Sweven

Inktober 10. Yhorm the Giant

Ground-dwelling vipers store up so much offal, the researchers calculated, that their body mass ends up being as much as 20 percent fecal matter, the vast bulk of it concentrated in the posterior. Unlike cases of pathological constipation that afflict other animals, including humans, the snakes show no ill effects, no vomiting and no signs of septicemia.

Dr. Lillywhite suggests that a land-based viper retains feces because it is a great ballast. It helps anchor the lower body to the ground and thus enables the snake to strike its head out toward prey with great speed and accuracy. Tree-dwellers, by contrast, can use a branch to steady themselves.

Best of all, feces is metabolically inert. Extra muscle, bone or fat require energy to sustain them, while feces sits there for free.

oh SHOOT well i cant swing 100 but how bout

@ Sendai Aoba Matsuri (18th May 2014)

Among other things, it is a gently obstinate call-out of the “shrink-wrapping” trend of palaeo-art (in which all animals are presented as if their flesh was shrink-wrapped over their jutting bones, rather than having normal things like chubby fat deposits or feathers or fluff) and the “killer claw” trend of writing about these beasts, in which the writer must make the creature out to be a VIOLENT destroyer of COMPETITORS in the BRUTAL MARKETPLACE world with its SHARP TALONS and LITHE BODY, as if one is writing fanfiction about an action figure that goes to the gym a lot, rather than describing the natural history of a living animal.

Danai completely crushed this scene. She embodied Okoye so fully. So completely. In that moment, she WAS Wakanda. And she was ready and willing to murder her husband’s ass right there and then if it meant ensuring the safety of her nation.