The point where you get too comfortable with your partner?
The boy: Would you get weirded out if I fucked bacon on a regular basis?
Me: If it was on a regular basis…
Lapis lazuli using dark field microscopy. It has all the pretty colours. Photo from Olympus Microscopy.
Blue things make me happy, even when they possess the ability to poison you. This is Dendrobates auratus. Photo from Encyclopedia of Life.
How I can tell I have the best boyfriend:
He doesn’t get scared when I introduce “Space Adventures” into our sex life, complete with laser noises.
He draws cephalopods in the fogged up bathroom mirror with me.
He references random parasitic worms while declaring his love and tells me “You can lie in my groove.”
I like this one.
Schistosoma mansoni,a species of parasitic trematode that causes the disease schistosomiasis. Well, it’s mainly the eggs released by the parasite that cause the disease, so it isn’t this stage in particular because this is the adult, sexually reproducing stage. It’s the next stage. Anyway, once they are adults, they pair for life, the female living in a groove that lies along the body of the male.
I realised in my Parasitology lecture today that THEY ARE SPOONING FOR LIFE!
The most adorable parasitic reproductive mode; constant spooning.
This is Chrysolina cerealis, also known as the rainbow leaf beetle. They’re found throughout Eurasia, and are about 8mm long. Typically, the females are larger than the males.
Variegated Fairy Wren. Fairy Wrens are such adorable birds, and some of them have crazy sex lives too. In Australia, there are a disproportionate amount of co-operative breeding birds. We’re so awesome down here. Photo by Alan Fear.
