Tag Which Tardigrade You Are, Im Terry

tag which tardigrade you are, im terry

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reblog and tag which bird you are

I, and the rest of meta saloon, was tagged by @messier51​, @s-cornelius​, and @defilerwyrm​, I think.

1) write your name tumblr nickname in song titles

Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel 

All My Loving by The Beatles

Radioactive by Imagine Dragons

I’ve Got A Theory by The Buffy The Vampire Slayer Cast

2) why did you choose your url?

It’s a classic.

3) what’s your middle name?

(this is one of the first things to come up when i used the “insert relevant gif” feature)

4) if you could be a fictional/fairytale character, who would you be?

Well, I aspire to be as awesome as Jadzia Dax, but Sam Wilson is a close second because he can talk to birds.

5) favorite colors?

Blue, but also anything bright.

6) favorite song at the moment?

I dunno????? (I was just listening to Sing Off while cleaning my room, which leaves me rather suggestible to any song I hear for a bit, so...)

7) why do you enjoy tumblr?

My friends, the science side of tumblr (particularly the zoologists), fandom (when it’s tolerable) and the art.

8.) Tag 9 mutuals

Do it if you want, but tag me so I can see it, please!

[Announcement] Operation: Tardigrade Costume is a success

This year’s Halloween dream was realized: TARDIGRADE.

  Well hello there.

“How did you decide to dress as a tardigrade?” I was asked by one or two people.

First I saw a bunch of people Facebooking this image about a year ago. It fucking freaked me out.

So freaked out that I kept coming back to it and eventually reveled in its horror. 

Then I went to the Tardigrade Weekend event at CalAcademy, which was fun. 

That’s about it. 

What’s fun about imagining yourself in a tardigrade costume is how puffy and creepy and un-sexy it is. In a sea of sexy costumes, you stand out.

If you want to make your own tardigrade costume…

1. Consider buying THE text on tardigrades, The Biology of Tardigrades, to get a better idea of all the different biological features they have.

2. Check out these other personal tardigrade expressions:

An extremely convincing costume from 2013

A more purply one, just as freakish, posted in 2014

Two red, lobsterish costumes (word find for “tardigrade”)

3. Peep my costume recipe below. IMO you can make your tardigrade any color, but it should be monochrome. I made mine gray, because it seemed to fit my experience of it when I’d looked through a microscope. 

Vanessa’s tardigrade costume recipe 

Puffy sleeping bag with a drawstring opening

3 sweatshirts

Fiberfill

8 large claw hair clips

Gloves

Footwear (I chose leggings and flats)

Large coffee cup with the bottom cut out

Acrylic craft paint

Fabric scissors, needle, thread, string, and safety pins

Assembly instructions: Cinch the drawstring as far as you can, so that your face won’t be visible but the mouthpiece will still fit through it. Cut open the bottom of the sleeping bag and hem it. Figure out where your arms should come out, and cut and hem holes for them, like sewing a large buttonhole. Sew the hair clips to the cuffs of two of the sweatshirts, then cut the arms off and stuff them with fiberfill. Attach the arms to the sleeping bag in two symmetrical pairs. Attach clips to your gloves and footwear. Paint the coffee cup and attach a string to tie round your head. Put on the sweatshirt and gloves and footwear, step into the sleeping bag, zip it up most of the way, then tie the cup onto your mouth and CAREFULLY fit it through the hole in the drawstring. Zip yourself up the rest of the way. Waddle around, frighten your friends, and paste the wikipedia link for tardigrades into IMs for the curious.

Notes

1. Special thanks to costume expert Katie Taylor for her exclusive consultation on building the costume. It wouldn’t have happened without her!

2. Photo and GIF credit goes to John Manoogian III.

3. If you really like tardigrades, just take a moment to give props to Dr. William R. Miller, PhD, who is doing the only real tardigrade research at the moment. Or study with him. Or find his Twitter account and tell me about it, so I can follow him and retweet his moss piglet thoughts.

4. Apropos of nothing, last year I dressed as Brienne from Game of Thrones.

Have a pleasant Halloween.

We just discovered a new addition to our collection of Awesome Volkwagen Beetles in a very surprising place: the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. This miniature VW Bug was found pinned to the wall as part of a display of beetle specimens in the museum’s Entomology Collection, demonstrating that someone at that museum has a great sense of humor.

Photos by RiotheLibrarian and hailtothkngbby respectively.

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*runs off with like 8 snakes stashed carefully in various pockets and bags*

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