#Crystal shrimp

[foxkairi]

Inktober 2024 - Day 1: Backpack

Welcome to inktober! This year's prompts seem fun, I want to try my hand at it again, let's see how it goes this time :D

[orcinusalba]

Added some new mostly white shrimp to the colony. Hopefully they will add some more white genes to the mix 🦐

[surprise-its-polls]

Best Steven Universe Character Tournament - Round 1

[indigo-a-creeping]

Crystal shrimp

[tumblerislovetumblerislife]

all i'm saying is they could easily have gotten together in the attic, yknow?

[fattributes]

Shrimp and Chive Crystal Dumplings

[iambittythings]

Today's beasts are a pair of shrimp earrings, specifically Crystal Red Caridina. I am continually delighted by all the colours shrimp offer the world, both through breeding and just evolution!

If you'd like some beasts or earrings, please check out

[wizards101official]

This is the full set of creatures from the project I was working on earlier :)

[gummi-stims]

Shrimp! Heaven! Now!

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[starfate]

Carrot - My 3 year old Red Crystal Shrimp

[nim-lock]

:V shop opening tomorr that I am last minute putting together

[whatudottu]

Presently going insane rn:

Anyway let me talk about the one question that I have been contemplating ever since I began rotating petrosapiens in my mind. How the fuck do babies?

If you caught the reblog before this post, you might have noticed that a post about fat in aliens brought me to think about petrosapien fat, which contradicts a lot of what I've already established for them being an exoskeletal species, let alone being a hard sell in the sci-fantasy of rock crystal people of canon. Turning to one of my two animal inspirations of petrosapiens - bugs and more specifically in this case insects - I found out that insects can't build up fat, not in the way mammals or reptiles can, BUT they store the most of it in a very significant stage;

Larvae!

Then it fucking hit me, I already made some early headcanons about child development in petrosapiens (though I can't remember if I posted them or had a post ready to send) where they were already in a metamorphosing stage, though the responsibility fell solely to the layer who would use crystallokinesis to feed an 'egg'. I didn't fully like the idea though mostly in retrospect, because it felt strange in the 'pulled out of my ass' kinda way, a method of child rearing that felt more obligated to use crystallokinesis as a primary source for feeding to sorta justify at the time the inherent power petrosapiens have towards crystallokinesis.

Instead, between then and now I fully connected the idea that crystallokinesis is less of a power and more of an extension of a petrosapien's nervous system, compression of quartz through the use of a more electrical based nerve network that happens to not distinguish between person crystals and the similar crystalline structures of Petropia. With this in mind and the new idea that petrosapiens have larvae, wouldn't it be so cool if the larvae had the typical Earth-like electrochemical nervous system of humans (or I suppose bugs here) that adapts to an electrical focused nervous system through the process of metamorphosis? Where the larvae creates it's petrosapien crystal skin by building a chrysalis and melting within it to create their new body?

Unlike my old headcanon where the layer had to remain with the egg and constantly feeding them with crystallokinesis, this larvae version can feed itself when provided and so long as the chrysalis is well protected, the moment metamorphosis stage takes place the parent(s) can have momentary reprieve from child rearing and better prepare themselves for the toddler/adolescent stage for their child. The little grub probably doesn't even eat crystals in the early stages of their larvaehood since eating crystals initially marks as the materials for chrysalis building before it becomes a nutritional food source. Instead the little grub might be feed plants and potentially animal products in order for it to inherit and develop the chemicals required to build a crystallovorous stomach and the acids used to break silica down into digestible nutrition.

That does mean that early child rearing is a little bit more functionally deadly towards the very crystalline parents, who have to legitimately watch so that their fingers aren't bitten off, but holding the little grub is easy when it's covered in silicone membrane. The larvae at this stage is a little bit more resistant to any crystallovorous plant secretions due to the polymers of it's membrane, as well as the higher diversity of oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon in it's body it has in comparison to adults or adolescents who've undergone metamorphosis, their innards becoming a more uniform silicone and their skin being the crystalline silicon many crystallovorous stomachs have adapted to eat.

It also means that the shape of a grub is also considered to be cute to a petrosapien. Things from caterpillars to maggots look so much more charming to a petrosapien's eyes that back on Petropia there would be a large proportion of pet owners having what would considered on Earth to have bugs for pets. In fact, a rather common form of pet Petrosapiens might have would be a large millipede/centipede like animal that would be the size approximate of a feather boa and often held that way too, because while they do not undergo metamorphosis, they look like a larval grub well into adulthood and are considered to be very cute for it. Pet owners with these pets who are also parents love to see their little larvae and their 'dog' getting along and would love telling their adolescent all the cute stories of the little grubs curled up against each other. Petrosapiens in the age of the Surface Craze might have had the opportunity to get a few baby pictures like that, and it would be considered very cute unless you were a human afraid of bugs or not personally a fan.

Petrosapiens on Earth might see the miniature bugs and explode with cuteness overload, others might fuck around and find out that they can make human-petrosapien hybrids Makarat you chupacabra you're lucky petrosapien kids aren't born with crystals pay child support to your human wife who birthed a grub-!

And that's the post send tweet-

[leatherbookmark]

the only minor gripe i have with posts arguing for the “mxy harassed jgy” option is that they often use the phrase “mxy said”. we don’t know what he said, because the summary is provided to us by wwx. the phrasing might have been “i guess i came on too strong? idk tho”. it might have been “he was my life, he was the only light in this miserable existence of a kid no one liked, he was unreachable but how was i supposed to just accept that? how could i just step down and not wish to spend every passing hour basking in his presence?”. or something else. we don’t know!

we only know that wwx is the one who introduces the “incestuous harassment” read to us. (and he wasn’t manipulated by jgy!)

and not as a rumor -- if mxy disagreed with it, if he was slandered without reason, i ASSUME he would have mentioned it in his notes. “everyone says i lusted after my half-brother!-- and it torments me that my boyish actions of a child starved of affection who only adored the first real brother he ever had would be interpreted like so!”, etc, etc. instead, wwx reads mxy’s notes, figures out that he was harassing* someone from the jin sect, and then he visits jinlintai and everyone, including servants who see a bunch of things the noble cultivators don’t, looks at him weird.

*another thing i’m not sure people are aware of is that the word “harass” doesn’t necessary mean like... sexual harassment in terms of strictly physically molesting, forcing kisses or other sexual contact. it’s more like, pester, annoy? following a class nerd around and shouting “hey, genius guy, explain the quadratic formula to us!” followed by riotous laughter also is harassment, for example. the japanese translation uses 付きまとう -- follow around, tag along. i don’t know about other guys, but when i say i do think mxy held Forbidden Passions for jgy i sure don’t mean that he, idk, forcibly kissed him in the great hall or tried to cop a feel. this is a society where it’s inappropriate for young unmarried ladies and young unmarried gentlemen to be together alone or, in jyl and wwx’s case, too emotionally close. i’m pretty sure mxy could have just surprise hugged jgy super tight for a/ jgy to be uncomfortable, b/ the present servants to go 👀 is he weird or what

[paterday]

4/6 of the rimps have survived 24 hours. Not sure about the other 2, ive only seen 4 at once so far

[uroutofshrimp]

Sloppy kitty