#i love ostracods so much

[shadowsayshi]

She is the moment.

[wireframearson]

[thethingything]

accidentally slept for pretty much the whole night which means yeah our sleep schedule is probably fucked 💀 but I did have a dream that involved making pond jars so now I'm stuck thinking about wanting to make a pond jar

[weirdmarioenemies]

This is a post about GUBBLE

Gubble is funny, we all know this. Look at Gubble, look and giggle. But Gubble is not just something to laugh at, it is something to laugh WITH! It is a fun little game full of nonsense words and weird little creatures. I highly recommend reading the manual, which you can find here, as it is actually rather funny! I will be talking about some of my favorite Gubble Creatures! So here I am, posting a Gubble. It's Friday, alright!

Gubble D. Gleep

Oh hell yeah! Look at that rendering. I never want to see Gubble in a "good" rendering style. I don't think he would be able to breathe. Gubble is the main Gubble Creature. He is a funny alien! The gleep glorp kind! He has a wacky skin color and antennae, but his big defining features are his ears, which he is very proud of. I do not know how they work! It is weird to see an alien with antennae AND ears, since I always assume alien antennae are for detecting sound, but maybe Gubble's are like regular animal antennae, and are for smelling!

Gubble makes all sorts of weird noises as he flies around in his, I quote, "mini-spaceship pod thing". He uses that to unscrew screws and pry out nails and anything else he needs to do to detach Zymbots from the surface of the planet Rennigar, and Zymbots are the levels, and you see the word "Zymbot" a LOT in this game, and I think that is wonderful.

They even put "Zymbot" on the cover of the sequel! That only makes the information more confusing than it otherwise would have been. I am all for it! But what awaits you, among the Zymbots...?

Wangry Wobot

"They are red and they are angry. Unfortunately, they don't know what they are angry about, but they know they like to follow aliens around."

Look at this! See what I mean? The manual is so delightful! Wangry Wobot... such a wonderful name! This wobot is wangry... or I should say, this wobot is angry, because the description informs us that it is angry, and Wangry Wobot is its name. All it does is walk, but in a funny way, with those legs sliding back and forth on its body, not bending or anything. I love how flat and minimalist this thing is. Built and programmed just to walk around, yet built with the capacity for anger...

Wangry Wobot Wannabee

"They are not-quite-red (blue actually), but they want to be every bit as angry as the Wangry Wobots. They haven’t learned how to follow aliens yet, so they just wander around aimlessly. Pathetic, really, but oh well…"

Hey! Be nice to them! If Wangry Wobot is Gubble's Goomba, then the Wannabee is Gubble's Goombrat. These are even more endearing with their personality! They look up to Wangry Wobots so much, like a younger sibling or maybe even a child, a freshly hatched robot from a metal egg. I wish we had funny robots like this in real life, but the only ones they make in real life these days are evil. Hopefully it will one day be economically feasible to fund some funny robots that walk around town and do literally nothing but kind of get in the way. Would be cool!

FlatWorm

"These guys like to sneak up on you unnoticed and cause grief and misery."

Wow! I would not have expected to see notable Creature Representation in Gubble of all things, but here we have a platyhelminth that at least I think is pretty clearly a stylized planarian! This one is a funny shape, like a shoehorn, and has a funny depth to it, like it was cut out of a sheet of dough. Now, normally I would be telling you that no animal is morally bad, they don't have the capacity for it, but we are told in FlatWorm's description that it is, indeed, messed up and evil. Just get away from it, please! Get back to the zymbot! Had you forgotten about the zymbot?

Orb

"They just roam around over your head. They're orbs, ya know?"

I am not sure I know! But they are cool orbs! Good job making some orbs! Their eyes make them look like giant ostracods, the most orbtastic creature of all!

Slug Bug

"An example of the bizarre Rennigar fauna. Man, somebody must have gone pop-eyed when that monster was created."

Created??? These creatures were Created??? Even the non-mechanical ones? By who? Mad scientists? Gubble God? I don't know! Whoever it was, I don't think they know what a slug is, though. Pincers, segments, bristles, this is all bug, no slug! Like some kind of larva to me. The five eyes are goofy, but most insects technically do have five eyes, with two compound eyes and three little ocelli on top!

