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[onenicebugperday]

I am super proud of myself... So. My wife used to hate bugs and be afraid of spiders. But lately, she's been more and more curious about them. Letting spiders just chill inside doing their thing as long as they aren't in the bedroom. Letting a house centipede live in the bathroom, and the two of us sat on the balcony watching a little house centipede hunting a tiny crawling insect, eat said tiny food, and go off to hide. She was curious about it and asking questions about it even, and thought it was neat! I am always the one she comes to me with any questions about bugs, too, because I love the lil critters and am full of random knowledge. xD Also, she likes jumping spiders now when she used to hate all spiders. VICTORY FOR BUGKIND!

That is great news! I think anyone can come around to being curious and liking bugs if they're presented to them in the right way

[askthescarfedsilhouette]

(Goodness gracious! It's been quite a while hasn't it?? It's always great to see you both! Come in come in! I'll serve some tea so we can catch up!) ((It's been ages LOL I always missed interacting with everyone here! Tumblr may not be like it used to be, but nothing says I shouldn't pop in once in a while, right?))

@cryptid-artha

[the-phantom-of-the-deep]

An archeologist stumbles across the Phantom of the Deep, far underground in her Ancient City.

[heliosandtheminecraftians]

A strange, pale creature, tall and fluffy, catches a scent of something interesting. It seems the Phantom of the Deep has stumbled across Brine and is quite curious about him! Though she approaches cautiously, so as not to frighten him. (The Phantom from the blog The-Phantom-of-the-Deep)

Brine stayed very, very still at first, making sure he didn't alarm the incredibly tall Warden at first. He was afraid if he made too sudden of a movement, he may alarm her.

However, the way she ever so gently approached him and his Amorapuff, the Demi-Deity realized how... calm she was, and how she seemed more curious than anything. Lucky seemed to shrink back in fear, but Brine instead spoke to the Warden.

Brine: "Hel... hello?"

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[- @cryptid-artha

This was the latest ask in the inbox, but I really wanted to finished up this one before continuing to work on my other two asks!

I had so much fun drawing Phantom, her colors came out a lot better on the scanned drawings than the IRL colors, to be honest. :)]

[drawotion]

🌿 Commission for @cryptid-artha~! 🌿

[onenicebugperday]

Another Positive Mosquito Fact: Despite their reputation as disease carrying blood suckers, only around 6% of them even bite humans, and of those, only half of them even carry disease! This means that a vast majority of mosquitos are completely harmless to humans, and there are thousands of species that are just vibin' and doing their thing!

It's true! And of course it's only the females who bite. I highly encourage people to learn to tell the difference between males and females by sight. Once I knew how to distinguish them, it was very easy to see which ones were harmless males and I was happy to let them flit around my house. Here's a good visual:

Photo via nea.gov

[onenicebugperday]

What about a giant pet wasp? Wasps are highly intelligent, and can be befriended! I befriended a colony of paper wasps as a kid, and had some fun interactions with the lil guys! Have a dog sized pet wasp, and you'll never have to worry about burglars again! Might have to train it to accept your friends and guests, though! Stinger cork for the more aggressive ones! xD

Giant wasps would be absolutely precious. Although the aggressive ones are social, so you'd have to get a solitary one unless you want to keep a whole colony. I personally would love to have a mud dauber or digger wasp!

[heliosandtheminecraftians]

Random worldbuilding thought

What if Brine, being a Demigod, is a huge part of what keeps the kingdom so safe and secure? That he can see and protect more than any mortal, and uses a form of magic? There's so many interesting concepts you could play with using that premise!

A cross-universe thing could be fun to explore sometime! Celina meeting the dorky ruler-in-denial-that-is-also-a-God Aloka and maybe the Kind King Daemarus from Enterra

[-@cryptid-artha

I've actually thought about this before.

Brine actually has a lot more power than he makes himself out to have due to his kindness and empathy. He's got super strength, speed, he can teleport, he has natural fire powers as well.

Brine can summon objects, speak to mobs, use telepathy on bees, his eyes glow...

There's a lot more that Brine can do, and a few of his current powers were ones that he gained over the past decade or so. Some were given to him by Glistenia, and some he was made with.

But! Brine is a very special case of Demi-Deities, because normal Demi-Deities don't have or can't contain as many abilities as he has. He was made from Iraura's power though, the exiled Queen of the Gods. So, many think this makes it so he can gain any power possible and not overload his form... besides anything to do with the birth and death of a living creature.

The only form of that kind of power anyone in the server uses is necromancy, but not even the Deities or Demi-Deities have that power. Anyone who can use that power considers is taboo to do so...

But there are a very few in the Creaturae server who have learned such an ability and use it... :)c

Brine definitely could gain many abilities in the future, and I would love for him to meet beings like him, in the sense of being like a Deity or Demi-Deity of the sorts.]