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Lesson #4 buoyancy

For those interested specifically it is:

• Freshwater: ~ 1.00 g/cm3

• Seawater (Saltwater): ~ 1.025 g/cm3

• Average Human Body: ~ 0.985 g/cm3

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There's some people in the comments saying "fandoms have always been like this" and others saying "No, it's worse than it was." And both are to some extent right. Fans (or at least a small percentage of fans, and the larger a fanbase gets the larger a group this will describe) have always been Like That; but they did not always have the level of access to creators and actors that they have now.

The notion that a performer needs to be constantly available to public scrutiny, that their personal information should by default be available to any rando with google, is pretty new. It used to be that actors would only be expected to engage with the public on limited, specific, and controlled occasions, usually with security provided. Now they're being asked to rawdog exposure to the mob 24/7 on their own.

(Also, production companies have always always always been exploitative cowards, just to get that straight; reading the biographies of literally any actress from golden Hollywood years makes that clear. It's just, again, more public now.)

If you think "children should not be allowed in this space," you HAVE TO reckon with the fact that you are now excluding parents (and very often women specifically) who don't have access to childcare. You are isolating people who are poor, or rural, or single parents, or any number of other factors that might prevent someone from having on-demand childcare. You are cutting them off from being able to exist in public. You are denying parents and children the ability to fully participate in society.

My mom spent several years only leaving the house to buy groceries or take me to school, and even then, people would still come up to her to complain TO HER FACE about how she shouldn't bring a crying toddler to Walmart. Entitled strangers would literally try and demand that my mom leave and come back without the kids.

"Why can't your husband watch them?" Because he was at work, usually working extreme amounts of overtime so we didn't get evicted, because landlords don't like it when you stop paying rent.

"Why can't you send them to daycare?" Because that costs money.

"Why can't your teenager stay home with them and babysit?" Because I also deserved to be able to leave the house for something other than school, and taking me to the grocery store was how my mom taught me to manage a household budget, shop sales, and meal plan.

"Don't bring your kid in public if you can't CONTROL them and make them stop crying!" Kids cry when they're upset, and being dragged around a store is upsetting! Don't be an asshole! Children are human beings who are still learning how the world works, and they don't have a lot of agency. You'd cry, too.

"Spank them until they learn to stop crying!" That's just straight-up child abuse, Jesus Christ.

How Ant got their name! Pt. 1

- Eridian Grace is fucking TERRIFIED of going to sleep at the start. Reminds him too much of what Stratt did to him. The whole "sleeping with no dreams and no ability to be awoken" just chills the mercury in his bones and sends him into such a panic the other eridians are afraid FOR him. Adrian and Rocky have to soothe him both in and out of sleeps and make it so the sleeping cycle is as comfortable to him as possible. They also fiercely guard him the entire way through.

- Eridian Grace would more than likely have a measure of limb pain and phantom limb pain from when he was human. All of it basically psychological, no less real. They've found that warm baths actually help his joints and limbs ache less, maybe due to the stress relief?

- probably also has audio processing issues? Since he's lived most of his life as a human with a separate sensory way to see his surroundings, his brain might lag when processing information as an eridian, not because of pure processing capacity but because his psyche is just not used to sight and hearing being essentially one sense. So he takes a longer time to process stuff.

- insanely, ABSURDLY clingly and touchy. Will have bouts of uncontrollable shaking and will basically freak out if he cannot hold claws with Adrian or Rocky at LEAST. Was clearly deeply affected by not being able to touch other living beings for so long.

- gets easily overwhelmed sensory wise too, to the point sound kind of hurts his receptors. Adrian and Rocky have established on pain of Adrian chucking mfers into the artificial ocean of the biodome that if Grace has a "quiet day", then EVERYONE must respect Grace's need for a Quiet Day and if it needs to be more than one day then he'll get more than a day! As many days until sound stops hurting him!!

Grace the brand new Eridian with the pain tolerance of a clumsy human who had bruises on his legs from constantly tripping and was half burned by a boiling alien atmosphere gets what is essentially a tattoo.

this is an AU where they have figured out how to create an Eridian body for Grace and record his conciseness to be transferred into it! my tag for this is Eridian Grace, and my asks are open!!

I've been inspired by lots of other amazing works of art, so I wanna give some credit! - this adorable design by pomellon inspired my coloring for Graces Eridian body - this fic by startingatmidnight gave me so many great ideas for Eridian culture and biology - this fic by thederpypikachu is so cute and fun!

general info -

I've both read the book and watched the movie, so I've taken stuff form both. This is not shipping Grace and Rocky, they are just really great friends! I love the idea they are platonic soulmates, and Grace is aroace. Grace also still identifies as a man, and uses he/him pronouns for himself- and Rocky. As an Eridian Grace is slightly younger than Rocky, but larger. Grace continues teaching his students after he adjusts.

posts -

first design - Grace sounds like a hatchling - Grace gets a carving - Eridian textiles - clingy Grace - cuddle pile - Grace staying awake - Sylva and DNA samples - thank you card doodles -

and... I'm writing a fanfic!!

Chapter 2 of To The Other Side is now up of ao3!

This is an Eridian Grace fic where a consciousness swap program lets him inhabit an Eridian body when his dome fails, so feel free to check this out if that interests you

Enjoy!