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definitelynotalibrary asked:

Are there any snakes that drink milk? I ask because in one of my favorite series, The Malloreon by David Eddings, there is a (fictional species I presume) green venomous snake that has babies and the babies are given milk to drink.

kaijutegu answered:

Yeah, that’s fictional- but actually has roots in folkloric and literary precedent! 

Many cultures have it in folklore that snakes drink milk. Milk snakes (the genus Lampropeltis), in fact, got their common name because there’s this old European folk belief that snakes drink milk from cows’ udders. In some parts of India, it’s believed that snakes drink milk because snakes are associated with Shiva and the gods are associated with milk and cattle. In Spain, it’s believed that snakes will drink not only cows’ milk, but also human breast milk and so if you live in the country and you have a baby, you should always check for snakes before you sleep. Otherwise the snake might drink all your milk at night and then your kid won’t get anything the next day! 

The myth of snakes drinking milk shows up in literature, too. There’s this one Sherlock Holmes story, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, where Holmes deduces how a snake was trained to enter a room by means of luring it in with a bowl of milk. And in the story he’s right, but in the real world he’s hella wrong. (Actually, that story really annoys me because it screws up a lot of really basic snake facts. This happens a lot in Conan Doyle- I’m pretty sure that as good a writer as he was, he didn’t actually know what a snake was.)

wellntruly

rainbowrites asked:

oh god... I was just rewatching DS9 ep Body Parts and omfg I cannot WAIT until you get there. It has Garak and Quark interacting for what I THINK is the first extended time. I love how big and fleshed out this cast is, every interaction is just SO GOLD

wellntruly answered:

This is highly encouraging because so far I have just seen Garak and Quark interact two short times, but fabulously

1. when Quark wanted Garak’s drunk Cardass out of his bar

2. when they were commiserating over how relentlessly bouncy and sweet Federation Humans are, just like their root beer, and I fully died

silveth
babesargent

remember the white dress i wore all through that film? george came up to me the first day of filming, took one look at the dress and said: “you can’t wear a bra under that dress.”

“ok, i’ll bite,” i said. “why?” and he said: “because… there’s no underwear in space.”

he said it with such conviction. like he had been to space and looked around and he didn’t see any bras or panties anywhere.

he explained. “you go into space and you become weightless. then your body expands but your bra doesn’t, so you get strangled by your own underwear.”

i think that this would make for a fantastic obituary. i tell my younger friends that no matter how i go, i want it reported that i drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.

rest in peace, carrie fisher (october 21st, 1956 - december 27th, 2016)