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grim-faux · 10 months

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just being casual on discord talking about Little Nightmares stuff when heandcannons drop...

yeh. It really confounds me about "Monster Six", sense we're not given a lot of certified details on what made her turn into a monster. We can leap down all sorts of rabbit holes on the subject, and I've seen all sort of writers interpret the details differently - usually connecting Six to the music box in some way. But much like the children of the LN world, we the player are not given much insight to the world - we're idiots throwing deflated bals at portraits trying to figure out how to reach the next room. We react to the environment in a way that makes sense, same as the children do - overlooking game restrictions and such for the plot navigation. Here’s one interpretation I kind of like to roll with regarding the Tower and what it will ‘provide’ to the loyal denizens of the signal. I had to break this up because chonk….

The music box might've been a manifestation of Six's will, simply ‘thought’ into existence because the Tower will grant your wishes - for escapism. To keep its victims in order to feed on them, but the gifts are in the realm of attainable and very physically present. Breaking this lone tether to the place (the fantasy) awoke Six from the dream, and of course she was not happy -> This was alluded to by the devs regarding the Viewers and escapism. Each time the music box was hurt, the barriers and walls of the Tower warp as a result of Six's turmoil, trying to restore the sanctuary she constructed "for herself", and to remove the intruder assaulting her precious. Thus, it can be speculated that the Tower might link itself to its host subconscious, which would infer why linking to Mono after he is abandoned there, made the Tower so potent - it enabled it to harness his reality altering powers. But the Tower has linked itself to what is essentially a traumatized child, a child with no education, nor life experience, and a dubious 'upbringing'. No wonder the world stood no chance to this beast.

So no wonder the Tower created the "bare bones" paradise for these two kids. Neither had much knowledge in terms of what they SHOULD want as far as a 'shelter' goes. Simply being safe and having a few amenities - some toys, a music box... a concrete room with a chair. That's all these children of the apocalypse know. They cannot 'imagine' a room with a luxurious plush bed, let alone a home with colorful walls, furniture that isn’t decayed. The Tower in its infinite wisdom provides what the host wants, but is always limited to that comprehension.

#little nightmares #six #monster six #feral six #lil nightmares #the tower #little nightmares 2 #the viewers #escapism #the children are hungry and traumatized #they dont know what a home should look like let alone what a bed is used for #they are simple creatures - provide a suitcase and a toy and they good #why is there a door? maybe six hated four featureless walls cause that implies imprisonment #so a door was added to her enclosure for enrichment #it might be a weird nightmare prison but it still abides by the laws of a building with a door leading to some other room or hall

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is-the-snake-video-cute · 1 year

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Hello!! I wrote you a really long ask and then accidentally deleted it, so I'll ask you the...not much shorter tl;dr version 😅

I really want to get a ball python (probably male) at some point in the future (once I've done a lot more research, set aside a budget for it, and prepared better), and my extended family seems absolutely convinced that this will be a problem because I have two cats (they think the snake would pose a danger to the cats). Considering ball pythons' everything, I would assume this would be relatively safe for all involved, provided I'm careful that they don't interact (closed door if I'm handling the snake, etc), but also having never in fact owned a snake before, and the fact that ball pythons do get to be pretty large snakes, I wanted to ask what you thought. I feel like I always hear about snakes managing to escape their enclosures somehow, and I guess that's more what I'd be worried about (if you have any tips about that also I'm all ears).

I also wanted to ask what size enclosure you'd recommend for a ball python. My gut says bigger is better (at least to a point--and obviously with a number of appropriate hides) but my research has largely been telling me the opposite, at least until I found your blog. Should I get a smaller enclosure if I get the snake youngish and then move it up to bigger when it grows? Can I just fill a really big one with a lot of enrichment-type things so it's not a big empty space? Is this more of a "keeping the humidity appropriate" problem?

And also I think you'll simply enjoy knowing that a few years ago there was a garter snake hibernaculum near the plant nursery where I work. We never did figure out exactly where they were overwintering but we were kind of working in a river of garter snakes there for a bit, which was honestly pretty delightful. Some of them really didn't want to go around us and just kind of scooted past underfoot instead. We also have a huge and rather cranky black racer that's basically a coworker at this point, she lays eggs in the mulch pile nearly every year and last year I spotted her finishing her shed so I kept the shed skin and it's nearly four feet long. She's about the same color as the hose we use for watering so at least once per year we startle the crap out of each other because she's easy to overlook when she's sunning, but it's fun to have her around. Just keeps us sort of on our toes.

