I’m Gonna Say This Again Since Folks Keep Tagging Popular Blogs In That Tumblr Blackout Post With Not

Our inbox/DMs are open for tumblr trick or treat!

We’ve seen people talking about this and wanted to join in. Here’s our costume!

[Image Description from alt text: An image of a person in a homemade cockroach costume, taken from the back. The costume features long brown “wings” attached to the back of their shirt, an oval with a black pattern on it representing a cockroach’s pronotum covering the back of their neck, and a headband with long orange “antennae.” End ID.]

We’re an Australian Cockroach, Periplaneta australasiae!

Happy Halloween!!!

[Image description: a photo of a small sticker with the words “Ask your headmate” on a metal pole. End ID.]

Me when I don’t remember the answer on a test

-Katlyn

If I ever need someone to ramble about bugs I know who to call

-Jacob

Generations on Tumblr

WIP from drawing a bee beetle awhile back. (...Somehow I like going back to look at WIPs more than finished pieces, idk why 🤷)

Anyway I think we can all agree that bee beetles are Very Good beetles, yes? Yes.

Oakie dokie (lol), the poll closes at 4pm today! Please vote for this acorn, I am unreasonably invested. I will post a piece of my art for every new Oakie vote this post gets (please like or comment if you vote so I know)! If you’ve already voted, you can vote again- each voter can vote every 12 hours.

Tumblr people, can I ask something weird? Can I ask you to vote in a popular tournament poll…. Not on this hellsite? 🥺👉👈

suny.edu

Mascot Madness - SUNY

SUNY Mascot Madness is the battle to decide New York's favorite college mascot.

My school’s mascot is Oakie the Acorn, and they’re probably the Tumblr-est mascot you could think of.

I mean, they’re an acorn for goodness’ sake, they’re officially non-binary, and they’re all about sustainability. The school they represent is also very tumblr- SUNY ESF is a school dedicated to saving the Earth, and its student culture makes it a place where the genders are queer and the neuros are divergent :) People just stop to stare at a weird mushroom or interesting insect all the time here, and if someone spots them, instead of ridicule, you’ll probably have two people staring.

In conclusion, vote for Oakie!

My dad has bees. Today, I went to his house and he showed me all the honey he had gotten from the hives. He took the lid off a 5-gallon bucket full of honey and on top of the honey there were 3 little bees, struggling. They were covered in sticky honey and drowning. I asked him if we could help them and he said he was sure they wouldn't survive. Casualties of honey collection I suppose.

I asked him again if we could at least get them out and kill them quickly, after all he was the one who taught me to put a suffering animal (or bug) out of its misery. He finally conceded and scooped the bees out of the bucket. He put them in an empty Chobani yogurt container and put the plastic container outside.

Because he had disrupted the hive with the earlier honey collection, there were bees flying all over outside.

We put the 3 little bees in the container on a bench and left them to their fate. My dad called me out a little while later to show me what was happening. These three little bees were surrounded by all their sisters (all of the bees are females) and they were cleaning the sticky nearly dead bees, helping them to get all of the honey off of their bodies. We came back a short time later and there was only one little bee left in the container. She was still being tended to by her sisters.

When it was time for me to leave, we checked one last time and all three of the bees had been cleaned off enough to fly away and the container was empty.

Those three little bees lived because they were surrounded by family and friends who would not give up on them, family and friends who refused to let them drown in their own stickiness and resolved to help until the last little bee could be set free.

Bee Sisters. Bee Peers. Bee Teammates.

We could all learn a thing or two from these bees.

Bee kind always.

Angst and hurt/comfort are some of my fav things to read but Jesus Christ the near constant “uwu poor little Viktor” attitude some ppl have is so fucking annoying.

Having your own OC as your Blorbo is great because you will never have to see a bad Fannon brainrot take or awful but inexplicably popular ship involving them, but also I Have To Do Everything Myself Around Here Augh

Please do not kill bugs for the crime of being small.

As an autistic person, I didn’t have this experience, because I not only have had a loving and unusually accepting family all my life, I’ve had a friend group almost entirely made up of fellow neurodivergent people. But some of my autistic friends have had this experience. I try to reassure them that someone will love them for who they are, that for some friendships, there aren’t any lines at which their friends will get sick of them. I will never get sick of someone for being “too autistic” and cut them out of my life. At times, I may get sick of a certain behavior and need a break from that particular thing, but I will come back, and there are others, autistic and not, who are the same way. I want everyone reading this to know: there are people who would love you as you are, even if you haven’t met them yet. And if you feel alone, feel free to message me; I may be just a stranger on the internet, but if I can help someone by listening and being there and being the friendly oddball I am, I’d be glad to.