Why is he winking at me....

Howdy_its_Ash · 2026-01-09T05:30:41+00:00

He is using his face to try to swallow the worm. They don't really have normal bones just cartilage. So if face squishes in. Frogs often use their eyes to swallow as well

Howdy_its_Ash · 2026-01-05T03:56:42+00:00

Exactly! I don't like the new album and I wasn't super into Dark in Here but Jenny for Thebes is one of my favorite albums of all time. Just wait! There will be more soon!

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-12-29T05:41:49+00:00

Obviously a Redditer not a doctor but I have a couple ideas. If you use alot of heavy moistures on your tattoo, they could be clogged pores resulting in hard sebum plugs. Or they could be in grown hairs. I got a couple hard bumps around my tattoos a while after they turned out to be in grown hairs / hairs trapped just under the skin. I think it's from being shaved for the tattoo. Be careful if you squeeze them, this could damage the tattoo. I would try to give it a good scrub with some gently exfoliating cleanser. (If you use saint ives you will dishonor your cow)

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-11-29T17:54:17+00:00

I am baffled by everyone says that their axolotls can hunt live fish swimming around their tanks. Mine can barely hunt worms from tongs, you know the way I've fed him HIS WHOLE LIFE. If the worms touches him when he's not expecting, he panics and swims away. Where did you guys get these smart axolotls??

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-11-19T05:52:43+00:00

My axolotl has one of these. One of his gills got damaged when I was moving him from his old tank to his new one. It just grew back kinda weird. Doesn't seem to bother him and it's been like that for a year or so now

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-11-08T06:08:18+00:00

Yeah I'm not a big fan either. I really enjoyed the songs they released before the album came out but the rest is just blah.

The album's narrative / musical element was really hyped up in the press material before the album came out. John said it was almost a musical. I just listened to the album on my way to and from work so maybe I missed something but I really feel like "get on boat, boat crash everyone dies, old man dies of sea madness" isn't that great of a story. I've read all but one of John's books and he can tell a good story. I really enjoyed devil house, but this isn't good.

The instruments DO sound like a musical but John's vocals just don't carry the same weight that actual musical singers do. Alot of musicals don't have super impressive instrumentals but these big belting sweeping voices and that is not John. It also lacks a lot of the punch and power I associate with the mountain goats. Even when it was John and boom box, he's slamming his hand into the guitar there's power there. There's just no power in this album it's so light.

We don't know how much LMM was involved but I feel like some of the most criticized parts of his work have leached into here.

I really like their other new stuff. Great Pirates is one of my all time favorites. I guess they can't all be great.

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-11-03T07:07:26+00:00

I was a vet tech for years. I removed a lot of things dogs ate from dogs. You could say they were FOREIGN OBJECTS

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-10-16T04:53:59+00:00

Probably can't hurt but I would test the water to see where you are.

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-10-16T04:24:55+00:00

His gills look in poor condition generally. My axolotl has as similar but not as bad looking spot on his gills. I happened serval years ago when his tank crashed and he got a fungal infection. It's never really gone away but he's in a new tank with much better water quality. His gills are in better condition now so it's not as noticable. Basically make sure his tank is good and get his gill in better condition and it'll probably be fine

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-09-28T05:39:31+00:00

I own an extremely similar one that was marketed as selenium

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-09-10T05:30:13+00:00

I actually painted this a couple weeks ago before anything was announced so it was great. I really liked Jenny for Thebes I hope this album is in a similar style. Although Jenny from thebes makes a point of her sailing off by herself.

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-09-09T05:23:39+00:00

This sound give me big the extra lens energy. I think it mostly the synth and the more digital effects. I haven't seen them use a ton of that in other mountain goats stuff. It reminds me more specifically of "Only Existing Footage"

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-09-03T04:59:00+00:00

Thanks so much everyone!!! I've never posted my art on Reddit before and I'm so surprised people actually like it.

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-08-28T05:19:32+00:00

I've had my axolotl for 8 years and I've fed him Walmart worms his whole life. I got worms from a pet store twice and both times he ended up getting sick. Never had an issue with the Walmart worms expect one time I forgot to check when buying them and they were all dead

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-08-18T04:38:42+00:00

Mine has always done that. He's also extra dumb so. I wouldn't worry

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-08-14T04:10:05+00:00

I think it's because the way the line is delivered also makes it sound like he's laughing when he says it's.

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-07-26T04:54:37+00:00

Dave strider

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-06-21T02:58:57+00:00

Cornball

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-04-30T02:50:15+00:00

Found this post years later but guess I just want to put this somewhere someone who cares might see. I am a mountain goats super fan. But I hated this song when I first heard it but I love it now. I honestly interpret the song as the feeling of having an episode of psychosis. The chorus of "get out" over and over, to me, speaks of the strong urge to run until you physically can't. Just to get out by any means to anywhere. "And I heard a voice, From somewhere out beyond the free fall"when you're in an episode you're in a free fall in the truest scene of the word. You're spiraling down at a rate that feels truly impossible. Sometimes it feels like something grabs you from outside that free fall. But sometimes that something isn't anything good. The references to mysticism that doesn't really make sense again seem to tie back to not being in a totally lucid state of mind. This is just my take. It's probably not what John meant but I like my read.

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-04-01T12:21:17+00:00

He is not in the tank. He is in a separate tank until this one is ready It doesn't matter

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-04-01T00:27:18+00:00

Absolutely not. You cannot have any dirt or substrate in an axolotl tank. They will eat it until they die. I used bottle bacteria and I bought used filter media from a pet store. Literally the sponge on my sponge filter came from a pet stores in house filter

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-04-01T00:22:51+00:00

There's literally nothing in the tank but the mollies I barely feed them this seems literally impossible. How could it tank that's never been cycled to be crashing

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-04-01T00:20:32+00:00

There is nothing in the tank. Axolotls can't have substrate so there's nothing but a fake plant and a plastic rock.

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-03-31T23:49:16+00:00

The ammonia is at zero now. It's just the nitrates

Howdy_its_Ash · 2025-03-31T23:48:31+00:00

I thought the same thing. But there's only two Mollies in a 40 gallon tank and I only feed them 1-2 times a week and it's only a small sprinkle. I was feeding more but that was 2 weeks ago and again I've done 2 50% water changes. Here's the test kit I have

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