The best at procrastinating

Please STOP asking for donations. I will delete the ask. I cannot effectively help you. I am a broke minor with a small blog that will give you no reach. It makes me feel like a murderer, so please just stop.

[theshelteredbrat]

intro post!

hi I'm Luca :) but I'm good with brat or whatever.

My pronouns are they/them and he/him i think...

My parents are homophobic and transphobic. So if you know (somehow) who i am plz don't out me.

I am a minor, don't be weird

I have many tumblr mothers, siblings, and children, but I'd always love some more!

I have fantastic moots, too many to list (love yall)

I'm a biromantic asexual(?)

I probably have a mental illness or depression or smth.

I like the Magnus Archives, Marvel, Keeper of the Lost Cities, the Song of Achilles, Conan Gray, AURORA, Hozier, Girl in Red, Cavetown, Chappel Roan, Olivia Rodrigo, Benson Boone, Mother Mother, Star Wars, anything Holmes related (like Sherlock holmes or enola holmes. I haven't seen the Sherlock shows or movies yet, but I have read the og books), purple, some greens, some blues, flowers in the not feminine way, the Iliad, the Odyssey, legos, dragons, dinosaurs (im not too educated but I think they're neat), art (I suck at art but I'm working on it), music, henna(I'm ok at this), i js started Welcome to Nightvale, and probably a lot of other things I forgot about

Also my notes think that I'm trying to get myself to do

I need motivation or I fear i might not make it to summer No limits except the comment section must be full sentences, no random keyboard s

Things/people I dislike (also a dni)

Terfs, anyone who hates the lgbtqia+ community, anyone who uses slurs when referring to others, people who force me to do things, most dresses, cybertrucks, racists, homophobes, body shamers, people who are js mean and rude in general, people who think genocide is okay, people who judge cross dressing unless its your own, people who dislike others depending on their religion(why tf does that matter?), and people who think they won't get along with me bc of the things I stand for

Please give me asks!!! I love them.

Warning there's no telling how much ill be online. Sometimes I'll only check once every day or so and other times I'll be on here forever.

Rest in power Leelah Alcorn, Zander Mahaffey, and Nex Benedict.

[moodle-d]

I need to make more tadc fanart.

As soon as I figure out how to draw the rest of the cast it's over for you all.

[computers-echo]

Gee I wonder where he gets it from

[geekydemigodinthevoid]

I love that the internet saw people comparing women and other alienated groups of people and went, “they’re dating,” and, “they support each other.” We’re improving as a society.

[geekydemigodinthevoid]

Does anyone know who these artists are?? They’re brilliant and I’d like to credit them!!

[geekydemigodinthevoid]

[cell113]

THIS IS HOW TO TAKE A TRASH OPINION COMIC AND MAKE IT BETTER. THANK YOU.

[ophidahlia]

The best genre to ever have existed

[bowie-boy]

These improved my day

[surprisebitch]

GAY RIGHTS

[criizomheavvn-deactivated202111]

these are the only things in the world i find worth crying for becayse it’s so fcking cute and wholesome wtf

[ghost-writer143]

I WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE OG ARTIST GREW OUT OF THEIR I’M NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS PHASE

AND NOW THE GIRLS ARE CANON

[cipheramnesia]

The “guys I respect” artist also came out as non-binary, generally got more accepting. It’s growth.

[kimmycup]

Like I don't think you guys comprehend what happened in Poland just now but everyone needs to be talking about it.

A random influencer decided he'll listen to an anti cancer song on loop. People liked it enough times he ended up listening for 9 days.

He raised 90 million in these 9 days, and then 160 million more over the last 10 hours, for a total of 250 million.

Hundreds and thousands of people signed up to donate marrow.

Hundreds of celebrities shaved their heads in solidarity.

The Foundation receiving this money had to create a special commission to figure out how to distribute the money.

The national TV stations got highjacked to stream this for hours because it was better news than anything happening in the world.

Because we broke and DOUBLED the world record for this kind of thing.

They raised about as much as the biggest running charity event in Poland did in a whole year with three decades of tradition and a goddamn army of people.

And they did it on a goddamn amateur set up in a shabby room sitting on folding chairs.

[kimmycup]

Little update: people keep donating despite the stream being over. We're at 280 million in the fight against cancer.

Łatwogang refuses to collab with companies that only reached out to him now because of popularity or give interviews. He said any medals people wanna give them should go to the doctors and nurses and the cancer patients.

Someone offered to renovate that shabby little flat for him as a thank you. He refused.

Someone counted up how many people appeared in that room during the whole thing - it was 319 total.

[belladonna-rx]

Love to hear it. Love news articles too.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/polish-nine-day-charity-stream-breaks-records-support-kids-with-cancer-2026-04-27/

Just love this headline phrasing.

