YOUR MISSION SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT

[constance]

Okay, first go read this page, paying special attention to the photo of the Axolotl (pretty much exactly halfway down the page), though the rest is highly worth reading too, and then answer me this important question.

[Poll #1051428]

Comments

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

O! It's adorable!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Isn't it! That picture is, anyway, though they are not always so photogenic as that.

[proteinscollide.livejournal.com]

I kind of thought Sea Monkeys would be more spindly...like a cross between a real monkey and a sea dragon. BUT that picture of the axolotl is awesome! It looks so much like it's smiling for the camera. =D

[tofty.livejournal.com]

It does, doesn't it? If you'd asked me a week ago, I probably would've said the same as Laurel below, that I'd have pictured them as looking like the illustration ads in comics, but as soon as I saw this photo, I said to myself :O SEA MONKEY!

[friendly.livejournal.com]

My youngest uncle had axolotls when I was growing up. They're gross

Red Pandas and Sun Bears are two of my favourite animals! They're so cute.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Are they really gross? Mem, I am so disappointed. :/

I like most of the animals on the list, just because they're so odd and unlike most other things. Sports of the world, unite!

[friendly.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry but they're really disgusting, they make me want to throw up :)) their skin is kind of translucent and they're ajkfdlad gross. They're so gross.

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

Being in the habit of stupid gullibility and taking things at face value without another thought, I always figured they'd look like the people-ish creatures in the illustrations- with sort of a Scandinavian about the eyes, if I remember correctly. :D

If I could raise up a passel of these little dudes, though, I'd be happy as a clam. There's nothing I love better than fondling a nice, meaty salamander. And the Axolotl looks so amiable! (Then again, though, all salamanders do. It's that built-in half-smile.)

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I especially like the young matron in the picture. That stylish bow!

Look, that web page says we can keep them as pets, Laurel! (Alolotls, I mean, not sea monkeys, which of course were always perfect pets.)

[tofty.livejournal.com]

PEE ESS Do not think I didn't notice the blobfish icon. Sneaky!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Yes, I too believed sea monkeys would look like humans. Somehow it never occurred to me that having human-like creatures and keeping them prisoner in a bowl of water would be, oh, creepy.

Ours never hatched. So they just looked like cloudy water.

[xanthophyllippa.livejournal.com]

And the aye-aye looks like Kreacher.

(I'd always thought an aye-aye was some kind of miniature ruminant. Boy, was I wrong.)

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Oh my God. He really does. I can just imagine him talking in a bullfrog voice, can't you?

[xanthophyllippa.livejournal.com]

And lurching around fingering shiny things? Totally!

[octoberstory.livejournal.com]

*SCREAMS* WHAT THE SHIT IS THAT THING

[octoberstory.livejournal.com]

Larvae of this species fail to undergo metamorphosis, so the adults remain aquatic and gilled

Okay, the first time I read that I thought it said, "The adults remain aquatic and are GRILLED." Then I thought, Oh, how interesting. It must be like the time I was freaking out about Northern Snakeheads, the fanged land-walking fish menace to mankind, and Rhod said, "Send in the Chinese, we will eat them."

Then I thought about dinner last week at Las Paramides, and how What if every time I ordered fish tacos I was really getting axolotl tacos? Then I had to cry and vomit a little in my mouth. But just a little.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I missed replying to this comment back when, you know, I should have, but I just wanted to say: HAhahaHAhAHAHHAaahAHAa!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

PEE ESS The Northern Snakehead is indigenous to China, so actually, the Chinese are probably already on it -- we just need to get them to vacation here or something.