I think I have five shed skins right now. Neville was born on July 29th of last year, so he's still a baby. Yesterday I had to help him out because the tail absolutely wouldn't come off. I thought he was being a grump, again, but he had a good four-inch section of old skin bothering him.
In retrospect, I feel quite silly. King was my charmer snake that never struck at or musked on me. (Snake-musk smells VILE, and I think skunks aren't bad at all.) She started eating ALL the time, she was quite irritable compared to her usual chill, and she was putting on a little weight. She was completely content after giving birth. I separated her from the snakelets, but they weren't in any danger from her. Garters don't usually eat other snakes, from what I've seen, and she had enough to eat.
"That sounds like not only an odd but an AMAZING story. <3 (Also: BABY SNAKES HOW CUTE <3 <3 <3 )" Ragy /said/ "Kingstar," after his backpack's brand. I didn't know that was a word, and it had an odd vowel motion, so I heard "Kingasaur" and got attached to the name. He found it, so he got to name it, but he let me keep the not-quite-right name.
"OH YES, DEFINITELY. (Although you haven't yet read this amazing dragon-turned-human!Temeraire/Laurence fic, yet... :3 ) But yes, in general, I agree with that. ;)" Nope, but I want to! Much easier than Laurence turning dragon. He'd be polite, and probably would take ages to confess any parts that made him unhappy, but he'd lose QUITE a few acquaintances.
"OH YES WELL-STRUCTURED PLOT = <3! :D I love Novik for this (as I do Rowling) for being able to write books with their own self-contained plots and subplots and yet still manage to weave in a much larger plot throughout the entire series. :3 YOU ARE ONLY AT THE BEGINNING HOLY CRAP YOU ARE NOT PREPARED. "
THEY PLAY CHEKHOV'S GUN PROPERLY. IF YOU SHOW SOMETHING, YOU //MUST// USE IT LATER. Also, self-referencing plotlines for the win.
"There are surprisingly few Temeraire fics out there with Rankin. I would have thought that there would have been a BRILLIANT amount of potential, there in fandom, for Laurence to smack more sense into the man. Or just smack him around. ;)" Or for somebody to steal the poor loyal dragon away.
"I did once think of a crazy idea for a Temeraire/Harry Potter crossover in which lil'Harry (age six or seven or so?) somehow gets sucked into the world of Temeraire and, being an orphan, is shipped off to the Aerial Corps, where he becomes a runner with Emily. Then stuff happens, ???, PROFIT! Because Harry knows what being neglected is like, he'd bond with Levitas and perhaps eventually save the dragon's life and then becomes his captain or something and then goes back to his original world with a DRAGON or something and... yeah. It was just a random idea. >_>"
Harry might have been there when Levitas was hatched. Rankin was the important one, of course, and just might have pushed Harry aside to be there. (Rankin was meant to get that dragon. He would push some foundling orphan that had such a bad hit to the head that he stared at horse-drawn coaches as much as the dragons.)
"Laurence used BLUSH against Jane. It's SUPER EFFECTIVE. <3 <3 <3" Jane has BLUSHED. Jane's attack-WORD is less effective. Jane uses BECOMING SMILE.
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In retrospect, I feel quite silly. King was my charmer snake that never struck at or musked on me. (Snake-musk smells VILE, and I think skunks aren't bad at all.) She started eating ALL the time, she was quite irritable compared to her usual chill, and she was putting on a little weight. She was completely content after giving birth. I separated her from the snakelets, but they weren't in any danger from her. Garters don't usually eat other snakes, from what I've seen, and she had enough to eat.
"That sounds like not only an odd but an AMAZING story. <3 (Also: BABY SNAKES HOW CUTE <3 <3 <3 )" Ragy /said/ "Kingstar," after his backpack's brand. I didn't know that was a word, and it had an odd vowel motion, so I heard "Kingasaur" and got attached to the name. He found it, so he got to name it, but he let me keep the not-quite-right name.
"OH YES, DEFINITELY. (Although you haven't yet read this amazing dragon-turned-human!Temeraire/Laurence fic, yet... :3 ) But yes, in general, I agree with that. ;)" Nope, but I want to! Much easier than Laurence turning dragon. He'd be polite, and probably would take ages to confess any parts that made him unhappy, but he'd lose QUITE a few acquaintances.
"OH YES WELL-STRUCTURED PLOT = <3! :D I love Novik for this (as I do Rowling) for being able to write books with their own self-contained plots and subplots and yet still manage to weave in a much larger plot throughout the entire series. :3 YOU ARE ONLY AT THE BEGINNING HOLY CRAP YOU ARE NOT PREPARED. "
THEY PLAY CHEKHOV'S GUN PROPERLY. IF YOU SHOW SOMETHING, YOU //MUST// USE IT LATER. Also, self-referencing plotlines for the win.
"There are surprisingly few Temeraire fics out there with Rankin. I would have thought that there would have been a BRILLIANT amount of potential, there in fandom, for Laurence to smack more sense into the man. Or just smack him around. ;)" Or for somebody to steal the poor loyal dragon away.
"I did once think of a crazy idea for a Temeraire/Harry Potter crossover in which lil'Harry (age six or seven or so?) somehow gets sucked into the world of Temeraire and, being an orphan, is shipped off to the Aerial Corps, where he becomes a runner with Emily. Then stuff happens, ???, PROFIT! Because Harry knows what being neglected is like, he'd bond with Levitas and perhaps eventually save the dragon's life and then becomes his captain or something and then goes back to his original world with a DRAGON or something and... yeah. It was just a random idea. >_>"
Harry might have been there when Levitas was hatched. Rankin was the important one, of course, and just might have pushed Harry aside to be there. (Rankin was meant to get that dragon. He would push some foundling orphan that had such a bad hit to the head that he stared at horse-drawn coaches as much as the dragons.)
"Laurence used BLUSH against Jane. It's SUPER EFFECTIVE. <3 <3 <3" Jane has BLUSHED. Jane's attack-WORD is less effective. Jane uses BECOMING SMILE.