#butter ghost ball python

[practically-an-x-man]

Assign ball python morphs to your OCs?

Oooh hell yes!! I love snakes!!

Rae: Butter Silver Streak

Robin: Arctic

Madison: Coral Glow

Ophelia: Monsoon

Gia: Blonde Pastel

Jasper: Cajun Lithium

Kestrel: Arroyo

Katherine: Creed

Quinn: Harlequin (I had to lol)

Eris: Desert Ghost

Nikoletta: Black Axanthic

Jimmy: Green Ghost

Vivienne: Fuego

[reptilian-nonsense]

:-<

[snikpics]

Butter/Ghost/Pewter ball python from Fireball Reptiles

[buttered-ghost-toast]

Hi! I just wanted to let you know that this coloration of ball python

is called 'butter ghost.'

😁

Ok but it reminds me of toffee popcorn or like Caramel swirl ice cream and that scares me because that means I think its adorable??????

Like keep it away from me cause I'll cry, but awwwww!! Look at little butter-ripple snake friend! What a cute lil' spaghetti noodle.

[surveys-at-your-service]

Survey #359

“i’m only a crack in this castle of glass  /  hardly anything there for you to see”

Do you look better with your hair down or up? It's too short to go up. Has you mom ever directly told you that she favoured your other sibling(s) over you? Yeesh, no. Have you ever read The Outsiders? Seen the movie? Read the book, seen the movie. Adore both. What’s your favourite drink from Jamba Juice? I don't think we have those here. Can you stand eating the crusts of a slice of sandwich bread? I don't mind the crust at all. Do you do your homework at home or in class? Prior to college, I did my work right after getting home to get it out of the way. In college, I did it in-between classes or when waiting for Mom to finish class. Do you feel uncomfortable sharing drinks with other people? Yes, I never do it. Do you get jealous if your boyfriend hugs another girl? I'm single, but hypothetically, I wouldn't... It's just a hug. At least for me, it's just a friendly gesture. Is there something that happened in your past you hate talking about? A few things, yes. Is it hard for you to be “just friends” with the opposite sex? Nah. If you had to choose, what color is your favorite? Baby pink. How many times have you dated the person you’re with now? I’m single. Has anyone suspected you of being a different sexuality? Yes. Do you like chocolate or vanilla cake more? Chocolate. Does it bother you to have blood drawn or not so much? Nah. What color is your toothbrush? It's a white electric one. Do you normally fall asleep fast or slow? Ridiculously slow. Have you ever had a severe allergic reaction? No. What do you want to be for Halloween this year? I'd love to dress up as like a Ms. Oogie Boogie and take some cool pictures, but I highly doubt it'll actually happen. What color are your glasses, if applicable? Black. Do you still look in the toy aisle, or do you pass it by? I walk past it. What are your summer fashion essentials? I don't have fashion essentials for any season. Do you have your own website? For my photography, yeah. Do you think you would be a good salesperson? Ha, no. I worked in retail before and I fucking sucked. Do you like candy corn? NO. Just colored wax, ugh. Do you like to wear skirts? I don't wear anything that shows my legs. Were you happy as a kid? Yeah. That, talkative, and hyper. Favorite store to browse but not really buy anything? Haha, I LOVE going on MorphMarket now and again to browse the ball pythons especially, but boy if I had the cash and space would I buy like fifty of them at once. I don't really know about a store I like browsing but not buying from. Skittles or Sour Patch Kids? Both are great, but I guess Sour Patch Kids. BUT, if you throw SOUR Skittles in there... then it's a war lol. If tattoos were free, how many would you have? A HELL OF A LOT. I wanna be just about totally painted. Do you wear a retainer at night? Not anymore. I had one, but I stopped using it. Are you afraid of dolls, puppets, or clowns? I'm not a doll person, particularly porcelain ones. When you’re in your room, do you keep the door locked? No. It's not even closed. Do you think your face is mostly symmetrical? Actually no, and I'm self-conscious about it. Stupidest thing you have ever said out loud? OH Christ, I'm not retrospecting on this. What’s your least favourite ice-cream flavour? That I've actually tried, strawberry. It's disgusting. What was the last good news you heard? I got approved for TMS therapy! Who was the last person to comment on your Facebook status? My friend Lyndsey. How did you meet him/her? World of Warcraft. She's actually my guild master, and she is the sweetest damn person. Have you ever learned any self-defense? If not, would you be interested in learning? I haven't, but yeah, I'd like to. When was the last time you took a nap? How long was it? Yesterday. For some reason, I actually slept a LONG time, like at least three, but probably close to four, hours. I mean I was tired, but I didn't feel THAT tired. Do you like Gushers? YAAAAAAAAAAS What would you do if you could do anything without failing? Actually get a degree for SOMETHING. What is your native language? English. Do you have a younger brother or sister? A younger sister. If so do/did they really get on your nerves? No. We were very close as kids, but we've