Spicy Isopod Zone

The Isosquad's personal blog! No explicit nsfw here, but do expect some mature themes (ex. sex jokes). Also, if you want us on your dash minus the steady stream of invertebrates, blacklist "Creepy Crawlies". Dragon Age & BG3 Blog: @Wildercrow Art & OCs Blog: @SpicyIsopods [Avatar by Percy]

[amnhnyc]

Cephalopod lovers, meet a squid that’s as cute as its name: the dumpling squid (Euprymna tasmanica)! Also known as the southern bobtail squid, this cephalopod inhabits shallow waters off the coast of southern Australia. It’s an ambush predator and uses mucus glands in its skin to coat itself in sand, where it then lies in wait for prey, like shrimp and small fish. Dumplings must learn to hunt fast: Because males of this species die shortly after mating and females die soon after laying eggs, newborn squid need to fend for themselves. These precocious hatchlings can snag prey twice their size!

Photo: Justin Chan, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[bibliocharlie]

the most helpful thing i have ever seen from neurodivergent internet spaces is “THERE ARE OTHER TIMES OF DAY TO BRUSH YOUR TEETH”. this has genuinely saved me from executive dysfunction spirals so many times.

[proshokk]

Tried acrylic instead of gouache 🍂

[asakiyume]

Drew some of the rabbits that have stopped by my yard (only with different colors).

[c3rvida3]

When I was in the hospital, they gave me a big bracelet that said ALLERGY, but like. I'm allergic to bees. Were they going to prescribe me bees in there.

[mothocean]

[asphodelimago]

So there's a medication called hyaluronidase. It's used to make other medications absorb better, because it makes the cell wall more permeable.

One common usage is to make local anesthetic more effective during surgery, for instance. It's used in a number of injected medications.

Bee stings contain an enzyme very similar to this medication, so sometimes, people with bee allergies have an allergic reaction to hyaluronidase.

This is called cross-reactivity, where your body mistakes something for the thing it's actually allergic to, and has an allergic reaction anyway. For instance, sometimes people with latex allergies also are allergic to bananas and other fruits. They don't actually contain latex, but there are some similar proteins.

Apparently, hyraluronidase used in humans is derived from one of four sources: sheep testicles, cow testicles, cow testicles again, and GMO hamster ovaries.

tl;dr: They won't inject you with bees, but they might inject you with purified cow testicle juice, and your body might say 'eh, cow balls are BASICALLY bees' and try to kill you anyway.

[bearbellyblog]

The world is full of such beauty and wonder. Thank you for that sentence.

[herpsandbirds]

Hi!

I love your account and little critters are my favorite hyperfixation right now!!

I'd love to see some funky isopods id you're able!

ONLY THE FUNKIEST!!!

Green Valve-tailed Isopod (Paridotea ungulata), family Idoteidae, off the coast of Tasmania, Australia

Marine isopod.

photograph by moth_nut

Spiny Tropical Pill Woodlouse (Calmanesia erinaceus), family Armadillidae, Madagascar

photograph by simon_verlynde

Giant Isopod (Bathynomus giganteus), family , order Isopoda, found on the ocean floor in the deep sea of the Indian, Pacific, and West Atlantic Oceans

The largest species of isopod. The largest confirmed individual was measured at 50 cm in length, 36 is a more typical maximum length.

photograph via: Aquarium of the Pacific, Damien du Toit, & NOAA

Desert Isopod (Hemilepistus reaumuri), family Agnaridae, Tunisia

Adults dig burrow systems that are inhabited by family groups.

photographs by Ferenc Vilisics

Red Seaweed Isopod (Euidotea durvillei), family Idoteidae, New Zealand

photograph by Emily Roberts

[feather-bone]

Western black widow with bluets.

Spiders honestly freak me out, I find them very unnerving, but they’re very important to the ecosystem so I have been trying to get along better with them! Drawing them helps. :-) This pretty lady is the most venomous spider in North America! They are very small and don’t release a lot of venom, though, so their bite is rarely fatal.

