#scale worm

[noncompliantcyborg]

Peinaleopolynoe orphanae

aka the Elvis Worm

Woke up this #WormWednesday and decided I needed to make the worms I want to see in the world. This appliqué and embroidery friend is Peinaleopolynoe orphanae, a deep sea scaleworm. These worms can be found at whale falls, hydrothermal vents, and methane seeps - all some of my favorite habitats.

I wanted this piece to be really 3D and have playful tactile elements so I used some fuzzy fabric for the worm’s bristles and the scales are each hand cut out from a textile I created from ironing together felt, a glittery mesh, and a sheer holographic fabric. I attached the scales just at their bases where they are overlapped by other scales so you can rifle through them.

I used the reference image below from Hatch AS, Liew H, Hourdez S, Rouse GW (2020) to try and make this piece as life accurate as possible.

Let me know what you think and let me know what deep sea critters you think I should try to make next!

[aquatic-dusk]

cruise day on the r/v coral sea!! box corer brought up some very… amusing little creatures along with a delicious helping of sediment (i stg this is not nsfw it is a fat innkeeper worm look it up)

@snakest1cks

[mariathepolynoid]

Eulagisca gigantea (the sea hedgehog)

This is my species

but i anthropomorphisized them into this

i wanted a character in the style off Cream the Rabbit from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.

this A.I. generated version did a good job at matching my character's coloring.

I love it. It's just how i imagined it.

Guys The bitch is back

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified:

Closest match: Harmothoe impar genome assembly, chromosome: 14 Common name: Scale worm

God I fucking hate Olaf the snowman so fucking much holy shit. Holy shit, every frame he's in, every scene, every gif, every jpeg, he's got this painfully vacant, stupid as shit, fuckass look on his stupid lumpy face. Absolutely no part of his ugly as sin piece of shit character design is endearing. His stupid fucking legs? Who the hell makes a snowman with legs. His dumb flaily fucking twig arms? His shitty, lumpy bastard head? The three thousand percent unnecessary dumbass shitass fucking SNOW BUCK TOOTH that no snowman has EVER FUCKING HAD IN tHE HISTORY OF GOD'S GREEN FUCKING EARTH? God, I hate him. I hate him so much. So FUCKING much. Every time I see a stuffed toy Olaf or an Olaf gif or a shitty goddamn commercial, it ignites my primal rage response and I'm overcome by the need to punt this shitty little homunculus into the fucking sun. "Bhurr blur, I'm Olaf the fuckshit snow fucker, I like warm hugs". Fuck you. Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you. You look like Tow Mater summoned a patronus. Your dumb fucking twig hair makes your whole shitty head look like a hairy skin tag. I hate your dumb fucking lumpy carrot nose and your stupid, empty googly eyes and your over-the-top goofy ass upbeat asshole personality. Any scene he's sad it invokes all the wrath and fury of a spoiled child having a meltdown over a chocolate bar in a w*lmart checkout line. And I know its irrational. That's the worst part. I know he's just a shitty fucking side character in a stupid fucking children's movie, I know it doesn't matter, I know I shouldn't care. But that's part of the problem. The part where no matter the might and fury of my hatred, the locus of my homicidal intent is alltogether inconsequential. I find myself laying awake in the dark in the early hours of the morning consumed by the spirit of Wrath itself, all the force and might of a flaming hurricane directed at a bottle of piss in a ditch by the highway. The absurdity of it all burns me to my core. What better things could this energy be directed towards? And yet my disdain for this stupid, useless, insubstantial failure of endearing character design utterly eclipses the intrigue of all other pursuits. I hate him. I hate him on a level of my mind reserved for the worst of the world's array of sinners, and I can't even begin to justify it. Shitstick the snow dick is, for all intents and purposes, the animated corpse of all of humanity's saccharine pretenses- every condescending, passive-aggressive statement of meaningless upper middle class suburban drama distilled into a single, hateable form. The fucking. Fuck. I have no words. There is no cuss or epithet in any language that can encapsulate the height of the emotions I am experiencing. God, I hate him so much. I hate him so, so fucking much. I want to light his ugly little dumpster body on fire. I want to graphically beat him to death with his own stupid fucking nose. I want to punch him to death. You know that weird feeling you get, when you see a picture of something so cute you find yourself overcome with the bizarre, inexplicable urge to squeeze it? It's EXACTLY like that, except instead of cuteness it's disgust. The wordless knowledge that his existence as a fictional work is evidence of all the failures of mankind. I find myself possessed by the will of a Holy Angel gone rogue with the belief that God has made a mistake, and I alone must correct it. This is the trial by which Samael himself fell from grace. This wild, meaningless rage. A thousand blades of shining steel cast with inhuman force in the direction of a plastic grocery bag floating on a breeze. What horrors must I have committed in a past life to be plagued by this torment now? I must Unmake this fictional snowman

[greenfrog04]

Genomic analysis of a scale worm provides insights into its adaptation to deep-sea hydrothermal vents 

Published 4th July 2023

A study investigating the molecular adaptations of the scale worm Branchipolynoe longqiensis to an extreme environment using genome sequencing.