Drone

"Originally used as repair drones, these spidery-looking things will use their pinchers on you just as effectively. Stay out of their reach!"

Look, it's Drone! Like they keep putting in the cartoons to keep them timely! I am fascinated by the manual for calling these "spidery-looking", since it is clearly some kind of roboshark head with pinchy claws. Did you know? Real spiders do not look like robosharks! However, I am not saying the manual is WRONG. Maybe "spider" means something entirely different than the way we Earthlings use it. After all, we say "level" instead of "zymbot", like a bunch of knuckleheads!

Uurrgghh

"The stories go that the Uurrgghhs used to be somebody's eyes and were stolen. Now they roam back and forth looking for their owner. And if they can't find their owner, you would do as well. Want a pair of alien eyes?"

I will bookend this post with another of the silliest enemy names. We really go from Drone right to Uurrgghh. Awesome! Uurrgghh is almost a fantasy creature, a classic eyeball with bat wings, but it has this cool metal exoskeleton or helmet with droopy horns, and three tentacles emerging from the bottom, so it is also fittingly sci-fi, which I think is very fun. I don't think they looked like that when they were just someone's eyes, but put on this protective outfit to stay moist and healthy while flying around with no eyelids. Would you welcome them into your sockets? They don't HAVE to replace your current eyes. They could all be friends!

So those are just some of my favorite silly things from Gubble! If you did not know much about Gubble, I hope you have a new appreciation for it! Be careful out there on those zymbots!

[frogman-inator2000]

hi! here's some bugs for your perusal

(plus honorary bug imo: the ostracod!)

I love them I would die for them thankyou so much

[protoctist]

ugh. there is so much to love about the world and the people in it. love my friends. love the ostracods that thrive in the puddles that form after thunderstorms. love the strangers that offer me bread and talk about nothing in particular. love the birds that fly overhead. the days i don't want to kill myself are extraordinary / i am not going to ruin my love's life today. it won't be easy but i'll live and it'll get better because it has to. love you all dearly.

[human-wof-designs]

OMG THE POTATO REVEAL WE ALL KNEW IT also my friend was realizing this with me- blue has a cricket bracelet and cricket has a blue bracelet and I love it so much 😭

it's an ostracod :') a tiny microscopic shrimp

[dragonheadskilax]

[ I had an ask from @mysticetus but tunglr made a disappearing act with it when I tried to draft it though I still wanna answer what I remember what it was about! ]

For the question on where I gotten my leeches I get them from North America BioPharma and Leeches.biz (Canada only now). I’ve tried contacting leech keepers/breeders for any available ones through their socials but I didn’t get any responses. I’ve occasionally seen on the ‘leech gang’ subreddit on people needing to give away their leeches. On facebook there’s a group of the same nature that would likely have keepers willing to give some away but since I dont got a facebook account I haven’t looked into it.

Next comment was about how even when people typically keep leeches fashioned in a mason jar I keep mine with hides and plants. I know leeches are a worm and won’t do as much as another animal but after many years of leech keeping it’s a lot of learning as to what’s good, what’s unnecessary, and what’s needed for them. They can grow big up to 7 inches at rest so a jar would get outgrown.

The thing they do of sticking their head out the water for the day is so then they can get oxygen not abundant in the water column. This can be supplemented by having a water current like from an airstone or sponge filter. If they keep their face rolled up and under rocks it’s because they’re light sensitive. Leeches have simple eyes all over them. Or are going to sleep and want to cover their eyes. if they had hides and things to go under they can rest easier.

I like keeping a planted tank cuz I like plant care in general and that includes aquatics. That would mean keeping a balance of things since it’s an unfiltered tank (well leeches poop once a month if I see it happen). So throughout the years I’ve seen all kinds of critters in the water like water mites which only had a small boom before disappearing as they only ate algae. I have brown hydra which people online worry a lot about seeing in a tank but I only see one every month so it’s not harmful as a tiny population, my ostracods would even try to sit on them if they aren’t hungry. I’d advise not keeping larger snails since they can apparently try to lick the skin off a leech which would give sores (from what i’ve seen from how a leechkeeper lost theirs), nerites are gentle and don’t touch them though. Having this whole ecosystem is nice in the long run for the immune system of a leech to not need more frequent water changes than if were a very simple tank of just rocks and hides. Leeches can get ‘cotton mouth’ fungal infections just like fish do which are caused by ill health or poor water quality.

