The Asp part 2

[charisstoma]

I've been wracked by guilt that it's probably suffocating to death and yet I have a fear of it's hairs. Think it's going to die in it's jar that has no holes in the lid.

Checked on the thing. It's crawled up the glass, so it's on the side of the jar now. Takes this opportunity to say it looks interesting from below too.
It's also pooped twice. The thing is not dying.

Called the zoo. Was told that Asps are very common here and they aren't able to take it. *sigh*
Anyone want a pet?


This is it now. Cuuuuuute and nasty.



This is it when it's an adult.. its swan stage.

Comments

[thetowerxvi.livejournal.com]

You could take it into the woods or whatever passes for the wild out there, open the jar, set it on the ground and leave. Happy asp, guilt free human...

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

You are really pushing for this thing to be granted a reprieve. What if it's a newish mutation to be able to inflict the damage it can and WE are the controlling factor in its not taking over the world.
hmm thought I'd posted a picture of it as an adult here. Must check and rectify the omission.
It's pretty as a moth too.

[ocotillo-dawn.livejournal.com]

What if it's a newish mutation to be able to inflict the damage it can and WE are the controlling factor in its not taking over the world.

*lol* Hitchcock plot bunny.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

You just stop that plot bunny right there.. unless you are going to put it in your current chapter or the next book. *shivers* Asps eat deciduous plants btw. See the moth picture. Pretty moth.

[thetowerxvi.livejournal.com]

at the moment, my faith in humanity is so low that I say Go Asp! Take over the world! Because humans just cant seem to get it right.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Did I miss something new happening in the News again? Your local, my local (wait you wouldn't be up on my local), national, global or is this personal and I need to come there to hold you tight?
I can bring the asp.

[thetowerxvi.livejournal.com]

I dont think it will make news. Working downtown tonight and was walking down the alley to grab lunch for the crew and found a girl laying on the ground in some barely there outfit passed out with a needle in her arm. ID is from a local junior high.

For the record. The moth is cute. Fuzzy. Is it pettable in that form?

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Shit. You find the worst things that have happened. What the f*** were you doing walking down an alley at night?
Junior High.. Fuck. Please tell me she wasn't dead. She's past the pain if she is but her family isn't. Still..Fuck.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

The picture is what it looks like in hand. So don't think it's reportably poisonous as a moth. Still.. and butterflies and moths don't do well petted generally.

[thetowerxvi.livejournal.com]

Cute!

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

I could ship it to you if my brother decides not to have it as a pet. It probably would not do well in the frozen north. My brother would understand if you wanted it really really bad.

Look, it has little black boots on all of its 6 feet. A tiny sunflower of a flyee thing.

[thetowerxvi.livejournal.com]

Yeah...no thanks...but it would do wonders for restoring my faith in humans if you gave in to your kind, nurturing and gentle nature and let it go and be free...

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

You fight dirty. Now I have to find somewhere where there are no houses but there are trees that is far away from me. Have to take Krag with me so he can call 911 as he transports me to a hospital or where the EMTs can get to me if the worst happens.
At least I am not thinking of putting it on a fire ant mound as was one of my sister's choices.

[thetowerxvi.livejournal.com]

:)
Wear gloves and just take off the lid and walk away. You got it in the jar so I'm sure this wouldn't be that hard.
Your sister is mean.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Can't leave the jar, littering. So yeah, gloves and then jar leaves with me less the asp.
My sister told me that if you have fire ants in her area then you don't have termites. Ants take care of them. This is the normal circle of life stuff.

[thetowerxvi.livejournal.com]

*sigh* well then gloves it is. Gloves and popsicle stick to prod at the asp and push it off the glass. Then shake him out. Easy right?

If Chris can catch scorpions by their tails you can do this. I have faith in you. You wouldn't want to hurt a poor, fuzzy, innocent creature that just wants to morph into a cute harmless little moth...*wide eyes* Would you?

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

I'm asleep. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Send Chris to help. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

zzzzzzzz Look at this, this is why I'm not zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pcJqL3niQ0&feature=player_embedded

Now for real. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzz *kiss*

[thetowerxvi.livejournal.com]

Chris says in the epic battle of snail versus caterkiller his money is on our vampiric snail. I think you might be S.O.L.

That is so funny. Someone made that video for a story?

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Yes. He did. *smiles* It's into many chapters and I love it. It has vampires and a snarky gay young hunter. Better then it sounds when I talk about it.

