#mutualistic

[abyssa111]

i am feeling something not romantic, but not platonic, towards @andreweatspussy111

[bunnieswithknives]

In which Dev finally talks about what happened to Peri :3

part (1/2): next

[starcurtain]

Hear me out. I know it's unlikely that Ratio would ever have been foolish enough to directly get taken in by a scam, but considering that we know:

One of the groups specifically tricked by Kakavasha before he joined the IPC was the Intelligentsia Guild

What he tricked them about was Tayzzyronth's Swarm remnants, the exact same thing we see Ratio investigating in his very first appearance in the game, and

The researchers were described as "extremely cautious"

I am surprised that "Ratio was at least somehow connected to the Intelligentsia Guild team fooled by Kakavasha before he was ever even a Stoneheart" isn't more popular with the Ratio and Aventurine fandom.

Like imagine being Dr. Ratio. You tell your colleagues, "This seems like a scam. Are you sure you should trust this 'local guide' you've made contact with? Tell me about him. A picture? Does this even look like an Egyhazan native to you? I won't save you fools from making idiotic decisions." (You end up having to clean up the aftermath of their idiotic decisions anyway. There is sand in places on your body you didn't even know existed before this. How mortifying for the Guild. For you, by association.)

Then, next thing you know, you get a mission briefing slid across your desk from your IPC connections. They want you to work with their new Stoneheart. You open the packet to see... that little bastard with the enthralling eyes who had your moronic colleagues scrambling in the dirt on a backwater planet for months. Apparently he's made a career out of fooling you your supposedly competent guildmates.

You run off to confront him. You never met him personally back then, but you deserve compensation for the idiocy you were subjected to nonetheless. He deserves to know how much of a pain in the ass he's been in your life already without ever having met your eyes--

He proceeds to shove a gun into your hands and tries to make you an accomplice to a suicide. Apparently, this is normal behavior for the man now called Aventurine. Somehow, it's supposed to prove to you that he is a sane and reliable individual.

Absolutely nothing in your life has been normal since Egyhazo.

You would like to have mundane problems, sometimes.

How do you keep ending up in this beautiful manic clever conman's orbit, and why, like binary stars, can you not escape the gravitational pull?

[squidishpolcomp]

30 day fanart challenge! (1-9)

so very productive

the real challenge is forcing myself to draw other characters. i have never drawn mutualist until now

[karmathehalflander]

You know who would be friends?

These four. I need to draw a crossover between them some time.

Just a guy and his parasitic (but not really more like mutualistic) canabalistic bodymate for whom their antagonism for each other grew to a deep trust and love (one is decidedly more romantic in nature but still) and in which the human never truly learned to appreciate their other until they left by sacrificing themselves for him.

They have so much in common I think Migi and Venom would rant about their hosts not taking care of themselves and being genuinely stupid.

Shinichi and Eddie would relate to adjusting to sharing a body and having to explain human customs and culture.

They both have a “the monster becomes more human and learns empathy and love and the human becomes more of a monster and learns to be brutal” dynamic going on.

Guys they mean so much to me I could rant about this for hours.

[manic-sapphic]

just posing a solution to the problem of the manic pixie dream girl narrative and the implication that character's sole purpose is to liven up the dull days of some guy who loves her more for that than for herself --

manic pixie dream girls.

make it gay.

both unhinged.

driving each other up the fucking wall.

but they wouldn't have it any other way.

<3

[deliriuxe]

@megalommi yeah no I'm definitely not normal about these two sorry to say

[powerade]

above it all

[transingthoseformers]

Thinking about a bunch of smaller mers keeping close to a larger titan mer🥺

[autizmogenderia]

someone should draw the anarchists having a potluck dinner together

[o-craven-canto]

(Rosemary Mosco, "Feeling Lonely?", 2023)

Demodex folliculorum (mite) and Malassezia (fungus) eat the excess of sebum (skin oil) that your face might produce, helping keep it clean (as long as the population doesn't grow too high! At which point very bad things happen) ♥

Bacteroides fragilis (bacterium) helps ferment sugars in your intestine producing useful fatty acids, and absorbs oxygen that would be toxic to fellow bacteria. ♥♥♥

Endolimax nana (amoeba)... well, it seems it does nothing but cause diarrhea. Can't win them all. Micrococcus (bacterium) is found on your skin and mucosae, but, at best, it seems to do nothing.

Methanobrevibacter smithii (archaeon, here "Methanobacter") consumes the products of bacterial fermentation (hydrogen and carbon dioxide), converting them to methane and thus encouraging a more complete fermentation of sugars. ♥♥

If you happen to have a vagina, Lactobacillus (bacterium) keeps it safe from fungal infections by secreting lactic acid and hydrogen peroxide. (We also exploit its lactic fermentation skills to make yoghurt, cheese, sauerkraut, kimchi, and beer.) ♥♥♥

Brevibacterium linens (bacterium) is found on your feet and it mainly makes them smell bad. On the upside, it's also used to make various kinds of cheese. ♥

Never forget: to a bacterium, archaeon, or unicellular fungus, you're the whole world ❤

[squidishpolcomp]

Fanart challenge day 11-15

nine is too much me thinks. anyway i found a new brush pack halfway through never fell in love so quick

[aliusfrater]

gadreel!sam as a cryptic pregnancy

[daily-orange-character]

Daily Orange Character #75:

Mutualist from Centricide!

[cowardlybean]

your assignment is to think about seasoning city. can you do it

[powerade]

My rw ocs, the mutualist and the heater! Mutualist is a very sickly slugcat that will die if not taken care of by heater. One day mutualist's condition suddenly gets worse and heater only has one idea on how to help them, find an iterator.

Timeline-wise they're a bit before Saint and while at least the heater isn't from the area, their story happens in the game areas.