If you’re bad enough at DA2, you can imagine that Varric keeps saying “…And then they died” every five minutes, which pisses Cassandra off to no end because it’s a lie, she knows it’s a lie, but he keeps doing it and she gets so into the story that she falls for it every time and just screams in pure rage.
Anonymous asked:
Thoughts on Ridley's cave dwelling rat snakes (both generally and as pets)?
I know a store that recently started a captive breeding program for them and they're one of my dream snakes (once I have more experience, and a more permanent living arrangement than a college dorm, and enough resources to give it a nice, big setup with lots of climbing space, of course).
Oh, aren't they just gorgeous? Cave-dwelling ratsnakes (and other beauty ratsnakes) are tragically hard to find in a lot of places, but in my opinion the worst thing about them is they unfortunately tend to live up to a reputation as very defensive snakes.
The care of beauty ratsnakes is not rocket science - they tend to be a bit fragile, and they definitely need a lot of space, they tend to be best for experienced keepers because they can be a little tricky - but they are big snakes and they don't tend to tame down well at all. Most beauties I've met have not been handleable, so if you want a snake you can regularly interact with, they're unfortunately not a great choice. Ridley's seem to be a bit less defensive than some other beauty ratsnakes (blue beauties in particular are infamous for their bad attitudes), but you can still expect a very defensive snake. Only time will tell if this will improve with further generations in captivity!
They're a definite dream snake for me, too - I mean, look at them! My biggest thing is I really prefer snakes you can handle without stressing both of you out, but if I ever find an unusually calm baby I am definitely going to consider it!
even if the artist were a human, there’s so much more to consider about a piece of art than just how it looks at a glance
i mean that’s a long perfectly straight line, was it done free hand? was it done in a single masterful stroke leaving the same thickness of paint the whole way through? are the edges of the line sharp enough to warrant the use of a magnifying glass if you were going to search for errors/rough spots?
and if the artist didn’t paint free hand, or if it were done in multiple strokes with different thicknesses of paint, or with purposefully rough and uneven edges, why?
what about the colour? the position of the line on the canvas? the width of the line? the choice of leaving the rest of such a large canvas blank? there’s so much to consider
and on top of all this sometimes the artist will be a snail
Not to make a serious post too much but remember how angry everyone rightly was about bread companies adding sesame because it's cheaper to poison people than clean your machinery?
Yeah well it's happening in other foods. I already posted about Kellogg's doing it to cereal bars and Austin Snack Crackers but now it's in greens CVS granola bars and Jenny Fucking Craig cheesecake which btw record level they added EVERY allergen to that shit.
Anyway if you have allergies be fucking careful because we're expendable and if you don't please get fucking angry for us. They're already making your food worse to save money but they're also going to kill someone this way.
It is! But this is a legal loophole being exploited by the companies.
From my understanding, companies are required to thoroughly clean equipment of major allergens between products. That takes time and money and it's a lot cheaper and easier to say something has an allergen than to clean it.
But the FDA won't let you add anything to the ingredients that's not actually an ingredient. I can't just say there's coconut in my oat milk before i used the blender before to make coconut milk.
So they add a small amount, more than a trace but not enough to cost any significant amount or mess with the end result too much and oh look, now it's part of the recipe. No cleaning needed, it just uses peanut flour, how convenient!
In short, it's not cross contamination when it's an ingredient.
Adding another clarification reblog - this is not just about sesame, sesame was the major inciting incident in January. The granola bars add peanut butter so they don't have to maintain a higher cleaning standard due to shared equipment.
The cheesecake adds every nut oil on this very Earth for the same reason.
Kellogg's has been doing this since 2016 btw
This is just pretty awesome actually thank you
The really funny part is that, as I understand it, this stupid thing isn't even a scam – it really does just prepare your taxes, and has no ability to transmit your tax information to anyone. The reason it got pulled from Steam is because the description misleadingly implied that the developers are a licensed tax preparation service, which is not in fact the case; its terms of service were later updated with a "none of this program's recommendations constitute legal advice, we are not responsible if it does your taxes wrong, For Entertainment Purposes Only" clause, which is concerning for a whole different set of reasons.
TL;DR: the anime girl will not steal your social security number, but she might advise you to commit tax fraud.