[ID: an illustration of a glossy black spider with a red hourglass marking hanging from a web. It is posed symmetrically on a tan background with irregular webbing, and is surrounded with small blue flowers, petals, and buds. End]

[nitadraws]

Januaraptor day 8! Sarcoramphus papá (king vulture)

[milkooze-deactivated20260329]

[opalsiren]

give it up for doctors who are kind and empathetic and good at their jobs. wish there were more of them but nevertheless 👏👏👏👏

[piosplayhouse]

The existence of a safeword also implies the existence of a dangerword that you can use to instantly turn any sexual event into a combat encounter

[manyblinkinglights]

#it exists and it's 'feel how cold my hands are'

[archimedes-stims]

x

[swagalicioussquids]

Art Fight & Semi-Hiatus

First order of business: It's that time of year again!!! We'll be participating in Art Fight as always. If you're somehow still unfamiliar with Art Fight, you can learn more about it here.

Here's our Art Fight Profile! We're on Team Mystery this year, but friendly fire is welcome and has the same odds of being revenged as regular attacks.

Some other relevant links:

In Case of Site Outages (Our Info Offsite) General Wishlist Interactions & Mass Attacks Wishlist

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Second order of business: we're moving cross-country this coming week! Between that and Art Fight, I doubt we'll have much if any time for checking Tumblr during July. Our queue should last through the summer here on our main, but we may not see or respond to messages here until August! If you want a reply before August, message us on either Discord, Toyhouse, or Art Fight -- we're SpicyIsopods on all three.

[taylornprice]

lil blue crab

[herpsandbirds]

A pair of California scrub jays have decided to make their home in my yard and seeing them mess around every day makes me so happy! Do you have any favorite jays?

I HAVE SO MANY FAVORITE JAYS!!!

Here are a few, all of them for personal seeing them in the field reasons...

Green Jays (Cyanocorax luxuosus), family Corvidae, Laguna Seca Ranch, Edinburg, Texas, USA

photograph by Randall Patterson

Brown Jay (Cyanocorax morio), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Rio Grande Valley of South TX, USA

photograph via: Santa Margarita Ranch

Florida Scrub Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Merritt Island, Titusville, FL, USA

This is the only bird that endemic to Florida.

Considered “vulnerable”, due to habitat degradation.

photograph by Ted Johnson

Steller’s Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri), family Corvidae, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada

photograph by @mikullashbe

Tufted Jay (Cyanocorax dickeyi), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, endemic to Mexico

photograph by Daniel Garza Tobón

Turquoise Jay (Cyanolyca turcosa), EAT A TASTY BEETLE!!!, family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Napo, Ecuador

photograph by Pancho Enriquez

Plush-crested Jay (Cyanocorax chrysops), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Brazil

Photograph by Luis Carlos Maringa

Inca Jay (Cyanocorax yncas), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Colombia

The Green Jay (Cyanocorax luxuosus) from North America, and the Inca Jay of South America, were once thought to be one species, but they are now separated.

You may occasionally see people identify the South American bird as a green jay (this taxonomy is out of date).

photograph by Alfredo Irizarry

[frigbob]

Person who wants to do stuff trapped in a body that needs to lie down

[scramratz]

My least favorite new politically correct term is "unhoused." Like you can just tell it was created to make liberals feel less icky when talking about homeless people.

I was homeless. I was homeless as a child and as an adult. That shit sucks believe it or not.

The uncertainty. The ever-present grimy feeling from lack of access to running water. Having nothing to your name. The shame you feel is asking your fellow man for the bare minimum. Just so much shame, man.

"Unhoused" is so clinical. A technical term. Sure, its not incorrect, but it doesn't properly convey the emotional and psychological impact homelessness has on you.

You say "house", I think of a structure.

You say "home", I think of stability.

[everentropy]

I feel like the sort of person who dislikes homeless people is not going to have their mind changed if you used "unhoused" instead of "homeless". Them not having a place to live is not the part they ave a problem with! It's the fact that they have to acknowledge another human being's suffering. I get the instinct but I think it's a bit silly