#flagellums

[snototter]

An Eastern coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum flagellum) in Georgia, USA

by Noah K. Fields

[lemidvet]

took your criticism into consideration and named the valves

[smokszyvverstar]

Forget Inktober, today I drew motivational guys for me and my friends

Give a girl a whiteboard in a studyroom and she'll ask you who makes you happy and draw them giving you a thumbs up

(The human guy is supposed to be Nicholas Chavez because oomf has great taste in comfort characters)

Dont ask why my guy is the worst looking

[wikipediagrams]

[tibbardraws]

Random Person (probably family): Oh wow! You’re a biology major? You must be really smart then!

Me: No, no I am not. I’m just unhealthily attached to the concept of flagella.

[yourcisness]

girl help why is there a 10cm hair on my leg...

[bookwyrminspiration]

quil. quil very important question. if vampire skin is like metal, do they even need bones? like. do they need the support that they provide, or does the harder skin make them structually sound? or would they just crinkle like a soda can without the bones?

An excellent question! I can't give a concrete answer (if a concrete answer has been given it's eluding me, but it may exist), but instead just my reasoning and understanding of the biology. When I was describing it as metal, that was purely a comparison about how you wouldn't be able to tattoo/pierce it--it's actually described as marble much much more in the books, but that still comes back to your question.

I think vampires may not need bones for structure, as their skin is hard (though still malleable), but bones have many purposes beyond holding your body up. Their muscles still need something to attach to, leverage against, and move in order to produce locomotion. If they had no bones, they'd have no movement. So they do need bones, but their bodies may not need them as crucially for structural integrity.

Those are my thoughts, at least. I'm not arbitrator of vampire biology, and the official illustrated guide doesn't discuss bones. But I hope that helps!

[wosocharleeeeess]

@ hsc biology

[drondskaath]

Heretic Cult Redeemer | Flagellum Universalis | 2023

Greek Black Metal

Artwork by G.P.

https://hereticcultredeemer.bandcamp.com/album/flagellum-universalis

[onlyhurtforaminute]

ARCHEMORON-URANOS

[k-star-holic]

Son Ji Chang (Oh Yeon-soo, Same Bed, Different Dreams 2: You Are My Dest)

Source: k-star-holic.blogspot.com

[herpsandbirds]

How many pink animals do you know? I need to see more pink animals. Also, I love this blog. Never stop.

Thank you kumquat xoxo.

Here are some pink animals for you...

Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja), family Threskiornithidae, order Pelicaniformes, Fort De Soto, St Petersburg, FL, USA

photograph by Joseph Placheril

Pink Robin (Petroica rodinogaster), male, family Petroicidae, SE Australia

Photograph by Jan Wegener

Mount Kaputar Pink Slug (Triboniophorus aff. graeffei), family Athoracophoridae, found only on Mt. Kaputar in NSW, Australia

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Michael Murphy | NPWS

Pink Noctuid Moth (Philareta treitschki), family Noctuidae, Turkey

photograph by Alperen YAYLA

Mwanza Flat-headed Rock Agama (Agama mwanzae), male, family Agamidae, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

photograph by Christian Mehlführer

Western Coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum testaceus), family Colubridae, Big Bend National Park, TX, USA

photograph by NPS/J. Radford

[cenobium]

— ♡ this for a starter from “ FLAGELLUM ” !

[majestativa]

As moved by a kiss, as Attila with his silver helmet and his whip. […] The earth’s quaking, the world’s thundering in my flesh. There inside, it’s all mine.

László Nagy, The Face of Creation: Contemporary Hungarian Poetry

[owlkhemy]

The Fun of School: Biology Edition

I like to think I am smart. It's. A lie. But anyway, I had some classmates who weren't quite as smart as me. And thus I have memories of that.

This time, we're goin' back to the biology sector of my grade 10 science class!

Boys and Their Obsession with Sperm???

I, a not-boy person, sat at the very back of a row of entirely boys in that class. In front of me, fellow classmate of mine in elementary school. In front of him, two guys I didn't know.

Our wonderful prof puts something like this on the screen:

And I hear the two front boys talking about something and am metaphorically slapped in the face with this:

"I would not want that thing in me."

Honey. That's a bacterium. Of course you don't want it in you.

I knew right off the bat that they were looking at it and going "SPERM, that is SPERM that can COME out of ME".

Because all organisms with flagella are sperm!

Right??

Note: I actually find these incidents to be really funny in hindsight, and I don't mean to attack anyone who thought similar things. Everyone does it! Never feel bad about learning things, because without learning things, how would we know that bacteria aren't sperm? We wouldn't.

Go hydrate some, y'all!

[achromatophoric]

Enid enters her room to be greeted by Wednesday next to a writhing mess of eyes and countless tendrils.

Enid: Hey Willa! What uh— who? Who’s your… friend? Relative?

Wednesday: Miserable day, Querida. This is Elagabalus, my Eastern Scandinavian swamp blog. Elagabalus, flagellum.

Elagabalus: *extends one tendril*

Enid: Oh! Kay. Howdy! *shakes tendril*

Wednesday: For the sake of brevity allow me to explain. It has recently come to my attention that you have a certain fixation on blogs. It is rumored that you even tumble with them.

Enid: Um, Willa—

Wednesday: Please allow me to continue. I myself have often tumbled with my blog, resulting in a fair share of bruises received during training. I’ve raised Elagabalus since it was a mewling webling with barely half of its three dozen eyes open.

Enid: Eek?

Wednesday: It was remiss of me to not know of this shared interest in such an unorthodox pet. Were I more attentive as a partner, then perhaps you would not feel so ashamed of sharing this part of yourself with me.

Enid: Urk!

Wednesday: Querida, please. Could you find it in your radiant heart to forgive me? And know that, should you wish for it, I would be honored if you would introduce me to your blog.

Enid: *gaze flicks nervously back and forth between her laptop and Wednesday*

Wednesday:

Enid:

Elagabalus:

Wednesday: Your blog is an—

Enid: —an internet thing, yeah. *sympathetic wince*

Wednesday:

Enid: I am so sorry, Willa! But it’s like, mega sweet of you to share Yo-gabba-gabbalus with me! Hug??

Wednesday: *smooshes into the hug*

Enid: Eeee! So Babycakes, still wanna see my blog?

Wednesday: … fine.