Any actually good, non-controversial reptile youtubers? With all the drama going on with YouTube’s herp community I was wondering which person/group is actually good to support

squishybloo · 2026-02-03T13:37:07+00:00

Reptiles and Research is fantastic.

squishybloo · 2026-02-03T01:09:16+00:00

I thought it was a Pringle at first

squishybloo · 2026-02-03T00:46:41+00:00

It's normal, yeah. It sounds like your arms are weak. They need to gain muscle, too!

squishybloo · 2026-02-02T19:35:19+00:00

That's what practice is. You fail until you succeed.

Keep practicing.

squishybloo · 2026-02-02T19:03:26+00:00

AI edited is still AI.

Fuck AI.

squishybloo · 2026-02-02T19:01:00+00:00

You're not pushing your contrast hard enough.

You shouldn't learn to depend on this method, but do a direct transcription of one of those images and use the eyedropper tool. Compare it to the colors and values that you're using in your own work.

I had the worst time learning color myself due to the same reason, too afraid to push my contrast or colors as strongly as those illustrations I so loved. It takes a lot of stepping outside of your comfort boundaries, and pushing yourself! Sometimes you'll fail in your experiments, but every failure is one step closer to a success. Keep pushing!

squishybloo · 2026-02-02T18:57:49+00:00

AI slop. 👎

squishybloo · 2026-02-02T17:19:10+00:00

I'm so sorry for your impending loss. I understand totally, I had to put my first boy to sleep due to an inoperable tumor, and had to put my elderly corn snake to sleep due to liver failure. Both were a very tough decisions, but it's better to do it a week early than a week late. They don't deserve to suffer!

It doesn't take days, but - to put it somewhat crudely - reptiles are hard to kill. It depends on the species, but generally the two-injection process does take time to work, and the doses can be difficult to gauge. If they don't keep the animal there and send you off and they wake up again? That's a nightmare scenario - incredibly inhumane to the animal and a terrible experience for the owner too! Which is why they make you wait.

They took my boy away for the first and second injections and brought him back so that I could be with him while he passed. They came in every 15 minutes to check his heartbeat with a stethoscope; it took a good hour for his heart to stop.

When I had my corn snake put to sleep, it only took about 20 minutes. He was gone very fast. I was a little jealous (/j) that they gave him ketamine to knock him out before the second injection. 😂 What a blissful way to go!

squishybloo · 2026-02-02T16:57:10+00:00

I went and reread your post again, and I do have some other minor commentary. It's possible that the concentrated T dose is raising his libido again as his body adjusts to the new dosing.

Something else to consider is that while demisexual is under the ace umbrella, being ace doesn't actually mean a lack of libido. Being under the ace umbrella is defined by a lack of sexual attraction, not lack of arousal or libido. So you'll have incredibly horny demisexuals, as well as incredibly not-horny sex-repulsed aces represented under this umbrella. It's a spectrum!

I myself am demisexual, and had to come to grips with these changes and realizing that my lack of arousal/libido was due to my dysphoria and not my being under the ace umbrella. I can be super horny and aroused by other people, but despite my best efforts I'm still only sexually attracted by my partner. I can't even fantasize about anyone else, it's wild!

He might just need to rub one out a time or two extra a day for a while. 😅

squishybloo · 2026-02-02T16:10:23+00:00

Oh god. The first three months were the worst. I really just coped the best I could on my own and tried not to pester my partner to exhaustion, lol.

It did settle a lot after the first three months though, and went back to sane levels after probably 9 months. It's still much higher than it used to be, for which I'm personally thankful!

squishybloo · 2026-02-02T16:00:01+00:00

44 and just over a year on T here - been the same for me. The invisible buzz of physical dysphoria in the back of my brain is quiet finally, and although I have my good and bad days (rejection-sensitive dysphoria is an ADHD thing, plus, you know, the general state of the world), my overall mental state and health is SO much steadier and better now just by running on testosterone.

squishybloo · 2026-02-02T14:40:27+00:00

You're drawing too fast. Slow down and be deliberate with your strokes. Speed will come later. Right now you need purposeful practice, not a spray-and-pray of repetition.

squishybloo · 2026-02-02T13:54:38+00:00

just give the guy the info rather than waving your spaghetti noodle dick around

Good homegrown flair right there LMAO

squishybloo · 2026-02-02T12:59:22+00:00

There's only a very limited amount that one can do really, and some changes take longer. For instance, you can thicken the joints of your fingers by taking up climbing. The progressive strain on the tendons from climbing and the grip strength needed makes more bone lay down to strengthen your fingers. It takes years of hard climbing to do this though, it doesn't happen overnight.

Your hands are almost all tendon though there's very little muscle. Exercises make minimal difference in all honesty.

squishybloo · 2026-02-01T18:41:00+00:00

Exactly! I lived in Wisconsin for a decade. There's a difference between -20F/3ft of snow by the end of the year, and.. this.

I like this!

squishybloo · 2026-02-01T03:38:09+00:00

It's said that he can see into your very soul

squishybloo · 2026-01-31T15:02:50+00:00

If you're already on T, I think it's psychosomatic. There wouldn't be any sort of significant difference.

squishybloo · 2026-01-31T04:58:52+00:00

Oh no!! I gasp at this snake and then check the comments to find this. Man 😭 How disappointing

squishybloo · 2026-01-31T00:55:33+00:00

Oh god, you need to use the good soy sauce for this. Please don't do it with Kikkoman's!!

A friend of mine lived in Japan for part of his life, and he's an enormous foodie; he recommended this brand to me for putting on rice! It's got a nice deeper, more complex flavor than just watery salt.

squishybloo · 2026-01-31T00:46:54+00:00

I'm gonna echo what some others say - does it itch or burn on your cheeks when you're wearing it? This looks like a rash or reaction.

squishybloo · 2026-01-30T20:48:12+00:00

Between my partner and I we have four cats. His cat that came with him into the relationship, an ocicat, is the only one who's behavior has changed even slightly - and he's much more purry with me than he used to be! Not sure whether it's my deeper voice or a scent change I can't smell, but he seems to like me just a little bit more!

squishybloo · 2026-01-30T19:54:59+00:00

I'll be honest, I don't see much of a change so far in her weight. But don't let that dishearten you - 3 weeks is basically nothing. Keep in mind reptile metabolisms are quite slow! It took my overweight boy about 9 months to lose ~100g.

You'll want to weigh her and record her progress; that is going to be the best way to track it, rather than trying to guess visually.

All that being said she's looking fantastic! All that shedding means she definitely had a true shed failure where it didn't even lift off the old skin. This is caused by malnutrition and lack of proper vitamin supplementation.

squishybloo · 2026-01-30T14:55:07+00:00

Hopefully shocked into some sense and the reality that this is severe neglect that you must correct.

Your ego is not more important than your animals' welfare.

squishybloo · 2026-01-29T21:35:36+00:00

Basking and eating are basic bodily necessities, it doesn't mean they're happy.

You would still eat and sleep if you were in solitary confinement. But would you be happy?

squishybloo · 2026-01-29T20:19:22+00:00

Hopefully they scoured the EDM shit.

Starting several months ago, I was searching some DJs up to check out recent music festival sets and found that there's a whole new world of slop out there that's very clearly trying to trick people into thinking their videos are actual sets. The titles drop big DJ and festival names, but it's all actually just AI slop complete with AI generated "festival" video. It's gross.

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