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sanfranlvrs · 2 months

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smile for me oc RAHHHHHHH anyways. Dott Lepidopt is a sweet guy who came to the habitat after coming to the realization that he needed some help with their insecurities with relationships and being open with his real feelings

he’d probably stay hanging around in the stairwell then moves to the lounge when he’s made happy

#smile for me #smile for me oc #sfm oc #dott lepidopt sfm #my ocs #my artz

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flame-shadow · 1 year

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cosmic centipede

imagine it

#there are so many legs i need to draw before it's ready to share #I'm gonna try to do a similar style as the lepidopt herald but we'll see how it goes #this one will be more intentional in its design since I'm gonna look up refs for things #should've done that with the herald but i genuinely didn't think I'd end up wanting to make a series of these

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claar-bookdragonwitch · 1 year

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#books #butterflies #lepidopters

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krakenartificer · 10 months

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This is... okay this is an insane message for me to send so I do apologize, but! The 'd' in 'djbouti' is so that readers don't try to make the 'j' into a 'zh', which is extremely common as a mispronunciation in English and French. The 'd' is "silent" but it gives readers an idea of where to place their tongue when starting the 'j', since English uses 'j' to represent multiple sounds. In this way it is similar to 'h' in Spanish! Okay, sorry for thebither. Have a lovely day!

No no, tasty knowledge nuggets are always appreciated, especially linguistic ones!

Yeah, I was thinking about this the other day while I was looking at lists of words with silent letters. Like, English orthography is a mess -- no one can dispute that -- but it's not as much of a mess as some of these lists are implying. Yes, there are exceptions to every rule, and some things you just straight-up have to memorize (sugar, my darling, what are you doing??), but actually most of the weird exceptions are things you've learned by the time you're 12, and all the harder words are pretty straightforward (if you know phonics).

Like, yes, the e in cane is silent in the sense that it's not pronounced ca-nee, but it definitely affects pronunciation (as explained most entertainingly by our good friend Tom Lehrer [x]). And once you know how to pronounce ph, tion, and how e affects the vowels ahead of it (and why you therefore need two fs in affect to stop the e from doing that) ... you can go a long ways on sight-reading English, even when -- as you say -- we're using d to harden a j even though that's not a "real rule".

One thing I wish I'd learned way earlier is that some of our "silent letters" are there to help you understand how words are related -- like the c in muscle, which isn't really doing anything, is there so you know it's related to muscular, where the c is very relevant. I can spell bureaucracy correctly on the first try every time now, now that I realize it's spelled that way because it's related to bureau. And even pterodactyl makes some amount of sense when you realize that the spelling wants you to know that it's related to orthopter, lepidopter, and helicopter.

Anyway, thanks for helping me pronounce Djbouti correctly!

#askbox #language #linguistics #orthography #english is three languages in a trenchcoat

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libraryofmoths · 2 months

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I love love LOVE your blog! Can I request the northern giant flag moth? Also, do you know other blogs or accounts about lepidopters? I would be glad if you shared them ^_^

Hi! Thank you so much for the ask and the compliment! I’ll get to working on your request.

Answer to your second question is under the cut:

At the moment of writing this, I only know of two Lepidoptera blogs: moths-daily (which is currently on hiatus) and identifying-lepidoptera-in-posts (which also covers butterflies).

A good place to start looking for blogs would be under the “moth facts” tag, but you will have to sort through a few silly posts with satirical facts. (I found a couple more blogs, normanologys and factsaboutmoths, using this tag, and they both seem to be totally moth-focused!) Similar tags like “moth” or “Lepidoptera” should work too!

If you’re also looking for butterflies, the tags “butterfly facts,” “butterflies,” and “Lepidoptera” should work like the tags above.

These tags may also show you blogs centered around animals, bugs, and fun facts in general that have the occasional moth/butterfly post.

Sorry for the long reply, hope this helped! :]

#libraryofmoths #question box #animals #bugs #facts #insects #moth #lepidoptera #library submissions

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wumblr · 1 year

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alright pupae listen up i need you guys to be extra good and eclose this week because my man is under a lot of stress and there's nothing any of us can do about it except by extremely indirect means. knocking on your chrysalides hello knock knock butterfly? i need effects please he doesn't need all this turmoil let's imago i don't want to hear any obtections stop chitin around it's your lepidopt era. harden that meconium. i don't have a pun for that one

#hey did you know the pupa of a mosquito is called a tumbler... i did not

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archival-arrival · 1 year

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Rocera

a suffix for nocturnal moths/butterflies.

where the prefix and suffix Lepido-ptera come from the term lepidopters which refers to both butterflies and moths, -rocera comes from Heterocera which specifically refers to the nocturnal branch of lepidoptera

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