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Leif should get to be bright and spiky sometimes. as a treat

Hyperfixations are so weird because I can scroll past an intensely detailed and awesome piece of art someone took a week to make without a second thought cause it was for a fandom I'm not part of, so I'm not interested. And then you can show me a 15 pixels wide, blurry picture of a random wasp or a fork with eyes drawn and I'll go YES. BEAUTIFUL. LOVE THEM

Made a winter-themed dragon thing a month ago and forgot to post it because I forgot it was finished

Decided to answer my own question of "how does a person with wings wear clothes" except without taking the easier route of avian/insect wings for once

Am trying to make a Wings of Fire picrew but got caught up in making a new character and designing her mom

I was hurrying so I'm not sure if this is the most accurate representation, but I've joined the summary and here are some of my favorite pieces from 2021!

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part two

Being an idiot on main again

From: @peridots-pixiwolf

To: @mothmanagement

From: @nixtetic

To: @peridots-pixiwolf

Hive Awakening

so I wrote hive knight fanfiction

(Under the cut, it’s relatively short but I still like it enough to post, takes place post-Embrace the Void)

The Old Light... was fading.

My Queen.

She stood there at a kingdom’s heart, arms crossed in eternal rest. Stood, watching over her beloved Hive just as she had been since...

She had been there for far too long. Uncountable days, him staring up at her in wonder, him reporting whatever notable feat had been accomplished (of which there weren't many, the bees were tense and more restless than ever, though the stasis Hallownest has fallen into in recent times impacted even the ones who wished separation from it), holding one claw raised in a salute as if nothing had changed, him resting by her side and wondering when her dreamless sleep would end...

But the golden heresy seeping into the corners of his mind and vision had left him.

And his thoughts were only his own again, whispers of forgotten light gone now and forever, and he'd had to admit it. The Queen... Queen Vespa, the one he had waited to protect for so long, it was all for nothing, for she was dead. 

Some part of him knew. The same part that had already given up. But he wouldn't, not when he and his kin were dependent on her return. Not when there was a threat to their colony, a pale little wanderer bearing a silvered nail…

He hadn't heard from it in some time. It held no significance now.

With her unmoving form revealed a corpse, the Knight of the Hive couldn't bring himself to stay any longer. It'd be some form of torture, keeping the reminder of his failure fresh in his mind.

He needed to leave.

How could he? That would be the most selfish thing he'd ever done, leaving the Hive in disarray without their most skilled knight to figure out what in the Queen's name they were supposed to do now. He was her protector, though almost equally her second-hand. Every worker had their own part to play in keeping their Hive strong (though it was easy enough to hide from a citizen of Hallownest, it was obvious to those who shared his blood that his duty was not one of a drone), and the Hivelings were content with carrying out short tasks while the rank of a Soldier or Guardian called for their unwavering loyalty, defense for their weaker kin. The Hive Knight was Queen Vespa's closest thing to a diplomat. He wasn't occupied with anything other than the promise of cutting down any foe who'd dare to hurt their dear Queen, leaving him free to be granted the highest honor of the more important work, that which concerned Vespa herself.

The thought of him now being...possibly the most important living bee in the Hive by any standard at all was one that hurt almost physically, seemed to leave a pain in his thorax to wonder, considering what he had to lose.

The most important...

Queen Vespa could produce no more heirs, a fact that should go without saying as of her status. New adults were emerging slower than ever, and the number of eggs was gradually dwindling as more were raised to replace them.

A Queen, in her youth, is no different than a worker. A royal diet is all she needs.

If the Hive were to survive, a new queen must save them.

The Knight sat up. He offered one last, pained and prolonged goodbye to the Queen he'd been willing to lay down his life for.

It had been a while since he'd left her chamber. Longer than usual by...what must've been a few days, a few weeks even, he couldn't judge. The warmth and droning buzz of his sisters' wings comforted him, calmed his tumultuous mind. A Hiveling quickly accompanied him, brushing her soft setae against his own, smelling of honey and... and lacking something else.

The orange haze seemed to have lifted.

The radiant sickly-sweetness of Hallownest's blight no longer bombarded his senses upon his departure from the Heart of the Hive, leaving only traces of what once was.

He whispered a command to the Hiveling, who drew her antennae down in a brief nod, before taking off.

Perhaps the Hive would be alright without him.

Perhaps, he would wander. He would return to serve the new Queen, wouldn't he? The Knight's allegiance lasted longer than the reign of one ruler.

Perhaps Vespa was wrong, and the Hive would not be killed so quickly.

