#Motley Boa

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The remaining available boas. The normal had a hitch in the beginning when I first tried to move them to hoppers and regurgitated, so I backed off again on everyone for awhile. It’s been months now and no other issues from him, although I still offer smaller prey to him than the others. After 4+ months I finally got the male motley on f/t, he’s now taken 3 straight f/t meals, so I am now adding him to the roster. The motley had her second shed finally, and with the bump in prey size I have at least one other snake in shed, so update pics are likely. 😂

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VPI T+ motley sisters (Boa imperator)

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new jenny nicholson video on a disney park activity.

so here's a collection of links I have found for the abarat theme park and disney deal that's been dead two decades

1998 https://www.clivebarker.info/abaratbarker.html

There's a huge new illustrated book for children with 200 oil paintings and 25 stories, which I am in the midst of creating. "I love writing for children. There's this huge project I was talking of a little earlier, with many short stories and illustrations, which will be called Clive Barker's Book of Hours.

00 The Disney project Abarat, the HarperCollins Disney project. We are at the very beginning of a journey here. It will be 5 years before the theme park is up and running

April 00 https://web.archive.org/web/20030317071828/http://www.bookzonepro.com/newswire/showwire.cfm?wirenum=88

Disney has dished out $8 million for the rights to the author’s upcoming series of fantasy adventure novels. According to E! Online, The Abarat Quartet stories will focus on a 16-year-old girl and her otherworldly adventures. HarperCollins is expected to publish the first book in the fall of 2001, and three others will follow in 9-month intervals. Meanwhile, Disney has plans to develop movies, TV series, theme-park rides, video games and various other licensed products based on the series.

Feb 01 https://www.clivebarker.info/abaratbarker.html

"I'm writing four novels and we don't yet know what kind of movies we're making… My job is to write the novel and paint the pictures. "[Candy Quackenbush] begins as a 16 year-old. She ends as an 18-and-a-half year-old. And she discovers her sexuality. That's very much a piece of it…

Nov 01 https://web.archive.org/web/20040410205450/http://www.theonionavclub.com/avclub3741/avfeature_3741.html

Clive Barker: Two things. Abarat, which is the book which comes out next year, which I've just turned in to my publishers, which is the first book of a quartet of fantasy books for children and adults, which is not just text, but is also associated with about 400 oil paintings that I've done O: You've had a lot of problems with studio censorship of your films. What's it like working with Disney on Abarat? Disney is an incredibly image-conscious company.

CB: Yes, no question. But they have been wonderful. They know what the rest of my life is like. They know I pose naked for photographs. Disney's been very cool about it. They understand that Barker is more than one person. I have an identity as somebody who writes for children, I have an identity as someone who writes very graphic horror novels. They know that's who I am, and I think they're fine with it. They've understood that from the beginning. I think, in a curious kind of way, they feel as though that's what makes me interesting as a potential working colleague. I'm not someone who has just made safe work throughout my life.

Feb 02 https://www.clivebarker.com/html/visions/confess/ls/confess19.htm

A lot of stuff is gonna be coming out, films will be made, and the Disney deals moving a long very swiftly

Oct 02 https://ew.com/article/2002/10/04/master-horror-clive-barker-pens-kids-book/

”I’m crazy for the possibilities,” says Thomas Schumacher, president of Disney’s animation division. ”Did you see the guy whose seven brothers live on the antlers on his head? This thing’s ripe.”

April 04 https://www.clivebarker.info/filmsold.html

"That man [John Harrison] is writing Abarat, the screenplay, right now, for Disney. And one of the things that made me want to do the deal with Disney was they said, 'We really are excited about it and, by the way, we have an island we could give you...' and I said, 'You're on!' So we are going to create the theme park at some point - Babilonium - party on, man!... "My hope, honestly, would be that it'll be a mingling of the best [of live action and CGI] - I think we're finding CGI can do more and more, I just don't want it to be dominated by CGI"

Barnes and Noble Stage Presentation

By Brein Lopez, LA Festival of Books, 25 April 2004

2004 https://dvdizzy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=73283

John Harrison, who I respect enormously and who has been very respectful of my desires where the book is concerned and he tells me the script is loyal to the books and I'm delighted that's so.

