Mountain Lion Skull -- Luna la Puma

May 31, 2013 10:40

This is Luna. She's a mountain lion.*


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ashbet May 31 2013, 16:41:15 UTC
Appropriate icon is appropriate! (I patterned Suriel's markings loosely around a monochrome mountain lion.)

She is BEAUTIFUL -- yes, I winced at the tooth, too, but I'm glad that it probably didn't cause her too much pain, if there was no bone erosion. And it looks smoothed-off and not jagged, so I'll bet it had been that way for a while, and she just kept on living her life.

I love her, and I'm so happy that you have her! (I adore mountain lions, too!) Thank you for sharing her! ^___^

I *must* see the liger skull cast -- they're the closest we'll get to seeing a cave lion or sabertooth in our era!

*luff*

<3!

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ashbet May 31 2013, 16:43:03 UTC
P.S. You might enjoy the cover image, and some of the other pieces of art, on my desperately-needs-to-be-updated-because-it's-basically-an-archive-at-this-point website :)

http://matermetis.com/

(Yes, that's a mountain lion skull!)

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naamah_darling May 31 2013, 20:13:02 UTC
That is a BADASS image!

I love your Little Red poem. And it opens with the same words as Depeche Mode's Stripped, which is A) one of my favorite songs ever and B) rather appropriate. (And there the resemblance ends, obviously, but it's a neat mental parallel.)

*wags!*

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ashbet June 2 2013, 01:32:27 UTC
Eeeee, thank you so much!! (And I am a RIDICULOUS Depeche Mode fan, and it delights me that you love that song as much as I do!!)

Here, I'll give you a present -- I'd had a rough idea of creating a series of fairytale/mythic poems with appropriate botanical names (thus "Paperwhite," "Ladyslipper," etc.), and this was the one for "Wolfsbane," which never made it onto the site because I need to re-learn how to use a web-design FTP program that is many generations beyond the one that I built it with. It's one of those things that I'll get to when I have the spoons to spare -- but, in the meanwhile, here is one that only a couple of people have ever seen, and I think it's perfect to share with you . . .

"Wolfsbane," you say ( ... )

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aj_hyena May 31 2013, 16:58:55 UTC
I'd love to see you do a bear skull, or something unusual, like a gorilla's or a serpent's or something.

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naamah_darling May 31 2013, 19:39:47 UTC
I actually have a bear! She's not very big, just a little black bear, but she's very cool! I should get pics. From certain angles, because of the back teeth and cheekbones and forward-facing eyes, she looks weirdly human.

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lunalelle May 31 2013, 17:04:49 UTC
That sound bite of a female cougar in heat ... is kind of terrifying.

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naamah_darling May 31 2013, 19:41:51 UTC
I KNOW RIGHT?

Male cougars must be . . . I mean, seriously, BALLS OF BRASS. Because any animal that hears THAT and says to itself "Yeah, hear that? UH-HUH! I WANNA FUCK IT!" is an animal with nerves of steel.

It's a really unnerving sound.

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txgecko May 31 2013, 18:01:53 UTC
Wow, the kitty skull does look like a baby mountain lion skull.

At least in humans, mucus has it's own separate immune system: http://www.gizmag.com/mucus-new-human-immune-system/27658/

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naamah_darling May 31 2013, 19:42:43 UTC
Holy crap, that's SO COOL!

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txgecko June 1 2013, 03:16:30 UTC
Glad you enjoyed it :) Stay safe with all those fucking tornadoes in your area!

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naamah_darling June 1 2013, 14:07:35 UTC
SERIOUSLY THOUGH.

Last night, what with all the colors from the radar and all the colored borders for the flood, worse flood, storm, worse storm, maybe tornados, definitely tornados, and just general disagreeability warnings, it looked like someone had barfed Skittles all over the map.

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amandajayne98 May 31 2013, 18:46:39 UTC
I always appreciate these posts! Yay!

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