multiple big bodied toys so there must be at least one dogday's size. We get little friends and a father figure dog to go with us in our endeavors!

[markerofthemidnight]

Wiggly is a silly boy and I want us to talk about that more

he’s a silly silly little critter and I want us to acknowledge that

[sinosauropteryx--prima]

Life in the Ordovician

(top left: Endoceras; top middle: Promissum; top right: Pentecopterus; middle left: Aegirocassis; middle right: Bumastus; bottom left: first land plants; bottom middle: Sacabambaspis; bottom right: Arandaspis)

Art by:

Bumastus - Obsidian Soul

Promissum, Aegirocassis, Sacabambaspis - Nobu Tamura

Endoceras - AStepIntoOblivion

Pentecopterus - Patrick J. Lynch

Arandaspis - Christian Darkin

First land plants - Tahoenathan

After the Cambrian Explosion we reach the “Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event“ or GOBE (which, admittedly, sounds a lot less catchy than Cambrian Explosion).

The Ordovician starts directly after the Cambrian about 485 million years ago. Life really started to diversify during this period and came up with a lot of new and more modern forms (as far as you can call something that‘s 485 million years old “modern“). Groups like gastropods (slugs and snails), bivalves (shelled marine invertebrate) and brachiopods (shelled molluscs like clams, oysters, etc.) started to gain prominence. It really is a shame that, as a vertebrate myself, I am biased to things that also have bones and therefore won‘t talk a lot about those critters (maybe at some point i have to dig deeper into them). I can however tell you that those groups became very important to marine ecosystems and that the brachiopods especially are characteristic for the “paleozoic fauna“ in contrast to the “cambrian fauna“. Also, the fact that paleontologist distinguish between those two should give you a hint as to how impactful the GOBE really was.

Trilobites like Bumastus, which first originated in the Cambrian, were doing very well and diversified further. Most of them were bottom dwelling and relatively small, but the biggest ones, which lived during the late Ordovician could reach up to 70 cm. Just like the gastropods, bivalves and brachiopods, they were mayor players of their time, and just like them, they get concerningly little attention in relation to how big of a group they were and how important they were to our Earth‘s history. Although, I suppose I am part of the problem here, because I could go into deep detail about them right now. I‘m just not going to. Maybe some day…

While the trilobites were running around on the ocean floors some of the earliest chordates slowly turned into fish. They were of course a very basic type of fish. We call this group Agnatha, which translates to “no-jaw“, because, well, they didn‘t have jaws yet (they did have teeth though). Some jawless fish are still alive today, the lampreys and hagfish. They are truely disgusting, slimy, blood-sucking, eel-like creatures. The extinct jawless fish include the conodonts like Promissum. For the longest time scientists had no idea what kind of animal conodonts were, because the only parts of them that fossilized were their cone-shaped teeth (that‘s also where they got their name). Those teeth however were found everywhere and they are very important fossils, because by looking at them geologist can determine from which geologic age a fossil site is. Relatively recently we then started to find better preserved fossils, that revealed that conodonts where also eel-shaped and had big eyes. The other type of extinct jawless fish were the Ostracoderms like Sacabambaspis or Arandaspis. They are usually better preserved because their heads were covered in boney armor which fossilizes much better than the wiggly soft bodies of the conodonts.

One of the biggest names of the Ordovician was Endoceras, a shelled cephalopod (related to squids and octopus). And by big I mean that this weird ice cream cone was more than 3 m long. Another famous group that got their start during this time are the eurypterids, the sea scorpions, like Pentecopterus. Neither were they real scorpions (they were arachnids though, so close enough), nor lived they exclusively in the sea as there were a lot of fresh water species. There are some suggestions that they might have been able to at least briefly walk on land and breath in the air. They were also some of the biggest arthropods that ever live. Pentecopterus for example was about 1.7 m long and it wasn‘t even the biggest eurypterid (we‘ll get to that one later). They weren‘t all massive, but sizes of 1 m and more were not rare and to be honest, that‘s already way to big for any bug of my liking.

While all those new linages arose they slowly outcompeted many of the Cambrian weirdos I talked about last week. Some held on longer than others though. The Radiodonts (Anomalocaris and friends) declined during the Ordovician, but it was also the time during which we see the biggest one of them: 2 m long Aegirocassis. It was a filter feeder, so basically a giant whale of its time.

