#venom labs

[is-the-snake-video-cute]

How uncomfortable is it for a snake to be milked of its venom? I've seen videos of it, and sometimes it looks like people have to really squish their heads to get the venom out.

I guess I'm just curious/concerned about how the animal is treated in the process of extracting venom and would love some insight, if that's possible?

Hi there! I'm on the payroll at a venom lab (not my full-time job anymore but we have a very long working relationship) and I process that the process is not rough at all and the animals are treated very well.

Now, venom extraction is never going to be fun, but every possible precaution is taken to make sure the snake is comfortable. If it looks like they're being squished, I promise they're not applying a lot of pressure, but the person doing the extraction does have to make sure to hold the snake down firmly so they can't just pop right off the funnel. Sometimes they'll squeeze the sides of the snake's face to make sure the venom glands empty more completely, but this doesn't hurt the snake. If you gently squeeze your wrist just hard enough that you can rotate your hand, that's the amount of pressure lab workers are trained to use when restraining a snake for a venom extraction.

At venom labs, we love our snakes! Their comfort and safety is always the number one priority. Lab snakes know what their job is and they know exactly what to do - most of our vipers will start popping their fangs as soon as we take them out and they see the funnel! It's not fun for them and they don't really get it but they seem to be like "well. time to bite that thing again I guess?"

If a snake is overly stressed, refusing to bite, or refusing to envenomate, then they get put back into their enclosure. They're never forced to participate!

[lorenzonuti]

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[puppyeared]

i have an idea for a character design but what animals are usually associated with medicine??? the most common answer i got was snake, but i also thought of lab rats/mice, rabbits etc

[idreamofdango]

Anko, I found an albino hognosed snake. Can you take it?

-@wolfdemonofkonoha

ooouu she's pretty :3

i'll take her off your hands, thanks Rai ♡

[yourplaceinaugust]

making non tumblr user friends was a mistake bc i was ranting about symbrock to my friend and ended it by saying "the third movie needs to be rated r so they can fuck" and my friends only response was "what the fuck"

[overlordofpoison]

\\ough i cant think of anything really to say but i had an idea that builds off of what happened yesterday in discord so heres angst or smth\\ He stumbled into her lab, appearing drunken. He looked like total shit. His antennae were tangled up in his hair and his wings drooped miserably behind him. Last night was nowhere near the best experience he's had. "...Venom...?" - @kandy-hearts-candy-store

[ she stared in shock for a minute ]

"What the fuck happened? Are you alright??"

[lovelesslittleloser]

Ah, the year-old question: to listen to Devil’s Train by The Lab Rats, or to listen to What The Hell by Avril Lavigne

[fyanimaldiversity]

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I’m not sure if I mentioned it on my other animal blog or here, I LOVE caterpillars, but the idea of touching one terrifies me! Even seeing pictures of other people handling harmless ones gives me the willies. Their spikes and fluff and warning colorations absolutely work on me, I don’t want to mess with them! Complete opposite of edible! Maybe I was a hungry predator in a past life who fucked around and found out?

Oddly enough, most venomous snakes are shaped like friends to me! I know better not to, but they look soooo touchable.

[fiepige]

Venom!Hobie Cat-Symbiote AU!

Okay so I might have made an AU of my AU...

It's based on my Venom!Hobie au but with a slightly (?) lighter tone in the sense that Hobie actually gets along well with his symbiote. Though they initially mostly get along due to shared mutural trauma... (But more about that later)

This version of the symbiote is more animalistic and usually communicates with Hobie through emotions- sorta projecting its own emotions and feelings towards him to let him know how it feels about something, though it might also communicate via single words or short sentences but that's pretty rare.

So, I'll do like I did in my original Venom!Hobie post and focus on the Design first:

Since they get along the symbiote feels safe around Hobie and thus it'll often "extend" itself outside of him and take the shape of a (freaky looking) cat - Kinda like how VENOM is able to partially seperate itself from Eddie while still being tethered to him:

Like this but they actually get along and the symbiote looks kinda like this:

(Once again- I CANNOT draw but the brainrot is stronger so I need to share this)

(I didn't draw the symbiote goo that would extend from it to tether it to Hobie but it's there I swear!)

Since this is Spider-Punk's symbiote I wanted some of the spikes to carry over in this design

I haven't quite decided if it should have the "running-mascara" look (buttom drawing) for its eyes like Spider-Punk's mask has or not so lemme know what you guys think?

The spikes are used as a way for it to communicate to others as a way to make its body language more expressive (though it only shows itself around people it really trusts so it rarely uses them as it still just communicates its emotions directly to Hobie when it needs to)

And like with Venom!Hobie the spikes are reminiscent of symbiote teeth

When it's relaxed/happy the spikes will be pressed down towards its body - making it easy to pet- if somebody would dare approach it that is

Hobie pets it a lot as it usually sits on his shoulder when he walks around (when there's nobody around that is)

The symbiote is still made of the same goo as regular symbiotes so it does not feel like petting a cat at all- Hobie doesn't mind but most other people find it rather unpleasant to touch

The "fuzzy" look is just the symbiote goo trying to imitate cat fur

The reason the symbiote takes this form is partially because it's more animalistic and likes physical affection (from people it trusts, it will bite your hand off if it doesn't like/trust you and you try to pet it) and partially because Hobie is a cat person and it used it as a method to make Hobie like it more when they first "met" + petting it helped Hobie calm down and still does

It's gotten pretty good at mimicking cat noises including purring

It'll usually stay on Hobie's shoulder or sit in his lap like this, it's still tethered to him so it can't go that far without him - not that it really wants to anyways

