Tortoise Beetle, Notosacantha Rufa, Chrysomelidae

wow i wonder what piece of breaking news i missed

I had to illustrate this creature to show you the absolute state of it

Staring. Full eye contact. Tongue wrapping around the opposite side of her leg

Brown eyes appreciation post!!!!

Brown eyes are awesome. They have variety and beauty. Any other colour I feel is overdone in human/humanoid character designs and, as much as it might break up the palette, brown can have SO much variety!

Brown can be yellow or red, deep or pale, piercing or soft. Use brown eyes more for your characters!!!

Boredom is such a supreme issue for me because once I’m bored I just. I don’t know how to fix it because suddenly nothing is appealing idk

Hiiii me again

Related to the post about the ownership of characters and the tags you put-

I just wanted to mention that you’ve given me a lot of confidence. I used to be the type of person who believed “if your oc even breathes in the direction of a canon character, it’s cringe and Mary Sue and you’ll be ripped to shreds for it.” I’d have to tread so lightly with characters I enjoyed and love them from afar because I felt if I made even a joke post someone would bring it up.

I’ve only just gotten into the cod fandom, found your blog a couple months ago, and it’s given me a lot of like. Idk!! Just “fuck it, do what you want” kinda vibes in the best way? It’s really hard to word this lmao. But since finding your blog I’ve made a 141 character, a shadow, literally shipping an oc with ghost now, and I’m having fun that I wouldn’t have if I didn’t find your blog

So thank you <3

Hello! (｡･∀･)ﾉﾞ

Well, It's been an apparent issue in this fandom. idk why, but when I visit other fandoms, the sense of ownership and possessiveness to the characters is not that high, like what's up with these people I don't know. Like, the characters in media, especially in games, don't belong to anyone except the studios that made them 😭

We as fandom members can create original characters, alternative universes, and stuff for them. I can't imagine a piece of media without fanarts, fics, and OC's really. Heck, that's what keeps the fandom alive. If there's one thing we can learn from history of media, is that you can't hold back people's creativity. OF COURSE, there are cringe ones and unhinged ones, but it's fandom, of course, it's filled with different types of people from normal to bizarre ones.

Here's the thing, just because one person has already shipped their OC with one character, that doesn't mean that character is LOST forever to that one particular OC like it's a damn popularity competition 😭.

I've also seen some people saying that they're so emotionally attached to this one character, that if they see him with someone else's OC. they get super emotional and super angry?? Okay that's just-- WOW.

If you feel uncomfortable seeing your favorite character being shipped with someone else, then that just means that you're NOT ready and not mature enough to be an OC creator and be in a fandom space. Full stop.

and if I may speak from experience, I've lost a few friendships due to being... quite popular OC shipper with Ghost 🥲.Like, I don't know what's happening, I personally don't feel anything when I see other's OC's with Ghost, or any character I like with other OC's -- I EVEN DRAW OTHER OC'S WITH GHOST FOR COMMISSIONS 😭

But yeah, before I yap too much, thank you so much for the good words in the last paragraph! It's very very lovely, and I'm glad you have your own OC to have fun with! Happy creating and happy drawing💖!

I FUCKING KNEW IT!!!!! At work they keep calling them lake sturgeon and it’s INFURIATING!!! I keep asking them to test them or change how they’re listed or SOMETHING but they INSIST they’re lake sturgeon

WHITE STURGEON??

I do believe so

@superiorsturgeon is better than me at fish id tho so forgive me for summoning the professor

psst. guys did you hear. they made up a new game that everyone you know suddenly got really really into in the span of a day and you never heard anything at all about it prior

Sooooo fucked up that a morning shower can improve your day that much like what the fuck?

- A grandfather just handing me his grandbaby he was holding. I did not know this family. Apparently I was a big hit with the baby because he didn’t cry when I held him

- A woman on the side of the road taking pictures of the baby swans with a professional camera

- Sunflowers growing on the side of the highway

- Related ^ so much greenery there too!! Different plants and thistles and ferns

- The local bank selling tickets to the county fair

- Family got handed more corn today (08/03). I was walking by the neighbours house and he was cleaning his van. He stops and goes “yall want some corn?”

- A father helping his disabled son ride a bike

- On the bus ride home from the state fair (09/01), I took out some fidget toys. The little girl, six years old, sat next to me asked what they were. I told her they were toys, and she asked if she could play with them. I said yes. We had a conversation about one of the toys, a star-shaped one that was 3D-printed and rainbow coloured. She made a story about how it was a frog named Starry who could say his own name and jump really high and slowly. She also said he had “one thousand twenty-hundred thirty-seven legs.” Her mother was very polite, and the girl handed the toy back to me before we even got off of the bus. I told her that she would have to be very good until Christmas so she could get her own, since her mother had found them on the internet. She insisted on getting one that was rainbow coloured too

Things I Like Here.

So I moved from my childhood state a few years ago and I’ve been struggling with adjusting ever since, largely because of the drastic negative change in my social life. But life is beautiful, so I wanted to make a list of things I’ve seen since moving here that I couldn’t get back home! You have to appreciate the little things in life. I’m gonna periodically add more as I see them

- “The Oven Bus” which is just a bus with a brick chimney in it. I wanna know what’s going on in there so badly

- All of the sunsets here are beautiful without fail. Don’t matter what time they happen, even if it’s at 4, it’s beautiful. There’s so many colours in them

- The sign I drive past on the way to work that says “WALTZ IS FOR MURDERING THE UNBORN.” I don’t agree with it but it’s fucking hilarious to see, because it’s in the middle of nowhere

- Related, since we live out in the country now, the pro-life religious bulletins that have the most CGI looking babies on them. Like that baby is not real. Honey

- I almost got into an accident once because there are so many dogs down a 55 MPH road that I just kept looking at the dogs

- The church that has six doors outside on their lawn that say “GOD’S DOORS ARE OPEN TO ALL”

- The church that has a progress flag on its flag post and a BLM flag flying under it. I went there once and it’s full of old people. They were so kind. I want to go back there again

- The kind lady at the Chinese takeout restaurant down the road from us who stayed when the restaurant was empty so I could pick up my order. I wanted my brother to get it but he bailed last minute

- The grocery store down the street that my family has wildly different pronunciations of. It’s within walking distance. I’ve never had that before

- The man today who accidentally bought two tickets for himself. Instead of refunding one, he wanted to give away the other one for free

- The mall Santa I see around Christmas time when he’s on his break. Just walking around. High socks and shorts with a Christmas theme, he’s great

- The little girl yesterday who told me she would get a dog and a fish. When I asked her what she would name the dog, she said “Rainbow Pup”

- The parents who use they/them to refer to me. Even though I personally don’t use those pronouns and don’t like them when they’re used in reference to me, it’s a sign of progress

- The little girl whose parents I sold an annual pass to. I’ve seen her four times. She recognizes me each time and runs to give me a hug

- The toddler who tried to hand me her half-eaten cinnamon-dusted timbit when I asked her for a high five

- The kind people at KwikTrip who never look like they don’t want to be there

- My supervisor who shrieks whenever he walks by me because that’s how I greet people so he’s started greeting me like that as well. He’s an absolute truck of a man who looks like Thor