A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

What kind of red-eyed freak is that?

I’m talking about the red-eyed freak bug on the chin of the red-eyed freak human by the way, not the other way around (photo: Tinaxo, Newcaste, Australia).

Comments

92 responses to “What kind of red-eyed freak is that?”

  1. tokyowars Avatar

    It’s a Black Prince yeah?

  2. tokyowars Avatar

    It’s a Black Prince yeah?

  3. Rockerbaby Avatar

    Awww cicadas…childhood memories 🙂

  4. Rockerbaby Avatar

    Awww cicadas…childhood memories 🙂

  5. Snoogans Avatar
    Snoogans

    heehee Poo you so crayzee.

  6. Snoogans Avatar
    Snoogans

    heehee Poo you so crayzee.

  7. nolan Avatar
    nolan

    i love you. you are the wind beneath my chin

  8. nolan Avatar
    nolan

    i love you. you are the wind beneath my chin

  9. marco Avatar
    marco

    cicades live many years underground, they wil come tot the surface en transform from a nimph to a flying thing, a cuople of days later they die.The tsjirp tsjirp sounds you hear in movies are the sounds from cicades.
    luckely we dont heave those creepy crawlers in the Netherlands.(I hope)

  10. marco Avatar
    marco

    cicades live many years underground, they wil come tot the surface en transform from a nimph to a flying thing, a cuople of days later they die.The tsjirp tsjirp sounds you hear in movies are the sounds from cicades.
    luckely we dont heave those creepy crawlers in the Netherlands.(I hope)

  11. Sara Avatar
    Sara

    I ever only -heard- these things (Japanese ones). Now that I know what I heard… eep. I’m seriously not a bug person.

  12. Sara Avatar
    Sara

    I ever only -heard- these things (Japanese ones). Now that I know what I heard… eep. I’m seriously not a bug person.

  13. vampirina Avatar

    Haha that poor half a bug! It was cool but freaked me out…never had seen one b4! Go poo!!!

  14. vampirina Avatar

    Haha that poor half a bug! It was cool but freaked me out…never had seen one b4! Go poo!!!

  15. Nyarlathotep Avatar

    Cicadas are quite harmless, other than being irritating to some people. Personally, I find the sound to be a pleasant background to summer.
    I miss my insect collection… 🙁

  16. Nyarlathotep Avatar

    Cicadas are quite harmless, other than being irritating to some people. Personally, I find the sound to be a pleasant background to summer.
    I miss my insect collection… 🙁

  17. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    fun to catch, love to hear them on a hot summer day. brings back memories from when i was little. makes me want a bug farm. i guess they’re better suited outside though.

  18. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    fun to catch, love to hear them on a hot summer day. brings back memories from when i was little. makes me want a bug farm. i guess they’re better suited outside though.

  19. Iselilja Avatar

    That freaked me out big time.

  20. Iselilja Avatar

    That freaked me out big time.

  21. Collision Theory Avatar

    That is one creepy looking cicada!

  22. Collision Theory Avatar

    That is one creepy looking cicada!

  23. Duck Avatar
    Duck

    It’s a dead black prince (awww) on Mr. Poo.

  24. Duck Avatar
    Duck

    It’s a dead black prince (awww) on Mr. Poo.

  25. whitney Avatar
    whitney

    i love the shoe necklace

  26. whitney Avatar
    whitney

    i love the shoe necklace

  27. janey Avatar

    i live with both of those bugs. the noise they make combined is ridiculous but i wouldn’t trade it for the world!

    poo i think we should have a giant sunnies party 😛 we can be king and queen.

    cicadas are fine so long as they don’t pee on you, then you confuse it with rain and think the monsoons have arrived.

  28. janey Avatar

    i live with both of those bugs. the noise they make combined is ridiculous but i wouldn’t trade it for the world!

    poo i think we should have a giant sunnies party 😛 we can be king and queen.

    cicadas are fine so long as they don’t pee on you, then you confuse it with rain and think the monsoons have arrived.

  29. Steve Avatar

    Suprisingly its a Magicicada, what-a-name!

  30. Steve Avatar

    Suprisingly its a Magicicada, what-a-name!

  31. Em Avatar
    Em

    Please Shannon, find us the heaviest mods to see that you can… find us anything bloody and gory… find people inserting +3 spiked maces into their orifices if you want. I’ll be pleased.

    But give me a disclaimer before I see a dead bug THAT SIZE. It’s ON HIS FACE.

    Janey, please tell me you are joking about cicada pee. PLEASE.
    *runs*

  32. Em Avatar
    Em

    Please Shannon, find us the heaviest mods to see that you can… find us anything bloody and gory… find people inserting +3 spiked maces into their orifices if you want. I’ll be pleased.

    But give me a disclaimer before I see a dead bug THAT SIZE. It’s ON HIS FACE.

    Janey, please tell me you are joking about cicada pee. PLEASE.
    *runs*

  33. Sir Poo Avatar

    yaaaargh i rock 😀 woooo go me, i feel like a cover girl n shit *blushes* hehehe but its sad that cicada spent sum of its last minutes of life nested in my beard

  34. Sir Poo Avatar

    yaaaargh i rock 😀 woooo go me, i feel like a cover girl n shit *blushes* hehehe but its sad that cicada spent sum of its last minutes of life nested in my beard

  35. teenagerfrommars Avatar

    Is it wrong that I’m totally turned on by the hot guy with a bug on his beard?

  36. teenagerfrommars Avatar

    Is it wrong that I’m totally turned on by the hot guy with a bug on his beard?

  37. scissorygirl Avatar

    weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
    OH EM GEE…
    them necklaces [purple and gold] are SO from overflow or crazy clark’s or coles or somefinkk.
    i have themmmmmmmmm!
    let’s start a club..

    but i don’t have big red sunnies,
    or a beard,
    or a cicada..

    okkk..

    i’ll wear my non-existent big red sunnies,
    flaunting my non-existent pet cicada,
    nesting in my non-existent beard.

    mhmmmm.

  38. scissorygirl Avatar

    weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
    OH EM GEE…
    them necklaces [purple and gold] are SO from overflow or crazy clark’s or coles or somefinkk.
    i have themmmmmmmmm!
    let’s start a club..

    but i don’t have big red sunnies,
    or a beard,
    or a cicada..

    okkk..

    i’ll wear my non-existent big red sunnies,
    flaunting my non-existent pet cicada,
    nesting in my non-existent beard.

    mhmmmm.

  39. John Avatar
    John

    Due to the red eyes, I believe that this is a 17 year Cicada. Here in Chicago, we had our year where they come out in the billions (seriously) to have a good time then die. They stay around for a month making the loudest noise known. I took some film and had to move from one tree due the to the noise was too much.

    This type will live in the earth for 17 years then come up and do it again.

  40. John Avatar
    John

    Due to the red eyes, I believe that this is a 17 year Cicada. Here in Chicago, we had our year where they come out in the billions (seriously) to have a good time then die. They stay around for a month making the loudest noise known. I took some film and had to move from one tree due the to the noise was too much.

    This type will live in the earth for 17 years then come up and do it again.

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