Hihi! Please List 5 Things That Make You Happy, Then Put This In The Askbox For The Last 10 People Who

hihi! please list 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you ! get to know your mutuals, followers and all the wonderful people on here ! happy new year and all the best :)

1) moths

2) cats

3) gardening

4) rock music

5) driving in a warm car in the rain

Found this pretty little thing a while ago

Any idea what it is?

Saw this and immediately knew it would be a sphingidae moth/sphinx moth!!

This here is a blinded sphinx. They sometimes expose their eyespots, which look like this:

And the reason they're called a blinded sphinx is because their eyespots have no pupil.

Super cool :)

(credits to insectidentification.org for that info bc while I didn't directly quote their website and I'm sure the information isn't exclusively 'theirs', there was a very strongly worded footnote abt plagiarism and i am afraid they will hunt me down)

Why does the whole featured tags organization thing on tumblr work so badly,, like i tried organizing my stuff by tags and when i look up a tag it has posts in it that aren't tagged with that tag??? As an autistic person who lives for organization I'm simply going to spontaneously combust at this point :/

Please someone send me an ask with a moth to id or smth i would love that

You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

Unfurled Chinese Luna Moth Shows Me the Stars

Here's my most recent self portrait! It's where my username comes from. I love moths and when I draw them, I try to depict them as my emotions and feelings. In this drawing, I am feeling hopeless but there is a large Chinese Luna Moth that lands on my face and points me to look up at the sparking night sky. Its tails represent tears. The dark clouds are how I usually feel but the stars and the moon are some sort of hope and happiness.

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@cassowariess dw it's not too late! It can be chrysalis all year round if u want it to be :)

Merry Chrysalis!! (to those who celebrate)

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