I adore the feeling of having a snake wrapped around my arm, and would absolutely have a snake for a pet if I didn’t have such an aversion to feeding anything something that still looks like an animal (even if it’s already dead).
I also love watching millipedes’ legs move as they walk and the feeling of all those legs on my hand. But after researching, I realized that giant millipedes are actually a fair bit of work to care for, so I did not end up getting one.
I was eyeing a frilled lizard at a local pet store for quite some time (the entire time it was there), but we don’t have the space for a suitable enclosure for one. It was super adorable the one time it yawned and spread its frill as it was doing so.
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Yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage. For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Outsider"