#lizard notes

[lizardbraining]

Every once in a while I get mentally flashbanged by the reminder that I once made a RotTMNT Movie AU where the Kraang were just sigma males and kraangified people by forcing them to watch their podcasts.

[spankerella]

Happy Lizard Fashion Day to those who celebrate.

[analog-television]

Companion poll to this one - what would be considered "hot" in your region? Specifically what's unbearably hot no matter the conditions. Like for me anything above 25c is way too much.

(Also vote for where it STARTS to get way too hot - the higher options are a given I feel like.)

[slugfishh]

college doodles

[lizardbraining]

All I’m hearing is we should bring back monkey-style mutual grooming as a bonding practice.

[johann-bluespark]

Red Lizard in Monster Hunter style

Notes:

Red Lizard

Fanged wyvern

Difficulty: * * * * * *

Large fanged wyverns, as fierce as they are fast. Their heads are armored by thick scales, giving them a resistance to any kind of blade. They utilize their sticky tongues to pull their prey into a tight teethy embrace or slow it down with their spit to lunge at it.

Head is heavily armored and will bounce slashing weapons (becomes weaker once broken)

Can grapple hunters with its tongue and pull them into a strong bite (similar to a pin attack)

Grapple can be escaped by attacking, several evades or slinger ammo

Severing its tongue will prevent grappling

Can spit, which causes hunters to flinch and become waterblighted, this can combo into a dash

It's fast and prefers running and dashing as opposed to jumping

Cyan Lizard >

Might do a few more, this one was the first that came to mind. I love both games and wanted to draw a very scary lizor

[cornymember]

[dongslinger--420]

You were born to two people who never wanted to have you, who never should've had you. You grew up around alcohol, and your only role model was on television. People tried to make friends with you, but you just pushed them away. You made your first friend at 21. You love your friend more than anything, but you cannot escape the fact that he was indirectly responsible for your downfall. You try so hard to go back to the era where you thought you were happy that you end up making two of the biggest mistakes of your life. You surround yourself with people who remind you either of him, of yourself, or both. Your lack of true, authentic experience means that you believe yourself to be both unworthy and incapable of love. You have 4 best friends and you take them all for granted until it's too late. Millions love you, and you feel so alone.

You were born into a family of 7. Everyone in that family hates you. You were bullied in school, and your only role model was on television. You survive your 20s on sheer unbridled optimism and a barista's salary. You meet two people who are just like you, who are passionate and cynical and bright minded. One day, you fall in love with an older man who is nothing like you, but he's kind and extraverted, and it's something you have no frame of reference for. You meet your idol. He's not who you thought he'd be. He's the furthest from it that you could possibly imagine. But you love him. Because he's you. He reminds you of the girl you were growing up. Sometimes he's compassionate towards you. Sometimes your now husband is compassionate towards you. You don't know how to respond in either situation. You try to look for reasons to push them away. Your closest friends love you, and you feel so alone.

You were born the youngest of 12. Your mother loves you, but she needs you a little too much. You grow up obsessed with a film about a girl who flies away, a girl who (for better or for worse) comes of age. So then you decide to fly away. You get a job as a strongly independent intern. But then you meet a man. He's deeply flawed, and the way you take care of him reminds you too much of the girl you were growing up. But you see so much good in him, and you spend your time telling yourself that the good outweighs the bad. He has single handedly got you out of the worst situations you have ever found yourself in. And for all your independence, you crave companionship, in any form. The love that anyone feels for you is forever fleeting. You feel so alone.

You were born into a loving family. You meet a beautiful wife in your 20s, and get the best job ever solely by accident. There is no reality other than this. And why would anyone want one? This is perfect. You try so hard to go back to that first era where you were happy, by surrounding yourself with people who agree with you. Your first wife starts to disagree. You don't understand her decision to go into politics, because there is no reality other than this, and why would anyone want one? You break up with her. You have to keep the illusion going, fill that space asap. Your second wife disagrees with you. You meet your third wife on the day your second wife leaves you. Your third wife cares more about the world outside the bubble you've cultivated than your first wife did. But status quo is god. It worked in your dream job, and it's going to work now. Your third wife leaves you. You feel so alone.

You were born of a man you don't even remember. You were forcibly given the name of the man your mother married. He's extremely hard on you and you don't understand why. You love music and games and new experiences, and he loves anger and being boring and getting a job. You get kicked out at 18. You find someone new, and you feel almost as reliant on them. You don't know when your new situation will end, but it's easy. This is what you wanted, right? But all your new friends have proper lives. They have some sense of knowledge for what they were doing. And maybe your stepfather was right. Maybe BoJack was right. Maybe you need to get your act together before you amount to anything. Because for all your independence, you still crave approval and acknowledgement, in any form. You have no idea if anyone loves you, and you feel so alone.

