#Silicon Based Life

[siryl]

Art by Colin Howard.

[cybersoldier82]

Thinking about adding silicon based life to my universe so im asking a spec evo subreddit for info on what would be needed to make that happen and such :3

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

In something of a shout-out to Galaxy Quest,

the programme featured a small Gorignak in the background of the planet of Horrnius.

[fluffylandshark]

Don't worry @wizard-legs all the glass sharks I have met are lithovores meaning they eat minerals and other inorganic creatures like crystal crabs. Think about it, they're silicon based lifeforms and you're presumably carbon based, therefore you likely hold as much nutritional value to them as a pile of sand does to you.

I hate Justin McElroy for validating my lifelong fear of invisible ocean creatures in my pool with the ‘glass shark’ bit, because now every time I am in ANY body of water I have to act like I’m not afraid of Glass Shark so it can’t smell my very real fear

[whilomm]

we finally meet aliens and it turns out yeah theyre chill and oh yeah they are silicone based and its all fine and good. some confusion at first as Diplomacy happens of course but after everything chills out its just like "yeah aliens are real" and youre like one of the first ones to start dating an alien bc youre an alien fucker (of course) and youre figuring it out its a lil weird for both of u but u both have good humor about navigating all the cultural differences and whatnot its all good but when you finally decide to have sex you end up just decided to strap up and peg them see how well it works and its all going fine until you pull the dildo out and realize oh uh its uhm. melting. its melting a bit. the like outer part of the silicone Has Somewhat Melted and its gone all soft and looks like it mightve lost a couple of small chunks. on account of the. uhm. silicone basis. of various liquids being produced here. like not a ton but it was a pretty long session so its definitely Noticable. and now youre wondering if you just poisoned your new alienfriend and if youre gonna cause a diplomatic incident. would that be fucked up or what.

[thorarms]

Genuinely so disappointed with how little worldbuilding there is of Jotunheim in the mcu AND the comics. Like you mean to tell me theres a whole realm made of ice that can sustain a population of literal giants and huge terrible beasts, and youre not even a little bit interested in how it works??

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Thinking up an alien world settled by humans and I'm dealing with a major dilemma of whether to make the planet's creatures carbon-based like Earth's animals or go insane and try to come up with a whole new element similar enough to carbon to not only allow life, but also for the animals to be edible to humans

[t3rvo]

ok sorry but i'm actually devastated they didn't get to do a lifemate ceremony... at the very least i wanted to see them have an earth wedding with shlorpian elements. sad ant with bindle dot jpg

[silicon-based-life]

making a little pinned post just for fun :3 this is kind of a trek blog but it’s also my main blog, so there’s sort of a lot going on here

my artblog is @faewildwolf!

^this is what i look like btw. if you even care

[pettyprocrastination]

100% big badass werewolf creature. Maybe demon werewolf hybrid type vibe ya know?👏🏼

oh HELL YES

I definitely see you as like a siren. Very pretty and alluring but still scary with razor sharp teeth and definitely tearing out a sailor's throat with the girlies

[pluralzalpha]

Galactic Gazetteer: Kastria

Type: terrestrial planet

Location: Mutter's Spiral

Inhabitants: Kastrians (extinct)

Affiliation: Kingdom of Kastria, c.150 million BC

Visited by: the Fourth Doctor and Sarah-Jane, the Fifth Doctor and co.

Appearances: The Hand of Fear (1976), Eldrad Must Die! (2013 audio)

Fun fact: constantly bombarded by solar winds, leaving the surface lifeless

Another fun fact: Eldrad devised a silicon-based form for the Kastrians and erected solar barriers so that they could survive the winds, but later betrayed them.

[siryl]

“Mynock Hunter” by Colin Geller.

[technicolorrelays]

I think some of my favorite x files episodes are where they go somewhere really isolated and meet one of god’s fucked up little creatures

[rotationalsymmetry]

There really should have been more of Sulu fencing down a hallway shirtless though.

the original series of star trek is absolutely my favorite thing bc every episode is like:

-kirk manhandles a penis shaped rock prop for a very long time

-spock dances flamenco

-sulu fences down the hallway shirtless

-episode plot is kirk v massive sentient lump

-kirk tries to explain spock's ears as a childhood accident where he got his head caught in a mechanical rice picker

-on an unrelated note, spock starts wearing a beanie

-redshirts get turned into like. cubes of salt

-uhura defeats a giant green hand by hotwiring the entire comms console

-spock and kirk hold hands

-scotty stops chekov from starting a bar fight with klingons only to immediately start one himself bc the love of his life (the enterprise) gets insulted

-mccoy's fantasies involve meeting characters from alice in wonderland, including a giant anthropomorphic rabbit

-spock's alien sex drive episode

-kirk gets bodyswapped

-gladiator fight episode (1)

-gladiator fight episode (2)

-gladiator fight episode (3)

AND YET, every episode is ALSO like:

-war cannot be reduced to numbers from an outside perspective, because that makes it easier to stomach without change; the horror that is war must be acknowledged in order to make room for peace

-more types of life can be extant than we can conceive, and just because they are different forms of life doesn't make them incapable of prospering

-love cannot be programmed or controlled, and discriminatory hatred is a tool only for death and pain

-cultures that are different than our own are valuable and can be vibrantly rich with history, and judging them before we try to understand and empathize is not only reductive but contemptible

-happiness is something that we have to allow ourselves, and actively seek out, because it can't come to us without work and acknowledgement of our own state of being

-genocide can never be justified, and certainly not even to supposedly save the people that are more "valuable" by any given metric over those who are not, because all lives have worth

anyway the balance of absurdity and meaningfulness gives me life, and we haven't even gotten started on the whale movie lmao

[wigoutlet]

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[kyosaya-brainrot]

watched the annihilation movie right after reading the book, damn that shit was mid