Image of Branchipolynoe longqiensis and graph of mean GC content,sequencing coverage and NCBI species hit of the genomic assembly.

Results show Branchipolynoe longqiensis has increased usage of the positively charged histidine and decreased the use of the negatively charged aspartic acid and glutamic acid.

The genome size of Branchipolynoe longqiensis is also larger than two other shallow water polynoids (H. impar and L. clava).

Genome assembly with Hi-C data on the three polynoid scale worms revealed 18 chromosomes for all three species investigated. However, a macro-synteny analysis revealed two inter-chromosomal rearrangements were found between Branchipolynoe longqiensis and the two genomes.

High hydrostatic pressure can change the organization and structure of various cytoskeleton proteins, including microtubules. The enrichment of genes related tomicrotubules in Branchipolynoe longqiensis may benefit its environmental adaptation to the high hydrostatic pressure in the deep-sea vent habitats. The expansion of “synaptic vesicleexocytosis” related gene family may be linked to novel cell-supporters found in the nervous system of vent scale worms.

Among the gene families expanded in Branchipolynoe longqiensis, the copy number of extracellular single-domain hemoglobin was increased compared to the two shallow-water polynoids. In addition, the tetra-domain hemoglobin was discovered in the Branchipolynoe longqiensis genome, which is consistent with that in the other two deep-sea scale worms Branchipolynoe symmytilida and Branchipolynoe seepensis.

In the Branchipolynoe longqiensis genome, a tetra-domain hemoglobin was found in close proximity to an single-domain hemoglobin. The close location, as well as the phylogenetic position of these two hemoglobins, suggest that this tetra-domain hemoglobin could have been derived from the duplication of BlonSD5.

The tetra-domain hemoglobin is common in the Branchipolynoe genus and could be an adaption to the hypoxic environment in the vent fields or the mantle cavity of bathymodioline mussels. None of the three polynoid genomes contains genes encoding hemerythrin, a non-heme protein that can also bind oxygen used by many annelids, indicating that hemoglobin indeed plays a major role in oxygen binding in these scale worms.

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[backjustforberena]

I wonder if any of them knew it was all for her.

[starlingfawn]

send me back in time and i'll bring us back in line

[gonnahaveabigtalklater]

behold, i have shaved the entire town

[daytaker]

"Would you still love me if I was a worm?"

Lucifer

*Looking up from the mountain of actually important paperwork he's trying to get through right now.* "No, probably not."

Worm Love Scale: 2 / 10 ██▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒

Leave him alone, honestly. He's dealing with enough bullshit right now without your stupid meme questions.

Mammon

"Hell yeah I'd love ya if you were a worm! I'd carry ya 'round in my pocket or something! Haha! I mean... like... Not permanently though, right?"

Worm Love Scale: 6 / 10 ██████▒▒▒▒▒▒

Like, you're just talkin' about a hypothetical situation where Solomon does somethin' stupid and ya turn into a worm temporarily, and we fix it, and you change back into a person! ...Right?

Leviathan

*Blushing...* "...I'd probably love you a little more if you were a worm..."

Worm Love Scale: 9 / 10 ██████████▒▒

Worms are just...really cute, okay? You wouldn't understand.

Satan

"I think I love you a little less just for asking me that."

Worm Love Scale: 1 / 10 █▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒

Ask stupid questions, get stupid answers, bitch.

Asmodeus

"Ummmmm... Could I see a picture of the worm first?"

Worm Love Scale: 3 / 10 ███▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒

He'd feel bad saying 'no', but... Eugh... Worms are not cute...

Beelzebub

"Yeah."

Worm Love Scale: 7 / 10 ███████▒▒▒▒

Sure he would. Beel would love you no matter what.

Belphegor

"Probably not... You can't really cuddle with a worm..."

Worm Love Scale: 2 / 10 ██▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒

Slimy and cold and not very cuddly... There are obvious downsides in worm physiology.

