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fandom-queen-13 · 1 month

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(because there was at least 1 person who wanted to read it)

In creative writing class, I wrote a story.

The prompt was "Land of _____," and just before the class, we were talking about phobias. My mind went to "Land of Phobias."

Even I'm a bit scared about what came out. So naturally, I have to share it with all of you.

CONTENT WARNINGS: PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR, SCOPOPHOBIA (fear of being watched), INSECTOPHOBIA (fear of insects), MINOR CLAUSTROPHOBIA, MINOR HELIOPHOBIA (fear of the sun), AGORAPHOBIA, ARACHNOPHOBIA, TRYPOPHOBIA, TRYPANOPHOBIA(fear of needles), MENTIONS OF BUGS, MENTIONS OF NEEDLES, MENTIONS OF REPTILES

It’s funny, really. You would expect a land of phobia to look scary. Monstrous hills, evil people, dark landscape. Maybe screams every few miliseconds. Somewhere where you might expect to see an evil empress or even freaking Sauron.

What you notice first is the quiet. The unbroken quiet. It isn’t completely silent, mind you. Just your footsteps and your breaths. It’s like one of those places. What are they called? Anechoic chambers. It’s like an anachoic chamber, except really big.

That’s the next thing you notice. The vastness of it. It’s flat, completely flat, stretching for miles around. Maybe you’re walking on concrete, or maybe you’re on linoleum tiles. Either way, it’s mind-numbingly flat and boring. There are no walls around you. The sky above is blue, not a cloud in sight.

Okay, you might think, this is not so bad. Just keep walking, it’s all empty space. So you walk. And you walk. And you walk.

And then it starts.

Your hands start shaking. Your eyes flit around, searching for something. You have the feeling that you’re being watched. But that’s ridiculous, right? You’re alone, right?

Right?

You keep walking. Your legs itch. Are there things climbing on them? No, when you look down your legs are fine. But you can feel them. Skittering up and down your legs, burrowing into your skin, leaving holes. So many little holes. You look again. Your legs are fine, smooth as you pull up the legs of your pants. The feeling mostly goes away, but you can still feel them. Spiders on your skin. Needles in your bones. Reptiles climbing up and down your arms. All biting, poking, burrowing, leaving so many tiny little holes.

The landscape is still flat, so very flat. The sky is blue, so very blue. The quiet is that, so so so very quiet. And yet, even n this wide open space, you feel like you’re being closed in. You walk and walk, invisible walls closing around you, fast but not fast enough. The sun prickles your neck. Or is it the insects, climbing your back, making more little holes?

There is so much nothing, and yet so much everything. The landscape doesn’t warp, doesn’t change, just goes on forever and forever and forever. Your body itches with so many holes, your heart is going haywire, your eyes flit among the horizon, and your legs just keep moving on autopilot. The worst part is, you know it’s not real, it’s just your imagination.

Is it, though? Is it just a hallucination?

In the end, the land of phobia fits its name. Phobia is not fear. Fear is terror, screaming, maybe even running and crying. It is dark shadows and evil people and unclimbable hills. What this is? Just you, your brain, the flat landscape, and the unbroken blue sky.

#my writing #horror #PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR #SCOPOPHOBIA #INSECTOPHOBIA #MINOR CLAUSTROPHOBIA #MINOR HELIOPHOBIA #AICHMOPHOBIA #ARACHNOPHOBIA #TRYPOPHOBIA #TRYPANOPHOBIA #MENTIONS OF BUGS #MENTIONS OF NEEDLES

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nyancrimew · 3 months

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im sorry but this is extremely hilarious

#not to mention siskind is buddies with jk rowling and herself a terf and zionist #also this might be a tumblr display bug but it's still extremely hilarious

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hellsitegenetics · 1 month

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...is this reaching you?

A little animal, on the floor of my chamber. I think I know what you are looking for.

You're stuck in a cycle, a repeating pattern. You want a way out.

Know that this does not make you special - every living thing shares that same frustration. From the microbes in the processing strata to me, who am, if you excuse me, godlike in comparison.

The good news first. In a way, I am what you are searching for. Me and my kind have as our purpose to solve that very oscillating claustrophobia in the chests of you and countless others. A strange charity - you the unknowing recipient, I the reluctant gift. The noble benefactors? Gone.

The bad news is that no definitive solution has been found. And every moment the equipment erodes to a new state of decay. I can't help you collectively, or individually. I can't even help myself.

For you though, there is another way. The old path. Go to the west past the Farm Arrays, and then down into the earth where the land fissures, as deep as you can reach, where the ancients built their temples and danced their silly rituals. The mark I gave you will let you through.

Not that it solves anyone's problem but yours.

