Tongue Eating Louse (Cymothoa exigua)
A pair of ocellaris clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) are hosts to the tongue eating louse. The parasite enters the fish through its gills where they extract blood from the tongue. It then replaces the atrophied tongue, attaching its own body to the stub. The fish is able to use the parasite just like a normal tongue. This is the only known case of a parasite functionally replacing a host organ.
Image: © William Tan
that is seriously fascinating
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So yeah.
Summer is coming! And I thought that would be a great idea to start some big Russia/America projects to bring the fans together.
So I thought, why not make a Visual Novel?
(Unsure of what a visual Novel is? Click Here)
I would need to gather a group of people to participate in this, and I’ll make a detailed post about it later. This is just to know if their would be some interest toward this project?
If you need someone to contribute character artwork or CGs I don’t mind giving it a shot. These kinds of things sound like they’d be a lot of fun to work on.
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I’m going to refrain from correcting the ocean of typos and errors in this and talk about Sealand.
Sealand doesn’t have the first thing to do with Latvia. Anyone who has ever looked at even a small bit of Latvian history can tell you Sealand never did anything relevant to Latvia. To Latvia, Sealand is a hunk of cement. I know it’s canon. But I still hate it. When I first saw Hetalia however long ago, I actually thought Sealand and Latvia had some sort of history together…but a quick search will tell you they don’t. Can you tell I hate this pairing? Oh well.
Also. Rewording the character wiki makes you look stupid.
See, I would be slightly inclined to disagree with that. It’s fair enough that you don’t like how something is portrayed in canon but just because someone plays to something in canon you don’t like doesn’t necessarily make them a bad role-player (the excessive grammar mistakes and blatant plagiarism does) .
Then again, I guess it all depends on how it was played out. If they were the best of friends and Latvia never once found him annoying then yeah, that would be problematic. I’m excited to see more of your blog, I just worry about personal bias getting in the way.
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