#LOOK THEY HAVE SPECIAL HORNS

[dreamerlynx]

GUYS NEW SHAPSHOT LIFE IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!! warm and cold cow variants now!!!

[epiclad]

"Miquella the Kind… is a monster. Pure and radiant, he wields love to shrive clean the hearts of men. There is nothing more terrifying." [Process vid]

[shima-draws]

Also hehehe. HEHEHE guess who I managed to get my hands on in OPTC

[xxplastic-cubexx]

white uniform erik or magenta/red (aka original colors) uniform erik?

The classic called The Classic for a reason .. ima big lover of the red + purple ….

[stanfordapartment]

ava wilson, cold oak, power, and destruction.

text: to a dead mouse by maurice rigoler

photos: young ava / yellow eyes / cold oak and i will not kill / sam and ava / the special children / ava's power / the grand finale / young ava

[lukaskyle]

is this new dialogue or have i just somehow never triggered it before? but also, what the hell, gale

[the-punforgiven]

Yknow I never got why so many articles I see on like, eccentric or insanely weird, outlandish, impractical, and/or ornate armour always gotta compare it to Dark Souls

Like yeah, Dark Souls has like, the Catarina Armor and Havel's set, I guess the Armor of Thorns though it's wackiness it toned down somewhat, but I dunno, tbh I always found Dark Souls's Armor designs seemed like, remarkably sensible compared to most other fantasy media I've consumed

[youremyonlyhope]

9-1-1 is a Ryan Murphy show?

That explains SO MUCH about the crazy storylines I've absorbed by osmosis over the years.

(I'm a glee fan so I can't judge, I'm just saying that everything makes a lot more sense now)

[theteaisaddictive]

so. at what stage do i tell this composer that tenor sax is in b flat, and tenor horn (the instrument i play) is in e flat.

[micechicken]

Design refresh!!

These are pretty old characters and are also side characters in Nightlight. They are adoptive sisters. Womlippa (right) would do anything to help her sister and Opilist (left) is currently ill and doesn't go out much.

I'm currently resetting Nightlight as it stagnated due to a lot of issues it was facing.

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

Leeli’s interactions with Peet are the CUTEST THINGS and they kill me every time she doesn’t even KNOW HIM YET but she trusts him and cares about him so much already I’m dead, I’m dead

“He just needs some friends!” indeed, Leeli, indeed

[kurp-stuff]

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[artifacts-and-arthropods]

Giant Emerald Pill-Millipede: when these enormous millipedes are all rolled up, their bodies can be as big as a baseball, a tennis ball, or a small orange

This species (Zoosphaerium neptunus) is commonly known as a giant emerald pill-millipede. The females can measure up to 90mm long (roughly 3.5 inches), making this the largest species of pill-millipede in the world.

There is a significant degree of sexual dimorphism in this species, with the males measuring only about 45mm (1.8 inches) long -- roughly half the size of the females.

Giant emerald pill-millipedes are found only in Madagascar, which is home to several endemic species of giant pill-millipedes (order Sphaerotheriida). The Malagasy name for giant pill-millipedes is "Tainkintana," which means "shooting-star."

Pill-millipedes use conglobation as a defense mechanism, which means that they can curl their bodies up into a spherical shape so that their dorsal plates form a protective shield around the softer, more vulnerable parts of their bodies, just like an actual pill-bug or a "roly-poly."

When they roll themselves up completely, they look almost like gently polished chunks of malachite, emerald, or jade.

Giant emerald pill-millipedes will sometimes form large swarms that travel together as a group. This is the only species of giant pill-millipede that engages in any sort of swarming behavior, and the purpose of that behavior is still unclear. The swarms often contain thousands of individuals, with almost all of them moving in the same direction, even when there is no physical contact that might allow the millipedes to "herd" one another along.

Their swarming behavior also has some very peculiar features, as this article explains:

During swarming, Zoosphaerium neptunus individuals pay little attention to their surroundings; many specimens were observed walking straight into and drowning in small puddles. Some swarms even display ‘cliché lemming behaviour:' in Marojejy, a large part of a swarm walked into and drowned in a small river.

No single specimen was observed walking ‘against the current,' all specimens were moving in the same direction (southeast), even when not in contact with one another.

Of 273 randomly collected individuals, 105 were males, while 168 were females. The males were 8.3 - 14.1 mm wide (average width 10.4 mm). According to the inner horns of the posterior telopods, all males were sexually mature. The females were 9.95 - 15.4 mm wide (average width 11.4 mm). All females displayed non sclerotized vulvae and were sexually immature.

Some researchers argue that the swarming serves as a defense mechanism, providing a layer of protection (or at least some cryptic cover) against local predators, but the swarming behavior is still poorly understood.

Important Note: I just want to remind everyone that these animals belong in their own natural habitat -- they should not be trapped, bought/sold, traded, shipped, collected, or kept as pets. This particular species does not survive well in captivity, either, and the demand for these "exotic" invertebrates is putting the wild populations in jeopardy. The previous article discusses those issues, too:

Another possible threat for Z. neptunus swarms are collections for the pet trade. There exists a large demand in Japan, Europe and North America for 'green -eyed monsters’ as pets. Giant pill -millipedes from Madagascar unfortunately have a very short survival time in terraria. The species is specialized on low-energy food (dead leaves), and adapted to the cool climates (<20°C) of the highlands. Specimens in terraria often starve to death quickly.

So I know that they're adorable and really, really fascinating...but let's just let them be their chunky, adorable little selves out in the wild where they belong.

Sources & More Info:

European Journal of Taxonomy: Seven New Giant Pill-Millipede Species and New Records of the Genus Zoosphaerium from Madagascar

Madagascar Conservation & Development: Swarming Behavior in the World's Largest Giant Pill-Millipede, Z. neptunus, and its Implication for Conservation Efforts

Bonn Zoological Bulletin Supplementum: The Giant Millipedes, Order Sphaerotheriida (an Annotated Species Catalogue) (PDF)

African Invertebrates: Madagascar's Living Giants: Discovery of Five New Species of Endemic Giant Pill-Millipedes from Madagascar (PDF)

[kayforpay]

thinking about them again (antagonist who is explicitly not a villain despite villainous deeds and has both canon and word of god proof to support their non-villain status, who nonetheless is called a villain and has their backstory overlooked to make them easier to hate)

[kinerxy]

(evil) unicorn redesign

its still a wip cuz i'm still figuring out how to design the part that unifies the tusk and the mouth so i guess ill have to study some references, the head is based on the skull of a Tetralophodon with a bit of artistic modification specially on the second head (right) where the tusks curve upwards to imitate the appareance of the horn of a conventional unicorn, the first one (left) is my favorite tho

here's the concept of a heraldry that i will put on the armor of a faction i'm designing that is part of my world building project, its still a simple sketch but i really liked what i did for the tusk and mouth cuz it lowkey looks like its grinning its teeth which is cool.

now im also having another debate with their name since i originally called them molar horses despite not having any feature related to teeth but now i think the name fits them more since they don't have horns but tusks instead. but i'm still undecided cuz well, their notable feature is the big ass incisives, not the molars. so do I call them incisive horses now? silly. so i guess ill try to find a different name or idunno. enough yapping for today

[whereisthedamndaddymanual]

She is over here trying to tell me she has to play mama may i

From the texts she sends she already seems very accepting of it.

As a good husband, I accept they need feminine compassion. And as their husband I reserve the right to reserve all extra honey for all.