Idiosyncrasies

This is my design

[xanaxfarts]

A tiny insect clinging to the head of a horned viper

[nattousan]

#ratatouille

[whaile]

late summer / early fall thoughts

[kosmogrl]

[frailbug]

you think that you're so alone in the world then you read literature from hundreds of years ago and you realize that other people have always felt this way

[tomb-mold]

can i come over and touch your things and belongings

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[myxomycota]

springtail on Metatrichia floriformis

by Barry Webb

[herpsandbirds]

This is easily one of the CRAZIEST videos I've ever gotten. I was rafting down a river when a Yellow Jacket came, landed on my bright pink waterproof phone pouch, and started drinking from the water droplets that had gathered there.

The most amazing part is how the water droplet magnifies the Hornet's mouth parts, so you get to see them up-close!!!! It was FASCINATING to witness!

Here's some of my favorite still shots from that video:

What do you think? 🥰

[vilewilde]

MAYBE YOUD FEEL BETTER JF YOU LOOKED AT A FUMKIGN... WOOLLY APHID!!!

REAL LIFE FAIRIE BE UPON YE! 🧚‍♂️✨

[h2ocolors-blog]

Eva Funderburgh

love her work

[s-olipsism]

she still makes these and they’ve only grown more wonderful over the years. The wood-fired surfaces really give them life.

love these lil guys

[saintsofgraves]

v1 sees his face and it just crashes

[malwarepuppy]

[scruu]

Trazyn is an excellent social interaction repellent if you don't want to talk to anyone at the Necron gathering

[megahertzmaroon]

let’s aura-farm with mama!

[heedra]

if you learn to love bugs with all your heart the world will feel half as hostile and a thousand times as big

[heedra]

Theres a sentiment I'm noticing in the tags that I'd like to address. I dont think learning to love bugs with all your heart means forcing yourself out of discomfort you have with them overnight. It's about observing a different sort of being going about its life and deliberately trying to reframe your observations through a sense of wonder and delight. It's about cultivating a positive interest and curiosity for their ecology and behaviors. It's especially about trying to uncouple the value we find in them from how 'convenient' they are to us; to face head on the part of us that wants to assign moral evil to another organism who just happens to live life in a way that is not harmonius with ours. You can love insects in this way and still recognize your own health and safety needs. We are animals living side by side within a biosphere. This is how it is, sometimes.

I think this is important to cultivate because, if you are alive at all, you are coming into conflict with countless other people and things that dont owe you an apology for their existance and needs. If you are alive at all, you are encountering countless other people and things that harmful bias and personal discomfort have made repulsive to you. This is about bugs, but its also about way more than bugs.

[invertebrates]

It's hard to explain to the uninitiated that you can just go for a walk just about anywhere with a bit of green (and sometimes even in the heart of a city) and find like a dozen neat little unique guys if you're patient and observant.

People get really into bird watching but here's a secret: bugs are WAY easier to find than birds and they let you get a lot closer.

Try to approach the world with wonder and curiosity rather than fear and revulsion. Bugs are a great place to start.

[coyotedeldesierto]

I used to be very afraid of spiders...But I read a poem from the point if view of a spider, saying how she didn't knew being seen would cost her life and it struck a nerve, one day I saw one in my room and just... Observe, I told her to stay a bit far because I felt afraid and somehow she... Understood me(? That's what I felt, she always walked to another wall or to her home (a box in my room) when I went near, after a while I named her "Gorda" and talked to her daily

A year and a half passed and one day there was only her corpse and I cried and took her little body in my hands and put her in a little piece of cotton fabric, wrote a letter and buried her in the park nearby

Gorda and I became weird friend that just... Looked at each other, every day I miss seeing her

I truly recommend to just watch, and name and see what happens when you just exist near a bug.

I now like spiders, in honor of my gorda, my beloved, and that beautiful short poem that changed my perspective.

May death be mercyfull to us all.

[catcrumb]

[catgirl-kaiju]

I work as a janitor and I feel like I’m gonna be thinking about this post a lot on the job

[dogpuppy]