#oh worm

[character-of-all-time]

ROUND 1: WORM (on a string) VS ACHILLES (greek myth)

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

To a certain degree, I think it must have been even more traumatic for Mars to return to Aleph than it would have been if she had to stay on Bet.

She spent months watching her best friend slowly - and then very rapidly - turning into a horrific monster and suffering the whole time. She survived the horrors of Leviathan and the Slaughterhouse Nine. She had to kill said best friend in the end after she turned into a mountain of mutated, agonized, homicidal flesh. Her power is considered one of the strongest and potentially deadliest on Earth Bet.

And then immediately after incinerating her bestie, who was screaming for her up to the end, and watching bestie's boyfriend get sent to life in interdimensional super prison, she just goes back home where things are... not like that. Aleph is pretty closed off from Scion and all the other cape fuckery. There's capes but they're nothing like her and they sure as hell aren't anything like the ones she fought on Bet. There's no Endbringers on Aleph except for when the Simurgh pops in. Other than the Khepri draft on Gold Morning (which must have been absolutely horrifying for her oh my god), there's probably a good chance that she never has to deal with any cape-related situations again in her life.

She just has to sit there with the power of the literal sun and all the blood on her hands and there's only three people in the entire world who will ever understand what happened to her. How is she supposed to function. What the fuck.

[scungledfiles]

hello everyone. please appreciate my creation. thank u. goodnight.

also have him in original smaller size:

[alphynix]

Soft-bodied annelid worms only very rarely fossilize, so the group's origins during the Cambrian Period are still rather poorly understood. So far about thirteen different species have been found in sites of exceptional preservation, showing that even very early on in their evolution these worms had already diversified into a wide range of ecologies including bottom-feeders, carnivores, swimmers, tube-builders, and even symbiotes sharing living space with early acorn worms.

Ursactis comosa here adds a fourteenth species to the list. Found in a newly-discovered outcrop of the 508-million-year-old Burgess Shale fossil deposits in western Canada, it's known from nearly 600 specimens clustered together in several large groups, making it the current best-known and most numerous of all Cambrian annelids.

Up to about 1.5cm long (~0.6"), it was a polychaete-like worm bearing bundles of long bristles. There was a pair of large sensory palps on its head, and its body was made up of an unusually small number of segments – just 10, with larger individuals just increasing the size of their segments instead of adding on additional ones like most modern annelids.

Unlike other Cambrian annelids it also shows some evidence of basic tagmatization, differentiating some of the rear segments of its body with much longer bristles.

The large numbers of Ursactis found preserved in one place suggests these worms were exhibiting some sort of swarming behavior. Since ages from juveniles to fully-grown adults are represented together, and their anatomy indicates they were crawling detritivores, they were probably all taking advantage of a particularly nutrient-rich patch of seafloor at the time they were abruptly buried in a mudslide.

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[leona-florianova]

Zazie the Beast

[lowpolyanimals]

Wormonger from Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2

[shiftythrifting]

Shifty Bandanas!

New bandanas have hit the store, available in three sizes!

[rainbow-neko-artblog]

I was making a silly little worm on Picrew and noticed it matched your personas color scheme. So have a worm version of yourself lol

Oh worm?

[nichet-crochet]

Premade crochet worms are now available in my shop!

The crochet pattern for them is now free!

[icarus-suraki]

Someone who can Photoshop, please please please do this. Please.

[mattastr0phic]

Oh worm

[spookdoodles]

Worm print for my upcoming cons!

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

I know Wildbow explained a bit via Victoria internal monologue exposition that guns are kind of a mutually agreed-upon nono in cape culture, but it still blows my mind that the only cape we've seen (through Worm all the way up to the Shadow arc of Ward) carrying a gun that isn't tinker tech or Miss Militia's gun powers is Taylor with her Aster Blaster 3000 and Contessa with her Taylor Nailer 5000 (and we only see Contessa use the gun the once). To the point where people showing up with guns ruins Victoria's masterful battle plan because she straight up didn't plan for it. Do tinker guns just not fire bullets, ever? Is it one of the safeguards built into the shards?

