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El bells <3
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nightinghoul · 1 year
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My Dodo:
(Snakes, pet loss)
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A Kenyan sand boa at a rennasaince festival is what made me fall in love with snakes. I didn't have a KSB right away. For several years, I kept other types of snakes. Years later, by total coincidence, I found my Dodo on Craig's List. She looked so much like the one I had held that one day. They weren't the same morph, but very similar colors.
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I named her Domino, but I came to know several people with pets called Domino, and eventually just started calling her Dodo. By that point, it was also in memory of my favorite snake, Momo. A trans-pecos rat snake, he was my precious boy. He was my whole life for a couple of years. My time with Momo and Dodo overlapped by several months.
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I was on an anxiety medication that was working well for several years, and then my brain slowly started having reactions to it. I got to this point where I was dissociating, bad. I was practically having out of body experiences. I was having full on delusions and false memories. I was blacking out. Nothing made sense. During this time, one night I removed Momo from his tank, and walked away with him. I don't know what happened after that. I never saw him again. The next morning, found his tank open, and he was gone. My heart will never fully heal.
I still didn't know it was the meds. I thought that whatever was going on, the meds would keep it from getting worse. I knew I couldn't take care of my snakes until I got better - if I got better.
I rehomed most of my snakes with a woman who was a volunteer reptile educater. I gave a very aggressive Texas rat snake to a trusted friend. This snake, Drax, I suspect had been wild caught, and was sick with parasites. I had to get him healthy, and my friend took it from there. She says he's still a spicy boy these days, but able to be handled.
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I just kept Dodo. I had nothing left in my heart, but I kept her out of guilt. She was my tiniest, youngest snake. She was so silly and fun. I felt that my husband could keep an eye on just this one snake. He could supervise me when I fed or handled her. He really stepped up.
Not too long after that, I was having dysphagia caused by the medication. It was terrifying. I don't really know what caused me to suspect the meds, but I quit cold turkey. Being able to swallow water again was amazing, but the mental effects were nearly unbearable. I was acting completely insane. I would scream and wail like a banshee. I felt like someone was trying to scratch their way out of my head. My wonderful husband stuck by me.
During this time, we were preparing for a move across the country. Something I had suggested in a lucid moment, because we really hated the sweltering heat and humid air of Georgia, and had been unhappy for a long time.
We drove out west on a two day road trip with five dogs, two rabbits, a hamster, and Dodo, who was just as docile and content as could be.
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Dodo. I didn't love her. I couldn't even think about snakes. I was too sad. I did the motions, taking care of her diligently, but it took a really long time to connect. Only recently did I start feeling like I could love a little snake again. And she is so worth my heart. I couldn't sleep last night so I took her out and sat with her for a little bit, and something inside me just clicked. This is my little scaly gal. I will always care for her. I love her.
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sweeneydino · 3 months
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He's got a really high prey drive
EDIT: FORGOT TO POST BUT PLEASE CHECK OUT @shyadri 's FIC OF THIS AU HERE
And while you're at it, CHECK THEM OUT TOO.
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crystalflygeo · 10 months
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Ok but imagine dragon!Zhongli fills you up with eggs and by the time they hatch you end up with a bunch of tiny baby dragons squirming around like worms. What'd you do then??
WHAT'D I DO?? TAKE CARE OF MY CHILDREN OF COURSE???
"Worms", the audacity they are dragons and they are my precious babies omg
But fr tho imagine like a dozen of tiny baby noodles with a bit of fur and tiny stubby horns just curling up on your lap or around you as you sleep, draped around your shoulder, on top of your head (and Zhongli's) that is so cute pls too adorable. 💕
I'd imagine they'd be still too weak/young to fly let alone shapeshift so they're housebound, zhongli and you have to take turns watching them and going out to do stuff. Also since they're dragons/reptiles they wouldn't need milk?? rather probably just smol pieces of meat or like soft food aaaaaaaaaaaa too cute imagine feeding them with a spoon carefully.
Until they start teething that it, then they become lil menaces, biting everything on sight including each other when play fighting and/or their father (lmao) Zhongli would make small crystals they can bite into instead of destroying everything 💕
Speaking of their father imagine Zhongli feeling the urge to take dragon form just so he can curl around them and soothe them in a way they'd be more instinctually comfortable with (PAPA DRAGON ZL INSTINCTS RUNNING WILD IMAGINE HIM LICK-BATHING THEM SVCGAHBAK 🥺💕💕💕) tho they 1000% recognize you as mama and like to burrow in your hair or under your shirt (babies noooo) and just be close to/on top of you at all times
JUST A BUNCH OF TINY NOODLE BABY DRAGONS I WOULD WEEP I WOULD CRY like I did these???? I made them with my husband?? my babies??
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smth like this is you will AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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ryllen · 3 months
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Noir and Peni style swap
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spearxwind · 9 months
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I purchased a little freak recently and I'm completely obsessed with him
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egophiliac · 1 year
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some more episode 7 stuff! Mal's UM poster is being uncooperative, so here's some dumb shit in the meantime.
I have been genuinely trying to draw his OB better, but it's hard. :( why does he hate me.
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piratefishmama · 2 days
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Lil Prince Steven going on an impromptu very unexpected adventure during an outing with his parents where he followed a weird bug too far into the woods and got a little lost only to come face to face with a very awkward, very lost, and very frightened little black dragon, just a bit bigger than he is, hiding in a much too small for it bush.
the adventure is Steve accompanying the little dragon to find his (steve discovers this through this little dragon, who he also discovers is called Eddie, being very talkative once he feels he's safe) guardian, an exhausted elder dragon currently turning over every tree and pile of rocks he can find looking for his little escape artist rascal of a nephew.
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ohno-the-sun · 1 day
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Poor Sun
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sweeneydino · 10 days
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Baby dragons... they unlocked it way too early-
Bro, I could've sworn I saw a specific ask asking for this, but I checked, and it wasn't there. I am bamboozled.
Could've just been my dreams fucking with me again idk-
Might get back to spikeangelo later this week, gonna do the ones that are collecting dust first cause I feel bad lol.
Plus, Spikeangelo needs to stretch his legs cause I'm tying him to the trauma train.
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awkwardfantasy · 1 month
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baby lucina (falchion for scale)
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mishapen-dear · 3 months
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tbh i think that even unwinnable fights should be winnable. some of the BEST fights i've ever run as a dm were ones i built kill the players (in a fun way. I had some cutscenes prepped so even the loss would be a different flavour of win)- but then they were clever bastards and managed to either win the fights or pull themselves out of trouble. I think it's perfectly fine to plan for a fight that players aren't supposed to win, but you need to let them. if they can't win, they can't lose, and the meaning of that encounter is diminished. do that too many times, and they stop trusting you to give them roleplay prompts and start expecting to sit there waiting while you drive the story for them.
but if they can win... if there is always the chance to win, no matter how impossible the odds, then they ALWAYS have hope. they always get invested. they feel the big emotions of success or the big emotions of failure, and you fucking Win as a dm/roleplay prompter/lead bastard.
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puppetmaster13u · 4 months
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Prompt 122
So, Danny might be a hint confused and perhaps slightly suspicious about this situation. Look, he didn’t exactly remember how he got in this situation, but from what he hears of the other person-turned-oversized-lizard’s panicked whispers they don’t understand how this happened either. Something something ghost probably. 
Someone had better not have made some sort of wish back home. He didn’t want to deal with Desiree’s shenanigans, even if being a dragon or whatever was pretty freaking cool…
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cookies-artblog · 5 months
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Inktober day 7: changewing
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loki-loving-lesbian · 2 months
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Tryna harness their energy
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