#wyv's asks

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awawa core is when u have a nuclear reactor staffed entirely by creaturegirls. because they awawa at the core

EXTREMELY TRUE!!! that's why creaturegirl nuclear energy is the future

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-pokes and shoves my head/face against you like a cat but I'm a shark-

grisps yuo like a cat but your'e a shark

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Yip yip yip yip yip! :3

a kobolb!! :O

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ohhh youhr hatchday in 20 days. gets really close and towers over you. oh hold on my cursor just escaped the ask box??? huh what the hell

???????? what ever. scary beast looms over you imagine it.

YAY IT'S THE SCARY BEASTTT :DD hi beasf

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🫵 Dergy!! *throws an entire rotisserie chicken in the air for you*

awawawaw- a WHOLE ASS ROTISSERIE CHICKEN?? YAYYYYY

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happy almost-hatchday / almost-birthday (whichever you prefer)

yayy!! thank u so much ;w;

[redwyverndht]

fun fact: keratin, one of the main proteins for the outer layer of skin (as well as hair, claws, etc.) is a polymer. (as in, the individual keratin proteins are monomers that bind together to form a polymer) proteins in general are polypeptides (sometimes with other stuff for that extra pizzaz), so are also already polymers. cellulose is also a polymer (perhaps even the most common one) but i'm guessing you mean closer to synthetic and high performance polymers like polyethylene* or polyimides or aramids or PTFE for your aliens? *many living things (including humans) can actually synthesize polyethylene, but they usually keep the chains short and leave the handles on (to be able to metabolize it) and call it fatty acid synthesis. honestly i'd say go for it, but here are some advices and potential consequences i made up (with some wikipediation): making something like PTFE requires a lot of fluorine in the diet (unless they engage in nucleosynthetic shenanigans, in which case they'd only need to worry about eating for growth/healing/maintenance and basically not at all for calories, and wouldn't have to breathe but would have to radiate heat. (unless they only do fusion for elemental synthesis instead of metabolism in which case there'd be a lot of waste heat to reject)) aside element scarcity in diet, pretty much any polymer should be synthesizable with the right proteins, but that usually makes it from one end. one method for faster production is to make a bunch of short chains in two variants with reactive ends that bond specifically to the other type of reactive end. then it can be rather fluid (and potentially still metabolizable) but when you mix the two together it polymerizes quickly (releasing some heat). cells could store the two variants in separate vesicles and put them where they want it. (this could be used to do some sort of harden after impact wound protection scheme) if you give them the ability to metabolize certain polymers without their chemical handles, then unless it was gene engineered recently, those kind of plastics probably now have the ability to rot from environmental bacteria that also have that gene (e.g. see wood, which also gives a timescale estimate for how long it'd take bacteria to evolve that capability). if they can't metabolize it then it's kinda d.i.y. microplastics (interesting setting consequences, but totally reasonable since it can be a recent advance (within the last few millennia or so)) the reason most existing evolutionarily performance tuned biopolymers are protein is because evolution really likes to put things in the square hole. other categories are made of sugar or made of DNA/RNA. you can probably also go decently beyond the physical performance limits of existing polymers by invoking by explanation the ability of biological synthesis to control the order, structure, blend, and statistics of the polymers much more tightly. (e.g. see bones vs stones)

anyways blah blah i talk a lot but your speculative biology ideas interest me smiles

holy shit???? this is actually a great pointer for speculative biology stuff???? thank you SO MUCH holy shit (also ur totally right proteins are basically already polymers...)

[redwyverndht]

i'm finding myself saying awawa more, i think you've infected me

awawa !!