drifted apart. Now, she absolutely doesn't get on my nerves. I'm so proud of her. Name something that happened to you that was completely unexpected. Uhhh I dunno. Do you judge people that have multiple piercings? Lol wtf? No. Do you watch the Olympics? No. What did you have for breakfast this morning? I had Kix cereal. Do you like orange juice? Yes. So long as it doesn't have pulp in it. Do you think it’s cruel to keep an animal in a cage while you’re away? It depends on the size of the cage as well as how long you're away. Do you have a pet gecko? No, but I'd love a fat-tailed gecko. Are you scared of reptiles? Not at all, I adore them. Is your car messy? I don't have my own car. Mom's kinda is, though. It needs a wash badly, but because of her bumper literally being zip-tied on, she doesn't trust going into a car wash. And neither of us are about to do it manually, lol. Have you ever seen the show 16 and Pregnant? No, fuck that show. Do you buy expensive clothes? No. Does death scare you? Not really. What are your current goals? Conquer my social anxiety, get a job, lose weight, do something to strengthen my legs... Those are the four biggies. Do you clap or cheer when at a concert? I did both at the one I've been to. Do you drink coffee? What brand? No. Do you use a comb or brush? A comb. When you were younger, did you ever do that exclamation point that looked like an upside down triangle and had a really big dot? No. I loved the cutesy girl handwriting though, haha. I just could never do it. You’re locked in a room with the person you last dated, any problems? Well yeah, we're locked in a room lmao. What kind of relationship do you have with the last person you kissed? It's perfectly fine, we're best friends. Have you ever gotten burnt by a cigarette? No. Do you get mad when people smoke around you? Yes. Honestly, have you ever eaten raw cookie dough? Yeah, more than once. When was the last time you were on a city bus? Never. Do you have a garden? Does it have flowers, vegetables, or both? No. Where do you want to raise your kids? Who said I even want kids? Have you ever been to Cracker Barrel? Yessssss, good shit. Have you ever seen a ghost? I think I have. Have you ever burned an ant with a magnifying glass? No. Have you ever been to craigslist.com? Yes. Have you ever used Nair? Yes, on my legs. It works, I just have stupidly hairy legs that need so much to get it all. How many tabs do you have open and what are they? Two YouTube tabs and then Tumblr. What browser do you prefer to use? Chrome. What room are you in right now? My bedroom. Are you excited for anything this month? 1.) I get my tattoo on the 19th, and 2.) I start TMS next Wednesday. What language course did you take in school, if any? I barely survived one semester of Latin, then I did all four available German courses. What language would you most like to learn? I'd love to improve my German. What would you like to get a degree in? Photography. What book are you reading, what genre is it and do you like it so far? Wings of Fire: The Brightest Night. It's young adult fantasy, I think. Did you ever sometimes flip through your text books even when you didn’t need to? Yeah, mainly to just look at pictures because I was that bored in class, haha. What types of magazines do you read? None. Would you prefer to read a book, watch a movie or TV show, or play a video game? Play a video game. What’s your current relationship like with the person you lost your virginity to and do you wish it was different? We don't have any relationship anymore. I don't regret losing it to him, if that's what you're asking. If you mean our relationship stance, it'd be nice to still be in touch with him, but I know it wouldn't be healthy for me. Have you ever felt responsible for someone’s death? Pets, yes. No humans. What was the last book you recommended to someone? Idk. What’s the most difficult thing you and your current or last significant other have gone through? Distance was very hard. What’s your best memory with your ex? I'm going to assume this refers to "the ex." In which case, we were "play arguing," and I came storming into the kitchen after him to make a point, and I slid mid-sentence, and he caught me. We just held each other laughing our asses off. It's the simple things, man. Who was the last person that asked to hang out with you and what’s the story of how you met that person? Summer. My little sister and her were in pre-k together and became friends, but I gradually became closer to her than Nicole did when we were teens. Has anyone ever asked you out and you turned them down? Yes. Is there something you generally always ask for help with? Yeah. Like recently I've been having apples and peanut butter a lot, and I ask my mom to cut the apple because I'm terrified of knives. Do you feel comfortable telling people how much you weigh? NOPE. Have you looked at any old photos of yourself lately? No. In a relationship, have you ever been on and off with your partner? No. Do you consider cooking to be an art? Yes. Are you a fast or slow reader? I'd say I read at a moderate pace. Does it take a lot to gross you out? It depends on what it is, but I am actually more squeamish than I used to be.

