Ok now I'm curious about what the fuck the two centipedes I found in my basement that I thought were fucking were actually doing. They sure looked like they were fucking.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2024
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They were wrestling. Go back to bed.
wrestling 😏
"Step-centipede, what are you doing?!"
I don't know how to boil the water ~~~
Maybe they were those queer centipedes that fuck in person. Degenerates
They do it just for fun! Gross.
Don't humanize centipedes! That leads to strange and disturbing things...
too late
Too late
Too Late
TOO LATE
There are way, way more "centipede monster girl" image results... DuckDuckGo/Google
Eww, making it a head tail is so much worse!
Just makes me wonder if it's a centipede girl or a centipede that ate a girl's brain and puppets her body around.
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Someone has already centipedized humans. This is the next step.
Don’t humanize centipedes
I'M DOING MY PART!
Just gonna take a quick stroll over to rule34.xxx and see what there is to see...
Edit: Jesus fuck 638 results. We just needed ONE to confirm the rule, but 638?!
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When two centipedes ~~love each other~~ are both really hungry...
A disappointingly large proportion of the general population appears to be unable to tell the difference between centipedes and millipedes. Is it possible that the "centipedes" you saw were actually millipedes? If so, they may have been "fucking", or at least the millipede equivalent of it.
Additionally, it appears that this "fact" is actually wrong (big surprise, huh?). Many species of centipede do have courtship strategies that involve males and females meeting up. The sexes may even employ various forms of physical touch as part of the process. So, it's certainly possible that the critters you saw where centipedes courting each other.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede#/media/File%3AMillipede_centipede_side-by-side.png
Assuming this is actually representative of the difference, it was definitely a pair of centipedes.
I'm not surprised in the least that at a minimum it's more complicated than the meme suggests, and now I've learned far more about centipedes than I ever wanted to. Thanks!
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Centipedes see other Centipedes as food, which is why they reproduce this way.
Source: made it up, but it seems logical. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The last time I left sperm packets on the ground I was branded a "pervert" and a "freak" and told to leave the restaurant immediately before they called the police.
You need to dress it up as geocaching.
Sooo are centipedes like fruit flies and not engage in any real form of sexual selection, or is the female going around judging the fuck out of every jizz pile she encounters?
"Mmm-mm, look at that poor viscosity, obviously from a low-quality male. This one on the other hand: deep color, firm texture, nice and sticky... clearly produced by a male with the superior genes I want to pass along to my offspring."
I'm upset no ones chimed in with a really technical breakdown and linked some studies
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The DoorDash approach to sexual reproduction. Fantastic.
Oh boy, the jar arrived!
And a complementary turkey baster, too!
have you seen a centipede? completely unfuckable
...unless you are a leg man...
Now im imagining a centipede sticking out fifty pantyhosed legs from around the corner while catcalling its mark.
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Woah there buddy, please don't fetish shame.
So THAT'S how Vance & his wife have kids: he leaves her some fresh sperm in the couch
damn, the lore thickens
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Octopi do something similar but at least they meet up, the dude will just hand her his dick tentacle for later. ~~Octopi being octopi I would assume it grows back.~~ So it's one specific Cephalopod that actually makes a shell and they actually die after giving it to the female.
Most cephalopods die after mating. Their sex hormones make them go crazy and they stop looking for food except to eat themselves occasionally. Once the sex hormone glad starts pumping them out, it doesn't stop until they die a horrible death. Live fast and die young.
I was very excited about humanity killing itself off and letting the superior line of sapience take over until I learned this fact. It's going to be a bit before the octopi are ready to create a civilization.
They don't do any parenting, either. Nor do siblings ever team up. Baby octopus just has to take care of itself, alone.
It's weird, they're so intelligent, but don't teach anything to the next generation.
Arguably the biggest reason they don't develop civilizations; you have to be able to pass learned knowledge on down generations.
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I've met people like this
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Taking “hit it and quit it” to the next level.
Skeet and yeet.
Huh, guess I'm a centipede then.
Relationship goals.
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