#heliozoa

[happyjamming]

art commissioned from @fra4tas

HELIOZOA

she/her, known as Zoa to her friends!

Description: Plasmoid, 6' 10", 69 years old, Celestial Warlock / Twilight Cleric

History: Heliozoa was created in a lab known at the Cathedral in the Astral Sea by a mysterious group known as the Radiant Star. She was raised by an eccentric inventor, the tiefling Calamus. After 68 years, she escaped from the lab with a fellow experiment, an angel named Veta with whom she made a pact. After traveling with a band of space pirates, she ended up at the spelljamming school outside the city of Apeireos, on the planet Atlas. There, she befriended an air genasi named Zeph, whom she at first mistook for her patron angel. She can’t relax knowing her creator is out there, searching for her. Now a cleric of Celestian to pull on his power to help her angel Veta.

Objective: fulfill her pact with Veta by saving a corrupted angel in the Astral Sea

Favorite Things: Zeph (in a Not romantic way), spicy food (because it is something she can actually taste), her dead pet badger who saved the world, reading

[unknownmib]

[adelicateculturecell]

“Microbe names are weird and wonderful to dive into because they can tell us so much about both the organism and also the person who named them.”

Journey to the Microcosmos: How to Name a Microbe

Images Originally Captured by Jam’s Germs

Quote Spoken by Hank Green

[glowing-disciple]

More zooplankton

[coma-adult]

Last one for now, some excerpts of my notes (i have 12 pages about this) from one of my favourite topics: PROTISTA.

[happyjamming]

I saw someone on here make a letterbox account for their oc and I thought it was so fun so I had to duplicate it for my dnd character ✨

[adelicateculturecell]

"Of course, these shapes aren't just for fun. An organism's shape is connected to the world it lives in, though sometimes the factors shaping them are beyond our understanding. It can be difficult at times to narrow down why a microbe takes on a particular shape when the reality of the microcosmos is that in any environment, you can find a whole plethora of shapes that might seem to have nothing in common."

Journey to the Microcosmos- The Diversity of Shapes in the Microcosmos

Images Originally Captured by Jam's Germs

Pediastrum cell wall 630x, Opercularia 630x, Cyanobacteria 630x, Dinoflagellates 200x, Algae & Heliozoa 630x, Amoeba & diatoms 630x

[adelicateculturecell]

"If a heliozoan's axopodia seem threatening to you, that's good. Those stiff spikes aren't there as decoration, they play an important role in the heliozoan's hunt for food, whether that's other protists or even tiny animals. You should probably think of them less as spikes and more as sticky skewers. After the heliozoan's prey get caught in the axopodia, it is immediately immobilized and stuck to the adhesive surface. The prey then gets drawn in towards the heliozoan itself until it is close enough to be engulfed into a vacuole for further digestion."

Journey to the Microcosmos- Heliozoa: Round, Sticky, and Covered in Spikes

Images Originally Captured by Jam's Germs