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[corvi]

Inspired by spiralsheep's naarts, I doodled a sowbug with a teeny forest growing on it! Unfortunately, as juli  pointed out, I forgot to draw the roots of the trees, implying they are growing through the poor isopod's carapace, which is somewhat more gruesome than I had in mind. Oops. :)
 

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[spiralsheep]

Eeeeee! That's lovely! And we all have other living things living on us and in us so the symbiotic forest seems fine to me. So all that remains is to start two arguments:

1. What are tiny rotten-wood-eating arthropods called? Note: this is guaranteed to start a passionate argument in almost any social group in England, although the answer is "cheesybugs", OBVIOUSLY.

2. Is this a World Isopod? If so, is your cosmology in opposition to the "turtles all the way down" believers OR is it a variation with an isopod at the top of the pile and then turtles all the way down*?

* (Except for that one armadillo... and no-one knows how she sneaked in there....)

[corvi]

I would accept "roly-poly", "sowbug", "potatobug", "pillbug", or "thrice-accursed strawberry-eating varmint." "Cheesybug" is just silly! And we can't have that.

[spiralsheep]

They're edible so you could claim you're feeding them strawberries deliberately to fatten them up?

Cheesybugs (the most correctest and scientificist name) are also called monkeypeas, cheeselogs, chuggy pigs, parson pigs, and granny greys.

[yam]

Deeee that's adorable! And the colours are splendid. Is that watercolour?

[corvi]

Thank you! And it is! It is my silly 4-dollar kids watercolor set, which sometimes I like to use even though I have nice gouache that comes in tubes.

Well...

[ysabetwordsmith]

That's not a problem if one considers them to be symbiotic trees.