That Raqio, they speak the truth

You've heard of the Medusa, but what about the Cestusah? Here's Tina the Cestusah / Tapeworm Queen #monstergirl #art #OC www.deviantart.com/the-episiarc...

You've heard of the Medusa, but what about the Cestusah? Here's Tina the Cestusah / Tapeworm Queen #monstergirl #art #OC www.deviantart.com/the-episiarc...

I don't have many Christmas-themed art, the closest thing to that is this (Cordycep-infected) moth girl whom I drew years ago #monstergirl #art #OC www.deviantart.com/the-episiarc...

welcome to the bread bank 🍞 we sell bread, we sell loafs 🥖 we got bread on deck, bread on the floor 🥐 TOASTED ROASTED

Gnosia has become my favourite show this season - it has an intriguing story, great writing, memorable characters, and fantastic production value. Oh, and the OP and EDs are absolute bangers. This show is firing on all cylinders and I can't wait to watch more of it.

RAWR! I've been following the Kaiju Girl Caramelise manga since 2019 so you bet I will definitely be SEATED for this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvRf...

Y'know, it's kinda wild that "Tomorrow, When the War Began" was prescribed reading at my high school, when you consider that in the story the "invaders" were heavily implied to be Asians, and most students at my high school came from families that are 1st or 2nd gen SEAsian immigrants

During the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction, about 85% of all marine species went extinct, but according to the fossil record, sponges were flourishing throughout this period. So while everyone else were dying, the sponges were winning - same as it ever was. #Invertebrate #SciArt

Bad Worm Rising: I've written a post about Gordius wulingensis - a white hairworm that lurks in limestone caves and turn camel crickets into living incubators #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/12/gord...

Since it's almost Christmas, let's have a look at what kind of things AliExpress has been recommending to me

Man, fuck this shit - I'll just head over to Twitter to look at them "adult contents"

I've been writing a lecture which is going to feature a wide range of different invertebrate taxa. At some point, I realised that instead of trying to source photos/images for all those taxa, it'd be easier (+ more stylistically consistent) for me to just draw them all myself. #Invertebrate #SciArt

A tick... on an ELECTRIC EEL??? That's like finding a cymothoid isopod on an elephant #Invertebrate 🧪 entomologytoday.org/2025/12/03/t...

These arrived in time for #Crustmas! The thing I really appreciate about gashapon toys is that sometimes they would make a series which is simply a bunch of different anatomically-accurate barnacles. In that regards, Ikimon is simply the GOAT when it comes to making these nature-themed gashapons

#Crustmas calls for Crustacean Monster Girls. Here's Cynthia the Cymothoid Monster Girl www.deviantart.com/the-episiarc...

The new Ze Frank video reminded me about an adaptation found in some entomopathogenic nematodes - using both their own muscle power and static electricity, they can leap into the air and home in on their host, like an anti-insect surface-to-air missile #Invertebrate 🧪 news.emory.edu/features/202...

"Urgent Reminder: Men are most easily fooled"

No, it's fine, I just didn't think the Butlerian Jihad would be led by a Korean, that's all

what level of lafufu is this

Hear ye, hear ye! Come get your biblically accurate crustacean from the deep, named after the Greek goddess of victory. #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/05/dend...

What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?

Codonobdella is a genus of leech found in the depths of Lake Baikal - there are three different species, and unlike most leeches which feed on vertebrate animals, Codonobdella is a parasite of amphipods #Invertebrate 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

No one expects the Crayon Shin-chan 痛车

狗屎糖 (Dog Shit Candy): "Eat the dog shit candy, walk the dog shit path"

There's a place at Chengdu's 人民公园 (People's Park) that sells these cute little dessert sampler trays

The Tianfu Red Shopping Centre at Chengdu pretty much lived up to my expectations of it as a mall that is centred around anime/ACG culture

OMG they look so adorable together - that's it, I'm shipping them, no one can stop me and the GroBrina/SabZa ship #GFL2 #GirlsFrontline

A colleague just sent me an article that treated Eliezer Yudkowsky as a credible/legitimate authority on AI, which means I'll have to introduce him to the BtB episode about the "Rationalists" and the Zizian cult www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mJA...