Hello hello!

Re: ball pythons and cats - if anyone's in danger there, it's the snake. Ball pythons don't get anywhere near big enough to hurt even small cats, but a cat could easily seriously injure a snake even if they're just trying to play, so cats and snakes should never interact. It's possible to have cats and snakes in the same house (I have a cat!), but it's important to make sure the cat never has access to the snake. Most of preventing snake escapes comes down to prevention - it's crucial to take time when you're setting up your enclosure to make sure there's no openings big enough for the snake's nose, and invest in a good pair of screen clips if your enclosure has a screen lid.

My minimum recommended enclosure size for adult ball pythons is a 4x2x2 enclosure (120 gallon equivalent), and bigger is always better. It's easier to start baby snakes in smaller enclosures - it'll be much easier to clutter it up so the snake feels safer. I usually start my bps in a 20 gallon, upgrade to a 40 gallon at a year old, and then move to their adult enclosure once they've outgrown that. You could absolutely jump right in with the 4x2x2, though - you'd just have to be very intentional about adding lots of clutter and hiding places! I also find it's generally much easier to keep humidity levels right in bigger enclosures because your heat element doesn't dry out the entire enclosure when it's bigger.

I love the black racer who lives near your work! She sounds like a delight.

#not a rating #snake husbandry #ball pythons #snakes and other pets #snake enclosures

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lorei-writes · 3 years

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IkeVamp - Rating Suitors

Except it’s my cats who do the rating. (Lorei from the future: It’s more of cats disqualify the suitors vs suitors disqualify the cats). I briefly introduced them before, so allow me to just put a picture here:

The black kitty - Porzeczka! Small kitty in the middle - Rzodkiew! And lastly, the reddish tabby at the very edge - Junko!

You have no idea how hard it was to find a picture with all three of them in it.

Comte de Saint-Germain

Rzodkiew - Hm. He would spoil her. An owner who will live as long as she will and who will most likely never leave her, except for few endeavors? Owner of a huge mansion? Protective? Hmm... 9/10

Junko - she would scream in his face and steal his baguette, 10/10, he would never realise it was her.

Porzeczka - suspicious cat says no, too much shade there. WAS YOUR BLOOD ETHICALLY SOURCED, COMTE? HOW? WHERE DID YOU GET ALL THIS MONEY FROM? This cat wants answers and got none. 0/10

Leonardo

Disqualified solely for how messy his surroundings are. Porzeczka likes tearing paper apart. So... I’m not sure if it’s Leo disqualifying them, or them disqualifying Leo. Regardless, poor books, notes, actually, anything in his room wouldn’t really live through it.

Theodorus

Theodorus disqualifies the cats while trembling in fear. Rightfully so. The mighty beasts haunt his nightmares in the days to come. Junko tried to lick his pancakes. A protective cat mom hissed at him and scratched him for trying to protect his property. It’s not good for his nerves.

Vincent

The benevolent cats disqualify Vincent solely because they’d hear Theo’s cries of dismay for the reminder of their lives. But you can give them pets, sunshine. They will come visit.

Arthur & Sebastian

Hmm... Actually?

Rzodkiew - he is mildly annoying, but she could sit in his lap while he worked on his novel/journal. HM. She likes sad people, for some reason, so she’d come scream at him to make him aware that she wants to give him cuddles... Or that, you know, he should eat/sleep/drink/ DO SOMETHING HE CLEARLY ISNT DOING. 10/10

Junko - eh, nothing going for him, but nothing against him either. Perhaps a bit too smart, given how her persistence alone isn’t enough to win in the game of “hooman food get”. WHICH IS VERY DAMN GOOD, 110/10.

Porzeczka - ohh, she always comes to cuddle me when I’m being anxious, so I’m more than sure she’d do the same for Arthur/Sebas. She’s a smart kitty and he’s a smart human, probably smart enough to understand how cats communicate. She’s a very healthy kitty, so one less kitty to stress about. He’s also organized enough not to wake up in a shredded pile of his own work. 10/10

Those kitties are really loving, okay?

Jean

Dude. Have you seen your room? Not to be that person, but you haven’t provided yourself with enough environment enrichment and as much as I want to believe that cats would push you to take better care of yourself? No. You already have a tiger. Better start building some fucking enclosure, because she will grow and she will grow fast, and her playtime may turn into murder time by sheer accident. Because, you know. ACCIDENTS HAPPEN. ESPECIALLY WITH BIG CATS.

