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[r1ng-w0rm]

I'll be posting all of the artfight attacks I've done soon, but here's one of my faves that I've drawn

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Worms

Lumbricus terrestris

, the common earthworm

Scientific classification

Kingdom:

Animalia

Subkingdom:

Eumetazoa

(unranked):

Bilateria

Phyla

Annelida (segmented worms)

Arthropoda (inchworms, sometimes called "canker worms")

Chaetognatha (arrow worms)

Gnathostomulid (jaw worms)

Hemichordata (acorn/tongue worms)

Nematoda (roundworms)

Nematomorpha (horsehair worms)

Nemertea (ribbon worms)

Onychophora (velvet worms)

Phoronida (horseshoe worms)

Platyhelminthes (flatworms)

Priapulida (phallus worms)

Sipuncula (peanut worms)

Cestoda (tapeworms)

White tentacles of

Eupolymnia crasscornis

below red sea urchin in Kona,

Hawaii

Worms /ˈwɜːrm/ are many different distantly related animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body and no limbs. Worms vary in size from microscopic to over 1 metre (3.3 ft) in length for marine polychaete worms (bristle worms),[1] 6.7 metres (22 ft) for the African giant earthworm, Microchaetus,[2] and 58 metres (190 ft) for the marine nemertean worm (bootlace worm), Lineus longissimus.[3] Various types of worm occupy a small variety of parasitic niches, living inside the bodies of other animals. Free-living worm species do not live on land, but instead live in marine or freshwater environments, or underground by burrowing. In biology, "worm" refers to an obsolete taxon, vermes, used by Carolus Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for all non-arthropod invertebrate animals, now seen to be paraphyletic. The name stems from the Old English word wyrm. Most animals called "worms" are invertebrates, but the term is also used for the amphibian caecilians and the slowworm Anguis, a legless burrowing lizard. Invertebrate animals commonly called "worms" include annelids (earthworms and marine polychaete or bristle worms), nematodes (roundworms), platyhelminthes (flatworms), marine nemertean worms ("bootlace worms"), marine Chaetognatha (arrow worms), priapulid worms, and insect larvae such as grubs and maggots.

Worms may also be called helminths, particularly in medical terminology when referring to parasitic worms, especially the Nematoda (roundworms) and Cestoda (tapeworms) which reside in the intestines of their host. When an animal or human is said to "have worms", it means that it is infested with parasitic worms, typically roundworms or tapeworms. Lungworm is also a common parasitic worm found in various animal species such as fish and cats.

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1Informal grouping

2Society and culture

3Imagery in the arts

4See also

5References

Informal grouping

In everyday language, the term worm is also applied to various other living forms such as larvae, insects, millipedes, centipedes, shipworms (teredo worms), or even some vertebrates (creatures with a backbone) such as blindworms and caecilians. Worms can be divided into several groups, but are still technically decomposers.

The first of these, Platyhelminthes, includes the flatworms, tapeworms, and flukes. They have a flat, ribbon- or leaf-shaped body with a pair of eyes at the front. Some are parasites.

The second group contains the threadworms, roundworms, and hookworms. This phylum is called Nematoda. Threadworms may be microscopic, such as the vinegar eelworm, or more than 1 metre (3 feet) long. They are found in damp earth, moss, decaying substances, fresh water, or salt water. Some roundworms are also parasites. The Guinea worm, for example, gets under the skin of the feet and legs of people living in tropical countries.

The third group consists of the segmented worms, with bodies divided into segments, or rings. This phylum is called Annelida. Among these are the earthworms and the bristle worms of the sea.

In earlier taxonomic classification, all the above were included in the now obsolete group Vermes, a paraphyletic assemblage of unrelated phyla.

Familiar worms include the earthworms, members of phylum Annelida. Other invertebrate groups may be called worms, especially colloquially. In particular, many unrelated insect larvae are called "worms", such as the railroad worm, woodworm, glowworm, bloodworm, inchworm, mealworm, silkworm, and wooly bear worm.

Worms may also be called helminths, particularly in medical terminology when referring to parasitic worms, especially the Nematoda (roundworms) and Cestoda (tapeworms). Hence "helminthology" is the study of parasitic worms. When a human or an animal, such as a dog or horse, is said to "have worms", it means that it is infested with parasitic worms, typically roundworms or tapeworms. Deworming is a method to kill off the worms that have infected a human or animal by giving anthelmintic drugs.

"Ringworm" is not a worm at all, but a skin fungus.

