nova’s notes

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[nova-notes]

my partner and I have been together for a long while and I don’t know if this is because both of my parents were estranged from their families while I was growing up so we didn’t really hang with family very much (and when we did, it was very strained), if it’s because I’m an introvert, or if it’s my neurodivergence acting up but hoo boy! I have to mentally and emotionally prepare myself to spend time with their family. And they’re perfectly nice people! Maybe I just get tired from being perceived? Idk but I’m trying to hype myself up rn

[lordofchips]

Shoutout to Superman (2025) for making it incredibly fucking clear that Superman is for good people. He’s hope. He’s love. He’s supportive. He’s an immigrant. He supports Palestine. He loves animals. He protects children.

The movie is a light. If you’ve been feeling really depressed about the world lately I’d highly suggest watching Superman.

[nova-notes]

can confirm, went to see it in theaters after feeling completely useless for months and left feeling hopeful again.

[prawn-haunted]

...somehow

[bobbyhillspurse]

I can actually explain why Githyanki have boobs and yet lay eggs! And it’s actually an interesting little tidbit of lore. Before they were enslaved by the mind flayers, they used to be able to reproduce sexually and would have been compatible with all other “humanoid” species of the realms.

(Side note: There’s a whole ongoing discussion on how the terminology was changed in 5E from “races” of humanoids to “species” of humanoids that’s tangentially related here with many insisting that calling the different types of humanoids different species implies they can’t interbreed and produce fertile offspring (which is not a universal rule even in our own reality), but I digress.)

During the time of their enslavement, their bodies had to adapt to living in the Astral Plane and in addition to this, were heavily experimented on by the mind flayers. It’s not exactly known if the egg laying and sterility of non-egg-layers is a “natural” by-product of living in the Astral or if it’s the result of the experimentation, but it is only a more “recent” change. The Githyanki are still humanoid mammals who just happen to lay eggs now. If it helps, you can equate them to a platypus, which both lays eggs and produces milk to feed its young.

In addition to laying eggs, Githyanki also have more highly developed psychic abilities and “atrophied” digestive systems. They require extremely frequent meals of very high protein foods to live outside of the Astral Plane. I put “atrophied” in quotes because I think high protein foods might actually be more difficult for a person with an atrophied digestive system to digest, but that’s how the lore books describe it.

So yeah, pretty off topic. 100% agree with the post btw, where is my big sexy orc to romance?

[nova-notes]

jade city collage! always contemplating rereading this series tbh