Jan 05 https://www.horror-asylum.com/news/screenwriter-talks-barker%EF%BF%BFs-abarat-movie/

‘We￿re taking the first two books [ABARAT and DAYS OF MAGIC, NIGHTS OF WAR] and adapting them into one movie,’ Harrison reveals. ‘The screenplay will go in in the next couple of weeks, and we￿ll see what happens. I don￿t know what the publication schedule is for Clive￿s next two books in the series, but I hope Disney will go forward quickly with the film.

jan 05 https://www.clivebarker.info/abarat2barker.html

(it's obvious why Disney has picked up the rights to Abarat), we can be sure there are more adventures for Candy and her friends to come."

Days of Magic, Nights of War

By Barbara Davies, Starburst, No 318, January 2005

feb 05 https://www.clivebarker.info/intsrevel8.html

I feel as though, 'Let Disney do what they need to do with it and then show it to me,' I think it's hard for people like John Harrison, who is a very, very smart and very respectful man, respectful of the books and of me and I am equally respectful of him.

aug sept 06 https://www.clivebarker.info/intsrevel14.html

I am fighting very hard for them not to try making it too soon. We are no longer making Abarat with Disney, that is now official, the work is back in my hands and my ownership, I owe them nothing. I suppose you could say there were creative differences, I don't know. Certainly the way they wanted to do it was not the way I wanted to do it. I realised a short while after getting into the deal with Disney and I'm glad it's come to this conclusion where we can make this movie.

nov 07 https://www.clivebarker.info/filmsold.html

"I pulled it away from Disney because to be very honest I did that deal because I was working with two men who I liked immensely and they swore to me they were not going anywhere and of course two months later they were gone.** I watched as the Disney organisation plodded its way through bouncing this thing back and forth not knowing what to do with it. Meanwhile I turned in a second book, which only confused them even more. "There just came a point where last September their time was up with the option and it was time for them to come up with a number on the table to keep the material for a decent amount of time. Their lawyer came to us and said 'We're Disney, Clive's very lucky to be with us and here is what we propose: rather than paying you x amount and keeping the material for another two years we keep it for four years and pay you nothing'. And I said 'Go fuck yourself.'

08 https://web.archive.org/web/20080219101456/http://www.clivebarker.info/yaabarat12.html

Abarat In Disneyland...

Even though he'd not even started writing the first book, the big news in April of 2000 was that Disney wanted to make a movie of the Abarat story and Clive agreed to sell them the rights! Talking with Fangoria, he explained:

"I shall write four novels, as I am contracted to do, which will constitute the first arc - if this was Star Wars, it would be the first three movies - and Disney will take from those four books the material to make three movies. They may also take material to do TV, games, what have you. "What they've done is something they've never done before: they've bought a world from the inside out. They came out and saw a house full of paintings, and heard me talk about the world and the characters and the philosophies, and they said, 'We want to exploit this material in every medium we're in, from theatre through parks, through toys, whatever.' And that was my dream for this material. It's a wonderful marriage."

Where's The Disney Movie Gone?

"Abarat will be a movie but I am fighting very hard for them not to try making it too soon. We are no longer making Abarat with Disney, that is now official, the work is back in my hands and my ownership, I owe them nothing. I suppose you could say there were creative differences, I don't know. Certainly the way they wanted to do it was not the way I wanted to do it. I realised a short while after getting into the deal with Disney and I'm glad it's come to this conclusion where we can make this movie... "My thing to the filmmakers is, 'Wait until I've written Book 5 and I've delivered everything and then make your movie.' The reason I say that is because Candy doesn't age significantly - she ages maybe three years across the five books and if you're going to do this properly then the actress can't age overmuch either and you've got to have all the books written and all the screenplays written before you start."

