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October 31st, 2023

Happy Halloween!

Tongue-eating Louse (Cymothoa exigua)

Distribution: Fairly widespread; found in the eastern Pacific, from the gulf of California down to the gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador, as well as parts of the Atlantic; inhabits waters from 2 to 60 metres in depth.

Habitat: Inhabits waters from 2 to 60 metres in depth; adults live on or in the bodies of fish; juveniles swim freely in the water column.

Diet: Parasitic; feeds off its host's blood and mucus; hosts include snappers, grunts, drums and grunions.

Description: The tongue-eating louse is an ectoparasitic isopod. A juvenile louse swims in the water column until it encounters a suitable host and attaches itself to its gills—soon after this maturing into a male. As it grows, the male eventually becomes female and migrates through the gills to its host's mouth, where it will use a pair of sharp claws to sever the blood vessels leading to its tongue. Once the tongue falls off due to necrosis, the louse will attach itself to the tongue stub and functionally "become" the fish's tongue. Surprisingly, this actually causes little damage to the fish, though hosts carrying many parasites are often underweight.

Once a host dies, the tongue-eating louse will eventually detach itself from its tongue stub, but will remain clinging to the head or body of its dead host. This species is completely harmless to humans, though can occasionally be found in the mouth of commercial fish.

(Images by Andy Heyward and Elkin Fricke)

Some highlights from this year's Haunted Scare walk

I was a zombie in a graveyard

- The smallest commander Cody walked through

- 'I think I peed myself a little bit!'

-'I'm not scared!' *Screams of terror*

-A sumo wrestler, a witch, and Hatsume Miku walk into a graveyard

-'I want my mommy' 'I want my mommy too' some little kid and a teenager

-Chasing people

-I got a total of ten high fives from little kids

-*Tries to get a jump scare on me* 'Oh nevermind your scary'

-I think more people got scared of the fog machine than they did me

-Scaring Ghost from COD

-Scaring the absolute shit out of a person in a Shinobu costume

-Going up to a person in a Muchiro costume and asking where his sword was *Spoiler alert she ran the other direction*

-Seeing four different classmates and threatening them to do their homework

-To end the final night they played 'Five Nights at Freddy's' by The Living Tombstone

hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!

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reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3

Self care!!!!

If this gets two hundred thousand notes before Christmas 2023, I'll commit one self care

im never going to recover from this. never ever. i stopped breathing. diluc please let me move on please.

(from hoyofair 2023)

ATLA AU book one: water (4/?)

Went for a small journey when I was eleven twelve but wasn't until recently that I was allowed to go further.

if you've gone on one then add in the tags

Happy Birthday, Freminet!

I—I've wanted to bring you here for quite some time now.

Surrounded by glowing Tidalga, flashing shoals of fish, and beams of sunlight shining through the surface... It's like being inside a fairytale.

Ah... If you keep staring at me like that, I'll get so nervous that I won't know what to say...

...Would you be able to look away for a moment while I put on my diving helmet? Sorry, thank you...

Honestly same Aether

Imagine having a love rival over the man you already married

(you need to view the image or you'll just like the post)

Since people liked it i made a toy that works on the computer: https://nick-nonya.itch.io/trampoline-toy Have fun!