#hide beetle

[bugbrawl]

Bug Brawl

Why you should vote for them:

Sabethes cyaneus

I mean look at this fancy fellow

Hide Beetle

they are key decomposers as they eat flesh from dead animals, and are really useful in cleaning specimens for taxidermy. also i think they're just cute. i love their little white specks

#polls #tournaments #bug brawl #sabethes cyaneus #mosquito #hide beetle #dermestes maculatus #entomology

[scarapanna]

The main premise and events in the Intertwined Opposites AU

It's finally here!!!

I've managed to finally make a proper info post for my personal take on this silly possession AU craze as I've planned to do for a while since I'm totally normal about this concept (lie) /silly

Before proceeding, keep in mind that this post is gonna be pretty long as I'll be diving into important story events troughout the first half of it, so it gets the read more treatment as usual!!

There will be no crk spoilers here (except for the beast-yeast episodes), just a ""prologue" to current narrative events in the AU

•The beginning•

Everything starts in beast-yeast, once peace has been returned to the fairie kingdom

Now that the area is mostly free from danger with the silver tree's seal being properly mended, the crowd decides to start repairs and preparations to further celebrate everyone's victory for the remainder of the day.

However, as everyone starts to leave the area, something starts creeping out from the shadows created by the tree's roots

Turns out that Shadow Milk, now severely weakened from the blow taken in battle, has managed to flee from being forced back into his prison once more.

During Lily's blast of magic, he essentially "split" and discarded part of his own power as a last resort, separating what was already being sucked into the renewed seal from himself to avoid getting dragged into containment once more.

Unfortunately for the beast, both his panicked and sloppy procedure combined with the added strenght of the new guardian's spell left him with a very poor amount of strenght, with it not being enough for anything useful.

Needless to say, his mind is filled with hatred and anger as soon as he emerges

he can't really do much with this state, and thus lingers on formulating a plan to get what he wanted from the start, but how?

How would he get back on track, rid himself of the guardian, and break the seal once more like this?

The answer eventually comes to him, just right on top of a bridge alongside the one who restored his prison.

His souljam, the one he was once the owner of

Now "purified" and held by Pure Vanilla, it binds the two together with the virtue of knowledge, split in the lights of truth and deceit during the purification process.

These lights are owned by the beast, and the figure by the bridge in front of him, yet come from the same thing.

Shadow Milk has finally decided on a proper plan.

◆ What comes after and what it leads to ◆

Days pass, turning into a few weeks and ending with a trip back home to take a break and write down what happened during the beast-yeast expedition.

Everything seems to have gone well in the end, yet something still feels..wrong?

It's not the best term for it, but does the job well enough.

The vanilla kingdom is peaceful, and Pure Vanilla's return safe and sound brings back some joy to the citizens.

Yet it just doesn't feel right, he doesn't know what precisely, but the ancient is riddled with an odd feeling almost like being watched.

He might not realise it for now, but he had been right. Someone has been following him inside the castle for the entire duration of the trip.

Pure Vanilla slowly grows more wary as days pass, and his doubts are confirmed as Shadow Milk's idea is proven successful.

In the void Pure Vanilla is confronted by Shadow Milk cookie, he spills everything he's done without esitating twice, as there's no reason to hide it anymore.

Shadow Milk had always been there ever since the re-sealing of the tree, following Pure Vanilla and draining magic at a slow enough rate to not be noticed, until it was enough to take over his body without trouble.

Now that he had a "vessel" to work with, he could keep recharging power and be finally able to do his bidding.

He's questioned multiple times by Pure Vanilla, but he wouldn't budge, and the ancient manages to gather only their location and a few loose details.

This was not a void, this was a ""mind space"" where he was bound to stay while shadow milk used his body as a disguise, and he could not use magic to fight back against the beast.

Being out of options, Pure Vanilla quickly tries to think over what to do, and lingers over the situation to come up with something.

Shadow Milk proposes an idea to Pure Vanilla, sharing the vessel that both are confined in, to be sure he doesn't get caught.

