Slooow Down And Meet Today’s Reptilian Feature: The Radiated Tortoise (Astrochelys Radiata)! It Gets

A photo of a radiated tortoise surrounded taken from slightly above. The tortoise is primarily yellow and black with an almost starburst pattern throughout its shell.

Slooow down and meet today’s reptilian feature: the radiated tortoise (Astrochelys radiata)! It gets its name from the bright-yellow "radiating" (star) pattern on its domed shell. This herbivore munches on a variety of grasses, fruits, and succulents. For relief during extreme heat, it will burrow itself underground to try and keep cool. Once abundant throughout the dry regions of southern Madagascar, this species is now critically endangered due to habitat destruction and exploitation in the illegal pet trade.

Photo: andrewdressel, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

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tedrekeneeville

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GRRIIINNSS

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All of these are drawn monochrome over a pale, slightly purple-toned, light brown background. A selection of various Post-Timeskip Sanji doodles where he's drawn with a mullet and a bigger, sharper nose. The largest one is from the bust up where he has his knuckles against his cheek as he smiles, clearly love sick. His cigarette is puffing out smoke hearts. His other arm is in a fist resting against his chest, it's like he's giggling like a school girl. To the right of that is him springing up with his hands clasped together with heart eyes and hearts popping out of his head. His left leg is kicked all the way up. Below that is a smaller doodle of him windswept by his love and his pupils as hearts. His left hand is resting on his cheek and his right hand hovers by his chest, loose. Between the gaps of those doodles are very small doodles at extreme angles. One where he's looking very closely at the camera, one from his feet when he's laying down on the floor, one from his feet when he's stepping up, one from his head and foot as he's stepping forward and leaning down, one focusing on his thigh and arm at waist level, and one where he's falling forward, arms splayed like a starfish as he screams "AAAAAA". there's another one where he's laying on the floor, but that one is limp with the word "death" written over it, while the other he had a cigarette in his hand. There's another doodle of him stretching and raising his arm over his head, and another of her staring at her hands clone high or Lego hands style despondently. At the side there's a doodle of Nami unimpressed.

Pre-Timeskip. Usopp is laying on the ground, backside down, with his knees bent up and his arm resting to his side. His head is tilted towards the camera, and his hair is loose. He's wearing black dress shoes, loose denim overalls with white cuffs, and a sweater. Sanji is laying right on top of him, stomach down, his chest against Usopp's, and hooking his arms under Usopp's shoulders, and placing his palms on his back. His legs lay right on Usopp's, propped into the air. His right leg is straight, while his left leg is bent up so it hangs over his back. He's wearing black dress shoes, white socks, black denim pants with white cuffs. Sanji's also wearing a hoodie reminiscent to the one at the end of Thriller Bark, with a wave pattern half way through. He's drawn with a few eyelashes here, and is also looking at the camera. Sanji and Usopp's faces are pressed against each other as they smile. Sanji's eyes are soft. The eye on the side of Usopp's face that's pressed against Sanji's is closed, and his other eye is bright.

GO ! ! ! ! ! MY SCARABS ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

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tedrekeneeville

3 weeks ago

Gotta love my favourite trick: show love and dedication to the people you want in your life to trick them into returning it

positivity post 😁😁!!!!

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Usopp is my favourite for a reason

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tedrekeneeville

3 weeks ago

emergency food

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tedrekeneeville

3 weeks ago

shopping day!!

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tedrekeneeville

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sister, i’m not much a poet, but a criminal / and you never had a chance

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A photo of a mother sloth bear with two babies clinging to her back. The bears are black in color. The mother has fluffy fur which is longest at her ears and neck. They have light colored snouts.

Who’s that floof? It’s the sloth bear (Melursus ursinus)! This ursid inhabits tropical forests in Southeast Asia. It uses its fluffy hair for self defense: When the sloth bear goes after termites, a favorite snack, long hair helps prevent ant bites! This species’ fluffy coat is also helpful when females carry cubs on their backs, giving the little ones something to hold onto.

Photo: kalyanvarma, CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist

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tedrekeneeville

3 weeks ago

school sketch

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tedrekeneeville

3 weeks ago

Love the implication that there can never be an asexual pope.

what, are they afraid a euunch pope would be too powerful? too skilled at schemes? cowards

I think it's one of those "a mute's vow of silence" sort of things. As far as catholic canon is concerned, a man can't be horny unless he's got functioning balls, and it doesn't count as practicing celibacy if you're not even horny to begin with. So therefore, a pope must have fully operational cock and balls, so he can consciously choose to not use them for the intended purpose.

idk I'm not catholic.

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who am i kidding Or would they be the Pope of pope's Born for prayer not perversion Asexual people just have higher standards of perversion

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