Character Enjoyer

Was able to clean up the lines and put some colors on the sketch from yesterday, and conscripted the limitless talent of my friend @jean-deaux for the rendering lol

I may not have a new submission today for @sharenaweek but I hope this content is welcome all the same!

Also, a bonus edit for fun -

Sharena Week Day 4 - Fav Alt / New Alt

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AGH I thought I'd have more time to do more with this but the best I can do is this rough sketch. I may revisit this later on and try to clean it up.

My heart pines for a Sharena/Henriette harmonic and, while I wasn't sure exactly what theme I wanted to do, the angle of these two being surprisingly uncomfortable/comfortable respectively showing a lot of skin is tough to pass up.

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Sharena Week Day 2 - Travel

Have these gone out of style yet

Mantis Shrimp Hive Tyrant

(the features of 7 animals are included in this one, would love to see who can spot them all!)

Mantis Shrimp Hormagaunt

this blog is making me realize how many incredibly dramatic quotes are in different video games i hadn't heard of

letter sequence in this ask matching protein-coding amino acids:

EnyingyrselvesintrdersItswrthknwingthecataclysmicdamageywillerespnsilefrtdayDntflyrselvesThisfacilityisntsimplythefritlesswrkfsmepatheticscientistThishsewasiltythegenisClvisrayIhimselfWithinlieshmanityssalvatinLefntainedevenceMadepssileyClarityCntrlMagnificentwasntitAnentityfrmeyndrwndimensinandtheanswerthmanityseternalstrgglemrtalityWereittfallintthewrnghandshmanityandtheniversewldetterlydmedIhavenreasntelievethatyareanythingtherthanthewrnghandsYnwfacegdlikedgmentMayitetendeternally

protein guy analysis:

this was a weird one to see once it came together. the structure itself looks slightly better than average for this blog, but still pathetic in comparison to actual proteins. there is a lot going on in terms of secondary structure, with several alpha helices and two beta sheets (one impressive big one and one cute tiny one). still, there are a lot of loops, and too many gaps in the structure for my personal comfort. the really neat part, however, is the confidence of the prediction. everything is the usual bright red for terrible, except a small section at the C terminal end with scores reaching up to around 80%. (by small i mean pretty much just the small leftmost alpha helix and nothing else). I did a BLAST search for the last 10 letters just to see if that matched anything, and ended up finding a perfect match for the segment! since AlphaFold works by comparing inputted sequences to experimentally determined protein structures, finding something that overlaps with a real protein (and has pretty good similarity to several others) makes things much more trustworthy!

predicted protein structure:

cartoon representation