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I am a person. I am here. That's all you need to know

[eating-crispy-bugs]

So you've found my questionable tumblr,

First off, hello! Call me bugs!

I'm generally a lurker, but I made this tumblr to get writing advice, look at cool bug photos, and make bad takes on fandom discourse that I'll probably regret in a year or two. Point is, I might be a clown but you are not the target audience for this circus.

I'd consider myself a pretty chill person in general, don't bug me and I won't bug you. (Bug, get it? I'm hilarious). If I don't like you, you will simply be blocked and I will move on with my life bc I have better things to do than argue with an internet stranger, okay?

Blog contents will vary with content and date, consistency is a myth :D

[writing-prompt-s]

"Wait, so you're telling me that you don't have a secret identity, that's just straight up your full legal name?" "Yeah. All the other superheroes have cover names, pseudonyms or similar, so everyone just assumes that mine is the same."

[bad-holmes-impression]

au where varian gets quirin out on his own and quirin’s alive (sorry again, ashes!varian), but varian still has a villain arc because he realizes that he could’ve died, being thrown into that blizzard when he was no threat to rapunzel. and quirin tells him about how the moonstone only destroyed their ancestral kingdom because king edmund made it react.

and quirin explains that king frederic brought the rocks here.

and quirin says that he’s getting very sick of kings hurting their citizens.

and it’s a father-son villain duo.

[bucketsfullofyou]

The Villains of Old Corona

[eating-crispy-bugs]

Olivia hcs because I don't see enough of our girl

• Hugo made her while very early on while working for Donella. He would talk to her and Don got confused bc at first Olivia would hide from her and she thought Hugo was talking to himself

• Hugo originally named her Cheese but she hated that and bullied everyone into calling her Olivia instead

• She's actually very sweet but gets incredibly jealous. Like Tinkerbell

• Don made Hugo read books out loud to help him learn to read so he would read to Olivia (they say that reading to dogs and cats helps kids learn and Don said "well I don't want a dog")

• She abouselty loved Varian and Yong (and Nuru when she joined) very early on the journey. Like, Varian just let Hugo join and she popped out to say hello much against Hugo's will

• She likes to sit on Varian or Yong's hair. She mainly does this when she's mad at Hugo so sometimes Varian has to sit there while Hugo argues with the mouse that used his head as a seat

• Hugo has a special vest with a hidden pocket that he lets her ride around in. He likes to dramatically open his vest and dramatically say "don't worry, I brought backup"

• No one can make her do anything she doesn't want to do. There's lots of scratching and biting if things don't go her way

• She's the #1 Varigo hater. The second Hugo looked at Varian romantically she became instantly jealous and did everything in her power to sabotage their relationship. Once Nuru and Yong caught on they had to physically hold her back. Again, think Tinkerbell

• She has extreme beef with Ruddiger but it's only one sided. She loves Varian's attention but hates competing. Ruddiger can't care enough

• Nuru made Yong his own vest with a hidden pocket to hold more explosives and Olivia claimed it as her own. Yong almost accidentally threw her once and Hugo didn't let anyone so much look at her for a week

• After the library fiasco she still occasionally attempts to sabotage Varigo's dates if she thinks Hugo isn't giving her enough attention but she's mostly mellowed out and there's several new people to give her attention

[gendercensus]

The 2026 Gender Census is now open!

[ survey.gendercensus.com ]

The 13th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2026.

It’s short and easy, for most participants it takes 5 minutes or less.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful!

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

PS: You can see some regularly-updated statistics about incoming data here, with lots of demography and graphs to peruse!

PPS: Image credits, bark and grass.

[pokimoko]

It's Aro-Spec Awareness Week again my friends, and that means it's time for more silly little critters! (You can find last year's here.) ✨Keep up the amazing work, fellow aros✨

[eating-crispy-bugs]

"aros only weakness is found family"

"aros only weakness is hurt/comfort"

"aros only weakness is whump"

YOU FOOLS. How are we supposed to barter for custody of Denmark with the aces if you keep publicly admitting our weaknesses?

[lollygaggingloser]

Hugo is the flirt in their relationship.

Hugo is the one that uses the cheesiest pet names.

Hugo can't keep his hands off Varian.

NO!

*bats that shit away with a broom*

Hugo's charm is all fake. It's a front he plays with, but as soon as the feelings get real, he's a goddamn mess. His rizz drops down to zero and he's the hopeless one. Once they're a couple, their dynamic shifts, and Varian is the one being the romantic tease. He's the one that plans their dates, toys with his boyfriend, and enjoys getting Hugo flustered.

