obsessed with the way the snake hobbyist community will freak out over a color morph because of how rare it is but when you actually look at the snake they’re cooing over it’s the ugliest thing you’ve ever seen in your life

all animals are beautiful or wherever but I don’t care how rare this morph is… this snake looks like a tube of dirty meat

lots of people in the notes are like “aw but it’s kinda cute OP”

of course it’s kinda cute, it’s a snake—it’s just that people are going apeshit and spending thousands of dollars importing and linebreeding to attempt to create a snake that looks like rancid sausage when wild type California kingsnakes are already some of the most gorgeous reptiles on the planet and some of their more common morphs look like THIS:

Aww that first one is in morse code