#mothergrub

[grubgirl413]

I’d adopt so many troll grubs if they were real

[fish-fear]

Sorry to leave yall hanging so long! Gonna drop like 5 of these then disappear again

[understandableparadox]

Intrusive troll biology with Paclus Sacrin

SS: No quarrieS=S were S=Submitted to me S=So im going to go ahead and continue on the path of bridging our S=Species together through the S=Spirit of mutual realization that our biology is diS=Sgusting!

SS: today we are going to diS=ScuS=S=S Trollian Reproduction!

SS: now to S=Start, im going to S=Say S=Something. You are going to feel the urge to revert to a nearly decade old verS=Sion of yourS=Self.PleaS=Se attempt to avoid that! or don't! im not nearly checked in enough to be worried about it!

SS: now moS=St of you are already acquainted with the bucket thing, trollS=S of each quadrentS=S fill up a bucket with reproductive material before they are S=Slated to be drafted, S=Said materium is brought to the mother grub, then S=Some form of magic happenS=S and boom! baby trollS=S in copiouS=S amountS=S of egg S=Slime!

SS: now before we S=Start up on the S=SuppoS=Sed magic, we S=Should attempt to underS=Stand the concept of a common anceS=Stor, not the mythological AnceS=Stor, but infact the the TrollittoS=Sphex BurmenS=SiS=S!

SS: notably the oldeS=St S=SpecieS=S of troll at the croS=S=S S=Section of a convergent evolution line between S=Some beeS=S and beetleS=S that were Very inveS=Sted in each other. creating a uniquely fucked up race of hyper violent pS=SychoS=S~!  with that we have a more deS=Scribable and leS=S=S alien way for you, a normal human with way to much intereS=St in alien bodieS=S a in to underS=Stand S=Said alien bodieS=S! 

SS: gaining traitS=S from both beetleS=S and beeS=S, you would aS=S=Sume it would be a fucked up croS=S=S S=Section but thankfully itS=S almost full on bee! ancient trollS=S were divided in worker and S=Soldier trollS=S, thiS=S diS=Stinction becomeS=S more pronounced aS=S trollS=S gained more S=Sentience, efficiency and more intereS=St in understand themselveS=S. 

SS:the SoldierS=S unfortunately never managed to gain S=Such speedy S=Sentience, relying S=Still on the pheromone baS=Sed orderS=S of the mothergrub. who at thiS=S point had a worker troll harem, which iS=S why the mother grub haS=S the face of a troll but no other featureS=S that resemble a troll. that genetic material is processed the natural way and boom, eggS=S and egg S=Slime! just... copiouS=S amounts of S=Slime...

SS: S=Sorry, i worked a few S=SweepS=S at a brood cave as a egg S=Slime S=Sweeper and it waS=S horrible and one of the few timeS=S i actually felt groS=S=Sed out. I got over it of courS=Se but getting over it and being fine with the egg S=Slime are two  different thingS=S in my profeS=S=Sional opinionS=S

SS: anywayS=S at S=Some point in troll culture the acceptability of fucking a maS=Sive troll faced bug started to plummet! from what I can S=See the hacking of pheromone S=Signals of the S=SoldierS=S was aS=Stoundingly eaS=Sy for early troll S=SocietieS=S, and with that the ability to preform artificial inS=Semination on the mothergrub with collected genetic material(aka, the bucket). the “Natural” proceS=S=S of reproduction was leS=S=S about the need to create more trollS=S but something more akin to how you humans S=See S=Sex, S=Something for both pleaS=Sure and S=Solidifying relationS=ShipS=S and a way to feel aS=Stoundingly weird  and awkward about becauS=Se you don't know how it workS=S and everyone haS=S an opinion on where and how you S=Should learn it! then it was hijacked by a pS=Sychotic faS=SciS=St regime that waS=S blown apart by meteorS=S summoned by weird angS=Sty teen godS=S but now where back to the pS=Seudo normal S=Sin againS=St nature verS=Sion minuS=S faS=SciS=St control.  

SS: well that'S=S all from me for now, pleaS=Se! feel free to aS=Sk me anything you happen to have questionS=S on in termS=S of Biology, ChemiS=Stry or Alchemy! oh if you need baking tipS=S i can help with that aS=S well!

[sleepyeurypterus]

d.does anyone else think abt the lusii. cause i do. i do so much

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

ROSE: Last summer, I saw a giant moth who had fallen into a water trough, and I gently lifted her out so she could dry her wings and fly away. This was an act of great foresight on my part, as I know that one day, when I am in grave danger and all hope is fading… she will appear, and remember me from long ago, and lift me out of the water trough that I have fallen into. I’m telling you, this moth was huge.

[trenchgardens-ooc-ooc-ooc-ooc]

the beforan propaganda around limebloods is *intense*

from depictions as uniquely vulnerable, to social elves, to incompetent, to inherently more mutagenic, its fucked up.

theres a culture of considering them to on a certain level not be trolls, certainly not seadwellers, theyre excluded from conversations about lowbloods because theyre excluded from populations of lowbloods, being universally culled. theyre excluded from conversations about seadwellers because theyre excluded from all the favoritism of seadwellers, they lack even the culled-beforan-fuchsia's consolation prize of long life and significant highblood legal favoritism that means even as the (almost) universally culled, they still have future prospects.

limebloods are sometimes depicted as a creature in the beforan fantasy genre. In fantasy theyre generally considered some kind of secret powerfully magic individual more in tune with the deep sea, theyre also often portrayed as master manipulators when it comes to social interraction, the limebloods who aren't depicted as cripplingly naïve are depicted as dangerously competent, yet even those dangerously competent depictions are undercut by some inherent misconception. you could count on a fingerless hand the number of limeblood characters who are both depicted as competent, and are not undercut by being Wrong about something critical.

