Sep. 5th, 2009

masterofmidgets: (oh new mexico)

I made a new icon! It is about New Mexico, and how everything that lives here wants you to die a horrible death. Because I often find myself having to explain to people how this is a hostile, angry state antithetical to human life, and people don't believe me, and then I have to look up pictures of horrible insects on google to prove it, and that never ends well. So it seemed like it would be easier if I had the pictures of horrible insects already at hand.

But alas, the original icon was too big for livejournal/dreamwidth to handle, so I had to start taking frames out, much to my disappointment. Still, I think it gets my point across pretty well. And here's the first version, with all the pictures in it, so you can get the full effect of how vicious this state really is anyway. :D

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Cholla - an extremely evil form of cactus that most people around here grow in their yards for decoration. No, I don't know why. I do know that they are malicious enough to reach out and grab you so you end up with an armful of cactus spines.

Goatheads - also known as puncture vines. The weed grows everywhere, and the stickers are rock hard, 1/4" across, and the reason no one here goes barefoot.

Tarantula Hawk Wasp - the state insect. So named because they kill and eat tarantulas. Yeah.

Black Widow - common as dirt, my mom probably kills a half dozen a month at her apartment. Still venomous as all hell.

Coyotes - not really scary, unless you have pets. But, uh, if there are coyotes in your neighborhood (there are coyotes in every neighborhood), you won't, because the coyotes will eat them.

Mountain Lions - second biggest cat in the US, after the jaguar, which we also get on rare occasions. Which means it's big enough to kill you - we had our first fatal couger attack since the 70s last year.

Hantavirus - hemorrhagic fever spread by deer mice, of which we have many. We have the most cases out of any state in the US, and our version includes severe cardiac symptoms, including tachycardia and cardiovascular shock.

Bubonic Plague - also known as the Black Death. You may know it from that time it killed half of Europe? Yeah, we still have it. It's common enough that we have town hall meetings about how to identify plague symptoms. Oh New Mexico.

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