Remember that the right person will never get tired of you even in the worst times
No, they will! But they'll work through it, or walk away for a bit (i'm talking minutes to hours) and then come back.
People can love you and still need to get away from you for a bit. And there is nothing toxic about that — it's good, in fact. It helps remind everyone involved that everyone has boundaries, and everyone needs time to themselves.
It's okay. Calm down before you talk about something that made you angry while your loved one is sick. Be sure of what made you mad so you can discuss it together.
Love isn't a one-way street, and it's something that takes work. Part of that work is knowing when you need to step away.
Anonymous asked:
I've been following for many years, and I gotta say I'm so excited to see Machete happy! He's a classic sad dog man but seeing him happy makes me happy
Bruce: I love you, kids. You're the best thing that ever happened to me.
Dick: We're the best thing that's ever happened to you?
Bruce: Yes.
Jason: Now I'm starting to feel a little sorry for you.
Finally watched the Addams Family Values recently! and honestly. my main takeaway is
Debbie slays. And Joan Cusack is a QUEEN
Joan Cusack has never appeared in a film that she did not steal.
And as for Debbie, I will always repost my stance on her end.
I’ve said it a million times - if Debbie had listened to what the Addamses were saying in response to her tales of woe, she’s have realized that they understood completely. She had found her people, and was too wrapped up in herself to realize it.
If they could have, they’d have burst from their bonds, hugged the stuffing out of her, bought her a Bentley (and a vintage Ballerina Barbie) and declare her an Addams.
She could spend the rest of her life trying to kill Fester, and he’d love her all the more every time she tried. And the rest would keep offering helpful suggestions. “No point in trying poison, Debbie my dear - he’s been putting strychnine on his cornflakes since was seven”.
they would have been such good friends
musterni-illustrates
the kicker is he was being asked if his work was coming from the approach of man vs. nature aka “THE ENVIRONMENT STRIKES BACK” but no. his literal words were along the lines of “sharks are not very scary if you are never in the water so i had to make them scarier, and now they have legs.”
Junji Ito has the best fucking take on horror, which is ‘wouldn’t that be weird’ and then he draws it into the most terrifying thing possible.
terftalia
One of his strangest stories is about a cursed type of honey that, when ingested, is guaranteed to be the best thing you’ve ever tasted. But, if you consume it, you have a 25% of being flattened like a pancake by a giant tree demon. Characters eat it, get addicted, and that addiction forces them to risk it over and over again until they eventually get turned into a gory puddle by this ghost tree thing.
It’s a weird story, but the funny part is that Ito wrote it because he thought it would suck to be a mosquito.
Snakes of Africa: Ball Pythons
This is the first of a series on African snake species, where I go through how they live in the wild and attempt to demystify some aspects of care and myths surrounding African snakes.
We all know the myths about ball pythons. They're from "a narrow strip in Africa," they don't need to climb, they don't need really high humidity...let's challenge some of those ideas!
If you don't know just how big Africa is, it's easy to underestimate how big the ball python's range is, too. I think it's easier to understand if you look at it on a global map:
That's a big area! Wild ball python habitats range from grasslands to forests, cutting through arid savannahs and even into rainforests.
Because the climate across the ball python's range is so variable, they are best understood as habitat generalists - they have perimeters they prefer, and they can find ways to adapt in different environments.
A large portion of the ball python's range is arid, and that leads to one famous fact about them: ball pythons love termite mounds, because they provide them with a nice and very humid area to nap. Even among people who know wild ball pythons love termite mounds, that's often used as reason to justify keeping them in too-small enclosures. After all, termite mounds don't sound like they're very big...
But they are.
Termite mounds are one of the reasons ball pythons are such good climbers.
Despite their arid habitat, wild ball pythons (aside from seeking out termite mounds) will also seek out wet areas, such as streams and lakebeds. In captivity, humidity isn't something you should skimp on for a ball python. At least 60% humidity is essential, and closer to 70% is ideal, and a humidity box allows your snake to have an area that's close to 100% humidity at all times. Humidity boxes also allow for a range of humidity conditions, like your snake would experience in the wild!
An extremely common myth about ball pythons is that they don't climb and won't take advantage of enrichment. This couldn't be further from the truth! In the wild, ball pythons are excellent climbers and are known to even hunt in trees. Multiple studies surveying wild ball pythons have found nearly half of their subjects in trees. These are not solely terrestrial snakes.
