#venom dragon

[dragon-inc]

[herpsandbirds]

Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis), family Varanidae, found on Komodo Island, and other nearby islands in Indonesia

Venomous.

ENDANGERED.

It was once thought that Komodos subdue prey with a heavy and noxious array of mouth bacteria that infect bite wounds of prey after being bitten, but… it was never really determined scientifically if that’s what was happening (conclusively, at least). (It is still believed though that this may aid in brining down larger prey).

It turned out, they’re venomous! Research was done in 2009 that found a primitive venom gland at the back of the mouth.

This is that largest species of lizard in the world, growing to a maximum total length of up to ~ 3 m (~10 ft.) long and a max. weight of up to 8~ 81 kg (180 lbs) (in the wild).

photograph by Michelle Allen

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Sorry if this has been answered before but yknow, tumblr search be bad. So, I've heard like conflicting information about Komodo Dragons being venomous. Sometimes I've heard they ARE venomous and have venom glands and then sometimes I hear they don't have venom glands but have harmful bacteria in their mouth. And I've heard there's only 2 venomous lizards, and those are the gila monster and Mexican beaded. So I guess, the question is are komodo dragons venomous and if so, how? 🦎

You've been getting a lot of conflicting answers because there are conflicting opinions and a lot of popular but outdated info out there! The short answer is that Komodo dragons do indeed have venom, but herpetologists disagree on what exactly can be considered "venomous." Many of my colleagues, perfectly reasonable people, have been driven to extreme emotions by this discussion because many of us do feel that the traditional definition of venom (which required a reptile to have venom glands, venom ducts in the facts, and to use their venom for killing/digesting prey) needs to be updated.

Komodo dragons having unusually harmful saliva is outdated - studies within the most recent decade have found that the bacteria in their mouths is very ordinary. They have venom glands in their lower jaws and venom ducts between their teeth, so biting and chewing prey will inject venom into the prey's bloodstream. Their venom's main purpose seems to be preventing blood from clotting, so bites will lead to massive blood loss. The fun thing here is that Komodo dragon bites are serious enough without venom (the question is honestly irrelevant because in most cases if you're bitten by one you're dead, venom or no), but veranids (monitors) are quite primitive in the lizard family tree, so the existence of venom in Komodo dragons (and likely other monitors!) lets us know that venom probably goes much further back in the reptile family tree than we once thought.

[afalconfromalcyoneus]

Flame 🔥

Drew this outta spite to people who hate this guy w/ a passion. Just kidding you can dislike a character, I just like characters that are massive a**holes.

[quin-ns]

E = Explicit | * = Dark themes

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Tangerine x Reader

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Stay With Me

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Fix It

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Inevitable

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Peter Parker x Reader

My Safe Place (is Next to You)

Summary: after being outed as spider-man, peter’s life has become a mess. he finds solace with you

Scream

Ethan Landry x Reader

Fake Blood (E)

Summary: spoiler: the blood isn’t fake. alone in your apartment after your friends had been attacked, you ask ethan to stop by. he does in an unexpected way and you get more than you bargained for

Whispers

Summary: request: “fluff w/ ethan Landry where he thinks she’s asleep so he whispers I love you…”

The Hunger Games

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Always Forever (E*)

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[absolutebl]

Hey. Ty very much for your posts. As a woman in my 30s I got hypnotised by the beauty of the novelists and was wondering if you had similar high heat intense recommendations (also watched the samurai one "taboo"), bi or mlm with older leads and non fluffy storylines.. Moody atmospheric and venomous is my weak spot

Moody, atmospheric & venomous BL

Like, the Novelist? really?

AKA Pornographer movie series AKA The Novelist, Mood Indigo, Pornographer Playback (Japan 2018-2020) - emotional manipulation, cheating, obsession, seduction, May/December, kink, touch of necrophilia, explicit.   

Okay I got one right off the bat: seek ye....