[thetowerxvi.livejournal.com]

No she wasnt dead. Although she will probably wish she was when she wakes up in the hospital. As to what I was doing walking down an alley at night...thats the clincher. This wasnt a dark creepy back alley, this was a lit, accessable alley that you have to walk through to get from one street to another. If youve ever been to downtown phoenix youll remember that everything is a damn one way street and in order to get anywhere you have to go through the alleys.

In other words, I was definitely not the first person to see this girl. Hence, my sudden lack of faith in humanity. Downtown...how many suits passed by and did nothing?

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Well fuck them with a used toilet brush. Shit.
Good thing you were there to do what should have been done earlier.

[thetowerxvi.livejournal.com]

Lol, thats a new one. I will have to remember it.
Dont take this wrong, Im glad the girl got help, but I kinda wish I hadnt been there...

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

I can understand the not wanting to be the one to have to find her. You have your own memories and what could have happeneds. You don't need to have those come slap you in the face reminding.
Wrap yourself in some warm arms tonight. *kiss*

[thetowerxvi.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and I was still on headset. Its like a constantly going walkie talkie that I wear on my ear that has a two mile range. My crew could hear everything I said. :) Im not that reckless. *hugs*

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

That makes it easy to do a food order. Am assuming that it's two way which walkies usually are. If you forget the onions the proposed eater of the food can remind you while you are doing the order.

Alley walking + night +/- light = whimper.

[thetowerxvi.livejournal.com]

Lol. I'm only awake at night. If I was afraid of walking in dark places I wouldn't be able to do anything. :)

Yes the headsets make food ordering easier. But they also make it very hard to keep a straight face when youre talking to the client and for some reason people are imitating sex between teeria? and lock-on who are apparently anime characters who have something to do with space.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

*blinks* I've never made it to 24 comments before. *SMILE*

Since you are a night denizen, I guess that makes sense and.. You have a knife.

Head desk that you have X-rated anime imitation playing in your ears when you just have to be circumspect for a client. There are valid reasons you wear a manic smile on your face sometimes. *kiss*
Going back to bed now. I'm asleep. *cuddles next to your ear to let the anime play in my dreams*

[thetowerxvi.livejournal.com]

That is surprising since you have a million friends. Lol.

...'A' knife? Please, you make it sound like a carry a pocket swiss army knife. I carry three. A smith and wesson SWAT edition that I actually use to cut things like tape and rope because I don't care if it gets dulled. One gerber that I'm sure has a name but I just call 'squishy'and a cold steel 7inch. :)

Okay, my episode of testosterone poisoning is over...promise....

*sneakily places the headset on you while you sleep*

For being such a big guy Raoul does a good uke voice

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Yes, *grins* I can see the testosterone poisoning effects quite clearly. I have lived with people who speak about guns like you do your knives. *SMILES* 'Smith and wesson' was the first hint. There's something about watching a grown man cuddling an UZI and petting it. That was Dean's brother.

*LAUGHS* Raoul seems like a very nice guy. However did he learn the things he learned to act so well as a uke?

My dreams were.. odd. A lady had been sold a big shiny new truck from someone who needed money in Mexico. She was begging for money from the audience on something like the Jerry Springer Show. It was a scam of the audience for money that someone was trying to scam from her is what it was. She had to have known it was a hot truck. The audience did come up with money but it was in pink Breast Cancer dollars neatly tied up in thousands.

No idea what that dream meant, which is scary.

[thetowerxvi.livejournal.com]

Cuddling an Uzi seems a little militaristic...Knives are pretty and useful. Guns are just instruments of death.

I have learned not to ask about how members of my crew know things and just accept that they do.

That is a really wierd dream. Not sure how to interpret that one either. Guilt over killing innocent creatures could be doing strange things to your psyche...

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

*laughs* You sweetling are pushing. It's raining. Aspy is warm and dry. Too warm maybe. *thinks about putting Aspy out on the back porch so he remembers to change into a pupa.*

Checked on Aspy. Moved his little mouth and head at me so went out in the rain to get him a wet leaf. Took him outside the backdoor, opened his jar (he is on the bottom of the jar) and aired him. I can't believe I'm doing this for a poisonous insect. *sigh* He's outside up on a cart where wandering ants can't find him.
Am not letting him go in my backyard.

[thetowerxvi.livejournal.com]

okay okay, sorry, not another word from me about the caterkiller.

[grimmsical.livejournal.com]

So basically it's like a real life pokemon! But deadly! ...;-; creepy. *huddles in corner* There aren't many/are none here. I feel slightly safer in that fact.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Look at the icon here. See how tiny it is as an adult.
CA mountains prevent many bad things from getting to you. That and desert. Think you are safe. *hugs*
Nix has used her super talent and if it's still alive tomorrow/today it's going to be released far away from my house. *sigh*