flag id: a flag with 9 stripes, which are dark faded brown, brown, orange-brown, pale silver, faded teal, pale silver, orange-brown, brown, and dark faded brown. end id.
banner id: a 1600x200 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting. those on my / dni may still use my terms, so do not recoin them.’ in large white text in the center. the text takes up two lines, split at the slash. end id.
salticeridian: a gender related to both jumping spiders and eridians ('project hail mary'), to comparisons between jumping spiders and eridians, to thinking that eridians look like jumping spiders, etc.
[pt: salticeridian: a gender related to both jumping spiders and eridians ('project hail mary'), to comparisons between jumping spiders and eridians, to thinking that eridians look like jumping spiders, etc.. end pt]
belated day 10 of the mogai abcs, based on the letter j!
combining colors inspired by eridians with colors from the salticidaegender flag.
I know I could reasonably consolidate ">3/year" & "≈10,000/day" into the same vote, but for some reason I feel this statistic should specifically take into account people eating thousands of spiders per day.
ants are really interesting like they actually have incredibly complex societies and like. ant colonies have such a big impact on their environment that, i’ve mentioned this before, but there’s an entire word just for animal/plant/fungus species that have a mutualistic relationship with ants, myrmecophily. and that’s not even counting how many commensalistic and parasitic relationships many species have with ants as well
i just think about it cause a lot of the stuff they do are not typically understood as the kind of things anything nonhuman does. like the symbiosis between aphids and ants is a classic example, where ants will take care of aphids and protect them from predators in exchange for getting to eat that delicious delicious aphid dew. like they milk them and everything by stroking them with their antennas...and aphid dew from aphids farmed by ants tends to be denser in nutrients than aphid dew from random “wild” aphids. and to protect their livestock, ants will do stuff like destroy ladybug eggs since ladybugs prey on aphids. and when establishing a new colony, they’ll take aphid eggs with them to start a new herd too
and like, take ant mimics. a lot of arthopod species mimic ants, and while there are some that do it so they can prey on ants, we have a lot more examples of bugs that do it so that they can avoid getting eaten by predators that would Rather Not piss off an ant colony. and even some plants will do this too - passion flowers will mimic the appearance of having ants on their petals to get herbivores to leave them alone
and that’s not even ants’ only plant relationship (which ALSO has its own word, myrmecophytes). like a really classic example is ants and acacia trees. the ant colony protects the tree, and in exchange the tree provides the ants food. and yet another example are ant gardens, where some arboreal ants will like...bring debris and stuff up into the canopy and make a kind of mat for arboreal plants to grow in
ALSO there’s a species of parasitoid wasp which like. it secretes a chemical which will make ants go into a frenzy and basically cause chaos in a colony. why? NOT to prey on ants, but to prey on ANOTHER ant parasite, a caterpillar which hides itself among ant larvae
the circlet of barbed vision // an exu corruption arc playlist // listen on spotify
noise warning: many of these songs are intense rock, leaning metal, or simply contain strange, heavily edited sounds. the more intense ones (in my opinion) are starred in the tracklist below the cut. there are also mentions of spiders in some song’s lyrics but they pass quickly, and there are no related sounds. proceed with caution if you’re sensitive to noise!
[ID: three square images. the first is a lavendar tinted picture of thorns with capitlized bold white text reading “the circlet of barbed vision” repeated three times. the middle is a lowercase bold white text reading “an exu corruption arc playlist” over a background of lavendar glitter. the third is a picture of a purple, overcast sky with the same text and style from the first image overlayed. /end id]
tracklist, lyric quotes, and starred songs under the cut:
1. i come with knives (acoustic) - iamx
“the monotony and the rising tide, is under my skin, is crawling inside, adrenaline to rewire my mind, i’m only human, i come with knives.”
2. into the spin - dessa
“so here we go back again, slow climb but quick to descend”
3. million years - nico vega*
“i've been around for a million years. no matter how hard you try, you can't fuck with this. a spider bite is a natural wound, but a dagger in the back is a plastic tomb. ain't nobody knows the trouble i've seen, but they know the sound of their own damn scream, well”
4. home - aliceband
“and it's cold. flicker. candle. sweating. thoughts come of fire burning. everything you made will end up broken.”
5. steady, steady - the crane wives
“steady, steady, you know when you're ready. it's a long road walking into the sun. the heat can make you lose your head. your sense of direction. oh steady, steady i am ready to be the one”
6. diggers - bitter ruin
“i’ve been waiting for you. waiting for you to go. i’ve been waiting for you. waiting for you to go.”
7. athena - nova twins*
“i see you. do you see me? i'm creeping in your sweetest dreams. i just want you all to myself. i don't want nobody else. do you feel my body crawling? in the dark you hear my calling.”
8. i’m not calling you a liar - florence and the machine
“i'm not calling you a liar, just don't lie to me. i'm not calling you a thief, just don't steal from me. i'm not calling you a ghost, just stop haunting me, and i love you so much, i'm gonna let you kill me.”
9. grenadine - dreadlight
“i'll be the king of it, the queen of it, the god of it, all of it, eat your heart after i lick it clean, tastes like blood and grenadine.”
10. black wave - k.flay*
“waiting on a black wave, living under bad days, shaking in my own cage. what do i believe? stumbling down the street i swear to god you don't wanna test me”
11. you should see me in a crown - billie eilish*
“you should see me in a crown. your silence is my favorite sound. watch me make 'em bow, one by one by one, one by one by one.”
12. control - verite
“i know i like the idea of providence, so i voice my head. though i always spill my blood on the table, though i like the idea of confidence. i'm in love with control.”
13. pleanty - aeseas
“what's your story? what's the refund policy? we want violence, we want blood. we want superhero love. we want all the answers that you promised us. we want laughter, we want pain. everyone will know our name. did you know that no two missteps are the same?”
14. dangerous - son lux
“how does it feel to be your own deceiver? signals raised, then lost to the aether. but rest assured the dead are true believers. rest assured. we are all believers.”
15. hollow - cloudeater
“i stay empty, i feel the hunger, so simple when i was younger, i awaken with the thunder, a bold statement to end my slumber.”
16. bad dreams - joywave
“yeah, they caught me in the night down on my knees, and every word i'm screaming is another going unreceived. don't you worry about your bad dreams cause i'm not in them. don't you worry about what change brings cause you can't stop it.”
hello i’m bang chan and i’m the guy who cosplayed as a wolf on live television. i’m also australian and babysit 7 guys in a group called stray kids. when i’m not busy wrangling children i tend to write music and sing/rap. if you want to know more about how terrifying the spiders are in australia, find me @ localprettyboy
