#blorbsday

Taxonomist 1: I think this population of blorb snails count as their own species under the phylogenetic and biological species concepts. Their last common ancestor was between 5 and 100 million years ago, idk, my 35 year old copy of Clustal finally exploded so I just eyeballed it, but they totally got wack cytochrome C oxidase genes, even though for the most part they're genetically pretty similar and they still look and act exactly the same in every way and also both live in the same place as each other. The only reason why they don’t interbreed is they have like a single incompatible protein thingo, which is also more or less the only meaningful phenotypic difference between them.

(this is an actual thing that can happen. They’re called cryptic species and species complexes and they hurt my soul) 

Taxonomist 2: No. It’s more pragmatic and useful to just use the morphological and ecological species concepts here; and they say fuck you and your dumb snails. I wanna lump all existing species into half as many species, there’s too many fucking species.

Taxonomist 1: you wanna fucking say that to my face you little shit?

Taxonomist 3: Hey, real quick, what do you guys think about the possibility of reclassifying the Blorb genus under Littorinidae instead of Muricidae? Because I already wrote a paper on it, so that's the case now. Cry about it.

Taxonomist 2: I think today is the day bitches die.

*Mexican standoff using conch shells as blunt weapons ensued, there were no survivors.*

"'Your warmth rivals the sun.'

'And your eyes shine like water taking in moonlight.'"

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Just two Hunters chilling in eachothers embrace, nothing to see here~

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For blorbsday, two of your blorbos are having a duel for Reasons™️. Who do they take with them and how does it go down? (Everything's fair game: weapons, rules, fantasy new jersey)

(Shhhh it's normal to answer six-month-old asks out of the blue... don't worry about it...)

A RNG chose Lug and Claw for the duel! This would be more of a sparring match than a real fight, probably held inside one of Phalanx's combat training rooms. There'd be walls to hide behind, fake buildings, decoy soldiers, stuff to throw - and all of it would be taken advantage of. It'd be overseen by the Engineer, of course, with at least one Repair Unit on the sidelines.

For blorbsday, do you have any character is just a little guy but the weight of the world is on their shoulders and they kinda carry it willingly because they feel they have to, it's just who they are? And if so please tell me about them.

That's basically new MC, Fastyma, to a tee. She's amazing :D

Girl is told her entire life she has to be the sacrifice for a powerful godlike dragon so said dragon doesn't go berserk and kill the entire kingdom, and she goes with it because that's all she knows.

But THEN, things get weird, and suddenly the dragon just decides she's not good enough for some reason????? Fastyma doesn't quite know, but she does know that the point of her dying was to protect the kingdom, and this dragon is now threatening the kingdom, so she has to go to the dragon's lair and fix it, right? Even if that means going against literal gods who are growing angrier by the day at the royal family (who have done some stuff but she has no clue what), that's her job right? After all, it's not her life that matters, but her death.

She's also goofy and likes erotica and knows like nothing about actually experiencing the world except through books, so unfortunately the three Regional Guards who have been tasked with escorting her to get things fixed are about to have A Time(tm).

I love her so much she's such an idiot and doesn't realize that she's about to deal with the Experiences(tm) for the first time.

~ @void-botanist

Thanks for the ask, Rose! I'm not sure the core cast's love languages are all that strange.

Gareth: stepping between you and harm

Hannah: calling you out when when you fuck up, making up silly songs about you

Reeve: cooking for you, putting your needs before his own

But! Marek LOVES to give nicknames to Neptune's head of Cleanup, Penn Harris. Here are a few:

Penn Station

Penne Pasta

Pennbrooke Corgi

Penntagram

Penn And Paper

Pennacillin

Penninsula