The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese

AKA Kyuso wa Chizu no Yume wo Miru (Japan 2020) - obsession, cheating, breakup, reunion, then break up again, explicit, mature characters. 

Now let me think about some more:

high heat

intense

non fluffy

older leads

The last one is a doozy, so I'm not gonna use it as a qualifier. BL is most, well, about "boys" not men.

Some others that might work for you but don't meet all your criteria:

Your Name Engraved Herein (Taiwan 2020 Netflix) - this movie is fantastic but it is also seriously depressing, it’s a self acceptance journey, but if you wanna wallow in high quality acting and serious gay drama, this’ll do it. 

Innocent (Taiwan 2021 GaGa) - mental health, childhood trauma, actually kinda sweet. 

The Eighth Sense (Korea 2023 Viki - This isn’t in the KBL bubble, there’s sharp edges and lots of triggers. For a KBL the darkness of the content left me feeling unsettled but it's really damn good.

My Personal Weatherman AKA Taikan Yoho (Japan 2023 Gaga) - Basically: boys who fell in love in college end up living together but both are so repressed they actually don't realize they're in love. They're hot, young, in love, and total idiots.

I Feel You Linger in the Air (Thai 2023 grey or YT) - IFYLITA is an exquisite BL, elegant and classy… from Thailand which normally doesn't even try for classy. The main couple (both as a pair and individuals) were excellent, it gets hot more that explicit, but it does have sharp edges.

Tokyo in April is AKA Shigatsu no Tokyo wa (Japan 2023 Viki) - Two young men with a shared tragic past reunite and fall in love all over again, but the past will not stop hunting them. It’s Japan in full on soft focus which means it gets emo, abusive, and chewy. These two characters are giving parts of their souls away in a desperate attempt to shape themselves to the expectations they have of each other it's heavy and cutting.

Moonlight Chicken (Thai 2023) - I enjoyed this complicated little show, even though it’s spectacularly messy gay with lots of shrapnel and authentic pain. EarthMix turn in their most compelling performance to date.

Bed Friend (Thai 2023 IQIYI) - Office frienamies transition a flaming hot one night stand into a f-buddy relationship that is built on a puppy/cat dynamic (and kinks into it at one point). Our puppy is loyal, smitten, and protective with endlessly longing eyes, while our cat is snarky, prickly, and deeply damaged (ALL THE TRIGGERS). NetJames give lovely high-heat with excellent chemistry and tuned-in performances of surprising depth.

Big Dragon (Thai 2022 Gaga) - This is a decent execution of true enemies to lovers, these two spy on and bully each other, exploring darker themes and self worth issues. The way the leads transition between anger, resentment, titillation, and flirting (and the way, with kinksters, this can all be the same thing) is really well done. A pairing that proved itself to be a lot more sophisticated than I expected with excellent chemistry, but something went askew around plot, directing, and ending. Still if you're in it for the sexy, go to, they did.

My Beautiful Man AKA Utsukushii Kare (Japan 2021 Gaga - One of the most Japanese BLs to release in the last decade, as weird and as messed up as any 2000′s yaoi: emo af and hella warped, entirely true to itself with no attempt made to modify its POV for modern sensibilities or current BL fandom. It used seriously old school problematic and kinky tropes, like whipping boy, for a truly uncompromising piece that also manages to hit up themes of communication, consent, and self acceptance. It’s a wonderful BL but uniquely dirty and harsh, in the best possible way - Japanese cinema, uncompromising.

End of the World With You

Junjou: Pure Heart

The Egoist

No thoughts on those three, not my thing.

You also might consider some of the stuff on this list:

Hope that gives you some options!

[cashmere-caveman]

close enough.