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Closest match: Cetonia aurata genome assembly, chromosome: 8 Common name: European Rose Chafer

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#tumblr genetics #genetics #asks #requests #sent to me #anon #rain world #five pebbles #5p #bugs #insects #beetles #european rose chafer #casting a spell called ''mentioning five pebbles'' which summons 10000 rw fans to your post

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feelo-fick · 2 months

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ITS PILLBUG CHILLCHUCK!!! BUGCHUCK!!!! CHILBUG!!!! PILLCHUCK!!!! teketekatekateketekateka (<- sound of him skittering across the floor)

this started out as a joke design but then i got really invested halfway through

(inspired by @buniix3's hc on this post and the many jokes about him being a bug)

as a side note, an explanation on a pun thats just for me : "teka" means "wait" or "hold on" in Filipino, but it also happens to be an onomatopoeia for bug/skittering noises, so when hes saying "teka! teka!" hes practically making bug sounds despite it being an actual word HAHAHA

+ some design notes :

- his two hair thingys on his head became antenna (<- as if they werent practically antenna already)

- his bag is/resembles a monkey cup (a plant shaped like a pitcher that lures prey in with nectar until they slip and fall into the "cup" and get digested - similar to that man-eating plant in ep. 2)! also i wanted to make it vaguely similar to the frog suit, just because i like that outfit and i feel that it should be memorialized

- i dont think this is true to actual pillbugs, but i made him have claw-like (or maybe hoof-like is more fitting) hands and feet because uhhh i thought itd be fun, + ants have them im pretty sure

- the open toed shoes are mostly because i wanted to show the hoofs but you could also reason that its for dexterity/agility purposes

anyways i like him... buggo.... beady ass eyes... love that guy

#bug mention #also yes i know that pillbugs have more than six legs and they dont have pointed tails (or tails at all) but let me have this goddamnit #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #chilchuck tims #chilchcuck #we should roll him off a cliff i think.#or put him in a broth

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martyr-inthedark · 22 days

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Make your Whumpee tired.

Whumpees that have been deprived of sleep by Whumper, so much so that they don't remember how to walk in a straight line and can't figure out whether the recent appearance of little black bugs in their cell are real or a hallucination.

Whumpees that can't get a full night's rest. They doze off, only to be jolted awake by their own anxiety of not knowing when Whumper would come back. Perhaps they are awakened by phlegm-coated coughs induced by their illness. They are awakened by nightmares, or by Caregiver who is worried they may succumb to hypothermia, or by a thunderstorm, or the rough blanket scratching their open wounds, or so on.

Whumpees who pull all nighters to protect their friends or lovers.

Whumpees whose eyes burn when they finally can close their eyes. Whumpees whose muscles twitch, who can't stop yawning no matter how hard they try to stifle it. Whumpees with dark, glassy eyes. Whumpees who are slow to react or have a hard time keeping up with the conversation. Whumpees with throbbing headaches. Whumpees with brain fog and memory loss.

Whumpees who have been on the run and have over exhausted their bodies. Their muscles and joints continue to scream long after its over. Whumpees with extensive blood loss. Whumpees who are malnourished.

Whumpees whose survivor's guilt keeps them awake, wondering what they might have done differently, whether it was all their fault, or why they were the ones to live.

Whumpees whose bodies are in chronic pain or illness and who have to hide it, causing muscle and mental fatigue. They keep going with a smile until they collapse or pass out.

Whumpees who break down in tears, begging to be left alone so they can rest. Whumpees who sob when they are told that the bed in front of them is theirs to use whenever they want.

#whump #whumpee #whump prompt #caretaker #whump conditioning #tw sui implied #exhaustion #exhaustion whump #hypothermia whump #tired whumpee #injured whumpee #survivors guilt #malnourished whumpee #implied character death #implied character suicidality #tw bugs mention #hallucinating whumpee

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road-kill-eater · 19 days

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#have i mentioned that hawthorn has bugs in his fur #boots & hawthorn #furry art #weirdfur

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casual-socks · 6 months

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yes those worms on the ground are a tma reference. yes i will be elaborating. get ready for the worst fucking hour of your life

#tma #the magnus archives #jane prentiss #the corruption #sorry to anyone who mentions worms to me #or beetles #or ants #or any bugs tbh #i really like the corruption

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hawfstuff · 5 months

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cringe-fail-girl Tak, abandoned by the Irken Empire after deserting her original post, misappropriation of Empire property and interfering with military planning. Gives up, ditches the Irken uniform and gets stuck living on earth in Zim's basement because she has nowhere else to go. Spends her time wearing large band shirts and watching old angsty anime. I have no idea what compelled me to draw this.

