#that’s just snake food

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

hi! i have a bird question. or more of an egg-and-nest question? my parents noticed a nest in the bush on the side of our house, where we keep our trash can. there's at least one egg inside (it's a light blue and i live in north georgia) but i don't have the knowledge to ID it :( my parents are convinced that the birds have deserted the nest because they haven't seen them there tending to the eggs; they think they were scared off because we're back there so often to do stuff with the trash can (and they also insist on letting our cat roam outside unsupervised which i privately think might be the reason). should i call a wildlife rehab center? i checked the website of a few in my area and they said they tend to hatchlings and idk if that applies to ones that are uh. unhatched i guess. it's been 3 days since my parents noticed the nest; if the nest really is abandoned and they aren't being incubated would that mean the embryo(???) inside is dead now and i should just leave it be? im sorry this is so long haha i just didnt know who to ask. thank you in advance!!

Many birds won’t actually start incubating until all eggs are laid and the eggs may be laid a couple days apart depending on species and food availability. The eggs are not viable until the birds begin incubating, so doing this will allow the babies to hatch at around the same timeframe and remain at the same general life stages.

It is however possible for a bird to start a nest and change its mind after laying an egg and realizing it’s an active area.

It sounds like an American Robin nest, they can be fickle. Nest fidelity is low up until the first egg hatches. Birds will readily abandon nest and eggs if things go wrong. Cats can also be a factor. Even if the cat doesn’t eat the parents, they may decide the area is unsafe.

Most rehabs don’t take in eggs as the chances of them being non-viable are pretty high by the time humans find them. It may not even be fertilized. There’s a bit of back and forth among rehabbers as to whether or not ethics dictate you should or should not rear eggs since they can be a valuable food source to other wildlife and to raise a baby bird from day one is very risky in terms of accidental imprinting.

Overall, I would personally just say leave it be. The parents may well still be tending to them. Just because you don’t see them doesn’t mean they aren’t around, and just because the eggs could have viability does not mean they are best served at a rehab in a chicken egg incubator.

[inwhichiramble]

Idk if this is just me, but does it seem like the Hunger Games movies left out most of the stuff about food in general?

Maybe I just noticed this because in my first read I was worried that all of them were cannibals, but like… in the movies it seems like they were never actually that hungry. Like, we know that Katniss and Gale have to hunt, and that Peeta gave Katniss the bread, but a lot of the details about just how hungry they were to get to those choices were just… gone. And when they’re in the Capitol on the Victory Tour, they mention the vomit-inducer but it was more of an offhand thing. What got me especially though is that in Mockingjay Pt. 2, their time with Tigris appears to be much shorter, but also… she doesn’t feed them! And from what I remember that was fairly significant in the books, especially considering the position they were in.

In the books, hunger was the driving force of the vast majority of decisions they made. Katniss literally spent a good chunk of her first games desperately searching for water—Haymitch rewarded their performances with food—Katniss described every single thing she eats and primarily characterizes new places based on their food (the Capitol and District 13 especially). TBOSAS supports this even further when you see how even people in the Capitol were starving in the aftermath of the war—that’s why sponsors were added to the game!

I just—the whole series is literally about starvation and what it means to be human, but the movies just focused on love and war.

[jesscookie]

zorayas rya ryas

[lemon-wedges]

When your beautiful wife makes his Special Anime Beef Stroganoff™

[brokewokebespoke]

So what food do they have in Heaven? Manna?

Funny how one of Crowley’s complaints that led him to fall saunter vaguely downwards was about food…

The same Crowley, who tempted Eve with food…

The same Crowley who tempted Aziraphale with food…

The same Crowley that rarely eats…

The same Heaven that eschews food as gross matter…

Very interessssssssting.

[deadscell]

[duskythesomething]

Cheesecake Banana Pancake 🧀🍰🍌🐍

He's up to 273 grams! For those who don't know, Cheese and I have struggled with taking on appropriately sized meals up until recently, and he's been a lil underweight for his size and age. This will be our second week on correctly sized rats, so fingers crossed!

