#gottahaveguts

[the-nysh]

Happy birthday

!!🥰🥰 Thank you! I always enjoy seeing your supportive insights and observations! Here's to another great year~

[fishing-for-blood]

Can we get a picture of your rats?

🥺 the fellas............

Watson is the tan and white one, Cricket is the black and white, they're my older boys almost I've had for 1.5 years. Franklin is the black one with white socks and Maurice is the albino, they're my new guys I got a few months ago. The young fellas are SO DIFFICULT to get pictures of though, their zoomies are too strong. But yeah all four are named after those DNA scientists and they are the lights of my life actually

[pinapultra]

💖✨️send this to ten other bloggers you think are wonderful. keep the game going✨️💖

oh! thanks heheh

[albireonic-lustre]

Ten characters, ten fandoms, ten tags

I was tagged by both @urvsai and @shxde02. Thanks for the tags!

Toph Beifong - Avatar the Last Airbender

Camina Drummer - The Expanse

Kamina - Gurren Lagann

Alphonse Elric - Fullmetal Alchemist

Rosalina - Super Mario Bros.

Misty - Pokemon

Shantae - Shantae

Teal'c - Stargate SG-1

Okabe Rintaro - Steins;Gate

Frenchie - The Boys

I'll tag @gottahaveguts @unova-state-of-mind @magicalaugirl @omaaoc @ratgamergirlgf @person3triple0 @scarlet-rainy-dreams @thenightshepherd @betaoctillery @thelastgreatperhaps No pressure to do it

[albireonic-lustre]

@gottahaveguts

Why are rain frogs so round? What's /inside/ of them around such an itty bitty skeleton?

So it turns out this is a really interesting question.

The first thing we must be aware of is that rainfrogs as we see them in videos of them squeaking are not quite the same shape as they are when at rest:

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But you are quite right, they are very round. This is exemplified by the skeletal photo you refer to:

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So what are we seeing?

Well, firstly, note that the body cavity in these frogs actually envelops the femurs, such that only the tibiofibula (fused in frogs) and the tarsals and metatarsals are outside the body. The arms are quite similarly enveloped, but a bit of the humerus does extend outside the body cavity too. This predisposes them to a rounder body shape.

Next, note the ilia - the U-shaped bone in the pelvic region. These in some breviceptid frogs are synostotically fused with the sacrum - that is to say, they are bound by bone-based connections to the bow-shaped vertebra at their tips. This whole joint seems to be quite smooth, and as a consequence, the back of the frog is quite smooth. The other thing we can see here is that the urostyle (i.e. the frog version of a coccyx) juts quite far beyond the ischium and pubis. This extends the body cavity beyond the hips. Note also that the pelvic girdle seems to be largely below the spine, rather than the typical position for frogs behind it and continuous with it. This makes the legs sit below the spine, rather than at its end, enhnacing the vertical roundness of the animal.

Next, let’s talk some soft tissue. Now, I’m not as familiar with soft-tissue in frogs as I am their skeletons, so you’ll have to bear with me a bit (rawr). Beddard (1908!!) studied the soft tissue of Breviceps verrucosus Rapp 1842. It seems that the majority of the body of these frogs is actually muscle. Beddard noted that muscles join the leg at the knee that extend into the body cavity, such that the inclusion of the thigh in the body cavity is further accentuated by musculature. The rectus abdominalis muscle is unusually large, extending from the lower abdomen up and around the sides of the body. Indeed, this large size appears to be the pattern with all of the major muscles, though in the throat the typical arrangement of large and small muscles is somewhat reversed. On the lateral side of the head, there is a substance that is not muscle, but appears to be loose tissue in which sits what is apparently the thymus gland.

There is a very large gap between the end of the urostyle and the anus (one fifth of the total length of the frog), in which there are almost no muscles, save for the one surrounding the lower cloaca. On either side of this area, between the posterior-most muscles of the thigh, lie two large ‘lymph-hearts’, as described by Beddard. These are between one quarter and one third of the total length of the frog. A further lypmh-sac sits between these lymph-hearts and the skin of the femoral region, and they are thus probably analogous to the femoral lymph-sacs of other frogs.