[i-m-snek]

Here is a list of ball python morphs with issues

Spider, Wobble Woma, Wobble Hidden Gene Woma, Wobble Champagne, Wobble Super Sable, Wobble Powerball, Wobble Sable x Spider, Difficult to hatch, severe wobble Champagne x Hidden Gene Woma, Severe wobble Champagne x Spider, Lethal Pearl, Normally Lethal Super Champagne, Lethal Super Spider, Lethal Desert(not to be confused with desert ghost), Female fertility issues Caramel Albino, Kinking and female sub-fertility Super Cinnamon/Super Black Pastel, Duckbill & rare kinking Super Lesser Platinum/Super Butter(not applied to super mojaves or lesser/mojaves), Bug eyes Lesser Platinum x Piedbald, Small Eyes Morphs that for some reason people confuse for morphs with issues, but DONT actually have issues. (I.E. the morphs listed below are often said to have issues by newer keepers because they are easily confused with problem morphs. They do not have any issues) Pinstripe (Gets confused with spider) Bamboo (Gets confused with woma/spider etc) Enchi (Gets confused with woma or spider) Lesser/mojave BEL (Gets confused with super lessers) Hypo (any strain) (Gets confused with caramel albino?) Super stripe (Not even sure what this one gets confused with honestly) G-stripe (Same with this, no idea)

[sweetsnoots]

Someone is getting super spoiled today. She got a new light, new bulb, new tank, new lid, and soon food. ❤❤❤

[thegeckobakery]

The Menagerie - The Snakes

From newest to oldest:

His Lordship Banana Pudding, first of his Bunch aka Nanners.

Morph and Species: Pastel Orange Ghost banana het pied ball python

Yearbook Status: Most Shy boi, sweet noodle

Occupation: Educational Animal in training, possible breeder

Hatched: 2017

Acquired: Outback Reptiles, Northern VA reptile show, 6/22/19

Revan

Morph and Species: Ivory Zebra Pure Jungle Carpet Python

Yearbook Status: Most likely to climb things

Occupation: Educational Animal, maybe future breeder - uncertain

Hatched: 2018

Acquired: 3/14/19, Produced by Nick Mutton/Inland Reptiles

Blackberry Jam

Moprh and Species: Anery Stripe 50% Het splash 50% Het albino Kenyan sand boa

Yearbook Status: bite first, ask questions later

Occupation: Pet

Hatched: 2018

Acquired: 7/13/18 from Hill's Herps

Peanut Butter

Morph and Species: Wild type Kenyan sand boa

Yearbook Status: The fussy gourmet, head of the culinary club

Occupation: Educational Animal

Hatched: 2016 (estimated)

Acquired: 6/30/18, Serpentine Exotics, Northern VA reptile show

Morph and Species: Crested Gecko, morph unknown (rescue)

