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grace doodle dump <3 grace is now hypermobile and lays unnaturally slinky sometimes <3 Like an angel or an autistic teenage girl (same thing) <3

+ projecting neurodivergency about scheduled events of the day (stratt brings her ESA to every meeting)

also their dorsal radiator slits especially make me think of the holes in a sand dollar test (though sand dollars are not perfectly radial)

i may be biased by how the ecosystem Eridians live in is essentially a very high-energy terrestrial ocean floor. Energy comes from the "surface" atmosphere where microscopic producers form the first link in a food web of increasingly larger predators and detritivores that Eridians are at the end of. Andy gives basically no information about their ecosystem besides "they eat flying things" but the planetary floor ecosystem is probably dominated by filter feeders that catch "marine snow" falling from the upper atmosphere and aeroplankton. I don't know how large flyers can get or anything about their lifecycles and behaviors or the mechanics of how they fly, because again, Andy did not care, but I can't help but imagining a whale fall situation with dozens of Eridians picking pieces off a gigantic corpse that fell from the sky like they're deep sea crabs

I couldn't miss an opportunity to make epic geological phenotypes for eridians:D them rocks will look fly as hell on my watch!

Nerding out under the cut:)