the serpent empress

Smith (they/them, he/him, she/her) gender fluid, NOT non binary. actually autistic. care taker of a yellow-bellied calico ball python named Pearl (age 5). been here since 2013. buy me a ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/theserpentempress

[theserpentempress]

tags bc the search function is useless

[vonkarmic]

i think taylor swift wishes she was bisexual because she knows it would make her slightly more money. whereas sabrina carpenter wishes she was bisexual so she could have sex with someone who looks exactly like herself. and ariana grande wishes she was bisexual because she did too many designer drugs on the set of wicked and now she has kin memories of being glinda for real

[70sscifiart]

Moebius, 1986

[matineaux-deactivated20260222]

kind of weird how parts of your soul are left in various locations without any warning… like yes i’m always at the top of that hill, sitting at the bus stop, in the cool light of the Japanese restaurant, standing at the pier etc etc

[hi-im-ryn]

[prokopetz]

You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

[calloutnevvegas]

For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:

Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning

Don’t fuck with flamingos

[revretch]

….. Didn’t know most of that

[iamthekaijuking]

Huh… so that’s why zoos don’t put them somewhere warm during winter.

[revretch]

Oh yeah, this leaves out what I *did* know about them–they can also survive hypersalinity. That is, water so salty it kills practically everything else–water so salty it burns your skin.

American flamingos just drink that shit

[bogleech]

(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.

When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.

It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:

[assuming-dinosaur]

Some species of flamingo actually subsist almost entirely on a diet of bacteria! In other words, there is a species of dinosaur that eats only bacteria and lives in lakes so toxic they would kill almost anything else—and it is best known to the average person as a kitschy lawn decoration.

[nobrashfestivity]

George Shiras, Among the first nighttime photographs of animals, 1906

[thatsnotmycat]

The problem is not the seven dollar iced coffee, the problem is that almost none of that money goes into the pocket of the person who made it. Can you understand that. Please listen to me

[horrorme]

Victor Prezio

[coolxatu]

[bai-marionette-deactivated20180]

*leaves

[coolxatu]

where are you going

[japaneseaesthetics]

Artist: Kawase Hasui Title: Iris (Ayame) Date: 1929 Medium: Color woodblock print Credit Line: Bruce Goff Archive, gift of Shin'enkan, Inc.

[theserpentempress]

SerpentEmpress' Footstool just supported Smith on Ko-fi! ❤️

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Omg I forgot I had this haha if anyone else wants to buy me a coffee feel free!

[suckedin]

[shapeoftheday]

restless spirits

[fashion-runways]

MANISH MALHOTRA Couture Fall/Winter 2027 pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

graffiti discourse is so stupid why the hell would I give a shit if people spraypaint their names or do some cool paintings under a bridge

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

sorry didn't realize the bridge has to be plain beige concrete. that was a load bearing plain beige concrete if anyone tags it the whole bridge collapses

[headspace-hotel]

@woozymitts YES! this is my favorite!!!

[asmuchasidliketo]

[fashion-runways]

ROBERT WUN Couture Fall/Winter 2027 pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com

[alienpapacy]

Weird how “masturbating and falling asleep in the late afternoon” isn’t regarded as a cherished summertime tradition

[alienpapacy]

Whoever lives like this….. we live in such different worlds that i don’t even want to know you

[alienpapacy]

every sunday afternoon this gets like 4,000 additional notes