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aka porridge or lakesludge · baby adult now · it/its · incredibly aroace · mutuals may ask for discord :)

[baleful-meat-worm]

a worm welcome :)

know the difference, it could save you life. from me. no genuinely guys im sick of it i will skin the next person to tag them incorrectly

hello! this is my intro post! i am the baleful meat worm! i will also respond to worm, porridge and sludge, as well as my human names marten and sorrel :) which i also like to be called!! there is another but it's secret!!!

any pronouns are fine really but i prefer it/its!!

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lakesludge on art fight

kippersnackie on ao3

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things i'm working on!

verdigris compendium - a weird-fiction work about a city meeting its god, in the form of a primordial and parasitic microorganism that finds us just as alien as we find it. a lot of body horror, existential philosophy, water-based metaphors, speculative biology, and one very poorly detective named kip

dog dog heron - or the misadventures of such. in a small and wet country town, three teenage girls (an ecology nerd, an amateur ghost hunter, and a ghost inhabiting her own decayed body) solve a murder and then seek vengeance on the man responsible. there is also a weird house, a lot of dogs, and lot of worms, meat in the walls, hair in the sink, and someone coughing up teeth

lambstooth - the love story between a varmint and her hunter. dog-girl and girl-dog. feral and hound. contains werewolves, dubious apothecaries, the nature of sickness, and a lot of blood. oh! and a miserable prematurely greying man who is the worst

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some facts about me?

i am a repulsed asexual, so no freaky talk around me please! i do not like it at all.

i am an avid enjoyer of speculative biology/astrobiology, vulture culture, body horror, and trinket collection. i am attempting to learn banjo and also ceramics :) oh and i draw. and write!

i am scared all the time. no, really. i am

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media i like? the magnus archives, southern reach, look outside, wellington paranormal, i am in eskew (still listening to this one!)

musical artists/groups i like? fiona apple, bats, garbage, kiltro, poe, bendigo fletcher, marika hackman, aliceband, yaelokre, the mechanisms now too i suppose (curse you all)

favourite tea? rosemary and ginger, with a bit of honey

top 3 things that scare me? leeches, the smell of chamomile, tight spaces

number of teeth? ever-changing

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"meat worm! i found someone reposted your art!" did they credit me? if so, i don't mind. if not, be upon them like a swarm of flies

"do you do commissions?" not at the moment

"why haven't you answered my ask [yet] :(?" i get a lot of asks and do not have the mental strength to respond to them all - i do read them though and appreciate them a lot!!! i really like receiving asks (especially ones that are really specific) and i will do my best :]

"can you tell me more about yourself?" no :)

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any posts about my very unserious magnus archives au, by the way, in case anyone's interested:

meat worm's unemployment au on Tumblr

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[leidensygdom]

i can headcanon that thang on SO many characters actually

[baleful-meat-worm]

medical situation so frustrating i am giving jonathan archivist sims poly metabolic ovarian syndrome

[cryingbreaskfastfriends]

Weeeeeeeeee! Lets go! As someone with pmos, please make sure to include reactive hypoglycemia! Its great for being hungery every few hours regardless of how much you ate AND! Fun low blood sugar symptomes like fainting, vertigo, slured speech and disorientation!

[baleful-meat-worm]

i also have pmos lets goooooo!!!!!! i will be sure to take this into account. the hypoglycemia will be best of friends with the cramping and random inflammation that causes a general air of discomfort and malaise

[baleful-meat-worm]

medical situation so frustrating i am giving jonathan archivist sims poly metabolic ovarian syndrome

[baleful-meat-worm]

i neeeed to do writing sprints again. sprinting my write

[baleful-meat-worm]

why does cosmic horror always happen to dudes named john when is it going to happen to dudes named baleful meat worm

[baleful-meat-worm]

*points* Made Of Flesh /silly

it's true

[baleful-meat-worm]

i am a jon fictionkin & your jonster au has sparked a few realizations about myself. i now have a cryptidsona of sorts that's quite similar to your jreature as a result of the long-awaited realization that i am also a strange-ass creature

this is wonderful news

[baleful-meat-worm]

I think I dreamt you changed your tumblr profile images and theme and it was like a light cream color it looked nice but didnt seem like your vibe so I was mildly surprised

maybe ill do it. maybe i will

[baleful-meat-worm]

You're a really cool artist but any time I see your blog I just think of a bug instead of a potential human

Like these

Absolute bug/pos

this is very close to my form actually anyone who knows me irl can back me up on this

[baleful-meat-worm]

I like your banner a lot. It’s neat.

thank you so much!! it was for class funnily enough :) paper mache, watercolour, acrylic, and the scales are a collage of printed out 1800s medical journal pages. it's about consumerism and healthcare of non-male bodies as compared to cultural attitudes towards non-human biologies. smiles

[baleful-meat-worm]

I tried my best

OHHH MY GODDD HELLOOOO

@woodsywarbler LOOK LOOK IT'S OUR GUY

[baleful-meat-worm]

funny thing about being the meat worm is people assume i am talking about meat in the consumption sort of way. like i want to eat it. im actually vegetarian unless under specific circumstances. i just think flesh is awesome to observe and to be made of. i have a lot of thoughts on this

[baleful-meat-worm]

listening to music and feeling emotional about randy and juniper today. what if we held hands through insurmountable horrors and what if i was an absolute curmudgeon with the hope of a little kid and you were a sweetheart who always knew something terrible was going to happen to the both of us but it's all okay really because we'll stick together and we will follow each other to the ends of the earth and the hollow you left in my life was an open wound in the flank of the world that i keep from healing with countless stitches and old casettes and waterstained polaroids drawn over with marker and my own crooked ribs and wrpapers of your favourite chocolate bar. and hair was in the pipes. and we were both girls ....

[baleful-meat-worm]

and i killed an old man for you with a hunting rifle at close range

[baleful-meat-worm]

listening to music and feeling emotional about randy and juniper today. what if we held hands through insurmountable horrors and what if i was an absolute curmudgeon with the hope of a little kid and you were a sweetheart who always knew something terrible was going to happen to the both of us but it's all okay really because we'll stick together and we will follow each other to the ends of the earth and the hollow you left in my life was an open wound in the flank of the world that i keep from healing with countless stitches and old casettes and waterstained polaroids drawn over with marker and my own crooked ribs and wrpapers of your favourite chocolate bar. and hair was in the pipes. and we were both girls ....

[baleful-meat-worm]

hmm sometimes ill get a comment and it'll look a bit suspicious and i will fail to resist the urge to check the blog behind it. and lo and behold. i will be correct and they're Likely Freaking It over my art

and im like at least? they're subtle? i suppose ?

[creaturefromyourbackyard]

Ummm. So i miscalculated how much time i had left for artfight 🥲 so i guess this is not an attack anymore. But tis art for u nonetheless @baleful-meat-worm !

Not sure why he turned out so pretty? Slay queen ig.

And the sketch i made

Tbh i like the sketch more