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This is really silly but on r/snakes I’ve seen a lot of people describing cottonmouths/copperhead poses with ______/

Is there a proper name for this behavior? And are there other snakes that do it or is it just those two types?

That really is just what they look like, huh?

There's not really a name for this kind of posture because it's just a comfortable one for heavy-bodied snakes who also have big chonky heads.

You'll notice that other snakes with heavy bodies and big heads have a similar posture, like short-tailed pythons!

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Eating four leaf clovers is like, the Right Response to finding a four leaf clover yknow. You find a four leaf clover and you're like "oh sick! A four leaf clover" and then what the fuck are you supposed to do? Carry it around until it gets smushed and lost? Press it and have it be clutter? No, you eat that fucking son of a bitch. Absorb its power. Instant closure

My favourite type of movie is “period piece romance but fantasy-horror hijinks happen and now everyone has to adapt to the new genre or die,” ala Curse of the Black Pearl, Anastasia, The Mummy (1999)

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"everybody has to adapt to the new genre" is really criminally underutilized in general

whenever i see another tiktok girlie talking about how she wishes to have been a fangirl in 2010s i feel like a seasoned veteran overhearing a foolish youngin boasting about wanting to go to war for glory and adventure. you naive little idiot. you know nothing. you understand nothing. you weren't there in the trenches. i have seen things, terrible things. i cannot plug in my phone charger at night without being plagued by the visions of Him

Absolute FAVORITE thing on Gerard’s Wikipedia is that it’s probably the first and only celebrity Wikipedia page I’ve seen in which the first pronoun use has a citation

One thing I've long wondered about foxes is how they're able to recognise blood relatives, even ones they have never met before.

These clips are an example of what I'm talking about. First clip is Honey and cub Brumble. Honey is Bramble's maternal grandmother, however she only met him for the first time three weeks ago. Prior to that she lived in a neighbouring territory and was not involved with her daughter's family. Yet she instantly seemed to know that this cub was a relative and began treating him as her own (in this case, grooming him).

Second and third clip are her reaction to a cub she is not blood related to. This cub belongs to the building site foxes who live on the other side of the railway line. Foxes will not tolerate unrelated foxes in their territory and Honey immediately started displaying very aggressive behaviour towards this cub. But how does she know the difference? How does she know to care for one cub, but not the other, even though neither are her own?

My best guess is scent. I suspect foxes may have a distinct familial scent that allows them to recognise family members. I've seen other instances where foxes have left a family group for up to a couple of years and still been accepted back into the group, even by new family members they never met before they left. Scent plays a big part of fox society so it would make sense that related foxes have a specific scent they can recognise each other by. In the second clip Honey can clearly be seen checking the scent of the new cub.

idk why but i feel like being a punk is for he/hims and doing ballet is for she/hers

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i hate how you get desensitized to the cool stuff in your WIP if you've been writing it for a long time so when you read back over it you're like "this isn't as cool as i thought :(" but it still is! you just read it too many times

Gotta recirculate this post periodically just cuz

Just don't read the post too many times.

Oh god oh fuck