That does sound like a fun Friday night

I’m from Germany, there’s an App here called Vinted which is a platform for people to sell Second Hand Clothes to each other (afaik it’s also available in many other European countries). Just the sheer amount of users usually means that you can get any item that you could get at a store. I usually use it to buy Eco-friendly brands that are too expensive for me to buy new (I found several of my favourite ArmedAngels Jeans there for like 30€ tops!)

I’ve also been dipping my toes into sewing clothes myself from thrifted fabric. Made these cool pants just last weekend!

That seems like quite the generalization

omg, gorgeous babies!! 😍
What morphs are they?

I have one and love her very much!!

I don’t have time to elaborate on all questions at the moment, but snakes definitely don’t ever try to kill people out of aggression. Little nips can happen if your snake is defensive/ fearful or mistakes you for food (which, food for them is usually the size of a rat), but there is never malice behind it.

Most snakes aren’t really social, so they probably don’t even recognize different people as anything more than warm trees that smell slightly differently. Which for me personally is perfect, since I couldn’t care for a social pet whenever I fall into depressive episodes. It’s also just nice how clean and low maintenance they are. My snake only eats every 2 weeks or so, and poops maybe every 2-4 weeks. If I go on a trip for a few days, she doesn’t even notice that I’m gone. Plus, she’ll live for 20-30 years.

edit: more snake pros I just remembered:

• They just hang around, so no zipping after a hyperactive pet. I find it quite calming.
• They don’t bite or scratch anything in their enclosure, so you don’t have to constantly change out decorative items (you should still rotate them for enrichment)
• Completely silent, except for the occasional fart at night
• Probably can be kept solitary, I’m actually still waiting for the scientific consensus on that. In comparison, having a solitary rat, bunny or guinea pig is just plain unethical because they’re so social.
• They’re trainable! Not to the extent that a dog or a horse is, but you can teach them basic shifting behavior which really helps reduce stress from handling. Lori Torrini is the biggest resource on snake training right now, it’s amazing what she achieves with her own snakes!

If it’s worth doing, it’s worth half-assing. Don’t get caught in the details of trying to do something perfectly if it would benefit you more to do it at all.

It’s totally reasonable to be hesitant about animals that you can’t predict, and snakes are especially unintuitive! If you want to learn more about them, I always recommend the Youtube Channel “Green Room Pythons”! The host has some very bad dad joke humor, but he is one of the best keepers around (in terms of optimizing enrichment and following current behavioral research) :D

Here’s my favourite episode of his series where he introduces snakes to people who don’t like snakes - it’s a really neat format because people do tend to have the same kinds of questions and he’s really patient in answering them :)

It’s a bus, but that’s close enough to a plane haha She wasn’t all that scared in the picture since she didn’t know yet that we were going to the vet - Very scared on the way back tho, but she could just hide in her little house :D

Yes, but we’ve been having a few hot days around here and temperatures over 30°C really degrade the effectiveness of the medication. I bought a sewing machine on Saturday.

You guys have stable hobbies…?
If you count “starting new hobbies” as a hobby, then I could get like 4-5 hobbies out of it, around 200-250$ is a reasonable buy-in for a new one.

That’s interesting, I’ll check it out! I’m actually not sure which category I fall into, most of my donations go to animal related causes, second place are to groups I feel affiliated with, so mostly artists and gay-ish people.

That makes sense! I usually stay away from anything that automatically renews on a monthly basis since I’m very paranoid about forgetting to cancel, but I guess that might actually be a good thing for donations haha

I just kinda assumed we’re all programmers here tbh. Maybe the occasional engineer too.

Sometimes it just do be like that

I know what it is! OP was edited with Clip Studio Paints “Smart Smoothing” feature. Here’s what I got when I pulled the image you posted through one smart smoothing (strong) plus one Sharpen filter:

The way CSP bleeds colors with their rendering features is quite distinct, but you need to see it to recognize it in the future. I think the Smoothing filters are technically not AI, but it’s still a dick move to use them on someone else’s art.

CSP has an AI Colorize tool too, which you can recognize quite easily by the fact that it wildly overshoots some areas and applies a weird gradient smear all around the line art. Visual example generated from my own art:

Get Youtube Vanced (or ReVanced) on your phone and disable all Youtube shorts.

You can, but you only get GW brand paints and bushes (at full price). No wet pallete either, have fun with the paint skin.

As far as I’ve gathered, there’s the camp of people who wear bras as underwear all day, and people who only wear them for short times when they go outside. So changing them once a week would be very different depending on which group you’re in.

I’m in the second one, and only wear a bra like one day a week when I’m physically at work instead of my usual wfh. And as long as the bra still passes the sniff test, it’ll get worn again. That can be like 4-6 weeks in winter haha

me with my snake

You actually paid for this…?