#python brongersmai

[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

[thlpp]

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

[markscherz]

Every time I used to pick up my blood pythons I'd always be surprised with how fuckin hefty those things are.

Oh yeah, Python brongersmai are certainly exceptionally heavy snakes. In fact, several of the pythons and boas are quite heavy indeed—a break from the typical deceptive lightness seen in most snakes.

[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.

[herpsandbirds]

Blood Pythons (Python brongersmai), family Pythonidae, found in SE Asia

photographs by Dick Bartlett

[olympianexotics]

USCBB Golden Eye Blood Python

P. Brongersmai

Blood python's have a reputation for not being the friendliest, but I have Actually found that most ones Bred in captivity Are primarily docile.

[booksrbetterthanpeople]

Can we know what are the science and recess kids pets?

Some of these are head canons from @aganyan and @nerdy-chocomallow

Lacey has a Brindle greyhound named Scout

Cosette has a Algerian Black hedgehog named Westley Cottonballs and he. Is. Fabulous.

Reshma’s uncle owns a zoo back in India, and he gave her ownership of an Element named Jewel when she was three and Jewel was a newborn. At home, she has two Bombay Cats- one named Luna and the other named Scar, and one Dwarf Roborovski named Merryweather

Marc has two Fischer's Lovebirds-one named Carrie and the other named Beetlejuice. There’s also a raven that sometimes hangs out on his balcony late at night. He named him Poe

Mireille has has Dalmatian Guinea Pigs, one named Alice and the other named Bambi

Denise and Cerise have two bunnies- One Cinnamon Bunny named Cassiopeia or Cassie for short, and one Blanc de Hotot named Lyra

Ismael has a Curly hair tarantula named Jean-Eugéne that lives with his dad because his mom didn’t want it in the house

Jean has a Red Betta Fish named Heather C., Green Neon tetra named Heather D., and a Yellow Molly Fish named Heather M.

DJ has a parrot named Groucho who repeats all his jokes

Gerald has four rats named Stephen Hawking, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ada Lovelace, and Bill Nye

Victoria has a golden retriever named Air Bud who knows how to dunk

Rochelle has a guinea pig named Rascal who might be plotting something

Gia has two German Shepherds named Bravo and Charlie who understand military jargon

Mason has a Gerbil named Barbie who retrieves pencils and pens for him

Austin A has two chinchilas, One Pinkwhite chinchilla named Beth and one Sapphic chinchilla named Timity and dresses them in drag

Austin B has a Lykoi cat named Elisabeth III and loves her more than his own mother

Austin Q has a Tamagotchi named Scampers since he can’t have any fur babies at home

Austin T has a Python Brongersmai named HuggyCake and the others never saw this pair coming

[malikblog786]

https://phylumvision.com/what-snake-make-good-pets/

Python

Ball python

Corn snake

Kingsnake

Elaphe

California kingsnake

Desert rosy boa

Gopher snake

Carpet python

Children’s python

Python brongersmai

[fimbry]

Good lord. You know they're close when you can see the eggs through the skin.

Python brongersmai

[thlpp]

Porthos being a good boy and a friend

[az-boa]

💞🐍Malaysian Blood python, my pet Okamoto / ブラッドパイソン

何かしらにて、今後グッズ化します

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[nikofortuna]

JTTW Chapter 67 Thoughts

Chapter 67 for the @journeythroughjourneytothewest Reading Group!

It is nice that there are these more relaxed little one-shot adventures inbetween multi-chapter arcs.

Also it is nice to see another case of different places having similar sayings. Speak of the monster-spirit and he shall arrive!

We did have a snake with red scales show up in the story before quite some time ago in a nature poem, namely chapter 20. Just like then it might be a Python Brongersmai just in really big this time.

One could headcanon that both mentions are perhaps the same individual who just travelled that far and grew a lot on the way in the years that have passed since then. I see this as neither likely nor unlikely given the fantastical setting, so this is a fun little headcanon that I shall have now.

Though this time around I fully understand why the snake had to be taken down. They were in a state where they already had great power but not the mind to wield it well, so they were a danger to everyone around them regardless of where they went. Truly the mind should be cultivated first or great power will be in vain and that does not only count for animal-born yaoguai.

The German translation explains all of those snake puns.

“Don't try to pull a snake backward like that!” or pulling a snake backwards is a metaphor for fruitless endeavours.

“Isn't this what you call no more snake to play with?” is a metaphor for having nothing with which you could garner success.

And lastly “Beating the Bush to Stir the Snake.” is a reference to one of the 36 stratagems.

How nice they get to have a week of vacation!

Oh come on Tang Sanzang, by now you should really have learned not to jump to conclusions and start to cry right away when something is just said to be a little difficult.

[parviocula]

My most beautiful Roman

[herpsandbirds]

Blood Python (Python brongersmai), family Pythonidae, Thailand

photograph by Justin Coburn

[talk-nature-to-me]

A very handsome boy