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Will Braver  

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Life and death with snakes.

Journal Entry: Thu Mar 6, 2008, 11:07 PM
My pet is named Jessica. She is a lovely corn snake and you can see a picture of her in my scraps gallery. This evening I have watched a play of Shakespearean proportions.
Lifting the lid of her enclosure I dropped in a male, white mouse, as I do each week. She was hungry and ready to strike but too eager. Rather than biting on the face or head as she normally would, she bit more to the rear. She wrapped herself around the quivering albino rodent and began her usual work of squeezing the living breath from prey.
Alas, the poor creature would not expire. Her gripping coils were far to low. Face to the air, like a man buried to the waist, arms trapped at his side, he, and by this I mean the mouse oh best beloved, struggled for each breath panting, gasping, straining for each inhalation.
After an eternity, my treasured reptilian familiar began the dangerous task of rearranging her grip on her next meal.
Slowly she wound her rear coils tighter and closer, unwound her head, neck and beyond, while keeping her jaws locked into her dinner. The creature continued to pant, fighting for each moment.
For one brief moment he had enough room to move his torso and try once more to move and break free but at the end of that moment her coils came from above and the sides, pulling him inexorably into his death.
Wrapped tight as a ball, she killed her food. His mouth was puckered to the air, the only part left unwrapped, motionless and devoid of struggle. I know the mouse is dead when she, feeling that his heart has finally ceased beating, releases her griping jaws and begins to follow her own coils till she can find his face, and with a final kiss embrace the whole of him in one long swallow. Her body pulled him from her central rapture and as she swallowed him her body formed a perfect spiral, head pulling the mouse, leading left and over to her very center and thus spiraling out to her tails conclusion. Her head poised over her tail as the mouse’s own disappeared between her lips.
We all die and we all kill. Some say we owe a Karmic debt for each thing we destroy. I say we embrace it or forever wallow in guilt. Even Vegans must destroy life to sustain their own. I know what horrors exist in an abattoir and I know it makes me hungry.

~Will~

  • Mood: Content
  • Listening to: Jazz
  • Reading: Incubus Dreams
  • Watching: The Princess Bride
  • Playing: Half Life 2 (et al.)
  • Eating: Jelly Belly's
  • Drinking: Water and or Pineapple Juice

Devious Information

  • Current Age: 27
  • Current Residence: Pleasant Hill, California
  • deviantWEAR sizing preference: 3xl
  • Interests: painting, cooking, shakespeare, transformations, werecreatures, comics, "Lone Wolf and Cub"
  • Favourite movie: Casablanca, Amadeus, Fight Club
  • Favourite band or musician: Dave Mathews Band
  • Favourite genre of music: Swing/classic Jazz/Big Band
  • Favourite artist: Too hard
  • Favourite poet or writer: ... hmm... Shel Silverstine, Homer, Mark Twain, Brian Bendis(currently writes for Marvel)
  • Favourite style or digital art: oil painting... whatever it is I seem to do... shrug
  • Shell of choice: abalone ;)
  • Wallpaper of choice: "Lauren the She-Hulk" in the gallery.
  • Skin of choice: Dragon Scale in my pet snakes colors
  • Favourite game: Half-Life (the series but 2 is best so far)
  • Favourite gaming platform: PC
  • Favourite cartoon character: Wile E. Coyote super genius
  • Personal Quote: "Whatever Works" "All Life Comes In Waves."
  • Tools of the Trade: knives and food, brushes and paint

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Devious Comments

*ivan11422:iconivan11422: 3 hours 36 minutes ago
thanks for the fave!
=shakealicious:iconshakealicious: Apr 17, 2008, 1:20:50 AM
Thanks so much for adding Nekooo to your favorites! :D

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my babu [link]
=shakealicious:iconshakealicious: Apr 4, 2008, 6:22:46 PM
thanks for the :+fav: on Snow Bunny :D much appreciated!

