#commit science

[omg-snakes]

A sincere thanks to those of you who are sharing your snake data. Here's a little taste of what @talesfromtreatment and I have been cooking up, and this isn't even the really interesting stuff! This is only one week's worth of data capture!! Imagine what we could do with even more!

If you haven't submitted your corn snake's age, weight, and a top-down photo of them with a ruler yet, it's not too late! It's probably never going to be too late! Take the anonymous survey via Google Forms, linked below:

https://forms.gle/QtAwmiFa6fpBewFs8

Please join our body of community scientists and help us be petty in the most productive way imaginable. Your data will be used to make a gift for all corn snake keepers and breeders, present and future.

A project of this size has never before been attempted, or at least never published, and this is a super awesome opportunity for all of us to learn together!

Edit: swapped out the graph because the title said, "Width" when it should've said "Weight." Sorry!

[niobiumao3]

Hey also props to me for prescience: Nala Se was in fact lying to Hemlock's stupid face when she said 'what the Emperor wants cannot be done'.

She already did it. And she knows she did.

Look, I don't like Nala Se but I have to respect how ballsy she was in getting Omega out of there the moment she realized she had to, and then when Hemlock was all 'well SOMEONE helped her escape not saying who but it was you' and she was gaslight 100% 'I dunno what you could possibly mean I was right here the whole time'.

respect.

[frog-ology]

wanna see the smallest frog i’ve ever found?

Feast thine eyes upon him!!

(Crinia signifera metamorph)

[neonghozt]

The engineer and i

Are the best

[braisedhoney]

HOW ABOUT... " lotta true crime " for gaster or " hunters moon " / " today today " for your narrator? :3

OKAY SO i got a couple really good ones for narry… so i’m gonna put all of those on a separate post. for now, take a gaster! (original color palette meme here!)

[djsadbean]

so what if,,, cherie had a girlfren who owned a plant/flower shop next door,,,,

[cadet-songbird]

I have a hypothesis, but I need to check it…

[bonefall]

Would Midnight be patient with my fellow discalculia girlies... I love her but am So So Pathologically Bad at math

Midnight teaches advanced algebra to cats, you'll be fine. She'll conjure up a fractal for you, color each part of the equation, show how each part interacts and what it looks like when you change it

She'll take you out to the beach and explain the wind and the tide, compare them to each axis on the formula she showed you, and modify one factor. The wind dies down and the sea becomes as smooth as glass.

"Smoothness for the-waves you-see?" She waits for you to nod, never rushing you along, even the most casual questions are genuine, "Excellent! For this is example of maths I-teach. Nature it-will-happen. Simpleness it-being. You-will-understand."

[windydrawallday]

"She has a personal... vendetta with my existence, I guess." - Starscream, about his rascal sparkling hating him with a passion equivalent to his hate for Megatron.

HOW FAR I FELL, HOW FAAAR? This far 💥. Welcome to 'DETTA! The offspring of Predaking and Starscream on my silly interpretation of them. TBH I'm not a person used to making "fanchilds" of my canon favs (the only one I have is shared with a friend @novalizinpeace . I'm more like a Godmother to the kiddo haha) mostly because even if I enjoy children's media I don't see myself wanting to have one of my own x'D. BUT, LISTEN! If I gonna give kiddos to one of my shipping fixations, it's to these two! BECAUSE I CAN 💚. ... And because is hilarious to me to make old Screamer handle a little Mini-Him but predacon flavored x'D. FEAT SHOCKWAVE BECAUSE he is the "uncle" of the kiddo and Detta loves him, to make Starscream's predicament more fun pfff. I wanted to have this off my system so I HOPE NOW MY BRAIN CAN FOCUS ON FINISHING THE ACTUAL STUFF I need to do skdfhskdjgfhgdsf.

[trashhole]

Percy study doodles and a lovestruck brainstorm

[eggs-can-draw]

Oh, you’re the Ultimate Hope, right?

[chalkodareal]

no h*r tonight boys... (and ladies~~~~~ *i wink grotesquely*)

drawn on stream.....theyre funny guys to me

[polaroidcats]

Breadcrumbs and broken families – a very scientific analysis of “Savour It (I’m Tasty)” by epicblueblanket

One of the most complex literary works of the 21st century is without a doubt “Savour It (I’m Tasty)” by epicblueblanket, also known by the pseudonym @kaaaaaaarf on the popular blogging website tumbler dot com. In less than 1000 words, the author manages to write a story that is not only captivating to any reader, it is also packed full of inspiring and deeply philosophical metaphors.

