“New Year, new me!” It’s time to shed the old year and welcome the new one. Meet the green anole (Anolis carolinensis), a small lizard found throughout much of the southeastern United States. Did you know that as an anole grows, it sheds its old skin? This process, called ecdysis, helps the lizard get rid of damaged or infected skin and allows for new healthy skin to replace it. In fact, most reptiles (including turtles and snakes) shed their skin as they grow.

Photo: Outdoor Alabama, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr

Pulling out of the old scarred skin (old rough thing I don’t need now I strip off slip out of leave behind) I slough off deadscales flick skinflakes to the ground Shedding toughness peeling layers down to vulnerable stuff And I’m blinking off old eyelids for a new way of seeing By the rock I rub against I’m going to be tender again

Harryette Mullen, "Shedding Skin"

Imagine if people had to shed like snakes

Like imagine sitting in a moist room fully naked for 9-14 consecutive days just shedding you skin

Pantera  - Shedding Skin

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If dragons are reptiles...

And reptiles shed their skin...

Do the Targaryens have to help them with the lil bits that get stuck?

Bitch-

what’s your secret on looking young?

Well firssst I died fairly young...so that. But alssso I shed my ssskin once a year, the Eggies usssually run things while that is going on. -🎩🐍

He's like a snake but gorier

Rent week

Once a month my uterus says "you owe me sperm." And I say "I don't have it." And it tears the walls down in a fit of rage. (Dw it always replaces them)

Considering, just for funsies, creating dating app profiles in character as a serial killer/horror movie villain. As a joke. For the lols.

CRASHED COMMUNION PHASE FATALE & SILENT SERVANT [SHEDDING SKIN COMP, MAY 2023]

one angery peeling skinklizard

Pantera - Shedding Skin

Pantera  -  Shedding Skin

Shedding skin

Pulling out of the old scarred skin (old rough thing I don't need now I strip off slip out of leave behind)

I slough off deadscales flick skinflakes to the ground

Shedding toughness peeling layers down to vulnerable stuff

And I'm blinking off old eyelids for a new way of seeing

By the rock I rub against I'm going to be tender again

(Harryette Mullen)