Jae

quotes taken from the source

Like it's bad when a "tattoo is undulating" (as opposed to... "drawn in a wave like pattern on the skin"?), or when hair is "wet wheat from a late Summer field" (as opposed to "sort of brownish light yellow that dries lighter, but is not actual wheat stalks growing on someone's head but kind of reminiscent of the color and texture"?), or when when ice cream tastes like midnight at the fair" (as opposed to "ice cream flavour bringing back memories of undefined ice cream flavours that are individually popular but always tied to a memory of late evening at the fair ground and probably smelling vaguely like popcorn and sugar"?).

That granted access comes with a 5 day training seminar. It covers how to put on the xeno suits correctly, to basic human etiquette when interacting with them, to an intense break down of ALL the ways an eridian can die inside that atmosphere and environment. At the end there is paperwork the Eridian must sign to have written proof that they learned all this and agreed.

Rocky himself had taught a few of those seminars, but only if he knows the eridian taking it. He either is the best expert there is, encouraging family or friends that they are in safe claws and the biomes goal is to protect them just as much as it is to protect the humans. OR. He’s the judge, jury, and executioner to whatever shmoozing politician or spoiled nepo hatchling who thinks that the biome is some kind of expensive funny zoo exhibit that they can use for their own means.

The Only eridians that get to have Grace himself as their biodome instructor are the children he teaches and their family chaperones. Tho the kids specifically are put into protective hamsterballs instead of full xeno suites.

I'm sure it's totally fine and normal and great that the taxi spies on you and will just deliver you directly to the police :)

This definitely can't be something that would be used in an abusive or arbitrary way :)

I showed this post to my boyfriend and he tried to take his shirt off like a girl and 

uh

and it made me realize that girls and boys pull their shirt off differently. /amazed

Its not science unless you write it down so 

Well done, i guess…

Second:

I fucked up

It’s all in the way that girl/boys shirts are made.

Girls shirts have less armpit room then boy’s do and are generally shorter so pulling it off over your head is more practical because by lifting your arms all the way up you make enough room for the sleeves to just slip off.

Boys shirts have more room and are generally longer so it is easy to slip them off over your head.

but if you take a girls shirt off like a boys shirt you will get your arms caught because there isn’t much armpit space.

and if you take a boys shirt off like a girls shit you will still have your head in it when you’ve lifted your arms all the way up because of the shirt’s length.

okay but what if rocky didn't just have a spouse back home on erid but parents, too?

if this hasn't been done before then PLEASE SOMEONE DO A GROCKY "MEET THE PARENTS" COMIC OR SMTH

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@pyrriae: the idea of eridians having like, little sculptures of their pebbles growing over time is tearing me apart 😭🥹

@monsieurclavier: they are ADORING parents. and even though eridians have such long memories, sometimes they yearn to FEEL what it was like to hold their little ones. that's why they make the sculptures: they're 3D photo albums, yes, but they also allow aging parents to hold their baby pebbles again. 🥹

@pyrriae: CRYING SCREAMING LOSING MY MIND 😭😭😭😭 rocky parent A, holding a sculpture of him as a wee one aloft: rocky my dear, could you ever believe you were this small??? rocky, trying to burrow through the floor to get away: can we talk about literally anything else. anything. at all. grace, grinning so wide he's about to pull a muscle: do you have anymore of those? can I hold one? rocky parent B: yes!!! let me get them for you!! rocky: I should've stayed in Tau Ceti.

@monsieurclavier: not grace holding a sculpture of pebble!rocky and immediately deciding he needs a baby pebble of his own. rocky senses that in the way grace's body CHANGES--the tightening of grace's arms around the sculpture, the dropping heart rate that is usually a sign of the human body flooding with endorphins, the slight increase of moisture in grace's eyes--and immediately decides that wait, hang on, this might be worth all the embarrassment after all. now, all he has to do is get grace to sing their eggs into hatching together, and soon, they'll have pebbles of their own to make miniature sculptures of.

@monsieurclavier NOT ME WRITING GRACE GETTING BABY FEVER HALP

@pyrriae: rocky stumbled into giving his alien partner baby fever. love that for him 💖

any time someone is in any kind of crisis or upheaval, offer to feed them. tell them they don't have to choose what it is if they can't make decisions, just ask about allergies and preferences and tell them you're just gonna make food happen at their house.

friend having a baby? delivery gift certificate to order food to the hospital after the kid shows up.

someone's relative passes away? offer to make them dinner.

buddy gets laid off? ask if you can order them lunch.

pal stuck in a depressive episode? offer to drive them to fucking mcdonalds, if that's what they want.

people in crisis are tired and sad and angry and the last thing most of them are doing is thinking about feeding themselves. so if you have the ability or time or money, providing that is always, always a good move.

And when i notice one of them my eyes will always start to roll.

The diction's always slurry when they rush the complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they keep just making more and more, please someone stop the parodies of modern major general.

If you care about Animal Cruelty in Factory Farms, you need to get legislation passed. It must become a crime to mistreat animals in those ways, and when malfeasances occurs, the onus of responsibility for those crimes must fall upon wealthy shoulders. That, also, requires legislation. It requires regulations, and regulators.

The largest source of Microplastics is wear and tear on automobile tires. It doesn’t matter what brand of shampoo you buy. It doesn’t matter which company you support with your dollar. The issue of Public Transit is too large-scale to be handled at anything less than the municipal level.

It’s not enough to just not participate in society

If you want the world to Change, you must leverage the mechanisms of political power.