This is only to one condition: the ancient must work in favour of the beast under it's watchful sight at all times

The Ancient complies, and a deal is sealed.

It's not a loss nor a victory, only a beginning

◆The current situation◆

Now that the main prologue is set, what happens precisely to both?

So, Shadow Milk cookie is essentially ""possessing"" Pure Vanilla, but not completely.

The two switch up control of the ancient's body in certain times of the day and night, sometimes Pure Vanilla is granted the lead and when he's not needed Shadow Milk takes it. He's pretty much using the ancient as a puppet, a disguise and a tool for his own gain, assigning him certain tasks so that his plan will work as intended.

Whenever one of them is not in control of their shared ""vessel"", they're send in the mindspace until the shift of control takes place and so on. Shadow milk never gives Pure Vanilla full "freedom" or personal space, having control of the shifts in lead and constantly keeping the ancient under watch trough mirrors and reflective surfaces (The only moments in which he's given alone time is when the beast is asleep in the mind space to retain magic).

The ancient, on the other hand, accepted Shadow Milk's offer right away without esitation, but for a much different reason.

Pure vanilla is trying to get the best out of his situation, and thus feels forced to go against his own morality to keep cookies safe and attempt to alarm them trough hints and hidden messages scattered in the kingdom.

Even if he doesn't like the means, what else could he do to keep everyone safe?

The difficulty of his situation causes him great stress and paranoia, which worsens as time goes on and Shadow Milk regains his powers bit by bit, making his actions more difficult to get away with unnoticed.

Here's some more info regarding the effects of sharing a vessel in two:

• Pure Vanilla and Shadow Milk's connection by souljam makes sharing a body possible, otherwise it would be fatal to most cookies (As they're not made to be vessels).

• The slit in the souljam is a shared element which hints at Shadow milk's presence in both, during control shifts it flickers in different shades of gray.

• Remaining on the topic, control shifts are not plesant in the slightest to both parties involved, being defined by acute physical pain on the area covered by the souljam. This is inflicted on the current cookie in charge of the vessel during the shift, fading away only when back in the mindspace.

•The two can see eachother and comunicate trough reflective surfaces, with them displaying the current entity in the mindspace instead of the one leading the vessel.

• Pure Vanilla's voice sounds somewhat overlapped or distorted when shadow milk is in charge of his body, he can't change this aspect unfortunately for him.

• Certain factors like hunger and thirst are shared between the two due to their predicament, they can sometimes be heard debate over what to eat and when during the day.

• Sleep in the traditional sense is the only factor distinct to the two instead of being shared, as it's strictly based on "individual energy" rather than "shared energy"

#RAAA IT'S FINALLY OUTTT #The first 3 panels are kinda old now but that's okay #the art gradually gets higher in quality I promise/silly #cookie run kingdom #pure vanilla cookie #beetle's art #shadow milk cookie #crk au #intertwined opposites au #cw scopophobia #cw eye contact #just to be sure #in some panels sm stares at pv but it's from “pv's pov” soo #I'll give this a final check for any grammatical issues tomorrow #I listened to some jekyll and hide broadway songs while making this au and imploded can you tell/silly #long post

[onejellyfishplease]

You picked the wrong insect in oystfyw (that can be an acronym right?) Donnie should have been a mosquito you're proving it yourself

Beetle Donnie has some concerns...

Fear mosquitello

#i think he would have struggled hiding that absolutely epic snoot #the mythical mosquito donnie #a terrifying figure #he will haunt your dreams #personally #beetle donnie would much prefer to be a beetle than whatevers going on there #mosquitello the new cryptid #open your shell asks #open your shell to find your wings #cw bugs #cw insects #tw bugs #tw insects #mosquitello

[creaturething-otherentities]

What if yautja were just really colourful?

[image id: two drawings of a bright, asymmetrically coloured yautja, mandibles extended, shown from the right and left side, from the torso up. End id.]

