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[sft-haze]

I'm on artfight this year, @ Sft-Haze

[desk-drawerr]

He eat a nemon

[enba-and-luka]

[nexus-nox]

I think Erid did send more ships actually.

The problem is, Rocky only made it to Tau Ceti for 2 reasons.

1 - his workshop is surrounded by enough astrophage to block most radiation

2 - (in the book) Rocky had to trial and error the ship’s deceleration because the eridians had no idea about relativity

So yes. I do think the eridians sent other ships. But when the first ship failed, those new ones were likely redesigned. Meaning there was no astrophage protected area. And even if by some miracle they survived longer than the Blip-A’s crew, they probably overshot Tau Ceti by several light years bc they had no idea that time was moving differently for them.

The real question is how many ships they sent. How many times did they try? How many times after realizing none were coming back?

Who had to face that question? Was there an Eridian Eva Stratt, forced to face the trolley problem alone because it needed to be faced? When did the scales tip, when did feeding people to the stars become worse than waiting for the inevitable end? Did it ever? Did they send ships right up until Rocky and Grace arrived?

How many eridians made the choice Yao and Ilyukhina and Dubois did, knowing they were going to die, not ever going to come home, leaving on a mission that was almost certainly pointless - but they went anyways. Had to. Had to try.

[anglaised]

it is so annoying being so self aware about all my issues like okay what now girl

[mawofthemagnetar]

The problem with being low support needs is that people mentally autocorrect that to “no support needs” and then proceed to give you absolutely nothing and then get surprised when you implode after six months.

[redstonedust]

funny thing about anxiety is sometimes it kind of breaks your sense of danger. like i am known for repeatedly putting myself in situations that make my friends go "bro you couldve died. werent you scared?" and the answer is 👍 yjeah. i did it scared. i do everything scared. i didnt know that was the actual important kind of scary because i usually have to ignore my fears to function in society. it will happen again. watch out.

[farcryfromhere-moved]

[l-mouse-l]

I noticed that Grace likes to be bossed around. Not in like a kinky way (I mean, maybe who knows), but like if he isn't, he doesn't really know what to do with himself. Obviously, he can be independent. That's not what I mean. I mean that when he's in certain situations that he doesn't have strong feelings on, he gets conflicted and panics. Stratt would boss him around, and sure he'd pout, but it's mainly for show. He doesn't actually mind being bossed around. Same with Rocky, Rocky bosses him around and he puts up a small fight occasionally but most of the time he's completely content with being bossed around and I feel like a lot of people forget that it isn't a bad thing that Grace gets bossed around.

[dogpuppy]

[nineteenyearoldmeblog]

im fucking crying

[suffering-and-misery]

adhd executive dysfunction sucks bcuz im just sitting there and my brain is like

YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME

no work done no rest gained. literally no point of this at all

(to everyone who reblogged, donate and share @olagaza's initiative!)

[seracadash]

(goverment voice) we need to protect the children from pornography so our plan is to remove their eyes so they would never see something so traumatic. if you are against removing children's eyes you are basically a pedophile

[anxietyproblem]

[nyenye0701]

Why are eiridians different colors (do they have different minerals, perhaps?)

Thank you for asking this question! I jumped out of my seat in joy in anticipation of answering. I will be explaining some speculative ways of how Eridians were able to evolve different colored carapaces :)

Traits in general can be sorted onto a spectrum: they evolved because they are in some way advantageous for survival and reproduction, or is so neutral to evolutionary success it just never needed to be selected out.

Eridians don’t percieve colors, so different color carapaces probably lands closer to the "no effect" end of the spectrum. Happy coincidence that (at least with movie depiction) we have colorful little pebbles!!

We can see the difference between an advantageous trait and a neutral trait demonstrated by the fur coats of wild cats vs house cats. Wild cats don’t have nearly as much fur variation within a species as house cats, because in the wild cats have a way higher need for good camouflage as it is crucial for hunting for prey and hiding from predators. House cats, however, coexisted with humans for centuries -- humans provide cats with shelters, food, and way more variability in types of environment (so a specific coat is not selected for) so even unusual fur patterns could be passed on with way more success.

Colors are likely a byproduct of other physical traits, so let’s consider some physical traits eridians CAN perceive via sonar: 1) texture, and 2) silhouette.

Silhouette is straightforward enough: by how sound bounces off a surface, an Eridian can get the outline of another Eridian, down to the unique spiky protrusions of each finger. They can also get information via the texture of the surface: sound bounces off differently on different textures. This combined with silhouette can allow very fast person recognition!

The Eridian carapace is entirely inorganic, being composed of oxidized metals. If “Eridian” is all one species, all Eridians over Erid probably have very similar carapace makeup, especially Eridians living in close proximity, because they consume similar foods. But if they are different species of the same genus (think modern humans and neanderthal humans), it could allow more possibility for more carapace variation. (If you are interested in the speculative biology different species of Eridians, @lutheban has a great post on it under the tag #eridian biology !!)

Addressing the second part of the asker's question: can the colors be result of different minerals? While pure mineral/crystal Eridian designs are super cool to see, it unfortunately is not super biologically viable (unlikely to be evolved consistently). Eridian carapaces are comparable to shells and scales, being grown and shed as needed; it would take way too much energy to maintain pure mineral carapaces when a mixture of what is most available is an option. But at the end of the day, spec bio is spec bio: if Erid is strange enough, even the strangest traits can become necessary and be evolved.

Now that we know these factors, we can go into the main possible reason Eridians develop different colors: variation that comes along with the mechanisms that create the unique textures and sillouhoutes of each Eridian. Perhaps every Eridian breaks food down just a little differently, making the carapace a little different between each Eridian. Color, in this context, is similar to human fingerprints and palm etchings: due to it having no evolutionary effect, it’s allowed to randomize to no bounds -- to the point it’s pretty much impossible for two humans to have the same etchings!

Random colors then mix and match and go wild with no selection for it or against it! Some of the simpler inheritance patterns are listed. Keep in mind that most of the time the actual genetics of inheritance are way more complex than just one gene, but these are very classic representations. If this is interesting to you, you can look up the term "non-mendelian inheritance" (YouTube and Wikipedia are both great resources), or ask me in the comments! :)

[bonni]

people who ship asuka and rei don't ship them because they actually believe that the narrative is inviting a romantic reading of them or that they have any real chemistry within the show, it's about exploring the fact that the two of them are foils who are continually pitted against each other in every possible way. it's about the fact that they actively hate each other because in the other person they see the parts of themselves they resent the most. it's about considering the ways in which their relationship could be different if they didn't find themselves in the situation they're in, if they had had the space to be normal teenagers. it's about unpacking each of their relationships to their sexuality: it's about reading asuka as a queer girl who lashes out at other girls and instead pursues an adult man and a boy she hates as a way to repress her sexuality because she hates everything about who she truly is, and it's about reading rei as a girl who has never even had the opportunity to know what true reciprocal love and attraction feel like because she's been groomed her entire life and feels a disconnect from her physical body in a way that is very familiar to survivors of sexual abuse, especially queer ones.

people who ship misato and ritsuko ship them because they have clearly had actual sex in canon.

[banquo-and-macbeth]

[emilicorail]

What's his fucking problem