Mozart

Cats running over the keyboard, cats running over the keyboard, cats runn... Oh, imagine it, the dramatic moment of cats skimming over the piano during their zoomies, screaming at Mozar... I think Mozart disqualified the cats.

Napoleon

I think they’d move out after a week and go into the streets begging for food, as he sleeps in until so long they’d surely starve.

It’s a soft no, Napoleon, don’t be sad. The hard no would be urine in your bed. That would be infinitely worse, now, wouldn’t it?

Isaac

Could he say no to them? Could he? I’m genuinely asking, I don’t know. I have a feeling Porzeczka would love him.

Dazai

Sir, first learn how to use doors, because you will have to use them once all the windows are catproofed. Your habits are a safety hazards and given how often Junko forgets that tables have well, and ending to them, it is a hard no.

Aaand the winner iiiis....

Arthur.

Solely because of the issues Sebas is facing and adding any more work on top of that could be hard to deal with :(

#shitpost #ikevamp #ikevam #ikemen series

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fisherfurbearer · 5 years

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Why Enrichment Matters, and Why Improvement Never Ends

Animal enrichment is a never-ending process of learning and always, forever striving to improve.

I haven’t said much about the pair of button quail we adopted earlier this year, but they’re really something special. I’ve never owned birds before them, but I had done a lot of research into quail off and on and I’ve always obsessed over birds in general, but nothing else is like actually owning one in my own house. I’ve learned so much from just observing them and making small changes to their environment and care, and it has benefited them so much.

Wasabi (rooster) and Mushroom (hen) were hatched and reared by a local couple to us, along with several other roosters and hens that they hatched at the same time. Not realizing until later that button quail, especially roosters, are territorial and do best in pairs, they were looking to adopt out most of their quail to good homes, and we decided to adopt two of them.

Being hand-reared, they aren’t as horrifically skittish as I’ve heard other button quail to be (I’ve heard stories of some that are so nervous they bolt upwards to the point of hurting themselves if anyone so much as comes near their enclosure, and they remain Extremely Stressed after any enclosure maintenance!!) but they were NOT, and are not, handleable. Which was fine by me, I never expected them to be cuddly, but it was a little disheartening that they didn’t seem as relaxed as I wish they would be. Even after they calmed down and adjusted to being together (they were both housed separately before, but quickly bonded and have never had any issues) and being in a new environment, they would spend a lot of their time awake pacing and pecking at the walls, acting agitated even though they had room to move and plenty of food/water. I even gave them treats, which would calm them down for a short period of time, but soon after they would be back to pacing.

We have now had the pair for almost five months now, and so much has changed. I don’t think my initial care of them was ever BAD, per se...they’re still in the same enclosure they started in, with the same wood decor and they get the same treats...but all of the small changes I made over time have definitely made a difference.

After spending so much time watching their interactions and behaviors, I managed to test many different ideas and slowly alter and Improve their living environment and husbandry to what it is now.

This was their original set up right before I got them:

It’s not BAD, not at all! But it really wasn’t best for the birds. This was my first time owning any bird, let alone a ground-dwelling bird like button quail, so using my research and some assumptions I tried to come up with a set up that might make them feel more comfortable while also giving them space to perform natural behaviors. The substrate was a modified mix of my tarantula substrate (topsoil, coco coir, vermiculite, and sand) with extra soil for dust bathing. I used half-pint mason jars as food and water dishes, and (not shown here) mason jar lids for oyster shell and grit.

It was alright. There was some cover for them to duck under, and plenty of open space too, but I quickly realized it wasn’t nearly enough cover to make them feel Secure, and the semi-transparent sides may have been contributing to their pacing.

Over the weeks, I experimented...

I mixed up the wood placement, substrate choices (turns out 100% soil isn’t best, actually! They LOVE soil/sand for dust bathing, but it’s better as one specific corner, and pure RINSED sand is their favorite!), messed around with adding cover and changing foliage color/types, I tried growing live plants early on (that was a huge failure, by the way), experimented with different types of treats and forages (millets, roaches, and black soldier fly larvae are big favorites!!!), and learned a lot from watching their behaviors.

Over time, they grew bolder, and CALMER.