I was messing around with doodles that don't fit my artstyle

Had fun and liked how they turned out :D

Gave my somewhat-old Hollow Knight OCs a new ref

Since all the text on that is annoying to list in alt text, or if my handwriting is too hard to read, here it is below instead (paraphrased/edited a bit):

To the right of Hawksbeard reads “Hawksbeard, he/him, Grasshopper, Mosskin”, text to the right of Molini is “Molini, she/her, Millipede”, and to the left of Caramel reads “Caramel, she/her, Carpenter Bee”. Hawksbeard’s section notes that both his fluff and mask are removable though he never takes off his mask, he can jump absurdly high (around eight times his height), he always spends his time alone by experimenting, recording, or collecting, and he lives in Kingdom’s Edge. Molini’s section notes that her face is in fact an actual face and not a mask, her eyes glow, she lost the left arm on her third non-head segment down, and she lives in the Ancient Basin. Caramel’s section notes that her wings are frayed, she can take her mask off but also usually doesn’t, she earned the mantis claw from a Traitor Hunt with her sisters and has been fighting with it since, and she lives in the Queen’s Gardens.

Was drawing a thing with Tiso, stopped myself multiple times from inserting more Real Bug Anatomy than was necessary, so I started drawing a different Thing With Tiso. I did plan on doing more once finished but didn't have the inspiration, so take a dude with more realistic insect anatomy than he normally has

thanks for all the like spam :) /gen, it’s flattering!

Yw!!

Your art is very nice to look at (I particularly like the paintings and color schemes? I don't know exactly how to be specific haha) and deserves appreciation :D

- Horns (spirally/twisted flat horns especially, as of late)

- Insect-like antennae/antennae-adjacent structures

- Long, expressive ears

- Dragons, but mammals and/or with fur (and one or more rows of scales centralized along the back)

- Long tails or insect abdomens

- Six limbs (middle pair often more resembles the front pair. used to be centaurs but now just four-armed creatures ig)

- Wings (usually insectoid, draconic or feathered)

- Insect-looking mandibles but they’re actually just modified teeth (likened to tusks)

- Five digits, opposable thumbs able to grasp stuff (to some extent) with sometimes paw-like feet

- Long necks

- Ocelli/smaller eyes that act like eyebrows

- Long canine teeth, four canines and eight incisors like humans (rest of the dental formula does not matter)

Some of the creature design tropes I always find myself circling back to are:

whiskers/barbels

birds with ears

toed hooves

long torso/ bi-to-quad movement

parrot, because i think their skull is freaky

small.

and more??

What traits do you folks find yourselves adding to a lot of your creatures?

leif and caramelldansen have the same birthday and I missed it

Drew this with the eight true gods of Myrialore (the area which MM/Mostly Mollusk takes place in, encompassing Taranoake, Citadell, Kelsik, Renin and Anemone Reef among others) to figure out their personalities and relationships a bit more

(It is Very Messy but I don't care :D)

Interestingly, the new flower god (Solif) is the only one not native to Myrialore and was instead created through the collective belief mostly of bees, wasps, beetles and assorted colonies further inland.

Both of my mad scientist characters, but drawn as the video game characters they were most inspired by (Ne'Mon as Monomon and Tawny-Buzzard as Doctor H.B)

Much zooming in will probably be required

If you are not my friend who I sent on a scavenger hunt looking for my tumblr you can just ignore this

But if you are that friend hello! Congratulations you’ve found me! And for proof your in the right place EBEAN POPSKLICAL and IS THAT A YELLOW SKITTLE?!?! <3

Forgot about this

I'm planning to do three fake-screenshot-like drawings of gameplay swaps (HK played like BFTES, as shown here, BFTES like UT [probably Kabbu facing off solo against the Beast] and UT like HK [Frisk against Asgore]) because...why not?

I will ~definitely edit this later~ partly because of the pretty obvious difference in the background and not-background (caused by me not knowing exactly what parts of the art style will stay the same?)

Tell me an inside joke between you and a friend, without context.

a preview featuring a Shiny Boi because idk, I just like how the shading came out

Uh.

I just found a bug? And have no idea what it is?? ??????

Under readmore because I listed everything I could about it (not including colors which are instead described using actual images)

-Winged/adult insect

-Setaceous antennae same length as body (using below measurement)

-15/16 of an inch (2.5 cm) exactly from head to wingtips

-Four straight wings folded over back, hindwings significantly longer than forewings, forewings are nearly 1/2 an inch (~12mm) while hindwings nearly 3/4 of an inch long (18 or 19 mm). Hindwings curve into a long bottleneck-like shape past the end of the abdomen, stretch 6/7mm past abdomen

-Two black compound eyes less than one mm diameter

-Head 2mm long and about a millimeter and a half wide

-The thorax (or whatever portion visible above the wings, though likely the full length) is just barely noticeably thinner than head and presumably between 2/16 and 6/16ths of an inch (I don't have an underside view so I can't see exactly where it ends) (3mm to 10mm)

-Abdomen roughly between 1.5 cm (9/16 inch) and 1cm (6/16 inch) depending on previous thorax debate, what seems to be a visible black ovipositor half a centimeter long, two tan cerci about a mm and a half long each

-Relatively long, thin mouthparts greatly resembling an Orthopteran's

-Hind legs assumed equal length to hind wings, mid and forelimbs have a tibia and femur of equal length and are about 7mm long total--all legs are smooth rather than serrated

-Wings are opaque but with visible veins

-For clarification, after I got as close as possible to a wingless view the thorax and abdomen are assumed to be equal in length

-This Specific Individual isn’t really moving much except its (her?) antennae unless prompted and hasn’t opened its wings at all.

