#he’s just so blue tongued skink coded….

[nightly-ruse]

Idk how else to word this but lionblaze is a blue tongued skink I don’t make the rules

[vampiresuns]

Since you reminded me that Asra is supposed to be Muslim coded, blue-tongued skink was a bad choice for the devs to make that Asra's favorite food. Because from an article I found on halal food, reptiles are an example of forbidden food for Muslims.

So unless the devs wanted to make Asra a non-practicing Muslim, that was not a good idea.

I'm thinking about making his favorite food shakshuka.

Oh, thanks from bringing this up! I looked into it, and it’s literally on the Wikipedia page that (at least most) reptiles are Haram, which makes me think even further that the Devs put it in as they went, instead of actually thinking about it.

It’s understandable that they’d make him non practising on the ‘grew up without his parents’ excuse, but at least to me, denying a character their culture in order to not engage with it, and never mention it is just... Bad. I do wanna think he goes more into it after he finds his parents again, but that’s also up in the are.

YES, YES ON SHAKSHUKA. Please think about him making some for Muriel, Nadi and the Apprentice I’m 👀👀👀👀👀👀

[cynical-pantheist]

Backwater and BHB Reptiles are essentially the same.

rThis hurts me so deeply. I am not some competing company, I don’t have anything to gain by lying, I was just a really big fan of SnakebytesTV and Brian in particular. I watched all of his videos, I loved seeing him interact with his snakes, I didn’t see anything wrong with the way his animals were kept nor with the way he acted. He seemed to have all the answers and a genuine love and care for his animals. However, after we purchased our first Western Hognose snake (from BHB Reptiles, of course) we noticed how different the actual set up was from what they were kept in before. I however, chalked that up to the fact that the snakes he breeds he probably doesn’t intend to keep very long, so their housing conditions are temporary until they go to a good home and live out the rest of their lives with- hopefully- a better set up. I excused all of the bad things said, and honestly they were few and far apart as is. and assumed what some of you will assume of me while reading this, but I promise, this is all true and very heartbreaking. My husband and I have waited a year and a half to order a Blue Tongue Skink because BHB was planning to start breeding them and we wanted to support them by purchasing one specifically from them, and a week ago, we did. We scheduled everything how we had with Henry (our Western Hognose) and we noticed right off the bat that the staff seemed less interested than usual, the photo quality of the ‘babies’ were blurry and confusing and even while engaged in conversation, both Stephanie and Lori (as claimed through company email) both dodged questions about age and size. We scheduled when we would like our skink delivered and contact immediately ceased there- on their end, at least. I unfortunately had to work the day he was delivered to our home, but my husband was. Our skink was really reluctant to come out of the bag that he’d come to us in and my husband really didn’t want to force him out, so he just set it inside his tank to give him time to come out on his own and explore. He imminently went to a hide on his warm side so we didn’t bother him, wanting him to have time to get comfortable. I got a few pictures of him in his bag, but they were dark and a bit blurry so I couldn’t really get a good idea of what he looked like until I came home from work and he was basking in his light, and my god was I so confused. His tail looked like his actual scales were shedding away, his jaw was deformed, he was underweight and I suspect mouth rot. I could not fucking believe it. Not only was he a much older skink than we thought we were getting, (Due to them not responding to our questions, luckily we had a large tank) But he was clearly very sick. I was needless to say, pissed, confused, heartbroken and scared. We tried to contact BHB, once again, nothing. So we tried to do the next best thing, leave a review on their facebook page, so that those seeking to purchase a skink won’t be surprised if they get what we get. We included photographs and explained the situation, stated multiple times how badly it hurt us that we had to do this shit, we were mature and didn’t seek to attack, just spread the word. That’s when BHB staff tried responding to us, saying we should email them (like we had already done, multiple times) to voice our complaint instead of on their face book. Also, their reviews are turned OFF so we had to post it under an advertisement for their blue tongue skinks (obviously) and my husband was respectful and calm, saying that we had the means to care for the reptile’s medical needs and didn’t want anything more than to inform others that they could potentially be getting a sick reptile. 

This is where things start to get a little unbelievable. My husband was getting ready to go to the store today and got a call from an MI area code, obviously BHB, he declined the first one because he was leaving and didn’t really want to deal with it. It was overall a really uncomfortable situation for us, we really respected Brian and BHB and this was all so fucking shitty. My husband decided to call them back to say he was going to the store and that he would be available later, well, he got to talk to a woman for literally a second before she asked “is this Tyler?” and him, being him, he said “Uhhhh, yeah???” 

Next thing he knows he’s talking to Brian. BRIAN FROM SNAKEBYTES is on the phone with him, except he’s calling him a dick and a hater and screaming at him calling us liars and berating my husband who was literally so fucking uncomfortable and upset and couldn’t believe what he was hearing. I got a sort of replay thing from him, essentially, Brian told him he was a dick for leaving that review and kept saying that we should have emailed them (which we did) instead of openly reviewing, my husband explained that he could not in good faith keep the fact that they were sending out sick reptiles quiet, to which Brian told him that he’d not been there for a week and that he didn’t see that particular animal before it was shipped (something he later contradicts). My husband said he was sorry that he was so upset, just feeling uncomfortable and wanting this man to calm the fuck down, he told Brian that we were really big fans and that we were sorry and that we didn’t really want to do that to him but, y’know. He then laughed at my husband, said he didn’t care, kept bringing up the fact that my husband may have cost him a sale, and that literally killed him inside, these animals weren’t anything but SALES to him. And at the end, he practically demanded my husband send the skink back so he could refund the money and ‘be done with it’, and my husband couldn’t believe he’d said that. NO WAY IN HELL are you getting him back, no way in hell are you going to just let him continue to be sick you fucking asshole. 

This is all true, and hurts and sucks but please believe me, he does not take care of his animals anymore. Maybe he cared once, but not anymore, he isn’t what he appears to be. I know he seems to nice and in his show he looks like he cares so much about his animals and oh god does it hurt, but it’s not like that for him, not honestly, not anymore. I couldn’t believe it myself, but in case you get to see this, Brian. Fuck you. Fuck you for making people like you and idolize you and your compassion for these animals and your desire to make an effort in the community using your animals. Fuck you for lying to us every time you turn on a camera. Fuck you. 

And to anyone else seeing this, please, don’t buy an animal from this man. Please. I thought he was different too, I thought posts like this were bullshit slander too, but it’s true. Please, don’t support this.