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Nightmare
@nightmaremantis.bsky.social
36/He/It
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Mi'kmaw/Acadian
Non-theistic Satanist

Canadian bug artist who occasionally posts art. Working on an original comic. Sometimes post about my cats. Occasionally nsfw so no minors. Hyperfixated on my OC Peal, the silver eyed mantis.
I'm leaning towards calling them Spaghetti and Meatballs or something equally silly and food related.
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
When you're on pain medication 5x more powerful than morphine but still too restless to sleep so you work on an embroidery stitching kit instead. I'm stiff as hell but seem to be bouncing back way faster than I could have predicted, lol.
November 19, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Just woke up from surgery a little while ago. Feels like my brain and body are moving in slow motion. Feeling a little achey but surgery went well with no complications so I should get to go home tonight!
November 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Crickets are fine as a treat but yeah, feeding them that all the time is like feeding them only junk food. I normally feed mine a mixture of black soldier flies and waxworms. Waxworms fed on reptile vitamins are easiest imo because they last long and become moths which mantids love to chase.
November 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Agreed, they're quite the pain. Some places you can order them as sub-adults or slightly younger so they're at the size where you don't need the flies anymore. Something to look into maybe if you don't want to go through the entire hatching and rearing process.
November 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Oooh, interesting. I'll have to do some experimenting to see if I can get the effect I want.
October 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I will have a look! The blades will be the easiest part in general, lol. The body is going to be a Frankenstein of sewing patterns and the cloak will have to be custom designed and embroidered. The head is last because I need to figure out how to do lights in the eyes while still being able to see.
October 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I've never worked with it before so if you have any useful tips I am not opposed. I plan on using it for the scissor blades. Undecided on the head still as I'm still debating on using thermal plastic for that.
October 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Picked up a few things over the weekend to make it happen. Got lots of EVA foam, very soft white fabric, metallic gold thread and a nice yellow gold paint color. Finding metallic gold fabric that leans more yellow than green has been the hardest part so far tho.
October 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The questions are incredibly annoying and leading but I have dunked on them and AI as a proper Canadian should: politely and passive aggressively.
October 19, 2025 at 5:14 AM
When you crush it so hard you accidentally do a speed run.
October 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
First fight to actually give me any trouble is NKG. Bro is incinerating my ass because I remember nothing about how you're supposed to respond to his moves and you can't bs your way through it like everything else, lol.
October 13, 2025 at 4:35 AM
It's definitely way slower but it hasn't really bothered me tbh. I've noticed I'm way more reckless though, face tanking my way through bosses. Enemies in general feel like baby's first moveset compared to Silksong also. Fighting Hornet is so fucking funny.
October 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The jokes about HK being the tutorial for Silksong is pretty on point, lol. A shocking amount of people jumped into it without playing the original and I really don't think they should do that to themselves.
October 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I really need to stop touching my speedrun attempts when I get home from work. I'll have a really good run going then come back and die a bunch in the most embarrassing ways possible then crash out over one of those spear guys in Shellwood. I'm never getting those achievements at this rate, lmao.
October 1, 2025 at 12:51 AM