Pchelik's hive

Hitch the Mousie

Or that 2000's-90's synthetic red blanket smelling like dust. Bad yellowish lighting, old wallpaper... I know how each and every flat these guys lived in looks like.

I've been there. I know how it smells, where the dust balls are hiding, how cold and dry the air is.

I always kinda felt guilty for bringing my toy robots to my post soviet world.

Like yeah it's pretty cramped, dark and moldy in here... but i have a cozy little shelf for you to stand on, to look at dust flying under sunlight, to listen to cars driving past my window at night, to be soaked in the smell of my bed sheets, perfume and books standing next to you.

oh hell yeah. adding in gender headcanons too because why not

grace:

tldr: arospec pansexual trans man

i relate Heavily to grace's experiences with allonormativity (being devalued for not having a long-term partner). i know a lot of people see him as aroace because of this, which is awesome for them and i love that headcanon, but i'm aroallo and i love projecting lol!

i imagine that he feels romantic attraction very rarely and really only after already feeling sexual attraction to someone.

he's had some fwb-type relationships in the past that ended badly because his partners fell for him and acted like he was a shitty person for not doing the same. he's also tried to force himself in romantic relationships when he wasn't feeling it and those ended similarly badly.

trans man who didn't realize until he hit puberty and hated it (also me projecting). he was in foster care and didn't feel comfortable coming out, so he started transitioning once he went to college.

he labeled himself as everything under the sun while he was questioning. he's been the whole lgbtqia+ babyyyy

simon:

tldr: gnc gay man

my eden worldbuilding is based in catholicism and several real-world cults. they have strict views on orientation when it comes to marriage and procreation and will punish queer sexuality as a sin, but generally turn a blind eye to it unless it becomes A Problem

hence, simon has had sexual encounters with both men and women for utilitarian reasons. considering his role and standing within eden, he would have been highly prized as a suitor, but he never pursued marriage because he isn't attracted to women and marriage was reserved for heterosexual couples who had been approved to have a child.

didn't know there were labels for sexualities before he met grace. grace uses the word 'gay' in casual conversation and simon is like what the hell does that mean. and at the end of grace's crash course on sexuality and gender labels simon is like oh okay! i'm gay :)

very casually feminine. on eden, this was a sort of rebellion for him; they're very strict about gender roles, but he tried to emulate his mom in a lot of ways, such as by growing out his hair. on erid, he grows his hair out much longer than he was allowed to on eden and asks grace to style it for him often. grace learns a lot of fancy hairstyles for him!

cmere white boy lemme study you

This ask has been rattling around my brain, and I'm struggling so much with an answer (Don't worry I love it.)

There's so many variables to this. Let's start with canon. In the book carvings on eridians aren't a thing, so we can't get any info from there. And although the movie introduced the concept, we only got definite info on Rocky's markings from sources outside the film itself (Instagram and Twitter posts and such.)

The only thing we know for certain is: They use these markings as a way to communicate one's social standing non-verbally. And some ridges to say goodbye.

"I am Rocky from X family. I am an engineer. I work on solving the astrophage problem. I have a mate."

All of this is very utilitarian, there really isn't much artistic flare to it. But maybe Rocky isn't the type to get an artisy tattoo, maybe the concept exists but since are stuck having to make assumptions from a single individual we can't know for certain.

So I guess it's time to speculate?

Obviously theorizing about a planet spanning species' art and aesthetics is very complicated. But seems like repeating patterns like fractals are popular, math and art seem to go hand in hand.

And since patterns derived from equations are the current norm, perhaps more organic/naturalistic designs are seen as avant-garde. Smoothing of one surface can be a way to signal rejection of beauty standards, or maybe detachment from material possessions and social rank.

Maybe they could even enjoy having carvings that make certain noises when rubbed. Perhaps they replicate sounds from eridian animals, or sound like the name of a diseased close one. Tying into the themes of farewell and goodbye.

Faun lady.