I’m Learning About Worms.

Inktober 8: The Hag

(Hex, a nyctosaurus. The toad familiar is a beelzebufo)

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.

the unfortunate thing abt life is sometimes you Do have to wait for the bus in the rain and if you were a specific brand of annoying in 2012/13 this is significant

Poison control is also important for getting treatment for a venomous snake bite! Because they're so uncommon in the US, many doctors are not comfortable using antivenins or will attempt to treat bites with outdated, unsafe techniques. So, if you get bit by something venomous, the best thing to do is call poison control while you are en route to the hospital, and they can actually contact the ER doctor and give guidance on the appropriate treatments, dosage of antivenin, etc AND let you know where the nearest hospital or zoo that has a stock of the correct antivenin is.

Life-changing OCD hack is learning that you can literally call poison control to check if you fucked up and took medications wrong in a way that could kill you instead of having a panic attack while reading reddit and quora threads for an hour. They won't even be mad at you. Like obviously don't do it every day or something but genuinely you can do this if you need to

Large Frogmouth (Batrachostomus auritus), parent with chick, family Podargidae, order Podargiformes, Malaysia

photograph by Yfang Lim

Decay exists as an extant form of life

does it ever get better? has it gotten better? will it get better? when will it get better?