08 https://web.archive.org/web/20080215090721/http://www.clivebarker.info/youngfaq.html

Will Abarat be made into a film? - A script has been written from the first two Abarat books but there is unlikely to be a film made until the books have all been written. Disney were originally going to make the Abarat movies but they won't now be doing that.

April 20 https://www.ilcineocchio.it/cinema/dossier-abarat-di-clive-barker-quando-la-disney/

The writer revealed in an interview in 2002 at the Los Angeles Book Festival that he would be inspired by Babilonium,

** https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_management_of_The_Walt_Disney_Company man i cannot parse disney changes to figure out who barker was getting dicked over by

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Bruuuuh

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ʚ˚₊‧ Flight Rising Art Shop Gallery ‧₊˚ɞ

My Art Shop isn't set up yet but I'm using this post as a storage and example page for when I do ^^

Magnus (Custom Pose)

Motley (Custom Pose)

Carne (Guardian Basefill)

Hexerei (Guardian Basefill)

Hotrod (Guardian Basefill)

Murkel (Guardian Basefill)

Bee (Tundra Basefill)

Flora (Tundra Basefill)

Polaris (Tundra Basefill)

Weather (Tundra Basefill)

Boa (Mirror Basefill)

Claymora (Mirror Basefill)

Meatilda (Mirror Basefill)

Splatterwing (Mirror Basefill)

Flytrap (Fae Basefill)

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Welcome new followers!

I legit got 1k new followers from that ‘how to cook a snake’ post, so allow me to introduce myself! My name is Laura, Cis woman I go by she/her. Herpetologist and advocate for forward thinking when it comes to keeping reptiles. I’ve been keeping reptiles for 10 years now, and I regularly update my knowledge based on recent research. I specialize in ball pythons but have a fair amount of knowledge on other species as well. My entire life is based around giving my pets the best care I possibly can, and educating people on reptiles. I currently work as a tech in an oil and tire bay as my day job, but I make D&D dice on the side.  Now, for what y’all followed for! Allow me to introduce my babies, along with showing off their setups. 

This is Dante! He’s the first snake I’ve ever owned, got him 10 years ago and had him since he was only a few inches long. He is a Motley morph Corn snake, incredibly sweet and docile, and very curious. I have him in a bioactive enclosure, I’m still trying to find plants that he won’t destroy though lol. Ignore the dirty water bowl, I gave it a wash after I took the picture

Next up is Thresh! He’s a pinstripe morph Ball Python, hovering around 10 years old, I’ve had him since he was a baby as well. He’s generally slow moving, curious, and incredibly sweet. He is in a basic enclosure, but I plan on swapping him to bioactive in the next few months. 

Here’s Leliana! My gorgeous and amazingly sweet Blue Eyed Leucistic ball python (from a lesser/mojave pair). The absolute sweetest snake, she is curious and friendly, one of my best ambassadors! I’ve had her for about ten years, and she remains as my top favorite snake. She is currently in a basic set up, I am unsure if I’m going to put her on bioactive since she doesn’t have any melanin to protect her from light. I may just use gentle plant lights if I do

This is Navi! My high red Brazillian Rainbow boa. She can be a little bit grouchy so I try to keep her handling to a minimum, as to not stress her out too much. When she is out though she is very fast, and wants to explore every nook and cranny she can find. As she’s aged her colors have dulled a bit, which can randomly happen to rainbow boas sometime. She’s been checked at the vet just to be safe and is still perfectly healthy. She is currently in a home made enclosure that is set up to be bioactive

This is Zevran! He’s a bi-colored crested gecko. I swear he has a single braincell that just pingpongs back and forth all day LOL. He is an adorable little goof, very sweet and curious. He fires down the nice light orangish pink you see in the photo, and fires up a nice bright orange color. He’s in a semi-bioactive enclosure, meaning there’s no plants and no UVB tube. I may upgrade him to full bioactive soon.

