#the snake is supposed to be my ball python!!

[ari-continues-to-exist]

Y’know what fuck it here’s a closeup of my pfp. It’s old art and I updated the design to this because i literally came up w it on the spot.

[is-the-snake-video-cute]

Love when chunky snakes like to burrow. Heard something fall over in Miriam's enclosure and she's re-organizing everything while on A Dig. Absolutely dying at the little specks of dirt on top of her silly little head

[hemo-goblin-a1c]

Ah, yes, my favorite bp morphs

Butter Fly, Dream Sicle, and I Vory

Spried, Stpoinose

And of course Ultrame and Strinted

[ruthlesslistener]

Well now I know for certain that Toast is male, because he just everted his hemipenes at me for a brief moment after I picked him up out of his playpen to put him back in his tub. Thank you for the flashbang, sir

[nami-ramen]

So i recently played my first ever dating sim and I actually liked it,and now I starting to rly like char from it

And tbh i dunno what I suppose to feel abt it but ok sure but…

…im cringe(but i like this babygirl lmao)

As pet i choose snake and named it noodle…Aand it gave me small idea

Also i changed snake pet to ball python(bcs I couldn’t figure out what kind it is and pythons adorable) and used outfit similar to the one from concept designs

(Upd: i made some more,just dont wanna make separate post w/ it)

[beetlejuicesgraveyardrevue]

idiot update: she either fell off or got down on her own, I had to look away to do a bg reading on a patient so im not sure which. Either way it looks like the temp probe is still suctioned onto the wall so that’s good. what a silly little baby. i can’t wait to put her house back to normal so she can go back to climbing on her branches and perches and not doing whatever this was.

you have got to be fucking kidding me. Cherry decided tonight is the night to fully explore her quarantine tank. She is currently resting her full body weight on the singular small suction cup that holds the temperature probe for her dhp to the wall of the tank. She is also currently putting her face extremely close to the Very Hot screen lid that the dhp sits on. She’s literally going to put me in an early grave.

[corvins-colubrids]

Adventures in handling Clementine

Unpopular opinion, apparently, but I hate getting bit by snakes. It seems like if you're into snakes and reptiles, you're supposed to say it doesn't hurt, and it's no big deal, but it does hurt and it sucks, and with some of my snakes, I really struggle to overcome that primal fear that seems pretty natural to feel.

It isn't a big deal, and I don't keep any venomous snakes (nor do I have any desire to ever do so), but my oldest rosy boa, Clementine, is such a turd, and after biting and wrapping my t-shirt she then bite me really hard right on the knuckle of my thumb, and damn it fucking hurts.

Here I am, like an idiot, thinking I'm practicing choice-based handling and delighted that she's chosen to come out of her enclosure into the cardboard box I'm using as a temporary playpen for baby snakes, and, no, she's stalking me. smh.

Clem is a 16-year-old snake who lived her entire life before I got her in a bare rack with no enrichment, and was used for breeding, and barely handled, and she honestly doesn't make a very good pet. She was my first snake purchase that got me back into the hobby and I love her so much, but damn she is so food-driven and sure that hands are food!

I was checking on all the animals in the reptile room and having some playpen time with Ezra, my hatchling banana pied ball python, who is my dream snake and was hatched on my birthday. He's a sweetie, a great eater, but, like most hatchlings, very skittish, so I'm working with him at least once a week on taming and socializing and enrichment. Well, I'm putting Ezra back and Clem comes to the front of her enclosure, which is the signal I've been trying for a year to teach her means that she wants to come out. I don't have my snake hook, because I don't need it with Ezra, and that's usually what I try to use to signal to her that it's not feeding time, but I figure, oh well, it's been four days since feeding, I don't smell like rodents (i hope), surely she won't mistake me for food.

She got all the way out of her enclosure on her own, crawling into the playpen/box and I was so excited, but I dared to reach for her to hold her and she attacked my t-shirt. She definitely wanted to eat it, because she was constricting it for a good long while, and I got bit when I was trying to help her disentangle her fangs from the shirt material. She turned her head and went after my thumb instead.

Oh well. I just hate feeling like I've been a bad snake handler when this happens. I wish I could be all cool like guys on YouTube and be totally unphased, but I'm not.

(note: photo is from the day I got her, and that was just her quarantine tank in the background. She has never let me hold her since this photo.)

[50cal-fullauto-astarion]

König HC’s ii

part one

Back in black bitches, hello again. CW: I make allusions to shooting an orangutan, but none are actually shot. Is that kind of day here at König Brainrot HQ.

Queer.

His name is Leopold Königsbacher bc I feel Leopold is a horrid name to saddle a gawky weird-ass little kid with, and it doesn’t get much better as an adult. Hates being called Leopold or Leo, someone called him Poldy once and he never talked to that person again, but he depending on the person, he will answer to Lee.