[willfullwanderer]

longwing

[watcherscrown]

a real conversation i had at work this week

me: Library reference desk, how can I help you? man: HOW DO I IDENTIFY AN ARTIFACT me: um. what kind of artifact? man: I FOUND IT ON THE SIDEWALK me: have you tried uploading it to any websites, to see if any experts recognize it? man: I DON'T USE THE INTERNET. I ONLY HAVE THIS PHONE THAT I'M TALKING ON RIGHT NOW me: okay! so- man, interuppting: I FOUND THIS ON THE GROUND AND I THINK I KNOW WHAT IT IS, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT *IS*, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? me: I think so. So, we don't really have anyone here with that kind of expertise, but have you tried calling the main library? Someone in archives or special collections might- man: THEY'RE ALWAYS CLOSED me: I assure you they are not man:... man: WHEN I WAS A KID AND I WENT TO THE LIBRARY, THE LIBRARIANS WERE VERY KNOWLEDGABLE AND EDUCATED me: I'm- man: WHAT HAPPENED me: excuse me? man: ARE YOU EDUCATED. I MEAN, DO YOU HAVE A COLLEGE DEGREE me: I do :) man: DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS ARE? me: Yes, I do. man: DO YOU KNOW WHAT A "KIMONO DRAGON" IS me: Yes, I know what a Komodo dragon is. man: DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE GALAPAGOS IN WORLD WAR TWO me: sir, I have to assist another patron, do you mind if I put you on hold? *line goes dead*

[incorrect-guilty-gear]

Baiken: Hold on, I don't know if we can trust this robot.

Robo-Ky: I have snacks!

Baiken: But the bible does say to love thy neighbor.

Venom: You're a Buddhist.

Baiken: A hungry Buddhist!

[vertigoartgore]

Peter Parker, the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man celebrating his 30th anniversary among family, friends and foes. Art by Erik Larsen (soon before the start of his Savage Dragon run at Image Comics).

[dinoserious]

two icons fr an email client, from late last yr/early jan

[nonameidentified]

Why must pretty things kill me?

My current "pretty but painful" fixation is the blue sea dragon. I mean, just look at it.

Just look at that brilliant blue hue.

The blue sea dragon (glaucus atlanticus) is a sea slug found in tropical and sub tropical waters. They float upside down in the ocean, and that's also the reason for their bright blue colour. It is so that they can blend in with the blue of the ocean.

But my favorite thing about these creatures is the fact they are absolutely tiny. They only grow to be 3 cm. They are tiny little guys. (つ≧▽≦)つ

If they are just cute little guys, then what makes them so dangerous? Well, it's their prey. They feed on the portuguese man o' war (that's is a ridiculous name). The man o' war are like jellyfish without actually being a jellyfish (taxonomy is weird). The only thing notable about them here is that they have venomous nematocysts capable of delivering stings painful enough to kill fish and occasionally humans too.

Which, since the blue sea dragons eat them, gives them access to these stinging cells, which they store in their own tissues as a defense against predators.

Because these slugs concentrate the venom, they are capable of producing a more painful and deadly sting than their prey. Which shatters my dreams of petting them because I will die a miserable death.

[ffc1cb]

thank you everyone for your suggestions :)

[demitsorou]

Have some wolf-paka content + Akamai Hordika homoerotic tension

The thought of Kopaka being just the cuddliest himbo werewoof. Lone wolf as a Toa but once in a blue moon the true Beta-Male genes take hold and he becomes big soft boy.

He does not remember what happens, and Tahu does not realize that the giant wolf boy visiting him and asking for pets is his rival and boyfriend Kopaka, because who could guess that the big woofer that is cuddly and friendly and nice is actually the most introverted asshole on the island.

[slvtforlizzie]

marvel!hotd!au

imagine...

Aemond gets stuck with Venom and now Venom is just constantly asking who is the boy he's angry at. when they see Luke bc he works for Tony, Venom is just shouting at Aemond. "that's him! that him! who is it damnit!"

"shut up!" Aemond yelled catching Luke's attention.

venom can feel aemond get angry but he feels something else for him. the blood rushing down south as the boy walks over. venom can't deny but give a silent hum in approval. "uncle, what are you doing here?" Luke asked.

venom gasped, "uncle? what the fuck did I get myself into?"