Curry

Morph and Species: Albino anaconda het snow Western Hognose

Occupation: Future breeder

Yearbook Status: captain of the hiss club

Hatched: August, 2017

Acquired: 3/29/18, Produced by howard leong

Coriander

Morph and Species: Anaconda het snow Western Hognose

Occupation: Future Breeder, educational animal

Hatched: August, 2017

Yearbook Status: Most popular

Acquired: 3/29/18, Produced by howard leong

Pepper

Morph and Species: Axanthic het Snow Western Hognose

Occupation: Future breeder

Yearbook Status: Most boopable snoot

Hatched: 2017

Acquired: 1/28/18, A+ serpents, New England Reptile Show

Cheddar

Morph and Species: amel/motley stripe corn snake

Occupation: Educational Animal

Yearbook Status: Most likely to escape

Hatched 2016

Acquired: 2/23/17, Mt. Pleasant Herps

[roxannepolice]

What’s in a name? Kylo Ren as a sentient simulacrum

If my cultural sociologist’s heart soared when Ren turned out to be a heroine of postmodern time, Kylo Ben had my brain from the moment his parentage was revealed. Because this – this here, ladies and gentlemen, is a specimen of its own kind – a sentient simulacrum on a quest to destroy its meaning. And doing a terribly good job, judging by what the viewers think. Because he represents another tempting demon of postmodernity – a belief that everything is a matter of agreement and thus, of will and all one has to do is have a will strong enough to subjugate all of reality to its knees. This is nietzschean ubermensch in all his glory of overestimating the power of will and consciousness, things we have become obsessed with believing in. Kylo Ren isn’t a complicated answer to a question what would Anakin’s and Padme’s grandson and Han’s and Leia’s son grow up to be?, he’s a very ready made, willed, chosen answer to a question what would Darth Vader’s grandson be?

Objectively speaking, there’s every stake against Kylo Ben. He killed his father in a story about familial love. He’s in charge of evil empire in a story about fighting evil. He’s hinted at a romance in a story where romances ended in tragedy. But such is a nature of simulation: it laughs in the face of objectivity. It knows every objective symptom and has already found a way to cause it without referring to the core. Hypoerbolically speaking, everything objective can be faked and as such lies within simulation’s power. Simulation is something different from pretending. Pretending can be objectively revealed for what it is. You pretend that you had a good sleep by putting ice cubes and concealer under your eyes, your problems with focus will still be apparent. You simulate a good sleep by drinking enough coffee to seem – and FEEL – awake. And yes, Kylo Ben is totally the type of person who drinks coffee as black as his soul because sleep is for the weak. A simulacrum won’t recognise itself for what it is because it believes itself to be its only meaning. All that matters are the appearances. And it won’t drop the act when it’s not observed, because it’s always acting for itself. If anything, it’s  precisesly other eyes that will see the bs. We’re all amazing actors in our own heads. The problem is to be ones for a different audience.

Take the moment he drops his mask during the bridge scene. You’re right to read it as consciously symbolic gesture. But the act isn’t for Han, at least, not only, it’s for him. He doesn’t need the mask to do what he’s about to do. It’s him, Kylo Ren who has already destroyed Han Solo’s weak and foolish son, about to commit another conscious, willful action. He won’t feel remorse.

He does very much feel remorse. There is no one close enough to him in that moment for him to fake it. This is a rebellion, albeit overdue and still passive, of the self against ego’s will, of meaning against simulacrum.The best metaphor of a difference between a meaning and a simulacrum in Star Wars is basically Ben Solo and Kylo Ren. So, should we feel safe that in a story destroying the simulacra bendemption is sure?

I’m not going to sugar coat it for you – it’s not.

In fact, if you’ve ever heard an antibendemption argument that made terrifyingly much sense, there’s a good chance someone who made it has a degree of knowledge about postmodern thought. Because Kylo Ben has been as much of a ready made redemption material as FO has been ready made villains. He’s literally the grandson of the redemption of this saga. And isn’t the hero worship of Skywalkers the best sign that they’re one of the husks that need to burn for the meaning to reemerge? Truthfully, a strong redemption needs an unredeemed counterpart, a Judas in The Second Testament, to really hit home. Yes, the Skywalkers are what created the basic messages of the saga, now let them go away and continue their essence detached from the husks, preferably leaving a strong warning in the last generation. Anakin’s redemption was the original one, now let it be carried by the likes of Galen, Bodhi and, according to some idiots, Finn, not his own bloodline.

