[mandervillainous]

inactive july 1st 2025 sorry folks. i just really don't want to use social media anymore. it's bad for my mental health and it hampers my ability to heal from burnout. also if i have to look at one more moral ocd-inducing post, i'm gonna throw you all into the ocean

maybe i'll be back after things get better for me. thanks for the good times, i'll see you on discord or revolt or whatever becomes the next de facto chat program after that, i guess

[mandervillainous]

calyx looks like bootleg daan funger with absolutely none of his charm

this was sitting in my drafts and i stand by it. absolutely most shitass villain in 14. gave us the garland expy and not even the fun villain from 9, way to go geniuses. anyway i hate dawntrail but before i lose my enby card, i love wuk lamat, there you go no one can yell at me for this

[mandervillainous]

inactive july 1st 2025 sorry folks. i just really don't want to use social media anymore. it's bad for my mental health and it hampers my ability to heal from burnout. maybe i'll be back after things get better for me. thanks for the good times, i'll see you on discord or revolt or whatever becomes the next de facto chat program after that, i guess

[miaabobriha]

The God of fear and hunger acknowledges your suffering.

[laquilasse]

when ur friends love u very aggressively 

bonus:

[pngblog]

[despazito]

[gfre0]

[roomfullofpasta]

A gift I made for someone

Also look at my new plants 🥺 I love them

[author4013]

FatasS

[demilypyro]

Thinking about how Final Fantasy 14 had the main playable humanoid peoples who are considered "human" and the intelligent species who didn't live in the main cities who were generally referred to as "beast tribes." The Beast tribes are generally considered very dangerous because they will attack humans who venture out of the city, and try to summon their evil gods. This is mostly just presented as a fact of life, but as you progress through the game you meet plenty of beast tribe people who are perfectly kind people, and this comes to a head when you enter the Shadowbringers expansion and essentially travel to an alternate dimension called The First.

Here, the lalafell, who are considered a human race in your home world, are considered a beast tribe, and referred to as "Dwarves." They live in a little town outside the safe area of the city, aren't respected by the human races, and they keep building robots that attack people. Meanwhile, the Amal'jaa, who are considered a beast tribe back home, live in the city, are valued for their livestock, and are referred to as the Zun.

It really highlights how the difference between a human and a "beast tribe" is just entirely arbitrary, and likely results just from what race had the most power in each dimension's history. I'm not sure if this subtext was intended back during the early parts of the game, but you can definitely notice a shift in how the writing treats the beast tribes by the time you get to Shadowbringers.

[herpsandbirds]

Any starter bugs for someone trying to unlearn fear of bugs and such? Bumblebees and butterflies and moths are pretty okay with me, but I don't want to be afraid of the natural world just because I was raised that way.

I also happen to think that beetles can be cute and nice and amiable. Here, check these out...

Shiny Blue Monkey Beetle (Hoplia caerulea), family Scarabaeidae, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

photograph by Fritz Geller-Grimm 

Golden Scarab (Chrysina resplendens), family Scarabaeidae, found in Central America

photograph by Pascal Goetgheluck

Purple Flower Beetle (Chlorocala africana oertzeni), EAT A TASTY BANANA!!!, family Scarabaeidae, found in Tanzania

Other subspecies are green.

photograph by Richard Nakamura (@richards_inverts)

Green Scarab (Pelidnota prasina), family Scarabaeidae, Finca Heimatlos Eco Lodge and Farm, near Puyo, Ecuador

photograph by Eerika Schulz

Bee Beetle (Trichius gallicus zonatus), family Scarabaeidae, France

photograph by Gabriel Buissart

[mikuhats]

one of my favorite twitter accounts that is defunct now is it was this account called like Crazy Optical Illusions or something and they would just post popular optical illusions but edit them so they werent optical illusions anymore and they would just pretend and people would be very confused / angry in the comments

[mikuhats]

[author4013]

Old drawing of Caligura (still like it)

[feefal]

Vivipary in Tomatoes

[feefal]

[7777777awawawa7777777]

don't be mentally ill :)

[adixplosion]

[your-host-joe]

Fallout New Vegas - Episode 181

In which Follows-Chalk is afraid of a stupid bear, and he doesn’t even have any pic-a-nic baskets. They’re total pushovers man, come on. Love to see his reaction to death claws.