#macroorganisms

[flat-neines]

Dark Spring: The one who devours

This ink and gouache painting is sadly not fully rendered, but I still want to share what I do have for day 2 of @tamlinweek , which is tamlin as the Green Man, at the height of his power; which I suspect isn't simply shape-shifting, but true biomancy.

"The beast, with its claws and teeth isn't anything to fear, you should be more worried about the swarm that follows in its wake" - General Jurian, about the high lord of spring.

[dazzelmethat]

4/8/25

plant pallet concepts: dryad vs green man vs plant based homunculus. Pathetic thing, it was grown in a pot and is now rootbound. It needs to be pruned.

[captorations]

thinking about tikki aka goddess of creation being ladybug-themed aka beetle-themed and the age-old joke about how if a creator god exists they must really like beetles

[venuslove-28]

eye twitching at the thought of may and june

[rhymeswithfart]

More MFP

[marinecorvid]

also bc I like to make things hashtag twisted and messed up in my head Arceus ain’t so forgiving at the end of the mission and it’s less “summer successfully conveys feelings of friendship and convinces Arceus there’s still good to be found in Oblivia + the world, and Arceus takes purple eyes away to keep the world safe” and more “summer successfully beats back the attempts of the oldest living thing in this universe to kill everything in sight and it returns to its own world less out of merciful understanding and more out of it doesn’t have enough power to continue fighting, and Arceus takes purple eyes away so it can have a consolation prize for not being able to destroy everything else”. but I’m maybe reconsidering that?

Like. Just thinking about how the facets of Arceus are portrayed in the various times mccuverse charas encounter it. Sinnoh/hgss arceus is just kinda. Weird, but stoic, unsettling. a cracked mirror. Hisui Arceus is weird and obviously eldritch in nature but still benevolent enough to intervene to save the world via an eeby deebied dawn/akari, and offers her a baby piece of itself. Well I guess then it’s not a pattern breaker to have the 3rd canon one be So Fucking Pissed At Humanity. not sure how the fourth one/one that you can get through the dream world in bw2 acts - maybe true neutral? Ah Well. we’ll see

replayed pledge to arceus and decided 2 things. 1 I need to work on making legendaries less omniscient in the mccu 2 I’m torn between giving Oblivia’s arceus a voice or not. On one hand I love memory montages on the other hand I think this one would have a terrifying voice

[cybercity-sunrise]

Microbiology is such a beautiful field. I haven't always seen it that way. Microbes can be gross and working with them can be difficult. Being invisible to the naked eye, the beauty of microbes and their complex functions in the world are easy to overlook.

But y'all, microbes are the connective tissue of life on earth. They are everywhere. I work with anaerobes, which at first might seem more obscure than aerobic microbes considering the prevalence of oxygen on our planet. The reality is there is an anaerobic world within our aerobic one--the soil, our bodies, inside plants and animals, in the ocean. Many microbes that live in anaerobic soils are also found in the human gut. Microbes can make our crops more nutritious, our soils more fertile, our bodies more regulated.

Our gut microbiome is essential to our health. It isn't just this inert mass inside of us, rather it modulates immune responses, mood, digestion, inflammation, and more. We pass our microbiomes onto our babies. It's an incredibly intimate and dynamic relationship, with macroorganisms and microbiomes affecting each other in turn.

There's so much else I could say, but I'll cut myself off here. But please--even though biofilms are slimy and weird, even though nobody is thrilled when groceries go bad--give a little love to the organisms that can do virtually any metabolic process in virtually any environment and make up the foundation for all other life on our planet.

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

Can you please make more Pokémon microorganisms I’m in microbiology rn and those drawings are helping so much lol

The tapeworm is a macroorganism but how can I ever miss out on making a tapeworm pokemon

[alphynix]

Trilobozoans (also known as triradialomorphs) are some of the more enigmatic members of the Ediacaran biota. In the past their unique three-way-symmetrical body plan was interpreted as linking them to groups like sponges, cnidarians, or echinoderms, but currently they're considered to be their own weird little phylum with uncertain evolutionary affinities, classified no more specifically than "probably some sort of early eumetazoan animal".

Lobodiscus tribrachialis is a newly-described member of this mysterious lineage. It lived in warm shallow marine waters covering what is now Southwestern China, and with an age of around 546 million years it's currently the youngest known trilobozoan, extending the group's time range by several million years.

About 3.7cm in diameter (~1.5"), it had the characteristic trilobozoan disc-shaped shield-like body, with a central depression surrounded by three triradially-symmetric lobes with branching ridges and grooves.

Its body would have been soft but fairly rigid, and it's not clear if it was capable of moving over the seafloor or if it had a more static lifestyle. Like its relative Tribrachidium it was probably a filter feeder, with the grooves on its surface directing water flow towards the central depression – and this surface ornamentation may also have been covered with cilia that actively caught and transported suspended food particles.

