doctor heart stealer

The first time they have to use it (over something stupid like a tiny ammonia leak), Grace wakes up to like three different foghorns and a hundred camera flashes going off at once and is like HOLY GEEZ THE APOCALYPSE IS UPON US

RIP Rocky’s project

This one kind of ran away with me.

Original under the cut

Grace, that wasn’t very nice.

Eridian speculative biology time!

Erid is a very big planet, very very very big planet, twice the size of earth in fact- and divided by oceans, perfect conditions for populations to remain and develop separately and for long enough to create diferent species. So, unlike us, Eridians are a Polytypic genus: there's more than one species of sapient eridian, All of them sharing a common ancestor in the form of a small, 5 legged ambush-hunter land carnivore, all share common traits taking only slightly different evolutionary paths

Divers- get their name from living in semi-flooded caves, their high small vents allow them to be partially submerged without drowning and their long arms allow them to grip things easily underwater, similar to a sea-horse tail

Climbers- similarly, they get their name from their living enviroment, living in very high caves, their long thin arms allow them to grip and climb very steep rock walls, kinda like goats in a way

Drills and Stompers get their name from the shape of their arms, they both developed closer to the surface compared to the others, their arms are like that for dealing with sandstorms, while Drills "drill" themselfs in place, Stompers use their body weight to keep themselfs down

Blocks are very similar to Stompers, but they live in caves much deeper down, so they're quite compact

Common traits between all species: all Eridians can thrum, all Eridians organize in "colonies" like ants or termites (tho the specifics of how each colony works varies), all Eridians are True Carnivores(can only eat meat) and all Eridians are unisex

In theory any one eridian can procreate with any other eridian, between the 5 species there are 4 fertile hybrids and 3 infertile hybrids posible

note: tho each species has a more broad vague shared culture between themselves, none of them are a monolith, all of them have vastly different culture, language, texture, practices and even phenotypes between different colonies around the world

note 2: the fact humans are a monotypic species (there is only one in our genus) is really fucking weird to them

Maki the Sushi Furby 🍣🍣

My newest custom.

He was a sheep baby furby. As soon as I saw this furby I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

Before:

Here have a shaky lil video of my new girl!

Grace has whole self sustaining ecosystems of bacterias and fungi. He grew them himself over the course of a few weeks and he's all giddy every time a teacher compliments him on it.

Simon brings at least ten potted plants, the special qualities of which vary from "slightly poisonous" to "used as medical herbs" to "I just really like this one :)" and he's done little booklets on each one.

that type of eridian grace waking up in erid’s hodgepodge blip a (put together in a rush, since they’re the planet running out of time in this AU). finding a huge luxury cruiser version of the hail mary with a single 50-something year old mechanic inside. a lonely, desperate man who has been stranded for almost 20 years trying to save his planet.

the eridian grace that earns his name as rocky’s flashlight illuminates his beautiful iridescent earth-colored body, blues and greens and golds, rocky’s “saving grace”. he is the smartest being rocky’s ever met and soon the bravest, too.

would he end up with a discolored limb from where rocky’s skin burnt off around him, carrying him to safety?

would he remember that despite the emphasis on the collective, on relationships and love and belonging, he never met someone who he could let truly *know* him? not like this. not like rocky does.

would he ever learn that his new best friend, this tall leaky stubborn man, prayed everyday that his grace would come to save him?

i think that he would take very good care of that old engineer. he would want so badly to take him home and ask him to leave his family on earth behind. he would know he’s being selfish, though, and swallow his pride as they said their goodbyes.

there wouldn’t be a moment of hesitation when grace realizes he needs to turn back to save rocky’s life. he’s prepared to spend the remainder of his life dying in the handsome human’s big strong arms.

The pebbles love it, it’s like going sledding given how cold the dome is, but Rocky wants to know why Grace calls it Sisyphus and not sledding.

So Grace explains the myth and the punishment. Sisyphus still thinks he’ll be able to get the boulder to the top and that he’ll still outwit the Gods one final time. It’s only his hubris that is grander than his cleverness and frustration in believing he is capable of completing an impossible task. Trapped forever believing he will be successful in pushing his boulder up the hill.

like, for instance, the "question" or "statement" at the end of the sentence, right? Well that question particle IS a thing in mandarin, it's tacking on 么 in places. Or the weird way the program has to sort out how Rocky initially says things that are plurals, which is also a quirk that I have to work around sometimes. It makes me really wonder if Yao might have had an easier translation experience in certain elements and a tougher translation experience in others. I wonder what similarities and differences eridian might have to Russian, too.