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some take sliders vaguely correlated with human attraction and slide them up really really high, past the superhuman range and just keep going. cheekbones high enough to be horns, giraffe-necks, bug-eyes, stuff like that

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some make the reasonable inference that humans probably have repeated body parts folded into four dimensions that they hotswap and do the same for their human forms and just have too many arms and fingers and eyes and stuff that keep flickering

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some have strange aesthetic preferences by human standards that they incorporate into their human forms. tetraspace likes ribbons, so a tetraspace might decide to have two mouths with six tongues each about a meter long trailing behind them, stuff like that.

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of the remainder,
some just don't get humans quite right. facial features are off, "close enough" by their standards but not by ours. arms and fingers the wrong length. garments don't actually make sense as clothes if you pay attention.

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top 50% or so of tetraspaces (who try to look like humans) have no problems w/ this. they just look like glowy floaty humans

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so the reason tetraspaces adopt human forms is to communicate with humans. "their" "goal" is to find the strongest million or so humans, implant them with tetraspace eggs, they fight to the death, the ~1% who survive get to be the new tetraspaces, repeat

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now that ive been reading twig and also replaying hello charlotte and also just thinking more about the logical consequences of the setting obviously there should be body horror tetraspaces

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open.spotify.com/track/6zJjko2 theres an instrument in here that isn't the mario paint cat sound but i interpret it as the mario paint cat sound because i like to have fun sometimes

so you know earlier when i said i wanted to play rimworld except its cold and earlier when i said i was reading twig? anyway i just saw this neat little game on steam called "frostpunk" that seems related to my interests

lucky heaven 17 isnt singing it or they'd be lobsters in bullshit

your BMI = your hitpoints the bigger it is the more damage you can absorb

[meerkat dressed as Shakespeare] and I say to Sergei, “you buy one, you get one free. I said you buy one, you get one free. Simples!” [meerkat stumbles past in the background struggling to carry two windows]

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