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"It's for your own good."

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unrelated but i was looking at your old toga art and it is interesting how everyone in the fandom agrees that she has sh scars which is really cool to me because everyone is normal about it the last internet group i was in would make you censor images of your real life arms or legs if they had sh scars on them or anything they thought looked like sh scars so this is a nice change of pace you know. mha tumblr actually pretty normal

I think self-harm makes sense for her since we do see her bite her own wrist in her sleep (even her bed frame) like she was def stressed as a young teen and needed to cope somehow </3

A lot of people engage in self-harming activities for punitive reasons or jusg to cope it’s not that rare idk why people are so scandalized by it djdndn

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Cloudberries and raspberries

Photos by Sven Zacek

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Hello! I found an interesting looking A. nasatum (the one on the right) and I was wondering if you had any ideas about what her genetics might be?

possibly a novel mutation, a bit too pigmented for a “Pearl” in my opinion

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Brown Creeper (Attidops cinctipes) made my day today 🥹

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Olm (Proteus anguinus), family Proteidae, far NW Italy

This aquatic salamander is neotenic/paedomorphic (retaining juvenile traits - ie. gills and other aquatic adaptations)

Found only in karst rock cave systems with ample water in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia Hercegovina, and far NW Italy.

Also called the "human fish", proteus, and white cave salamander.

Olms are blind, but have excellent sense of smell and hearing (for a salamander).

photograph by Matteo Di Nicola

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do you have any advice for incorporating wild caught A. vulgare into a captive bred color morph culture?

for context, i have a mix of american magic potion, orange vigor, and a lighter shade of wild type in one enclosure, and a handful of wild caught A. vulgare (i assume) in another enclosure. i sometimes take the prettier or more interesting looking individuals from the wild caught bin and put them in with the captive bred ones.

i’m mainly just experimenting with colors for funsies, and it’s going well so far, but i wanted to ask another isopod keeper for some input.

thanks!

how you mix them is dependent on what you want—if there’s a specific color pattern you’d like by this combination let me know and I can give you advice on how to make the selection process easier

but if you just want to increase genetic diversity, mixing them however you’d like works. just be mindful that addition of a lot of wildtype animals will now skew the ratio of alleles towards wildtypes, and you’ll see many fewer funky colors from here on out. also be mindful of disease: quarantine new arrivals for a few months and make sure to check their belly color for any bright white opaqueness, as that’s a bacterial infection that can decimate a colony

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Wanted to share this pretty and large green/blue spider we found! was safely returned to a nearby pine tree

lichen orbweavers are so cool and I’ve always wanted to find one! also her markings kinda look like a very dramatic face

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SALTICUS PECKHAMAE BLAST

(all photographs by me)

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The books finally arrived this morning and they are BEAUTIFUL. I'm so excited to get these shipped out to everyone!

www.owlflyllc.com/publications

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for the past few days I've been waking up to the sound of a small animal in my bedroom, messing with plastic bags and such on the floor, but in a way that I had literally no idea what it was. It sounds about the size of a mouse, but it doesn't scurry in bursts like a mouse - it moves continuously. when it walks over plastic, it sounds like slowly deflating an air mattress into a bag of tissue paper.

now that I own the house and I have to pay to fix this stuff, it's extra disturbing; especially since I can't find any evidence of damage in the rest of the house. a squirrel already destroyed some of the soffit to get into the roof earlier this week - what new horrible thing is here now?

friends, today I caught the animal:

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Oc art for one of my first followers <3

this Oc belongs to @lonniethefurry

here’s there oc

from the second I saw Bumblesting, I immediately thought: “this is going to be a pain to draw, and it’s also gonna be so much fun to draw.” Such a beautiful OC means lots of pressure on me, because I worry about it not looking good enough- but I think I did well! And here is my artwork <3

Bumblesting was so much fun to draw, they are such a beautiful tortie and I hope that I did well bringing this Oc to life in my style of art!

thank you again to Loonie ( @lonniethefurry ) for supporting me as one of my first followers!

Enjoy your artwork, Loonie! Thanks for the commission!

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Many-legged beauty, Scolopendra japonica.

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reblog to tell your mutuals they’re lovely af.

✨♡♡✨♡♡✨♡♡✨♡♡✨

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baby from World’s Finest #30

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just a redraw of picture of lil otter with a fish

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I just spent some time scrolling through this blog and am suffering from sever laughter. Thanks so much for collating the countries craziest moments. One of my favourites is when Scott Morrison was in Hawaii while the bushfires where burning.

December 2019: As Australia's east coast is engulfed in the worst bushfires in living memory, rumours begin to circulate that Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison may have secretly fucked off for a holiday in Hawaii.

Keep in mind, this is what is going down in Australia at the time:

The Hawaii rumour is initially written off as a fringe conspiracy, because surely nobody could be that fuckin tonedeaf, and it was quickly forgotten about... until an Australian man visiting Hawaii UPLOADED A SELFIE ON THE BEACH WITH THE PM THROWING A SHAKA.

At which point all hell broke loose.

Overnight the formerly popular "Scomo" became the most despised man in all of Australia. Think "firefighters shouting out of their windows to news cameras" level of despised.

After about two days of radio silence and pretending like he was still at home running the country, the Prime Minister's handlers finally dragged him onto call with an Australian radio station, where he pinky promised to return to Australia as fast as he could in an attempt to calm things down.

Unfortunately Scott's empathy consultant (a real job) then had to watch Scott pour more gasoline on the dumpster fire by uttering the now famous phrase "Look I don't hold a hose mate" when asked by the radio interviewer why the fucking fuck the fuckhead wasn't fucking in Australia doing his fucking job during a massive fucking crisis.

Testing just how much worse things could get, Scomo then proceeded to NOT rush back to Australia as promised, instead attempting to complete the rest of his holiday, a fact that was exposed when a passerby snapped a picture of him still lounging on the beach two days later.

Eventually, holiday complete, Morrison did reluctantly slink back to Australia, and in an attempt to calm things down, he decided to pay a visit to a small town that had been destroyed by the fires.

Which was a big mistake.

Scomo still had not registered how absolutely and totally he had screwed the poodle with his Hawaiian beach vacation, and he walks into what is now taught in PR classes as one of the greatest examples of "what not do do in a crisis" in all of history.

Scotty from Marketing, as he is now dubbed by the nation, spends a painfully cringe-inducing hour wandering around a burned down town with TV news cameras in tow, having to FORCE PEOPLE TO SHAKE HIS HAND in what is some of the most awkward footage you will ever see.

At this point it's probably also worth mentioning that, before becoming Prime Minister, Scott Morrison's biggest claim to fame in politics was being the guy that was so far up the coal lobby's arse that he literally brought coal into parliament and waved it around, claiming it doesn't hurt people.

So when a protest was organised it turned out to be one big national fuck you to the Prime Minister, the likes of which the world has never seen before or since.

Needless to say, at this point Scomo's career was dead in the water, but thanks to the rules brought in to stop Australian political parties from knifing their leader every two weeks (a popular Aussie passtime) Morrison basically couldn't get fired until after the next election.

And so, when the election rolled around in 2022, we decided that was an opportune time to travel over to Hawaii to erect this bad boy tribute to the Prime Minister, on the very beach where Scomo had sat and drank margaritas that one fateful week in December as Australia burned (thanks to @chaser for funding the ticket)