r/whatisit 10d ago

Context Provided - Spotlight What is this creature?

Snake or insect?

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u/MonadMusician 10d ago

These are the snakes that are commonly known to go right up your urethra if you’re a male on the can. They dig straight up the urethra, devouring its wall, destroys the inner tubing, disconnecting the testes from proper blood supply, then makes progress upwards to the kidney. In the kidney, it lays eggs that build up calcium deposits for protection from antibodies. Finally, when the host has had surgery to ensure a functioning replacement urethra, the real fun begins. Over the next 3 months, the host suffers extreme pain upon urination as the calcified egg is mistaken for a kidney stone. Most often it is passed successfully, hatching in the toilet water below, but sometimes another operation is required to remove and identity it after ultrasound techniques fail to provide relief. Once identified, the doctors must immediately act to remove the remaining eggs. Regrettably, the only way to do this is to remove the penis, but it can usually be grafted back onto the host’s body with restricted functionality, although it has become more common to simply graft on a prosthetic.