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new fun imagination experiment for you : if you were a robot/had a robot body what era of machinery would you design yourself after... personally i would have purple translucent casing like a game boy
when he does this tappy thing with his legs like to agree
hate it when I call myself a girl and then someone goes "you're not a girl you're nonbinary/agender" and it's like. I am whatever I say I am. freak. I am a girl I am a little guy I am the man of the owl. I am nothing. I am everything. do not presume to know me in anyway I do not know myself
I love how for pride me and a number of my mutuals just decided to like have an identity crisis that’s so funny
i have a similar effect cats have on strangers. almost all men over 40 react poorly to me on impact. gay people love me and cross rooms to say hello to me. peculiar older women are enamored by me and adopt me. some people think i am demonic by vibes alone (i have autism)
Spikes across my back, shoulders like a twisted half-human beast, flexing my spine so the bone spurs clatter against each other, the dewclaws on my wrists, the fangs in my mouth, digging my claws into the table,
And here I am, in the fucking corporate meeting.
i do think its really interesting as a kid i had almost exclusively herbavores or prey animal fursonas and now as an adult i have exclusively medium/large carnivore and omnivore fursonas. did somethng happened....
Julia Curyło — Hunting (oil on canvas and skull, 2021)
Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.
if you’re a trans guy and you want to start dressing more femme but you think you need to do it in the femboy way or generally be skinny and hairless to present femme. that is the devil talking and you need to shoot it with a gun
Pill Scarab Beetles: these beetles are covered in plates that perfectly interlock when the beetle folds its limbs, lowers its head, and curls itself into a ball
Above: Eusphaeropeltis sp. (top/bottom left) and Ceratocanthus aeneus (bottom right), two different species of pill scarab beetle
Beetles of the Ceratocanthinae subfamily (also known as pill scarab beetles) rely on a unique form of conglobation to conceal themselves. As the beetle tucks its head down and folds its legs up against its belly, the plates on its head, thorax, abdomen, and legs all come together to form a solid shield; the plates on its legs even have grooves and corresponding ridges that allow them to neatly interlock.
As this blog post explains:
Adult Ceratocanthinae are best known for their ability to conglobate: rolling into a nearly perfect ball. The elytra, pronotum, head, and all six tibiae interlock with each other by means of grooves and corresponding ridges, forming a tightly connected external surface. Many beetles take the form of a tight compact structure when threatened, however in Ceratocanthinae the tibiae of all six legs participate in forming the external hard surface of the sphere, unlike in other beetles.
Above: Ceratocanthus sp.
The Ceratocanthinae subfamily contains many different genera/species, and they are all collectively known as pill scarabs. Many of them have a colorful, metallic appearance; they may be green, red, blue, brown, black, or multicolor.
Above: Germarostes globosus
Sources & More Info:
Gil Wizen: Transformers (Ceratocanthinae Beetles)
Communications Biology: The Evolution of Conglobation in Ceratocanthinae
Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny: Rolling into a Ball: phylogeny of the Ceratocanthinae
ZooKeys: The Ceratocanthinae of Ulu Gombak
Pavel Krásenský Photography: Scarabaeidae (this site is written in Czech)
