My eyes: Boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops
My brain: Boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops
My heart: Boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops
My hand/fingers: Boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops boops
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Offered Argo her first ft weaned rat... she did not go for it. I even got a ft mouse fuzzie thawed too in the same back to scent the rat. She didn't seem 100% totally disinterested but she didn't strike and kept retreating into her hide. I left it in there with her so fingers grossed she takes it.
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Guess what I just figured out,,
Besides King Cobras, Gaboon Vipers seem to also growl-
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the thing I really love about tbosas is that you go into the story thinking you know who’s the songbird and who’s the snake but “songbirds” and “snakes” are both plural because as individuals Lucy Grey and Coryo are both a songbird and a snake in their own right, in this essay I will
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i need someone to talk about reaper ash from district eleven. i need someone to talk about him and how he had collected his fellow tributes’ body one by one after they died and covered them with ripped out flags as a way to give them their own resting place in the arena. and i need someone to talk about how, after lucy gray had tired him out, he just made his way to his own makeshift morgue, rested beside his fellow fallen tributes, and covered his body with the flag before he himself died.
and how that was literally all he did. he didn’t kill anyone there (which was not said to uplift him from the others because it is a kill-or-be-killed situation, just to make a point) despite what he had said to them the night before, and how he had his own way of resisting against the capitol by refusing to play its games. someone talk about him!!!!!
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so im trying to learn more about the lyly gene/trait and am having a LOT of trouble finding resources that talk about what exactly it is and how it's inherited! can you shed light on this at a lil bit?
Okay so, you're having a hard time because it's ...very subtle on its own! And does weird things with other genes!
I believe it's incomplete dominant, there's talk of a super form. A lyly can make more lylys in the first breeding to a normal.
At its simplest, a lyly can clean up the reds and intensify the blacks. It can also increase the dark blacks and create a chain linking side pattern. The black can also overtake the neck and create a very broken and pixelated appearance. This is typically how I judge hatchlings on if they are lyly or not.
I'm going to put a lot of examples under the cut!
Lyly (sides are pixelated and broken, high black):
Normal (sides are smooth):
Chain linking on the sides example (black dots connected by a stripe outline in the sides. ALSO this baby is fine, he looks flat in the side view because he was doing a flat defensive display to make himself look wider lol):
Lyly combines with other genes... oddly. When mixed with matrix and GE, it makes the pattern broken up and busy!
Single gene goldeneye:
Here is a lyly goldeneye, lots more pattern, broken up, busy, red:
In matrix, the single gene matrix has a normal pattern with a pixelated look on the sides (you can see the dots/pixels):
Add lyly to this, and it really distorts the pattern (Photo from April Homich, of her beautiful lyly matrix!)
I also recently had lyly do something really weird here, I guess a couple years ago now. It's my girl Mako! I have no idea what the lyly was reacting to in this instance, as the lyly stripe male was paired to a stripe and this isn't a lyly stripe... But something is up here with the lyly.
In conclusion, on its own lyly is a subtle color and slight pattern enhancer. Mixed with other mutations it can distort and amplify patterns! (Also fwiw there are no associated negative effects to this gene. They are healthy.)
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crowley who has to physically fucking restrain himself from needing to touch aziraphale not even sexually just needing to be wrapped around him and his face nuzzled into his neck or cuddled up to him because fucking snakes seek out fucking warmth and aziraphale exudes the warmth of overwhelming love (but not just love for the creatures of the world, not just the regular all consuming angelic love, it’s stronger somehow, it’s different) and the gentle and enveloping warmth of the sun and crowley has to step away to stop fucking snake instincts from wanting to wrap himself up in him and feel that warmth and safety fill his blood and body and feel the tension drain from his woefully serpentine and painfully human form (the sun is 93 million miles away from the earth, aziraphale is 3 feet away from crowley and feels even farther)
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