[lizardbraining]

Well, ackshually, my room was in the basement and my closet was a sunken lightless concrete box where the sump pump was and I purposefully stashed my stuff under my bed so a monster couldn’t comfortably live there; so obviously the only thing I feared was the ghost that was going to murder me if I didn’t see it first so I slept every night facing the wall so when that tricksy sunnovabitch tried to get me by phasing through the walls instead of the obvious answer of waltzing through my door I’d be ready to throw hands. And house centipedes.

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[lizardbraining]

Genuinely love the stories of The Magnus Archives and Old Gods of Appalachia but it takes so much mental energy to get through just two episodes back to back because it makes the caveman part of my brain go, “oh, ok, we will never sleep again. We must face the darkness to protect the family. Every time you stare into the dark you will feel it staring back, and you will wait to see if it moves. You will not be able to consider the possibility of a benevolent god, you will feel worms beneath your skin, you will think every shadow is a being beyond comprehension and every chill is an omen. You will not be able to eat comfortably for days because your heart is constricting every artery ready to pounce at a thing that is not there. The heat will cloud your mind and coming of night will never be the relief it once was ever again. There is nothing you can do but wait, because fighting is a dream delusion feeds its weakest and most frightened for the thrill of a chase.” and that lowkey makes it kinda hard to exist nicely.

[ragdollsgender]

3 of the same meme template For You. this post is dedicated to all the minor antag likers

[vynnyal]

OK, fair warning to the few people I actually managed to convince to try the game??

Rain world does NOT play like hollow knight, and you'll get your butt kicked if you approach it like that.

It's really hard. Like, really hard. Instead of the game literally giving you abilities in the form of power-ups and damage buffs, the only abilities you gain is from what you learn and your own ingenuity. You're a rat from beginning to end. If you just beef your way through it, it's gonna suck and you're gonna be confused and frustrated all the time. But if you pay attention, take it slow, and learn how the ai works and how everything interacts with each other, you can consistently get through and dominate situations you thought were impossible to do so when you first began. Now get out there, kill some lizards, and bully some old computers!

[lizardbraining]

Feeling odd about how ppl are discovering they can express something through art. Every pro-AI art argument I’ve seen is like, “Bro have you seen this??? You can think something, but get this, it’s wild, you can also make it appear in real life!” Like, yeah…are you guys ok? Artists aren’t some high fantasy class of people born with auspicious powers of manifestation beyond mere mortal comprehension, we just…make stuff, like humans have done for millennia.

AI art/writing may be the bane of my existence and perpetuate perfectionism and render thousands unemployed and also be bad for the environment and is probably making us stupider, but it’s also bringing up perspectives I didn’t even know existed. What do you mean you can’t do it?? What do you mean you can’t write a paper about yourself, or draw a picture of something you’d like to see? The making of “something unseen I want to see” into “something I have and see and hold” is, personally, my entire reason for living. I can’t imagine not even knowing it’s an option without having to make it instantly and perfectly and not even having to think about it. I want to think about it, otherwise I wouldn’t be doing it!

fuck you, artists. for too long you've gatekept art from us in your ivory tower. but now? in mere seconds everyone, even you, can now see the complex amalgamations of the common working class american's mind (ai pic of marge simpson with her tits out)

[bonniesband]

The Satellite.

[harrietvane]

Doorway onto the Renaissance spiral staircase in the Château Royale, Blois

[johann-bluespark]

Rain World x Monster Hunter pt. 2

Cyan Lizard

Fanged wyvern

Difficulty: * * * * *

Fast and highly agile. Specialized organs within its torso and tail allow it to perform a charged explosive jump. A set of vents serving as an air intake power a chemical reaction in the tail. During this, the Cyan Lizard will rigify its tail as its specially developed tail scales guide the explosion backwards, allowing a take off in a quick burst.

Back vents are breakable

Breaking the vents or severing the tail will hinder its ability to use a charged jump, doing both will prevent it entirely

Its tongue is shorter and weaker than that of a Red Lizard, hence its grapple is easier to escape from

Higly agile, fast and acrobatic, it uses its charged jump in both attacking and moving around

It can climb on walls and ceilings

Like with other lizards, its head is armored and will bounce bladed weapons

Red Lizard >

I can imagine this guy yeeting itself across half of the locale :>