Or maybe guns are only taboo in the Dallons' commercialized family blogger-style cape world, and Victoria is just stupid.

[alphynix]

Lobopodians were some of the earliest known panarthropods, closely related to velvet worms, tardigrades, and the ancestors of all the true arthropods. They were small soft-bodied worm-like animals with multiple pairs of fleshy legs, and some species also bore elaborate spikes, armor plates, and fleshy bumps all over their bodies – with the spiny Hallucigenia being the most famous example.

But unlike its more charismatic relative Paucipodia inermis here didn't seem to have any ornamentation at all.

Known from the Chinese Chengjiang fossil deposits, dating to about 518 million years ago, Paucipodia lived in what was then a shallow tropical sea. Its 13cm long (~5") tubular body had nine pairs of legs, with each foot tipped with a pair of hooked claws, and the inside of its mouth was ringed with tiny sharp teeth.

Several specimens have been found preserved in association with the weird gummy-disc animal Eldonia, which may indicate Paucipodia either preyed on them or scavenged on their carcasses.

Some Paucipodia fossils also have enigmatic tiny "cup-like" organisms attached to their legs. It's currently unknown what exactly these were, or whether they were parasitic in nature or simply opportunistically "hitching a ride" similar to the Inquicus found on armored palaeoscolecid worms in the same fossil beds.

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[brittishanarchy1]

Oh worm?

[assorted-things]

My thoughts on Dune: Part 2

Spoilers under the cut! I've just been to see the film so this is probably rambling and not very coherent:

Count Fenring is my favourite character in the entire series, and I am a little disappointed but not surprised that my BESTEST GUY isn't in it. It sort of makes sense that he would be cut, as a lot of the stuff that makes him so cool I think works best in a book where you have narration and characters' interior monologue. A lot of the stuff where he finally meets Paul is very...internal, and I think it would be very difficult to make it work in a visual medium. I am still a little disappointed, mind you :(

I loved Margot! She was quite unnerving, just like how I imagined her when I read the book

I think the most noticeable change for me was Jessica pushing Paul into taking the Water of Life, whereas if I recall correctly she was more reluctant in the book

I thought the music was excellent - I loved how the Bene Gesserit theme gradually started to creep more and more into Paul's scenes

Equally I liked that Paul's fight with Feyd-Rautha didn't have any music - it made it so much more impactful because of the contrast with the loud battle scenes

Gurney actually singing a song was delightful!

I love the costume designs for the Bene Gesserit

I understand why they made the changes they did to Alia - trying to get her to be book-accurate could have unintentionally come across as comical to people not familiar with the books

The gladiator scene looked amazing and Giedi Prime is just how I pictured it - both films have done a great job of showing the huge scale of Dune's setting, and I can't wait to see how Paul's throne room will look if we ever get Dune Messiah

The worm-riding scene was fantastic and made it look absolutely terrifying

My favourite change from the book is the way that Chani was expanded on as a character - much as I love Dune, I think she was a bit of a flat character in the books, so I like that they gave her more to do here

I think the film did a good job of portraying the fanaticism around Paul as frightening rather than ~heroic~ - the themes from the book about the dangers of charismatic leaders, and how the Fremen are exploited, are definitely put across

Having the battles take place on-screen, unlike in the book, makes Paul's holy war seem more...real, I guess? Reading about how effective the Fremen are is very different from seeing it portrayed on screen, and even having read the books the prospect of them going to war on the great houses really made me go "oh shit"!

But also, the portrayal of how badly the Fremen are treated by the Great Houses did have me rooting for them a little bit despite knowing full well what happens next, which is great because it means the people unfamiliar with the books are really going to have the rug pulled out from under them when Paul causes the deaths of sixty-two billion people

The scene at the end where the worms come through after the Shield Wall is broken down was awesome

Most importantly: Baby Worm!!!!