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Image Accreditation

SpectralDragon 13 Sep 2016 21:38

Image taken by Chuck Abbe, March 22nd, 2008. Image has been run through a VHS photo filter in order to give it the appearance of being from a VCR tape. Image can be found here. Image use is valid under CC as long as proper credit is given, a link is provided, and modifications to the image are noted.

Genshed 13 Sep 2016 21:43

"… pre-killed insects may be provided for enrichment purposes."

There's something about that that pleases me.

SpectralDragon 13 Sep 2016 23:38

Well, what else do you give a dead lizard to hunt? Or, to jump at while you wiggle it about with tweezers, but same difference.

Rimple 13 Sep 2016 21:47

I've already said all this in chat, but this is an immensely charming, understated little gem. While I don't think every skip should be cute, it's great to have that variety on the site. I hope this plucky Lil lizz does well

+1, obviously.

TL333s 13 Sep 2016 23:29

Poor, dumb lizard zombie. :C

SpectralDragon 13 Sep 2016 23:36

He's doing his best to lizard, and that's really all you can ask him to do.

Zyn 13 Sep 2016 23:49

fence lizaaaarrrrddddddd ;~;

SpectralDragon 13 Sep 2016 23:52

he will eat ur watermelons and give you crunchy mummy happiness in return

Zyn 13 Sep 2016 23:58

_{fence lizaaaaarrrdddddd ;~;}

Context for anyone who wasn't in chat when this article was being reviewed: one time I found a lizard in my yard when it was time to clean up the storage junk piled up there. The lizard had been probably living in a box for some time so I felt bad for him and went to get some watermelon on a toothpick. The lizard just sat on the wall and I held out the watermelon and he just looked at it and licked it a few times and we were FRIENDS!!1!11!! then my mom walked over and the lizard disappeared into the bushes so I just left the watermelon on the wall. ;(

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Scorpion451 13 Sep 2016 23:52

from being processed as trail mix

These six words make the whole thing for me.

SpectralDragon 13 Sep 2016 23:53

The best part is that this all started because my mom found a dead lizard in her trail mix when she was at college, and I wanted to turn that into an SCP.

Zyn 13 Sep 2016 23:59

Everyone should have a story about their mom and a lizard.

Genshed 14 Sep 2016 00:26

Everyone does have a story about their mom and a lizard, but we are rarely fortunate enough to hear them.

CirclesAndSquares 14 Sep 2016 00:32

Clearly I'm in the minority, but this doesn't do much for me. There's not much here except "zombie lizard." Perhaps I'm missing something?

Scorpion451 14 Sep 2016 01:31

Adorably pathetic zombie lizard. X3

djkaktus 14 Sep 2016 01:35

Nah, this is the same boat I'm in as well. It's the reason why I haven't written anything else like "Moth Helm", because one of the primary criticisms of that article was "it's just a cute thing", and they were right. It doesn't really have anything else going on.

SpectralDragon 14 Sep 2016 12:11

You should have seen this article when I tried to give it something else going on. It wasn't great. I'd rather get downvotes for "not much other than adorably pathetic thing" than "what the fuck is this shit please stop and go back to the lizard."

_{I actually liked Moth Helm because it was so adorable. I need to upvote that if I haven't already.}

Staff Post: Reversion Notice

Wogglebug 14 Sep 2016 03:00

Version 7 of this article has been reverted due to vandalism.

Re: Staff Post: Reversion Notice

SpectralDragon 14 Sep 2016 11:58

Thank you, Woggle!

dr James Jonathan 15 Sep 2016 12:26

i dont know if this is true, but it seems like you got the idea from scp 2186 ( http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2186 )

SpectralDragon 15 Sep 2016 12:33

I didn't even think of that skip while writing this one. I got the idea from a story about my mom finding a dried and salted lizard in her trail mix. The premise started out as simply "Hey, what if the lizard had been alive?"

But I'm not quite sure I understand your point? 2186 is neither a fence lizard nor a zombie. 2974 has no abilities of environmental transformation, nor is it a chameleon. The only common point is that they're both lizards with strict care requirements. Would you mind explaining this to me a little more?

A Blessed Feline 21 Nov 2016 15:17

A salted and dried cyborg zombie trail mix lizard.

How adorable.

+1

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