Plushi Paws!!!

You're sick. You recognise the symptoms from your crew, you have radiation poisoning. The astrophages that were protecting you and powering the ship are gone. You couldn't find the leak in time to stop it. And now you're dying out here in space, alone.

The life support systems on the ship are shutting down. Everything is shutting down. Your planet will die– your entire star system will die. They'll never know how close you came to saving them.

You think about Grace. Is his ship dying too? Or is he on his way home, none the wiser to your fate?

Maybe you're fighting until the end, or maybe you've 'made peace' with it.

And then you hear knocking, on the outside of your ship. Furious, desperate banging on the window. Your friend, your lab partner, your first contact, has come back to save you.

You know exactly how much fuel you gave this chucklefuck, and now he doesn't have enough to go home. Dumbass. Idiot. More words he can't understand. He gave up his chance to go home for a planet he's never been to? No, he gave it up for you.

All you can do is go to Erid together, on his ship because yours is now a biohazard. He's confined to it while you talk to scientists, to eridians in charge, making them understand that this weird soft alien saved everyone. And now he needs them to save him in return.

Using what he showed you, you help design an enclosure for him. A house with a bed, sand, water, this really specific gas mix for an atmosphere, sunlight. It's a whole thing.

Bee plush pillow available via Shark Robot January 23, 2025. Designed by KStone.

Speed draw of this background from the Hazbin Hotel pilot posted to Spectralbeacon's youtube October 6, 2018.

Vox, Valentino, and Velvette backgrounds from the VoxTek website which went live November 14, 2025.

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.