At a table by myself, with everyone making fun of my laughably low number of legs
I'm staying out. At that size, many of those are just terrifying, even if they are cool when much smaller than me.
On the floor
Covered in bees! Hopefully Eddie Izzard will show up and tell some jokes.
Spider gang, no doubt
Arachnophilic freak
Moths. AKA goth butterflies.
Actually butterflies are moths
Not only that, the only thing that makes them spooky and startling is that they randomly fly around like a dumbass towards anything light related.
When they're just sitting still being chill they're actually quite adorable.
You mean glam butterflies
Mantises. I love those things. We like to find them in the garden and sometimes pick them up and let them crawl all over us.
As a person from a sensible country without praying mantis running freely around outside in nature, this has very much changed my opinion on them!
Truly they're not scary in person. They're very gentle when they crawl on you. They're very good at camouflaging in bushes, so it's a fun activity to look for them.
At one of the tables without giant bugs occupying all the seats
The moths. Most likely not to eat me.
If I can't get Absolute Radience in godhome a cafeteria will have to do.
spiders 🤤
Moths!
Or maybe bees. I have always wanted to hug a bumblebee.
Moths every time. It's not even close.
Bees. So long as I stay on their good side they're chill and they'll protect me from the other options that want to eat me.
I have a decent relationship with mantids already. I'd sit with them.
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Bees, beetles and moths are fine (wasps are much less so btw), and spiders catch flies and mosquitoes, so yes them too.
Bees because bees are usually pretty chill and I like chill. Especially the bumblebees.
Everyone knows that anyone who knows anything about anything would go for the most evolutionary diverse group - spiders.
There is nothing these little guys can't do. Fly over hundreds of kilometres? You got it. Extend their nervous systems several thousand times past their body area using web? Check. Biological hydraulic system? Yup. Jump 10 to 50 times their body lenght? No problem. Live underwater using silk made diving suit? You bet your sweet behind. Paralyze your body after one bite? Easy.
None of this makes me want to share a table with them.
...Right next to the oil furnace in the basement, trying to figure out how to rig it to blow and burn the place down.
At one of those empty tables
I will sit under the lightbulb and wait for the moths to join me.
Where's the wasp table!?
They are doing meth in the toilets
Idk, I feel like the colourful ones would group a bit differently.
The popular high-fashion ones (orchid mantis, jumping spider, rosy maple moth) would be at one table, goths (bumblebee, tarantula) at the other, jocks are already together (beetles, tho ladybug prob carries a knife), goodly two-shoes nerds (bees) also, other spiders are obv commuter nerds, ...
Anyway, I would skip lunch bcs this feels like a way too social situation.
Tangent, there is a fun fantasy book series by Adrian Tchaikovsky where all the main characters are humanoids with bug qualities. So basically spiderman, antman, mantisman, etc. It is entertaining when you mix fantasy tropes (dueling for honour!) with mantis arm spikes...
I wouldn’t dare to sit here as a human. I’m too big and would probably squish them all by accident.
But if I got to choose to be one, I’d go for the spiders. You get:
Outside, against the wall, alone. At least that's where I sat in high school. So, maybe with the wasps?
The moths table for the vibes, but the seat closest to the spiders to get in on their jokes.
Mantises. Fuck aphids
I'd be at the oddball table with the roly poly, millipede & dragonfly...
Dragonflies are likely to be with the mantids at the "we will rip your head off if we like you, you don't want to know what we do to our enemies" table.
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