Keep Scuttling On!

2023 was the year of codependence 2024 was the year of avoidance and 2025 is the year of fuck all

so apparently THIS is what bathothauma lyromma looks like in situ............I'm losing it

it feels so weird to see, because my only reference for what an adult looked like was one illustration. now I feel like I've seen something I'm not meant to see

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original video (twitter)

chat how do i kill the desire to be wanted and chosen before it kills me

What am I doing to relax over spring break? Playing video games? Nah

Weighing and sorting a bunch of frozen rats

The Great Bend Weekly Tribune, Kansas, March 2, 1906

The Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository is live!

You can find it at: https://www.animal-photo-references.com!

Here's how this repository works: all photos were taken by me, a human, at zoos, aquariums, sanctuaries, and other facilities with animals in human care. There is no AI involved in the photo editing or creation and there never will be. Right now there's 56 species on the site; my catalog has over 300 and I will be uploading the rest of them as fast as I can.

Artists creating derivative or transformative works (without AI) have blanket permission to use these references. Yes, even for work you're going to sell.

All other usage/reproduction requires permission, but assume I'm friendly and please do ask! That's educators, researchers, the media, people who need images for a school presentation, etc. This is just to retain copyright/control in case they're scraped/reused unethically - it doesn't meant I don't want folk to have access! So please do reach out via the contact form on the repository website, I don't bite and I'm most likely going to say yes.

Please don't repost the repository photos to your own blogs: I've created @animalphotorefs as a dedicated blog to share photos from the site, and of course I'll reblog a lot of it here! That again just helps with retaining copyright and sourcing of the images. If you really want to repost some for a specific purpose, please just ask me first!

Also, folks, this project has no funding. It's just me and my camera.

There will never be a paywall on the site - I believe resources like this absolutely must be free for everyone to access. So please, please, please support the repository if you use it. Want sneak peeks at photos, cute videos I take, or to help choose what I photograph and what gets posted first? You can do that through Patreon (and there's a free trial on the most interactive tier!) If you'd like to just drop a tip, I've also set up a Ko-Fi.

I can't wait to hear what everyone thinks of the repository.

To whet your thirst for cute photos, here's an Indian rhinoceros contemplating a goose.

shrimps is bugs

No one can bring up bugs in any positive context without some motherfucker informing everyone that they’re allergic to bees and once nearly died from a brown recluse spider and their brother woke up one morning as a giant cockroach and became a real burden to the family ever since he stopped being able to work.