Limebloods are also propagandized as uniquely mutagenic. theyre treated as if they are more genetically unstable and thus inferior, needing both a lot of help and to be excluded from matters that 'they shouldnt be forced to worry about, its hard enough just being a limeblood'

at every turn theyre dismissed and infantilized, where they arent done that, theyre mysticized as fantasy, where they arent done that, theyre portrayed as ontologically frail and diseased.

And the Lime Mothergrub Program is a way the Beforan establishment is trying to make that zeitgeist real.

Its why a certain character im making is called a limeblood with a hue mutation and not what she really is.

[goodgoblinguy]

Learning homestuck against my will

[mutant-advice]

<3< 1 juzt f1n1zhed chapter 8

c:< .

[rosemary-is-in-pesterquest]

On the idea of troll-human reproduction, considering the trolls made the humans universe, I’m like pretty sure their genetic makeup is as similar as donkeys and horses are.

[knights-unwelcommentary]

I'm giving myself a migraine trying to find away to convey that clown church in my fic is kind of a gentrified version of the fictional dark carnival christianity metaphor

[zillyeh]

irt the grub loaf post being passed around, i personally headcanon that not all grubs are even viable anyway (as in literally don't hatch, not in the culling sense) bc of how trolls reproduce? its very quantity over quality + straight up dud eggs are v likely and probably the most likely to come out of really really big caverns

also i hc that unfertilized mothergrub eggs turn black and hatch into drones (which is why i cant fw blackbloods lol) and those duds are more likely to be grubloafitized bc it is frankly. less gross anyway

[folykill]

holy fuck kuprum had better get hive soon

[nana2009]

davekat with kids is cute af but 12 OF THEM sounds exhausting and not in the fun sense

like it goes from "aww this is adorable" to "oh my god the suffering."

[dothemindything]

EXPLAIN HOW YOUR PHONE HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT.

its so much more than that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how could one ever hope to explain the intricacies of yuri

[relaxxattack]

i thought the reason why the dolorosa wouldve been executed is because she chose to raise a mutant grub (that became the troll messiah and inspired rebellion) not because she was being motherly? i guess i might not understand jadeblood roles but i thought the whole point was taking care of grubs + the mothergrub before a lusus took them in

a good question but actually no!

despite popular fandom belief jade's duties did not originally involve caring for the wigglers -- just the mother grub.

jadebloods are strictly meant to "serve the mother grub"; and they seemingly do not even interact with the wigglers all that often, since she "found him on an errand" during a "chance encounter", rather than him already being assigned to the jade's care.

(there's also other bits in the commentary where hussie refers to jadebloods not as wiggler caretakers but as servants of the mothergrub)

basically it's pretty well established that wherever the grubs are kept is separate from the jades, or at least, they don't tend to them whatsoever, lol

[kabutoden]

another set of fantrolls! Themis, Leonol, and Chaoyi. DETAILED LORE below readmore!!!

Themis is the head of the jade caste at the school and she takes her roll very seriously, pressuring younger trolls in her caste not to use their recently-acquired rights to NOT work in the caverns, but instead live a life of their choosing. AKA, there is a lot of social pressure on jades to conform to their expected duties and Themis is a traditionalist who wants the jades at school to appear unified and strong. Thusly, Melosa's misbehavior and outright hatred for the jade caste drives her crazy, especially considering Melosa's rare and special morph. She doesn't want

She's named 'themis' for artemis, because it was artemis killed the shit out of babies. Themis believes strongly in culling/letting trolls experience harshness to grow up strongly. her godtier is Judge of Void.

Leonol is a male oliveblood with a lot of RAW CONFIDENCE for being like 4 sweeps old. i wanted to make a catboy bc i already had two oliveblooded catgirls. hes based on that chill and confident big tomcat with the big cheeks type vibe. based on sphinx moth+sabertooth tiger. prince of doom because he destroys doom itself. dont worry. leonol's got it handled. even though hes like, 8. Chaoyi is Melosa's sister, younger by only a couple sweeps. Melosa was left with a virgin spotted mothergrub lusus that didn't bond with her, and as a result spent her first few sweeps barely surviving as the VSM grew more and more incensed at the 'pest' in it's living space. their relationship frew more and more antagonistic and they badly injured each other, melosa fleeing and being presumed dead while the jades, finally visiting the hive after a few sweeps, were horrified to find a mothergrub so badly injured. the VSM was returned to the jade caverns to recover physically and mentally. during this time, it bonded with a second child still a grub, and the jades let the VSM keep it's new charge.

upon discovering the VSM had a different kid in the hive, melosa initially feared the VSM to be hunting the wriggler as she'd grown up, only to be more distraught to learn chaoyi was healthy, happy, and cared for. melosa almost started another fight with the VSM, which was defending chaoyi from her, and cut off half her own hair in an act of defiance. initially, chaoyi couldn't possibly believe melosa to be her sister, because she had such a good relationship with her lusus, but after she wasn't believed by the jade adults checking up on the VSM's health that melosa had survived, she realized melosa had to be right.

melosa kept stopping by home and visiting chaoyi because if the VSM started hurting another wriggler, melosa wasn't going to let them handle it alone like she had. she didnt care about chaoyi's opinion and was shocked when chaoyi apologized and believed melosa. the two have an extremely awkward relationship but they are also both very dear to each other, and consider the other important family.

(while the mothergrub did abuse and neglect melosa, it's not really either's fault. most lusus are ultimately animals, including the mothergrubs, and she never recognized melosa as her own child. its based on animals rejecting their own bbs, which i witnessed a couple years ago. lots is left out of this desc of chaoyi and melosa but this is the summary.)