alternian dictionary for people who keep asking what obvious words mean. aggravation sponge headache. what you give people when you say "actually, on alternia—" anguish bladder the organ behind the forehead that stores dismay fluid. which explains a lot about the posting here. auricular sponge clots / hear ducts ears. the things you have and still don't use. bellowsacs lungs. used for breathing, yelling, and turning every minor disagreement into theater. blood pusher / pump biscuit / thump tortoise heart. different words for the same organ. some of you are still missing one. bulge appendage. maybe shoulder. maybe back. maybe hand. maybe something worse. use context clues. or don't. most don't. chitinous windhole / squawk gaper / squeal pipette throat. the vertical instrument through which bad opinions escape. frond / prong / point stump hand, leg, finger, whatever. basically, if it sticks out and does something stupid, it has a name. ganderbulb / glance nugget eye. for observing posts before replying to them. advanced technique. hemospectrum blood caste system. a normal thing to build a society around if your planet was designed by a dmv with teeth. ignorance tunnel mouth or throat, specifically when used for idiot noises. highly active organ on this platform. meal tunnel / protein chute eating hole. same general zone as the ignorance tunnel, but less tragic. nook crevice. entrance. sometimes throat. sometimes ass. great word. terrible conversation. nub any lump. shoulder, chest, knee, horns. a word with the precision of a drunk guy pointing at furniture. nugbone / thinkpan / sponge head or brain. in theory. posture pole / torso pillar spine. rare. endangered. frequently absent in replies. recuperacoon sopor slime sleeping pod. bed for people who need pharmaceuticals to experience a blanket. wiggler baby troll. also any larval child thing. most adults on here are spiritually still this. hive house. where you live when you aren't making your personality everyone else's problem. respiteblock bedroom. the room you should go to before posting. rumpusblock recreation room. the room where you should have kept that thought. meal block kitchen. place where food is made. not a metaphor. calm down. thermal hull / hunger trunk fridge. rich trolls apparently say fridge because even alternian aristocrats know when a phrase sucks. nutrition plateau plate. if you needed this one defined, don't breed. scalding leaf fluid tea. hot leaf water with class pretensions. breeze blender fan. what shit hits when the group chat learns screenshots exist. dong shouter / peal screamer bell. object that makes a noise. like you, but useful. dross coffer / offal drum trash can. where drafts go. ideally. escalation zigzags / zigzag incline stairs. a hostile architectural concept for anyone built like me. falldown slat skateboard. accurate. no notes. husktop / palmhusk laptop / phone. portable devices for making yourself permanently available to nonsense. snuggleplane blanket. unironically good. they cooked here. loungeplank couch. a plank for lounging. brutalist. honest. respectable. barkbeast / purrbeast / hoofbeast / woolbeast dog, cat, horse, sheep. alternian animal names are just sound effect plus beast. infantile, but consistent. buzzbug / stingbug / ripperwasp bee, hornet, wasp-like problem. bug taxonomy by how badly it ruins your day. dirt noodle worm. also good. annoyingly good. honkbird goose. no further refinement needed. that is the animal. trunkbeast elephant. one of the only times the naming system shows restraint. bury the thresher bury the hatchet. make peace. usually said by people who already sharpened another thresher. flip your thinkpan flip your lid. panic. spiral. make fourteen posts. call it discourse. spill the fart niblets spill the beans. a phrase engineered to punish everyone in the room. weakslime weaksauce. what your comeback was. wild honkbird chase wild goose chase. most callout threads. without a bean in your thinkpan stupid. finally, an efficient phrase. use more often.
