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Witch Skin Suit, for when one cursed hat isn’t enough!
#it’s his birthday suit#no really he got it for his birthday#you can fit so much bad luck in this bad boy#wwdits#what we do in the shadows#nadja and laszlo#laszlo#laszlo what we do in the shadows#laszlo cravensworth#wwdits fanart#my art#taxonomicon#witch skin hat
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Thanks @taxonomicons and @em8ambitions 👀
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ID: 1. Screenshot of Tumblr post by taxonomicons that says '"Guillermo and Nandor in the giant 'this is our get along shirt' but they are making out. :)" There is a reply from em8ambitions tagging beansprean and saying "u should draw this..." Tags from the artist on the post have a series of sideeye emojis and then say "maybe I should. Heuehueheue. Draw later."
2. Drawing of exactly that. Guillermo and Nandor wearing one large white tee shirt together, sloppily making out. Guillermo's glasses are pushed to the top of his head and his arms are linked together around Nandor's neck. Nandor's leg is hitched up over Guillermo's hip and he has one hand cupping the back of his head and the other tight to the dip of his waist. /end ID
#wwdits#nandermo#mlm#guillermo de la cruz#nandor the relentless#my art#fanart#image described#what we do in the shadows#what we do in the shadows fx
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tumblr bestie Al @agaywithcoffee tagged me in this picrew game
Here is mine:
No Pressure tags: @babykittenteach @casthefallenangel @eldritchteletubbie @happilyhadesbound @imdefyingmavity @starlithumanity @taxonomicons @wearfinethingsalltoowell @22524 @2offayyo-kzt
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@taxonomicons came up with the idea that Jahan was named after a plush Ziba made for Nandor and now I can't stop thinking about it
Also bonus angst: this hc makes the nandermo plushes even sadder bc it was probably a reminder of his sister. On his Ascension Day. Ok I'll shut up now
#they r so.......#wwdits#what we do in the shadows#nandor the relentless#Ziba wwdits#< creating a tag for her finally
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A (Very) Brief Overview of The Spider Tree of Life
Let's start with the basics. All spiders fall into the following classification, from least to most specific:
Kingdom: Animalia (animals - cannot produce their own food, can move voluntarily, and are multicellular)
Phylum: Arthropoda (animals with jointed exoskeletons made of chitin)
Subphylum: Chelicerata (chelicerates - possess feeding appendages called chelicerae)
Class: Arachnida (arachnids - eight legs with an additional pair of appendages, fused head and thorax, and several more unique traits)
Order: Araneae (spiders - chelicerates that possess spinnerets for silk production, and have special male copulatory organs that we'll get into some other time)
Okay, so we've reached the clade that includes all spiders: Araneae. This is the order level. Just below order, spiders have a level called the suborder ("sub" meaning "under"). Here, spiders split into two suborders: Mesothelae and Opisthothelae.
Mesothelae is an incredible group of spiders with only a few extant (non-extinct) taxa. The defining characteristic of its members is an abdomen that's segmented by plates called tergites. This is a trait that was also present in the ancestors of spiders, so we may consider the Mesothelae to be "primitive" since they possess ancestral traits. All other spiders (the Opisthothelae) have abdomens that are fused into a single unit, which is the derived (non-ancestral) trait.
Heptathela higoensis, a member of the suborder Mesothelae. Photo by Marshal Hedin
Okay, so now we know the two suborders of spiders: Mesothelae (the "primitive" segmented spiders) and Opisthothelae (the non-segmented spiders). But we're not done yet! Opisthothelae divides into two infraorders ("infra" meaning "below" or "further on"). These infraorders are Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae.
Mygalomorphae shares some common features with the Mesothelae - namely downward-facing chelicerae (mouthparts) and two pairs of book lungs (meaning four total). The araneomorphs, however, lack these ancestral features, instead sporting chelicerae that move in from the sides (causing the fangs to appear horizontal or "cross-acting") and fewer book lungs (only one pair or even zero!). Most araneomorphs also have tracheal systems, not unlike insects and myriapods (though the spider tracheal system evolved independently!).
Left: Atrax robustus, a mygalomorph with downward-facing chelicerae (photo by Tirin). Right: Cheiracanthium punctorium, an araneomorph with cross-acting chelicerae (photo by Rainer Altenkamp).
Finally, within the infraorders Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae exist a myriad of diverse spider families. Araneomorphae is by far the more speciose and diverse of the two, but they both have their own unique charms. As of April 2023, there are a whopping 132 spider families recognized!
Follow for future posts about the many different families of spiders!
Information sources can be found below:
Coddington, Jonathan A. & Levi, Herbert W. (1991). "Systematics and evolution of spiders (Araneae)". Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 22: 565–592. doi:10.1146/annurev.es.22.110191.003025. JSTOR 2097274. S2CID 55647804.
Scientific name: Opisthothelae in Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/. Access date: 8 December 2010
Song, D.X.; Zhu, M.S. & Chen, J. (1999). The Spiders of China. Shijiazhuang, CN: Hebei University of Science and Technology Publishing House. ISBN 978-7-5375-1892-5.
Wheeler, W. C., Coddington, J. A., Crowley, L. M., Dimitrov, D., Goloboff, P. A., Griswold, C. E., … Zhang, J. (2016). The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics, 33(6), 574–616. doi:10.1111/cla.12182
World Spider Catalog, 2023. Natural History Museum Bern. http://wsc.nmbe.ch, version 24.0 [accessed 30 April 2023].
#spiderblr#spiders#science#biology#taxonomy#zoology#arachnology#entomology#wildlife#animals#Araneae#bugblr#arthropods
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@taxonomicons salty cause I am the queencard. Her boob and booty lukewarm at best
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@taxonomicons face card declined 🙅🙅🙅 that's why you dye your hair stoopid
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@taxonomicons hate her🙄 can't even fly a plane without hitting somehow of tower
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@taxonomicons is unfunny and inspid. Hate her and her jokes. Unfunny bitch fr.love her!!!
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Me and mitski visited @taxonomicons room. Damn bitch you live like this ????
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I just found a taxonomy site called The Taxonomicon.
Further proof that scientists are fucking nerds.
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