a house in an invictus jungle

New question since I'm studying the turian model too closely today:

To hypothesize without any supporting evidence: There could be a kind of echo chamber under the fringe/faceplates? Sound vibrates the plate, gets enhanced by the chamber to be better "heard"? Or skip the chamber and just "listen" to the plates directly, the way it's possible to "hear" by transmitting vibrations directly to the skull? Would fit well with the popular Headcanons about subvocals being below the range of Human hearing, since low sounds transmit better through solid objects than high ones.

what I mean: "sexual intercourse" is as much a social construct as "romantic courtship," and you discover this very quickly as a queer person if you try to talk to able bodied straight cis people who literally think the only thing that counts as Actual Sex is penis-in-vagina penetration, like they call oral "foreplay" it's so dire. various people have a lot of vested interest in cleanly defining "sex" vs "not sex" for a whole slew of reasons (ex. censorship dodging and enforcing, conferring the social clout of virginity and prowess, finding and closing loopholes about premarital sex, deciding what relationships "count" as serious partnerships, ligating what is general assault vs sexual assault vs Something That's Definitely Probably Fine And Not Sexual At All, Actually, etc.), and it's really not something you can just fall back on as obvious common sense that people are dumb for questioning.

it continues