#bug?

[czaneavecg]

The Wasp King

trying out gradient maps pt 2

[yeenkingart]

[tomatocheez]

why do I keep getting the 'who's the MVP' achievement after EVERY battle. I heard it's because mydei and phainon are on the team but the thing is I only have phainon on the team and I still get it. I open the achievement to claim it but it doesn't even show up..?

[the-burgah]

Amazing, two communists get stuck with a racist insect as they go about the daring quest of getting permission for paperwork

[ditmaryaboy]

I think that’s a bug

[ye-olde-tardis]

I have a local cryptid that I've seen about twice. Nobody who believes me can understand what it looks like, and everyone else just thinks I'm crazy.

Before you get super excited, I want to let you know that it's some sort of bug or animal. It's not extra terrestrial or monster-esc, it's just a really weird bug.

TW for vague descriptions of dead animals

Several things to get out of the way before I can describe it to you.... I live in Michigan, so anything that doesn't live around here is out of the question... and I collect bones from dead animals.

Ok, now the describing. About a year ago I was out tending to my maceration station (the place I keep my roadkill so that the bugs can eat away the bits and I can collect the bones once they're done) when I spotted this.... thing.

It was about four inches long, two inches wide. It had wings, and was flying like how a humming bird would do. Sort of hovering and dashing around. It's abdomin had two bright yellow lines and the shape of it reminded me of a wasp. It's face looked like a butterfly's face, with a probiscus and those weird shaped eyes. It had six legs, but when it landed the wings didn't stop flapping. The wings themselves were short and I couldn't get a good look at them because they never stopped moving, but they could have been a different color than the rest of it. I think it's main color was black but I can't quite remember.

I ran inside to grab a jar to catch it, but it was gone when I came back. I remember researching bugs, butterflies, humming bird moths, beetles.... none of them matched what I saw. And if they came close, none of them ate dead things.

That's right. It eats dead things. Today, I saw it again. I didn't have my phone (a mistake I'll try not to make again. I need a picture of this thing.) I watched it scout out the best place to land, and when it finally did, it unfurled its probiscus and started drinking.

I had a jar this time... (I wanted to catch some American carrion beetles to pin) but I was kinda scared of it. When it saw me trying to catch it, it CAME TWARD ME and started loudly buzzing. When I backed off of it, it flew away.

I'll update with pictures if I ever manage to get some. But it could be a year before I ever see the thing again.

[eun-oof]

LUMIPLANTA OPEN SPECIES

I keep forgetting I exist here lol but anyways I decided to make an open species myself cause out of boredom and inspiration of other open species and you, yes you can design an oc of the open species yourself if you want! I would generally love to see how other people would make their designs of my open species! Just let me know cause I'm always hyped to see other designs

General info about Lumiplanta's:

It is unknown what animal they originated from but it seems to be like some sort of plant based creature, it has different appearances depending on it's environment and what weather it is they always adapt along with the plants around it. The species are also quite small so they're mostly seen flying around or sleeping on trees and plants. They got their energy from photosynthesis they only eat anything as a last resort when the sun isn't out, they're also herbivores.

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How to design one:

- Basically use the body shape like the ones I made below here as an example

- the color pallete varies on what color the plant it is based off of (ex. Trees will make it have a combination of green and brown, cherry blossom trees gives it a combination of brown and pink etc.) the color doesn't have to highly accurate to the actual color to the plant but recommended

- the antenna and wings on it can also change depending on what the plant it is based off of tho you don't have to necessarily change it if you don't want to :D 👍

- you would be required to credit me for being the creator of the species but it is optional to send a link to this post

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Gender differences:To tell if a lumiplanta is a Male or female the main key points is that males have longer tails and females mostly have neck fluff but both genders can have those features depending on genes so to make sure if it's truly a male or female is checking it's size as males are always larger than females

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Notes:

-the plant it is based off of is mostly recommended to be a real plant but fictional plants are also fine

- pls use the lumiplanta tag so I can also see the other designs within the tag

- they do have mouths it's just not visible

More updates will be added for further notice...