This is Kitana, my rescue bearded dragon. She is incredibly mild mannered and sweet, and very smart! She will glass surf to tell me when she needs to poop so I’ll take her outside to do her business. She is leash trained and loves outdoor time, and cuddle time. She does the cutest little shimmy to get cozy when I have her on my lap. She is currently in a home built enclosure with a tile base. I don’t know if I’ll swap her to bioactive or not, still on the fence about it. (She does have a water bowl, its just hiding behind the wood in the photo)

This is Aerith, my orange dream fire pinstripe ball python. She’s always hungry, poised and ready to eat any time I enter the room, she’s a little easier to stress out so she’s in her enclosure most the time, but every once and a while she is calm enough to come out and chill on the couch with me. She’s in a basic setup, but as with everyone else I’m gonna try and upgrade her to bioactive.

This is Asriel! My disco/fire (possibly enchi, possibly yellowbelly, which we are trying to prove out this year). I hatched him myself and raised him from the baby, he is incredibly sweet, very curious and super confident. I adore him so much honestly. He’s currently in a bioactive setup!

This is Aurelion Sol! He is a mexican black kingsnake, I think he’s around 12 or 13 years old? I got him when he was already an adult and around 9 years old or so, he’s from the same breeder I got Dante from. When I got Dante, the breeder also showed me baby mexican black kingsnakes that were from this guy and Cassiopeia (who has sadly passed away.) Aurelion is -always- hungry, and will try to catch and eat anything that moves. This photo is a rare occasion where he isn’t trying to eat me. He is currently in a basic set up, not sure if I’m going to swap him to bioactive or not. (he’s on the top shelf so it’s hard to get a pic of his enclosure)

This beautiful girl is Crunchwrap Supreme, a Suma (possible yellowbelly) ball python! My most recently acquired baby, and I already adore her so much. She is a little shy, but so so sweet. Once she is comfortable she is incredibly curious! She’s a fantastic eater, and I can’t wait to watch her grow. She is currently still in her quarantine enclosure, but as soon as she’s out I’ll likely get her set up in a bioactive!

This is Raina! My vanilla fire enchi yellowbelly ball python. I got her from a friend, who got her from @tailsandco​ (Hi Shelby! Been a while). I had adored Raina since the first time I saw her on Shelby’s blog, and some things happened and she ended up in my care (I am still so grateful like LOOK AT HER SHE’S GORGEOUS AND SWEET). Raina is so, sosososo sweet. She’s Asriels mama, and she’s a little small compared to my other females but that’s just a genetic thing. She eats well, and loves to take naps on the couch while I watch youtube. She’s in a regular setup currently but I want to put her on a bioactive as well!

This is Rhea, he’s a disco/fire ball python. He’s the father of Asriel, and has such a goofy personality. When he’s exploring he regularly goes underneath his own body and then just. Sits there like he’s stuck even when he’s not. He is incredibly sweet and loves to periscope! He’s currently in a basic setup, but as with everyone else, I plan on converting him to bioactive. 

This is Tali! She’s a merauke locality scrub python. This species is actually well known for being incredibly bitey (as most arboreal species are), however there are always exceptions to the rule. I picked her out from her clutch mates because in the photos, she was the only one not poised to strike at the camera. That indicated the potential to be a calm, relaxed animal. I worked with her since she was a baby to make her comfortable with me, and trust me. If she turned out to be bitey I wouldn’t have minded, I knew what I was getting into. But the patience and trust paid off, she is the absolute sweetest! I still get her out of her enclosure with a snake hook for safety reasons, but once she’s out I handle her with my hands. She is so, so sweet and I am forever grateful for how much she trusts me. Her, Leliana, and now Crunchwrap are all competing for my number 1 top favorite snake I own. She is currently in a huge bioactive setup! I plan on getting more of the Dracaena 'Marginata' (the tiny palm tree looking thing) soon. This is just the left corner of the enclosure too!

