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I will write him essentially being emotionally adopted by the Addamses and having pregnancy bro shenanigans with Gomez.

Think about it! Grandmama feeding Wei Wuxian because he's too skinny. Morticia and him in the greenhouse growing black and red lotus and sentient radishes. FESTER AND WEI WUXIAN EXPERIMENTING TOGETHER.

Vibing with Cousin It, accompanying Lurch on the organ with Chenqing, THE SHENANIGANS HE'D GET UP TO WITH THING.

Imagine Wei Wuxian meeting Wednesday and being reminded of Wen Qing, helping Pugsley with various trap builds, Pubert's still a toddler but he's really into animal bones so Wei Wuxian reanimates a few small dinosaur skeletons for him.

And of course at some point Lan Wangji shows up and now Wei Wuxian is too far along for dimensional travel so it's wangxian chillin' with the Addams Family until 100 days after Wei Wuxian gives birth.

I will write this if Gomez defeats Starscream. He doesn't even have to win the whole tournament. He just has to beat the decepticon.

A Plot: It’s Grace’s first day teaching in an Eridian classroom! Will the students respond well to his human teaching style?

this is my reminder to me about what helped after a month+ of work, but if this could help others who have the same weakness as me, i'd be glad

note: these build up muscles (my thighs were particularly weak) so initially i got new aches. they're numbered by weeks assigned but stack, so by week 3 i did all these exercises twice a day. now that pain is just soreness -> once every other day for maintenance

week 1. strengthen feet/calves

10 reps twice of raising heels to point of stretch, not hurt (i have high mobility in my ankles and the pain focuses at the front, so 70% of the way up at first)

30 second hold (3 times each leg) of gastroc stretch: push down on the heel and bend forward knee to feel stretch in back-leg's calf back

2 minutes (each) rolling a tennis ball along the arch of my foot

week 2. strengthen thighs/hips (can have resistance band around thighs just above knees on all stretches here)

10 reps twice supine bridge, engaging butt muscles for lift

10 reps twice each side clamshell, feeling resistance bands on thighs (use a pillow. put hand on hip to find point hips may turn and stop leg raise there; you want to feel it in butt, not back, muscles)

week 3. relieve upper back pain

20 reps of open book, from on side: hands clapped together, bring upper arm up onto the other side, following the movement with head and feel stretch in upper back (modified to keep knees together and reminder to use pillow to avoid neck pain)

Complain loudly about the fucked up pavement leading into stores.

Bitch to friends and family loudly about not being able to use a bathroom in a place. Or how there’s no elevator or ramp or whatever.

Run into the car blocking off the ramp inside a place with your wheelchair. Oops oh well.

Don’t move out of people’s way who run into /you/ when you’re out of the way anyways, they can do what normal people do and say “excuse me” and fucking wait their damn turn.

Be fucking loud. Nothing will change if we aren’t loud about it.

And make others uncomfortable. They make us uncomfortable all the time. Stare at them right back. Loudly tell them to back off.

Someone to be brave for.

excerpt is from chapter 29 of the novel.

All of this is speculation based on Andy Weir's informational document on Eridians.

I've seen some tags and comments and yes, the Eridian system is largely steam-hydraulic, AKA water state change, so Rocky's regimen isn't exactly due to 'muscle atrophy!'

It's kind of worse, it's 'heart atrophy.'

Now, only major blood circulatory issues and injuries are healed during dormancy (sleep), since it's the only time the Hot Circulatory System is cool enough for the worker cells to survive and work in. This is actually what we saw in the book/movie in Rocky's case, during the Tauboeba Incident. That was a special case of healing. For the average eridian, regular sickness and superficial injuries are healed by exercising to move the blood flow along, as opposed to humans resting/ sleeping to recover!

Eridians have two separate blood systems (both containing tens of thousands of blood vessels) :

HCS (hot circulatory system): Thermal insulator, 310 C

ACS (ambient circulatory system.): Contains all the regular worker cells.

And two types of muscles:

Skeletal muscles: The eridian muscles, spongey, full of expandable vesicles that each have a small amount of liquid water in them. Surrounded and interspersed with HCS and ACS capillaries. Performs the main macroscopic movement.

Micromuscles: Valves in the blood vessels that control the blood flow, exists inside the bloodstream. They are powered by microelectric charge from the bloodstream.

How does the hydraulic system work?

The HCS vessels flows and heats up the miniscule amounts of water contained in the structures of the skeletal muscles into a gas, which expands the vesicles. This state change results in ACTION and MOVEMENT.

Flexing: HCS heats up to expand (via steam) and ACS vessels constrict

Relaxing: HCS

Water has a different boiling point under different atmosphereic pressure, so due to long-term exposure to the much lower atmospheric pressure of the hail mary (and 0 pressure for space in general), it's the circulatory systems that go out of whack.

What Eridian organs are weakened in space?

Eridians have 5 hearts, each near the major joint of the leg. They not only pump blood along the limbs, but metals that alternate through the body to a steady electrical charge (energy) for the micromuscles.

Rocky's hearts are the actual organs that are atrophying. they're used to pumping the heavy mercury under Erid's intense atmospheric pressure, so they are definitely affected by the gravitational difference in space.

When the hearts weaken, so does the blood flow that maintains the energy required to power the micromuscles, which control the blood flow, which is required for heating water for expanding vescicles.

TLDR: Eridian muscles require state change, which is affected by different atmospheric pressure. Eridians exercise to heal in general, but Rocky's regimen is mainly cardiovascular exercises, reintroducing the circulatory system to the atmospheric and gravitational pressure on Erid.

Grace's regimen is focused on his muscular system!