In this essay I will explore how the sausage rolls and breadcrumbs serve as a metapor for Sirius’s broken family, which might be one of the reasons why Remus feels so familiar to him even if they barely know each other - they're surrounded by broken pieces of something that should have been wonderful but has now been destroyed beyond recognition.

One of the most emotional moments of the story is at the beginning, when Sirius asks Remus if he eats sausage rolls when he is not at work, to which Remus replies with: "Well, I take home the leftovers at the end of my shift. It’s wasteful to throw it away, you know?", causing the following reaction from Sirius: “Sirius shakes himself. ‘Right, yes, of course—makes sense.’", obviously affected by the parallels between his own life – being thrown out and disregarded by his family as a teenager for reasons beyond his control – and the sausage rolls at Gregg’s being thrown out at the end of the day for health and safety reasons, no longer wanted or needed, through no fault of their own at all. The scene leaves the reader breathless with emotion, and it is impossible not to feel sympathy towards Sirius, as well as the sausage rolls at Gregg’s, who now both rely on Remus to help them fill the emptiness they feel from their respective rejections. And Remus seems more than willing to fill any sort of emptiness Sirius needs him to, acting as a very firm support system for Sirius, something he likely has been lacking up to that point, his life most likely as structured as a sausage roll that has been lying in the warm shop window of a bakery for a little bit too long.

Obviously affected and embarrassed by the sheer intimacy of sharing such an intense moment with his new lover, Sirius is quick to belittle himself (“I’m being stupid”) when Remus asks him if he wants to stop their sexual activities in the name of the sausage rolls. Remus is delighted by Sirius’s refusal to stop their activities, stating he has been looking forward to it since Sirius gave Remus his telephone number the previous morning. An interesting detail here is Sirius making the first step, not only in giving Remus his number but even before that, by coming into the shop and consuming “his own weight in vegan sausage rolls”, which not only shows his consideration for other living creatures, but also hints at possible future acceptance towards his difficult situation with his family. Through eating the sausage rolls - on a daily basis - he is helping them fulfill their destiny, something his family has failed to help him achieve. But Sirius’s selfless acts help the sausage rolls reach their goal of being eaten and not going to landfill, something Remus also seems very passionate about, so it is no wonder that the two of them seem like such a perfect match.

Sirius describes watching Remus eat Yum-Yums, and occasionally also sausage rolls, with so much passion, and it is not hard to imagine how this affects Sirius, who sees a piece of himself in every bit of pastry Remus consumes. While on a surface level Remus seems oblivious to the deeper meanings behind the sausage rolls and even misguidedly asks Sirius if it is some sort of sexual fetish, one can speculate that on a more subconscious level, Remus also knows about the healing power of eating sausage rolls in bed with one’s lover, allowing each other to create a mess of crumbly pastry pieces, and finding joy in the brokenness and vulnerability of it all.

Remus understands that not everything needs to be perfect or whole in order to be devoured, a philosophy he applies to sausage rolls as well as Sirius. The hopeful ending of the story sees Sirius enjoying a post-coital cigarette, Remus enjoying a post-coital sausage roll, both of them covered in sugar as well as pastry flakes, and Sirius starting to see Remus’s perspective through all the pastry flakes, feeling the healing powers of sausage roll consumption and sex.

[omg-snakes]

Sort of a hypothetical i guess, but do you think that the corn snake data that is being collected could have any helpfulness for other species in captivity, like california kings or texas ratsnakes, or is it going to be something really only applicable to cornsnakes?

Eeehhhhhh if anything this might call to attention the extent of obesity in captive pet snakes. It's... It's really bad y'all. Corn snakes are not designed to be round. They're naturally lean, and probably leaner than you expect.

The folks who make these bullcrap feeding guides are used to ball python proportions and/or are power feeding to maximize profit at the cost of animal lives. I think calling this to attention might help folks to realize that other species in captivity are probably unhealthy, too, and it's taking literal years off of their lives.

Kings and rat snakes do have similar-ish body shapes so while the feeding guide @talesfromtreatment is developing probably won't work well for non-corn snakes, the weight to length estimates might be somewhat applicable. Just remember that rat snakes are denser where corn snakes are a bit daintier of build, and king snakes are more cylindrical where corns are more straight-sided.

Ultimately it would be best for those species to get their own guides altogether.

Maybe this will spark other projects!

[ciderjacks]

That sounds ethically normal

[mlady-magnolia]

Grace’s Fruit Salad Starbucks Order: Tr Mango Dragon Fruit (thank you @i-am-a-fan for sending it to me)

No ice

No water

12 pumps of classic syrup

12 strawberry inclusions

12 mango dragonfruit inclusions

12 pineapple inclusions

It’s so expensive, please don’t order it. The baristas will question your sanity.