I finally caught him in the classic Ball Pancake pose after we did our nightly chores together 💛

[hinamie]

Megumi is brought to beautiful rooms like this to suffer

may or may not be obsessed with @lyrebirdswrites' fic slaughterhouse it's been living in my head absolutely rent-free and I wanted to pay it homage <3

[rolex-kaard]

ultratober day 4

[vlasdygoth]

au where kaz follows his restaurant dreams and also everyone else is there too

[sunmoontruth-stiles]

I need a completely rewritten teen wolf series with Derek Hale as the main character. I think it would heal me.

[fisheito]

SCREMS my snautsticic child he is trying ok!!!!!! one tiny snake human hybrid built from the cave-ground-up, , attempting to learn all the implicit rules of humanness?! as if it isn't already tough enough out here!!!!

[vullcanica]

Characters baring a mouth full of sharp fangs as show of aggression is top tier but can we talk about how sinister a flash of smooth square omnivore teeth can be. The implications therein? The difference between facing a carnivore vs a member of the terrifyingly, aptly named 'opportunistic eaters'? The fear of being on one's menu, the knowledge that you are on the other's - no matter what you are. The inherent danger of a threat display where there are set rules to avoiding harm turning into a hunt on a dime.

Anyway, thinking about Nikodemus and how beautifully all of this translates into his supernatural setting...

[cthulhusstepmom]

Soap's Da had a saying, "There's two types of snake keepers, those that have been bitten and those that are lying bastards". And John "Soap" MacTavish is many things but a liar isn't one of them... Unless you count making any and every possible excuse to avoid letting Ghost into his room. But does that really count?

A liar he is not but stupid he definitely may be. Intellectually he knows that Wee Man is getting big enough that he shouldn't be free handling him without a spotter, it'd been one of the first things his parents had drilled into his head before he was allowed to even think about getting out the bigger snakes. and intellectually of course he realizes that he probably ought to have a spotter for feeding time too. But Wee Man is so sweet and really he's not that big. So now he's here, with a 7 1/2 foot python latched onto his arm and the stupid fucking rat dangling from the stupid fucking tongs, thankfully it's a frozen thawed otherwise it'd be even more of a shit show.

He's next to certain the snake nicked a vein or something with the amount of blood starting to pool on his cement floor. Fuck.

His head is starting to get a wee bit fuzzy and the arm Wee Man has is well past pins and needles when he remembers what he needs to do, and realizes that he's just been standing there bleeding out like a clueless bawbag. He grabs the handle of Vodka he keeps for any number of emergencies and quickly splashes some over the snake's head, cursing none to quietly at the burn in his punctures. Wee Man drops his wrist like he's been burned, tearing back with as much of a confused expression as a snake can make. Soap tosses the rat into the python's cage and fumbles for a minute before he manages to work his arm free of the slackening coils, pushing Wee Man in after it. Slamming the door near hard enough to shatter it he's left standing in the tiny walkway he's left for himself: tongs in one hand, vodka in the other; blood dripping from his wrist, and a brain fuzzy enough to make into a down comforter.

The rational part of his brain would have him check into medical with a convenient fib, but blood loss does silly things to a man, like making him laugh at terrible jokes and flirt shamelessly with his stunning superior officer.

"Johnny?" Wide brown eyes peer down at him through a crooked balaclava.

So it really isn't much of a surprise when he finds himself swaying in front of Ghost's door, clutching his wrist as he leaves a trail of crimson splotches down the hallway. He's trying to wrap his brain around the concept of knocking when the door in front of him eases open.

"Allo Lt, lovely night we're having. Could ah ask ye a favor?"

[rubystims]

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Flipbook Stimboard for anon!

[jubilentj]

Thinking about how snakes are basically just a mouth and how the two times we have seen Crowley tempt someone specifically (Eve and Aziraphale) it's been to eat something