#aeluon

[moonsickagain]

imagine an aeluon scratch-off gambling company who intentionally makes the winning pages be numbered with shit that means "losing" and "you die" in their symbols

[freylaverse]

 I’ve been desperately flipping through A Closed and Common Orbit trying to find a quote about Tak to use, but I can’t make up my mind, so you just get me and my nonsense. I love the tattoos that @knifenice used for xyr, so I used those as a starting point!

[freylaverse]

It was pure chance, of course, that Aeluons so often managed to check all the boxes on the list of Things That Humans Generally Find Attractive. On a galactic scale, beauty was a relative concept. All Humans could agree that Harmagians were hideous (a sentiment the Harmagians heartily returned). Aandrisks — well, that depended on who you talked to. Some people liked the feathers; others couldn’t get past their teeth and claws. The Rosk, with their skittery legs and jagged mandibles, would still be the stuff of nightmares even if they weren’t in the habit of carpetbombing border colonies. But Aeluons, by some weird fluke of evolution, had a look that made most Humans drop their jaws, hold up their palms, and say, “Okay, you are a superior species.”

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

[ittybittytatertot]

If you’ve ever read any of the books in the Wayfarer’s series, you might like my fic: Colors Unseen, which explores Aeluon and Human genders, abilities, and expectations from both in and outside their cultures.

Basically: Wayfarers meets Wandering Son in a fast-paced, Love-Actually-style interwoven story about outcasts, rebels, and community.

I’ve got 3 chapters up on AO3 now, 5 more in beta.

[ittybittytatertot]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Wayfarers Series - Becky Chambers Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Original Characters, Original Aeluon Character Additional Tags: Trans Character, Gender Issues, Alien Culture, Deaf Character Summary:

Humans learn about shon and think Aeluons are beyond binaries, unconstrained by gender. But what happens to trans Aeluon? To women who want to be fathers? To shon who don't want to switch? Will they always have to rely on talkboxes and Klip, or can they make colors for who they are?

[aquesous]

“finding some courage?” (the lovely and badass pei)

[themarblethief]

Tak, an Aeluon from a close and common orbit by Becky Chambers. I love the idea of a species of alien that speaks in colours