As all of that was happening in the oceans, another revolution happened quietly on the shores of our early planet: We see the very first land plants. Those early plants would have been non-vascular plants (vascular tissue is basically the plant equivalent to blood vessels; and it had not developed yet). They would have looked similar to mosses.

Even though those early plants wouldn‘t have looked very exciting, they would have put a lot of work into terraforming the world. It is believed that their photosynthesis lowered carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and that this might have caused temperatures to drop, turning the late Ordovician into an ice age. We know for certain that this drop in CO2 levels and temperature happened. If it was actually caused by the photosynthesis is another questions, though. Another suggestion, that also makes plants the culprits, is that their roots increased the erosion of rocks and this erosion involved the reaction between the rocks and CO2 from the atmosphere. Another reason for increased erosion could have been vulcanism creating a lot more “new“ rocks to erode. An (to my ears) absolutely wild theory is that the earth actually didn‘t cool because of lower CO2, but instead got hit by a gamma-ray burst, which sounds like something out of a scifi-movie. Apparently a gamma-ray burst is an intense energy beam, that is caused by a supernova (I really know nothing about space…), and it could have stripped our planet very quickly of our ozone layer. As ozone is a greenhouse gas, just like CO2, that would have also caused a cool down.

Whatever it was, at the end of the Ordovician the earth froze over. Drastic changes in temperature usually lead to extinction and that was the case here as well. The Late Ordovician Mass Extinction killed around 85 % of marine species, which is a pretty big deal when you consider, that almost all species at the time were marine species. It is often seen as the second-worst of the mayor “big 5“ mass extinctions (we’ll get to all the other ones in the future, don‘t worry about it). But, unlike many other mass extinctions, it didn‘t have a mayor impact on the fauna and most groups of life recovered and re-diversified after the extinction. But that‘s a story for another time.

Again, all the info from wikipedia. I got some stuff about jawless fish here.

[nihilaraarchived]

@girlfox asked: belly pressed against the earth and legs kicked up into the air, idly moving back and forth; the sunlight felt like a mother's warmth on the bare of her back where her sundress parted. next to her, a man she figured had never looked quite so rested as in this moment, leaning back against a tree with eyes closed, though not quite asleep. glancing at the soil, the fox took note of a long, wiggly critter, and scooped it up in her palms, playfully handing it out to him. " kuro, would you still love me if i were a worm? "

𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐅𝐄𝐋𝐓 𝐒𝐎 𝐀𝐓 𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄. there was no desperate rush, no need to seek death. there was just the gentle scent of nature, the sun along his legs, and a comforting presence nearby. one would think him mad, probably, for equating ahri's embrace to that of a warm bed. 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲. it is a single stroke on the endless canvas that has become his life. it frightens him, of course-- he will avoid when it is unnecessary. but when it comes to something, or someone he loves, there is no amount he will not give to them.

truthfully, he could drift here.

sleep is not unlike death, but it's 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧, a momentary retreat from living. it is thanks to her that he can sleep easier. no longer enduring a series of days to weeks, fighting himself for it. kuro is still trying to find ways to show her how much it means to him, the things she's done for him. his flesh is a good start; to touch, to hold, to fill her belly and indulge in-- like an endless feast. but there is so much more he could give up, if she only asked for it.

the fox's voice draws him back, however. and he sleepily looks her way, just in time to have a worm placed in his open palm. her question is so endearing, he cannot help the smile he offers in return.

" would i... " he sits up a bit, and returns the little thing to the dirt at his side. both his hands then finding her's. every motion is languid, and easy. " ahri. ahh, ahri my lovely beautiful, ahri. " she asks this out of... curiosity. a playful jest. but kuro wants it to be known--- " i will love you no matter what form you take. whether it be the worm in the soil, a leaf on the wind-- or this. " he hums, and tugs her close. till she rests on top of him-- arms wrapping around her.

a kiss then, is firmly placed to her head. then his cheek rests there, still a bit drowsy from his sporadic napping. " now come here. come nap with me in the grass and mud my little earthworm... "

𝐮𝐧𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