October 31st, 2023
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
im never going to recover from this. never ever. i stopped breathing. diluc please let me move on please.
(from hoyofair 2023)
Neat 🙂
A very ambitious piece for me.
Their designs still needs altering, but overall I'm very happy with this!
(Also, it’s unseen but Grimsley does have a dorsal fin)
I might make more things for this AU in the future, provided inspiration comes.
(Also, zoom in on Beheeyem and Sharpedo for a cute little part of this drawing. It's silly, but I like it.)
Neither dwell on your regrets, nor fret over what the future holds.
This melody has witnessed all seasons and climes, settling at last like morning dew in a dream.
Melodies of an Endless Journey will soon resound anew...
Second one
My first ultra wormhole pokemon is a shiny, what the hell
Day 3551 - 28 September 2023
"Do you remember the first friends you made in Teyvat?"
.//projectTiGER
Went to school with my Pan flag tied around me like a cape and passed these two girls in the hall who were like 'Slay, go queen!'
And then this guy I passed not even a second later was like 'I’m an Ally and this b!TCH is gay'
I now have a new favorite quote.
I don't know what happened
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
Just sweeped this kid with a Vivillon on Pokemon Showdown lol