#pippin snek

[jacqsreptiles]

There she is; the world's most perfect moron.

#ball python #snakes #sneks #reptiles #snekblr #herpblr #reptiblr #pippin snek #my neighbors must think im insane #just standing there staring at the tall grass #cause you could not see non periscoping pippin from a distance

[jacqcrisis]

Chili watched me feed Pippin, my ball python, for the first time last night. I don’t think she knew there was an animal in there until that moment so, after the tank was locked back up and I had fed Cicero, my boa, behind a closed door so Chili would not become a target for a bci, Chili decided to go check out Pippin. 

Now, Pippin is notably Dumber Than Hell, and often loses the rat she’s just ‘strangled’, sometimes for up to forty minutes I’ve watched this tube sausage desperately snek around her viv looking for the rat she left in her water dish. And a thing about bp’s is that they hunt mainly using their heat pits, so often I just leave the room and turn off the lights to give Queen Dumbass the best chance of keeping her food in sight. 

So imagine what she thought when a 22lb hot ass dog trotted over to sniff the locked tank as she once again misplaced a rat near the three foot of stomach she has?

“Where the fuck is my ra- Aha!” *plonk*

Ball python snoot hits glass, I call Chili over, fifteen minutes later Pippin has consumed her dinner and all is back to normal.

#jacq life #every now and then #pippins singular brain cell hits the corner of her skull #and she has One (1) Thought #this is why i triple check my tanks are locked up and chili is not allowed around the reptiles when i take them out

[queer-tech-seer]

Pippin, Patron Snaint (Snake Saint) of Noodles

[Image Description: A closeup/portrait picture of a yellowish-brown ball python with its head resting upon a fake plastic branch. Its head faces to the viewer’s right. Its eyes are very dark, almost black, with barely visible slit pupils.]

In honour of Herself’s fourth birthday on this 24th day of December, 2022, I thought I’d remind everyone the true reason for the season and share some very important and totally serious information about Saint Pippin, the Patron Snaint (Snake Saint) of Noodles.

Saint Pippin

Saint Pippin is primarily the Patron Snaint of sneks, shoelaces, nope ropes, and danger noodles, and as such watches over them and offers them protection from That Which Would Harm Them.

[Image Description: The same yellowish-brown snake now peeks out from a black plastic bowl-shaped hide. Only the tip of its nose and one eye is visible; the rest is obscured by shadow. It’s head rests upon a fake plastic branch. In the background there are fake flowers and greenery.]

Furthermore, due to her tragique not-death from STARVING AWAY TO NOTHING (See above), Saint Pippin is also the Patron Snaint of all those poor unfeeded critters out there who haven’t been fed in six years or more. It is she who brings strength and courage to all those brave souls who suffer and waste away because their owners refuse to give them sustenance riGHT aWAY. Her name is commonly invoked by Starving Creechurs in hopes of manifesting whatever treats they desperately long for.

[Image Description: A close up of the corner of a plastic/PVC enclosure; visible in the bottom left corner of the clear plastic window/door of the enclosure is the underside of a ball python’s face: only the cream-colored chin, mouth, and nose are visible.]

Saint Pippin isn’t limited to being the patron of sneks and starving critters; she is also the patron saint of head empty no thoughts, tax crimes, inexplicable escapes from locked enclosures, mischief, forbidden knowledge, and, for some reason, string theory.

Correspondences & Associations

Colors - Yellow, Brown

Numbers - 24, π 

Flowers - fake flowers, specifically white ones that have since been trampled by naughty snakes and stained by coconut husk substrate

Tarot Cards - The Fool

Indomitable curiosity and child-like wonder of the world around you

Peregrine Took from Lord of the Rings (her namesake)

The trans flag (she’s trans)

Gymnastics (she’s a founding member of Cirque Du Spaghetti)

The Mii Channel theme

Proving once and for all that the belief that ‘baLL pyThonS doN’t cliMb theY’rE PeT roCks’ is false, outdated, and quite frankly harmful to the animals and the snake-keeping hobby as a whole

[Image Description: A yellowish-brown ball python is completely suspended from two plastic embroidery hoops hanging from the roof of a black plastic/pvc enclosure. The image is slightly out of focus, but the viewer can just barely make out a forked tongue coming from the snake’s mouth. Below it is a fake tree branch and some greenery, and in the background is a black plastic bowl-shaped hide and more greenery.]

About Pippin

Pippin is a goblin masquerading as a four year old captive-bred champagne ball python. She is an incredibly curious and friendly snake with a propensity for trouble. I bought her as a skinny little two week old newborn noodle in early January 2019, but didn’t bring her home until mid-February as the reptile shop owner wanted to make sure she was eating properly and putting on weight. She now weighs over a kilogram and loves to eat, resulting in very pathetic displays when I do not, in fact, feed her every night and allegedly commit snek aboose.

Our meeting was fated. I had actually been in the shop doing research and mapping out prices and costs of caring for a snake, but I had not yet found one I’d liked. I handled a few other snakes on display but didn’t quite feel a connection to them. Just as I was turning to leave, however, movement caught my eye... and there she was: a naughty little shoelace noodling her way along the top shelf, having somehow escaped her display tank. She looked at me, I looked at her, and I knew.

