Also: my treat to my fellow hand enjoyers lol

These pupae are so fascinating to me. I’ve never seen one where the proboscis is separated from the main body like this before.

These are pupated hornworms. One of my coworkers found them when throwing out old feeder hornworm cups. I’m gonna rear them to see what they look like as adults. I wanna learn the long way what species a “hornworm” is <3

I wish I had a TARDIS or an Enterprise. I want to KNOW. I WANT TO SEE EVERYTHING OUT THERE.

OHHHH FLUFFY

Those lines are literally about Tarinne and Cathala, respectively, by the way.

BUT YOU'VE GOT YOUR DEMONS
AND SHE'S GOT HER REGRETS

I’m back and I demand more.

19, 28, 41.

Well, femme fatales AND dominatrixes. In my head those are really closely related so I kind of forget they’re technically two different archetypes lol

52: Femme fatales in general. I like the overall Vibe of femme fatales but they're always just... so... uninteresting imo and I wanted to make my own in some sense. And make her lesbian, naturally.

She is not single but she is poly and it's a very relaxed and open polycule ;)

53: I’ll be honest, I think it just came from a random generator? I actually don’t really remember </3 But I wanted something more unusual to make her stand out more. She’s the oldest of my OCs, at least 1,000 years old, so giving her a stranger name I think helps sell that she’s from another time.

37: You know how the third episode of the first season of Arcane ends? Pretty much that. She’s not got a single parenting bone in her body but she has people who do (and she has tried before lol). To her, every new asset is worth something. She could turn that kid into someone very useful indeed.

16: She started life as the fairly typical child of a high-ranking family in Nor’aran (my hc name for the city under Nordrassil). Her family was rich and powerful, but not explicitly criminal. It wasn’t until she stumbled into sketchier social circles that things took a turn…

Past assassination attempts failed because her guards eventually got there. It’s all oddly precarious, in that way social empires are.

But that’s just the thing; her biggest strength is her biggest weakness. She relies on her underlings to defend and do everything for her. She can and has held her own in fights before — she knows a few cantrips and monk pressure point tricks — but only rarely has she finished them. +

6: Her biggest strength is easily her charisma, and all the money and resources she’s earned with it. If she can’t talk you down she’ll either bribe you or, y’know, make you an offer you can’t refuse. She is sitting on top of an invisible empire. +