Spiderday Night Live

i'm thinking about bugs

these ones are of course based on goose barnacles/barnacle geese, and the myth that barnacle geese emerged from barnacles instead of from eggs. other myths told of barnacle geese growing straight from trees, like the vegetable lamb, which quarantine crystal also features!

i am thrilled every time someone evolves this one and says "wait that wasn't a smiling mouth?? it was all eyes this whole time??"

respectre is a snail whose eyes and feelers mimic a zombie hand rising from a grave. they leave a trail of mist behind them as they creep around graveyards looking for fresh flowers to eat.

respectre is a snail whose eyes and feelers mimic a zombie hand rising from a grave. they leave a trail of mist behind them as they creep around graveyards looking for fresh flowers to eat.

Me and my mutuals

while giant centipedes are mostly predators that feed on insects and small vertebrates, they may occasionally enjoy a sweet fruit treat! several species have been seen eating fruit in the wild, and pet centipedes seem to enjoy it now and then.

it’s cute because centipedes are cute! you know this now.

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his mimicry was clearly good enough to fool the ants; none of them seemed to take notice even as he repeatedly doubled back to guard his territory instead of heading further up the tree. although mimicry like this is often sensationalized as something insidious or spooky, Myrmaplata has no intention to eat the ants. rather, the spider hides among them for protection: weavers won't eat nestmates, and other predators know that weaver ants bite, spray acid, and attack in hordes. running with the ants might be risky, but he's always alert, watching their every move with his big eyes. what a life that must be, always living on the margins of a colony of hunters that would devour him, yet also keep him alive without ever knowing it

this is such a wonderful bit of evolutionary storytelling. sexual selection for huge venomless jaws, mimicry, even "compound" mimicry of an ant carrying her sister's corpse, and a way to drop the disguise when threatened... I wish I could be a Myrmaplata for a while, the things that these creatures must think about!

after years of work, quarantine crystal 0.8 is out tomorrow! i can't wait to see you all play!

and now the new update is on pokecommunity for those who prefer that to discord. this new patch includes bugfixes so if you have 0.8 already please update to 0.801!

guess it's time to start posting these! i'll be posting a line each day until the dex is complete, then the final sheet. this is the grass starter line for quarantine crystal! they are cigar caterpillars, loosely inspired by tobacco hornworms. they are irresistibly drawn to flames, incurring damage but releasing more toxic smoke the more they are burned. if you choose this starter you might suffer with the early-route birds but they're an investment that pays off!

our early route bugs, based on parasitic wasps and mosquitos, and the medical mummy. since injectoid develops from the eggs laid on buzzling's back, technically buzzling is not part of the same evolutionary line!

one of our early birds, based on my favourite bird, the hoatzin! they hatch with fully formed clawed hands, which they climb with. the hands metamorphose into regular wings as they grow. they smell like manure and are also known as "stinkbird"! go look them up, they are beautiful!

poster numbers: 10, 102, 128 226, 20 34, 204, 127 158, 176, 26

If anyone has any other reputable sources that I may have missed please add them to this post.