Author: annoyedfish

lampfacedstudios:

Here’s Juli! Big centipede lady married to Attica. 

Being a huge centipede, she can traverse the garpede tunnels in Deepnest pretty easily should she choose to – normally this happens when Attica has things that need transporting that are just too big for her tiny spider self to handle on her own, or when Attica wants to take her on an outing to somewhere outside Deepnest. Otherwise she’s content to stay at home and gossip at the Mask Maker (with Attica’s help they keep supplies well-stocked, and Juli takes these opportunities to talk at him. Emphasis on “at”, he’s usually so absorbed in his work that he continues to chatter to himself and take no notice of anyone else.) 

Juli’s generally pretty friendly and laid-backl, but can be very protective of her smol wife. Not that Attica can’t take care of herself. When Attica’s gone for stretches of time like she is, Juli loves to dote on her when they get time together. And that includes getting grumpy on her behalf.

shoomlah:

continuing my Porg trend I took a crack at redesigning the Fathiers/space horses from TLJ!

There are a lot of ways I could have taken this (and I might do some cat-like alternate designs), but I wanted to lean into the plant-eating aspects of the creature: resolve the leg anatomy, find precedent for stubby ungulate faces, etc. 

erydumaenhir:

thebettaboys:

sunfish-exotics:

A beautiful (and very healthy) Carolina anole basking on my deck.

f u cki n HECC

Uhh what’s the deal with him looking huge Carolina anoles are not that huge

That’s an unusually large one, but within normal range, as far as I can tell. Probably he’s just in an awesome place for lizards, warm weather and lots of food. They can get pretty decent-sized. 

prongsyouignoramus:

Lily Evans is from Cokeworth, a town in the English midlands, so you can bet she had a real strong working class accent. That, coupled with her refusing to give up muggle slang to assimilate, means that James (posh pureblood pillock that he is) finds Lily incomprehensible for the entire first year.

Do animals mind being artificially inseminated? Do they always want to be pregnant?

drferox:

I really don’t think they have any concept of artificial insemination, or even what behaviors result in pregnancy. There is obviously variation between species but I doubt most of them would understand how a pregnancy occurs in the first place, they mostly perform behaviors they have learned from watching their parents or are guided by instinct.

Artificial insemination techniques vary by species, but most techniques are barely more invasive than taking a temperature or performing an internal exam, and most animals resent it less than having their nails trimmed. The exception being surgical AI and there is significant debate about whether this procedure should be done. There’s really not much protesting the actual procedure by the animal when it comes to AI.

As for ‘always wanting to be pregnant’, I really don’t think ‘wanting’ comes into it, because I don’t think they understand it much. There doesn’t seem to be much self-awareness for animals when it comes to reproduction. In ideal wild conditions, they tend to breed quickly and freely, with the closest thing to contraception they use being infanticide, which is far from ideal.

Particularly when animals are in oestrus or in season, they seem to be very keen on the whole reproduction business. We can never know for sure whether they understand how pregnancy works (though I doubt it) and whether they want that to happen, or if it’s just an instinctual drive. Either way, with the relatively high fertility rate of most species, they do a pretty good job at achieving pregnancy most of the time.

You have to understand a concept before you can have an opinion on it either way, and I honestly think most species just don’t.

And I am perfectly aware that somebody will try to jump on this post with “Forced pregnancy is rape” as an argument, and while forced pregnancy is potentially torture for a human, an Artificial Insemination really can’t be compared to rape. Rape is an act of violence. AI is a fairly minor husbandry procedure. You would do a disservice to humans who had experienced either to claim the two are the same.

There is a previous discussion here.

It’s probably also worth mentioning that pregnancy and birth are a lot less trouble for most animals than they are for humans. Humans have one very large baby, most animals (esp. most domestic animals) have a number of small babies, making childbirth a lot less damaging. Animals are also a lot more functional during pregnancy than humans are in the later stages.