Another stereotype about ball pythons is that they're "pet rocks." If you give them enrichment and look at their wild behavior, this couldn't be further from the truth! Wild ball pythons are observed as being very active snakes who will actively hunt and seek out food rather than relying on strict ambush predation strategies. That's one reason it's best to feed your pet ball python when you see them out and "hunting!"
Of course, wild snakes will be more active than pet snakes simply for the sake of survival, but their activity level in the wild is indicative of what it should be more like in captivity. Some inviduals are a bit lazy, sure, but by and large most ball pythons will take advantage of every inch of space you give them. Climbing branches, tunnels, and new things to check out are a must!
Because wild ball pythons are habitat generalists, that also clues us into what enrichment they most enjoy. In the wild, along with climbing (which they love!), ball pythons are also known to swim (though they mostly only due this when necessary) and dig burrows. In captivity, many pet ball pythons enjoy an occasional soak, so it's good to provide a big enough water dish for them to curl up in, and some individuals enjoy digging burrows. If you provide an extra few inches of substrate for your snake to dig in, you might be surprised by how much they enjoy it!
Now, let's talk about food! In the wild, ball pythons eat a wide variety of rodents and a lot of birds. In fact, their semi-arboreal habits mean they even eat a lot of bats when they can catch them! Unfortunately, one of the tricky things about their diet is that their favorite foods in the wild include shrews, jerboas, African soft-furs, rufous-nosed rats, and other rodents that are just honestly impossible to source for your pet ball python. In captivity, a diet of rats is appropriate, and unfortunately it can be hard to provide variety to many ball pythons simply because a lot of them just prefer more hard-to-find rodents and will resist switching back to rats. For good, non-picky eaters, though, other rodents and chicks make excellent treats.
Ball pythons have a reptutation as very picky, finicky eaters, but honestly it's my experience that this effect is much, much lesser when their husbandry is consistently appropriate. Making sure to provide adequate humidity seems especially important in ensuring your ball python is a good eater! Additionally, ball pythons tend to like it a bit hotter - 90 F (32 C) is a good hot-side temperature for most ball pythons.
If there's anything to take away from this brief look into wild ball pythons, it's this: these snakes will thrive best if given the opportunity to engage in more natural behaviors. Climbing, digging, and exploring are essential for any ball python!
Ball pythons are so much more than just "pet rocks." If you provide them with space and enrichment, you'll be delighted by what fun, active, curious, and engaging pets they are!
(This message is approved by my sweet girl Miriam.)
"your trauma made you stronger!" babe the only thing that should've been making me stronger is vegetables and flintstone gummies
🌿 🌹 🌱 🥬 ✨ // nasturtiums // gouache on hot press paper
On the discussion of book accurate depictions of Sherlock Holmes, one thing I really want is accurate Mycroft. In the books Sherlock is very… autistically coded. At least to me, an autistic person. And Sherlock basically states that Mycroft has more “severe” autism. Sherlock says his brother is more brilliant than he is but absolutely cannot function in society and hates social interaction so much he founded a society for the purpose of minimizing it as much as possible. In addition it’s implied he becomes overstimulated so easily he has to curate his environment to be devoid of disturbance and noise.
Give me the autistic brothers but one has it much much worse
Enough of this Mycroft as the more sociable of the two who is a powerful politician. This man would have a meltdown if he had to be that social!!!
Mycroft goes one (1) place and then goes home, at the same time every day, and does not talk to anyone if he can avoid it, and is really good with facts and figures. Given the state of mental health research in the late 1800s, Mycroft is possibly the most autistic a character could be. And he's HAPPY - do you know how rare that is in fiction about autistic people? Sherlock is super clear about this: Mycroft does his Mycroft things, and has no desire to do any other things, and everyone is super grateful for him being himself and sorting out all their facts for them.
Obviously we only meet him in the stories when he's been forced to Get Up And Go Do Something because of circumstances (that's how adventure stories work, after all) but the majority of the time, Mycroft is having a great time looking out the window and not talking to anyone. Good for him, I say
Cat selfie at a food court. Comic practice
The girl, the myth, the legend
