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Listening to Andy Weir talk about eridians is so funny because fans are always talking about Rocky and Adrian as these “soft” adorable aliens but Weir won’t ever let us forget that their species are apex predators on their planet. Not like humans who became apex predators by inventing weapons, but natural top of the foodchain like lions or polar bears. So far I haven’t found an interview where Weir explains who ate eridians in the ancient past that caused them to watch over each other while they slept; another predator species or rivaling eridians.

Grace is joking around with a selectively violent creature that can rip his soft squishy body apart in an instant!

But it’s also a lot of fun to hear Weir talk about all the stuff he wants to include in a possible sequel, like the fact that eridians can have several conversations at once even with the same eridian. He imagine Rocky and Adrian bickering in one conversation while having a nice conversation at the same time that slowly turns into a fight and all of a sudden they’re yelling at each other in two conversations about different things.

He also says they have terrible spacial memory because they can see everything around them all the time thanks to their echo location so to them it’s crazy that humans can only see in one direction but still remember what’s behind them and even what the last room they were in looks like. Apparently eridians mostly just remember that the room exists and that it has the computer in it but if you asked them where the computer is placed in the room they’ll struggle to give a precise answer.

And Rocky got scared when Grace hugged him because eridians don’t have a concept of expressing affection with physical touch. To them it’s only neutral or violent because thanks to their hard shell they can’t really feel much. They only use it to move each other around or to break through their prey’s shell to get to the soft insides. So in their inter-species friendship only Grace would feel any desire to touch Rocky. It makes it very cute that Rocky joins in on Grace’s hugging ritual. It’s purely for Grace’s sake.

bwabbitv3s

To be fair we already want to be friends with the apex predators in Earth, and they can’t talk. We domesticated wolves into being our friends.

memory-of-stargazing

“It just means you have to work double as hard as most people!”

Well maybe I don’t WANT to work double as hard as abled people!! Maybe I deserve a BREAK!! Maybe I’ve been working MORE THAN double as hard for MY WHOLE LIFE and it’s led me to immense burnout & caused me to develop several MORE disabilities!! Maybe I should be ACCOMMODATED so I don’t have to KILL MY BODY AND BRAIN over trying to do what abled people can do!! Maybe I DON’T have to work double as hard!! Maybe if there’s the option to let me NOT work double as hard, I should have it, because I’m already working double as hard JUST TO SURVIVE!!

Why do you think disabled people deserve less rest than mentally & physically abled people?

rhodeys

I don't have that many close female friendships, and book clubs are the worst. So I just thought this could be something fun to share.

OCEAN'S 8 (2018) dir. Gary Ross

#ocean's 8 no one can make me hate you #movie of all time

meanbuddhist

well well well if it isn’t the obvious truth which i have been running away from as fast as i possibly can all this time

ceruleanheaven

why does everybody hate me [remembers my behaviour and personality] why dont they hate me more

barry2018-2023

absolute cunt serves absolutely

barry2018-2023

no?

barry2018-2023

if hunter biden or rupaul tweeted this you'd be all over it

#it did take me a couple times of seeing this post before i actually liked it 😅

victusinveritas

vinceaddams

One time I bought a bag of chips and put a note on it that said "to be opened only after (task)" and it Did Not Work because I had to put it in the cupboard so as to not be too tempted, and then I couldn't see it so I kept forgetting it existed.