Here is their enclosure today, for reference:

It’s been a while since I last switched them over to their newest substrate (mostly soft paper bedding with a corner of play sand) and decor, and I haven’t noticed ANY pecking or pacing. Sometimes Mushy will pace the front of the enclosure and peer through the crack in the door, but she never pecks like she used to. They don’t even crow as much these days...they both have a wide variety of beeps, songs, and crows, but they only make a huge fuss if they’re low on water or food. In a way, they’ve trained me to keep all of their resources in tip-top condition and I’m convinced that soon they’ll figure out how to beg for treats, too!! Every time I open the door (to spot clean, replace water/food, remove eggs, etc.) I ALWAYS scatter healthy treats or leave a dish of insects for them, and it GREATLY reduces maintenance-associated stress. In the past week, she won’t even run from my hands!! (Well okay, today she ran, but I also had to remove her Secret Egg Stash and a lot of bedding from the sand so the movement set her off, but still, usually she’s good) Most of the time she waits for the doors to close before she dives for treats, but a couple times now she will wait for me to put it down in front of her, and will even eat with the door open and me sitting right there!! She’s still not perfect (again, today she was more antsy, but I don’t blame her) but she, and Bibi, come such a long way.

(Wasabi holding a One Singular bug for his wife to come take. He’s such a good husband and saves the best treats just for her. <3)

I attribute this to a mixture of changes, of course. It took a while to get this far and a LOT of adjustments, but it’s been worth it. I would say the greatest changes we made were...

- Keep general maintenance quick, calm, and Consistently reward door openings with treats. Scattered treats (ex. millet balls/individual seeds) are superior to entire millet sprays or dishes. ALWAYS remove birds from enclosure and place inside a dark, soft-sided box covered with a blanket for Safety during full cage cleans. GREATLY reduces stress associated with free-roaming.

- Multiple substrate types are better than one. Soft paper bedding or wood shavings are gentle on feet and aren’t super messy, and a corner of sand is greatly appreciated! They dust bathe several times a day and it seems to be a sort of ‘bonding’ time for them both. Rinsing sand vs. unrinsed soil is MUCH better for them as well, I learned that the hard way...everything was ridiculously dusty before and now we have had 0 dust problems!

(Pardon her bald butt, Bibi is NEVER aggressive with her, but he still manages to rub off her feathers when they court and she looks pretty weird. I’m not sure how to prevent this.)

- Cover!! And LOADS of it!! Even if you think it’s enough, it isn’t. Visual barriers are so important and they THRIVE when they have decor they can hide under/behind and run between. They’re tiny birds and can dive around it like it’s nothing, and even though the enclosure looks crowded, it’s actually set up so they have Maximized floor space. GREATLY improves their confidence and sense of security. Switching up foliage/decor types seems to be beneficial, but large-scale, frequent changes probably aren’t the best. They seem to prefer when some decor is kept the same (ex. large wood features) and others are changed.

- Designing multiple “zones” seems to offer them a much greater amount of choice and has made a huge difference to their behavior. Instead of an enclosure where everything is the same, they now have a corner just for dust bathing/sleeping, a middle section with shaded water, and food in the open, and a third section with a lot of cover to the sides and an open middle area where they can be out of sight. Shown above, it looks impervious, but that’s all quail-accessible space behind that wall of decor. I plan on setting up an avian UVB light (but arcadia only makes them in T8s so I have to figure that out before I get one...) to put over their dust bathing/open area to give them further choice and basking options, as well.

(Mushy’s secret egg stash!! I didn’t even know these were here until today, they’re so well hidden!! She never broods them, but it’s interesting to see that she’s started to lay them in the same place, she never did that before the changes.)

All in all, these little changes have added up, and I’m still improving as we go along. I have additional plans for building a larger enclosure for them one day (probably 48″x24″x12-18″) so they can have a third substrate option and even more room to run and roam...it shouldn’t be too expensive and I think they’d really enjoy it.

This turned into quite the ramble, but I hope it proves to someone out there that ENRICHMENT. MATTERS. And that just because your first run of something was ‘fine’ or even ‘good’ doesn’t mean it can’t be BETTER!! Learn from your mistakes, learn what you can improve, watch your animals and see what they do and how to encourage healthy, natural behaviors. Enrichment of all types isn’t just for our enjoyment, or because it looks pretty or cute. These changes have greatly influenced my birds’ behavior and comfort, and we will continue to learn and improve as time goes on.

It’s a never-ending process, and it’s a bit of work, but seeing them healthy, calm, and content is what all pet owners should strive for.

