#Blood python

[fimbry]

Blush again, showing off his little blushy cheek markings. He's such a superb snake with a graceful attitude.

Python brongersmai

[thlpp]

Most people have a mouse next to their keyboard, but me, I got a snake!

[hisssyfitsss]

My newest baby ❤️‍🔥

Male T- Albino Blood Python

[fucxingcuties]

Sumatran Short Tail Python (Python curtus), Aceh Province variety, family Pythonidae, from Sumatra, Indonesia

photograph by AC Exotics

[errantsquam]

pumpkin snek

shoutout to my friend for letting me paint his snek

[hound-bound]

Moved this handsome boy into his upgraded enclosure today! He was such a gentleman, first time handling him since I brought him home and we spent some time learning each other. I think he will like his new digs!

[nikofortuna]

JTTW Chapter 20 Thoughts

Chapter 20 for the @journeythroughjourneytothewest Reading Group! We’re through one fifth of the story! Also CW for snakes under the cut.

Tang Sanzang repeating the Heart Sutra this much reads to me like he’s got a new hyperfixation. Which is incidentally also a vocal stress stim for him if you will.

“[D]ined on the wind and rested by the waters, who clothed themselves with the moon and cloaked themselves with the stars” quite a fancy way of saying they were out camping. Though I doubt that the flowers are gone in summer, flowers still bloom in summer merely different kinds than in spring.

“[T]here are three of us altogether.” Aren’t you forgetting someone? Say a certain white currently long-faced individual maybe?

Oh if this was a play someone should have yelled from the back “Or transformation magic!” since both of them are capable of it. Though both of them did already mention being tired from travelling, so perhaps that is why they aren’t using it more liberally. Aside of Sun Wukong not caring much about what other people think of his appearance.

Yellow Wind Ridge sounds more like it’s a mountain range instead of a singular mountain.

More animals to check out! But first something I took note of when checking the poem in the Original Chinese. When going through the animal portion of it there were a lot of characters being repeated twice, which unfortunately didn’t show at all in English. I think some of those character pairs represent the sounds the animals make since they don’t seem to have much translation into actual words, none that make sense in context anyways. That’s only a guess of mine though, I’m not entirely sure since I can only get insight from translators and this also only counts for some of them not all. For example [丫丫叉叉yā yā chā chā] which is before the deer doesn’t translate to much with Google Translate, but [盤盤曲曲pán pán qū qū] before the snake does translated to “coiled”.

Anyways the character for deer is nonspecific again, so it indeed just means a deer with antlers. Though there were definitely no antelopes mentioned, it is likely just another deer as the J. F. Jenner translation reads as well.

[紅鱗蟒Hóng lín mǎng] indeed translates to “red-scaled python” and is likely a Python Brongersmai which is native to Southeast Asia! They are short but chonky. Most variants are also called Blood Python and one is specifically called Red Blood Python!

This here beauty is an albino!

I don’t know which monkey could be meant here specifically as my search only came up with potential species that are not native to Asia. My best guess is that it might just be an ape with a hairless face and not actually a “white” face.

Lastly the “blue bill” mentioned in the Anthony C. Yu version does not come up in any other. It’s a little misleading as there is no bird mentioned in this bit at all. Instead it is the mountain that is being described again.

Ah yes, the way to greet people by ripping off your own skin! Well, it probably is useful to shut people up.

I wonder what was named after what. Did the Yellow Wind Demon take up the name after his dwelling or did he name the place after himself?

The German translation brings up an interesting aspect regarding the Yellow Wind [黄風 huángfēng]. Yellow represents the middle, the spleen and thought! Citing Liu Yiming Yellow Wind here carries the meaning of erratic ‘windy’ thinking and unstable consciousness. In turn the Yellow Wind Monster stands for a ‘wrong’ kind of thought, so only after overcoming them can there be true inner peace.

More deer! Specific deer this time as well! One of them at least, the first one is just an unspecified deer with antlers again. The second however is a [香獐 xiāng zhāng] or indeed a Musk Deer! Though a Google search of the characters also brings up Chinese Water Deer, which given their similarities makes sense.

[aggiepython]

inktober day 19

blood python!!! they're naturally extremely chunky-shaped

[fimbry]

Speaking of defensive bloods, here's Red Vinegar! She's photographed in the tub because she is too insecure to be let loose on the open (scary, exposed) floor for photos.

Python brongersmai

[thlpp]

Porthos being a good boy and a friend

[justarandomart]

do you think Shadow can just grow back limbs like a weird lizard?

[crowhoonter]

Man has a scat fetish but his girlfriend? Anthropomorphic Blood Python woman. Only shits once a year. Very large. As a result? He can only get it up once a year when she shits all over the place. Leads to a mostly sexless marriage. Many such cases.

[thenwothm]

INTERVIEW: BLOOD PYTHON (NORWAY)

The moniker “Blood Python” draws its inspiration from the literary works of Robert E. Howard and the captivating solo endeavor of the ingenious M. Horn. Intrigued by this Norwegian artist’s remarkable solo project, we embarked on a journey to delve deeper into its essence and uncover its mysteries. TheNwothm: Hey there! Can you start by telling us the name of the project, who you are are where…

[jynjackets]

I’m glad you came.

happy birthday @sydneyadmu 💫

[lordamaranthus]

“So, dear reader, we have come to the end of my trials. You have followed me through five volumes of adventures and six months of pain and suffering.”

“—Know that I am smiling on you. We are friends now. Call on me. I will be—…”

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While I didn’t draw this with the prompts of this years event in mind, it does fit very nicely [in my eyes] for todays prompt: Something wrong, something amiss

This is a kind of homage to the very first ‘big’ drawing I ever did, both for this fandom and in general

Here is a link to it, though it is. Old. So—

Too Colorful

[fimbry]

Blush is so deeply and solidly red these days. Really love how he's looking now at 4 years old. I hope he proves het T+; I plan to find out next year.

Python brongersmai