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My endearing quirks vs their obnoxious tics

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Here’s my current collection of vintage alligators and crocodiles, some crying real tears.

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Hedgehogs……

Tubifera ferruginosa ssp. acutissima

by Jan Thornhill, Canada.

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Ah yes the new bases, ovaltine and figurine

hey its me im calling you about your dna sequencing yeauh the results came in.. yeah you might want to sit down before we get started

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can you. tag your posts about liking hot weather. I'm reading them while dying of heat and it makes me want to kill you

come kill me. there's nothing better than severe physical activity in high temperatures

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workout goals, if you ask me

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Rating: ⭐️⚪��⚪️⚪️⚪️

This book is about something. I thought it was about something else despite it never claiming to be about that. Waste of my time.

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I’ve collected quite a few vintage dragons – see what treasures they’re guarding!

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god forbid i update my boyfriend on what im doing while hes at work

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Lots of careers in schools I see

ocean.com/fish

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I’m not a paleontologist, can anyone who actually knows about dinosaurs tell me what this is?

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Here’s an unusual collection of vintage rhino imagery.

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Smaugust Day 27: Fire

Introducing a ‘new’ dragon, the ‘flaming serpent’. This was inspired by comments on my last boitatá artwork by James-Silvercat (see here) talking about the version of the boitatá legend wherein the serpent is literally on fire.

There are lots of serpents on fire in the Americas, there is the great Gaasyendietha from Seneca mythology up in Lake Ontario in the USA, the boitatá in Brazil, and the Cherruve from Chile (A Book of Creatures covered it here), so I thought having a ‘flaming serpent’ species with many subspecies would be the best way to handle this.

The flaming serpent is a species of ‘feathered’ serpent, similar to the coatl. The ‘feathers’ are actually long thin scales called ‘psuedopennae’, and while the coatl has a green/blue iridescence, the flaming serpent has an black-gold-red iridescence, similar to some hummingbirds: 

(Gif of a Rufous Hummingbird - Selasphorus rufus - by stiekemekat)

The dragon can appear a dull brown or black until the light catches it in a certain way, and as it wiggles flashes like golden fire run down it’s body. They undulate as they swim or fly, like a living flame.

The shape of the scales can produce a whistling sound when the dragon is in flight, similar to the Mapuche legends of the peuchen, a blood-sucking flying serpent (and possibly yet another flaming serpent subspecies). This dragon will still have the spooky reflective eyes, but probably won’t have the bio-luminescent tail.

I am using this Smaugust prompt: https://draconesmundi.tumblr.com/post/625107202033778688

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Are there dragons in 40k?

Kinda? Nocturne (the Salamanders' home planet) has numerous drake/dragon/dinoaur-things on it. Are they explicitly dragons? Not quite. But some are close enough in description.

The Dragon of Mars is possibly a large shard of the Void Dragon, possibly also just a weird draconic monster. It could also be that the shard was in the form of a big draconic monster.

Heldrakes are daemon engine that take the shape of big mechanical dragon-things.

Are any of these things "proper" dragons? That's up to you (the dragon vs drake vs wyrm fight makes my eyes roll out of my head and should be entirely setting dependent, but you do you). It's also an entire galaxy of fauna, so there's probably a knight world somewhere with nobles in giant robots are fistfighting actual dragons.

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Croaking toad By: Niko Tinbergen From: Life Nature Library: Animal Behavior 1965

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A creative horse will be like I’m hoping to get some feedbag on this project