" Open Your Mind! "

Happy pride month!!! Your favourite usurper of Wasp Kingdom is now a trans girl :3

Artificer and Pebbles

suns throws it back

i remember pre-downpour there were people (or maybe it was only one person?) that drew a kind of modern au where moon was in a wheelchair and i still love that idea to bits...they have service animals now too :)

hivewing design, now with approximately 400% more bug

As someone with extreme Mental Health Fuckery, especially related to morals, and a sexual abuse victim: if you are saying "if you don't do XYZ related to social justice, you are going to become a sexual abuser", ESPECIALLY untagged, then I'm going to steal something out of your fucking house!!!!

"Little creature? On the floor of my can? What brings you here?"

"As you can see, I am concentrating to the best of my ability to figure out a very personal problem for us iterators." "What is that in your hand?"

"A pearl?"

"I suppose I haven't read many pearls in a while, so I suppose that I can divert some of my processing power to reading it for you."

"…"

[ The pearl is highly invasive, loud and unusually distressing to decode. As if the message is written in all caps. It details Pebble's inner paranoia and fear, which leaves Moon to realize that her actions were unknowingly causing her brother an inevitable death. ]

[ As this is being processed, the Moon's chamber begins to tremor violently. It seems as though a horrible mistake was made. Something undoable. ] "Oh no, no, no." "What did I do?! My work, Pebbles, I—" [ Her body would fall down onto the ground, as she sat there defeated. ]

"..." "I almost had the answer."

"I could've... helped every iterator."

"…"

"Leave."

Disability HCs! I love them sm you don’t understan d

I've noticed a lot of games I like have things to say about immortality so I decided to make a list

Bug Fables: How are you going to get the immortality? How do you plan on handling the consequences of your actions? Is it worth it? Did you think anything through at all?

Hollow Knight: You can't be immortal. Don't try. It just makes more problems.

Everhood: Do you want to be immortal? NO YOU FUCKING DON'T. ENJOY NOTHING FOREVER.

Mad Rat Dead: Why do you want to be immortal? You should really have a reason. Otherwise, it's kinda pointless.

Rain World: People can have different opinions about immortality! Just try not to make too much of a mess, or you and/or everyone else has to deal with that forever.

I love how the Wasp King is introduced as this regal, imposing, super powerful figure you cannot beat and then the further into the game you go after that point, the more you realise everything about your first impression of him was a lie.

The title of “Wasp King” is already suspicious given that wasps don’t have kings and the game is usually more accurate than that with the other kingdoms. And then you have confirmation that he indeed is not an actual king but usurped the queen’s throne (also when you buy his theme from Samira you see it’s literally titled The Usurper)

Then it’s heavily implied he’s not an actual wasp either

And you find out that actually, once you have some protection against fire, he is indeed beatable, implying he probs was a pretty average bug when not relying on fire magic

And when all is said and done and you look through his bestiary entry, you find out his name is literally a pun on “hoax“

I’ve commented before on the whole symbolism behind him still wearing the rags he had from before under his royal cloak. Like royalty is a disguise he put on to hide the nobody that he was.

Hoaxe never got any respect as himself so he made up his Wasp King persona to force everyone into respecting him no matter the cost