The Tingidae are a family of very small (0.08–0.39 in) insects in the order Hemiptera that are commonly referred to as lace bugs. This group is distributed worldwide with about 2,000 described species.
I like to believe that all the dragons in the world were magically cursed and turned into cats. But cats have never forgotten where they come from, hence the attitude.
I nearly didn’t reblog this but the above comment makes more sense than anything I’ve ever heard.
…that’s…that’s actually a story my mom used to tell me when I was little? That a dragon showed up at someone’s cottage so they gave it milk. And the dragon enjoyed the milk, so it kept coming back and got smaller and softer and purry-er until eventually it wasn’t a dragon anymore, it was a cat, and that’s where cats came from and why we keep giving them milk.
She might have gotten the story from Ursula K. Le Guin, or I have confused it with a different dragon story.
Tailgate is cute and small and squeaks when you hug him and has tiny sneezes and soft little hiccups and then he yAWNS AND IT’S TWO MINUTES OF DIAL-UP LEADING INTO A BASS-BOOSTED VERSION OF THE WINDOWS START-UP TONE
I finally made a little sheet for scud body mods and decoration! The sheets for the rest of the Runaway to the Stars aliens are here.
Anything scuds decorate themselves with is either removable, or it just comes off when they molt out of their current carapace. Adults only molt every 2-3 earth years, so tattoos and engravings stick around pretty long but not forever. The “limpets” I drew here are one of many intertidal critters scuds will put on themselves as decoration, but are by far the easiest to care for. Off-duty “limpets” are kept in a small terrarium and fed table scraps. Scuds can rent them from living decoration shops instead, if they don’t want to care for their own dec-snails. Adult scuds also have some issues with unwanted decoration, ie, small marine “invertebrates” and “plants” rooting on their body in between molts. Scraping off sessile hitchhikers is an important part of scud hygiene.
I KNOW I’VE POSTED THIS PHOTO BEFORE BUT, TBT, DO YOU GUYS REMEMBER THE TIME A BAT FLEW INTO MY ROOM IN LIKE JANUARY
he came in all cold an sluggish and very little, took a little nappy-nap in my sweater’s pocket till he warmed up, and left
he’s my bro
Okay, please please do not touch bats, especially if they look unwell. The last comment person got very lucky because bats are the #1 carrier of rabies and they have the ability to aerosolize rabies, meaning you don’t necessarily have to be bitten.
When I was in undergrad studying animal science/pre-veterinary medicine, there was a guy in the nearest major city to my school who decided to pick up a sickly looking bat and put it in a box and bring it on public transit. Found out later the bat had rabies. The state+the CDC had to track down every single person who had been on that bus to give them rabies shots. Every. Single. One. It was a public health nightmare.
I know they’re adorable and if you live in a country that is rabies free (which is just the UK and Japan) then ignore this but otherwise PLEASE be careful handling wild bats or any wild animal! Rabies is just one of many zoonotic diseases (diseases that can pass from animals to people and vice versa) and unless you know what you’re doing and what precautions to take, you are putting yourself and others at risk by handling wild animals
^This is why, btw. In the era before germ theory, bats were these creepy scary things that defied miasma theory and where your cousin who touched one might have gone ballistic and then mysteriously died. That’s one of the reasons it got associated with vampire mythos, and why bats’ wings became so ubiquitous in anglo-christian depictions of fallen angels.
GOTTA LOVE CRAMPED & POORLY COMPOSED CHARACTER REFS
ANYWAYS, here’s a quick summary of my beloved lantern head! he’s passionate about his work and really enjoys designing the (mood) lighting for entertainment businesses such as theaters, casinos, etc. !
if you have questions, ask away, because I can’t possibly cram everything into one ref :’^D (psst, another ref specifically related to his moods and how his light is influenced by them is IN THE WORKS)
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