#moth lore

[simply-a-moth]

getting my mom to listen to tma was the best and worst decision of my life

[godgivenwarning]

The Kaiser Chiefs are one of my guilty pleasures

They remind me of my first and only actual job

I was a kitchen hand in a grotty little café by a pretty river

Every day I Love You Less And Less, Ruby and Never Miss A Beat would blast out of the tinny, ancient radio in the corner every single day while I frantically juggled literally everything because they mostly employed illegally young highschool kids. I was 16 and freshly dropped out of highschool after having my college application denied or whatever. I was too disabled to continue working there, so it only lasted 3 months, but I have stories lol. My dreams of becoming a chef (after my psychologist dreams were crushed) and 3 years of hospitality and catering went straight down the drain, but whatever.

People are strangely violent about the colour of their coffee apparently. And lots of "I want a cappuccino with no milk"??? Shut up bro

I was not paid enough to deal with the general public throwing shit at me. I was even called a fag once by some old dude who saw my pronoun pin. I swiftly learned that people either don't read them or will target you because of them!

I bought my first trans wardrobe and most of my criterion collection with the money I earned from that shithole. They even bought my first packer🥰 Fuck you old people! You funded my social transition without even knowing it! I got my name changed via deed poll too. I later learned you could do it for free, but it was worth it for the fancy paper.

But yeah, The Kaiser Chiefs secretly fuck OK?! I grew up on them, every Brit my age did.

These songs were my childhood

They still go hard👐

[conquertheworms]

moth lore drop

thank you for the full pressure tag @strang3lov3 i’ll do my best because it’s been a long time and i have a terrible memory

LONG POST AHEAD BEWARE!!!

i first got into the idea of fandom around 2010 after reading every available maximum ride book (my fourth grade teacher read us the first one). after that i picked up TITHE off the $1 dono cart at the library and become fully obsessed with the fae (also beginning my spiritual witchcraft journey).

my first fandom that i was truly active in was … black veil fucking brides. by 2011 i was MEGA into BVB, and i still have the CD my friend burned for me. i got super into the fandom space on facebook and ended up getting my very first tumblr account shortly after at the behest of a dearly beloved friend (i miss u ziggy and i hope you’re well♡)

it’s a little different with MCR because i was first starting to get into them on the tail end of the black parade right before danger days came out, but when danger days came out i was HOOKED. i got super into the emo trinity fandom and i was a little fucking menace.

you want to know my first ship, do you???

FRERARD.

i was sooooo deep into it. fucking frerard. that’s the entire reason i started writing fic actually. i started with frerard and branched out into BVB and the other emo bands that the alleged “emos” i went to school with were afraid of like motionless in white and of mice & men also regrettably including falling in reverse but we don’t fucking talk about that anymore.

i stayed extremely active in various emo bandoms for several years, going on to write some absolutely awful smut on wattpad that i’m sure if you dug hard enough you would find. for a hot fucking minute i was super into doing danger days killjoy RP on instagram and i’m still proud as fuck of my killjoy you can pry her out of my cold dead hands.

around about 2014 i got EXTREMELY invested in homestuck. and i mean INVESTED. i was starting fights online over that shit, drawing up little trollsonas, i was going to WAR for taureans. shockingly, i never wrote homestuck fic, but i did read the hell out of it.

by 2018 i had sort of fallen out of fandom, i wasn’t reading much fic and i hadn’t written anything in about 2 years. fast forward, i drop out of college, blow through a few shitbag exes, and then in february of 2022, i met my husband.

hubbin is SUPER into horror, all of it. i casually enjoyed it, didn’t know much about it, but i had a few movies and characters i really liked. he took me to my first horrorhound weekend in march ‘22, five days after we started officially dating and i’ve only missed one since then.

god i don’t even look like myself in those pictures ANYWAY

you know what else hubbin enjoys? video games. especially horror video games. he got me WILDLY into resident evil, and that’s when i rejoined tumblr with a new name and vibes.

overall 2022 was a really horrible year for me, and i truly don’t think i would have survived it without all of the support and friendships i had already begun to form at that point. MOVING ON

i very very quickly got into the leon kennedy/resi fandom after finding such wonderful fic writers as @lipglossanon, @venomvalley, and of course mi amor @tulipsbymybed♡

i’m not sure exactly what the progression was, but after a while i ended up in the pedro fandom after finding a few truly wonderful fic authors who have since left this site and some even the fandom entirely. i will miss them literally forever.

i started engaging more and more with pedro fandom content (esp TLOU), and found even more wonderful authors like @toxicanonymity and @strang3lov3, both of whom i am so glad that i now have the privilege of calling my friends♡

hubbin and i got married on october 13th, 2023 (a friday the 13th in october like i’ve always wanted♡) at a fucking PUMPKIN PATCH COULD THAT BE ANY MORE PERFECT

sometime in 2024 after i went and saw the strangers chapter 1 with hubbin, tox and i got to talking about sackhead. you’ll never believe this, but my first completed fic in EIGHT YEARS was not only about sackhead, but it was also x reader, AND smut!!! i didn’t think i could do it. but god dammit i did it.

i was still more into the resi fandom than the pedro fandom at that point, so a few folks will know i have a couple of leon fics in the works that i am beginning to fear may never see the sunlight. but who knows maybe one day you too can fuck leon kennedy.

when i started writing for TLOU i was actually way more into tommy than joel, and if i’m being honest i think i might still be. that’s when i wrote good men die too, followed by do you think of me, too? and i promise i’m working on more for that series i just got hit in the writer’s balls with a baseball bat and lost inspo.

but now here we sit, in 2025, and i am actively writing a joel series. please check it out if you haven’t already, it’s called ritual and i should have a masterlist up soon. you can find it and me on AO3, @sofmoth. shameless plug.

