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You WILL be racist. You WILL do racist things. You have ALREADY done both. Learn and move on. There's no ideological purity you can hold on to, i promise. Proving you can take the criticism without making it a big deal and practice what you preach is better than any clean slate.

Hermaphrodite mean one animal can make two different type of reproductive cell, usually egg and sperm. Like sea slug. Eridian making only one. They make egg. People hc that egg size can be varied but it still EGG. Their egg fused like slime mould fusion into macrocyst.

The docs is using the wrong word but it does explain how eridian make pebble so at least I can go hunt down the right term for y'all to use

ERIDIAN ARE ISOGAMOUS. STOP USING THE WRONG WORD

yeah you get it. that's what fucks rocky up so much about—eridians have a crystalline brain. rocky remembers every single thing that he perceives in perfect detail. he's one of the best engineers erid has ever seen, so it's logical that he double checks his work not just to screen for oversights, but to see if anything new can be added. typically this is done in a thrum, allowing for ideas to bounce off one another.

but rocky was alone at tau ceti for almost 50 years. there was no thrum—not for lack of trying to get his crewmates to respond—so rocky does it himself.

so rocky gets stuck in loops. his brain rereads the same information over and over again, expecting to be passed onto another one of his species. when it isn't, there's no sense of completion and the loop starts back over. not having another eridian translates to stress on an instinctual level so his brain thinks there's an error in the loop or in his work. he completes a ritual or task to satisfy the anxiety. the cycle repeats itself regardless because eridians are not meant to be alone.

he has to check on grace's breathing. he needs to check the taumoeba. he needs to make sure he isn't dying of radiation sickness. he needs to force feed his friend as he wastes away. there's so much rocky can't fix and so much that he could have if his crew was still alive (if he didn't kill them). it starts to become more irrational—tapping in sets of five on the xenonite barrier to make sure it's stable. saying words over and over that don't really make sense with eridiani sentence structure. if he doesn't click and shake his carapace, his brain will make him relive the fat of grace's arm liquefying and coagulating in his hold.

inside his body, his worker cells are exhausted from constantly going to repair a sickness that doesn't exist. his cells are the sickness, driving themselves to ruin in a never-ending death spiral.

Part 7 of catching up my Tumblr!!! (Click photo for better quality)

This is one of my ALL TIME FAVOURITES!!! I made this shortly after playing Echoes of Wisdom for the first time, and it took SO LONG to do the line art and coloring, and shading 😭😌

So here’s EoW Link getting ready prior to the game in his cozy little home!

Here are some process photos as well! Just for funsies