I don’t even put many plastics or decor made for aquariums since leeches crawl on their bellies and are very soft bodied. I sand down wood and any textured rocks be round than spiky. It’s just very rewarding to see anything new be used or touched by a leech, curious beasts. I still would keep a leech in a simple carrier of water for a few days after eating (for no quick big poops) or if the tank is being changed with anything new.

Okay I think that’s all the thoughts I have, it’s a lot but I love leeches so much and learning anything new is cool. Here’s a video of a leech that mimics as a seahorse

[talking-about-bug-snacks]

CHEDDORB

Look!!! It’s Cheddorb!!! Already we are at my FAVORITE Bigsnak of all! Let us not waste any time here!

As far as Snax go, this was a rare example of one where I had no idea what I was looking it. Obviously, I could tell that the name was Cheddar plus Orb, so it was some sort of cheese ball, but the only cheese ball I knew were the crunchy snack kind. How I love that kind. But this is not that kind!

Cheddorb is based on a port wine cheese ball, a more fancy kind of cheese ball, made of mixed cream and cheddar cheese and coated with a crust of nuts! That bald spot in front that kind of looks like Cheddorb’s mouth is where some was sliced off to spread on a cracker! I have not yet made one myself because I keep forgetting to, but some day. I will know.

So the snack basis is obvious, if you know what you’re looking for. But what about the bug basis? It gets even wackier! This is an orb. Not a bug that can roll up, like Peelbug, or an orb with legs, like Wee Mewon. Just a bona fide orb that rolls! Surely there is not a bug that is an orb...?

There kind of is!!! This is the Giant Ostracod, a marine crustacean that is not actually giant by our standards, but at least it is by ostracod standards. And what do you know, it’s a sphere with big ol’ eyes, making it an absolutely perfect fit for Cheddorb!

Now, Cheddorb is indeed classified as being based on a giant ostracod, but this was not always the case! Initially, the idea was that it was a giant ISOPOD, but one permanently rolled up, a champion of conglobation! However, the ostracod was even more fitting, and I think it is incredible to have Giant Ostracod Representation.

So what does Cheddorb do? It rolls and rolls and rolls! It rolls around the island, knocking down walls, and knocking away any creatures in its path. Once shrunk, however, it loses its confidence! It behaves much like a Peelbug, hiding in a log that it must be pushed out of to catch.

Cheddorb also has a Stinky Secret... that may make no sense but it will soon. You see, Cheddorb is technically a “minion” snak, like Wee Mewon, Minimaki, Bombino, and Baby Cakelegs before it, and is the only one that is first encountered outside of a boss battle! Specifically, it is used by Cheddaboardle Rex, which uses them as projectiles. Cheddaboardle is based on a dung beetle. So... I’m sorry, Cheddorb. But you are situationally representative of a Poop Ball. I don’t love you any less for it, though! I think it’s funny!

[lemonsweet]

i love following you because i love to see what your creature of the week is. love to appreciate creatures on my dash

Thank you i love animals so much and so many cool ones that get looked over. This is an ostracod

And this is a pink hairy squat lobster

Also Albino porcupine

[xiao-saseum]

5 things tag

tagged by the lovely @sexinglu ages ago, but I finally have a few minutes to spare :)

5 things in my bag: (currently) phone, wallet, passports, powerbank, sunscreen

5 things in my room: my EXO collection, my MLP collection, computer, dog toys .... clothes? idk xD

5 things on my bucket list: “Meet EXO and not ugly cry, meet luhan” <-- this is me too except that I know I would be a complete mess so maybe better not.... anyway, to add to that, describe a new ostracod species and name it after Luhan, go to Svalbard, tell Yixing how much I appreciate everything he does.

5 things that make me happy: my furry babies ❤, my home, exo, luhan, spazzing about exo and luhan with my mom :P

5 things about me: I like to wear black (shoutout to my man Kyungsoo), I have sensitive eyes so I rarely wear eye make-up, I don’t wear glasses or contacts, I’ve been vegetarian since I turned 18, I drive a Nissan Leaf  these are so random lol, but it’s the first things that crossed my mind orz

I will only tag @kitty-dae rn because she is here with me after over 3 years of almost daily correspondence! :D