#birdblr #animal enrichment #avian enrichment #vivarium design #button quail #my pets #mushroom #wasabi #i have to send an update to the guy i adopted them from #to let him know theyre doing well #it was so funny when we met in that wawa parking lot so i could pick the birds up #i think we were both worried the other person was going to be a serial killer #or worse...some creepy old dude...#but nah it was a really rad trans guy and his girlfriend #and theyre my age and were all pretty short and just looked at each other like #'im so glad youre someone my age and also not a murderer'#and we talked for a while and they were very chill and passionate about birds #and i think theyd probably like to hear about how the quail are doing...#last time i showed them the enclosure they went out and got more stuff for their own quail #and made it all handsome and added lots of cover and branches and stuff for them #it made me so happy...they were so inspired by my own care that they improved their own birds c':#thats what its all about #thats why i ramble like this and want to keep animals all my life #it makes me so frickin happy

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azzandra · 6 years

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Modern GG AU, please?

(in response to this meme)

I complained about this one on the GG server, but I am still down to moan about it!

So basically, it was the fic that kicked off every other fic in my GG future AU. I was working on this when I decided to expand a throw-away line into a full fic, and that fic became ‘interbellum’. And then I decided I wanted to expand on something from interbellum, and then ‘encore’ happened. And now I am working on yet another fic in this series, but I still have not been making progress on this one that started it all. (It’s actually a hilarious situation.)

Am I ever going to finish it? No clue!

Have the first couple of scenes under the cut:

Six out of seven popes agree,It's the twenty-first century!

--ad jingle for Pipkin Pocket Watches (2001)***

Lori Scripcar's teachers all had a problem, and that problem was Lori Scripcar.The one who had to deal with this issue, then, was Lori Scripcar's mother, who had a full-time job already, and had not factored in the possibility that any of her children would be Sparks when she and Mr. Scripcar decided to have themselves a few.

That day, at least, Mrs. Scripcar had had a call from Lori's homeroom teacher to prepare her for when Lori arrived home with a medium-sized plastic storage box and a sheepish look on her face.

"So," Mrs. Scripcar said, meeting her daughter at the door, "what was it that you were supposed to be doing in Biology today?"

"Animal dissection," Lori said, giving the contents of her box a dejected look.

"And what is it that you did in Biology today?" Mrs. Scripcar continued.

"The exact opposite," Lori mumbled.

Mrs. Scripcar tried not to sigh too audibly. The bottom of the box had been filled with fresh wood shavings, perhaps courtesy of the school's workshop. A white rat, its eyes filmy and blind, was snuffling through the shavings. When it raised itself up on its back paws to sniff the air above, it exposed a long, stitched scar down its belly. It also had two tiny neck bolts, apparently made from re-purposed screws. Mrs. Scripcar dearly hoped no desk had been taken apart yet again in the middle of a Spark surge.

"Lori, we talked about performing revivifications on school property," Mrs. Scripcar said.

"Not without a teacher's permission, I know," Lori said, before continuing in a breathless burst: "But Alex was really upset about the dead rat! She was almost crying, and the teacher was going to make her cut it up and she didn't want to."

And sure enough, Mrs. Scripcar knew she was the one Lori had inherited her bleeding heart from, because she couldn't stay upset at the girl.

"I suppose," Mrs. Scripcar sighed, "it's a good thing we kept the weasel enclosure."

Lori's face split into a grin.

The weasel enclosure had been taking up a quarter of her room ever since their old pet died, three years prior. It was before Lori'd broken through, so no unfortunate revivification incident then, but they'd only taken down the tubes from around the house, and kept the cage. It had been large enough for a weasel, so it would undoubtedly be enough for an undead rat.

"Just remember to go to the petshop and pick up anything you'll need," Mrs. Scripcar added, as Lori skipped to her room.

***Lori knew her mother had a point about going to the petshop. She knew that the basic things, like food and enrichment toys, could be acquired at the one just down the street. But for the fancy stuff, such as safety locks and a Construct Sapience Test Kit, she'd have to go into the Old Town.

The next day was a Friday, so it was still a school day, and since her classes started at one, she had to make the trip in the morning. It was a pleasant spring day, so tourist traffic would be insufferable, but the quicker she got this over with, the quicker she could get back home and then to school.

She took one of the public tarambulas, staking a seat next to the window. In the outer parts of Mechanicsburg, buses and trams did the job well. But in the old town center, where the more touristy parts were, the tarambulas were the best way to get where you were going quick. Their long, almost delicate-seeming metal stilts could carry an entire carriage of travelers far above the streets and the wheeled vehicles below, rendering them completely impervious to traffic jams.

The tarambula system had been gifted to Mechanicsburg a couple of generations ago, by one of the Sturmvorauses, for the occasion of a Heterodyne's birthday. Eventually Sturmhalten had moved on from the tarambula system, as each sparky Sturmvoraus heir kept tinkering with and improving their public transit system.