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my babu [link]
*KyubiVash:iconKyubiVash: Mar 29, 2008, 7:39:04 PM
thnx for the fav

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*JPG24:iconJPG24: Mar 13, 2008, 8:08:53 AM
Thank you for the fav! I'm glad that you enjoy my work! :)

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Embrace your Wild Passions or your Domestic desires. Won't you join me?
*KyubiVash:iconKyubiVash: Feb 25, 2008, 10:35:04 PM
thnx for the watch

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According to the statistics, that I gathered in my many years on the internet, if you are taking the time to read long, word filled signatures, it is a largely evident of an extreme lack of hobbies.
~ilikepain:iconilikepain: Feb 23, 2008, 6:54:18 AM Mood: Joy
thanks for the fave dahling

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sticks and stones may break my bones
but whips and chains excite me
~autumn-lamb:iconautumn-lamb: Feb 21, 2008, 10:45:21 PM Mood: Peaceful
Thankyou so much for the :+fav: Will~! :'3
Very appreciated. :heart:
~SkyJaguar-TFproject:iconSkyJaguar-TFproject: Feb 18, 2008, 3:29:09 PM
Thanks for faving my Lunar Madness pic! :)
*ivan11422:iconivan11422: Feb 17, 2008, 9:41:40 PM
thanks for the fave!
~VictorScale:iconVictorScale: Feb 4, 2008, 11:55:00 PM Mood: Happy
Thanks for the fav and watch!
*dcmatthews:icondcmatthews: Jan 2, 2008, 7:52:23 AM
Thank you for the :+devwatch:!
:boogie:

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"Ladies in skimpy sci-fi costumes? That sounds like EVERYTHING I wanna be a part of!" - Strong Bad

:music: Pardon me, boy
Is this the lair of Great Cthulhu
In the city of slime
Where it's night all the time :music:
~Se7endaze:iconSe7endaze: Jan 1, 2008, 6:59:48 PM Mood: Joy
Thank you for the feedback and the two fav's !!!!

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See you on the flipside...

Always question your Government!!!
*FemaleMuscle:iconFemaleMuscle: Dec 19, 2007, 4:06:22 AM
Thanks for watching the club!

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"A hard woman is good to find." - The Female Muscle Club
~monkitty:iconmonkitty: Nov 13, 2007, 7:20:47 AM
Thanks for the fav!
~dj-neko:icondj-neko: Nov 5, 2007, 4:12:50 AM
Thank you for the comment & the fave! :heart:

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Wheee!!!!
*Kaduflyer:iconKaduflyer: Oct 19, 2007, 4:51:35 AM
Hi...I just replied to your mail so I thought I'd drop by your gallery.

Your work shows great promise (your photo manips are very slick) and it's particularly nice to see someone actually STUDYING art as opposed to just DOING it!!

Best of luck and have fun!!
:)
~wflt:iconwflt: Oct 14, 2007, 2:50:12 AM
What's up Will. It's Dat. I made a deviant site for my web comics. Just dropping by and saying hi.
~wflt:iconwflt: Oct 14, 2007, 2:50:10 AM
What's up Will. It's Dat. I made a deviant site for my web comics. Just dropping by and saying hi.
~Se7endaze:iconSe7endaze: Oct 3, 2007, 12:08:14 AM
thanks for the favs'

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See you on the flipside...

Always question your Government!!!
~Rumpleteaze:iconRumpleteaze: Sep 30, 2007, 6:23:20 PM
thanks for the watch!

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They had really a little more reputation than a couple of cats can very well bear - Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer by T. S. Eliot
~SkyJaguar-TFproject:iconSkyJaguar-TFproject: Sep 27, 2007, 8:11:16 PM
Thank you for watching me! :)
~monkitty:iconmonkitty: Aug 22, 2007, 7:10:09 AM
Thanks for another fav!
*AngellofFyre:iconAngellofFyre: Aug 15, 2007, 5:05:52 PM
A tremendous thank you for adding my Draenei costume stuff to your favorites. it means a lot to me, having spent so much time on the costume, that you like it!!