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peak female character design

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got inspired

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my favorite subtle detail in rain world is the paws and hands and such

they’re consistent. most paws have 3 digits; slugcats most obviously of all, but lizards and scavengers have 3 fingers too. even iterator puppets have 3. It’s the closest thing we have to a taxonomic order of vertebrates, and we know there’s vertebrates here because one of the dialogues for white pearls is something about a skeleton.

My sources

Survivor/Monk cutscene art, specifically the one where surv is falling and reaching up

Lizard/scavenger sprites (lizards may have a dewclaw or thumb that’s usually hidden but their feet have at least 2 large toes)

LttM dream art (the one where she’s reading pearls specifically)

the “tumblr community invents a whole mafia movie apparently directed by martin scorsese with an official soundtrack, movie posters, screen caps, and all enough to make one question if that movie really did exist at all like a mandela effect” was not part of my 2022 bingo card

This is a really good question! Here's what will happen after New Girl gets here.

First, I leave her mostly alone for a couple of days. I give her constant access to fresh water, but I don't feed until Day 3. This gives her time to get settled and acclimated; the stress of the move can cause GI distress, so for the first couple of days, nothing in the stomach. The stress from regurgitation would be more detrimental than the stress of being hungry. Day 3, some nice, digestible food: egg. Day 4, we start introducing greens. Day 5, we have our first vet check!

Now hopefully there's some poop on Day 4, because this is a wild-caught animal, and she will have worms; that's just a given. When you eat raw, rotting meat in the wild, you get worms. My trapper doses them all with Panacur when he catches them, but the fecal sample will have more information on what specific parasites are present and what else is needed. If no poop for the vet check, that's ok, just collect some whenever it happens and take it on over and they'll do the fecal when they can.

At the vet check, they'll do a blood draw and a full blood panel. The vet will palpate all over, feeling for lumps and masses, and they may do some imaging. With a Florida feral, one thing you don't have to worry about is metabolic bone disease, so an x-ray might not be necessary. However, an ultrasound is a good idea with females. New Girl is very young and likely didn't have a partner during the last breeding season, but it's worth it to have a look at the reproductive tract to make sure there aren't any red flags or weird masses.

The vet will also do the standard exam stuff- listen to the lungs, check the reflexes, listen to the heart. They will also check tongue flicks and try to do a visual dental exam. That might not happen at the first visit, though! One of the things I had Kaiju trained to do was let me open her mouth. A voluntary open mouth behavior is something I really want to teach New Girl.

After the vet check, she'll still be on a fairly limited diet, variety-wise, until she's eliminating consistently and we've finished the inevitable course of meds. If all goes well, we'll do a course of fecal tests to ensure that any active parasite infection is gone, and then it'll be annual checkups from there on out!

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flagfish jumpscare

Lurking..... watching

finally at last they are here!! A slugcat design of mine that doesn’t drive me mad!! This is separate from my old lizard spec post “what if they were bugs”, meaning there’s a chance in the future I’ll make another one of these for lizards (how I commonly draw them!)