But in Mechanicsburg, the tarambulas were still held in high regard, mostly because they appealed to the Mechanicsburger sense of aesthetic more strongly than the alternatives. Once in a while, a Heterodyne or one of their friends would tinker and upgrade, bringing the tarambulas in line with new technological breakthroughs, but they'd become such a familiar part of the Mechanicsburg skyline, that no one would do away with them permanently at this point.

Tourists, as a rule, seemed to regard them as some sort of local eccentricity rather than a valid mode of transport.

But they offered one hell of a view for the passengers. Mechanicsburg was built a bit like a bowl. The outer rings of the city were more recent, and so the buildings were not only newer, but taller and shinier as the city extended outward. What Mechanicsburgers called the city center was not a center, so much as the outspill of skyscrapers at the mouth of the valley.

The Old Town, though, had remained generally intact over a century of shifting architectural trends. It was what had once been the entirety of Mechanicsburg before the Diesel Wars, surrounded by its old walls and still under the full influence and control of Castle Heterodyne. None of the Heterodynes so far had thought to extend the Castle's influence beyond the Old Town walls and into the new parts of Mechanicsburg. Probably for good reasons, from what Lori knew about the Castle.

As the tarambula scuttled along, Lori checked her watch. She fiddled with the touchscreen, idly sending the wheel of icons spinning once or twice, but as it stopped, she checked on her notifications. The Minions Monthly! app showed updates. Back in the day, when it was still in print, Minions Monthly! was the premiere science tabloid, sharing the hot gossip on the continent's most popular Sparks.

Nowadays, it and its main competitor, MAD Magazine, were entirely digital, and their output consisted mostly of science memes, listicles, and quizzes. Lori liked their pop culture nostalgia pieces; she'd been a quiz junkie for a while, but had stopped cold turkey when she took the "Which Character from The Heterodyne Boys (1992) TV Series Are You?" quiz and it told her she was Barry. This result offended her deeply in the part of her soul where she was convinced she was Lucrezia, and she never recovered.

She barely got to thumb all the way through a listicle about top five disastrous Spark projects that somehow turned out okay before the tarambula skittered to a halt at Lori's station. She disembarked and cleared away, and the tarambula rose again on its stilt legs and disappeared around a building.

#meme response #Anonymous

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garagedoorshampshire · 6 years

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50 Luxury Bathrooms And Tips You Can Copy From Them

Imagine the frothy feeling of a warm bubble bath against your skin. The feeling is decadent and relaxing. Now, what do you see when you open your eyes? If your existing bathroom decor doesn’t reflect that image, or evoke that same pampered feeling, then perhaps it’s time to reassess your surroundings. This extensive collection of 50 luxury bathrooms is filled with high end inspiration on how to create yourself a truly sumptuous space. From show stopping bathtubs and sleek vanity units, to enviable bathroom decor and carefully curated accessory ideas, this gallery of images and tips has you covered.

Visualizer: Giri Dwi Cahya Frame your hero piece. Two unique plant stands frame an elegant freestanding bathtub.

Visualizer: Nataliya Yahela Blur the border between a garden and a bathroom. Standing a bathtub on a floor of pebbles creates a natural flow between inside and outside spaces. Grow an indoor garden of potted plants with long fronds to keep the theme going.

Visualizer: Anastasia Bushkova Create a tree mural. Even if you’re not lucky enough to have a bathroom picture window to a private garden, you could place a tree mural behind your bathtub. This unique nature themed feature wall is a tile design that shows small sections of tree.

Visualizer: Sergio Goroshko Set the mood with lighting. Forget harsh overhead lighting when it’s time to sink beneath the bubbles. When it comes to relaxation, soft glowing lamps are where it’s at. Hot bath, book in hand, coffee. Bliss.

Visualizer: Black Razor Time for task lighting. When there’s no time for relaxing in the tub you will be thankful for some focussed task lighting, particularly around the vanity. This particular swing arm wall lamp has an interesting placement though – perhaps there’s some bathroom reading going on in a spot other than the tub…

Visualizer: Artem Shelipov Get creative with plants. The owner of this bathroom must really love plants. Things may get a bit tickly in that crowded shower enclosure.

Visualizer: ONI Render Vanity countertops should be both practical and beautiful. When filling your vanity top with soap dispensers and the like, consider adding in a decorative vase for an elegant finishing touch.

Visualizer: Mia Design Studio A bonsai tree grows directly out of this vanity countertop.

