Juliette the Banana Slug: Meet Emily the pottery slugs Queer, Neurodiverse, Totally Legendary Mom

🌿✨ Juliette: The Most Beautiful Mother pottery Slug in All the Land

Neurodiverse. Queer. Slow. Glowing. And deeply, unapologetically lesbian.

🐌 INTRODUCING JULIETTE – MOTHER, MYSTIC, AND MOSS ICON

Somewhere deep in the glistening underbrush of Vancouver Island, tucked gently under a damp, rotting log carpeted in moss as soft as a vintage velvet jacket, lives Juliette — the mother of Emily the slug, the quiet and beloved mascot of  The Hikers Photography.

But Juliette isn’t just someone’s mom.

She’s a movement.

She’s a mood.

She’s the original forest queer icon.

And honestly? She’s been emotionally processing since before you were born.

With a golden, banana-hued body and feelers that twitch ever-so-slightly when she hears indie lesbian acoustic music, Juliette is the kind of mother slug who makes being shy look like a whole aesthetic. She’s the reason Emily turned out so emotionally intelligent, camera shy, and drawn to puddles with good lighting.

🌸 WHO IS JULIETTE REALLY?

Juliette is more than her slime trail (though it is sparkly, fragrant, and biodegradable). She’s a complex, heartfelt, slow-moving goddess of the woods. She’s soft, sure — but don’t mistake soft for simple. This neurodivergent pottery banana slug is powered by deep queer wisdom, an extensive mushroom-based tea collection, and an unshakable sense of lesbian direction (usually toward love, moss, or snacks).

Her pronouns are she/her.

Her vibe? Gentle but grounded, glamorous in a dirt-under-the-nails kind of way, and very into lesbians who split wood and talk about their feelings.

🧬 THE FAMILY TREE (IT’S COVERED IN MOSS)

Juliette’s pride and joy is Emily, the shy little slug who you’ve probably seen peeking into a few photo shoots — always just out of frame, or behind a small tree peeking out

Emily inherited:

• Her quiet confidence 🌱

• Her deeply queer soul 🌈

• And her tendency to cry over sunsets 🌄

…from Juliette herself.

Their relationship is tender and magical. You’ll often find them curled up together under a leaf, sharing a thermos of mushroom broth and whispering about boundaries, trauma recovery, and how to gracefully say “no thank you” to emotional vampires.

Juliette never forced Emily to be “outgoing” or “normal.” She celebrated her sensitivity, taught her how to listen to trees, and whispered gentle affirmations like:

“You don’t have to be loud to be powerful. You just have to be you, baby slug.”

🌈 JULIETTE’S PERSONALITY (SHE’S A WHOLE DAMN MOOD)

🧠 Neurodiverse – Juliette experiences the world sideways, upside down, and full of synesthetic sparkle. She smells colors. She feels music. She emotionally catalogs mushrooms by vibe.

🌧️ Emotionally hydrated – She cries often, fully, and with zero shame. Joy? Tears. A nice fern? Tears. That one snail from 2012 who said she was “too sensitive”? Also tears — and a poetry zine.

🎨 Artsy-fartsy – She paints with crushed blueberries. She sculpts with slug slime and lichen. She once made a life-size lesbian tarot deck out of birch bark and berry ink.

🌙 Witchy vibes – She believes in forest spirits, charges her slime during full moons, and once manifested a partner just by humming under a cedar tree for nine nights.

🪵 Shy but commanding – She doesn’t “do small talk,” but when she does talk, it’s life-changing. Her silence carries weight. Her eye contact? Spiritual. Her hugs? Therapy.

👩‍👧‍👧 Mother of many – Beyond Emily, Juliette adopts anyone who needs soft love and steady guidance. Sad queer in the woods? She’s already wrapped you in a moss shawl and handed you a cup of pine needle tea.

🍄 Slow-living queen – She moves slowly, cooks slowly, heals slowly — but everything she does is rich, grounded, and meaningful. Juliette doesn’t rush. Time bends around her.

🧚‍♀️ HER CREW: CHOSEN FAMILY, QUEER AND FIERCE

Juliette surrounds herself with queer forest folk who are also full of feelings, fungus knowledge, and strong boundary games. And she loves having a home wilt Olivia. So let’s talk about her inner circle

Her inner circle includes:

• Opal the moss patch, who goes by they/them and writes slam poetry about decay

• Marta the bisexual raven, who wears tiny glasses and gives unsolicited life advice

• Cedar & Sage, a lesbian mushroom couple who host woodland dinners where everyone brings a root vegetable and a secret

• River, a nonbinary snail DJ who makes ambient forest trance remixes using pinecones and wind

They call themselves the “Mosswives.” There’s no leadership. Just vibes. And group crying when needed.

💘 WHO JULIETTE IS INTO

Let’s just say Juliette has a type, and it involves:

• Lip gloss lesbians with glitter nails, pink tool belts, and hearts wide open.

• Queer herbalists who whisper affirmations to nettles

• Shy artists who cry in galleries and compost their feelings

• Soft-butch mushroom hunters who believe in eye contact and moonlit check-ins

She’s not here for:

• Capitalism

• Ghosting

• Disrespecting slugs’ bodily autonomy

• People who interrupt her while she’s talking to a mushroom

📸 JULIETTE’S APPEARANCES IN EMILY’S PHOTOS

Juliette appears in photos the same way dreams appear in your mind: fleeting, gentle, but somehow eternal. Look closely, and you’ll see her:

• On the edge of a moss log, glowing with bioluminescent pride

• Peeking from behind a bark donut during a sunrise beach shoot

• Wrapped in a scarf made of bark, gazing lovingly at Emily from afar

You may not notice her at first. That’s her gift. She doesn’t need the spotlight — she is the light.

🌻 JULIETTE’S DAILY LIFE

A typical day for Juliette might look like:

• 7:00 AM – Stretching under a patch of dappled light and sipping dew

• 8:00 AM – Deep meditations with a cedar root therapist named Linda

• 10:00 AM – Crafting tiny pride flags from moss for slugs in need

• 12:00 PM – Nap inside a mushroom circle while manifesting queer healing

• 2:00 PM – Lunch of wild greens, soft bark, and feelings

• 4:00 PM – Cuddles with Emily

• 6:00 PM – Emotional processing with the Mosswives over moss wine

• 8:00 PM – Watching the stars and whispering “you are enough” to the wind

📖 LEGACY

Juliette is the kind of slug people write novels about. And Olivia just might.

She’s already appearing in photo shoots. She’s already inspiring art, community, introspection, and laughter. Her story is part of a larger queer fairytale — one that unfolds slowly, gently, beautifully.

She is mother, myth, mood, and magic.

🌈 CLOSING THOUGHTS FROM JULIETTE

“It’s okay to move slowly.

It’s okay to be quiet.

It’s okay to feel everything all at once.

And it’s definitely okay to fall in love with someone who owns a crystal collection and a compost bin.”

Juliette’s off again, gliding through moss and magic like the forest queen she is. Thanks for tagging along—she’ll be back soon with more slime, sparkle, and stories. Until then, stay soft, stay wild, and always look down—you might just spot her or some other animal or pice of nature if you only look up out of your cellphone and slowdown 

Till next time 

Olivia + The Slug Squad

 P.S.

Feeling inspired? You can see the very best of the best from my hikes, paddles, and coastal wanderings over at www.thehikersphotography.com. Every image you’ve just read about — and more — is waiting for you in the galleries.

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