Varian's favorite thing to do when they have a short moment alone is to grab that dorky beanpole and make out with him so hard, Hugo's glasses fog up. Then he walks away like they didn't just french kiss like the world was ending tomorrow.

[imanalbertross]

This is the way Hugo likes it too. His whole life has been at the whims of a horrible government system that made it necessary for a child to take his life in his own hands. It's nice to have someone else take the reins once in a while. Even moreso with Varian because for the first time in his life, he has people he can trust not to harm him. Varian drags him against a bookshelf and leaves him breathless and happy and it never really happens when he can't handle it. Because Varian being so romantically forward means he's watching him. He knows when his lover is having a bad time. He knows when romance will help and when it'd be better to work together on a better stink bomb to prank Lance with.

[eating-crispy-bugs]

This and the fact that Varian flirting can sometimes be the cringest thing ever. Varian will say the most nerdy pick up line known to man and cause everyone within earshot physical damage but Hugo will still get all silly and flustered

No matter what Eugene hates it

[evilkaito]

i dont think whites understand how being white makes literally everything easier.

it effects everything.

being trans is easier when youre white.

being gay is easier when youre white.

being disabled is easier when youre white.

being a woman is easier when youre white.

being autistic is easier when youre white.

oppression is eased when you are white, as you get extra privileges, and your whiteness is seen as a positive characteristic that in some ways counter-balances your other forms of being a minority. whiteness controls everything.

you are automatically way more innocent in your own oppression as a gay, trans, disabled person because of your whiteness.

never forget this.

[raccoon-piss]

three things:

1. it’s true

2. white people get pissed when i bring this up/wear this shirt

3. the comments to this thread melted my fucking eyeballs seriously why the fuck are y’all like this

[lady-hibiscus]

white people you don’t need to say you’re white when you reblog this btw. you don’t even need to mention it btw

[writing-prompt-s]

Several "silent protagonist" type adventurers are getting on the guilds nerves with their refusal to speak, so in an attempt to teach them a lesson the guild leadership forces them to team up. Much to the guilds annoyance they all manage to work together flawlessly in spite of never speaking.

[alien-bxy-cunt]

“Okay listen up they/them’s” Oh my fucking god just say nonbinary. Like. You can just fucking say nonbinary. Say Nonbinary. Say Enban. Say Enby. Say Gender Non-Conforming. Say Genderqueer. I don’t fucking care just. Stop. Saying. They/thems.

[ashen-vulture]

Hi, it's me, one of those they/them users! Include ALL of my nonbinary siblings who don't use they/them. Include people who use it/it's. Include neopronoun users. Include people who do not use pronouns. Include people that use multiple sets of pronouns. Include people who use she/her and he/him. Include us all.

Call us nonbinary. Say enby or enban. Call us what we are. Any party the rest of my nonbinary siblings aren't invited to is a party not worth having.

[ivvyela]

nothing on this god's green earth can convince me that peter parker doesn't have an ao3 account where he is elbows deep in a 'rise of skywalker' fix-it fic. like, fully invested in it, been writing it pre-spider bite with ned, who is just as enthusiastic about it. but the thing is, it's really hard to do updates when you are literally spider-man.

every three months he'll post and in the author's note there's some shit like "sorry this took a while, i got shot seven times :/" or "i know it's been a minute, i literally got hit by a bus and then stabbed in the leg, but i'm all good!" or sometimes ned would log in and post with a note "hey i'm a friend posting on the author's behalf, they're healing from severe hypothermia but promised an update, so here it is!"

and the fic just gets increasingly more popular for the author notes alone. a good handful of the comments are something along the lines of "i'm not even in the star wars fandom, i'm just here to see if the author is good" or "every update i cheer for another day the author gets to live at this point"

and any reader who is a native new yorker kind of pieces together that holy shit the author might be spider-man because the timeline adds up, and they just fully embrace it. spider-man will stop a robbery and the guy behind the counter will ask when the next chapter will be up. spider-man returns a stolen backpack to a girl and she'll tell him that he "really got poe's voice down so well, it's really impressive."

ned thinks it is hilarious. mj finds out about the fic from twitter, to peter's absolute horror, and changes peter's contact name to "friendly neighborhood ao3 author". but the worst thing to happen is after an avengers battle where peter took a pretty big hit and ends up in med-bay. and during a press conference, when someone asks how spider-man is healing, tony just drops "spidey won't be down for too long. the star wars fic will be updated within the week, probably."

ao3 goes down for two days.

