Scientific Hooliganism

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One of the more surreal "Real life isn't like your little fairytale books, kid" moments I had growing up was the realization of just how many political and military leaders both present and historical were/are comprehensively incompetent ass-on-backwards dipshits. I was disappointed at the lack of wise and benevolent leaders, to be sure, but I was at once disappointed and relieved by the lack of scheming Dark Lords. And I don't even mean that in an egalitarian "Oh, we're all just people" sort of a way (I mean, I do, but like also); the whole statist project or w/e would seem to strongly select for the absolute dregs of what our species has to offer.

I noticed in the comments that some people can’t see the thread, so I took screenshots for y'all!

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(Barely contained sobbing) Like no I’m fine it’s just that Stan stared at the picture before closing his eyes so that they could be the last thing he saw because he knew he wouldn’t remember them and wanted to hold onto the people he was effectively dying for for just a second longer so he could have that be the last bit of him that went away and like I don’t know what to do with those emotions

#i know this post is supposed to have a sexual connotation but imo they're getting weirder than that#rocky lets grace observe his entire digestive process with an adapted x-ray machine#they make some slapdash endoscopy equipment so rocky can look down grace's esophagus and stomach#grace lets rocky pull a tooth for study because he's fascinated by the human body producing something that's similarly sturdy#to himself (also he wants to have it professionally embedded into his carapace as soon as they get to erid but shhhh)#rocky chips off pieces from his own mantle (his deformed legs are already brittler than the rest of him so it's not like it's hard)#also for “study” but is internally debating himself on how to ask grace if he's ever considered subdermal piercings#grace gives himself multiple surgicial lacerations so rocky can get a better view of his sinew and muscle#and document the (from his mostly inorganic perspective) insane restorative ability of human skin#maybe grace even lets some of them get infected on purpose so he can show off his immune system#anyways that being said#rocky is not a biologist and probably doesn't know the exact chemical make-up of his internal tissue.#so they're definitely shoving a heat protected spectrometer up his cloaca