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circustales · 5 months
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tw ‼️ drawn parasitic worm in a drawn eye ‼️
a silly comic about kinger & queenie
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pistachi0art · 3 months
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been talking about a infection au- Gordo starting a chain reaction by biting Benrey (who doesn’t tell anyone about it)…to then shortly disappear afterwards- Tommy’s the leader now!
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heavenhotline · 10 days
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ARE YOU AFRAID OF ME?
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bailey-dreamfoot · 4 months
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New peso design 👀
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I didnt like the way i drew peso’s old outfit- it was super bland with ZERO EMBELLISHMENTS OR POINTLESS DETAILS! so i fixed that. I wanted to make his fit look more like an emt uniform- with the blue, the patches and the reflective bands around the legs and sleeves. Afterall, hes a medic! He should dress like one! :3
Speaking of, i got a lil smthn smthn in the works. 2 somethin somethins. ;
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handbarfs · 3 months
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Jane Prentiss and her need for a deeper, more primal love
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anti-kawaii-daily · 3 months
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Today's Anti-Kawaii Character of The Day is The Neurax Worm from Plague Inc! While in the main game it is very, very much more horrifying than cute, in the supplementary and non-canon materials like merchandise, fanart, and the "Santa's Little Helper" custom scenario it fits into Gurokawa imagery!
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spaghettiandart · 2 years
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a tragedy
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unsanctitude · 2 years
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relistening to tma rediscovering the love of my life
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roakkaliha · 1 year
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PRAY / PREY
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palaeophis-fr · 7 months
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It's October and apparently folks are reposting old art this spooky month, so here's a creepy drawing I did last year! It's extra fitting.
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moderator-monnie · 1 year
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Two Sides Of Similar Coins.
Both ate something without checking first... Yet both have very different outcomes.
One became a cannibalistic 
“Hero.”
And the other is trapped in his own mind forced to be the plaything of a strange virus that is both mechanical and organic. 
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I'd like to thank @sonicexelle-junkary / @weirdozjunkary​ 
For making this commission for me of their EXE HungryHero.EXE meeting my EXE Slammer Sonic
Please be sure to check them out! and com them as well if you can! and have a very Happy Halloween. 
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hatsampixie · 2 months
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Sorry Pomni..
Never thought I'd be drawing Gummy Worm parasites.. but here we are. (And this is coming from someone who has a MAJOR phobia of 'em.. seriously, I get panic attacks.)
Hopefully this is the first and last time I draw parasites. I apologize to anyone who got jumpscared by this.
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pistachi0art · 3 months
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possession 🫧
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bonefall · 1 year
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How would a thunderclan cat go about caring for leeches? I imagine it would be harder for them than Shadowclan cats since I imagine things aren’t quite as like.. damp in thunderclan. I love leeches pls give me the husbandry lore 🥺
I'm taken aback at how many people want the leech lore, I did not expect this much love for Spotty's girls. But, ok!
For one, they are medicinal leeches. Hirudo medicinalis. This species is actually threatened in England, specifically because it's so rare for livestock to drink from lakes these days. So these wild leech specimens are actually found in ShadowClan territory, and they heavily rely on Clan cats!
They also do prey on the occasional boar, fox, or badger that wades through the mud. ShadowClan loves leeches, they think they are useful as medicine AND as snacks, leading to a symbiotic relationship.
(sadly this means that the expansion of the highway and the loss of the Clan cats massively disrupted the leech population. There are probably conservationists who discover too late that there were medical leeches surviving in this area and despair over how they could have saved the White Hart woods.)
Anyway, keeping leeches is easiest for ShadowClan of course, but ThunderClan can do it with some effort. Spotty has a two-part terracotta bowl (a dish and a lid) which helps keep them cool, even in summer, and she stores them in the darkest part of her den. At the bottom of this bowl is mud, wet leaves, swampy substrate.
It's not hard to feed them with worms or insects, but they have so many elders with joint pain that there's enough food to go around. Spotty also really doesn't mind just letting them nibble her arm; leech bites aren't painful or anything.
The hardest part is getting pond water when she needs to clean the bowl. You want water that's full of good bacteria that can support fish, not just any old ditchwater.
Before Yellowfang's exile, she would ask for ShadowClan pond water and usually be granted permission with an escort. Brokenstar didn't see a need to make a hard embargo with ThunderClan when he was so focused on eradicating WindClan first.
Yellowfang has a lot more knowledge about caring for leeches though. Because she can't access pondwater, she ran some experiments with the lesser-leeches (the ones that weren't Spotty's beloved 3), and found she can clean the bowl slowly using river water, but doing it all at once could shock the leeches.
But, it's not very hard. Harder than keeping mealworms, but leeches are an easy animal to keep. They're also really cute, like fat worms, with nice patterns.
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forms-and-phyla · 10 months
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Phylum #13: Nematomorpha, the horsehair worms!
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The cousins of roundworms! Much longer and thinner, often macroscopic in size, they get a bad reputation for their parasitic lifestyle. You might have seen videos of huge worms crawling out of an insect - yep, that was them.
But nematomorphs, or horsehair worms, aren't anything evil - no phylum is, really. In fact, the dramatic worm emerging from an insect is only the larva, with the adult living a casual free-living worm life, swimming in the seas or climbing in the trees!
They are also called Gordian worms - referring to the Gordian knot, as they have the habit of coiling themselves in intricate knots. In fact, they are often found like this after emerging from their host, usually several times smaller than themselves. (Details of the parasitic cycle and picture below)
As larvae, horsehair worms will take full control of their host - often a cricket, pushing them to dive into the water where the adult will emerge and lay its eggs. As gruesome as the process can look, the host might survive. Or, on the flip side, get eaten by a predator, in which case the horsehair worm can still wiggle out of the latter's digestive system, perpetuating the cycle.
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duke-daemon · 7 months
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day 8: under your skin
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