[thepinktuatara]

Friendly reminder not to question people about what they eat!!!

This is coming from an ARFID perspective, but it applies to tons of things: allergies, intolerances, other EDs, and any other medical condition that prevents you from eating/eating a specific thing.

[eating-crispy-bugs]

For the longest time I didn't know that the "h" in French was silent so whenever people referred to him as Chat Noir I just assumed in universe he was a meme overlord or smth and it evolved to be part of his name. I've read Marinette calling him her "kitty chat" with a straight face and only mild confusion

[bad-holmes-impression]

au where varian gets quirin out on his own and quirin’s alive (sorry again, ashes!varian), but varian still has a villain arc because he realizes that he could’ve died, being thrown into that blizzard when he was no threat to rapunzel. and quirin tells him about how the moonstone only destroyed their ancestral kingdom because king edmund made it react.

and quirin explains that king frederic brought the rocks here.

and quirin says that he’s getting very sick of kings hurting their citizens.

and it’s a father-son villain duo.

[hallwaysss]

I NEED THIS I NEED THIA I NEED THIS SO BAD

No because actually why was Quirin ok with Fredrick not doing anything about (and keeping information from the public) about the rock. He's already seen one kingdom fall to the moonstone!!

I think at a certain point he should take matters into his own hands, either because he knows Frederick is going to bring Corona to ruin, or because he is trying to keep his son (who isn't going to stop his dangerous experiments on the rocks) as safe as he can

Also imagine them in little matching evil outfits, that would be so cute. They could even give Rudiger a little evil hat.

[rosees3ray]

reblog if it's okay for your mutuals to message you and create an actual friendship, not just interactions

[azure-shuttle]

vat7k discord server if it existed

[sam0gon]

don’t get me wrong you can interpret tangled world like you want, but I personally don’t understand when people make it so gay… lgbtq* friendly… like… that’s medieval show… I mean… Why they can be like whatever they are and I can’t in big 2026?

Like I’m illegal. You are too. Because we’re here for talking about gays.

AND THEY AREN’T THROUGH THEY ARE IN THE PAST.

I’m jealous, okay? Also I think it makes more sense to character development if Corona and other kingdoms are just extremely homophobic and transphobic and etc.

Just imagine Varian struggling with internalised homophobia. Just him putting every effort to prove that he isn’t evil gay problem-maker. Varian isn’t having any friends not only because he’s a nerd, but he’s a faggot. Him trying to prove his dad he’s a manly man and likes GIRLS. Because he does really likes girls, he likes Cassandra, Cass is someone who can prove he isn’t a loser nor gay. Because he can’t like both girls AND boys, bisexuality isn’t a thing, right? …right?

oh, fuck, he meets Hugo. And Hugo isn’t that afraid of his queer side.

And the most important thing!!! Rapunzel just doesn’t know that something like that even exists! Not because she’s homophobic, but because she grew up in the tower and only thing she knows about love is from books. And it isn’t like books had a lot of representation, so she was just oblivious. Then she fell in love with a man, there wasn’t something she could think about. And I don’t think someone decided to talk with princess about something that considered gross and disgusting. So I think Rapunzel found out about lgbt only after tts by an accident or from Varian (and Hugo).

She would be like “Omg I didn’t think that could be like that! that’s wonderful!! Love is truly amazing!! Eugene, why are you looking at me like I should shut up or I’ll end up in the prison? … WHAT DO YOU MEAN LOVE IS ILLEGAL?!” and then our lovely princess would be the ally of all time (and maybe understand Cassandra’s behaviour even better) and start trying to really change things.

[eating-crispy-bugs]

Varian's the kind of guy who'd have his bisexual realization in the middle of a really homophobic town or smth

Varian, ecstatic to have finally figured himself out: I'm bisexual!!!

Hugo, watching as several guards and the clergy start marching towards them: For fucks sake

I feel like homophobia would vary from region to region. (Most kingdom laws vaguely reference "and they will be punished" so most towns and cities take that bit up for interpretation). At worst, execution, at best it's just a heavily taboo topic. My personal hc is that the Dark Kingdom is probably the most open due to its quarantine from the outside world and them not caring as long as you can protect the Moonstone

Also Nuru gives her parents a piece of her mind when she comes back