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HES SO HAPPY HE JUST LOVES FANS SO MUCH

Putting teaboot's tags here too because this joy for life needs to be shared I think

This aged me a thousand years. It feels like a week ago I was on the internet and everyone was saying "holy SHIT, they're giving the creator of JOHNNY a CHILDREN'S cartoon show on NICKELODEON"

I can't with the header image for the religion tw tag

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT GUYS?

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Abolish Tesla.

Elon uses his overvalued Tesla stock as collateral for all his loans.

If the stock price crashes, banks will ask for their money back.

The Twitter deal alone would break him - twitter has tanked in value, he couldn't sell it to pay off his loans.

Please, oh please. Not just well deserved karma, it would be so fucking funny.

well, well, well ^_^

January 27 ($397.15) to February 26 ($290.80)

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It’s honestly so wild to trace the popularity of plague doctors. A creepy crackpot doctor that looks like a skeleton bird man is almost formulaically “cool” by almost any modern standard and this general image of them dates back centuries whether it’s accurate or not, yet even I never fucking heard of them until early 2000′s internet articles. They were never referenced in cartoons or movies or video games when I was a kid. Somehow something this weird was collectively forgotten until one day our popular culture went “WAIT a minute, WHAT THE FUCK WERE THOSE??!!” Somehow our media never stopped remembering, romanticizing, embellishing and marketing a bunch of antiquated archetypes like knights and pirates and ninjas and wizards but it slept on the grody toucan surgeons until like 2005ish, that’s almost baffling. I mean this photo is a walmart.com plague doctor costume for kids and not gonna lie, I’d have probably hyperfocused on them when I was a child. However, I think the obsession with them is still sorely neglecting their relationship with leech therapy as well as the fact that there were other, equally freaky mask designs.

RE other masks, the most “authentic” are those leathery beekeeper suit ones:

And there’s also this bizarre drawing:

Many were also basically JUST robes that covered the face, but that’s admittedly pretty boring. The point is though that they can really be made out of any available materials as long as they cover the body and face with a “nose,” a pocket, a sac or anything else they can stuff protective herbs into.

Oh yeah, a “factoid” does circulate the internet that the plague doctor with the bird mask as we know it was never proven to exist, but this is actually confusion with the fact that they didn’t exist for the Black Death. The Black Death happened in the 1300′s, while the earliest thing we would recognize as a “plague doctor” costume was invented centuries later in 1619.

This famous drawing does date back to the 1700’s, so it was likely based on reality. It’s a mocking illustration though; the name up top says “DOCTOR BEAKY OF ROME” (Dr. “Schnoz?” I think beaky/big nosed might be interchangeable here?)

I can’t find a good source online, but this is supposedly the Real Deal on display at a museum in Germany, or a replica based on the earliest real descriptions:

So, at least some of them looked just the way people think they do. The confusion is that they were just generations more recent in history than people thought.

I’m not saying it’s right, but I understand (x)

I’m saying it’s right

I’m saying it’s right

I’m saying it’s right

I’m saying it’s right and more people need to do things similar

The Heart Nebula, Sh2-190 // SeaStars

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I wish we could teach each other how to love the way we can teach animals that aren’t supposed to be able to feel it.

@kaijutegu is this cute? I know you deal with tegus and not iguanas, but I didn't know who else to ask

This is precious.

So, first thing you need to know is that is a very visibly healthy adult green iguana. Every part of the iguana is sharp. The claws evolved to haul a ten pound lizard up a tree. The spines are like tiny icepicks. The tail is a bullwhip. The teeth evolved to shred leaves, but they'll just as easily shred your flesh. Good luck making a healthy adult iguana do anything they don't wanna. That puts us on our first thing to look at- is the animal capable of defense and getting away, physically? Yes, definitely.

Next thing to know is what does a threatened or scared iguana look like? When an iguana is threatened, it doesn't stand on its hind legs like that; it stands on all fours and puffs itself up to look bigger, aggressively bobs its head (note: head bobbing is a behavior used for a LOT of things, it does need context- for example, they also head bob as part of mating displays), there is hissing, there is tail whipping- iguanas are not subtle creatures. None of this is the behavior of an iguana that feels threatened or is being a threat!

So what does standing like that mean? That's just simple reaching. The iguana sees something they want and is attempting to reach it, and what they want appears to be uppies, because they settle into the human's grip immediately.

Then, we see some GREAT handling from the human. There's really great communication happening between the two of them! The person picks up the iguana very securely- pelvis and pectoral girdles are well supported, and he doesn't grab. (Iguanas typically do NOT like being grabbed around the sides; many of their predators are birds and coming at them from above or gripping the sides is scary!)

As he goes in for the pet, he lets the iguana support their back half on his knee. The hold is secure but not tight; at any point, if the iggy was distressed, they could leave. But they don't- instead, you see them leaning into the pets, actively participating in the behavior. They're not even closing their eyes to block stimulus. They want this to happen.

This is the kind of bond that's possible when you can prove to a big lizard that you're trustworthy, and easily the best iguana video I've seen in a long time. Thank you for tagging me in!

Some green iguana body language resources under the jump!