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[humansbgone]

So wait, I just caught up to the most recent eps, and I saw an interesting thing regarding dragonflies. They reject the ant hierarchy and live in hunter packs? How does that work? I thought all macrovolutes were under ant rule! This is fascinating to me I didn't even consider that there could be dragonfly macrovolutes!

Ants don't like swamps ;)

#mudcrabmassacre #ask #ant #dragonfly

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are you familiar with vangers..? an old russian driving rpg about an isolated chain of planets populated by swarms of human-insect hybrids who struggle with their conflicting drives and need heaps of scrap metal that spontaneously come to life to essentially serve as their only infrastructure. i think there's a lot of aesthetic, if not thematic crossover between it and HBG o_o a humble transfem fan from russia

I am a big fan of Vangers from what I've seen of it, actually! It's just a shame that I can't get into the gameplay, and to this day no one has done a proper video playthrough of it :(

#jojo-trivia-for-wtfia #ask

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Are the Schistocerca gregaria, Locusta migratoria, Nomadacris succincta, and Anacridium sp grasshoppers/locusts still around? And, can they still become gregarious?

Oddly specific question, I was just thinking about how crazy yellow ants are the only eusocial insects in where we are in the story. But locusts are….weird.

(p.2) Well I guess locusts aren’t really *eusocial* as they don’t have a social hierarchy like ants do, but gregarious behavior still seems like a threat.

On the contrary, the ants view the grasshoppers the least of a threat of all macrovolutes! In the notes for episode 6, you can read a little on how Grasshopper Swarm is regarded as a non-Swarm, because the grasshoppers believe gathering in large numbers is bad luck...because of the locusts, yes! Locusts are certain species of grasshoppers which form devastating swarms during periods of starvation. As macrovolutes, all grasshoppers vow never to form groups that large, under any circumstances. They're anarchists, and don't fully understand how laws work when they are among insects that belong to Swarms.

And there's nothing the ants like better than a big, fat, lonely insect that has a poor grasp on laws. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say the ants view the grasshoppers as sort of free range cattle, for when stocks of isopods and millipedes are low. Or, even when they're not.

In real life, gregarious behavior is not at all uncommon for insects, though true sociality is. You can very often find insects of the same species gathered around a food source (aphids, other true bugs, flies, roaches, etc.), or just clustered together to hibernate (e.g. ladybugs). The ants in HBG do not regard this as a threat, and in fact, the other macrovolutes were pressured to form *some* kind of social structure to convince the ants they were worth dealing with at all!

#evilgladiolus #grasshopper #locust #swarm #ant #eusocial #ask

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What happened to the humansbgone comic? I keep seeing stuff that implies more than one, I think, but I can’t fine anything. Thank you for your time!

It ran for a short period back in 2015, before I decided it just wasn't working in that format--I always dreamed of doing it as an animation, and wouldn't be happy with anything less.

If you're curious, you can buy it here. Note that pretty much everything in it is non-canon at this point!

More recently I also did a one-off comic skit, which you can find voiced here:

#rufuslupislupis #ask #comic

[humansbgone]

Gregorsa's translation is very much thought through on his part and all so the other day I was like "that gotta take him some time to do, maybe all the events he's showing us happened in the past from his perspective?"

When I asked Rev about it their answer was "🙂", obviously, so we'll have to wait & see.

So I made a quick possible HBG timeline to help me keep things together. Maybe could update it later as more is revealed.

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I know yall have talked abt human be gones big bug sexuality and stuff, but what about gender? I feel like a lot of bugs have Weird Gender (ants, termites, wasps, bi-gendered moths/butterflies, etc) and I think it’s a cool topic to be discussed. Being a transgender bug sounds awesome

Macrovolute society is heavily influenced by eusocial hymenopterans. As a result, the common macrovolute word for "woman" is actually synonymous with "worker," whereas "prince/drone/male alate" is the same word as "man." (Yes, this caused a great deal of confusion when dealing with the termites and their male workers!)

Queens are seen as something *above* the common female. Not just one who can reproduce (as many worker ants technically can lay eggs that yield males), but one who can reproduce in a way that meaningfully contributes something (by reproducing en masse, living a ridiculously long time, and laying eggs that become useful queens and workers, instead of only largely useless males). Ants and other eusocial insects *do not* view the females of other species as queens--they view them as primitive workers, not yet advanced to totally ceding egg-laying!

The Swarm Mothers are the attempts of the non-eusocial insects to have something like a queen, but they are not the same thing.

As for everything else...well, we'll touch on it in time. ;)

#evilgladiolus #ask #ant #eusocial

[humansbgone]

Get a gander at this amazing art of Soph from @lethecreator!

#fanart #sophodra #lethecreator

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Some lovely shipping art of Rose and Sophodra from verminsh on Twitter!

#fanart #rose #sophodra #verminsh

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PREVIOUS EPISODE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JQ6EPKm_eQ

Episode eight is here at last! Thanks to all of you for your support!!! Hope you're ready for some mantis mayhem!

Yet another fantastic soundtrack composed by @theelectricdreamsofddx, with Gregorsa's theme by @zestychille!

If you’d like to support what comes next, there’s a Patreon! All patrons get to see videos early. Additionally, $1 gets you a link to the Discord, $2 gets access to early updates and some bonus content, $5 for your name in credits and more bonus content, $20 and $40 for black-and-white and colored commissions of insect or arachnid characters respectively, and $100 if you want a fully rigged, animatable model of your own!

(40 points possible this time. How did you do?)

[humansbgone]

The OST for Humans-B-Gone! episode 8 is now available on YouTube and Bandcamp!!

[Includes an unused bonus track!]

[humansbgone]

Some adorable art of Gregorsa from @spry-that-exists!

#spry-that-exists #gregorsa #fanart

[humansbgone]

PREVIOUS EPISODE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JQ6EPKm_eQ

Episode eight is here at last! Thanks to all of you for your support!!! Hope you're ready for some mantis mayhem!

Yet another fantastic soundtrack composed by @theelectricdreamsofddx, with Gregorsa's theme by @zestychille!

If you’d like to support what comes next, there’s a Patreon! All patrons get to see videos early. Additionally, $1 gets you a link to the Discord, $2 gets access to early updates and some bonus content, $5 for your name in credits and more bonus content, $20 and $40 for black-and-white and colored commissions of insect or arachnid characters respectively, and $100 if you want a fully rigged, animatable model of your own!

(40 points possible this time. How did you do?)

#animation #bugblr #artists on tumblr #humans-b-gone #insect #bug #mantis #praying mantis #tarantula #episode eight #episode #rose #sophodra #Youtube

[humansbgone]

It officially goes up Saturday, but a reminder that the new episode can be viewed early by all tiers on Patreon!

[humansbgone]

The new episode is up early for Patrons! Goes up officially on Saturday.

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The new episode is up early for Patrons! Goes up officially on Saturday.

[humansbgone]

Not again ;u;

Rendering out the final video and noticing approximately 342543532 errors as I do

#ramble

[humansbgone]

I love having to rerender a ten-minute animation because the wrong background flashed by for literally one single frame

Rendering out the final video and noticing approximately 342543532 errors as I do

#ramble