There’s just one problem. Anakin’s not redeemed.

Let that sink in.

  Anakin’s redemption did not take place

I don’t want to generalize, but I make a solid guess that most people on tumblr who identify with protagonists of the sequels are in their 20s to 30s., so Anakin’s redemption was a cultural given in our lives. Yeah, he’s done some bad things but in the end he loved Luke and died for him, and anyway, he’s shown as a force ghost in the end (anyone still remembering the old Anakin on Endor?), so he’s fine. What a heartwarming story of redemptive power of love! One that we’ve been rewatching whenever world seemed completely wrong, perhaps the story that helped us forgive people who’ve hurt us, one that has given us so much hope...

did not happen.

Arite, let’s have a look at what exactly was Darth Vader forgiven for, back in 1985:

walking into a room full of already dead people

choking one good guy

apparently he killed some jedi including Luke’s dad who knows how long time ago (I mean, to a 5 year old me Luke could have been anywhere from 15 to 35 years old)

being locked up with Leia and some syringed ball? they called it a mind probe later?

passively watching destruction of Alderaan which was aaaaaawesome one moment the planet was there and then pew pew it was gone

uuh... swinging his lightsaber at disappearing Obi-Wan?

piloting one of the TIEs during a military situation

choking some imperial officers, who cares

organising the worst “meet the in-laws” dinner in history

ordering Han to be frozen in carbonite

cutting off Luke’s arm, he gets a new one some 15 minutes later

he’s actually Luke’s dad?!?????

he does nothing in RotJ. nothing. oh, ok, he says “sister” in a creepy manner, it’s your daughter you’re talking about, you creep

So yeah. This is what he had to be narratively forgiven when he saved Luke and got his ass killed in the process. Additionally, the man who appears as a force ghost is around the same age as Obi-Wan, so 60? maybe even 70? Clearly, if he became Luke’s dad around the time he became Darth Vader, he couldn’t have been serving the empire for more than one third of his life and kicked ass with the good guys for the remaining two thirds. I’m so glad he found the absolution he clearly deserved.

And then prequels happened. And we got Anakin killing a whole village of sand people (off screen), slaughtering some 20 children (off screen), expressing desire to make the Empire his own and choking his pregnant wife because he had a bad dream. And this is only his record on the day he turns to the dark side. He’s in his twenties at a time, which means that he has spent half of his life as Darth Vader. 

Uhmmmm... no one said anything about killing children back in the 80s, right? But still, we can go with this. Because Anakin’s fall was tailored for his redemption – induced by possessive love for his wife, undone by selfless love for his son, manipulated just enough to be forgiven, terrible just enough for the payment to be his life. And anyway, there’s the whole prophecy thing. Thus originals and prequels form a complete story of Anakin’s fall and redemption. Apparently.

Because then sequels happen! Yahoo! And there was Vader 2.0, wow he can actually freeze blaster bolts in the air, impressive, anyway, can’t wait for the next generation of Skywalkers to appear. UUh, but there’s something wrong. Village isn’t slaughtered off screen, we watch the fire and hear the screams... Oh and then there’s the mind probe scene and mind probe is apparently a painful psychological violation, giving people connotations with rape... Vader 2.0 is this trilogy’s Skywalker?!!!!! Oh, and the destruction of Hosian system is nothing cool, there are terrified people on Couruscant... whaaaaaaaaa, he killed Han Solo, WHYYYYY?!!!!!!!! Oh anyway, maybe he’s adopted, Rey is the one worthy of being saint Anakin’s grandchild.

