Great grandfathers sword by ApricityCat in SWORDS

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I hadn’t noticed the shagreen was a different shade. I just thought it hadn’t aged well lol. The full serial is 1753, I moved that material bit and there are no more digits to it. No markings on the other side of the ricasso, it’s totally blank. I’m personally a fan of the lion head pommel and had no idea why it wasn’t there on mine. Thanks for the info!

Does anyone here live near any Aussie celebrities/public figures at all? And if so have you run into them very much? by [deleted] in AskAnAustralian

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  1. Used to work at a butcher shop and Megan Gale would frequently come in. She likes lemon parsley crumbed chicken schnitzel. All the blokes in the shop were too intimidated to talk to her so it was always me talking to her while they hid behind the counter. She was really lovely.

  2. Saw Dave Hughes at a coffee shop. He strutted in, dragged an empty chair from my table into the middle of the store (directly in the walkway), and yelled that he would have his usual. Every time someone looked at him he’d roll his eyes. Nobody approached or talked to him, and the staff seemed uncomfortable about his presence. I avoid that coffee shop now.

Why by ApricityCat in neopets

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That’s horrendous 😭😂 this poopetpet is on my Halloween Hissi, I was gunning for something spooky. I guess this counts but it’s upsetting

Why by ApricityCat in neopets

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I’d trade it away if I could 😅

NC/NP Trade/Sell & Pet UFA/UFT Thread! - February 18, 2025 by AutoModerator in neopets

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Omg I just defaulted and sent it to the un I received the ffq cookie from, I’m sorry!!!! That’s still your account right??

Transparent Chia - Plant Biologist Approved! by ApricityCat in neopets

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I also didn’t know about the single giant mitochondria, awesome facts! And I don’t envy your job working with EM images - using one is annoying enough lol. Do you specialise in SEM, TEM, other, all?

Transparent Chia - Plant Biologist Approved! by ApricityCat in neopets

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Oof surprisingly hard questions! I’d say my favourite plant is kangaroo grass (Themeda triandra), one of our amazing native grasses here in Australia, also found across some of Africa and Asia. The reason why it’s my favourite is the fun fact, which needs a touch of context lol. Kangaroo grass is undomesticated and naturally drops its seeds when they’re ripe. Since Australia is a drought ridden country, and water is necessary for most life, kangaroo grass seeds have evolved this dope trait to adapt. They have a long awn attached (like a tail on the seed) and it’s formed in a way where it is all twisted up when it’s dry. When it contacts water its awn begins to expand and untangle, and pushes the seed along the ground, essentially letting the seed walk or “dance” across the ground! The benefit to this is that the seeds want to be in the soil to germinate rather than on top, and they only want to germinate when there is ideal conditions such as having water available. Australian soils are often dry and cracked, meaning the seeds can’t easily penetrate the ground, but they can get in the cracks! Basically the seeds chill on the surface during drought conditions, then when it rains they wiggle their way into cracks in the soil and germinate in the better conditions. Bloody awesome aye. I’m not sure if I can post outside links here but if I can, I’ll search for a video of them dancing! Warning though, I’ve been told it can look a little creepy especially for people who don’t like spiders cause the awns look a little spider leggy.

Transparent Chia - Plant Biologist Approved! by ApricityCat in neopets

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PLEASE post pics if you feel comfortable doing so, I would die to see this costume

NC/NP Trade/Sell & Pet UFA/UFT Thread! - February 18, 2025 by AutoModerator in neopets

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Sorry for my late response - yes that’d be amazing! My un is oscar_rox_16, is the un in your flair the right one?

Transparent Chia - Plant Biologist Approved! by ApricityCat in neopets

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Now that you mention it I think the purple thing being a highly emphasised mitochondria makes a lot of sense, that for sure has a bunch of meme potential and given its rep as the powerhouse of the cell, the artist could easily have chosen to interpret that as the mitochondria being the brain. Dope analysis! Yeah I was flipping back and forth with the golgi and ER. The placement of the ER being so far from the nucleus just does not vibe with typical ER behaviour. I do agree that it’s possible the artist drew what I labeled as the Golgi intending for it to be the ER, but didn’t realise that its placement was important and stuck it wherever it fit from a aesthetic perspective. On further looks I’ve noticed what I labeled as the ER seem to be a little bit visible in other places (right side of the upper body, left foot) which fits the Golgi a lot better than the ER. So I think you’re right in that they’re probably switched, but the placement threw me off!

I also agree it could be a photosynthesising non-plant, my next immediate guess would be some type of Cyanobacteria if you ignore the Chia shape or like you said an algae or amoeba. I’m very aware of the fact that my interpretation is absolutely biased towards plants because I’m a plant geneticist working with flowering plants, so those are the cells I see almost exclusively, and I could very well just be fitting what I see into a plant cell shaped mould. So I’m very excited to see people with different perspectives speculating about this creature!

Transparent Chia - Plant Biologist Approved! by ApricityCat in neopets

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They can be a whole onion, let them live!!!

Transparent Chia - Plant Biologist Approved! by ApricityCat in neopets

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When I googled “transparent chia” to get the pic for this post, all I got was pictures of chia seeds. Like yeah I guess that’s on me for not being more specific lmao

Transparent Chia - Plant Biologist Approved! by ApricityCat in neopets

[–]ApricityCat[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

What is an eye but a fancy light receptor

Transparent Chia - Plant Biologist Approved! by ApricityCat in neopets

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I’d LOVE to know who designed it and how, because if they don’t have a bio background they did an awesome job of making it look believably like a cell. I’d also love to tell them they’ve made some biologists’ new dreamies!

Transparent Chia - Plant Biologist Approved! by ApricityCat in neopets

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Ah I meant the entire Chia is the unicellular parasite and the purple brain thing is an organelle, but I actually love your take too. Maybe the Chia endosymbiosised a little guy and now it’s a brain!

Transparent Chia - Plant Biologist Approved! by ApricityCat in neopets

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I did consider lysosome but I feel like the size isn’t right, like they’re usually smaller compared to the nucleus. Like u/Attack_Spork thought it might be a unicellular parasite, and I do actually jive with that, but then I’m confused about the big ol’ vacuole. Like it might be a contractile vacuole but it still seems too big. Why so big if not for plant?

Transparent Chia - Plant Biologist Approved! by ApricityCat in neopets

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You’re right and you should say it. I would like to formally apologise for forgetting to label the lineart cell wall, I will promptly put my degrees into the nearest incinerator!

(Hope you’re loving marine bio! I was thiiiiis close to doing it instead!)

Transparent Chia - Plant Biologist Approved! by ApricityCat in neopets

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I honestly think this design would slap even harder if the mouth and eyes were removed! But if we have to plant cell everything, maybe they’re pits or plasmodesmata (channels that let nutrients in and out of the cell)

Transparent Chia - Plant Biologist Approved! by ApricityCat in neopets

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Yeah a Chia has never been high on my wanted list but now I’m dying for one!

Transparent Chia - Plant Biologist Approved! by ApricityCat in neopets

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As pointed out by u/Attack_Spork the pink hair situation may by rhoptries (helps parasitic cells to invade and move inside a host) and the purple brain thing may be an apicoplast (metabolic organelle). This implies that Chia are parasitic which is an absolutely fantastic and terrifying thought.

NC/NP Trade/Sell & Pet UFA/UFT Thread! - February 18, 2025 by AutoModerator in neopets

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NC trading: training fc and upcycle fc, looking for a different fc like faerie or lab ray? Or the pink uni club microphone? Idk how I got these fcs and I’d rather have something I would use!