#Amoeboid

[subnautica-reviews]

As you sit down at the bar, you notice an old man next to you. He’s wearing a reinforced dive suit, and has an Amoeboid pin.

“One time, i took down a reaper using nothing but a knife and a seaglide” he says, noticing your stare, before returning his attention to his drink.

[xenodelic]

Amoeboid music :)

[hellshire-harlot]

Subnautica mermaid no. 2: Amoeboid

Amoeboid merfolk are known for sleeping throughout most of their lives. After their mitosis from their parent, they drift through the water until they find a good spot to latch onto, preferably with lots of nutrients in the soil and near others of their species. After they latch into place, they almost immediately go into hibernation, only waking up when prompted or when the time comes to reproduce again. When not sleeping, Amoeboids are surprisingly exuberant, and often greet passing merfolk of other species eagerly and strike up conversations with them, or with each other. Being at the base of the food chain, everything reaches them eventually, making them one of 4546B’s best species when it comes to gossip.

[tenth-sentence]

Depending on the species, tapetal cells may either remain at the periphery of the locule (as they do in Arabidopsis) or become amoeboid and migrate into the locule, intermingling with the developing microspores.

"Plant Physiology and Development" int'l 6e - Taiz, L., Zeiger, E., Møller, I.M., Murphy, A.

[leozztt]

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[olitheworm]

Cells, cells they're made of organelles🦠

Oh boy. This is the most self indulgent post ever. Anyway. Say hello to Acytos. He's my green cellular guy who can use a lil magic. He's just a really big cell.

Didn't expect to make a ref sheet UNTIL I realized I didn't have a good reference image for Art Fight. So here we are. I regret nothing.

[lesbiten]

cannot can NOT scroll through the moira tag too many people think she is sexy............................no she is like a single celled organism put her boobs away shes inventing a new way to kill yourself

[dogmadeofdirt]

Various amoeboids. I'm kissing them all on the forehead.

[limpbizkitmutual]

I got the sudden urge to try translating the text adventures into Russian (which I'm sure has likely been done already) but then I remembered I have no technical knowledge when it comes to romhacks LOL. The names would sound pretty funny, but I'd have to figure out if I wanted to do their English names or their Japanese names

[hellsitegenetics]

I fucking love sponges man. I love how Not an animal they are with all their weird quirks and such yet still count because of their special totipotent cells and amoeboid cells, and frankly if I got to see a barrel sponge in its natural habitat I would either scream and jump and cheer or begin courting it due to my love of all sponges. Did you know sponges have spicules? They’re made of calcium and dispersed throughout the mesohyl as a way to help keep its shape along with the pinacoderm, just like an exoskeleton. BTW if I don’t get a sponge something bad will happen to me

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Closest match: Ajuga chamaepitys genome assembly, chromosome: 13 Common name: Yellow bugle

[humancelltournament]

Propaganda!

Macrophages (abbreviated Mφ, MΦ or MP) are a type of white blood cell of the innate immune system that engulf and digest pathogens, such as cancer cells, microbes, cellular debris, and foreign substances, which do not have proteins that are specific to healthy body cells on their surface. This process is called phagocytosis, which acts to defend the host against infection and injury. Macrophages are found in essentially all tissues, where they patrol for potential pathogens by amoeboid movement. They take various forms (with various names) throughout the body (e.g., histiocytes, Kupffer cells, alveolar macrophages, microglia, and others), but all are part of the mononuclear phagocyte system. Besides phagocytosis, they play a critical role in nonspecific defense (innate immunity) and also help initiate specific defense mechanisms (adaptive immunity) by recruiting other immune cells such as lymphocytes.

A tumor suppressor gene (TSG), or anti-oncogene, is a gene that regulates a cell during cell division and replication. If the cell grows uncontrollably, it will result in cancer. When a tumor suppressor gene is mutated, it results in a loss or reduction in its function. In combination with other genetic mutations, this could allow the cell to grow abnormally. The loss of function for these genes may be even more significant in the development of human cancers, compared to the activation of oncogenes. TSGs can be grouped into the following categories: caretaker genes, gatekeeper genes, and more recently landscaper genes. Caretaker genes ensure stability of the genome via DNA repair and subsequently when mutated allow mutations to accumulate.[3] Meanwhile, gatekeeper genes directly regulate cell growth by either inhibiting cell cycle progression or inducing apoptosis. Lastly, landscaper genes regulate growth by contributing to the surrounding environment, and when mutated, can cause an environment that promotes unregulated proliferation.

[xenodelic]

1, 3, 10?

[Answering this Otherkin Horror Ask Game]

1.) What’s one feature from your kintype that may be considered unsettling or creepy?

Well, that depends on the perspective of the individuals perceiving us. To ourselves, and our partner, amoeboids are quite cute, and there's very little creepy or unsettling about us. However, our very alien nature in and of itself could certainly be frightening to humans. We're basically giant slime molds with computers attached, and thus to consume we simply absorb things into ourselves and break it down. That means we often eat things whole, and alive.

