#karltface

[humansbgone]

Some commissions I did a while back for people in the $20 tier over on Patreon! A vegetarian Bagheera kiplingi jumping spider and a hummingbird moth for @vlinesnauce, a copepod and a banana roach for @karltface, and a ruby-tailed wasp for Midgebot.

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Heard you like vertebrae....

It's from a whale, apparently. I don't know mammal fossils, but I trust my source.

Assuming it is what you say, that’s a Big Bone. Hope the whale it came from lived a nice life...

[onenicebugperday]

Not sure if you've been asked this, but what's your stance on entomophagy? I recently fell in love with mealworms all over again (tl:dr, very strong walnut taste, better as a condiment than a main course), and suddenly I'm curious about you.

Full support of raising bugs for eating! People have been eating bugs all over the world for literally thousands of years. A lot of westerners just have a weird squick about it that I think could be easily overcome if they were marketed the right way.

[probablybadrpgideas]

Rather than standard rolling, the dice must be shot into a target area at the far side of the room, via miniature siege equipment.

[anime-insect-of-the-day]

See, this is why Tumblr is amazing. Even something this absurdly specific has a dedicated page I can put in my feed and smile at. And sometimes show to my slightly exasperated friends.

Thank you for the support I’m glad you enjoy this very niche content. And I hope your friends can enjoy it too!

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

karltface replied to your post “Am I the only one convinced that the whole state of Indiana is...”

I used to be a trucker, and spent a lot of time in an OC in Gary as a result. With downtime to spare, I would often explore the area on foot. Nature reclaims wide swaths of residential area, but with a peculiar sense of anger and venom. A particularly large dog skull lies picked clean by the roadside. The nights feel oppressive in ways I'm not used to. Everybody looks so tired.

This is absolutely what it feels like northern Indiana is like when you’re looking off the highway around Gary, especially in the really grey pre-dawn light when the factories are belching smoke and fire and everything is just a bit too still.

[onenicebugperday]

Can I just say how nice it is to have someplace to toss all my bug photos? Very few people IRL seem interested.

I know the feeling! Although lately I’ve been asking people if they want to see a picture of a cool bug and more and more have been saying yes. You just have to know your audience. Tragically most people don’t want to see spiders or centipedes.

[onenicebugperday]

We have a local paper wasp population that makes me happy. But as we sit on the porch for smokes and whatnot, I keep seeing them drop by to scrape bits off the railing. It's fascinating to watch, but I'd rather they not steal it away a mouthful at a time. If we rigged up a supply of paper under some kind of overhang, do you think they'd go for it?

I’m afraid I don’t know much about their preferences for nest-building materials. I know that they use wood to make the paper for their nests so I don’t know that they’d have any interest in paper instead of wood? Maybe they would. But I think you’d have a hard time stopping them unless you covered the whole railing to protect it since they seem to like it. Anyone who knows more about wasp behavior have any suggestions?