This is Undyne! She’s a Merauke locality Blue Tongue Skink :) She is incredibly smart, not quite on the level of a tegu but pretty close. I’ve been doing choice based handling with her and it’s improved our levels of trust by a ton. She loves crunching on ice, and exploring the livingroom in her play pen. She’s currently in an 8 foot long basic enclosure. Again, I really wanna put her on bioactive but I gotta figure out what plants are safe to be in there in case she wants to munch them. Lol

This is Pharoh! He’s my rescue cat that I found in my front yard when he was a kitten. I found him during the beginning of COVID so we were home together every day for 3 months. He is incredibly sweet, cuddly, and also playful. He’s a mama’s boy, he follows me around the house 24/7 and if I’m sitting, you can bet he’s in my lap. He gets special meals where I put him in the back room so I can safely have my reptiles out, and he doesn’t see it as a bad thing because he gets a big special meal. He even has a giant running wheel to help keep him entertained while I’m at work. He’s such a good little man 

I also have a couple spiders, but I don’t want to tag this big post with it so I’ll leave them out and possibly do a post on just them later on.  But yeah that’s the family! I pride myself in taking the best possible care of my pets that I can :)

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ANCIENT CHILD OF FROST (2024)

hiiii I did finish this (I post mostly on bsky now)

[img ID: Two six legged, feline creatures with snakes for tails surround the newly found Homotherium cub mummy. There is text above the drawing that reads "you are beautiful and terrifying, child of ancient frost". The character on the left has the pattern of a gold tiger on his right side and the pattern of a tricolor canine on his left side. His right eye is yellow and his right eye is hot pink. His snake's pattern is based on that of a *clown morph hognose snake. The snake's eye is purple. The homotherium cub is in between both cats, in a partially curled position, eyes closed. The six legged feline on the right has a cream colored tiger pattern on her left side and a dark brown tiger pattern on her right side. Her left eye is pink and her right eye is deep purple. Her snake is headless with the pattern of an albino motley boa. Both Gods have their four front legs outstretched towards the cub with gentle expressions on their faces. Their tails cross each other with Elures' keeping its only open eye on the cub. The background is velvet purple with hot pink and yellow scribbles behind the cub. There is a hot pink antler scribble above Hadet (the cream and brown cat) and a yellow antler scribble above Elures (the gold and tricolor cat).

*I cannot find the original image with the morph name. It was either clown or circus themed.]

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Holdbacks/possible holdbacks from Nymeria’s litter this year. They were born especially tiny and I’ve been hesitant to push them. At 4 months they had just about reached Dominika’s babies’ size at birth. These guys are all on small hoppers full time now.

[crispysnakes]

Motley 66% DH VPI T+ and Jablonski super stripe.

$200 + shipping, eating f/t small mice with a temperament that's sweet as can be!

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Freshly peeled Burnt Toast melanin progression update at 1 year and two months! His change this month is more subtle, in person you can faintly see his spots, but looking at the previous picture it’s definitely darker! His head pattern is pretty stubborn, it seems like it’s the last thing that changes in this morph. He is constantly getting cuter, always on the move but hope he settles down into an adult that doesn’t mind chilling from time to time

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Moonlit Boa🌘

(Digital/Ibis Paint)

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A Motley Albino Boa I illustrated recently. Boa's are one of my absolute favourite kinds of snakes.✨️

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TOP 5 SNAKES

(had to do it back at you) <3

Ask me my "TOP 5" anything!

RETICULATED PYTHONS! my dream snake is a cow retic bc they are born white and then as they grow and shed THEY GET BLACK AND YELLOW SPECKLES!!! now the downside to retics is that they can get enormous (15+ feet and females can get upwards of 20 feet) which brings me tooooooo....

superdwarf and dwarf retics! they are essentially miniature versions of full sized mainland retics.

ball pythons. i'm biased because i have one but they're adorable and i love them

boa constrictors, specifically BIs or boa imperators aka 'common boas'. dream one of those is an IMG motley. img means increased melanin gene and they turn all black as they age. i'm gonna name him morgoth when i get him. when. not if.

