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[birusoda]

one colored sketch commission for @spirallingshape / @narratingvoice!

[coolcactaceae]

Are you telling me there are tiny little creatures in the ocean called radiolarians? Do you think they can pick up my show?

YES!!!! They are very very small, Ceece! They are a type of protist, meaning they are literally only one cell. ONE CELL, CEECE! Unique forms of life that are able to go about on the planet for a certain amount of time and feed and reproduce and exist can do so as only one cell! 

They have silica skeletons and get their name from their radiated protrusions all along their body that they use to move, and also because when they die, their skeletons fall to the ocean’s floor, and produce a very scientifically fascinating ooze that can be used lieu of a radio by deep sea scientists. I myself am not a deep sea scientist, I am a scientist, but I do know, through virtue of being a scientist, that radiolarian ooze, if applied to your gums, can be used as an emergency radio! Which means, of course, through scientific reasoning, that the silica skeletons of radiolarians have properties that allow them to send and receive radio signals! So they can definitely listen to your show, Ceece! I bet they love your show very much, you mention the deep sea and the darkness and depth and terror and beauty of it enough to make them feel very happy with how much you know about their world!

[coolcactaceae]

Bunnyyyyy, should you be posting right now? You're a little tipsy. You dropped your phone twice already.

CECIL……………………….poot………..I love you…..and I love you scientifitifically and I love science???????……so I sciencelove scienceyou…………..you’re my scienceboyfrieend??>>??? Poot I lovce you sooooo much????? Poot we should do somethinng rombantic like kiss on a meteor??? WE NEED TO BUY SPACESUITS AND KISS ON A METEOR IN THEM!!!1??!11???

[coolcactaceae]

Did I mention that I love your icon so much? I think it's a perfect allegory for our relationship. - Cecil

I think you’ve mentioned that a few times, yes! ♥♥♥

Although, one time you mentioned it while you were sleeping. You just rolled over and said something like, “I love your icon…….it’s us……I love you…..”, and it was the cutest thing! I almost wish I had recorded it, so that I could show you how cute you are when you’re not even trying!

[coolcactaceae]

Psst. Carlos. We need to do a couples costume for Halloween. I have a bunch of ideas but I want to know what kind of thing you're comfortable wearing. Do you want to go spooky? Silly? Pop culture reference?

Carbon monoxide is very scary, maybe we should go as that! Did you know that it can kill people? It’s really very scary, but also exciting! I can be the carbon, and you can be the oxygen if you want!

We could walk around with our arms around each other to show we’re sharing electrons and ooooh it would be so cute!

[coolcactaceae]

Carlos what are you doing you CANNOT blog openly about tectonic plates. The SSP are watching. - Cecil

Oh! Umm, right, right, right, ummmm…see, I was referring to, ummm…plates, like…actual plates that you eat off of…tektite…a kind of rock…from space…which shake and cause….earthquakes. And they’re tectonic plates because they’re made of tektite! That was what I was referring to! Definitely what I was referring to!

(Ceciiiiil this is killing meeeeeee!)

[coolcactaceae]

I'm so glad you made it home in time for the Pride parade. I am going to wear my tank top with the sequined unicorn on it and my rainbow jorts, how about you? - Cecil

The tie-dyed lab coat I have! And maybe the tie-dyed shirt with the elemental structure of isoparaffin! 

I think I tie-dyed them back during that week in March when everyone who was not wearing tie-dye became engulfed by that fog containing no traces of water whatsoever. Do you remember that, Ceece? You were so prepared for it!

[coolcactaceae]

Ohhh Carlos be careful on those stairs! They sound dangerously high up! - Cecil

They are dangerously high up! I have ran tests on the stairs with my danger meter and it has been blinking bright red at definite intervals when I am walking up the stairs that have no end! It is very, very dangerous, and very, very exciting!

I will be careful. I trust my danger meter, because my danger meter is never wrong about these things; scientific equipment is in fact, almost never wrong. But one thing that is never wrong is a scientist’s intuition, because unlike scientific equipment, it cannot break or malfunction. A scientist’s intuition is shatterproof! And my scientist’s intuition tells me that these never-ending stairs are dangerous and not meant to be climbed by me, and I will trust my scientist’s intuition because that is what a scientist has to do.

It’s one of the reasons a scientist is always fine!