My brain goes all mushy and mellow when it notices that I’m apparently in proximity of a slower kind of a fellow. 🐢

(Close-up of a radiated tortoise (astrochelys radiata*) , from Wikimedia Commons)

(* Everything is more awesome when you put astro- in it)

  • @ace_garpEnglish
    14•7 months ago

    It’s 3AM here. I went from,

    Spiderweb, Spiderweb, Spiderweb (moderately alert)

    To,

    Oh, turtle-shell (calm)

    So yes. Very calming

    • @AndonyxEnglish
      3•7 months ago

      Also thought it was webs in a sunbeam for a sec. The opposite of calming, really.

  • amio
    5•7 months ago

    Nah. The pattern is cool as hell though.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•7 months ago

    Nice pic! The texture of the shell is so clear.

    I guess it’s more awe than calm for me.

  • @aeronmelonEnglish
    5•7 months ago

    I always feel strangely calm when I see a turtle just chillin’.

    Same energy as capybaras.

  • @[email protected]English
    4•7 months ago

    Weird, yes it does. It’s not that it’s a tortoise, it’s just the pattern and lighting I think. Cool photo!

  • HonkyTonkWomanEnglish
    2•7 months ago

    I have a pic like this from a sulcata tortoise! She was just wandering around my neighborhood one afternoon, had apparently escaped her enclosure.

    I had it set as my desktop at one point. One of my coworkers at the time, who was few screws short of osha standards, was staring at one day when I came back to my desk.

    She goes, “Is that the Balkans?”

    This happened over a decade ago & I still have no idea where that came from…