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First chapter of the Kelvin Kronicales! Yippie!!

Chapters will release… monthly? Hopefully monthly

I hope you enjoy this little introduction :)

I imagine that the place you grow up would then be a bigger part of the average eridian's identity than it generally is for humans, maybe being seen as a bigger marker of what culture one is a part of than where one's ancestors came from.

Historically, a lot of cultures might have considered it really important to return home to have and raise your kids, since that allows you to pass down your culture and identity to them. If you raise your kids elsewhere, some might not consider them part of the same culture.

(Yes, this might cause issues for mate clusters with birthplaces far away from one another, but for most of Erid's history, that was uncommon enough that each group of mates would usually find their own way of dealing with it, if it came up.)

In more recent history, especially since the construction of the space elevator, as a project of that scale requires global cooperation and involves a lot more highly specialized people moving around, mate clusters with members from wildly different places have become a lot more common.

This started a new trend/tradition: mate clusters with different birthplaces will construct an artificial nest/incubation chamber and fill it with soil and minerals from their childhood home. The minerals the pebble absorbs prior to hatching have the biggest influence on their carapace, so this means the pebbles' carapaces will have aspects from all parents' home regions, and as they grow and molt, they'll also start to take in minerals from the region they're currently living in. This way, the pebbles' traits reflect their parents' cultural identities as well as the cultural identity of wherever they themselves grow up.

Oh, yeah, no, definitely. I have vague plans for a fic where some of that would come up (eventually. Mostly as a source of drama in Adrian's extended family.)

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.

@sarasplenda has funny ideas

Project Hail Mary is currently consuming my every waking thought, and me being me has started dabbling in what the other creatures of Erid might look like. We know next to nothing about Erid’s fauna apart from the Eridians themselves. So here are some very rough(and not very thought out)speculative creatures that share the surface with the Eridians because if I don’t dump my ideas somewhere I fear I might explode

(Left to right, top to bottom)

The first creature is one of the reasons Eridians watch each other sleep, and one of the reasons they evolved carapaces, it is one of their ancient predators. Though no longer a threat since the Eridians started building cities, it is essentially the eridian equivalent of a tiger. Any lone eridian who wanders outside the safety of civilization however, is at risk of becoming dinner for this beast. Like all creatures on Erid’s surface, it’s completely blind. It’s ’’head’’ has a small exposed bit of soft skin at the very front where its only opening is(a closed system, just like the eridians), and the rest is a sensory organ used for picking up on the tiniest sounds and vibrations in the air. It’s thick skin is covered in highly sensitive grooves and ridges, again for picking out vibrations in the air and ground around them, though not as specialized as the sensory organ on their head.

They’re quite large and very robust, and have evolved to break into the carapaces of their armored prey not by piercing it, but by using brute force to crack them open. The grab their prey with their front limbs, rear up on the remaining 3 legs, and use their full weight to slam their prey into the ground, breaking their carapace to get at the organs inside. Once cracked open, they mash up the insides with their claws, and then slurp up the mush with a long tongue(yuck)

Our second creature, is a tiny menace. Not too unlike sea urchins on earth, these guys are covered in toxic spikes. They like to hide in crevices, sometimes in very large numbers and thus are a major pain in the ass for the eridians when they decide that a corner of the house or a piece of equipment that hasn’t been used for a while is an excellent spot to gather in. Though they are harmless for eridians due to their protective carapace, they do get stuck at times and can literally break sensitive equipment, and are surprisingly fast moving when disturbed so in order to get them out, they need to be caught. Easier said than done.

Creature #3 is essentially a sea slug! They live in the hot rock pools and shallows by the sea. They have a segmented shell and roll themselves up when threatened. They’re quite large and surprisingly meaty, and are considered a delicacy on many parts of the planet.

Creature #4 is a tiny detritivore. They look a bit like a cross between an isopod and a shrimp. They have grooves in their exoskeletons to better pick up on sounds, and very sensitive bristles for feeling the air around them.

Creature #5 is another menace for the eridians, though less of an issue in modern times. Its body plan is very convergent with the eridians and for a good reason, it’s a brood parasite. Their eggs are almost impossible to tell apart from those of eridians, and so they lay them amongst fresh clutches. They incubate just as long as the eridian eggs, and when they hatch they will eat the unhatched eggs in the nest, or the young pebbles whos carapaces are still very soft, a disaster for any eridian pair. The parasite will then scuttle off into the wild, and if they live long enough they will repeat the process as adults with their own eggs.

Creature #6 is a real oddball. They live high up on cliffs and feed on other airborne organisms, catching their prey by vacuuming them up mid-air. They’re extremely lightweight, being full of air sacs. They’re also incapable of powered flight, instead gliding through the air on their membranes, surfing on the currents and sometimes hitch a ride on updrafts for extra lift.

It's an ecosystem guys, we need all of it