#Coral Colony

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Coral Colony by Campbell White

[mushroominaforest]

Hi people!!!

@thunder-wolf64 has come up with a brilliant idea:

(Ooo that is a cool scug. I have an idea >:3 What if a bunch of us made mushroom/fungi based scugs and they all lived together in a colony? I think that would be neat. we could put them all together in a hashtag or something)

(Also inspired by the mushroom scug ocs of @confituredekaki and @saffronstoats!)

I obviously love their idea, because it’s mushroom related, so it’s mushroom scug time everybody!!!!! Make a slugcat inspired by a mushroom or other fungi, and tag your art #scugshroom colony! :D

When designing your mushroom-inspired Slugcat, don’t just look at the colour of your mushroom, also consider things like size and shape:

Weird quirks: (like this bolete mushroom that bruises blue!)

Families and relationships: (like the deadly duo, two closely related and very dangerous amanita mushrooms!)

And other advantageous traits: (like bioluminescence or toxins!)

Don’t forget to have fun with it! It doesn’t have to be perfectly scientifically accurate, be creative! If you do the angel wings mushroom, you can give your scug wings! Pick a mushroom that’s used for dying fabric? They can be a textile worker! The possibilities are endless!

[marcmorrigan]

yeah these three sure did grow up in the same household

OCs: ren (she/her) | seyva (they/them) | pasha (he/him)

[phosphosuppmain]

Guys not to be horny on main but a hive of bees who are all in a polycule but they also have a dryad girlfriend that they are so devoted to and they tend to her flowers and pollinate them and in return she gives them a good place to build their little colony.

Is this anything???? I'm thinking about them too much

[the-great-moon-hoax-of-1835]

who up contemplating cnidarians

[creaturefeaster]

wondering for oc reasons - if two (or more) mimes were closely bonded (similar to how n&o are a package deal, in a sense) would they be able to host in the same body? if not, is it ever possible for that to happen?

No, even N & O cannot host the same thing at the same time. One host can only hold the system of one mime, and especially in biological hosts, the conflict of hemolymph would not allow both to exist in the same body.

A mime invades the host's system with their own, stemming out themselves to conform to the innards of the body, and that doesn't leave much room or functionality for a second controller.

That being said, in very special circumstances like in Atromea's case, it is still theoretically possible. Atromea, while mentally two seperated mimes, is fused into one functional being. They have their own unique color of hemolymph and there is no issue of two different colors mixing. Together they could host one body, though it'd probably be a mental mess. As soon as they split up though, they are two seperated bodies and can no longer host in one single individual.

Mimes bound together such as Atromea are a rare case, but obviously not impossible to achieve-- and that would be the only way two mimes could host together.

[todays-an-adventure]

Day 20 of 100 days of game design:

Tonight the Mini Jam 166: Earth started so I began drafting and planning what I'm going to be making for my game. I started looking up a couple of tutorials for 3D modeling and for programming.

Here's my planning sheet.

I think I'm making some sort of underwater survival game. Since the limitation is not using the color green, I thought I could do it underwater and use a lot of pinks, blues, and yellows for the coral and fish.

I have yet to entirely figure out the gameplay; I'll figure more out when I actually get to the programming stage and realize what I can execute with the remaining time.

[egg-n00dle]

Ethersea has such a cool setting to me as an aquatic ecologist. I've never seen science fiction lean into marine biology as its fantasy theme

[ph-cutie]

colonial organisms in my diary

[themichaelvan]

litcherally me.at the beach

[nando161mando]

"Aragón antifascista" (ES: Español)

"Antifascist Aragón" (EN: English)

[coralcolonial]

ITS SO OVER

[lesbian-moon-gf]

I'm sick of corporate news and mainstream conversations about Is rael's assault being discussed in a Zionist framework.

There is no context in which bombing a hospital, let alone multiple, is justified.

There is no context in which adults and children should be coralled into an even smaller area to be bombed is justified.

There is no context in which Is rael can murder civilian men, who are fathers, lovers, friends, humans, is justified.

