one day i'll wake up as the big Kafka bug

they. illustrator and tattooer. please throw treats into my enclosure https://linktr.ee/blue.jpeg

[bluedotjpeg]

new resumé for going into the dark times

[markovchaingang]

my lord. the two statues you commissioned are finally complete. yeah, the double-order with the vast and trunkless legs of stone and the shattered visage. i like to think we captured the sneer of cold command pretty well. it's a really thought-provoking piece my lord. very deconstructionist. i'm sure that even a traveller a thousand years from now could take one look at it and instantly recognise it must have come from an artistically enlightened culture

[probuccalfat]

people act like 20-22 year olds are adults who should be fully responsible and knowledgeable and with it and it’s like have you ever been 20, 21, 22? i knew nothing, i woke up every day dumb as rocks and made every bad choice possible until i went to bed

[eagleinasunbeam]

A big piece of why people feel this way is because they weren't treated like teenagers when they were teenagers. They were treated like young children, so when the switch flips on suddenly there are adult responsibilities and bills to pay, it feels overwhelming as young adults because there weren't stair step, age appropriate responsibilities and markers of development. There's culturally a line of 18 being the age of majority in the US, which is good for making laws to combat child labor and sexual exploitation but bad for things like on an individual level recognizing teenagers can indeed be responsible for major household chores and problem solving and repairs, and as they approach 18 can even start a job and learn what being an adult is like.

A 20 year old is an adult, even if they don't feel like it. And when we talk about feeling overwhelmed as young adults or how we did feel overwhelmed when we came of age, let's not cede linguistic ground to the conservatives who want to make doing literally anything besides signing up for the military before the age of 25 illegal.

[hyperlexichypatia]

I know I keep saying this, but if you're 20-22 years old and actually "know nothing" and are "dumb as rocks" -- if this is a relatively accurate self-assessment and you're not being hyperbolic or insecure -- that's the result of very intentional, willful decisions by people who had power over you growing up (parents, teachers) to actively keep you ignorant.

That goes beyond neglect. Neglected kids at least have some ability to take care of themselves and make decisions, out of pure necessity. If you made it to 18 or 20 or 22 without basic daily decision-making skills, someone (likely multiple someones) put a whole lot of active effort into keeping those skills from you. You deserve to be furiously angry about that, not just passively accept it as a normal stage of human development.

[organicmatter]

guys i just found out about this site that does a daily guessing game, it’s phylogenetic wordle- so fun!!!

[bugthingsdaily]

today's bug thing is this worm plush!

[irish-american-chan]

I Want To Establish Myself As An Autonomous Subject With Rights And Protections But Im Five

[sm64mario]

I met every single creepy pasta and they wre all nice to me

[bluedotjpeg]

advertising tattoo services on Facebook Marketplace will introduce you to the most obnoxiously illiterate people you have ever encountered. every single one is a bad comedy sketch unto themselves.

[bowelfly]

hands you an assortment of creatures

[inemperorsname]

by ACannonArt

[bluedotjpeg]

he has to look like an SCP or it doesn't work. he has to be at the bottom third of the hear me out iceberg. his bowtie does look very stupid i know but i think that adds to it.

prints for sickos

[bluedotjpeg]

Trungo time!!

@bowelfly 's good good boy getting his substances in. super fun project, rarely do custom sculpts and would definitely love to do more. making those wine glasses was a journey and i kinda can't believe it worked.

[bluedotjpeg]

he has to look like an SCP or it doesn't work. he has to be at the bottom third of the hear me out iceberg. his bowtie does look very stupid i know but i think that adds to it.

prints for sickos

[chilewithcarnage]

I'm entomologically evil. Im bad and I'ms bugs.

[bluedotjpeg]

your mama so

ok so there's this thing in horses called the Madigan Squeeze where if a newborn horse is lethargic and on the verge of death, sometimes what works is tying a rope around its torso and squeezing so that it mimics the contractions of the birth canal, which can stimulate the horse's nervous system and essentially convince its body it was born.

so anyway your mama's pussy so loose that

[scramratz]

I think people would be less suicidal if they were allowed to talk about being suicidal without risk of being sent to the Torture Dungeon

[bowelfly]

I wanted to share that I got your fantastic little monk shrews in a cuff around my arm about a month ago!! They bring me so much joy. All of your art does. Thank you from one entomologist to another

HOOTING & HOLLERING