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New boosted shiny odd event for gold pokemon!

#pokemon scarlet #shiny hunting #the teal mask

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And here is the illustrious and long-awaited spider itself. Still fat and in premolt, but in far better shape than the other one was. Active, alert, probably not so close to the danger zone that it’ll molt in a matter of hours from now right side up without a mat. If this was the one he sent me the first time, we wouldn't have had any problems and I would have simply walked away mildly annoyed about his responsiveness. And with a full paycheck still in my bank account.

#tarantula #bugblr #aphonopelma mooreae #mooreae

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It’s a shame the absolute S tier enclosure I made under the impression I was getting a 3”+ spider is going unused. I might just leave it as is until the sling is ready. In like two years. On the right is the smaller one I’m actually using. You can almost see the sling in the front corner.

#terrarium #tarantula

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I got teensy power on the sandwich so it would have been really funny if Shrimp the Corphish was small enough for the mini mark.

#shiny hunting #pokemon scarlet #the teal mask

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I love the feedback I've been getting, though. Too many people misinterpreted what I said to mean I was using a heatlamp. Which is in fact telling on themselves for thinking someone who's out here rolling out the Benjamins on a rare spider is some newbie. Some people were just floored that a tarantula could even run that much money. And a few recommend dealers as if I wasn't buying from this asshole specifically because he's the only one with the species I wanted. I got a lot less sympathy on the Arachnoboards group, before my post was removed by a mod because they don't like seller feedback.

This whole thing started because my tax refund made me want to be a little more liberal with using my savings. Well, that sure worked out great for me.

#mooreae

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So the new Digimon webnovel has an original evolution line for Impmon that is clearly informed by the Guilmon line, resembling Growmon, MegaloGrowmon, and Megidramon. I guess Beelzebumon would be the line's Dukemon then.

Personally I think the Perfect and Ultimate would also work really well with Gumdramon -> Arresterdramon. Maybe even Destromon could fit in there.

#digimon

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This spider is not even 2", so as I thought, Sulayman Khan of Superior Squamata did absolutely nothing for me in terms of compensation for the thousand-dollar animal that died because it was in no condition to be shipped. This is a "bigger one" by half an inch at most, which is so pedantically literal that it was dishonest and deceptive of him to pretend he was giving me a special bargain as customer service. I do not feel bad for already sharing my story in Facebook groups.

That said, it is more alert and responsive than its predecessor, suggesting it's not in the same precarious situation where it's about to molt while still under the stress of transit. And despite being rather rotund, it's not as turgidly obese to the point of looking like a grape with legs. I feel like this one is just barely healthier enough for it to make a difference. I'm still completely disgusted with this whole experience though. I'm not even going to confirm it arrived yet since I know Sulayman wipes his hands of any accountability at that point.

#mooreae

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Honestly the whole Tall-Man thing is such an elegant solution to the whole human problem in dnd. So much language like "have some humanity" gets so awkward when there's a group called humans. Having humans instead refer to all humanoids just makes so much sense in this context!

High key gonna bring this up to my dnd groups and am gonna hard code it in if/when I make my own system.

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Tarantula: May I have a coke please

Waitress: All we have is Pepsis is that okay?

*Tarantula sweating nervously*: Y-you have what

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FedEx Delivery Manager has already come in clutch because I got notified a package was en route before Sulayman himself told me. And this is a bit petty, but I never actually confirmed I was available to receive it tomorrow morning. I am and it's actually better for me than Tuesday or Wednesday would have been, but like...

At any rate, here's hoping the nightmare is over.

#mooreae

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Ah yes, I share my story online and NOW he responds within minutes at a regular time of day. According to him, his new shipping boxes "should" be here today. But in all likelihood, we're missing the window for shipping this week so I guess he's bought himself even more time. As I said, he's not a scammer who'd take a thousand dollars and run off. He's just an irresponsible shithead who I've had the misfortune of trying to purchase a rare animal from.

Here's hoping this thing comes soon and comes alive so the saga can finally end. An obese sling on the verge of molting being shipped in the mail might be a powder keg ready to explode, but as long as that doesn't happen a second time, everything will work out. Aphonopelma are like Nokia phones. Even just being one instar larger means it's that much sturdier.

#mooreae

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solo jazz suicune

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The name of the man who's been fucking with me is Sulayman Khan, his business is called Superior Squamata.

Even if he got back to me right now and ships my new spider as soon as FedEx opens tomorrow morning, the damage is done. This whole experience has completely soured my feelings about wanting to reconnect with the hobby and the community.

