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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.
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
Caterpillar girls are fine though.
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.
I draw the line at 8 legs.
Avatar checks out.
Those are clearly millipedes
Thanks, I hate it
The head tail goes hard
Centipedussy.
That top one is from momodora right?
No, it's apparently original
Oh actually yeah looking at the momodora character again its not even a resemblance besides the white hair and being a centipede
Someone has already centipedized humans. This is the next step.
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?!
And three movies that never should have been made.
Gonna put put my dick in a centipede
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!
millepedes are gross. centipedes are scary
Centipedes see other Centipedes as food, which is why they reproduce this way.
Source: made it up, but it seems logical. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
maybe they're just the cuddly-type except for the distancing-fucking
EDIT: I just realized this is Zizeks perfect romance as described by him
They could have been fighting. Maybe there was a lack of available food or fluid.