Streamer crushes MrBeast charity record with $70 million raised for kids with cancer - Dexerto

Polish streamer Łatwogang’s charity livestream has raised over 203 million złoty for children with cancer, breaking the charity stream recor

[teasihyn]

friendly reminders with stock photos

[witchiestsuggestions]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[sour-soda]

They also go by PEARs

[thecrabbybarista]

Local minor now hates pears even more than previously thought upon discovering an acronym

[tis-thy-girl]

new pedo terminology. know it, stay safe

[theoneandonlyredrobin]

Friendly reminder

Gotta clear out the trash because apparently I’ve accumulated terf and pedo followers

[kamydrawstuffs]

"You Look Familiar!"

Bill Cipher recognizes Caine from their old flat days. Yes, I'm continuing it. It's spooky how my humor fits them tbh.

[chillestfelix]

noticed by goose again...but at what cost

[catspores]

its really a firm reminder that creators are also people with lives. they jerk off just like us

[cpericardium]

hey everyone "I" have something to show "you"

[cpericardium]

[cpericardium]

[dabouse]

I have never once, in all my years, thought that someone could be so dense so as to think a book in first person POV is meant to be the reader’s pov.

Like bitch that’s what second person POV is. There’s a reason why it’s so rare

[queerbit]

[winterthebeau]

An update:

[aviewtodeath]

Animal Farm, a book criticising totalitarian governments, is getting a visual adaptation where there are silly animals selling their crops to those they're supposed to hate.

The Picture of Dorian Gray, a book written by an author who got imprisoned for sodomy, is getting a visual adaptation where the two characters with clear homoromantic undertones are turned into brothers.

Dracula, a book about a group of friends that explore the themes of antagonism and Victorian anxieties, is getting a visual adaptation where the count falls in love with one of his rape victims.

Wuthering Heights, a book that beats the reader over the head with a bat about how the POC protagonist wants to be privileged and white, is getting a visual adaptation with a white person as the protagonist and a POC as the one he envies.

The Odyssey, a book about a man from Ancient Greece trying to get home from war, is getting a visual adaptation coated in a "Hollywood" aesthetic that rejects accurate armour and casting.

2026 is not a good year for classic literature fans all around.

[cosmicyeen]

anotha one

[twosillycorgis]

I DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M DOING!!!

[nanuuiycacahuates]

Liminal 🎪

[justspilledcoffee]

Hey guys did I mention I live on a fucking weird island and sometimes land crabs with 8-inch claws try to get into my house

[tamascotchi-deactivated20190101]

cute puppy what breed is he

[purified-zone]

sideways

[hugsohugs]

ok i did it. image for people who like defending caine but also want to make it clear that they Understand that He Did Bad Things. feel free to use, no credit required. enjoy

[hugsohugs]

@forestlich LOL ok sure, evil version just for you

[crevicedwelling]

the paralyzed cicadas I picked up from a failed cicada killer nest are the perfect material to show off some cool features of insect anatomy! (although the wasp’s venom would keep them alive for her larvae to eat, I froze them to make sure they’re fully dead for dissection).

cicadas are powerful, fast fliers, and all of their thorax is taken up by a bulk of reddish, stringy flight muscles, which I’ll talk more about later. this cicada is a female, so her abdomen is full of white, elongated eggs that she will insert into tree bark with the bladed ovipositor at her rear.

the male cicada’s abdomen, however, is almost entirely empty, and that air-filled space is used as a resonator for his loud calls. the biggest structure visible there is a curved pair of muscles that deforms the tymbals, producing a click with every contraction.

here's a view of the complete muscle, and the tymbals themselves which look like overlapping plates on his belly. if you're curious what the white frosted appearance is, some Neotibicen have a coat of waxy powder or pruinescence; this male N. tibicen is particularly pruinose.

onto the flight muscles:

powered flight is a pretty complex mechanism in any organism, and is never so simple as just flapping wings up and down, but most insects power their flight in a really unintuitive way (at least for us vertebrates): they contract muscles in their thorax that aren’t even attached to the wings!

this method of flight is called indirect flight, in contrast to the direct flight of the dragonflies and mayflies where each of four wings is directly attached to a muscle and can flap on its own.

instead, most insects have a longitudinal (image 1 above, d below) pair and a vertical (2, c) pair of muscles that deform the shape of abdomen, pulling the upper segment of the thorax (notum) up and down, and this moves the wings which are attached to the notum. useful indirect flight gif from wikipedia found here

even if compressed manually, the dead cicadas "flap" their wings due to the motion of the notum:

insect flight is a lot more complicated than this simplified look at them, but I think these cicadas offer a pretty good look at how most insects get around essentially by squishing themselves internally!

[revretch]

Weird, insect muscles are usually white, since they lack the iron that makes ours pink. I wonder why cicada muscles are pink?

[crevicedwelling]

I don’t know the exact mechanism of why the color is like that, but most flight muscles (bees/wasps, flies, moths/butterflies, orthopterans + many more but these are what I’ve seen from pinning & mantis consumption) in insects are this dark pinkish color. I know these muscle cells have way more mitochondria and other machinery needed for a high power output but not sure why that makes them pinker.

with my dubia cockroaches that I often take apart to feed my smaller predatory bugs, I notice the males (winged but not flighted) have large pink wing muscles and the females (vestigial wings) hardly have any at all.