#mooreae

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What if you were bones? If there was nothing else left of you?

No lungs filled with sweet laughter. No blood rushing to blushing cheeks. No skin grazing against mine when you twined our fingers together.

What if there was nothing left?

If I cradled your ribs in my palm, haunted by the ghost of your heartbeat? If I caressed the line of your ulna, almost able to feel the light brush of overlarge shirtsleeve dipping past your wrist? If the back of my knuckle skimmed the cheek of your skull, so sure I could still feel golden eyes staring so gently back at me through empty sockets?

(Mother said I'd have to watch everyone I loved pass on, but I was promised more time.)

(I walk out of step with the world, but you joined me with a gait all our own.)

(What is that if not a promise?)

What if there was nothing left but bones, yet I could still see the shape of you in the remains? If I handled every piece with the gentlest care, rebuilding you from the inside out? If I held each phalange tenderly in my palm, as if this were a new way you'd chosen to hold my hand?

(I was promised more time. Not enough, but more than this.)

Healing hurts. Magic weaving through meat and muscle and sinew, knitting together a wound before it's ready to let go. It's beautiful and necessary. The pain. Healing hurts. Living hurts. Loving hurts. Love beats in my heart my throat my hands my staff, bleeding like a gaping wound with every forbidden word spoken and ancient symbol sketched into stone.

If you need skin, blood, lungs, then you will have them. If you need flesh and meat and beating heart, I will build you them with my two bloodied hands. I will sculpt your bones a home from the carcass of a beast, breathe life into your hearth with dragonfire.

Healing hurts.

What if I didn't care who I hurt, if it meant having you again?

I think you can understand the sentiment.

And one day soon, when you look at me in the light above and give that gentle smile, I can't help but imagine hooking my fingers between the slats of your ribs and tugging you close enough to hear your heartbeat.

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I saw a video about Chopper's devil fruit and it made me think.

We learned recently that visualization and perception are the keys to how a devil fruit work. A fruit user gets stronger by becoming more creative with their fruit's applications. Luffy stretches because Nika is basically a Fleischer-era cartoon, but everyone (including Luffy himself) simply thought he was made of rubber. All of Luffy's powerups are based on that misconception but they work anyway because he thinks they should rather than because there's any scientific soundness behind them. Luffy was immune to Enel's lightning because he didn't think his body should be able to conduct electricity, completely ignoring the heat that could melt gold.

So Chopper, an ordinary non-sapient reindeer, eats the human-human fruit and suddenly has to visualize himself as a human. Obviously the result would be a crude facsimile, with fur and his signature blue nose. And then he got traumatized when actual humans saw him and thought he was a monster. Chopper on a deep personal level does think of himself as a monster, and that definitely influences the way he uses his fruit and his transformations. Plus, the post-timeskip heavy point is actually less human than it was before, implying the form itself isn't "pure". I would imagine that by this point Chopper is capable of becoming a human, not heavy point but an actual proper 100% human, but he's never felt any reason to. It would have no combat purpose, and his sense of identity is intrinsically tied to his hybrid forms- especially brain point which he treats as his default form over his natural reindeer body. It's not that heavy point is his human form, it's that heavy point is his human form.

The only other zoan-user animals we've seen are Pierre the bird and Onimaru the komagitsune, and both support this idea. Pierre's full horse form has never been shown, only his hybrid form which is the shittiest pegasus you've ever seen. Onimaru ate a model of the human-human fruit and his Gyukimaru looks more human than Chopper's heavy point, but he's had over a decade of practice as well as being a fox youkai which presumably had human-like intelligence to start with.

#one piece #wmg

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By the way, this is what I've been fighting for. This is what Aphonopelma mooreae looks like. It's basically like a darker, richer GBB that doesn't web up its tank and has a better attitude and lives twice as long.

In an amusing coincidence, Tom Patterson added the species to his portfolio of tarantula glamour shots at the same time all this has been happening to me

#tarantula #mooreae

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I'm going to be honest, I didn't understand the ending of the last Chucky episode at first because I didn't recognize Brad Dourif. Imagine dying at 38 and having your ghost continue to age. I mean, yeah, Charles Lee Ray is 74 years old chronologically, but biologically, they should have put Fiona in drag again.

Charles Lee Ray haunting the White House as a conventional ghost is certainly a twist, although I haven't really been a huge fan of most of what's happened this season. Where do we go from here? Is Charles' ghost going to get beaten up by the other ghosts in the White House? Is Chucky going to fight historical presidents?

#chucky #horror