I think you get the drift. Violence is presented much more realistically in the sequels than either originals or prequels and consequently viewers are willing to see Kylo Ben as more evil than Darth Anakin – even though, appealing to the reason, Anakin has been serving the Empire for two decades which for Kylo to equal he would have to have joined FO when he was 10. But that’s it – we must not underestimate the power of visual representation. Describing something, insinuating it off screen simply doesn’t have the same impact as playing it out before our eyes. Still, after TFA it’s still simple to just say Kylo Ben IS more irredeemable than Darth Anakin.

But then Rouge One happens and Darth Vader shows himself as a goddamn killing machine he has always been, cutting and choking rebels like they’re butter. More, he chokes Krennic into subjugation, which has a completely different vibe to it than his anger/force insult it’s his dad you’re talking about! induced chokes in originals – this here is deliberate abuse of power.  And of course, there are all the remaining extended materials showing Vader as an actually evil character – not one we’re told is evil, only actually doing evil things.

So ask yourselves this – if Anakin’s story unfolded itself chronologically and with sequels’ uncensored depiction of war, if we have actually seen the Tuskans burn and scream in agony, if clone wars weren’t softened by villains being droids, watched all the padawans die at Anakin’s hand, then were granted 20 years of abuse of power, watched Leia get “mind raped” by man we knew to be her father, seen terror of Alderaanians, had prequels’ Obi-Wan for our childhood’s hero, force choking wasn’t framed as a pythonic comic relief, knew Vader cut off his son’s arm knowing the pain it gives and discovered that he’s still as power hungry as twenty years earlier – would Anakin’s redemption feel earned at the end? Would it feel real? Would it have that cathartic hopeful power which became franchise’s legacy? Because what, he didn’t let his kid get fried in front of him? He, who burned the world because he dreamt of his wife’s death? Or because he died early enough to not overtake the Empire?

Anakin’s redemption did not take place. Franchise’s message has been a lie all along – or a hypocrisy because why would Anakin and his mighty Skywalker blood grandson get redeemed but Dooku or Maul not? Clearly, Vader has done more evil than these two combined and Kylo Ren is now Palpatine 3.0 showing he was after power all along. Anakin’s force ghost? An illusion for children.

But it’s ok. Lies can give lasting fruits. Growing up is accepting they’re lies and going on with your life.

[reptilian-nonsense]

a model, a poser

[a2zreptiles]

Pastel Python Potential

Pastel Ball Python Introduction: The pastel Ball Python is a very sought after morph. People pay thousands for some of the more popular combos. They are great snakes to have! They come in many different varieties! Sit back and enjoy the gallery. Pastel! Two gene Pastel combos: This right here is a Banana Pastel! Here is a Pastel Ghost! This is a Pastel Clown! Look at this beautiful Pastel Red Stripe! Here is a lovely Blackhead Pastel! Take a look at this Pastel Scaleless Head! Have you ever seen a Pastel Cypress like this? Check out is beautiful Pastel Lace! Look at this amazing Lemon Blast! Go look at this Super Vanilla Pastel M19-1! Three Gene Pastel Combos: Killer Queenbee Ball Python. Get a load of this Pastel Vanilla Enchi. Coral Glow Bumblebee ball Python.   Orange Dream Bumblebee ball python.   Queenbee ball python. Banana Pastel Enchi Ball python. Orange Dream Pastel Clown ball python. Super Pastel Super Banana Pied ball python. Dragonfly Ball Python. Black Pewter Pied Ball Python. Four Gene Pastel Combos: Check out this Leopard Spider Clown Pastel. This is a Banana Super Cinnamon Pastel Spider. Have you ever seen a Banana Pastel Butter Yellow Belly? Look at this Pastel Lemonback (Fire) Yellow Belly Orange Dream. Bumblebee Enchi Black Head ball python. Spinner Blast Yellowbelly ball python.   Fire Spinner Blast ball python. Check out this Vanilla Butter Super Pastel Ghost. Here is a Hypo Pastel Chocolate Enchi. #BananaPastel #BananaPastelButterYellowBelly #BananaPastelEnchi #BlackPewterPiedBallPython #BlackheadPastel #BumblebeeEnchiBlackHead #CoralGlowBumblebee #DragonflyBallPython #FireSpinnerBlast #FireballReptilesBallPythonsFourGenePastelCombos #HypoPastelChocolateEnchi #KillerQueenbee #LemonBlast #LeopardSpiderClownPastel #OrangeDreamBumblebee #OrangeDreamPastelClown #Pastel #PastelBallpython #PastelBallpythonConclusion #PastelBallPythonIntroduction #pastelballpythonisagreatmorph #PastelClown #PastelCypress #PastelGhost #PastelLace #PastelRedStripe #PastelScalelessHead #PastelVanillaEnchi #Queenbee #SpinnerBlastYellowbelly #SuperPastelButterGhostBlackPastel #SuperPastelSuperBananaPied #SuperVanillaPastelM191 #ThreeGenePastelCombos #TwogenePastelcombos #VanillaButterSuperPastelGhost Read the full article

