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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
19th Nov, 2017 11:14:10 PM
My Teacher's a Bug from the Spinetinglers series?
Edited by jormis29
Oceanstuck
Since: Feb, 2017
20th Nov, 2017 09:32:52 PM
Yes thank you, thank god.
i guess you can watch me shitpost i guess
A children's' book about sentient praying mantises from the future who come to Earth in the present and live among humans, using special pheromones to keep humanity from noticing. The protagonist, a grade school kid immune to the masquerade-inducing chemicals, has a mantis for a teacher and iirc has had him for a while, though doesn't say anything because no one else can tell.I want to say there's also an invasion by sentient wasps that the kid and mantis teacher have to stop, but at this point the details get fuzzy.
I think I remember the cover being a hand-drawn image of a mantis in front of, like, a chalkboard or something, and I thought I remembered it having an Exactly What It Says on the Tin title but google hasn't given me anything so I'm inclined to say I misremembered.