She is a very active noodle, and almost every night I see her out and about in her enclosure, engaging in natural hunting and exploratory behaviours. Every so often I put enrichment items -- pieces of fruit, a little bit of fur, small cardboard boxes, action figures, and one memorable occasion, a piece of popcorn -- in for her to smell and investigate. During the summer, I take her outside to soak up some UVB and visit with the neighbourhood kids. Her favourite hobby is gymnastics and her second favourite hobby is getting stuck in my bra strap.

(The reason why I use she/her pronouns and refer to her as ‘trans’ is a bit of a private joke. When I bought her, I was told she was a male. However, when I took her for her first wellsnake checkup at the reptile vet, the doctor examined her and said that she was, in face, a female. Upon being re-examined at her second wellsnake checkup a year later, the doctor probed her and found that oops, this little noodle was actually a male after all. Because I had gotten used to the she/her pronouns, and because snakes don’t give a flying flip about gender constructs, I still refer to her as ‘her’ and jokingly call her a trans icon.)

#ball python #snekblr #witchcraft #witchblr #reptiblr #very important associations and correspondences #a very important snaint #happy hatchday u little wretch ilu #snakes

[3am-character-ideas]

A yuan-ti who uses a variety of poisons in all their dishes because it doesn't hurt them and they like the flavor. It also deters food theft by party members and other unwanted scavengers.

#dnd #yuan ti #cooking #snek #stop stealing my lunch pippin #i know it was you

[sssneakthief]

Pippin and her neuro symptoms be like 'henlo I am an eldritch being masquerading as a snek'

#pippin #ball python #royal python #snakeblr #reptiblr #petblr #this is the extent of her wobble #she sometimes goes upside down but self corrects within ten seconds

[cookiesandchips]

#23 Ekans: His favorite game is, not Snake, but Pippin Barr’s “Snek.”

#derpmonchallenge #derpmon #derpmons #ekans

[jacqsreptiles]

Pippin has just shed and is all ready to get stuck under a door the second I look away

#ball pythons #snakes #reptiles #pippin snek #she legit did that #looked away to do something and BOOM #under the cloest door

[jacqsreptiles]

Elliptical is better as Pippin Jungle Gym, so sayeth Pippin

#ball python #snakes #sneks #snekblr #reptiles #herpblr #pippin snek #new apartment. same pippin obsessively touching everything.

[jacqsreptiles]

Knock knock

Hewwo?

#ball python #royal python #snakes #sneks #snekblr #reptiles #pippin snek #she comes out of the reptile room #and i have to immediately close the door to the bathroom cause she tries to get in there #dork

[jacqsreptiles]

#ball python #royal python #snakes #sneks #reptiblr #skekblr #herpblr #pippin snek #she got you

[jacqsreptiles]

Coworkers: aren't you afraid she's just going to take off when you let her outside?

Me, who watched my brainless tube sock filled with mischief and blubber slither 10 whole feet in 20 minutes: no, not really.

#pippin snek #she moved slower outside than inside as well #i was standing right next to her the whole time #taking baby steps like a psycho to keep up with my ball python #woof exhausting

[jacqsreptiles]

Went into the reptile room the get this doofus:

And accidentally end up offending this one:

#pinto bean snek #pippin snek #taking pippin outside so she can burn off some post shedding energy #going real well #shes moved like 5 feet in 15 minutes

[jacqsreptiles]

feeding the ball python: *sticks food into tank* heeeeeeeere’s the rat, pippin!

feeding the boa: first, I determine if the target has made a successful perception check vis a vis me de-thawing rats. Next, I roll a sleight of hand to confuse the target into following the hand that is not opening the tank. Then, as i throw open the door, I take the dash action to put the rat in front of the target’s face with my reach ability before she comes out of the box in a food frenzy, rolling another sleight of hand in order to make the rat her target instead of my arm, and then-

#cicero snek #pippin snek #cicero is very food motivated #doesn't matter how i try to hide me de-thawing them #she will smell it #and get very very excited #ive been bit once becasue i didn't noticed she had noticed i was feeding the other snakes #didn't hurt but i did have a boa tooth lodged in my finger for a few months #so we are a lot more aware of cicero's excitement levels

[jacqsreptiles]

Pippin, every time I let her out:

#pippin snek #the most no thoughts head empty troublemaker #trying to get into the poop trash #trying to get into the bathroom #trying to get into the mini fridge innards #trying to get stuck literally in any gap #trying to get into the junk box #i have to pippin proof the room and i give her a lot of things to climb on and into #and she only goes for the other things #shes so fucking funny

[jacqsreptiles]

No thoughts. Head empty.

#ball python #royal python #snakes #sneks #snekblr #reptiles #herpblr #pippin snek #we still alive #just havent taken a lot of pics lately cause its winter and this place im living at has shitty lighting

[jacqsreptiles]

*does a quick little yodel*

#ball python #royal python #snakes #sneks #snekblr #herpblr #reptiles #pippin snek #i have been trying for SO LONG to get another yawn on camera #you can hear my gasp