I personally see his face as looking something like Jeremy Allen White’s, but y’know. Significantly more roughed up.

Sub-point: he could honestly be any weird lookin’ white guy with creepy eyes, it doesn’t matter.

Unlike the data mined Ghost face reveal, which I love with all of my heart and keep in a locket on my neck, I can’t accept the data mined König face reveal bc it looks too much like dudes I grew up with. All I can think is, “That man has dip in his lip and a spit bottle in his shirt pocket.” Which is a shame bc it is a good face.

Callsigns as I understand them aren’t really supposed to be related to a person’s actual name, but they can be kind of mocking in nature. So I picture him getting König from his last name was intended for mockery and to degrade him. King of a pile of shit, basically.

Hyper aware of doing anything that could be seen as embarrassing by other people. Movements, weird vocal tics or flubs, how he’s standing, what he’s looking at. Breathing. Avoids doing it if he can, but if that’s impossible, he’ll do them aggressively, bc generally people will avoid someone aggro. When an asshole does something embarrassing assholeishly it becomes scary.

Crooked ears.

Just kinda crashing through life with half-assed ideas instead of plans. He was really banking on becoming a sniper, and that achieving it would suddenly kick some enlightenment and maturity into his ass thereby fixing him. Probably expected that he’d have a house, spouse, and fam by now in the alternate reality where he succeeded. Since he didn’t, he’s just sorta fuckin’ around in a holding pattern as a bachelor in a suburban rental he pays too much for.

Ambivalent towards cats. True neutral. Can take them or leave them.

Fuckin’ loves bears though. Loves a dumbass lookin’ sun bear and will chew your ear off with sun bear atrocity stories.

Also is a rat/ferret/lizard/snake dude. Tell me he has any distinct feelings on feeding pinkies to an albino morph ball python and I will assert that he is thinking, “Food für baby 😊”

Oh my god did everyone else know that emojis could get smalled? Am I the last person to find this out?

I’m giving him this one from me too: he will shoot an orangutan on sight. Hates them. Creep him out hardcore. All other primates are good to go, but orangutans are born destined to rot hell.

Starcraft player, former disgusting League of Legends player. S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Metro, and CS:GO aficionado. VTMB and Fallout 1, 2, and New Vegas lover.

Doesn’t fuck with alcohol or alcoholics, but had/has a binge drinking problem - the duality of man. LOOOOVES uppers though, and doesn’t know that Battle Rage is just Military Meth, he’s somewhat strung out on it when he doesnt take leave as often as he should.

Buys shoes and clothes in bulk when he finds them in his size. Has 3 sets of tennis shoes in the back of his closet and 6 pairs of hiking boots/regular boots for KorTac work.

My lunch is getting cold, love you, bye.

[chainslobber]

Favorite snake and dog?

Out of mine? Parents aren't supposed to pick their favorites but...Suku's my baby, I raised her. And Kamski's...also my other baby. I love both my dogs and all 3 of my snakes though!!! Unless you mean breeds in which case I really want an enchi sugar ball python! (Preferably pied). Little toasted marshmallow baby.

(Read more for snake pic)

For dogs, probably the German Shepherd. I've always had a GSD mutt in my household. Even Sundance is part GSD! But I based my OC off of a wolf and a kangal so either or.

[space-unicorn-dot]

YOU HAVE A BALL PYTHON?? Tell more :D :D ? Pretty please?

Hehehe, I actually have TWO Ball Pythons and they are the loves of my life!!! The props of working at a pet store, lol. I joke that they are the men of my life because I’m wildly ace, lol - but it’s more like Snuggles is my man and Nihlus is my son. I will elaborate in just a moment.

So, fun fact background, I used to be... respectfully wary of snakes. Not exactly afraid of them, but when I’d started working there, I was like “mm, pass.” And then they continued to say just hold one.

And now I have two, and if I had more room in my house, I’d probably have more, SO. It’s their silly little faces that get me. They’re SO incredibly friend shaped. I like to explain owning them as if you have a cat, but it’s long and smooth instead of fluffy, and it only takes up a corner of your house instead of the entire thing. Otherwise, similar mischief and amusement ensues. xD

Snuggles is my oldest and is a piebald. I’ve had him for... three, maybe going on four years in a few more months??? He’s an absolute sweetheart and, also, the epitome of “your pet has a name from which you degrade into further insults that become more common than addressing them by name.” He went through a period of time where he thought it was particularly funny to go off my bed and nearly drop himself into the trash can.

Also, not visible in this picture, but one of his markings makes a smiley face. : ) (You can, however, see his exclamation point at the top - he has two!) He’s also very fashionable, very shiny in the light, especially when he’s a newly shed noodle. I could never.

