#scyphozoans

[psappho-loves-staurozoans]

Drew a species of Cnidarian for every class 1. *Chrysaora colorata* 2. *Melithæa ochracea* 3. *Tripedalia cystophora* 4. *Hydra vulgaris* 5. *Aulactinia veratra* 6. *Myxobolus cerebralis* 7. *Polypodium hydriforme* 8. *Calvadosia campanulata*

[gleichschenklig]

[cnidariansnews-blog]

Scyphozoans

Scyphozoans include most of the jellyfish familiar to beach-goers; other similar organisms are classified in the Hydrozoa and Cubozoa, two other groups of cnidarians. True jellyfish are graceful, and sometimes deadly creatures. Their stings may cause skin rashes, muscle cramps, or even death

[breathinginbiology]

Scyphozoans or Jellyfish 

[slowspinningredemption]

scyphozoans replied to your post:I think the erratic nature of my queue right now...

You’re going off the rails.

In all fairness, the rails completely left the picture a couple of months ago, and I was off them a while before then. I'm not even in the area of the rails.

[foundcarcosa]

Pretty sure what I say sometimes sounds harsh, or it can if I'm not careful. I kind of prefer it because I know that in the past my trying to word things in such a way as is nice has led to people being able to twist my words, or to me not having the means to say (basically) 'look, go away' because there isn't always a nice way to say that, even though I've needed it. So honestly I'm kind of over this 'trying to sound friendly' thing because I am decent, my words themselves reflect that.

Not everything in this world is meant to be pretty or sugary or decorated. some things are stark and austere and ugly and jagged. Gilding a pile of shit doesn't make it any less shit, so why the pretense?

We're humans, for Gan's sake. When we cry, snot runs out of our noses, and when we laugh, sometimes we look horsey, and when we speak to each other, we don't sound like My Little Ponies, and that's perfectly fine. Generally, other humans are not out to stab us with their words, and the more one remembers that, the easier it is to stop turning into prickly pears every time someone says something in a tone that isn't pleasing to our ears.

[foundcarcosa]

ngl your not typing out all the 'lol' 'hehe' sort of thing was part of what gave me the guts to stop doing it myself when I didn't mean it. I hate it, I am not that sort of person, and if that makes me seem distant then so be it.

Exactly. It's just so annoying, people are more interested in how people say things rather than the content, and that's how we end up with people saying a whole lot of nothing with nice-sounding words and people saying a whole lot of something but getting shouted down because they didn't make it sound nice and sugar-sweet.

I want to be known for what I say, and the honesty within it. That's it.

[slowspinningredemption]

Also I spent like an hour last night teaching scyphozoans the difference between pitch and volume, and also how to swear at people in German. It was a productive evening.