My Serpentine

Hello, my pretties. Featured beauty of the day:


This amazing pencilwork is the masterpiece of a gifted amateur artist known as deru-san. A former college mate who graduated as Most Likely To Succeed in her class. Her main interest is manga & anime art but she sometimes does all kinds of interesting things on the side. Her current stint in Japan probably means she is only getting more fascinating while riding the weird, awesome creative streak the Japanese are known for.

It is freezing in Nihon-land right now, she says. Just right now, I can definitely feel her: the air conditioning in my office is near unbearable on a rainy day, and my fingernails are turning an interesting shade of grey-blue as I type.

Anyway...
this picture currently adorns my desktop in all its serpentine glory. It definitely 'speaks' to me. Sometimes I wish I was a reptile because people don't treat reptiles like freaks for having scaly splotchy skin. The other day I walked into a restaurant, all ready to enjoy a nice dinner, when some nosy idiot exercised her right to be rudely curious and asked if I had an allergy. (A Brit or Northern European would have politely told you to Fuck Off and Mind Your Own Business.)


So.....(why is this becoming about me again?)

Enjoy the works of the exquisitely talented and irritatingly modest deru-san. Have a good week, y'all. I know I ain't.


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There is a special kind of hell for those who treat a human being as a freakshow without having the courtesy to at least pay for the show.
Serpent 7:2


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The Serpent's Den

Pretty, pretty creatures. Jewel gleam and ruby-red, velvet green and leather-black. My slithery friends can be found at the National Museum in KL till Oct 11. If you are lucky, the King Cobra may rear its head for you. (Consider it an honour.) And delight in a haven crawling with these beauties...

A lovely corn snake waking from its nap

Venomous beauty in the viper pit

A languid ball python

Adorable amber cornsnake

Mangrove snake; how it gleams

Gorgeous, russet-hued motley cornsnake

Coral-hued serpent saying hello.

A basking red-tail ratsnake

Lust.

I don't really do touchphones, even the all-the-rage iPhone. Especially not the iPhone, because it's big and expensive you can't fit it into your pocket and it's expensive (did I say that already?). Plus the fact that about halfway into a text message, your screen = Smudgefest.

However. If there was one reason I'd want to proudly display this gadget on my desk -- or better yet, wear it as a really expensive accessory -- it would be this.




And this.



HOLYFUCK can someone tear my lustful eyes away.

These and a bunch of other gorgeous phone togs were designed by Hannah Stouffer, a gifted lady who will make you love slithering things as much as I do, if not more.


Just a few facts:

• Snakes are possibly the only mobile living things on earth with utter control of their muscles. In fact they are made more or less of muscle, and some very pretty skin. In other words, you're just jealous.
• A tiny fraction of the world's entire snake population is venomous. The rest will simply a)crush you to death or b)leave you alone -- the wee little grass snake, for example, can't do shit to a human being. The boa constrictor, meanwhile, swallows cows for breakfast. Keep that in consideration when you're looking for a reptile pet. Unless you have a barnyard in which to keep all the cows.
  
• I get this question quite a bit, so for those who've yet to ask: the tattoo on my left arm is a python, not a viper. Vipers have distinctively diamond-shaped heads. I prefer pythons & constrictors because of their ultra sensual, slow coiling movements.