———

NixIllustration.com | Tumblr | Patreon

References:

Ivantsov, A. Yu, and M. A. Zakrevskaya. "Trilobozoa, Precambrian tri-radial organisms." Paleontological Journal 55 (2021): 727-741. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030121070066

Ivantsov, Andrey, Aleksey Nagovitsyn, and Maria Zakrevskaya. "Traces of locomotion of Ediacaran macroorganisms." Geosciences 9.9 (2019): 395. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9090395

Hall, C. M. S., et al. "The short-lived but successful tri-radial body plan: a view from the Ediacaran of Australia." Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 67.6 (2020): 885-895. https://doi.org/10.1080/08120099.2018.1472666

Rahman, Imran A., et al. "Suspension feeding in the enigmatic Ediacaran organism Tribrachidium demonstrates complexity of Neoproterozoic ecosystems." Science Advances 1.10 (2015): e1500800. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500800

Zhao, Mingsheng, et al. "A putative triradial macrofossil from the Ediacaran Jiangchuan Biota." Iscience 27.2 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.108823

Wikipedia contributors. “Lobodiscus.” Wikipedia, 29 Mar. 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobodiscus

Wikipedia contributors. “Trilobozoa.” Wikipedia, 10 Mar. 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobozoa

[satanfemme]

I....I think I might have some of the anger you used to have. How did you grow? How do you become so positive but it doesn't feel fake anymore?

a combination of a shift in perspective + the kind of healing that just takes a lot of time and practice.

on my shift in perspective:

understanding political theory better has helped (communism, anarchism, and transfeminism are the schools of thought I study the most. the abolition of prisons/punitive justice is also especially important to me). it sounds silly, but when you don't understand truthful and reality-based political theory it's very easy to feel like there's fundamentally "good people" and fundamentally "evil people", if not feeling that it's human nature as a whole to be evil, and this worldview can taint every part of your life. studying theory has helped me understand HOW and WHY horrible things happen in the world on both large and small scales, and that it's more complicated (and also more solvable) than just paranoid and misanthropic "people are bad" fears. this has helped me a lot.

on a more personal and esoteric note, I've also come to see people as inherently interconnected. I believe we're all part of the same macroorganism and there's no fundamental differences between us other than circumstances. everyone in the world is traumatized and doing their best to respond to what's happening to them as it's happening, and learning as they go. it's a lot harder to hate someone once you understand whatever they're doing to wrong you is out of fear/trauma. it's also a lot harder to hate someone once you understand that you could've been them if only your life went a different way. (in other words, as I like to point out: everyone is capable of being abusive, and people who are abusive are still people). it also probably helps through all these beliefs that I don't believe in genuine free will, but I understand that thought probably isn't comforting to most people the way it's comforting to me.

on my healing:

living away from my abusive parents for five years and counting helps. trying to find ways to treat my mental disabilities with patience and grace (and with an increasingly anti-psych viewpoint) has helped. getting an emotional support dog has helped.

maybe the BIGGEST help has been meeting and befriending more people in real life, and doing new and novel things all the time. socially speaking I consider myself raised by social media, and although my feelings towards that fact aren't wholly negative, let me tell you that the real adult world is SO much better and healthier than any website. I like meeting people who are different than me, and have different thoughts than me, and I like exploring, and going to shows, and experimenting with things. nothing makes me feel as alive as when I'm out there in the world Doing A Thing, In A Location, Dressed In An Outfit, and With Other People.

I also think age has helped to an extent, but not because of any pseudoscience "your brain matures at X age" stuff. I think I just have a lot more practice at being a person than I did in the past. and I hope to have more practice in the future. this is the first year I've felt like an "adult" and it feels fucking GREAT! I feel emotionally mature, I feel autonomous, I feel really good.

AND ALSO. my last piece of wisdom for you: stop worrying about how other's see you, stop worrying about your interests being cringe, stop worrying about being the most perfect morally pure person in the world. letting go of these fears doesn't happen over night, it takes time. but the more I become openly & proudly freakish and weird, the happier and nicer I become. I love being a cringy furry pervert so much. it's awesome. can't recommend that kind of thing enough.

[catboybiologist]

So, Miss Pun Biologist. You having fun out there with your microorganisms and macroorganisms? In both cases, perhaps you're conducting experiments during horizontal gene transfer?

She horizontal on my micro through my genes till I transfer

[thelastspeecher]

I am forever moderately amused by the fact that I have a biology degree but somehow wound up with a biologist OC whose specialty is not at all what mine is.

like, don't get me wrong, I love amphibians and reptiles. I used to volunteer for a summer camp where I got to show off amphibians and reptiles to kids and tell them all about the creepy crawly critters.

but my specialty is microorganisms. the macroorganisms I've done the most schooling in are invertebrates, in particular molluscs. which are not the purview of a herpetologist.

but character development just sort of happened and now I have a herpetologist OC.

[potchatok]

SodGol tree of Life

Tetragnata in particular.

Equivalent to Earth’s Chordata, this phylum produces most of the major macroorganisms. Though, there are several different classes that managed to walk on land and preserve themself to the “modern day”.

[thecraftgremlin]

I know the concept of a landscape actually being a macroorganism isn’t a particularly new idea, hell it was the twist in a fairly recent Disney movie. But, bleeding planet. That’s sick.

[doodlebug-posting]

i need a nuke

... I am not legally allowed to purchase or sell nuclear weapons, nor do I know anyone who supplies them. I am also very concerned as to how you, a singlecellular macroorganism with an apparent taste for violence, managed to find out what a nuke is in the first place.

While I do not stock them, I suggest you swap over to hydrogen bombs and other, less ecologically mass destructive forms of weaponry. A crater will be filled with life comparatively quickly. A nuclear wasteland... not so much.

It will also obliterate your DNA, and while you may not be able to experience cancer in the normal way, a similar mutation can still nonetheless result in rapid and uncontrollable cell division. Unless you wish to rapidly multiply and starve your many, many mutated offspring via overpopulation, I recommend you avoid nuclear radiation.

To sum it up...

I do not sell nukes. They are bad. Find different weapons. Hydrogen bombs recommended.

Hope this helps.