And this is Nihlus! He’s da baby. Babier, anyway. I’ll give you 3 guesses as to whom I named him after. (You will know this reference, lol) :P I... can’t for the life of me remember what kind of morphs they said he was, but Nihlus was... not supposed to come home with me and then I was showing him to a guest who was interested in potentially adding a Ball to their home in the future and... oops??? My team had already said I’d fallen for him and the guest was like “I think he likes you. I think you should take him home.” And that’s how Ball Pythons are like potato chips. You can’t just stop at one. And why I’m always delighted when people say they want to see the Ball Pythons. I would LOVE to introduce you to the many little friends. PLEASE.

He’s a bit more shy and prefers his potato ball position and also, now that I’ve moved them both in 60 breeders, Nihlus has decided his new favorite habit is to weasel in behind his hides and... sit between the glass and the hide instead of. In the hides. Because Ball Pythons make reasonable decisions.

[iamgroundzero]

About the Mun!

Name/Alias: Tyto

Age: 25+

Favorite season: Fall.

Favorite book?: Don’t really have one.

Favorite color: Black.

Scars/stories behind them?: One on my wrist from a trampoline incident. The others are minor and I don’t remember.

Pets?: 4 snakes (2 ball pythons, 1 mexican black kingsnake, 1 western hognose), 1 leopard gecko, 2 tarantulas (curly hair & tiger rump)

Hobbies: Writing, gaming

Partner?: Yes.

Kids?: No thank you.

Special talents?: Sewing, I suppose. Not that it’s really all that special.

Tagged by: @matterminded

[is-the-snake-video-cute]

I messed up and I really need help. I bought a ball python a few weeks ago (the people at the pet store said they were really good first snakes) and she's not doing well at all. The pet store told me to keep her on a heat mat and her tank isn't getting warm enough, I can't get her to eat anything, and I can't get the humidity in her tank anywhere near where it's supposed to be. I don't know what to do, please help! I didn't know any of this stuff before I bought her and I feel way out of my depth here.

Okay, don't panic! We can only do the best we can with the information that we have, and snakes aren't intuitive pets when you're new to keeping reptiles. These are all very common issues that first-time snake owners with ball pythons run into, and they're all fixable.

Heat mats aren't my recommended heat source for ball pythons because they don't raise the ambient temperatures in the enclosure, which is the issue you're running into here. If you go grab a heat dome and a ceramic heat emitter, that'll raise your ambient temps to where they need to be.

Now! Humidity is a big challenge for new ball python owners, and it's fixable, too, but it might take a bit more work. If she's in an enclosure with a screen lid, I recommend taking a sheet of tinfoil and taping over at least half of the lid to keep some humidity in. Switch to a humidity-retaining substrate (cypress mulch and coconut husk are easy to find and work well!), and dump water directly into the substrate. That'll help a lot. Add some nice big water bowls (nothing wrong with using tupperware if that's what you've got), and make a humidity box so she'll always have a very humid area (cut a hole in the lid of a food storage container big enough for her to curl up in, then fill it with damp moss or damp paper towels), and you'll have a happy, well-hydrated snake!

Taking care of your husbandry problems are the first step to getting your snake to eat! Ball pythons are sensitive, so she most likely won't eat until she feels comfortable. Be patient - it's scary when your snake won't eat, but be sure not to offer food too frequently (no less than five days between offerings) so you don't stress her out. I recommend making sure she feels safe in her enclosure, as well - make sure you have at least two identical hides, one on either side of her enclosure! Snakes need to feel hidden and safe. Here's my guide on how to prepare food for snakes.

Your snake is probably going to be just fine, but since she's been too cold and probably at least a little dehydrated, it's a good idea to be on the lookout for any health problems, just in case. Look for heavy, open-mouthed breathing and listen for wheezing/clicking/popping noises, and if you notice them (or any other symptoms that make you concerned), get her to a vet ASAP.

Good luck, and please do let me know if you run into any problems or have questions. You're doing the right thing by asking for help, and the problems you're having are absolutely fixable! :)

[captinbenny]

Time to be controversial:

So I'm in school right now at an internationally recognized, accredited college. I'm taking an intro class to computer programming and an introduction to Python. The only requisites for this class were that you needed to know how to turn on a computer.

1st day of class, we're told that instead of us spending over $100 on a textbook, we were instead supposed to choose an AI search engine, put prompts from the teacher provided PowerPoints, and build our own textbook as the class goes along.

Needless to say, the class was stunned with silence.

He proceeded to tell us that we were his guinea pig class to test this out and he expected us all to get 100% A's because everything we were graded on (HW, quizzes, exams, everything) was open note, open book, open internet.

