Francisco: I'm now thinking we should have added more food in this level...
Charlie: It is noticeably missing, isn't it?
Francisco: Yeah!
Charlie: What would the Fabricator eat? What's her favorite snack? I'm thinking, like... a little dessert. Like a French bonbon or something.
Francisco: Yeah... Maybe it's a scorpion sandwich with a chaser of antidote.
Charlie: Ohh, yes! I think she would like- in the same way that people like spicy food, she would like poisonous food, and then antidote chasers.
Francisco: Yeah...
Charlie: ... That's horrible!
Hey, hey hey I have a question: is it.. it is normal to still have a crush on somebody you met over a year ago and who you only really saw for a week?..
Randomly remembered the half-reason i call my oc-verse by the name it has while laying in bed. One-half of the reason i still knew, but I had forgotten what had truly, really cemented it jointly until now
(it was a song from my favourite band I haven't listened to in a while.)
(the song fit so well at the time, still does, that i needed to hold onto it for the main protagonists forever, by partially naming their story in reference.)
Does this explanation make any sense? Does anyone know why I'm tearing up remembering this. Aahh
I love being on the aromantic spectrum, it is so vital to how I view the world and how I interact with others. That being said, I am also desperately in love with my boyfriend, so, it's certainly an odd feeling.
yes I make the art I want to for my own enjoyment but as far as sharing art goes it's hard to overstate the value of knowing there's at least one specific person who you can absolutely count on to be like YEAH! YES!! about it
I have this one writing professor who's overall great, but she has these little particular expectations that drive me insane. The big one is that we have to write a 50 word response to all of our classmates' weekly stories. But this is a workshop. We make those comments in class. We have full conversations where the writers can hear pur tone and respond and ask questions in the moment.
Why the fuck do we have to leave feedback comments?????
one more post and then im done for a little bit i swear. truthfully i dont want Any of my ships to be canon bc i don't think anybody on this fuckef up little server is capable of having a healthy romantic relationship w anybody else anymore & i generally just like ships for what they Could be (after, like. a lot of therapy) and not what they really are
miranda does have a bite force of about 4,000 PSI, or 2 tons per square inch. this is why her head is so blocky and rectangular in profile, along with why her teeth are large and triangular with serrated edges, and why she has chubby, squishy cheeks, as that’s where all that jaw muscle is. abyssal merfolk (what miranda is) have the highest bite force of the species of merfolk, being as they’re combination predators and scavengers typical of most animals in the deep sea, and having a high bite force lets them consume bones and shells and other hard body parts that other scavengers have trouble accessing. its also pretty useful to have in general - as just about anything they run into, and thus, their only chance for a meal in a long time, is usually not going to fare well at getting bitten with that much power.
this kind of muscle is hard to gain or lose. though merfolk do have what are effectively chewy stim toys for them to bite, its less for them actually “working out”, per say, as much as it is just engaging their brains in a way that’s fun and enriching for them. even though a lot of miranda’s muscle has begun to atrophy, her jaw muscles haven’t, mostly because it’s some of the last muscle to be lost in cases like hers. a mer that can’t bite might as well be dead already, so her body holds onto it as long as possible.
her head is also a lot bigger than a human’s, and her jaws can open wider - nothing too impressive, exactly, but expected for a skull like hers, with more space given for her mouth and the operation of it. biting is still one of the most immediate merfolk responses for self defense, add in the whole evolutionary arms race with themselves, and it being necessary for how they eat in general, and they never lost that ability to bite in the way that they do.
all of this to say that aaravi and the other ROs will sometimes hand miranda watermelons or pumpkins just to watch her crush them with her jaws. sometimes its a little insulting (hence why its mostly her friends who can get away with it), but she DOES still like showing off and scaring them a little bit. absolutely fucking wonderful terrifying jaws. she can effortlessly fit other people’s heads inside of her jaws and could crush them too, if she actually wanted to. superb way to scare the freshmen.