Cicada

Just a silly fella

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Account Info!!

(This will likely be updated as I get more accustomed to Tumblr)

About me

Name? Cicada is my preference online and the name of my fursona :)

Pronouns? He/Him/It/Its

I'm Canadian :)

Content? I may occasionally post my art and plan to post things like headcanons, fanfics, and OC content as well as random yapping

Lots of fandoms!

Boundaries

I'm a little hesitant about online friends. For some unknown reason talking to people online triggers my anxiety more than anything else I've ever experienced so if you reach out and I don't respond, that would be why. I promise you I'm not trying to be mean I'm probably having a heart attack

Nothing illegal 😭 I don't like that I have to clarify this but I've seen things. This means no proships, zoophiles, or anything like that

I do not tolerate discrimination or harrassment, if you are being racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, sending threats, etc. you will not get the attention of being called out unless I believe you are a danger to others. You will be reported and blocked.

Encouraged

Asks! Requests for little short fic things, ideas/prompts, questions, even just saying hi! I can't promise I'll answer quickly or sometimes at all but I will do my best

Using my headcanons in your own content it's lowkey so flattering to think anyone would even want to, it makes me very happy. Feel free to tell me if you do so I can see :)

Finding me on AO3 and TikTok (I'm "CicadaTheCat" most places)

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Cam update!

Cam is still doing very well and I'm fairly sure she's grown at least a bit too! My biggest concern with keeping a wolf spider this young was finding size appropriate food with a steady enough supply to keep her well fed but that problem was very quickly solved when I remembered the mechanical room I work in sometimes at my job that is filled with billions of drain flies (this is not any fault of my workplace, it's a rarely visited room that takes grey water from a massive kitchen and we have done stuff to minimize the flies). The drain flies are the perfect size for her and I finally caught her eating and confirmed she's been hunting :)

I collect the flies in a vial and release them in her enclosure, she's holding one in the photo. Bonus drawing of Cam too

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Me: Oh wow I'm really feeling the depression today, I really need something to cheer me up

The humble, affectionate, and shockingly thick cat that appears out of thin air:

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Cam update:

Wolf spiders can move at an estimated two (2) feet per second to accomodate their hunting style of chasing prey rather than spinning webs. Cam decided she would give me firsthand evidence of this and move around her new house before I could get the lid on at such rapid speeds I could genuinely be convinced she teleported. Cam didn't leave, she's quite happy with the new living situation, but I might need to get my heart checked out after that because holy fuck she is so fast for something that is maybe 1 cm² at most

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Another Cam update :)

She's doing very well! She's moving around a lot more (which still isn't much because she mostly finds a comfy place to camouflage during the day) and by the looks of it she's been hunting at night! While she can't technically HEAR me necessarily, she gets to join in on pre-bedtime reading. Because I have classes and a job I don't get to spend as much time with my two budgies as I'd like so I recently started reading aloud to them before bed because they like chirping while I talk. Cam probably isn't as invested in Sherlock as those of us with actual ears but she does turn to watch when I flip pages

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Cam update: I spent a solid hour laying outside in the grass collecting size appropriate live prey for my wonderful spider and Cam's (temporary) enclosure now includes two little black ants and some sort of aphid looking thing. One of the ants walked right up to her and she fled despite the fact that it was a third of her size. The ant chased her. My spider daughter is being bullied by her ant dinner that is smaller than a grain of rice. I am losing my mind.

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I would like to share my current situation

I have a roommate. She is a massive wolf spider I have named California (after the song California Girls). She is too fast to catch despite my many attempts and lives under my dresser so I have resorted to calling her my roommate and even made a spider sized legal contract. It appears Cali has had a child as yesterday I found a baby wolf spider I have named Cam (after Cam Jansen). Cam is now MY daughter on account of the fact that Cali just let her loose in my room. I am now the proud father of a not-yet-venomous spider and would like everyone to meet Cam

She is currently the size of my thumbnail :)

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Update: I have since figured out California is actually a giant house spider, not a wolf spider. Cam was someone else's kid. This implies that there are more large spiders in my house.

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I would like to share my current situation

I have a roommate. She is a massive wolf spider I have named California (after the song California Girls). She is too fast to catch despite my many attempts and lives under my dresser so I have resorted to calling her my roommate and even made a spider sized legal contract. It appears Cali has had a child as yesterday I found a baby wolf spider I have named Cam (after Cam Jansen). Cam is now MY daughter on account of the fact that Cali just let her loose in my room. I am now the proud father of a not-yet-venomous spider and would like everyone to meet Cam

She is currently the size of my thumbnail :)

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Returning to my Sherlock phase after far too long means returning to my old Sherlock spinoff script from highschool when I played Lestrade with a mustache glued to my face in front of my whole school

Some highlights of character interactions

I would also like to present the worst line in any play ever. It took about a month to learn to say it with a straight face

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Good Omens finale spoilers!!!!!!

Woke up at 6:00 AM today so I'd have time to finish Good Omens before class and work and I don't regret it at all. I feel like queer love stories in media don't get many happy endings so that was a delightful way to start my day (even if I did cry)

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The honeymoon phase of actually getting a finale has faded, what the fuck was that that was not a happy ending what was I on

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Good Omens finale spoilers!!!!!!

Woke up at 6:00 AM today so I'd have time to finish Good Omens before class and work and I don't regret it at all. I feel like queer love stories in media don't get many happy endings so that was a delightful way to start my day (even if I did cry)

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Saw a bunch of cool looking spiders in an in ground pull box at work today, thought they were neat and pet/tapped one or two of them a few times, figured I'd identify them at home.

My DUMBASS was rage baiting BLACK WIDOWS

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Item: The Welcome Mat Rarity: ⏶ Common

What game feels like "home" to you no matter when you come back to it?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Holy shit I love this little pixel cat

Red Dead Redemption 2 will always be my favourite game of all time, I love going on peaceful horse rides

Happy to be of service feeding the dash 🫡

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I don't know what possessed me to do this but I made temperature dependent variants of Vaporeon. They're my favourite Pokémon and I love the ocean and marine biology so here we are

I wanted the cold water ones to be quite seal-like and chubby. The tail is a mix of seals and orcas as inspiration. They're the physically stronger and larger of the two variants and tend to be solitary. When an Eevee evolves into a cold water Vaporeon they keep their fur, although it becomes somewhat water resistant.

The warm water ones are more fishy, though sea lions and coastal wolves were inspirations. Tropical Vaporeons lose their fur completely during evolution. They're smaller than the cold water variant but much faster (usually in short bursts). They're more aggressive but more social as well and are usually in groups of 3-5. They are faster than their cold water counterparts both in the water and on land since they don't have blubber to hinder their movement on land.

All variants of Vaporeon are commonly trained as lifeguard assistant Pokémon due to their intelligence and swimming ability while still being able to run on land. Cold water variants are more common in pools/swim halls because their buoyancy makes them essentially living life preservers. Tropical variants are more common at beaches and water parks since most incidents occur in more shallow water and they can cover land distance fairly fast.

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I love making up completely insane bullshit then confidently and seriously explaining it to people I know in crowded public places. My most recent was that I was trained by NASA in the 70s to go to Mars but when aliens realized we were figuring out space travel they started charging fees and inflation made it too expensive to send me to Mars at the time so they switched me to a science sector where they attempted to de-age me. They tried to just reverse my body's age but they screwed up and reversed my mental age too and that's why I'm so young to have been trained in the 70s