Ah yes, the curly tailed soma!
Though I have to admit, the angle this was at with the slices in the soma made me think it looked like an upside down scrub brush.
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Should have colored it yellow, looks like a corn cob 
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And here it is. After 2 full days of tracing, over 500 edits and some cursing 
https://ngl.flywire.ai/?json_url=https://globalv1.flywire-daf.com/nglstate/6208862927454208
This cell had everything - big mergers, small mergers, whole spectrum of misalignment sizes, mergers, which needed 6-7 cuts to be fully separated, sneaky missing branches, not so sneaky branches, etc., etc.
It looks like some sort of an ALU (Arithmetic-Logic Unit) for a CPU, or a multiplexer/demultiplexer. Intersting to trace and to look at.
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Legit curious what sort of structure this, because it double-backed on itself twice and was real thick.
https://ngl.flywire.ai/?json_url=https://globalv1.flywire-daf.com/nglstate/6167404514115584
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Two interesting in a row! This one had the longest auto-fasiculation I’ve seen so far.
https://ngl.flywire.ai/?json_url=https://globalv1.flywire-daf.com/nglstate/6365815192420352
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That’s normal for these types of cells (LAWF). See the cell catalogue for some examples. They also show that you are still missing a branch that is coming off of that lump of branches.
You’ll find there are some very spiral-y swirled branches here in the fly brain 
And that looks like you’ve gotten your first bouquet cell! They are notorious auto-fasiculators (is that even a word?). We call them “bouquet” cells because they look like floral bouquets with all their stems gather together 
Scroll up through this gallery to see some good examples ^^
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Beautiful KK! It really makes one appreciate all the intricacies of even just the fly brain
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amazing cell! Can you imagine how many thousand cubes it’d have been if it was in ew? xD Having to check, reap and complete that would have been an ‘interesting’ challenge 
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I’d say, at least 5000 cubes, probably more. And I really, really don’t want to think, what would MSTY do with that thing
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oh dear lords no, just no. No, msty does not get to play w these crayons lol
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Nope, she would eat the crayons, tear the canvas and runaway
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https://ngl.flywire.ai/?json_url=https://globalv1.flywire-daf.com/nglstate/5714036087848960
If ever a neuron would work as a roller coaster track, this would be one.
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I was sure, there’s a merger somewhere, yet, it’s all one cell (even the hanging bits at the bottom).
Looks like a military radar
https://ngl.flywire.ai/?json_url=https://globalv1.flywire-daf.com/nglstate/4506630485966848
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Finally found the mythical 2-soma cell
(actually, the one of the left is just a large bouton with a mitochondrion inside, but I was a bit confused)
https://ngl.flywire.ai/?json_url=https://globalv1.flywire-daf.com/nglstate/6665503850364928
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Went looking for a soma, found the Great Wall of Glia instead 
https://ngl.flywire.ai/?json_url=https://globalv1.flywire-daf.com/nglstate/5373904642113536
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This cell is interesting because of the way, the branch with the soma splits from the bouton.
At first, there was only the small tail to the left and I was searching for the soma or some extension there. By accident, I’ve found the split earlier in the bouton and the soma was there. I wonder, if some other “missing soma” cells don’t have the same situation.
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