#invader zim #art #iz fanart #zim #tak #skoodge #comic #this is a tumblr exclusive im not posting this to twitter because its so god damn emberassing #ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ talking heads and yellow magic orchestra mentioned #irken #i just like the aliens #we need more bug eyed green aliens in media these days

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ihatebrainstorm · 4 months

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I uh.. ya g guh yea yuh huh squeeble deeble

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incorrectbatfam · 9 months

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What are Alfred's punishment recipes???

Pickle custard

Carolina reaper salsa

Milk in paper plates

Kale

TikTok tuna casserole

Boiled muffins

Arkham mush

Tomato jello

Dry beans on wet bread

Swear word soap

World War II rations

Well done steak

Uncomfortably warm water

Macaroni and bees

Invisible soup

Eating all his cookies in front of them

#alfred pennyworth #batfamily #batfam #batboys #batbros #batgirls #batkids #batsiblings #batman #batman family #dc comics #headcanon #crack #tw food mention #tw bug mention #tw gross

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eyefoes · 30 days

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villains time YEAHH !! i loved this part's villains tbh. dio who. his goons are where it's at

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turtleblogatlast · 2 months

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Something I’ve been thinking about lately is that small moment in “Air Turtle” where immediately after the Daves lose yet another game, Leo says how sorry he is and how he’s doing his best as the mascot. This moment is so short but it’s honestly jam-packed with a whole heap of characterization.

His need to apologize for things clearly not his fault - especially when it feels like he messes up the job he was given despite doing the best he can (the phrase “it’s not about you” takes a new meaning when this is one of the lessons to be learned from that - that he is not always solely responsible for things going wrong), his need to save face and make a connection with an older adult man in his life (something he consistently does throughout the series - he’s got a few daddy issues, always collecting potential father figures, it’s no wonder he jumps at the bit to keep rapport), and the way he sounds and looks and the words he chooses really pushes how he is just a kid (“Mr. the Dunk, I’m so sorry”).

Like I know it’s a one off moment that doesn’t truly mean much, but when put against the rest of the series it works really well with the rest of Leo’s established character and helps in solidifying later concepts as well.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rise leo #rottmnt headcanons #am I looking too much into things? almost assuredly yes #I actually appreciate how tim immediately goes ‘it’s not your fault’ as well? like he could’ve just blamed this 15/16 year old but he didn’t #but yeah this moment got to me a little mainly because it made me realize that Leo…DOES take responsibility for things a lot #he messes up a ton yeah but he says sorry at a pretty consistent rate #and y’know thinking about it #THIS IS TINFOIL HAT TERRITORY BE WARNED #he’s mentioned being betrayed by his brothers before - I wonder if it was something as simple as taking the fall for like #breaking something of Splinters or whatever #point is it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for him to get the full blame for something only partially his fault #or not his fault at all in some cases #like in bug busters where Raph gets mad at Leo for not getting captured with them #(I understand Raph’s mindset here a ton - Raph’s the leader and he’s likely lashing out so I don’t blame the poor kid)#but this plus the moment at the beginning of the movie #where only Leo is reprimanded despite Mikey and Donnie having full autonomy to join the fun pizza stacking #make no mistake this is not at all a diss on everyone else!!! it’s just something I noticed #I think that “it’s not about you” doesn’t just pertain to being arrogant and wanting the spotlight #I think it’s also about how responsibility is meant to be shared #and like #Leo DOES mess up a lot! so he’s honestly probably used to having the blame because it is often at least somewhat warranted #he’s specifically described as being good at apologizing after all #tldr: Leo messes up a lot of the time so he is very used to blame and attention both good and bad #even when the full blame should not be solely on his shoulders

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prokopetz · 1 year

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One of the more frequent load-bearing coconuts* in video games is the player character themselves: some quirk or limitation of the game engine requires that the player character must always be on screen, or at least loaded into the current map.

Most of the time, this isn't a problem, because when would you ever not want the player character to be present? There's one specific scenario where it becomes an issue, though, and that's when all of the following are true:

Your game uses in-engine cutscenes

At least some of those cutscenes occur on a different map from wherever the player character is located at the time that they're triggered (and the player character is not present for them)

Some limitation (e.g., of the game engine, of your targeted minimum system requirements, etc.) precludes loading multiple maps at the same time

Together this creates a problem: you need to load a map on which the player character is not present in order to run the cutscene, but the player character is load-bearing.

There are a variety of ways to solve this, but the customary approach is to make a note of the player character's current position, teleport them to the map on which the cutscene occurs, lock out their controls, turn them invisible, run the cutscene, then teleport them back to their former location when it's done. The upshot is that in every cutscene in which the player character ostensibly is not present, they're actually lurking invisibly in the background.

All this leads to what is possibly my favourite load-bearing coconut bug ever: Final Fantasy VII's disc 2 Midgar skip.

