not every invertebrate is a bug, but it is fun to call them all bugs
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the vessel discovers one of life's simple joys: small plush toy.
a little doodle of a scene from ch 18 of @queruloustea's that makes two of us, then - please please read this fic, it's so lovely. i want to do something nicer and more involved for it but i am still adjusting to drawing Bugs and Bugs Interacting so it will have to wait until i'm more confident :')
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@theshitpostcalligrapher I promise to do a proper Etsy review when the occupants GET to their tank but I must show you how audacious the frame I got for you art is (my wife agreed to let us put it above the shrimp tank in the bedroom, which makes me indescribably happy)
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Frank just like me fr fr pt 2 electric boogaloo
I probably shouldn’t be celebrating absolutely torturing and inflicting psychological horror to my poor sweet worm man, but my golly advanced cuteness aggression is real-
also I really enjoy drawing disheveled frank, it’s gotta be one of my favorite genders out there fr fr
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final commission of the backlog
okay here's one of my last pieces before the shop goes into vacation mode:
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did someone say profess my love for an organism? I love mantis shrimp. and I think they're super underrated despite how popular they are, because no one ever gets why they're so cool! did you know that the mantis shrimp can actually see less colors than humans? this is because they process the information directly in their eyes, so they can't see colors like magenta (which only exist because our brain processes them like that).
you know what they CAN see though? cancer. see, mantis shrimp can see polarized light and thus, the way light waves reflect off surfaces. and healthy cells reflect light differently than cancer cells! this means they can detect cancer years before symptoms appear, and scientists are perfecting a camera that mimics this ability so cancer can be detected and removed with precision! mantis shrimp could literally save lives!!
and their punches. ohhh their punches. mantis shrimp come in two kinds, spearers and crushers. crushers can deliver a punch with the acceleration up to 51mph in an INSTANT, with a force of 15,000 newtons. but what's really cool is the cavitation bubbles. see, the punch moves so fast it creates a little pocket of air, and when that bubble pops it creates IMMENSE pressure and heat. the us navy used a similar effect in pistol shrimp to their advantage in world war 2, positioning submarines inside colonies of pistol shrimp as acoustic cover, because the powerful force would disrupt sonar.
there's SO many cool things about the mantis shrimp that I didn't even touch on, please go learn about these amazing animals for yourself!
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Closest match: Lacanobia oleracea genome assembly, chromosome: 4
Common name: Bright-line brown-eye
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prehistoric times in the ephemeral desert pond
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