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Warmup sketches. My solution to all of Mikan’s funky ass clothes choices for the 10th Anniversary stuff is to throw a fuckin jacket on her. 

V3 Love Suite Mini Commentary: Ryoma Hoshi

In game, Ryoma says he has no wishes, dreams, or hopes. But, despite that declaration, even he has a fantasy here. A bittersweet one, but it’s still there. Here’s Ryoma’s commentary!

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Two geezers grocery shopping.

Pictures of my current DR Collection posted for the #DRSHRINE3 event on Twitter! 

Remember when Spikechun put them next to each other twice in a row for two separate images. 

I do. You bet I fucking do.

My Super Late™ pic for Hoshi’s birthday! <3

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keebob and romper

MANTISES ARE RELATED TO ROACHES??

yes! while they do have differing ecologies—mantises generally are elongate, diurnal predators and cockroaches generally are flattened, nocturnal detritivores—it’s not so surprising if you take a closer look:

they are one another’s closest relatives, being grouped together in the superorder Dictyoptera, which is revealed by their many shared anatomical features.

if you compare the wing structure on these two, you’ll find the veins are very similar. to get a mantis out of a roach, evolutionarily speaking, all you’ve got to do is elongate the pronotum (roach head shield, mantis ‘torso’), elongate the legs, and enlarge the eyes.

mantises and roaches also both produce “oothecae,” tough eggcases in which eggs are protected from the environment. mantis ooths are often made of sturdy, hard foam, while roach ooths are leathery and purse-like.

the raptorial legs of mantises aren’t too greatly modified from a roach forelimb, either. roaches already have spiny legs for digging and defense; with additional spines organized in rows, there’s a powerful grasping foreleg.

additionally, some of the most basal (least changed from the original ancestor) mantises retain a number of very roach-like features, such as flat bodies, a short pronotum, and long cerci (“butt antennae”). Chaeteessa doesn’t even have the long spike at the end of the tibia segment! although I’m not entirely sure if all of these roachy structures are necessary primitive and not secondarily derived, these two do give a good look at how mantises might’ve looked before they evolved the characteristic spindly green forms you recognize today.

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Metallyticus fallax

Metallyticus fallax from 115, Jalan Bukit Idaman 1, Taman Bukit Idaman, 68100 Batu Caves, Selangor, Malaysia on April 20, 2019 at 01:25 PM b

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Genus Chaeteessa

Chaeteessa from Limón, Costa Rica on January 27, 2023 at 12:29 PM by Martin Galli

don’t ask they just both seemed really fitting here and it’s been eating away at me for ages…