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The Biggest Damn Winner

You, Takua, cheer your crab of choice as they dash for the finish. The contestants give their all for the final stretch in a thrilling display of sportsmanship! Until, what is clearly a Matoran in a Crab Suit skitters wildly off-track, tangling into Absolute Unit and tripping both of them up in an act faker than professional wrestling. Several Matoran in the stands laugh knowingly.

Ceiling Sam- Total Score: 28

Grapple- Total Score: 30.9

Racer X- Total Score: 34

Shortstack- Total Score: 29.2

Matoran in a Crab Suit- Total Score: 10

Hannah the Guncrab- Total Score: 32.9

Horseshoe Crab- Total Score: 10.8

Spot- Total Score: 25.6

Absolute Unit- Total Score: 6.6

Hannah dashes to the finish line, but is overtaken by the mysterious Racer X. As both are about the cross the finish line, the cavern once again begins to tremor!

RuMbLe rUmBlE RuMbLe rUmBle RuMbLe rUmBlE RuMbLe

With another mighty crash, the ceiling caves in just over the finish line. Riding the debris down is a menacing Manas! Snapping it's claws and glaring at the oncoming crabs. Absolute Unit is now the second-largest crab in Onu Koro.

On it's heels drops Toa Onua, looking the worse for wear but still fighting on with his claws and throwing waves of earth, to little effect.

You, Takua, turn to Jaller, who has caught up to you with Turaga Whenua. They quickly explain that the Manas escaped containment somewhere deep below the mines along with many other rahi. The others have mostly left the Koro, but the Manas is good and cheezed about being caged for so long. Toa Onua needs help!

Maybe you should have talked to the Turaga or found Toa Onua first...

Nah!

You, Takua, Jaller, and Kongu rush forward. The Matoran in a Crab Suit rushes forward as well. It's Nuparu! He lost a bet, don't ask.

Racer X and Hannah the Guncrab also aid you, the rest of the crabs flee squealing in terror along with the Matoran spectators.

How will you help Toa Onua to stop the Manas menace?

Only a crab can stop a crab!

Ride the giant crab!

Throw the bamboo disk!

Throw Vanilla Extract!

Tell it a horrible story about three Matoran with a bucket.

Nuparu, seduce it with your crab costume!

Voting ended onMar 22, 2023

#bionicle #takua #let's adventure through the magic of polls

ibetteracethatinterview

causeimanartist

Happy Batman Day

floccinaucinihilipilificationa

yaketysmax

here is the art energy i’m wanting! and why i call my stuff eyecrimes. draw it! post it! enjoy! be freeeeeeeeeee!

thehubby

And don’t let yourself be held back by choice of art medium. I’ve made some damn fine wordcrimes in my time and I will make more. My game design can be occasionally described as a braincrime. I am sure a few of you out there can put up a solid earcrime.

You nosecrime people…well, do your own thing, just do it a little bit further away, okay?

annabelle--cane

book data points for the Adrian Gender Situation:

grace lands on calling rocky "he" because he has a split second of panic in one of their first interactions and thinks "uhhh he or she or oh gosh this species might have a dozen sexes and use pronouns I don't even have words for um uh okay I'll just use 'he' because using 'it' for a sapient creature feels wrong. why does no one talk about how to use pronouns in first contact." personally I find this hilarious because it characterizes grace as being just about Gender Aware enough to conceive of and be cool with the idea of sex and gender existing outside of the socially constructed binary and is probably even down to use neopronouns for people, but also a) he still opts for "he" over "they" and b) is completely unaware that zillions of people are absolutely having fifth dimensional discussions about pronouns and first contact.

grace never refers to adrian by pronouns.

grace thinks of adrian as rocky's spouse specifically, not husband or wife.

there's a tiny bit at the end where grace says if he shined a light out of the clear xenonite of his dome then he could "see an eridian going about his business," meaning he's probably just using "he" as the pronoun for all eridians.

bonus round that doesn't actually come up in the text but is a metatextual thing I think some people are probably missing: "adrian" as a name on its own has a masculine connotation but grace 100% picked it because rocky balboa's girlfriend/wife in the rocky movies is called adriana "adrian" pennino. this genderless rock whom grace probably thinks of as being a he/him married to another genderless he/him is named after a female character who goes by a masculine nickname.

annabelle--cane

like, do I think andy "I don't do politics" "socially liberal fiscally conservative" weir was knowingly and deliberately doing queer gender things with eridians? no, and it would feel especially absurd to say that when the contemporary scifi novel scene is so full of authors who are doing queer gender things on purpose. I think what's happening here is that weir is competent enough to make his characters gnc agender intersex gay men by accident as a result of being committed to worldbuilding an alien species that feels genuinely alien in its social and physical norms, which is the opposite tack to the "how do I create a scifi allegorical representation of an already existing human queer experience" approach that a lot of other authors take. and I can't say I don't enjoy the idea of a gay little he/they genderless rock spouse with a tomboy name who according to the movie apparently works in aquatic habitat maintenance.

opabiniasarecool

Yes, Ryland Grace is the most aroace person you will ever meet. Yes, Rylan Grace was this secret third thing with Eva Stratt. Yes, Ryland Grace and Carl would've been wonderful husbands if fate hadn't ripped them apart. Yes, Ryland Grace is mates with two alien rocks who love him dearly. Yes Ryland Grace is down bad for Simon from Iron Lung.

All of these statements perfectly coexist in my head.

camblogarchive

nature documentary but the narration is just weird enough to make you question it

camblogarchive

“Some fish can walk out of water, so remember that next time.”

camblogarchive

“You might think you’re safe, but horses are omnivores”

toxicglooo

please watch the round planet on netflix it’s exactly like that

#remember that virtually every insect species has a specialist parasitoid devoted to killing it #you’re more related to a tree than some bacteria species are that share the same thermal pool #inbreeding killed the last surviving mammoth population #albatross babies are all secretly muppets produced by Jim Henson’s studio

Happy Pride to all of you both out and still hidden!

#pride month #pride #may all of you be free enough to shout your love to the world

gregtom

k-simplex-deactivated20241001

Happy Pride

bigfatbitchdotcom

Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

bigfatbitchdotcom

It's not r*pe, it's rape. It's not su*cide, it's suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.

bigfatbitchdotcom

And it's been proven that on certain websites, you don't even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.

its-the-blob

I attended an anti-suicide seminar in college. One of the big takeaways from it was that stigmatizing suicide increases the rate of suicide, because people who are feeling suicidal feel like they can't ask for help. Every time I see babytalk garbage like 'unalive', I think of that.