3.) What type of predator are you? parasitic, pursuit, ambush, psychological ect.

Amoeboids are extremely adaptable and cant hunt in a variety of ways. It depends on personal preference, but most commonly an amoeboid could simply take on the shape of a non-threatening creature, and then use that disguise to ambush our prey. However, hunting is largely unnecessary as we're very affective scavengers that can consume most any organic material, even debris and carcasses.

10.) How does your kintype view death?

When were just slime molds, death didn't really mean anything in particular. We had a collective consciousness, and therefore had an understanding of life and death, but often times death was merely seen as a change rather than an end.

When we became amoeboids, we gained more individuality. And so the idea of death started to gain the meaning of "what if this is the end of my self?" That doesn't mean that amoeboids always feared death, in fact it was often the opposite.

Specific attitudes and beliefs vary, but many of the cultures in the Promethean galaxy celebrate death in a number of ways. Death was generally seen as simply one of the many ways an individual could move forward towards self-actualization, and as such was no stigmatized with the same amount of fear and grief as is common among humans.

Amoeboids often share this attitude, and in many cases would partake in rituals that resulted in their death. One being where a Visagean would consume an amoeboid, causing intense psychedelic experiences.

[artechoceneexplorer]

ODDYSEUS_MISSION_AE#1744

Sample obtained from the Odysseus mission, sent to gather information about the planet Kepler-138d, a super-earth water world characteristic for its dense, water saturated atmosphere, and whose clouds occasionally appear green.

The mystery of these green clouds has finally been resolved with this analysis of samples that were collected from one of these green clouds as the rover descended into the atmosphere, 15km up in the clouds.

A diverse community of cyanobacteria-like phototrophic microbes (described as Ambrosiasphaera sp.) seems to be responsible for the unusual color of the clouds. These microbes, alongside the many others in the floating ecosystem they help support, seem to have developed hydrogen filled membranous organelles to float over the dense atmosphere. They also seem to have developed a cell wall with an unusual microstructure, extremely water absorbing to take advantage of floating droplets of water.

Some species seem to have developed predatory lifestyles, feeding on the plentiful Ambrosiasphaera chains, here seen one of these lifestyles, here seen one with one of the most unusual ways observed to catch and consume prey (described as Flagellovenator sp.). It floats passively with its flagellum extended, until it comes into contact with something. The appendix is covered in hairs not unlike those on the feet of Gekkonids, able to stick without any sticky substance needed. Once captured, it's bivalves cell wall opens and an amoeboid body penetrates the cell wall and starts digesting it's prey.

[catboybiologist]

Here are my 3 trouble makers

Amoeboids

[transgenderer]

There is a type of person occasionally seen in these neighborhoods who has connections with junk, though he is neither a user nor a seller. But when you see him the dowser wand twitches. Junk is close. His place of origin is in the Near East, probably Egypt. He has a large straight nose. His lips are thin and purple-blue like the lips of a penis. Thee skin is tight and smooth over his face. He is basically obscene beyond any possible vile act or practice. He has the mark of a certain trade or occupation that not longer exists. If junk were gone from the earth, there might still be junkies standing around in junk neighborhoods feeling the lack, vague and persistent, a pale ghost of junk sickness.

So this man walks around in the places where he once exercised his obsolete and unthinkable trade. But he is unperturbed. His eyes are black with an insects unseeing calm. He looks as if he nourished himself on honey and Levantine syrups that he sucks up through a sort of proboscis.

What is his lost trade? Definitely of a servant class and something to do with the dead, though he is not an embalmer. Perhaps he stores something in his body - a substance to prolong life - of which he is periodically milked by his masters. He is as specialized as an insect, for the performance of some inconceivably vile functions

...

I got drunk on the fifty pesos. About nine that night, I ran out of money and went back to my apartment. I lay down and tried to sleep. When i closed my eyes I saw an oriental face, the lips and nose eaten away by disease. The disease spread, melting the face into an amoeboid mass in which the eyes floated, dull crustacean eyes. Slowly a new face formed around the eyes. A series of face, hieroglyphs, distorted and leading to final place where the human road ends, where the human form can no longer contain the crustacean horror that has grown inside it

...

I was sitting in Lola's reading the papers. After a while I put the paper down and looked around. At the next table somebody was talking about the lobotomy. "They sever the nerves." At another table two young men were trying to make time with some Mexican girls. "Mi amgio es muy muy . . ." He was looking for a word. The girls giggled. The conversations had a nightmare flatness, talking dice spilled in the tube metal chairs, human aggregates disintegrating in cosmic inanity, random events in a dying universe where everything is exactly what it appears to be, and no other relation than juxtaposition is possible

Three particularly evocative and surreal sections from Burroughs' Junky

[olitheworm]

More amoeba man from me, yet again🦠✨️

My new comfort zone for drawing humanoids is him, but I'm having fun >:^]