There is no context in which a family should die one by one in a car, in which two Red Crescent workers are killed trying to save the surviving 6 year old, in which the 6 yr old is left pleading for help until she too is murdered is justified.

What we need to say is this: Is rael is committing genocide under the cover of war. The United States is providing the bombs while claiming its non involvement. Is rael is a settler colonial project and Palestinians are paying the price.

[evilvillain123456789]

Hey man, don't even worry about me and the newly formed membrane of skin covering my unnaturally huge, permanently open mouth that prevents me from speaking in anything other than muffled, vibratey grunts. It's not a bad deal at all- I recently found out that I can use it to filter various particulate matter from the air, and that it's all actually quite delicious, and nutricious. And, well, I'm always hungry nowadays, and those particles arent worth much .....So I'm just gonna sit myself down right here under the breezeway and never move from this spot in order to concerve calories. And maybe once I'm at a surplus I can use the growth of my body to anchor myself in, incase the wind picks up too much for me to handle. And maybe others like me will congregate here and as our flesh begins to touch, it won't seperate, and we'll gradually form a grand structure, one akin to coral, here in the remains of the city. And at the same time, other structures will form too, in other places, rising like skyscrapers dotting the horizon over the course of decades, centuries, thousands of years, eventually leaning in, touching eachother for the structural support and aerodynamicysm, melding, growing, reproducing. Until at last the air is completely free of all germs, pollutants, aeroplankton, all that good stuff, bringing on the long process of our colonies starving one by one, starting from the top where the air is thinnest, down to the bottom where our numbers are greatest, eventually rotting, the rest of us calcifying, leaving fresh materials for the newest batch of mobile life on earth, but by the time the luckiest of this new life gains sapience, the strong wind will have already eroded at our bones, spreading it all amongst the now rich soil, leaving not even a legend of what had happed before.

[reasonsforhope]

"The coral reefs of south Sulawesi are some of the most diverse, colorful and vibrant in the world. At least, they used to be, until they were decimated by dynamite fishing in the 1990s.

As part of a team of coral reef ecologists based in Indonesia and the UK, we study the reefs around Pulau Bontosua, a small Indonesian island in south Sulawesi...

In many places around the world, damage like this might be described as irreparable. But at Pulau Bontosua, the story is different. Here, efforts by the Mars coral restoration program have brought back the coral and important ecosystem functions, as outlined by our new study, published in Current Biology. We found that within just four years, restored reefs grow at the same rate as nearby healthy reefs.

Speedy recovery

The transplanted corals grow remarkably quickly. Within a year, fragments have developed into proper colonies. After two years, they interlock branches with their neighbors. After just four years, they completely overgrow the reef star structures and restoration sites are barely distinguishable from nearby healthy reefs.

The combined growth of many corals generates a complex limestone (calcium carbonate) framework. This provides a habitat for marine life and protects nearby shorelines from storm damage by absorbing up to 97% of coastal wave energy.

We measured the overall growth of the reef framework by calculating its carbonate budget. That's the balance between limestone production (by calcifying corals and coralline algae) and erosion (by grazing sea urchins and fishes, for example). A healthy reef produces up to 20kg of reef structure per square meter per year, while a degraded reef is shrinking rather than growing as erosion exceeds limestone production. Therefore, overall reef growth gives an indication of reef health.

At Pulau Bontosua, our survey data shows that in the years following restoration, coral cover, coral colony sizes, and carbonate production rates tripled. Within four years, restored reefs were growing at the same speed as healthy reefs, and thereby provided the same important ecosystem functions...

Outcomes of any reef restoration project will depend on environmental conditions, natural coral larvae supply, restoration techniques and the effort invested in maintaining the project. This Indonesian project shows that when conditions are right and efforts are well placed, success is possible. Hopefully, this inspires further global efforts to restore functioning coral reefs and to recreate a climate in which they can thrive."

-via Phys.org, March 11, 2024

[lesbianese]

Exterior Portland Example of a large classic gray two-story wood exterior home design