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ASK ME ABOUT ERIDIAN BIOLOGY‼️ aroace | 🇨🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 | they need to make a frog terrarium before i kms

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book grace: rocky would you still love me if i were a worm

movie rocky: would grace still love rocky if rocky were a taumoeba

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grace rocky save each other

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grace eat all of the food rn

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theory why complex life (eridians) on erid evolved gonosimulism (sexual system where individuals have both male and female organs) (male being one that produces a smaller, mobile gamete and female being one that produces a bigger, stationary gamete), but earth gonochorism (sexual system where individuals are either male or female).

the reason earth evolved sexual dimorphism (sexes of the same species have different physical traits), independently over and over is its ability to produce a more fit offspring pool. Males and females have specialized roles: females to carry the egg and males to woo the egg carriers. But it also comes with downsides: more infighting, selfishness over altruism (we can see in Grace haha), and as previously mentioned role specialization which could turn out to be rigid and disadvantageous.

Erid has a harsher environment, and eridians seem to be more socially connected to each other than humans (thrumming, overpowering sleep instinct, not needing governments to maintain order), so altruism might have been the only viable strategy that could survive the harsher environment. This kind of relates to Grace's gravity -> intelligence theory in the book: it costs more to move around on Erid so people have more success acting together instead of separately, which gonosimulism promotes! There's no role differentiation, both parents have parental instinct, and there wouldn't be a gender divide like we see in humans where one sex holds an advantage over another so powerful that it's been centuries and the inequality still persists.

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grace is a molecular biologist whos also a giant nerd about everything biology , there was surprisingly little begging rocky for an eridian cell to study ,,, asking to watch rocky eat is close enough ig

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they had the vocabulary of a 2 year old and rocky was already flaming grace :')

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grace: damn you sterilize to kill pathogens going 100c above usual temperature !?? humans have as many foreign microbes in our body as cells theyre esp crucial for digestion and interacts heavily with our brains its called a microbiome without them we would die

rocky: what the fuck

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rocky: our analogue of your nervous system is like earth organism bee , we are like if beehives walked, all the helper cells have their own dna and we have to pass all of them individually when new eridian is made in egg theres no universal dna copy

grace: what the fuck

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some thoughts on eridian biology ....,,,,,,,, finding the canon bio doc andy weir posted on reddit after scrambling for crumbs was what cocaine feels like i just know it

+ temporary rocky and grace designs bc i couldnt wait to draw them

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maybe my head is in the gutter but why did he describe rocky taking it apart in such detail then go into how skilled rocky is

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wet fart boy

was trying to do frutiger and water toy feel but ended up being not enough of each but whateevr . it's done and im finally free😹

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danganronpa in the big 2026😹😹

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i thought tumblr may like these . ? draw from memory w @teastainz-art