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two versions of an informative flyer about Changelings

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Submarine B 396

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Are there any benefits to being a marine biologist?

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Body horror where robots have random organic parts is always fun. Like, it’s got a heart and blood vessels, but the rest of it is mechanical, so what is the blood for? It has no components other than the heart that require blood to live, and the heart is only there to pump the blood in the first place. You made a robot that can bleed for no reason.

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and here I was thinking making readmores on mobile actually worked :pensive:

Uhh… halp your words were too powerful for my iPad

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I'm working on a tarot deck with my OCs.... wasn't gonna post just one at a time but I really liked how this one turned out so here it is

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It's cold. Achingly cold, to anyone except you. But you've cycled out half your blood for antifreeze, and the cold is just a whisper. Just a reminder, each time you wake up, that you're still waiting, still trying to conserve power. There's only a limited amount of sunlight out here, and your solar panels can't capture it all.

You've long since replaced the air with inert nitrogen. No corrosion, no chance of fires while you sleep. You wear a mask that gives you all the oxygen you need. Far less than any true human would. (No, you're still human, you remind yourself. Just changed.)

You wake up once a year to do needed maintenance, make sure the systems still running haven't broken. There's very little to do. Your unconscious mind runs everything while you sleep, and each time you wake, you find your limbs slightly more unfamiliar, your mind slightly deeper in shipspace.

This used to be more than once a year. You used to keep the ship more active, air still filled with oxygen, non-essential systems still running, stored power slowly running out. But that was when you still believed your captain would come back for you.

It's been ten years since he left. Ten years of waiting, of hoping.

Now you're waiting for his successor. You know her name. Danika. You've seen her, once. Back when your captain would still communicate with you, three years into your waiting, he sent you a photograph of the two of them. She was little then, but still you could see the resemblance. She's only his brother's daughter, but she has his smile, and her grandmother's hair, with that white streak over her forehead.

By now she'd be sixteen. You still have so long to wait. At least seven years until she can take the captaincy, take her rightful place. If she wants it. You hope, more than anything, that she wants it. You long to sail once more, through starry skies or alien seas. To stand by your Captain's side as they journey to new worlds and new discoveries.

You finish your yearly maintenance and, dimming the lights once more, you slip back into coma-like sleep.

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honestly why not force a meme at this point

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Had a dream where this became the new meme for a bit

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"mens section"... more like where the hot women shop

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do you ever think about how if you dive into the ocean and go deeper and deeper you will pass through layers of darker and darker blue until everything is black and cold and the pressure will be so intense that it will kill you without protection but if you keep going you will find little glowing specks of light, and if you go up into the sky and go higher and higher you will pass through layers of darker and darker blue until everything is black and cold and the pressure will be so intense that it will kill you without protection but if you keep going you will find little glowing specks of light

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rove doesn't even realize their eyes do that

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Charlie and Jack are unisex names in that they’re perfectly sensible on men and unspeakably sexy on women

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if i found out i was an android copy and that my original self was dead i wouldnt care. some people would be bothered by this, but i wouldnt btw

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