ladyyatexel
paradisemissy
Finally got around to actually building my TIME LORD wall.
Art made by: @ladyyatexel @ladyyatexelart
Oh, that all turned out so elegantly! What an amazing set up. Thanks so much for sharing! I loved making those pieces so much~
laurasimonsdaughter
Because I can only encounter so many magical snake husbands before I start making compilations:
The Girl and the Snake, Sweden
Character: A large snake lives in a hall in a mountain with a large bed and a banquet table. A farm girl finds him there and he offers her to take some food and lie down on the bed if she wants to, but that she needn’t if she doesn’t want to. She does not. He warns her that people are coming to dance with her, but that she mustn’t do so. Strange people come to eat, drink and dance, but the girl ignores them. The same happens the second day.
Transformation: On the third day the girl accepts his offer to eat and drink and lay down on the bed with the snake. He then asks her to hold him and kiss him, which she also does. He transforms into a handsome young man and explains he is a prince that was bewitched, but that her courage has saved him. They go away together and no one sees or hears anything from them ever again.
Umamba, Zulu oral tradition from South Africa
Character: After three of her babies die suspiciously, one of the wives of a village chief protects her fourth child by wrapping him in the skin of a mamba and transforming him into a snake.
Transformation: When it is time for all the chief’s sons to marry, a brave girl agrees to anoint him with fat and stretch his skin as he asks. This allows him to shed his skin and be human again. From then on he can transform at will. He marries the brave girl, later also takes other wives, and lives happily.
The Snake Husband, Chewong oral tradition from Malaysia
Character: A man who possesses a snake bajo (spiritual word for body, closely related to the word coat) and wears it all day, asks several women to marry him but is turned down, until two sisters agree. Whenever they are asleep, he takes off the snake coat and turns back into a man, to eat the leftover food they cooked and rest next to his sleeping wives a while.
Transformation: To find out how the food goes missing, one night the sisters only pretend to sleep. They see their snake husband shed his snake bajo and grab it, crumpling it between their fingers. When he cries out looking for it, they confront him and tell him they have destroyed it because they want a real husband. They give him a real bajo and from then on the snake-man is a real man and a handsome one at that.
onenicebugperday
chaoticrystal asked:
Something kind of interesting, I found around 7 or so of these male Pacific Foldingdoor spiders in my mom's little rocky fountain pool. Out of all of them I pulled out, two were still alive and only one survived to be released. Pictured here is the one that died after I pulled it out (hence why it's in great condition.) It made me sad to see all these dudes, but I'm curious, do you know what kind of phenomena would have caused them to wander in and drown? It was especially weird to me since they were all males, and this is the first time I've encountered more than one of these spiders in the same area at any given time.
Oh no! Very sad they all perished in the water. Late summer/early fall is their mating season, so I imagine the males were wandering to find females and looking for water, and once they fell in, they couldn’t get out. Perhaps your mom should get a frog log or similar so animals can crawl out once they fall in!
vaiyamagic
Me, thinking to myself:
Andy Robinson is so vocal about his garashir, it’s great.
Michael Sheen does the same with Aziraphale.
………………….
Garak and Aziraphale should meet!
transgender-rex
rabidjarchavist
after careful consideration i have decided i am quite tired of being human, where do i sign up for the fear cult stuff i want to have some overlord fear god make my decisions for me i’m had enough
homeofhousechickens
mellifexfarm
getting livestock is a great way to develop your personal veterinary skills. ive vaccinated 23 pigeons in a day. ive had to administer milk of magnesia to two goats to make them violently expel chicken feed they got into so they didnt bloat and die! how many times have i looked at poop under the microscope. too many to count. how many hospital cages in the bathroom, late nights coaxing a chicken to eat mash from a spoon. i have learned one thing and that is Everything Wants Them Dead, and you learn quick or else
old-type-40
WELCOME TO CETACEAN OPS
I knew we’d get to see it eventually
Wow, that’s an incredible SeaQuest DSV reference.
I’m sure Mike McMahan also collected the action figures from that series…
Some of us have been waiting a long time for that view.
A very long time…
These beluga whales in Cetacean Ops are in science blue. But they’re clearly not there for their medical knowledge.
sosuperawesome
angieflynns
Am I terrified of spiders? Yes. Do I also want this? Yes. A big alpha to scare the others away maybe
fremulon
dduane
arcticflakes