Now I've been following the discussion and capabilities on AI for a while in several different industries that it has been effecting. (Art, code, hiring/HR, professional writing) and every single one of them has said that AI is not reliable and is quickly approaching the status of shitification. Like a snake eating it's tail, it is slowly corrupting its own data by feeding itself it's own incorrect data.

Coming from a fine art background with 2 degrees in it already, I had never used AI before. I finally used chatgpt because of this programming class, and what I found was surprising. The way it answers questions was very straight forward and reminded me a lot of how the Internet worked in the late 90s/early 2000s. The prompts need to be very specific and they're good for getting the ball rolling on understanding base line information. Really, it's a great tool for preliminary research, and then seeking out other websites to deep dive further into actual articles and research papers. It is NOT good or shouldn't be used for finished end products (essays, papers, ART, creative works.) it's also trash at math ATM.

Still, my experience with it in the field of learning python coding to help understanding what certain functions do/are, and in my business class for gathering information on infrastructure in an area half way across the world for a potential Olympics there, has been extremely helpful.

In the past I would get frustrated with swimming through the trash heap of AD and Sponsored articles on Google search to get a simple question answered. I used to turn to reddit for answers because Google got so terrible with it. But reddit was more opinion and first hand experience based. Great for insight into an industry from a people perspective but not great in answering the question: what does the "f" do in python's print(f"..")

Chatgpt was great for that.

I still think AI is good and bad for the art/creative industries. If used ethically (paying the artists and getting their permission) in gathering it's data sets. It could be a very helpful tool in selecting color palates, workshoping compositions, and generating a written idea prompt to get a piece started. It should not/never be used for finished final products.

But that's just my 2 cents.

“i asked chatgpt-” ohhh ok so nothing you are about to say matters at all

[lxminen]

intro post cuz apparently you are supposed to do that!

Ellie / Lumi

I am a minor!! lol

I LOVE LIGHT.. if you couldn't tell from my profile picture. (every other language says 'I LOVE LIGHT' or something along those lines.)

lxminen = luminen, means snowy in finnish (I yearn for the snow, I live in a desert)

I have a minor obsession (hahaha) with Finland, actively learning Finnish. Other than Finnish, I love languages. It's so fascinating to me!

I love theatre. Major passion of mine... would go into it for college, but atm I am thinking Engineering, electrical or biomedical, not sure!

I ride horses. competitively. don't talk about this much but you may occasionally see some reblogs about them.

I'm dyslexic and dysgraphic (lol thats embarrassing) and i have autism which. idrk. (diagnosed by a professional thanks)

I love animals! I love sharks, cats, dogs, snakes, (Lavender Hognose snake.. and ball pythons are my favourite) i just dont really like /fish/ they scare me.

I play lots of video games! Carrion, birdgut, etc.

yeah! anyways. I put a lot of political opinions on here..... im very strongly opinionated lmao

[tickles-tea]

You’re welcome! And nice!! Also huh neat! I think that’s the kinda ball python a friend of mine irl had… idk for sure since I never asked. They look similar though. Also since you put it the tags I won’t mention the name you said here but… that’s so cute lol!! And also somehow fitting… if that makes sense?

IKR in my freshman year of high school I suddenly got obsessed with getting a pet snake and researched like crazy what ones would be good for a complete snake newbie like me and one of the things said corn snakes. So I looked into it more and found that blizzard corn snakes were the prettiest imo.

Honestly when I first laid eyes on a pic of a blizzard corn snake the name came to me… like I didn’t pick it out per se -ish. I just saw the pic, was momentarily stunned then had a thought of something like “IMMA NAME HIM ALMOND!!”. And that name has stuck since then… I can’t picture naming my future snake anything else now (as lame as that sounds LOL). Also neat x2… if you don’t mind me asking where’d you some hatch? (Plz ignore the fact I just wrote a ton in reply… I haven’t gotten to mention my boi Almond to anyone in a while and got excited lol)

Thank you haha it was supposed to be a place holder name until I got a feel for his personality but it stuck ahshsksk 🙃

Good on you for doing your research!! That makes me so happy to hear 😭 also good call on choosing a corn snake over a ball python LMAO I love my boys but I’m going to have grey hair before I hit 30 bc of them orz

Omfg Almond is such a cute name!! Especially for a snake bc people get so freaked out even when the motherfucker’s name is a nut ahsvhsjsksk 

As for where I saw them hatch, I know the owner of the local reptile shop so she shows me the cool stuff they have cooking in the back sometimes :3

Also don’t even worry about rambling!! I fucking,,,love talking about snakes and reptiles in general so much

[jaquitor]

Oops forgot to post my last drawing of 2019! Been knocking around a concept for a Yuan-ti these past few days~