As A Former Lonely 11 Year Old. I Think I Can Say It Gets Better :)

WOO WOO WOO WOO YAY

deltarune releases on june 4th, 21 days from today, may 14th! that means we're 67.19% of the way from the date announcement to the release!

No explanation needed

I did an experiment on myself

I like to browse social media, but it's not really me who likes that. It's some baser, more lizardish part of my brain. It does not even know what it's looking at, or care -- it just knows it gets little dopamine snacks from it, and likes them.

I decided to do an experiment. I wanted to see what that part of my brain would do if I deprived it of what it usually likes. I blocked all social media in my desktop browser via an extension, uninstalled all my social media apps, and even blocked the websites on my phone just for good measure.

So, what would I do now?

It turns out I start going on wikipedia. I liked to look at the "on this day section," and use the random page button. It's kind of like social media because I never knew what I was going to see. It scratched that same itch.

But I wanted to go farther, so I blocked wikipedia too.

Turns out, after that, I start going on google maps streetview and exploring random towns in Chile or Mongolia. I see hotels and restaurants with 1 review. Who are you, reviewer. Why have you decided to give this pizza restaurant that just looks like a normal house this digital baptism.

But I wanted to go farther, so I blocked google maps too.

Then, I started going to my local library. The library had more information than I could ever read about practically anything I wanted to read about. I started reading about French history. The region we know today as France may look pretty innocuous, but you wouldn't believe some of the shit that went down.

But I wanted to go farther, so I stopped even going to the library. What would this part of me, that so desperately craved a constant intake of information, do now.

It was then that I descended into the sewers, and became the Rat Man.

I quickly became a legend in my town. Some teenagers saw me clamber out of one sewer grate and then into another across the street. They told their parents about it. Their parents didn't believe them. Truth be told, I almost didn't believe them either.

A woman eating oreos on a park bench once dropped one near a sewer drain at the local bike path, and yelped when she saw my arm reach out from the drain and swipe it. However, later on, she left another oreo there. She took pity on the Rat Man. I saw the Man that was left there, even though it was mostly Rat.

Ultimately I decided to allow myself the library.

Yooooooo big frickin buge

Elephant beetle - Megasoma elephas

Here is another info-post, this time on an awesome puppy-sized beetle known as an elephant beetle, or Megasoma elephas.

@hispaatra Researched the puppy beetle :DD

Description

Elephant beetles are black in color and covered with a coat of fine microscopic hairs, in other words their body is hirsute. The hairs grow particularly thick on the beetle's elytra. The hairs give the beetle's body a yellowish colour. Males have two horns protruding from the head and another from the prothorax. The longest head horn gives the beetle its common name, since it resembles an elephant’s trunk. Females have no horns. The horns are used for defense, and in competition among males for food and mates.

In size, elephant beetles typically range between 7 and 12 centimetres. The largest male specimen, that we know of, measures 13.7 centimetres, including the horn.

Diet

For their diet, elephant beetles eat the sap of particular trees and ripened fallen fruits. In captivity, they also eat fruits such as pineapples, longan, lychee fruit, and bark from certain trees like the poinciana.

Breeding

Megasoma elephas larvae develop in large decaying logs or the ground, where the female beetle lays her eggs. Some weeks after that, usually three, the eggs hatch into C-shaped larvae, white grubs with brown heads and six legs. The larval stage lasts around 29 months, during which time the grubs consume organic matter. The third and last stage, the pupal stage, lasts around five weeks at a temperature of 26 degrees Celsius. The life span of an adult elephant beetle is around one to three months.

Distribution and habitat

Elephant beetles can be found in southern Mexico, Central America, and in South American rainforests.

Elephant beetles live in rainforests and are mainly active during the night. They are also able to maintain a high internal body heat when foraging despite reduced ambient temperature.

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Image sources:

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https://nl.pinterest.com/pin/1477812351560073/

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https://nl.pinterest.com/pin/20055160839071562/

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Text references:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_beetle

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https://www.grida.no/resources/1901

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https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/122000-Megasoma-elephas

Tsunami 🌊

Y’all liked the last wof post so here’s another :]

Time taken: 3 hrs 30 mins

Hiii! I decided to upload some artworks from the last year or 2, cuz I draw reallllyyyyy slloooowww… and also, why not? I’m gonna post a few bundles of artworks each featuring the same character. If you notice any variation in art style/quality that would be because they might’ve been drawn months apart lolll

Anyways here’s a bunch of art of one of my d&d characters. Her name is Joy and she’s a tiefling paladin. Oath of the Eldritch Hunt (from Steinharts Guide to the Eldritch Hunt). She’s 6’5”, heavily clown themed, and she has some spooky curse shit going on. She is part of a nomadic circus-ish group of quirky warriors/adventurers known as the Joyous Congregation who wander and help those who cannot help themselves. She occasionally splits off on her own personal work, which is how she ends up with the party she’s been traveling with as of late (our adventuring party). She recently has been battling with her curse stuff though, as she fears she is losing her humanity, and has left her adventuring group for the sake of their own safety. I often dream of writing/drawing stuff that dives into her lore/backstory but I never get around to it. She does have a twin brother and a younger sister who I will probably post art of later.

The lil guy she’s holding in that one pic is named Guy. He’s a character played by a friend of mine, and tbh, for the life of me I cannot remember what his homebrew race is but I know that he is roughly halfling sized?

Some mildly spicy artworks under the cut if ur into that sort of thing.

The other characters in those pics? Ehhhh I’ll talk about em later. These interactions also weren’t necessarily canon… just for funsies. At this time she’s the only character I’ve made kinda spicy art for. But who knows, maybe that’ll change.

OK THANKS FOR STOPPING BY AND I HOPE YOU ENJOYED MY RAMBLE

Not sure who will is, but may he bring blessings 😌

｡ﾟﾟ･｡･ﾟﾟ｡ ﾟ. May will bring blessings.

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Sooo pretty,, love the air brushy look

This has been sitting on my iPad for a hot minute but I’m finally finishing my WIPs :”)

The character is named Cham, they are a dryad who has the ability to sooth lost souls!

A little quote from my own black cat, drawn by me :]