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Bert: Bert and I

Ernie: Bert and I, we've been best friends forever, but we're also something else too!

Marvel please let Peter actually age and not just be stuck in the eternally a teen slash young adult who can’t have any meaningful relationships because that’s not marketable enough to teenage boys limbo

Eggs used to be buried in the hot sand before invention of incubators, some communities still do it old school style but it’s considered very old fashioned and medically outdated

Pebbles are given bells to wear to help them hear surroundings before they get better at passive echolocation, the size and volume of the bells get slowly smaller and lower as they age to encourage practice

Very clumsy and struggle to navigate, will beeb and trill for parents to find them anytime they can’t hear them

Can only Sing one note at a time at first and they learn each note one at a time before they can learn to sing simple chords

Pebble toys are similar to cat toys as they are to encourage ambush predator instincts to help improve mobility and coordination. Pebbles will chase anything that moves and makes noise and have fun doing so!

Pebbles go though a phase of sneaking and stalking parents and siblings as play and it’s important to pretend to be startled when they ‘catch’ you to encourage confidence

They Have a sleep and wake cycle similar to a puppy! Will scuttle around super fast and play for a bit and then suddenly get winded and conk out for a nap, constant vigilance is needed when pebble sitting

When they get over their clumsy phase they are super fast! They have no sense of pacing themselves tho so will run super fast somewhere and then sit down and beeb to be picked up and carried

They Start life very smooth but will get more textured chips and scratches on their carapace as they grow up as long as they are not super duper sheltered, first chips and scratches are considered similar to loosing baby teeth in terms of development milestones

Parents often carry pebbles on the top of their carapace like possums but there are special cloths and slings made with pockets to carry pebbles in while they nap so they don’t fall off

Pebbles run colder than adults so instinctively seek out warm places to warm up for a nap, this leads to sitting on and cuddling with parents/family and sleeping in big pebble piles to make sleep watching easier and encourage bonds with other pebbles, they get warmer as they get bigger

They are very good at climbing and will get into mischief and climb into cabinets and ceiling fixtures if given the opportunity

Bigger pebbles that run warmer get great pride in warming up smaller pebbles and are encouraged to cuddle up to them, it makes them feel like big kids!

Uncle Grace stuff:

Very young pebbles instinctively think Grace is a big younger pebble due to running colder and will try and warm him up even tho they shiver from the cold after a while and have to go back to their parents but will warm up and return back to him

Pebbles who can’t talk yet, mimic sounds they hear to practice. They keep trying to copy Grace speaking English and usually failing terribly

Pebbles light enough will climb Grace and sit on his head and play with his hair or climb into his pockets to nap, he makes a very nice soft cool down rest spot after scuttling around the biodome at max speed having fun

To not loose any pebbles on the beach (camouflage) Grace attaches balloons to them like a house tortoise or dresses them in tiny high vis vests <3

Guardian Angel

At the end of Book 6, Umber looks at the whole Sora situation and surmises he will have to go into hiding with his sister to save her from the retributive wrath of the law. He then makes the decision to deliberately obscure his departure from his brother Clay, so he doesn't have to get involved.

Rock doing the equivalent of blushing furiously and swooning like "omg... my mate is so so so beautiful."

Also imagine that they never stop growing until death, so maybe by the time they reach 600-and-something and die of old age, they're MASSIVE.

So an old Eridian will just lumber off a ways, sit down, and pass on. and boom. they're a mountain now. That's a mountain.

Like "You have to venture into the scary insane asylum!" VS "You're a patient who was admitted by force to an asylum, and you are very clearly in real danger, but everyone is pretending that you're just deluded, and are essentially leaving you to die because they don't really see you as a person."

It's been interesting to see what media people are recommending based on the first post alone. A lot of recommendations for games/franchises like World of Darkness, Carrion, Kill All Humans, Among Us, etc. It's interesting because these are games that put you into the shoes of the violent other that has to infiltrate, without actually challenging the idea that the other is a threat. They actually parrot the ideas of the other as violent.

Funnily enough, the people recommending the comedy game Octodad understand the post much better than most of the people recommending horror media. A few mentions of Am I Nima, which isn't finished yet but does look like it could be what I am describing, so brownie points to the people recommending that.

But everyone saying stuff like "This is just being Trans/Autistic/Etc" really gets it, like really really gets it. Horror always communicates the fears and anxieties of the people who create it, this post was basically: "What if instead of communicating the fear of the other, we communicated the fears of the others, which are actually vastly more legitimate than the dominant groups fear of the other. We should recognise that it is overwhelmingly the others who are the ones who actually suffer and die, all for the perceived "saftey" and "comfort" of the dominant group."

This idea is about transphobia, it is about ableism, about anti-imigrant rhetoric and white supremacy, about queerphobia, it's about all of it. It is horror from the perspective of minority groups. It is the twisting of a trope built upon reactionary fears and narratives in order to critique them, it is a direct allegory for all those experiences you are describing.

The way Stratt thinks is so logical, she seems to not be driven at all by emotions or even morals. In the book she seems fucking insane for the choices she makes (paving the Sahara, nuking Antarctica, etc.), but she does those thing because to her there is no time for "right" and "wrong" anymore, there are only decisions that will help save humanity, and those that won't.

Her fear of human error colors pretty much every decision she makes. She puts the astronauts in a coma to avoid them fighting in close quarters. She originally wanted only straight men on board to avoid pesky feelings between crew members. She gives Grace fucking amnesia so him and Yao wouldn't let they're feelings of betrayal get in the way of the mission. She even seemed kinda disappointed that Dr. Lamai's robot arms weren't being run by AI.

introducing my fucked up son, Peter

Carl, the guy Grace built an entire hypothesis around.

Carl, the guy that learned to have fun with Grace while doing science.

Carl, the guy that fueled Grace's addiction to Skittles and Twizzlers.

Carl, the guy that was there every step of the way until the end. And then he was forced to stand by and watch as Grace was pinned to the ground, pleading for help, calling for him of all people.

Lesson #5 cell growth/ re-growth

Rocky is supposed to be that one Toby Maguire meme btw

Again sorry for any (past/now) grammar errors. ALSO huge thanks for the people giving me ideas and correcting me!! I do truly love learning about biology facts so if you have any always fell free to share!!