If it likes someone it'll rub itself against their legs and mimic purring noises

Okay now we move on to the

Origin:

This is my current headcanon for this AU but as always feel free to share your thoughts/ideas/inputs if you have any <3

Hobie and the symbiote "met" at one of Oscorp's labs

Hobie was living as a homeless teen (13-14 years old having escaped an abusive household a few months prior) and was captured by Oscorp to be used for their symbiote experimentations

Hobie was an easy target as he had just been bitten by the radioactive spider a few hours prior and thus he was starting to suffer from the fever the bite gave him

Hobie was to be fused with a new kind of symbiote

The symbiote had been made to make people more susceptible to orders- making them less inclined to think for themselves

But in order to make that possible the symbiote had been put through some rather painful and extreme experiments- making it more "dead" than alive at this point

When it's fused with Hobie, who's still very sick at this point, the spider bite is still working its magic on Hobie's body and thus it also partially heals the symbiote

Both Hobie and the symbiote are terrified of their situation as they're put in holding cells made specifically for symbiotes.- Their only comfort is each other.

The symbiote takes on the cat like appearance to soothe Hobie after being subjects to a particularly bad experiment

Since Hobie's gotten powers from both the spider bite and the symbiote they quickly become the subjects for many inhumane and painful experiments as the scientists futilely try to figure out how to replicate the symbiote (as they're unaware of the spider bite, thinking the symbiote alone is behind Hobie's new powers)

Due to the symbiote Hobie develops a taste for human flesh

And he gets his first taste of it as he manages to escape the lab during one of their many tests- killing as many guards and scientists on their way out as possible. (This is also the first time they fully transform into Venom!Hobie)

He would later return and burn the lab down completely.

As a result of their treatment at the lab + Hobie's past with his abusive family, both him and the symbiote have developed a deep distrust to other people.

Which is also why Hobie isn't trying to get rid of the symbiote, he considers it his only friend for a long time.

Hobie still loves playing music (which is also how he eventually makes new friends) but has had to make some adjustments due to the symbiote, thus he usually uses both earplugs and noise cancelling earmuffs when he's playing and even then he still gets migraines if he plays for too long or too loud

He still craves human flesh and will usually target cops or anyone associated with Oscorp to sate his hunger.

He doesn't feel bad about killing but will still try not to harm civilians (emphasis on try- sometimes the hunger gets the best of him)

He still operates as Spider-Punk but for a long time he's mostly fueled by his hatred for Oscorp and how they treated him and the symbiote

But as he slowly learns to open up to people he starts to shift his focus onto figting to help people and make the city safer (which means he'll still target cops and Oscorp employees but that's not his only focus anymore) (he also makes an effort to actually save civilians at this point)

Though due to the symbiote and their past this version of Spider-Punk is more prone to just straight up killing his villains (+ he still gotta eat right?)

But I'd like to imagine that this version of Hobie also finds his own community who help him out and accept both him and the symbiote

Giving them kind of a "happy" ending despite this version of Hobie being more messed up and unhinged...

Once again this turned out way longer than I intended lol (I just can't shut up about Venom!Hobie, the brainrot is real!)

Thank you so much for reading!!! <3 <3 <3

(And please let me know if you have any thoughts/inputs/questions about anything I wrote! The brainrot is real and I'll never get tired of talking about this guy)

Also click here if you wanna read more about my Venom!Hobie concept <3

[scandals-r-us]

Miguel facing any problem too hard to solve immediatly in the comics: BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU

And yes his boxers say abdomen

[is-the-snake-video-cute]

Any recent snake sillies, either at home or the lab? I'm sick and could use a pick-me-up

I'm sorry you're not feeling well, my best wishes for a speedy recovery!

Yesterday, one of the snakes at my lab was giving us some trouble! We have a western diamondback who was born with no eyes, his name is Daredevil and we all love him deeply. He's usually such a sweetheart, but he was being unusually grumpy so we were a little worried. He's a very sensitive young man, and it turned out he'd tipped his water over and was Very Upset that his substrate was wet.

I was doing lab tours a few days ago, and I have a few snakes that I rotate to have out on hooks with me. They're all sweethearts who are very calm. The one I had out was one of my favorite snakes in the world, an Egyptian cobra named Seth. I was talkin', people were askin' questions, we were all having a great time. But Seth had started falling asleep on the hook, just hanging out like it was a branch, so for the rest of the tour I had to move very slowly and carefully so I wouldn't wake him up and scare him!

[vulpinesaint]

insane to me. insane

[whumpbees]

Small reptile Whumpee kept in a too-small enclosure with improper conditions [like heating, humidity, etc] and just being seen as a part of Whumper's collection.

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

Watching lord boxman fussing over a ham and dolling himself up is like 'ooo what villainess does he have a hot date with today' and then discovering this is the episode which introduces professor venomous has me losing my shit

[corvidaeconundrum]

Thinking about that P.I.E rewrite again (May make some more art cause gat damn)

[overlordofpoison]

//heres goes nothin//

The small, scrawny butterfly paced back and forth across the room, his wings fluttering behind him, and his heels clicking against the floor when he walked. Living on a leash under Valentino's rule for so long had taught him a thing or two, but a overlord that didn't suck? That wasn't a piece of shit? That was something else. He couldn't blow this. He turned quickly at the sound of the door opening.

"Oh, my stars.. you're.. early. Uhm.. care for some tea?"

He smiled nervously.

@freak-show-fiascos

"Sure! Also, yeah, sorry about being early. I'm kind of used to doing that."