Werk

Undyne is an undine. So there’s a depiction. They are water nymphs tho. Not technically a mermaid?

Wait until you find out why it’s called a Whippoorwill.

If you have the means, seed Sci-Hub or Anna’s Archive

Love all these updating block lists that bluesky has. It’s great.

It’s more of a “Junk Drawer” in my family. Just for things that have no relevant places or are easily categorized, but are important enough not to keep somewhere more out of the way. Always contains at least one item that makes it near impossible to open the drawer on first pull and requires manipulation to open. For my family, it’s usually a hammer.

My Shiba very clearly is plotting to overthrow the government. Very externally visible inner monologue.

The dad pulls up his pant legs to reveal his rainbow knee highs.

“A man of culture I see.”

I’m 3/4ths the way there.

“Seventy-Twoth”

Do All Recreational Enhancers!

Non-consensual Dick Cheese in my new band name.

Havarti. Semisoft, a little tangy, nice on a cracker, melts well on things.

The worm died from starvation.

Typhon breathed fire and had fire in his eyes to paraphrase the Wikipedia page you should read again. Also associated with volcanic activity.

Seems to be easier focusing with the calcite as well as durability in the scratchy sand environment.

Additionally, more derived/later species had aspherical lenses to compensate for the spherical aberration and dual layer organic→calcite lenses to allow for more of a refractive gradient to counteract the double imaging of calcite alone.

Modern arthropods probably done use it on land because of an inability to accumulate it in an efficient manner. Water arthropods like crustaceans probably done because it’s metabolically expensive to do these things when chitin alone can make for useful eyes.

Evolution is more of a “good enough” kinda situation.

From my searching, it would seem that trilobites used calcite to reinforce their hard parts as well. Crustaceans have amorphous calcium carbonate reinforced exoskeletons through mineralization, but no calcite land arthropods do not seem to have this mineralization tho.

I’m no expert. Just like using Google Scholar to answer questions I find interesting.

Chitin.

Kinda like the instant coffee my grandma uses. For some reason it has no nutritional information on it at all. Not even caffeine content.