Conclusion: The insect it most closely resembles is a grasshopper, so it’s probably part of Orthopterida if not simply Orthoptera but I am still left with so many questions

I was going to wait to take a better picture (and probably will update with a better picture) hence me not posting earlier, but it was my first time carving a pumpkin two days ago (with two of my friends who also like hk) and I'm pretty proud of it

The last three currently (also tags cropped from the previous post) (also I forgot to actually label them lol so here are Descriptions)

Part 6A :

-Ven (with and without mask)

-The OG Drawing (currently Lumi is the only one with a character description, however short it is. Also features pretty much Monomon and the White Lady but as cnidarians)

-Tan

-Pando*

-the Cast Shell Pit/Pando's Tree*

-The Agora*

-Just some lettuce slugs*

-Kritto, Gorge, Rantan, and Lidii (clockwise from top)

-Those four again and Ceras

Part 6B :

-Sketchpage of mostly Rantan but also featuring Lidii, Kritto, Gorge and the Arbiter

-Azent, Monti and Kee (featuring Ceras and Machula)

-Ghost (hm wonder what two characters I could have possibly based them on)

-Ne'Mon

-Left-to-right in top-down rows, Bidibi, Pard, Cranton, Claws, Machula, Nell, Quinn, Carmine and Kalanchoe (but in bug form), Blue-Gills, Tawny-Buzzard, Dune, Allibel

-Ganellak

-Left to right, the Champions Tenaram, Amarmallus and Magtauran

-Allibel and Sepinti

Part 6C :

-Cren, Terret, and Aphids (x2)

-Body language (mostly shown using antennae and mandibles and sometimes the white pseudo-pupils)

Part 5 - Part 6A Here - Part 7

Gallery.

Keep reading

The second 10 below

Part 5 - Part 6A Here - Part 7

Gallery.

Keep reading

Reblog because there were too many tags/characters for Tumblr to handle

~Mostly Mollusk~

Part 4 - Part 5 Here - Part 6

Characters. (Mortals anyway.)

Keep reading

~Mostly Mollusk~

Part 6 - Part 7 Here

Extras. (Including some of the “meta” stuff I mentioned--much shorter than the other posts)

Extras/Misc

i want to add him…

---Quirrel

He/him

Iridoviral Armadillidium vulgare

Traveller, Terrestrial 

A pillbug. He's just Quirrel, a friendly adventurer who's good with a nail.

...Maybe keep him away from the bay. And the jellyfish.

Service: None

(jk that's ✨intellectual property✨ and i'll ✨have to ask permission✨)

--History...?

So far, the only known lore regarding this subject is that most vertebrates (currently, Grek and Genni being the only exceptions, as Tan’s host has been dead since the frog went into hiding. The bodies of most other dead organisms have been reduced to bones) have gone extinct some undescribed quantity of time, and many terrestrial bugs have moved to the shores during this (giving a chance to finally reconcile with their amphibious crustacean kin), though nowadays life further inland is no longer uninhabitable. The vertebrate die-off is possibly due to radiation caused by humans inland, as insects such as cockroaches seem to be less negatively affected by it--or this is simply the reason for the invertebrates' migration towards the sea.

--Quests

Reunion (Main Quest, Ceras)

A Meal of Great Elegance (Genni)

Prosthetics (Bem)

Ballad of Copi, which shall go unnamed (i can't think of a real name lol)

Sisters Estranged (Allibel and Sepinti) 

Track Down the Beast (Beowi) (the Beast being Genni)

--Dialogue

Fess: Ceras!

F: Come back in soon or else I'm eating all the anemone without you!

Ceras: You wouldn't!

(... (Ceras doesn't come back inside and continues doing Whatever They Doing.))

F (after some time passes): Ceras, I'm serious! The rip current's coming back soon and I don't want you to be caught in it!

C: Alright, fine, in a second!

()

C: ...Did it just get quieter?

: Wait.

: Oh no.

(~rip current time~)

(...)

Lidii: What even is that?

Rantan: Obviously a sea slug, Lidii.

Gorge: Yeah, it's an aeolid nudibranch, Lidii.

Rantan: How--

Lidii: Well, I'm gonna eat it. It's obviously dead, and doesn't seem like either of you want to.

(Ceras arises.)

Lidii: Oh!

Rantan: 'Obviously dead', huh?

(Ceras looks around, the two insects look at them.)

Lidii: ...Is it sentient?

--Soundtrack

(Taranoake Theme)

(Citadell Theme)

Turn Up the Tymbals, Bring On The Beat! (One of Sepinti's themes)

Renin (Renin flashbacks, much more jovial than WfR)

Waiting for Rain (current Renin theme, has Renin's leitmotif, but slower/more melancholy)