I find it interesting that Beddard (1908) did not mention any glandular formations in the dorsal region. As is evidence from many images (see below), these frogs are able to secrete a white, sticky, noxious substance from their skin (which they actually have to use during amplexus, as the male is too small relative to the female to mount her properly, and so he sticks himself to her with his glandular glue… kinky).

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These glands do not apparently take up a great deal of the cutaneous tissue, and so I suppose are of no consequence to the size of the frog, especially relative to its enormous muscles.

The diet of these frogs consists almost exclusively of hymenopterans and isopterans (ants and termites). Neither of these insect groups are particularly fatty, so it is little surprise that their bodies appear to contain no large fat deposits - fatty bodies extend from the gonads up to the lungs and heart, but these comprise only a tiny fraction of the frog’s mass, and don’t contribute to the round shape. Instead, their bodies are extremely muscular, allowing them to be adept burrowers, ideal for their fossorial lifestyle.

So TL;DR: rain frogs are little balls of muscle (maybe the largest muscle mass relative to body mass of any vertebrate? science just doesn’t know).

Ref:

Beddard, F.E. 1908. On the Musculature and other Points in the Anatomy of the Engystomatid Frog, Breviceps verrucosus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1908:11-41 [x]

[weebianplebeian]

Bimbofication

the yassification of Atomic Samurai and his disciples

[the-nysh]

Saitama consistently clutching the core towards his heart 😭

It feels like....the core is his last grip on himself - cause even after he loses all his clothes, the core is still the last thing he has left. Like his last lingering tether on his remaining sanity + humanity before Saitama loses everything. D: So how feeble and fragile it is on such a delicate tipping point, but it's where his last ability to care likely resides....so he clutches it close lest he loses that too. :'))

[fishing-for-blood]

Reject cold detached scientist trope, embrace the over enthusiastic eccentric scientist trope

This is the way

[albireonic-lustre]

@gottahaveguts

Source

[pinapultra]

got tagged by @gottahaveguts to make my own chart!

this was so hard, nostalgia is so strong hahaha

[gofancyninjaworld]

If you were forced to have one as a pet would you pick Chibashiri or Black Sperm?

Chibashiri.  Not even close.�� It’s a tricky pet, but it’s just that.  No more, no less.  Black Sperm is a scheming, evil collective that is just biding its time.  No thanks. 

People keep mistaking Black Sperm for Dimple.  This is Black Sperm:

[albireonic-lustre]

Earliest fictional crushes?

Wel, Misty was obviously my first and biggest. But there were also Sora, Kari, and Rika from the first three Digimon series, Erika from Medabots, and Videl from DBZ.

Misty basically reprogrammed me to fall for any vaguely tomboyish character.

[dachshundsarethebest]

@gottahaveguts

Seeing a post that you know a mutual will like and reblogging it to add enrichment to their dash like giving a tiger in a zoo a cardboard box

[onepunchmiss]

I feel like Dr. Genus would make Armored Gorilla run the social media page tbh

You know what yeah I can see that 99% of the time. Armoured Gorilla deffinitely wrote that post how could I be so blind 😔

On one hand, it would probably be true that he was so consumed by his research he would have never spent time doing really anything else, and only made a social media for the house of takoyaki after the fact cause he heard that kind of thing is good for business. But like i can also see him being that kind of nerd. And since the HoE became the HoT he's just like 'fuck it I'm bored'.

Its just really funny to imagine Dr. Genus going from mad scientist to spouting nonsense posts into the void ok

[signutai]

gottahaveguts replied to your post: big titty goth girlfriend this, big titty goth...

Does Feather qualify

I...I suppose he would...

[pandoramajora]

Garou’s voice actor is doing amazing.

As expected of Midorikawa 😩👌