YEAH I THINK THAT’S IT THAT’S MY LORE

i’ve absolutely forgotten so many things. just now i just remembered how deep i was into fucking gravity falls in high school, and i actually did read and write fic for that. anyway, i hope you enjoy this weird little window my life.

[misty-moth]

I want to post something but have nothing important to say…

…so here is my cat fishing.

Look at this idiot 🥺 there are no fish in the living room 🥹

[suncast-moth]

Moth Lore 2 - Living and Working

The lives of mothfolk are generally considered similar to humans. This being due to the fact that they have observed humans for so long during their nights. Especially the far more curious moths; they discovered ways of living that intrigued them and only made them want to try. Thus leading to how they live and thrive. 

Back when only rocks and trees were used to make weaponry and tools, they copied what they saw people do to become just a bit more modernized. This continued happening for centuries. 

These moths happen to have plenty knowledge on wildlife due to their own survival in the woods and from experiences. From passing information down to their young, to just teaching one another in differing skills. 

When mothfolk learned from watching humans, how to create things and garden just from their usual observing, they started to gain their own village traits. Making small shops for simply trading, and eventually, among making these shops, they built homes. Their homes were varied. Originally they would burrow in the ground, or into the trunks of trees. Some still happen to do so, but now, they create homes up within the canopy of their forests. Just to be safe from predators. 

A small fault of this design was found when some parts of their communities ended up in incidents and lost their abilities to fly. Climbing was always a possibility, yes, but due to the vines and vine-strung bridges connecting the canopy homes, some had created housing closer to the forest floor as a result. It wasn't as safe, but, it was accessible. 

Now, among the lives of these moths, there are always a few kleptos that will gladly visit humans. Especially in the dead of night. In fact, within a few villages, it's known that a duo of mothfolk had snuck off to the human towns, just to steal a charcoal grill for themselves. Surprisingly that had advanced their manners of cooking. This, bringing to the next part regarding the living situations of these bug people. 

Their diets. 

The mothfolk more commonly consume things of plants. These items going from nectars, berries, fruits. They sometimes will eat mushrooms as well. Now, while for the most part, they don't require meat as part of their diet, that doesn't stop them from eating it. They can still consume it just as any other creature. It won't harm them at all since it's merely extra protein for their kind. 

As the mothfolk will continue following and learning from what humans will do, many have learnt new cooking skills, how to bake, many things like this. They happen to learn to garden for their own work too. Just so they can keep their own shops and livelihoods running through trade. Interesting enough, there had even been some moths that had managed to make wine from just entirely forgetting about a selection flower nectars they had on hand. An entertaining result once they had discovered the mere tastes of it. Especially the effects of such a beverage. 

From constantly copying humans, there had been a point where moths discovered the arts. Acts of theater, painting, molding things from clay. They had ended up starting from catching the eye of people carving wood. So they used their claws to carve into trees. Not that it was anything special or interesting, as there had only ever been simply claw marks. 

The arts among mothfolk merely continued growing from here. Now, within their villages, you can see stages for performances, sections for sculpture and paints. Interestingly, some moths that happened to be able to produce silk, had went to weaving their silk to create clothing, ribbons, sometimes just designs in lace. It would always depend. 

These arts would often spread to them creating their own celebrations like the humans would as well. Following their own deities and their own ideas for what to celebrate as well.

Amongst their village living, even they happen to have their own celebrations and activities during the different seasons. With winter months, they aren't known to do much activity outside of necessary trading and foraging, due to the cold weather not suiting their a lot of their thin furs. Even in winter, moths usually won't grow a thick enough fur coat to remain warm while it snows. Moths that have naturally thicker fur tend to be better suited for the cold, which does tend to be why they can be found in far colder areas of the world.  Usually moths will gather around any kinds of fires and in sunlight to try and get that warmth during the cold months. 

Once spring finally comes along, moths will begin planting seeds for their shops and overall produce. Not to mention repairing any damages in their homes caused by the awful weather. Wood rots, and so it can damage their homes when the snow and ice does eventually melt. Thankfully most damage is merely soaked leaves that were used for roofing. When its this time, they will occasionally be seen in festivals amongst humans as well though. Just a small few, as they wish to blend in with the festival activities. They'd be in danger otherwise. 

When fall eventually comes around, the spirits eve is a wonderous time for mothfolk to safely exist among humans. Whether it be for the entire month of the holiday, or just that day. Often times they have to be spread out however. That way they won't stick out like sore thumbs amongst the human crowds. 

Why is it such a danger and worry for the mothfolk to be around humans and their culture outside holidays and festivals? The hunters. People will hunt for their fur, their antennae, their wings, anything they could use to possibly get rich. Years in the past, many of the elder moths have known their family and friends to be lost due to this foul poaching. Some moths are actual survivors of this harsh treatment from humans. Often it leaves them with damages that disable them thanks to traps and other sorts of weaponry. It's a horrifying and traumatic part of living for these folk. 

[simply-a-moth]

now that after nearly 80 hours i’ve finally beat silksong it means i can watch my favorite hollow knight youtubers again! yay!

[simply-a-moth]

i once had a dream that martin tma sang good luck babe by chappel roan

i don’t really remember what part anymore but i remember he was REALLY off beat

[simply-a-moth]

i’m going to start the magnus protocol soon ask me ANYTHING about tma. no spoilers for protocol obviously

i know all and have so many headcanons