BURMESE PYTHONS. I LOVE THEM. THEY'RE SO DUMB, OKAY? LIKE THERE IS ONE BRAINCELL AND THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE IT AND I JUST LOVE BURMS SM. if i can ever find a dwarf burm from a good, reputable breeder, IT'S GONNA BE MINE

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Updated picture of Parzival. 😁✌🏻❤️🩷🐍😁✌🏻❤️🩷🐍😁✌🏻❤️🩷🐍

1.0.0 Motley Roswell Ladder Tail Jungle Het. Kahl Groovy Coral Albino (His name is as long as his body is right now.. LOL)

Name: Parzival (pronounced Per-sir-val)

Breeder Info: Mike Schrader (S&M Boas LLC.)

Brought From: Mike Schrader (S&M Boas LLC.)

Birthdate: 06-06-2020

Mother:

Motley Jungle 100% Het. Kahl Albino (Jeremy Stone)

Father:

Hypo RLT 100% Het. Kahl Groovy Coral Albino (Boa Morph)

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Pele - IMG sunglow motley (Boa imperator)

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abarat: 3 out of 5 books currently written

a flat world with 25 main islands, based around the concept of the 24 hours + one extra, which exists in its own squiggly time

has a whole almanac worth of information written about each island -- the names, the people who live there, the histories, the geography/flora/fauna, what type of creatures inhabit them (many many kinds of creatures)

centres on a sixteen year old girl called candy, who enters the abarat seemingly by accident (or is it......)

deals extensively in fairytale themes being upended and subverted

big cast of characters, who each seem to be going through their own massive quests and character developments, such as:

malingo: a being who was formerly a slave to an evil wizard, but is rescued by candy and pledges his allegiance to her

geneva: a heroic adventurer and seafarer. she tends to pop up when most needed along with her crew

finnegan hob: a prince who is on a quest of revenge, after the princess he loved was murdered at the altar (but even to that, there are twists)

christopher carrion: a wet pathetic cat of a man, who is definitely evil, but also going through a whole time. you know you're gonna feel a little bit bad for him from the word go

john: a being called john mischief who carries his brothers heads on giant antlers. a thief who's found himself wanting to assist candy and the good guys generally

and a very big cast of witches and magic-users, evil and good and operating on their own morality scales, including the fantomaya who seem to be trying to help, princess boa who's not trying to help at all, and mater motley and her seamstresses (christopher's grandmother) who is [spoilers but it's definitely bad for everyone else]

the sea of mama izabella, sentient in her own way

and candy, who is going through that coming-of-age narrative of realising she has more power than she'd been giving herself credit for, after growing up with an abusive father and [spoilers]. feels like books 1-3 have really been about building that awareness in her, and possibly 4+5 she'll be fucking shit up

also as of book 3, there appears to be some extra connection between the world of earth and the world of abarat (and... someplace else....... aliens in a fantasy world? it's more likely than you think) and just straight up some lovecraftian monstrousness in the air

it's got that clive barker horror to it, that just makes it more fun to read, and is so full of beings and elaborate descriptions of places, it's a cornucopia of fantastical world-building

definitely feel like it's been one of those that works as a full puzzle-piece, and so there are unanswered concepts and questions all over the place, but it's very fun to guess what'll happen next. and yeah each book is over 400 pages, so lots to read!

feel like ive gotta get some people in on the abarat hype-train, it has 21 non-crossover fanfics total on ao3, clive barker did not personally paint 500 character and place designs for his own currently 1200 page+ fantasy series to not have more respect

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Sarabi is a motley boa I got this past summer. Motley is my favorite boa morph and I can't wait to combine it with IMG in a few years.