Paragordius tricuspidatus

(

Nematomorpha

)

Pseudoceros dimidiatus

, a species of flatworm

Society and culture

Wurm, or wyrm was the Old English term for carnivorous reptiles ("serpents"), and mythical dragons. Worm has been used as a pejorative epithet to describe a cowardly, weak or pitiable person. Worms can also be farmed for the production of nutrient-rich vermicompost.

Imagery in the arts

See also:

List of fictional worms

and

Fictional depictions of worms

See also

Sea worm, lists various types of marine worms

Worm cast

Worm charming

References

Look up

worm

in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Wikiquote has quotations related to:

Worm

Jump up^ "Cornwall – Nature – Superstar Worm". BBC.

Jump up^ Keely Parrack (21 June 2005) "The Mighty Worm". Worm Digest.[dead link]

Jump up^ Mark Carwardine (1995) The Guinness Book of Animal Records. Guinness Publishing. p. 232.

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[r1ng-w0rm]

Uuuhhhhh Non-LBB Oc x Jatay go boom

(Pspsps, I just rlly love Jatay and I haven't drawn him in a bit. +I just love the idea of old Mexican zombie black market meat dealer x old creepy tooth biker. Peepaw x peepaw perhaps??)

[r1ng-w0rm]

Been thinkin about this man lately

(OG Twitter pic used below)

[r1ng-w0rm]

Some old WBB! Oc idea that I really wanted to show u guys (+extra info on it)

Okay soo, I had this idea a while ago when I was making WBB! Tobias- it was just a skim through concept designs and I managed to find this beauty in thy picture folders. I couldn't just delete them cause I really liked their hair. :'[

(p.s Gary the tapeworm is not my oc, it's @ewwwabug 's lil homie)

Also I forgot to put Tobias' scars, but to be fair- it looks better scarless.

🪱Bonus Stuff about them! (I don't want to take up space)🪱

[GOB] and [GAT]

🪱This was supposed to be an idea of if the lbb/wbb simulation thing absolutely screwed up and morphed Tobias and Gary(what a silly fellow) into some corrupted goopy two being thing. How did it happen? I don't know. Probably post!rbb But mid relapse of Tobias' bad acid trip. Funny hardy har har. I'm not creative enough for this-

🪱These two are not brothers, they are purely clones/an error multiplied in coding. Plus, if you try to kill them, they multiply.. So don't do it. Or do. Idc

🪱They are not good! They are parasites, therefore bad- evil- and weirdly clammy.

🪱Their hair has nerves and cartilage in it- it can move on its own like tentacles and it squirms if pulled too hard.

🪱Can and will turn you into a rug.

🪱Also, they can be found hiding out in many biker group spots. Either in two headed worm form or in the flesh. Though, as always, they like staying beside the rivals because yknow... That's kinda Tobias' main terf, but that's not to say the thingies stay with Tobias! Eyeball lickers delux 2000.

🪱If the two had some form of ending:

➬Good Ending: They give you a sliver of their weirdly fleshy hair and make you eat it. Congrats! You're the host to a new lovely baby tapeworm who's probably going to be birthed as a screwed up mix of either Varai and Gary, Varai and Tobias, orrrrrrr... Dun dun dun!!! Gary and Tobias again?!?? Now you've got an Antichrist worm baby on your hands!!!! Yippeeeeee!!!!!

➮Neutral Ending: You're kinda stuck watching sitcoms with them until either Varai gets back or until they're hungry for that sweet za (pizza).

➫Bad Ending:... The worst of it all... The absolute horrors... Something so profound and disgusting........... They spit on your shoes and call you stupid names before walking off like they're better than you. They don't want you to become the new host to a tapeworm because you obviously aren't cool enough for that. I hope you're happy. They'll make sure you're band from every good spot in town.. Except the gas station, they'll just give you the permanent bad luck of picking out expired food.

𖤐[ABOUT GOB]𖤐

🪱Lowkey might be a 'THE BLOODY CULTIST' oc. He's purely obsessed with the occult due to him 'hearing a calling' somewhere within his divided dreams where he's a seperate being with long pretty pink hair.

🪱Gobs voice is a mix of two masculine and one corrupted 'demonic sounding' one.

🪱He's allergic to fish whilst Gat isn't, so the two have little fights about that.

🪱Gob can eat rust and live off of spinal fluid

✶[ABOUT GAT]✶

🪱The one who is like the holy divinity of the two. He's not religious, but he has an insane amount of luck on his side... Legend has it that when he cries, a radiation storm happens... Hope you have your rad resistant umbrellas!!!

