the eclipse was pretty ok! i got out to a nice quiet park, touched grass, and even saw a couple of deer! moderate longpost jumpscare below? find out!!


ok it's not a talent or anything per se but i seem to have generally good luck with getting butterflies and the like to land on me. maybe it's my blood or something idk.

anyway, we were watching some cool insects fly around; they looked kind of like dragonflies but with black teardrop wings and narrow blue/green iridescent bodies, like mayflies. so i joke to my partner about it being my "special skill," and he thinks im bullshitting him, but a few minutes later it happened!

i was laying on a tree branch over the water where the mayflies(?) were, and two of them landed right on my wrist. and then started banging. yes, you heard that right. two mayflies hooked up on my wrist during the solar eclipse.

i was really quite surprised, but it seemed like an irresponsible use of my newly-found powers as an insect love hotel to boot them out, and they finished pretty quick anyway. and of course, i was telling my boyfriend to get a picture of it the entire time, so here you go!

a picture of the scene described above

so yeah, that's my eclipse story. i just hope this didn't count as trying to work magic during the eclipse ๐Ÿ˜ถ. otherwise, im happily taking it as a benevolent portent until the next one ๐Ÿ˜


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in reply to @sapphire's post:

yes, thank you so much for the ID! i looked up damselflies and it looks like what we saw was calopteryx maculata, or the "ebony jewelwing." and ill try and send some of whatever insect mojo ive got your way, so here's hoping!