[vansnakenstein]

Butter Ghost Ball Python. Which morph should I do next? #ballpython #royalpython #drawntoscales

[derrickperegrine]

rocky road, black raspberry, and chocolate marshmallow!!!

hey mari!!

rocky road: favourite songs at the moment?

oh my god okay here are my top summer songs

the hellcat spangled shalalala, arctic monkeys

pattern, the last shadow puppets

gold lime, glass animals (yeah yeah yeahs cover)

teenage angst, placebo

black raspberry: do you have any pets?

sadly no!! i do want a butter ghost ball python though

chocolate marshmallow: favourite brands of candy?

okay time to reveal that i am actually an Old Man™

i really like montezuma’s chocolate bars, especially sea dog (dark chocolate + lime + sea salt). idk if they have it in the united states? i’ve only seen them in the uk

i also love terry’s chocolate orange

ummm more american candy bars … i like heath (i told you i’m Old i enjoy toffee), junior mints, york peppermint patties … i also love lindt chocolate bars, especially the chili pepper flavour one

send me ice cream asks

[wheremyscalesslither]

Lines of morphs in the ball python hobby

In snake keeping, lines can tell you of the ancestry of an animal. This may be important for some morphs, such as axanthic, because the different lines are not compatible and will not produce more of the same morph. For example, if you breed a TSK line axanthic to a VPI line, you will not get more grey snakes. For other morphs, such as lesser and butter, they are completely compatible. Because of this, many consider butter and lesser to be the same gene, but a different line. This gets extra confusing because people haphazardly began selling their butter morphs as lesser because they were more expensive, and they made the same kinds of snakes, so who cares? Keeping close track on the genetic line of reptiles is highly valued in many other snake breeding communities. In ball python keeping, however, it's not even slightly valued. I asked YASMB, the ball python group on facebook I admin for, which has 13K members, for a list of hypo lines and their compatibility. The overwhelming sense I got from the community is "who gives a shit." There are a number of compatible lines and some which are not. Citrus ghost was the one consistently being brought up as incompatible, along with G1, some lines of green ghost, and some lines of yellow ghost. Everyone else grouped Bell, NERD, Compel, TSK, and orange ghost (OG) into the same group deemed "orange ghost compatible." The unknowns were peach, butterscotch, and 7-dollar. But here's the thing, people see any compatible lines with OG and cross breed them and call them OG. So who knows of the animal is actually an OG or a cross of lines?? This gets extra tricky because it's rare to see precise pedigrees of the animals. The lines become this homogeneous mess. If it's hypo, its automatically the OG line for everyone, and any compatible gene is also considered OG. Why this matters to me is for my triple recessive project. I figure to have the least possibility of creating dangerous homozygous genes, i will have to reach out to another line of hypo. But even then, i cant guarantee the animal I receive isnt a Bell hypo because everyone just calls the compatible hypos OG, even if they purchased them as something else entirely. When I bought Secunda she was simply labelled as "hypo" and i had to ask which line she was. anyhow im running into personal moral problems because my brain says "DONT CROSS THE LINES" but the hobby is entirely accepting of it and i think outcrossing will give me the chance to create the healthiest animals, which is what all of this is about anyway, right?

[sweetsnoots]

Nice and fluffy

[reptilian-nonsense]

ball o’ snake