Diavolo

"What an interesting question. On one hand, I think I prefer how you look in your current state, but when I think about it, it would be very convenient to be able to carry you from place to place if you were worm-sized. We could spend so much more time together, hahaha!"

Worm Love Scale: 7 / 10 ███████▒▒▒▒▒

The demon lord is nothing if not flexible. He'd probably be able to figure something out to benefit everyone.

Barbatos

"I can't say I'm overly fond of worms."

Worm Love Scale: 2 / 10 ██▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒

Better than a rat, though.

Solomon

"Oh, my dear apprentice. You should know by now that no horrific transfiguration could dampen my affection for you."

Worm Love Scale: 8 / 10 ████████▒▒▒

Yeah, just try and shake him off with a little worm transformation. See how that goes for you.

Simeon

"What a strange question. I suppose that would depend on a few factors! Would we have met in our current bodies first? I have trouble envisioning myself coming to love a worm I'd only ever known in its worm form..."

Worm Love Scale: 5 / 10 █████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒

You can't just ask a question like that without any context.

Luke

"Ew! Er... I mean, Father says to love all creatures, but..."

Worm Love Scale: 3 / 10 ███▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒

He'd really rather not....

[dinoserious]

i don’t know if you take requests or not, but if you do i would love to see a tomato horn worm in your style! if not, thanks u anyways and i love ur art! always so awesome seeing funky bugs on my dash

i dont typically do requests, but ive had this ask sitting around for a bit AND its for a bug, so i finally thought it might be fun to do a lil somethin. heres your guys o7

[the-alpha-doodle-dome]

the snow came early over at the organics & biofuel district

[jensownzoo]

My meal worm farm setup (for chicken treats). Super easy, takes a few minutes of maintenance in the morning and a slightly more involved one every few months (still only takes a hour).

Has a drawer for pupae, one for beetles, and the rest for various stages of meal worms plus one extra to sift frass (poop) into. Other equipment is a stainless steel colander for sifting and a plastic spoon for transferring pupae and beetles to their new drawers.

I use either bread crumbs or rolled oats for bedding/dry food and carrots or cabbage leaves for moist food. Sometimes they get other stuff, but that's mostly it. Started by ordering a 5000ct pkg by mail and fed out at least half of that while the cycle got started.

The chickens get a "happy hour" on Fridays where they get a half handful of adult worms. They also get all the debris and any dead beetles (crunchy!) when I do the major maintenance.

I keep this setup in what functions as a mudroom for me because it's right next to the kitchen (I do the daily maintenance while waiting for the breakfast skillet to heat) and also so that I don't have to hear them constantly. It's a pretty loud dry rustling/chewing sound--okay periodically but continuously would drive me batty.

In addition to chicken treats, I also get significant amounts of frass:

(Roughly two cups from one sifting)

Frass is an excellent plant fertilizer, like most manures. High in nitrogen. I use it in my soil mixes and sprinkle it into the containers that I grow peppermint in to help with leaf production.

Anyway, was just starting on my big maintenance (which is why there's so many worms in the beetle drawer and very little bedding) and thought I'd share.

[yanguazalie]

🐍 Year of the Snake 2025 🐍

Gadget princess Tuesday shines light on the year ahead, one questionable floating orb at a time. Guide us forward, Tuesday!!

Tuesday's English VA is the only one born in the year of the snake. At this rate I'll just have to draw all the characters accordingly before leaving this fandom. Commit to the bit! :9

[gengarguy27]

Some of the most annoying worm fans are the ones who are so poisoned by power scaling nonsense that their only criticisms are nitpicks like "Jack not being able to lose to parahumans is bullshit" or "Lung gets worfed because he always loses to Taylor how is only X level"

They forget that these elements are in here for narrative reasons and not so you can put these characters on a fake Tier list and argue with strangers on r/Whowouldwin.

Jack not losing to parahumans challenges many the characters notions about treating regular humans as an after thought and shows that maybe powers are not the best solution for every situation.

This same thing applies basically any superhero or action story.

[azadrithaanatheme]

Today I give you some WIPs (and also some silliness - click for better views) as I try to figure out how to actually make comics and also find an art style that I like and can use without it taking ten million hours. Tomorrow? Well, nothing tomorrow actually, because my hand is dying and I'm going to take a freaking break to spend some time with my family over the holiday. But after that? Who knows?

In related news, I'm almost finished writing the first arc of The Crawling Chaos. Chapter one is called "The Graduationing" and includes what might be one of the best Teacher lines ever committed to writing:

As you can probably tell, I'm having entirely too much fun with this.