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Decorator Crabs are multiple species of crabs who use corals, sponges, urchins, anemones, sea fans, and other marine organisms as self-decoration. This (glamorous) camouflage allows them to blend in with their environments and avoid predators.
(Lesser known fact, it also gives them the self-confidence to pursue their dream careers as professional salsa dancers.)
Even better, they use tiny bristled hooks to attach marine life to their bodies– that’s right, these majestic bastards come with built-in velcro!
And that’s not all! some of these dapper fucks have learned to use camouflage as weaponry, draping themselves in glamorous green boas toxic foul-tasting seaweeds, or arming themselves with stylish anemones, urchins and even jellyfish that give predators a nasty ZAP! Some species have even figured out how to hunt this way.
in conclusion, this delightful little dandy is wearing a sea sponge as a sombrero!
peeling those sour rainbow gummy strips into long thin strings and putting them into cheap energy drink to create something im calling battery acid spaghetti will update once ive finished it
I worked in food manufacturing, sour candy is made sour with an acid usually citric acid as it keeps forever is a preservative and is cheap as all get out.
When we used it it was to balance out the mouth feel of different products. We wanted a nice sharp bite to things like lime or raspberry and used citric acid to get it as opposed to a smooth buttery mouthfeel of say a caramel.
Cheap energy drinks are probably already using a fair amount of citric acid to give you the mouth feel and flavor profile of a lemon lime beverage or slightly beyond to make you feel like you just drank something potent. So... adding a spur candy that is ALSO using citric acid but crystalized on the outside and then dissolved sugar in the gummy bits (which won't dissolve as readily being trapped in the gummy) will overload your senses with too much acid and trigger a "poison don't eat this" response from your body.
Possibly if we heated it to dissolve the gummy and release the trapped sugar from the candy? But I cannot fathom the horror of heating this concoction up.
Consider stealth as fuck transmasc Robert who hasn’t yet been able to medically transition. With even worse toxic masculinity struggles because his gender presentation is super messily tied to the Mecha Man legacy and perfectionism issues. Robert who is even more hyperconcious of how he conducts himself around other people and ices them out/overcompensates when he slips up and shows “weakness”, to prove he is capable. Gripping your shoulders in desperate hope that you see my vision.
In my mind he still would’ve been given the name Robert Robertson regardless of his assigned gender at birth. Partially because I find the inherited family & hero names very emblematic of this “inherited identity” Robert is shadowed by growing up; and partially because MM Astral strikes me as the kind of father who would not prepare an alternate name for an unacceptable alternate outcome. So Robert Robertson the Third is born, no matter which universe, as Robert Robertson the Third.
But I also don’t see Astral as a particularly open minded man lmao. Obviously. Even with the name Robert would still ‘be a girl’, a ‘disappointment’. Astral would just “have to make do”. And he wouldn’t be very subtle about his thoughts on the matter. So Robert’s AGAB would just serve as further incentive for Astral to be really hard on him growing up (“Be a man” x100). There would also be excessive pressure around specifically not revealing this particular “weakness” to anyone else, and a lot of scrutinizing/nit-picking at Robert’s mannerisms and composure, how he carries and presents himself in public.
This constant undercurrent of treating Robert like he has some kind of inherent inadequacy would in turn further fuel a lot of adult Robert’s incessant restlessness. He always has to be better, he can’t take a break. Don’t cry, just get up.
Then Astral dies. It’s bittersweet to take up the mantle of Mecha Man. I think Robert would only realize he likes being referred to as a guy through his debut and further interactions as MM Blue (banting with villains who assume things, hearing about himself in the news). I think there’s something to be said about the socially-informed nature of a person’s sense of self.
Names, titles, and gender are all arguably results of social perception. They are descriptors other people use to recognize “you” as “you”. In isolation, do they even exist?— Does it matter to have a name that no one calls?
I think a lot about the fact that canon Robert probably wasn’t called by name at all for 15 years. For his entire young adulthood ‘Robert’ didn’t exist to anyone. I’m sure that didn’t help with the personhood issues. Robert really doesn’t afford himself much of it during the game’s events.
But anyway, the gender realization in late adolescence. A real, “i’m probably trans but I have a job so idrc abt that rn” type of situation. Luckily, presenting as a guy was already the path of least resistance now that Robert’s MM more than he’s Robert. In canon being in the mecha modifies his voice a little, so I’m sure it’s possible to set up more extensive modification to make it sound deeper. He typically binds with tape to keep from having visible lines in his suit & to have better mobility. I could also see him using those compression tank tops as a binder while working out or something since cis guys also plausibly wear those.
(Musing on whether Robert would bind or have top surgery was actually what started this whole headcanon train.)
I don’t personally think he’d have had top surgery pre-SDN since even before the financial ‘ruin’ I don’t see him being able to justify putting himself out of commission for that long. And then once he started having to choose between food or suit repairs, any thoughts of surgery would just be totally out. Besides, the surgery would be a *for-Robert* thing more than a *for-MechaMan* thing, and we’ve seen how much Robert is willing to invest into his personal comfort. (Looks at his apartment.)
Those are most of my thoughts for now; I just wanted to put them down. I really want to write something with all this but haven’t had enough other ideas (trans Robert is more like a modifier than an actual concept/prompt for a fic, to me, if that makes sense). Hopefully my projections of the transmasc daddy issues experience onto Robert resonates with people :>
Lean your head forward, preferably to knee level, and let the water kind of drain out of your mouth. When your are able to, take deep slow breaths. No heimlich maneuver or physical assists from somebody else should be used beyond this, otherwise you could vomit and escalate the issue. Its about keeping the larynx open. Hopefully this helps.
in much more interesting news, today at work I got to explore an abandoned 500-year-old castle, seized by the state because of the owner's massive tax evasion
we spent an hour and half going all over the grounds, I'd never felt so #urbex
seeing this door makes me feel like i have never truly contemplated the possibilities of doors as a concept, as though a new understanding of what it means to be a door has been forced upon me
never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱
the reviews are in... glad everyone's enjoying song of the worm
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if I wrote a dystopian novel where the corrupt evil megacorporation that controls society has a fucking smirk for a logo, my editor would tell me to use a less heavy-handed metaphor
I love this because if I were to write a literary novel in the Western cannon that described the image of an apple with a chunk bitten off, any high school English student would tell you it is a Bible reference meant to represent the source of all evil and downfall of humanity and YET
Imagine telling someone that the evil corporation that makes you waste away hours because they want you to watch more ads had made their name be a clock sound. They’d tell you it’s ridiculously on-the-nose
insanity that they trained us to dislike body hair. body hair. that's just fuzz. that is just FUZZINESS!!! humans being fuzzy, it's one of our most adorable traits????
Months since August and now they’re finally here!!!!! I am so proud of how they came out and although there are minor imperfections, they’re perfect in my eyes 🥰
Here are also some pics of their wheelchair, I made it completely from scratch and I am so damn proud of myself!!!! Not only did I build it, but I also made the wheels MOVEABLE!!!! I have the vid posted on my TikTok page @sculptymakes if you wanna check it out and support me more!!!!
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