🪱Gat loves sticking his triple jointed fingers in people's eyes and noses :).

🪱His voice is a mix of static, a feminine voice, and something of an echoed whisper.

🪱Enjoys the sweet supple taste of stomach acid and bugs (specifically centipedes and wasps!!)

[r1ng-w0rm]

☆✫Wormvember Day 2: Flat Worm✫☆

I forgot to draw Day 1 cuz I was busy, but anywayssssssss. The moth lady has a million planarian kids. The end. (Planarians are flat worms btw)

(P.s @ewwwabug made the wormvember art thingy.)

[r1ng-w0rm]

Mr silly funny meow meow guy

[r1ng-w0rm]

First drawing on thy new phone!!! I love jawtay, he's so yummer.

[r1ng-w0rm]

Confession time

Roach was originally based off of dice- Not like full blast copy, but his hair style was very similar to Dices, his attitude was a bit more cocky than dices, and he had very similar gloves.

+his old design (that was scrapped a day after he was 'born') had purple hair and he had a few gold teeth in the back. The only thing I didn't fully change was his job/occupation. Roach is a 'hell racer'(hellraiser joke). He's a smelly hell-nascar mechanic.

Anyways, here's a gross sketch(?) of dice and uncle roach (my sister came up with that. +dice is way taller than roach. He's an old 6'0 stinky greasy guy)

[r1ng-w0rm]

I made a funny, guys-

[r1ng-w0rm]

Uhhhh WBB Tobias and Jawtay(+a bit of the others as a bonus) Frenemy HC's???

Sorry if these are ooc btw- also I have some general brother hcs coming up soon :D

also I promise you that these aren't ship hcs even if some of these do sound a bit smooch-y.

Under the cut because there's alot-ish

💪🦷 Where to start.... Hmm... I think these two love hating eachother and love to torture themselves by being around eachother(in a non romantic way).

💪🦷They do not get along! No matter how similar their pasts might've been(epic farmer and fisher moment) , they H A T E eachother.

💪🦷So why did I put frenemy up at the top? Well I put it because while Jawtay is blunt and not ashamed to say that Tobias looks like a dead raccoon doped up on cocaine, Tobias can get defensive of/over his enemy. Therefore, they are (one-sided) frenemies.

💪🦷Someone could be like, "Yeah I hate Jawtay too," after one of Tobias' long rants about him and Tobias could flip instantly. He'd throw things and claw at them with his stitched on hands while yelling about how Jawtays his enemy and only he's aloud to hate him. Tobias would apologize to them later, but for now they must face his wrath.

💪🦷-But don't consider this favoritism, because Tobias likes to claw at Jawtay too. So uh.. Yeah?

💪🦷 He's (Tobias) obsessed with him in the way those fictional villains are obsessed with the hero, but in a weird musty way.

💪🦷Tobias will finally be fulfilled of his obsession once Jawtays arms are in his possession!

💪🦷I like to think about Jawtay mushing Tobias' fake teeth into his gums because it's super silly.

*＊✿❀ BONUS HC'S❀✿＊*

💪🪱I feel like his friendship towards varai is a 'you take care of me, I take care of you' kind of ordeal. He'd be really codependent towards varai in a semi-unhealthy way.

💪🪱He's the wasp to varais dead worm

💪🪱He'd die before showing his ugly mug to the coolest worm corpse in the biker central.

💪🍆 Tobias is if-y towards Jeff. Not in a bad way, but in a scared way.

💪🍆 I can see him(Tobias) hiding in a corner like a cat whenever Jeff comes around. Spooky.

💪🍆He LOVES his hair tho. so bonus to that?

💪🎲NO! NUH-UH!! KEEP DICE AWAY FROM TOBIAS! HE WILL THROW A TANTRUM AND AN ARM AT HIM AND WHOEVER BROUGHT HIM TO TOBIAS (even varai)

💪🎲He is flat out afraid of dice and now there's two of him in one??? *insert Tobias clawing at the couch*

💪🎲If you can get Tobias to stay calm around dice for even a minute, l congratulate you.

[r1ng-w0rm]

Jamey full body for art fight? Maybe😏

[r1ng-w0rm]

I forgot to post this awhile ago, but I rlly love it😋😋😋😋

[r1ng-w0rm]

He didn't mean it. He was just in a silly goofy mood.

P. S neon is very swag

[r1ng-w0rm]

Last drawing before the year ends <3

[r1ng-w0rm]

Here's thy drawings from my math notes.