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- Dec 19, 2022
FIY: fake heart areolas gal there has a grasshopper tat under the universe quote. Note the long barbed legs and the smaller set of wings on top. Grasshoppers are rarely shown (or thought of) with their wings out like that, so mistaking that for a moth is not surprising. The tattoo artist who did that also took liberties with the antennae. Grasshopper antennae are straight and pointy, not curvy and curly like that.WTF is up with pooners and moth imagery?
That said, there does seem to be something going on there, between pooners and their moth imagery.
Yes, they are. Kek.They're NLOG butterflies, lol.
I suspect that's the main reason for them being pooner mascots. Like rats are the anti-hamster. Or the anti-bunny. Most moths are night fliers and feeders. There are even Winter moths that are active when nearly all other bugs are either dead or hibernating. Moths are tough little butches. Tougher than delicate femme butterflies. Usually fatter too, LOL. Moths tend to be overlooked in the current "think of the pollinators!" craze. (Like beetles, flies, and other less attractive bugs, ahem.) So they're sympathetic underdogs. Moth wing patterns tend to resemble bark and often have scary false eyes to scare predators away. (Species depending.) So moths are stealthy mimics for self protection. Silence of the Lambs troon Jame Gumm raised Death's Head Hawkmoths (which are really quite stunning and beautiful) that have both bark patterning for camouflage and a set of false, scary eyes on their backs to make predators think twice before getting too close.