Visualizer: LUSUS Studio Suspend lighting over the tub. Nothing else has quite the same decadence in a bathroom like a piece of statement lighting suspended over a freestanding bathtub; be it a sparkling chandelier or shining globe pendant lights.

Visualizer: La Alegría Dhifaoui Samiha Zone with different flooring materials. The border to this wet zone is accentuated by a geometric section of wood flooring, which continues upward as bathroom TV wall decor.

Visualizer: Andrey Avdeenko Bring walls to life. Another way to bring the outdoors inside is to create a vertical garden wall.

Visualizer: Viktoria Faynblat Create a courtyard. If your garden is overlooked you may be feeling a little shy about installing a clear bathroom window to take in the view! Consider building a privacy wall outside the window and craft a mini garden within its confines.

Designer: Patricia Urquiola Make it his and hers. We’ve all seen twin vanity units but how about twin bathtubs? Patricia Urquiola created this for the Hangrohe Axor brand as a departure from traditional norms. Her charming collection is characterized by flowing transitions and curves. An abundance of indoor plants add in natural pattern and texture.

Designer: Jean-Marie Massaud Introduce softness to your bathroom scheme. Jean-Marie Massaud, another star designer for Hansgrohe Axor, added in smooth pebble poufs to break away from a bathroom’s typically hard surfaces.

Visualizer: Evgeny Garchu Layer a bathtub in front of a shower unit. When tackling the challenge of rearranging a bathroom, the layout can be restricted by window placements and deciding whether the longest wall should be awarded to the bath or a spacious shower unit. Why not have it all by layering a tub in front of a shower screen? This modern chandelier helps visually anchor the tub in its central spot.

Visualizer: Heder Perdigão Change bathroom colours to suit your mood. Colour changing LEDs enable you to swap out your bathroom colour scheme at the touch of a button; they can even cycle through the entire rainbow all by themselves whilst you relax in the tub.

Designer: Patricia Urquiola Source: Four Seasons, Milan Install a sunken bath. Take inspiration from the Four Seasons spa room, in Milan.

Visualizer: TOTL Studio Cosy up with a bathroom fireplace. A roaring open fire and a bubble bath? Oh yes, please.

Visualizer: TOL'KO interiors Don’t be afraid of colourful bathroom furniture. Bathroom furniture has become colour shy in recent years, but it’s not against the law to make a departure from all that is neutral. Try changing out white cupboard doors for something with more personality; you could choose floor tiles to carry the new colour underfoot too. Do balance out your gorgeous new accents with some softer pieces too though, like this grey unit and vanity stool.

Visualizer: SFN Architecture Colour with copper. Copper accessories can be sourced for every single room of the house now, and look equally spectacular in the bathroom. Bring in this trendy metallic via a mirror frame, candle holders, lighting, faucets and planters.

Designer: A.T.O Studio Make it a double. A twin vanity unit can be accessorised with a single large mirror, though doubling up mirrors and modern wall sconces certainly draws more attention to the luxury of having two individual wash zones.

Visualizer: Andrey Korniychuk Lighting around this double sink bathroom vanity shines from around the mirror frames themselves.

Visualizer: Joanna Kubieniec & Głogowscy Architektura Sharpen up. Create a high end minimalist bathroom by selecting crisp linear pieces.

Visualizer: ArsVisual Group Warm up with wooden accents. If an all white bathroom scheme feels a little cold, just a few wooden accent pieces can go a long way in visually warming the room.

Visualizer: Tawfeek Kalagi Dark wooden decor creates a sumptuous look; flickering tea light holders enrich the theme.

Visualizer: Ahmed Morsy Candles are a go to accessory for any bathroom scheme, be it minimalistic or seductive.

Visualizer: Studioart Make a plain basin look special with a unique faucet. Ok, so this basin is anything but boring. However, the waterfall faucet certainly does add to its splendour.

Visualizer: Stanislav Kaminskyi Let’s say it though, unique sinks stake their own place in a bathroom, with or without the help of an unusual faucet.

Visualizer: Nour Ammar Light up your love of concrete. Concrete bathrooms are a cool trend, but do add in some warming lighting to keep the look inviting.

Visualizer: M3 Architects Forget walls and doors, have a floating bathroom. A sprawling master suite doesn’t have to be divided into a bedroom, a dressing room and a bathroom. This design implements only partially dividing walls to house essential plumbing. The shower surround is almost completely invisible.

Designer: Philippe Starck Design a bathroom as you would a living space. Philippe Starck, another star designer for the Hansgrohe Axor brand, sparked a bathroom revolution that saw this room of mere hygienic functionality turned into a new personal retreat. The bathroom became an extension of living space in the home – a crumbling boundary that continues to be pushed.