I've written a post about a tiny monster, a copepod which is monstrous by name and by nature. It has no mouth and it must mate. As a juvenile, it lives in the body of a worm, and when it reaches adulthood, it pops out like a tiny xenomorph. #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/11/cymb...

Relic worms for relic fishes: Gyrocotylideans are an ancient group of parasitic flatworms which are related to tapeworms. Appropriately enough, these frilly worms live in the gut of an ancient host - the holocephalans (ratfish), also known as Chimaeras #Invertebrate 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Li Bing to the stone rhinoceros, during the Warring States period: "You will deter the water demons and pacify the rivers' torrential flow" Stone rhinoceros >2200 years later: "Guess I'm an anime girl now, toot TOOT!"

Large stone rhinoceros sculpture excavated from near Tianfu Square, dating from the late Warring States period : "Nooo! Don't turn me into a marketable plushie! Nooooo!!!"

#Invertebrate books at the Tianfu Humanities and Arts Library

This story raises two major concerns: aside from the devasting impact on bat populations, this also provide a potential transmission route for various zoonotic pathogens to jump from bats 🦇 to rats 🐀 to humans 🚶 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

No, it's fine, I just didn't think the the bookstore where I'd run into Haruhi to be Chinese, that's all

How much stress would a wood beetle get if the wood beetle was filled with worms? Horned passalus beetles can have dozens to thousands of worms squirming inside them - and these worms can affect how their host responds to stress #invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/06/chon...

Dragonflies and chicken butts: Prosthogonimus cuneatus is a fluke that lives up the butt of birds. Also known as the oviducts fluke it can cause chickens to lay malformed eggs. #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2024/01/pros...

Guy whose sole exposure to Chinese culture is the Road to Empress FMV (2025) visiting the 长春宫 in 故宮 for first time: "Getting a lot of Road to Empress vibe from this place."

Writing a self-insert GFL fan fic about wanting to become a T-doll but got turn into a Sangvis Ferri ringleader instead and forced to fight the T-dolls but I don't want to so instead I just fight them a bit to rile them up then let them beat my ass because I like seeing them fight and be badasses

When I talk about "fat stacks" this is what I mean

She is truly the People's Princess

⚡Shocking truth⚡ about fish lice: I've written a post about Dolops discoidalis, a species of fish louse which also happens to be the first ectoparasite to be documented from the electric eel 🧪 #Invertebrate dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/10/dolo...

Tired: Labubus Wired: Labouls Laboulbeniales are a group of fungi that live on the carapace of insects. One species - Rickia wasmannii - lives on ants, and they make their host less aggressive, especially towards other laboul-infect ants #Invertebrate dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/04/rick...

Hirudinella is a genus of stomach flukes which are usually associated with the Wahoo. But species in this genus can be found in a wide range of pelagic fishes, including the Pacific bluefin tuna 🧪 #Invertebrate www.researchgate.net/publication/...

There's a species of apicomplexan parasite called Siedleckia nematoides which looks like microscopic version of those soft plastic grub fishing lure🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Ruri Rocks did a wonderful job at conveying the sense of curiosity and wonder about the natural world that got many of us into the natural sciences

Sometimes, parasitologists have to put their own body on the line in the name of science. In this case, a parasitologist played host to a nose leech for over a month to find out more about its life history 🧪 #Invertebrate dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2019/10/dino...

Arknights players crashing out in the comments: WTF she got a figure?? 😡 She's so bad for her rarity, and her in-game abilities and lore are weak 😠😠🤬 Me, who don't play Arknights: OMFG 👀 hawt snek lady who gives me brainrot is getting a scale figure omg omg 🥺😳😳 myfigurecollection.net/item/3045112

Crouching Parrot, Hidden Louse: The Kyloring (Pezoporus flaviventris) is a critically endangered species of Australian parrot, and it is host to Forficuloecus pezopori - a species of louse which lives only on the Kyloring and nowhere else. #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2024/06/forf...