Basically, after you defeat one particular disc 2 boss, there's a multi-part cutscene where the action cuts to a conference room overlooking the battle; one of the NPCs present then calls another NPC on their cell phone, and the viewpoint jumps to that NPC's location (a mad science lab). The conference room map is used only in cutcenes, but the latter map, the mad science lab, is one the player can visit later.

Now here's the trick: for unknown reasons, that mid-cutscene jump to a different map re-enables the player character's controls. You're still invisible, and none of the NPCs present can be interacted with (i.e., because they're totally scripted); however, since the map on which the back half of the cutscene takes place is one you can visit later in the game, a bunch of non-cutscene assets get loaded along with it, presumably because it never occurred to the developers to disable them – critically including a boss fight trigger zone. This trigger is unconditional, since the only time this map can be visited legitimately, the fight is meant to occur.

This means that if you know what you're doing, it's completely possible to walk the invisible player character into that boss fight trigger during the cutscene. In spite of its other limitations, the game engine handles this without complaint, and play continues exactly as though you'd reached that boss fight legitimately, thereby skipping half the disc. From the player's perspective, it appears as though holding the joystick in a specific direction causes the cutscene to be interrupted mid-sentence by an inexplicable, out-of-context boss fight.

All because Cloud Strife is a coconut.

* To anticipate the inevitable well-actually, yes, I'm aware that the Team Fortress 2 coconut is a myth; somebody took a real phenomenon and falsely attributed it to a popular game for clicks, and now we're stuck with the term. If you don't like it, complain to whoever is in charge of how language works!

#gaming #video games #programming #game design #bugs #final fantasy vii #final fantasy #load-bearing coconuts #violence mention

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minced-mangoes · 5 months

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I am in love with the concept of the demons in the devildom having to shed their horns, as well as possible shedding of fur, feathers, scales, or skin. With this we have to assume the demon's horns align closer to antlers than actual horns, since horns don't shed, but antlers do. Either way these are magical creatures so fuck logic. I can do what I want. Maybe they don't actually fall off, but instead shed a layer of keratin, keeping the horns shiny, strong, and unmarred. For some demons this shedding is easier, like for Lucifer and Diavolo's horns. However, with demons like Mammon and Barbatos, the details on the horn make it much harder to come off, often needing assistance.

The shed keratin from demon's horns can be used for other things, typically the creation of beauty products, and demons can get good grimm for handing in shed horn layers. I also think Satan will have to do this with his tail.

Now, the feathered demons tend to have the problem of occasional molting, and losing feathers. I'd also imagine they'd have to spend a lot of time preening and plucking their wings. Lucifer might need your help pulling a blood feather or two. Help him, please. Fur. I'm mostly thinking Belphie here. He sheds. Everywhere. Usually Beel helps by brushing out his fur, but you can definitely assist as well, it's lot of fur and four hands are better than two. Scales, this is for Levi. Please help him shed. It's not comfortable and he can't pay attention to his games if his scales have a layer peeling off. Dunk him in water, get him some nice rocks to rub up against, and peel off anything that gets really stuck. He'll be smooth, shiny, and happy afterwards.

And for the demons with wings that aren't feathered? I assume they'd need to be cared for as well. The thin wing membrane will need moisturizing. For the bug demons? help them shed their exoskeletons. I'm thinking specifically Beel and Asmo here. Yes, I headcanon they have to shed like bugs. Beel not as much, since he's a fly, but Asmo's sin animal is a scorpion, he's gonna need to get rid of that old exoskeleton as he grows. Also he comes out so much shinier and more beautiful! You gotta help him be as gorgeous as he can be!

All and all demon forms need a lot of maintenance. But that's okay, you're there to assist. Hey, maybe this will help you bond. And when you need a little help with caring for yourself, your demons will repay your kindness. ~~~ Tomi here! I take requests via my ask box! Please PLEASE PLEASE drop ideas or just things you want me to talk about there or in my comments,,, I eat stuff like that for lunch,,,

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the-real-list-of-ominous-threats · 8 months

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THOUSAND SPIDERS ATTACK 🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️

#not even sure what I'm doing anymore #also no the spiders wont eat the bugs in yiur house they just want to crawl in your hair #tw spider mention #spider

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onenicebugperday · 1 month

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@billionneuronscurious submitted: A Caterpillar of Mangina argus with Parasitoid’s eggs.

Location: Maharashtra, India.

Beautiful friend! Shame that it likely isn’t going to make it to adulthood after being parasitized. So it goes.

Here’s an adult of the same species for admiration:

Photo by devinth09

#insects #bugs #submission #moth #caterpillar #larva #parasite #parasitoid #bug death #mentioned #crotalaria podbearer #tiger moth #genus name mangina........#ok

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