Visualizer: Anastasiia Sholopova Marble finishes look marvellous. Marble decor has spanned the ages, and marble wall tiles, flooring, bathtubs and vanities will always have a place in bathroom design. Light up the look of this elegantly veined material with beautiful IC Lights S Pendant like the IC Lights S Pendant. A cheaper replica of this is available here.

Designer: ArchObraz Photographer: Andrey Avdeenko Tiny contrasts can cut through a bland scheme. This plain grey and white minimalist bathroom receives a lift from a couple of strawberry red towels, which pay bright contrast to the green of a flourishing Snake plant.

Source: PARKROYAL on Pickering, Singapore Love nature – not just in decor. Notice how the unique trash cans actually represent recyclable and non recyclable, assisting with responsible waste disposal to keep our planet healthy.

Designer: A.T.O Studio Set feature walls aglow. This backlit mirror sends out subtle illumination over a wooden vanity wall.

Visualizer: Denis Fomin Add a table next to a freestanding bath. You don’t want to be hanging over the side of the tub to reach for your bathtime potions. Choose an elegant table to house a pretty display of soap and lotion dispensers.

Visualizer: Shahid Jamal Mosaics aren’t just bathroom border tiles. Use a mosaic tile in its intended form, as eye-catching artwork.

Designer: Ahmed Mady Evoke grandeur with ornate accessories. Luxury hotel bathrooms are often filled with ornate mirrors and sculpture that can be translated into our very own luxury home bathroom.

Visualizer: Ahmed Mady Highlight furniture fretwork. If your furniture or mirror frames are blessed with intricate fretwork, new backlighting could be all that’s needed to make your bathroom a standout space.

Visualizer: Alina Pipoyan Is it the vertical garden or the spectacular pendant light that’s the focal point of this decor? Well, nobody said you were only allowed one hero piece.

Visualizer: Dima Karma The hero of this room is most certainly the imposing art mural, softly lit by small bathroom pendant lights at one side and a floor lamp at the other.

Visualizer: Double Aye Bathroom window shutters suit traditional and modern decor alike. This eclectic minimalist bathroom, influenced by Wabi-Sabi, uses shutters to add a spike of classic French-Italian flavour.

Visualizer: Double Aye Curate a rustic bathroom scheme by selecting highly textured, natural elements. Team the rustic pieces with some modern furniture to keep the look current, like these sleek sinks from By Coccoon.

Visualizer: Playtime Play up to lofty proportions. This vaulted ceiling looks even taller thanks to a low sunken bathtub and an elongated pendant light.

Visualizer: Maxim Goryachev Marble can be colourful too. Check out this molten yellow wet wall.

Visualizer: Covet House Set the stage. A show stopping Koi bathtub is set on a raised platform, which gives the piece the prominence it deserves. It also houses all of the not so glamorous pipework too.

Visualizer: Covet House More stunning bathtubs from Maison Valentina.

Visualizer: Home d A unique vanity can transform a small bathroom.

Designer: Haji Guliyev & Ulker Mirzaliyeva Visualizer: Vusal Abbasov Decorative floor edging draws attention to a beautiful layout.

Visualizer: Mohanad Al Homsi Splash the cash on the bath. The price for this hammock bathtub is available only on request, but a little birdie tells us that you’d have to part with a stack of dollars in the low 5 figures…

1. Automatic touch-free soap dispenser 2. Luxury toilet paper holder 3. Menu pedal trash bin 4. Modern faucet 5. Copper ventilated laundry basket 6. Bamboo vanity accessory set 7. Luxury chandelier 8. Golden plant stand 9. Golden glass bathroom sink

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A Texas biomedical research facility that made headlines this week after four baboons managed an elaborate escape from their enclosure has a “history” of animal welfare violations. The facility was once fined more than $25,500 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture over its transgressions, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) said.

HSUS Vice President of Animal Research Issues Kathleen Conlee told Newsweek that “there has been a history of animal welfare violations” at the federally-funded Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio, where baboons were able to escape from their enclosure on Saturday by rolling a barrel to an upright position and using it to climb over a fence.

Witness Dorian Reyna captured video of an Southwest National Primate Research Center worker chasing a baboon after a troop of the primates escaped from their enclosure at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute. Storyful/Dorian Reyna

The escaped baboons were quickly rounded up by institute workers, who were filmed chasing after the primates in masks and protective equipment.