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@el-a-vader

24 she/they

there really are no consequences for being wrong about your gender, orientation, etc. for a while, btw. if you try something and it just doesn't fit, it's better to have tried and found out than to be left wondering.

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idk who needs to hear this rn but suffering is not noble. take the tylenol

One time when I was younger I was refusing to take headache medicine and my mom said “the person who invented that medicine is probably so sad you won’t let them help you” and now every time I find myself denying medicine I just imagine the saddest scientist making those big wet eyes like “why won’t you let me help” and whoop then I take the medicine

"No one can love you until you love yourself" is like the worst possible way of articulating "if you don't respect and value yourself, it's very easy to become attracted to people who don't treat you right and then justify their mistreatment, so be careful."

so THAT'S what it's supposed to mean. that actually makes sense.

Giant Flower Beetles (Genus Mecynorhina), family Scarabaeidae, from various parts of tropical Africa

  • M. savegei
  • M. torquata
  • M. polyphemus
  • M. obertheri

photograph by Ennis Fei (@ennisanna_fei)

hey come outside we have:

- alive jewels

- genuine imitation wasp

- weevil looking at something

- assorted punctuation

- surprise bee sex

- whatever that’s supposed to be

Chrysochroa aurata

Physocephala tibialis

Odontocorynus salebrosus or umbellae

Cupido comyntas

Anthidium oblongatum

Neoxabea bipunctata

enjoying the variation in these handsome Graphocephala versuta, including the last poor hopper who has a mite sucking on its head

more hoppers & friends!

an Aplos simplex (Issidae) with a very powerful tail

Stictocephala taurina and Stictocephala diceros (Membracidae), little bulls about to butt heads (they don’t actually do that)

a very goopy looking recently molted Oncometopia orbona sharpshooter (Cicadellidae)