So intro post:
Hello I originally joined this site in 2011 and deleted it sometime in 2016 or whenever the porn ban hit. I’ve recently come back with this new blog because I’ve been annoyed with Twitter’s bullshit.
I mainly reblog video game stuff, bugs and insects, text posts I find funny and/or informative, and whatever else. If we’re mutuals here then feel free to ask me if you need anything tagged.
Have a great day and remember to be nice to bugs~
Horned pelican spider, Afrarchaea cornuta, Archaeidae
Pelican spiders, also known as assassin spiders, are a family (Archaeidae) of about 90 tiny (2mm-8mm) species that prey exclusively on other spiders.
Photographed in South Africa by hrodulf
If you have the spirits and time, I’d love to know more about these guys and why they evolved to have this peculiar shape!
Some great info and an explanation of why they Look Like That in this video:
I just saw a story on AO3 tagged "pet p!ay"
TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE
Ok, unless something's going on I'm not aware of (extremely likely), I gotta point out the term "Pet Play" is significantly older than Tik Tok, or most of its userbase for that matter.
Yeah, I'm not mad about using the term "pet play". That's a perfectly fine term. I'm mad because they didn't use that term: they used "pet p!ay", a censored version
Oh. Oh gawd I missed that. Objection withdrawn, that is objectively terrible.
To anybody who is new to posting on ao3, if you’re using a tag you have to use the correct spelling of that tag. People aren’t going to type in every version of a censored word to hide or look for your content 
For everyone new to tumblr, the same rule applies to tumblr too.
You cannot censor your tags! Censored tags cannot be block or filtered. Censoring tags HARMS your audience, it does not protect them
ALTthanks to the hard work of the volunteer transcribers, we've finished transcribing 6,000 (!) blinkies archived from old geocities websites!
we've used the transcripts to build Geoblinkies, a blinkie search engine that searches the full text & image descriptions of all 6,000 blinkies!! you can also visit the Geocities page that each blinkie was found on, and explore the old web from there :D
thank you so much to the transcribers and to GifCities & the Internet Archive (the source of all of these blinkies) for making projects like this possible!!!
Transcribers:
max | maple | soleil | bunny | teeth | cactyys | anakin | awnowimsad | robin | starrs | amy | lexi ~ astrogirl | dante | iris | stede | ravioli | p | hermon | peril | lyra | rubycubix-alt | cyrus | murr | jordy | fish | zeph
one of the best things ever is when u find a really talented artist whos obsessed with an obscure/unpopular character and just lovingly draws their underrated guy 30 times a day even tho all their posts get 5 notes. these ppl are the backbone of society. they’re thriving theyre mentally unchained
Yeah I like Tears of the Kingdom a normal amount.
there’s just something about the weight of a hammer in your hand. feels so right
This looks like a fucking parody post, or an edgy edit, but it’s 100% official real Flintstones.
Clarification: I don’t hate this book, I love it, it’s amazing. It’s just that taking a step back and looking it out of context is still really funny. Especially the line “We participated in a genocide, Barney.”
ok but imagine them in their cartoon forms saying this dialogue i’m
can we have some context to this, perhaps?
Bedrock is having a mayoral election. One of the candidates is a violent war mongering asshole that riles people up against the lizard people. This reminds Fred and Barney of their time in the army.
Back then the father of said violent candidate was riling people up against the “tree people”. Fred, Barney, and other soldiers fought what they believed to be a defensive measure against the tree people. Turns out, it was actually an invasion, in order to kill off the tree people and take over their forest to build Bedrock.
That’s what Fred means when he says he and Barney participated in a genocide. They literally did.
(Extra fun fact, Barney adopted a tree person baby after the war, and his son Bamm-Bamm is the last tree person.)
There are a lot of interesting things about this post but the AK-47 shaped spear is what really got me
This is just as wild with the context
Some of my favorite moments in the series
From the foreword to 2021 print of the comic.
@masterkfox submitted: Nice bugs and honorary bugs I met while visiting the east coast last summer, found in Pittsburgh, Ohio, and Virginia. I was especially pleased to meet the Question Mark and Hackleberry Emperor! Less pleased to meet the Spotted Lanternfly nymph but they're still cute.
These are all extremely nice bugs! And honorary bugs. A frog and a crayfish can be bugs if you believe it in your heart. And I do. That dragonfly is a very beautiful color! Also love the last photo of the mayfly with their old outfit. It's a shame about spotted lanternflies because so destructive because they are very pretty in both nymph and adult forms.