A small reference page of Cherrynose the macrotristria sylvara cicada wisper. Cherrynose is a bright green, orange and teal coloured cicada with a dark blue pointy mushroom cap for a hat. The reference page shows Cherrynose in a neutral pose along with its colour palette and closeups of its forewing and back.

A small reference page of Golden the Mogonnia Formosona cicada wisper. True to its name, Golden's black chitin shimmers gold in the light , and it holds an ornate gold key like a staff. The reference page shows Golden in a neutral pose along with its colour palette and closeups of its forewing and back.

A small reference page of Spectre the Ayuthia Spectabile cicada wisper. Spectre is a light grey and white cicada with sulphur yellow eyes and a woven hat and basket. The reference page shows Spectre in a neutral pose along with its colour palette and closeups of its forewing and back.

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A front page and authors note to the world of wispers field-guide. It has a title written in cursive ink that says, "Exploring the World of Wispers". Beneath the title is a drawing of a photo of the author, taken on an instant film camera with a sepia filter, it is drawn as if taped into the page. On the bottom white border of the photo there is a small note that says, "By me :)". There is an authors note at the bottom that says, "A documentation of the magical phenomenon known in folklore as 'wispers'. My aim is to find, observe and document all there is to know about these little creatures."

I made a front page for the wisper field guide thing✨

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A field-guide styled page illustrating and explaining the life cycle of quilbugs magical wisper species. The first stage is 'Nature', illustrated by a patch of greenery in a forest. The second stage is 'Catalyst', illustrated by a glowing white swirl. There is a note beside it that says, "Something causes natural energy to form into a magical force." The third stage is 'Wispie', illustrated by a glowing swirl in a humanoid shape, with radiant lines coming from its head. The fourth stage is 'Fusion, illustrated by a some white radiant glow on the back of a black and yellow hoverfly. There is a note under it that says, "Nature and magic combine into one." The Fifth stage is 'Wisper', illustrated by the hover fly turned into an anthropomorphized version of itself, crouched and curious. The Sixth stage is 'Life', illustrated by the hover fly wisper carrying a little bag and flying. There is a note under it that says, "Seemingly immortal, but can and will eventually be killed." The Seventh stage is 'Death', illustrated by the hover fly wisper getting caught by a quick frog tongue. The eighth and last stage is 'Decay', illustrated by the feces of the frog that ate the hover fly wisper laying in the dirt, with some glowing white particles floating up from it. There is a note above it that says, "Magic returns to nature, as if it were any other energy."

The wisper life cycle!

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A field-guide styled page illustrating and explaining wisper communication via an interaction that was had between the author and a black house spider wisper (badumna insignis) in the corner of a bathroom window. Two illustrations show the window, and a closeup of how the spider wisper looks. It has a messy, tangled web in the top right corner of the window, and hangs onto the threads with one hand outstretched to the viewer. An annotation beneath the second drawing reads, "Messy web, like a regular house spider :)". The conversation is transcribed, it reads. "As I was about to open the window, Voice, "Wait!". Me, "Hello?", Voice, "It will destroy my web!", Me, "Are you... the spider?", Voice, "Maybe.". Beside the transcription there is a note that reads, "It was a slow exchange, concepts entered my mind and were slowly interpreted into words I understand. I imagine it had to interpret the concepts from my words as well." A little diagram illustrates this at the bottom of the page. There is an icon of the spider on the left side with "its language" written beside it, and an icon of the author on the right side with "my language" written beside it. Between the icons is a squiggly line surrounded by shapes that represent concepts, and arrows that point to both icons, signifying the concepts being transferred to both via telepathy.

Wisper communication✨

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A field-guide styled page illustrating some non-insect wisper variants. There a headings, annotations and notes on the page. The heading reads, "Observed: Non-insect wispers. Arachnid, Crustaceans and Mollusk." The note at the top reads, "Note: Non-insect wispers are rare, and seem to be the least humanoid." The note at the bottom reads, "Hypothesis: It may be easier, or more desired, for a wisper to fuse with some bodies over others... which may explain the absence of plant or fungus wispers. Note: why no small mammal or bird wispers?" The first illustration shows an anthropomorphized white garland house hopper (maratus scutulatus) that poses with big, cute eyes. A note beside it reads, "stared at me while I drew, then started posing." The second illustration shows an anthropomorphized cherry shrimp (neocaridina davidi) that gives a suspicious side eye, its arms relaxed below it to look like regular shrimp limbs. The note beside it reads, "Thinks I don't see it in the tank." The last illustration shows an anthropomorphized garden snail (cornu aspersum), that looks the most like a regular snail, but with two little arms. The note beside it reads, "found in a terrarium."

Some non-insect wispers! An uncommon sight✨

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A field-guide styled page illustrating and explaining how wispers are born. In four pencil-lined sketches it shows a bright light behind a grasshopper sitting on a stem, then the bright light taking a humanoid shape, then the bright light encompassing the grasshopper, and then the glowing grasshopper morphing into a humanoid version of itself. The fifth illustration shows the anthropomorphized green grasshopper, crouching on the stem and looking up, the glow fading away from it. There is text on the page. The heading says, "Observed: Birth of a Grasshopper Wisper (valanga irregularis - juvenile). There are annotations beside each sketch that says in order, "Glow observed near other grasshoppers that faded away), Insects seem unfazed.", "Humanoid shape?", "Bright flash.", "Only lasts a second.", "Morphs into humanoid form.", "New wisper born! Regarded me with caution before jumping away.". Beneath the last drawing is a block of text that says, "Hypothesis - Wispie seeks a host, seen by glowing near insects. When host is chosen, the wispie chooses what form to morph it into (humanoid shape 2) and combines with host in bright flash."

I drew a field-guide type page on how it looks when wispers are born!! (excited excited I'm excited wheee)

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