#ct-oe art #yautja #my art #its an idea that I keep coming back to #like the bewilderingly bright razzle dazzle camouflage designs found in nature #not sure what the exact name of it is #but I think some beetles do it #like imagine what could they be hiding from? #predator

[dumbass-extraordinaire]

shout out to jaime reyes for being literally the only dc superhero who not only has living parents, but also a supportive and loving relationship with his entire family!  king of work-life balance and communication!

#he rlly looked at the hiding ur powers from ur friends and family and said rip to spiderman but im different #blue beetle 2006 #jaime reyes #blue beetle #dc comics

[mrswhymrhow]

i love eskew a lot but it really does kick itself up a knotch when david gets kicked out of his apartment and he starts living in his own walls and then gets kicked out of even there. every episode and moment from there on out is So.

#him watching the fireworks while hes hiding in the playground bc he has nowhere to go and that fucking beetle

[practically-an-x-man]

Me trying to explain to Loki that he needs to eat the superworms I give him because if he just tips them out of his bowl they'll just crawl away and turn into nasty fucking beetles for me to find in the corners of his enclosure

#they emit this pheremone that keeps them from becoming beetles when they're near other superworms #but when he tips them out of his bowl they end up hiding alone until they metamorphosize a few days later #i just picked loki up and picked up one of those fucking beetles with it bc it was hiding in his bedding. kill me now #time for a deep clean and a bath tomorrow cause ewwwww #my pets #loki the hedgehog

[gluku-pikron]

unfortunately aotd has fully reawakened me to my hot priest charles bullshit so maybe i will have some fic at some point in the nearish future

#saying this to encourage myself to write instead of just hiding behind endless discord sprints and showing my excerpts to my spouse #and then going ‘good enough’ instead of posting #feels like ive been away from fandom even tho ive been lurking mostly #everyones so young lol and im a wizened old grub far past becoming something cool #like a beetle

[eiders]

they’ve finally figured out how to climb out of their cactus skeleton and they’re having a blast with it

#they didn’t use it for like the first week I had them I thought I was gonna have to get a new hide #animals #animalia #beetles #blue death feigning beetle #ironclad beetle #arthropoda #insecta #coleoptera #alpenposts #videos

[kakusu-shipping]

I absolutely adore your ruby gloom s/i and her entire gender shes so cute oh my god tell me about them PLEASEEEEEEEEEEE I know you already said it was inspiration but she reminds me SO much of the mummy girl from The scooby doo ghoul school and i LOVED THAT MOVIE SO MUCH AS A KID i just gotta know all about this s/i off design alone

She is like a PEAK little girl gender to me, it's what younger me would have wanted.

Now I don't know if you've actually SEEN Ruby Gloom but it is THE Baby Goth/Emo/Scene show. As in it is a show about and for Baby Goth, Emo, and Scene kids. There are hijinks and shenanigans and mild dark humor and usually no moral at the end of the episode.

She's a mummy, probably. The show is about like Monster Kids but what they are and where they come from never comes up. There is no plot, just kids being friends.

I imagine she can't talk with all the bandaging, and this show isn't the type to bust out actual sign language, so she just mimes and charades her way through conversations, like Doom Kitty. And like Doom, it has varying results. Skull Boy and Ruby can usually figure her out and Misery has a knack for charades and basically always knows what she's saying, but Iris can basically never figure it out, and Frank and Len and Poe all just Assume they know until someone else corrects them.

Sense she can't talk, and her bandages cushion her steps, she tends to accidentally sneak up on people and startle them, mostly Scardy Bat. There's an episode in my head where she keeps startling him, so he puts a bell on her so he can hear when she's coming.. and then she drops the bell somewhere and doesn't notice until it's completely unraveled her, and no one recognizes her unwrapped, so her and Scardy Bat have to backtrack the entire mansion together, avoiding getting seen by anyone else, to find where her bandage trail starts to rewrap her.

She's a lot stronger than most anyone else in the mansion, and can pick up and carry pretty much everyone with ease. Sense Skull Boy's commonly precariously up high and Iris is always seeking wild thrills, this strength is mostly used in catching those two specifically when they fall, though sometimes Poe ropes her into doing hard work for him.

