#baranchi

nope, because carcinisation only applies to ocean crustaceans, like lobsters!

over the past 400 million years or so, sea-dwelling crustaceans have kind of bobbled between the two main sea-bug body plans, which we’ll call Hotdog and Hamburger respectively:

the benefit of the Hotdog body plan is that it comes with a long, powerful tail that can be used for active swimming in a pinch to escape from danger! but the main drawback is that this body plan has really low maneuverability and isn’t very dexterous.

now the Hamburger body plan, on the other hand, has dexterity in spades! the lack of a tail may make it slow, but the evenly-spaced spiderlike legs of this body plan more than make up for that shortcoming by allowing quick movement in any direction as long as there’s a surface to walk on.

so there are benefits and drawbacks to both body plans, and both have appeared in the fossil record, but the overall trend is that hotdog body plans tend to become hamburger ones more often than the reverse- and this is what we call carcinisation! it just means that these crustaceans tend over time to gradually drift into a crab shape, even if they aren’t, strictly speaking, actually crabs. 

VICTORY FOR CRAB.

ungh thank u so much am glad u like the arts eehuhu <3 and am glad that any curiousity over these characters might exist, for am working on a visual novel featuring some of them (or a version of them, am still writing and the drawings are fun exploration for me). anyway here is a screenshot type thing -- one of the four stories begins at an overcast beach scene because of course it does 

I was just thinking about you the other day! Glad to see you're surviving quarantine!

Aww thank you Baran! <3

X: 3 OTPs from 3 different fandoms.        

To make it hard one of them won’t be TimKon oho.

1) Xie Lian/Hua Cheng from Heaven Official’s Blessing   天官赐福  (TGCF) by Moxiang Tongxiu 墨香铜臭 (MXTX). I’m not really sure how to describe TGCF but to me it’s about overcoming, endurance, letting yourself be seen, acknowledging the horror of life but not giving in to it. The way XL and HC accept each for who they are and offer support just gets me I LOVE THIS BOOK AND THESE CHARACTERS SO MUCH I’M NOT CRYING YOU’RE CRYING. But also there’s like a flying gundam battle with a giant statue so it is maybe not 100% serious is what I am saying.

2) Kurogane/Fai from Tsubasa:Reservoir Chronicle. Because I was reminded of Tsubasa lately and I still remember it fondly even though I don’t know wtf Clamp even did. I enjoyed their slowburn and how Clamp had the routine eye-gouging and then still one-upped it with one of them cutting off an actual arm for the other. True love in Clamp is losing body parts for your special person.

1) Rats is the absolute perfect name. 2) I am now under the impression that there will be no male characters at all in this campaign.