Insect Nation

Fancy pants & dandy clothes

[gloomheaven]

[avomarquis]

I remember on the first read through of GTN, wondering why everyone treated the Ninth as an immediately strange party (Magnus excepted, maybe) and then I make videos like this and realize how horrifying these bone cultists look walking through tunnels. Spooky.

Harrowhark: @avomarquis

Gideon: @/ninth.knight.cosplay

Video: @timmcosplay

[forsapphics]

MARLENE DIETRICH

photographed by Eugene Robert Richee for Morocco (1930)

[rockandrollpicsandthings]

Judas Priest, K.K. Downing performing live during British Steel tour 1980

[natureisthegreatestartist]

Take a look at these African peach moths (Egybolis vaillantina). The shades of blue on their wings are so striking against the bright hues and dark edgings. Living art, right?

[azarya-s]

Hello! Here's a more recent Tarot Commission for someone on Bluesky. The character's named Sinara ✨A gorgeous blood-elf that I absolutely loved painting.

I think the hardest part was to find a suitable pose for this kind of framing and balancing all the elements + the magical effects in order to have a good composition that doesn't feel too overcrowded. I even changed the position of the head long after I had rendered it just to see if it looks better and re-painted a lot of things.

Took me about a month to finish this but I'm very pleased with how it turned out.

Thank you for the support!

My commissions are also open for June and July, with limited slots. Check out my info HERE

I also made a quick GIF with the process:

[sardonyxlestrange]

Some of my personal vampiric highlights from this year lol. I LOVE LOOKING LIKE A CREATURE OF THE NIGHT🖤

[brucebocchi]

[20th-centuryghost]

sorry this was going to be a tags addition because I only get to use my coated pantone swatchbook like 6 times a year when i have a new enamel pin to design, but...

METALLIC GOLD PANTIES ????

[purlturtle]

[mayfay]

[funstealer]

BOY catalogue (1983) Christine from Middlesbrough and Batcave Charlotte Photo by Dave Darcy Edmond

[sugarskullsweetheart]

Merderotic 🖤☠️

[gothredy]

[goth-queen]

[t00thpasteface]

my mom just recently started selling things on facebook marketplace, and earlier she was telling me about her first-ever interaction with a buyer from there, and i was expecting some sort of insane horror story because she started off describing how he was VERY direct and brief in the communication and was clearly in a hurry to meet up asap, but she went on to describe waiting outside at the rendezvous point and seeing this big huge guy pull up on a motorcycle "and you could tell he works with his hands and makes a lot of money" (paradoxically described as having dirty jeans but a clean and well-taken-care-of face(???)) and he just pulled out a wad of hundreds to pay her in cash. he was of course buying a pair of silver james avery earrings from the 1970s, and he explained the reason he was in a hurry because he was about to go meet a different fb marketplace seller to buy the matching pendant from the set, and that it's for his wife who collects all sorts of vintage james avery stuff. thanks for the sale big huge dirtyclean motorcycle guy, i hope your wife enjoys adding your purchases to her dragon hoard

[velvetcloak]

tnewties

[lolita-wardrobe]

[-The #Steampunk Dragon-]

◆ Shirt >>> https://lolitawardrobe.com/zj-story-2026-version-the-graveyard-of-the-dragons-gothic-ouji-lolita-blouse_p8880.html

[genderkoolaid]

we need more stories about high femme prom queen types who become weird faggy guys. you haven't seen Behaviors until you've seen a repressed closeted tboy holding on to socially acceptable heterosexual femininity by the skin of his teeth

[thatflutefaggot456]

Me before I came out, when I did pageants and modeling.

Me after I came out, cut off my hair, bought comfortable clothes, and decided to actually wear my glasses because fuck contacts.

[crematedequally]

This was me the day of my junior prom. The dress weighed around 20 lbs, was the first one I tried on, and my makeup was done by someone who still thought brown lip liner looked good on white people. I spent the entire day being photographed and generally hating how I looked and wishing I could figure out why, when everything was technically perfect.

And this was me about eleven years later- two weeks after I started T in the first photo, and at around 5 months on T in the second. Much happier, married to the love of my life, and finally looking like myself!

[sisceal]

Such girl, very wow (pro ballet, modeling, and my first wedding)

Came out in 2016, here's nine years of transformation (in reverse order, sorry)

Turns out I'm neither a Normal Guy nor a woman, but a much weirder type of faggy masc thing.

And that's pretty great.

[antisocial-transfag]

In my lifestyle lolita egg era. Somehow getting to dress like a princess gave me the will to get up in the morning

1 year and 5 months on T

[romanticfatale]

[hauntedchronicler]

granted being a big ol goth doesn't really fit the bill of "socially acceptable heterosexual femininity" but i was HYPER feminine when i was closeted, especially in the years between when i FIRST tried to come out (age 16 - around the time of those first photos) and when i actually made the jump (age 19 - about a year after the last photo)

you can tell in that second to last photo i literally got a tattoo that said "MAD GIRL" which was an exercise in many things, including abstract self-harm, a visual reminder that i had given up on myself, and wildly underestimating the number of dudes who would misread it as BAD GIRL and take that as a cue to say gross shit to me while i was at work

anyway never kill yourself

[toyourliking]

haha yeah 🫣

consciously dipped my toes into the gender fuckery pool at around 15/16 but I was pentecostal at the time and well. took them out real quick

i tried very very hard to be “femme” for a LONG time but during covid lockdowns I didn’t have to perform for anyone and I slowly started to let it all go and now I’m a silly little man 😌

[mj-theskywitch]

ahem

these are about 10 years apart, 7 years on t and 5 years post op. it gets better guys

[genderkoolaid]

this too is a poem. these are my favorite kind of tags to see on this post btw. you will be in one of these posts someday <3

[genderkoolaid]

btw now, since this post was marked mature and i cannot seem to get it appealed, there are youth and others in the UK and Brazil are no longer able to see this post.

[coffeegirlfriend]

it’s funny cause I grew up as a beach goth punk and became a raver when I moved to Europe. if I had to choose a subculture for myself experientially I would always say raver, rave is life rave til I die. But km so grateful for the punk roots cause it just means I’m DIYqueen.

[coffeegirlfriend]

raver rising

punk sun

goth moon

or something like that