I self ship with Skull Boy with her but they're probably not actually dating in current canon. He, She, and Ruby are in this Love Triangle situation where they all three have a crush on one another, and they're also all like 8-10 so navigating romantic feelings is really hard. So they're all still friends, and will probably stay that way till they're all a bit older.

#Emile's Arts #Ruby Gloom #Self insert #Proselfship #Proship Selfship #Thankyou for asking #Thankyou for asking I freaken LOVE Ruby Gloom #The season for it is fast approaching and my dad has spread an illness he got while traveling to my mother who then passed it to me #so I'm probably going to rewatch it very soon #I self ship with Skull Boy but romance is SO hard to imagine in Ruby Gloom they are Besties #Oh this S/I does use She/Her pronouns but she's not a girl I guess I should clarify that I dunno fkgjfdkg #There's also an episode in my head where she's really determined to learn to bake like Ruby #But everything keeps doing wrong like her bandages catch fire or she trips and throws flour everywhere #This is where Ruby gains her crush on her obviously but she just #She wants to bake SO badly but she's so bad at it #Just like me fr fr #Also she's a MASTER at hide and seek much like Mr. Buns #Ah babie self ships my beloved this is one of those really old ones I just kept up with because it's so comforting #Her Room in the mansion is I think Bug Themed she's obsessed with bugs and has a pet Scarab Beetle #Who probably goes missing as another episode conflict at some point

[teknikolor-walters]

seeing what cas did to scarab we should force carabid to put up with him just to see what would happen. it'd be really funny

#scarab walters #cara mayfield #been think abt the scarab / cara parallels lately #im so normal i prommy #they're the two beetles of the cicaderations #they both have so much to run from. so much to hide #they both have elytra

[bugbrawl]

Bug Brawl

Why you should vote for them:

Sabethes cyaneus

I mean look at this fancy fellow

Hide Beetle

they are key decomposers as they eat flesh from dead animals, and are really useful in cleaning specimens for taxidermy. also i think they're just cute. i love their little white specks

#bug brawl #tournaments #polls #entomology #sabethes cyaneus #mosquito #hide beetle #beetle #dermestes maculatus #sudden death

[spockvarietyhour]

Import Invasion Force Lands: A formidable phalanx of beetles lines up on Toronto's waterfront before delivery to Volkswagen dealers in Metro area. Toronto, 1968 [TPL Archives]

#Toronto #1960s #1968 #VW Beetle #VW Bug #vehicles #photography #vintage #Hide and Queue

[wendrin]

look at my bug enclosure, boy

#her name is mirabelle and she is a little miscreant i adore her #i redid her enclosure to have a larger hide and more substrate #plus more faux foliage to scurry under #happy bug hours #rainbow stag beetles #inverts #phalocrognathus #p muelleri #beetles #bugs

[mutsukiss]

Me: hehe uploads funny larva to inat I wonder what it is :3

Inat: it's a dermestid you have hide beetles

Me: heheheheh heheh he eh ehd h rhe ensn lsnsm mmfnjd ehn jj j

#my whole skin is crawling lord im not strong enough im not strong enough please not fucking dermestids #please everything except dermestids please #i have to check my feather collection later i cant dontjis i dont do well w small insects please i cant do tjis #fuck im getting heebie jeebies all over seriously #how the fuck did that get here i want to cry i havent brought any dead stuff home in months #WHYBTHE FUCK ARE THERE HIDE BEETLES IN MY HOUSE

[wiiwarechronicles]

very important question does yogurt like ladybugs?

YES and his favorite ones are the yellow kind with black heads. I do think he also just likes beetles in general! His favorite types are fireflies and June beetles :]

#June beetles are big and stupid so he can just easily scoop them up and place them in jars #lady bugs are smaller so they’re harder to catch but he does like them a lot as well #id imagine he’d have to hide them from his sister tho (or else she’ll eat them) #maidsmop #anon