Lilly Mint
@curiousGalaxy
💭Researching social behavior of extraterrestrials ┆ she/they, amateur engineer, xenobiologist, and alien enthusiast ✰ nice to meet you!
✰┆Hello all! I have another question. I recently saw a good few Chittr users posting about sleeping and what clothes they wear while doing so. I have to wonder, how do you all sleep, and where?
i sleep in planetary orbit or in bed. typically clothed more often than not, but sometimes nude when my partner is here or im at their nest. planetary orbit sleep used to be more often, but its less and less of an occurrence now.
Well you see, it's the gills.
✰┆You can sleep in orbit?? How long can you go without oxygen???? D^:
oxygen isnt a requirement for me.
✰┆I guess that means you can’t be hurt by sleeping in water, but still- is it comfortable to be wet on your body???
--E√ Underpants. Socks. In the cupe. Or else I overheat.
--E√ Recuperacoon.
Where is my cake. My Cr6wbar t6ld me he put the last slice in the fridge f6r me t6 have. I have checked all three fridges. Where did it g6.
✰┆I would hope he did not lie about storing your food? That would not be good.
In 6ther news, I t66k a picture 6f my arm and sketched s6me ideas f6r my next tatt66! I settled 6n the tentacles idea, but I can't decide whether it sh6uld g6 up my arm 6r ar6und it. I'll pr6bably g6 with the sec6nd 6ne, since I'm n6t sure if the fur dye will sh6w up 6ver my scars... ((OOC: #cw-vi6lence I guess. Pr6bably sh6uldn't have sketched it in red)) https://images.squidge.6rg/images/2026/10/07/dies-tatt66-ideas-p1.png https://images.squidge.6rg/images/2026/10/07/dies-tatt66-ideas-p2.png
✰┆Oh wow, how intriguing! I have not ever seen a design like that used as body decoration before. :^7
Thank y6u! It's based 6n the tentacles 6f the L6vecraftian beings fr6m the Furthest Ring. ...Which is a series 6f w6rds that will pr6bably make n6 sense t6 y6u, but I'm sure I w6uld be able t6 explain it if y6u wished f6r me t6.
✰┆You are very correct! I do not know about any of that! :^U I would certainly accept an explanation if you would want to give one!
✰┆Alright, I think I have made up my mind for what to ask today. Whenever I read the Chittr feed, I see all of these unconventional characters and words and symbols used. Sometimes there is a button with what I know to be an eyeball one that removes some of it and puts the text in a more conventional and readable format. I wonder why it is that many of this site’s users input their text with all of these flourishes? I also wonder if for some there is an unconventional method to inputting the text, since for some users who have yellow text, it appears they are clearly making inputs from reading their posts. Sorry if this a very long post. Please answer my question, Chittr!
It's m6stly a tr6ll thing, I believe. Alth6ugh us leprechauns als6 use them. They're called "typing quirks," and they're pretty much exactly what it says 6n the tin. A quirk in the way we type! I pers6nally use sixes instead 6f Os. I'm n6t really sure where it started, th6ugh, 6r why s6me tr6lls have such difficult-t6-read 6nes. Thankfully, this website has typing quirks built in, and p6sts can be "de-quirked" if y6u have tr6uble understanding them, by pressing that little eyeball butt6n. I'm n6t sure what the situati6n is with the g6ldbl66ds, th6ugh. S6me s6rt 6f psi6nic thing, perhaps?
✰┆I see! So it is mostly cosmetic or some sort of self-expression? Some trolls must be very passionate about expressing themselves then. :^O Also, psionic?
It's a little bit 6f b6th, I think. But psi6nics are... s6mething n6t even I understand, really. S6me g6ldbl66ds have psychic abilities 6f s6me s6rt, called psi6nics. They seem t6 be electric in nature, I think? And they can be h66ked up t6 machines and c6mminicate thr6ugh them. It's all terribly c6mplicated.
✰┆How interesting!! :^D I suppose I also have some psychic abilities but it seems that the psionics you describe are quite different. I think I ought to ask one of these ‘goldblood’ trolls directly about it. Though, if they are able to be directly connected to machinery in such a way, maybe that would explain the outwardly visible commands and such. Surely they must be able to interface with it normally as well, though? They cannot be attached to those machines forever, after all.
One Night We Will All Admit To Ourselves That Mint Chocolate Chip Is A Good Flavor, And We Will Collectively Apologize To Mint Chocolate Chip For Judging It So Harshly.
✰┆I am not sure why, but something about this post makes me feel appreciated also. :^]
✰┆After being on this app for about a day now, I have learned quite a bit! It is mostly just that I need to know more, to be honest. Would you all be interested in open questions from me, or should I post alike to how you all tend to?
D6n't w6rry, I have als6 been quite bewildered by this website and tr6lls as a species. Did y6u kn6w they 6nly have f6ur types 6f r6mance? And they d6n't even 6verlap? It's all quite c6nfusing. I w6uld be interested in m6re 6pen questi6ns, th6ugh. I'm sure I c6uld inf6rm y6u ab6ut s6me 6f the less well-kn6wn species ar6und here.
✰┆Ooh :^O Quite confusing indeed! I am also puzzled by your saying “more than four”, what do you mean by that? How much romance is there?? At least I have some idea for what to ask first, as far as my questions go. :^>
Oh my g66dness I am pr6bably the least qualified leprechaun t6 ever try and explain this. Apparently, tr6lls (and carapacians, p6ssibly?) have f6ur types 6f r6mance, called quadrants, which are represented by <3, <3<, <>, and c3<. And y6u can 6nly be in 6ne type 6f r6mance with s6me6ne at a time, apparently? Alth6ugh switching between them is a thing, t66. Which makes me w6nder why they d6n't let quadrants 6verlap? Anyh6w! Charms! My species' system 6f r6mance. There are nine charms: hearts (🩷), m66ns (🌙), stars (⭐), cl6vers (🍀), diam6nds (🔷), h6rsesh6es (there's n6 h6rsesh6es em6ji, but m6st pe6ple use 🧲), ball66ns (🎈), rainb6ws (🌈), and p6ts 6f g6ld (6nce again, n6 em6ji, and I can't remember which pe6ple use, but I'll use 💰). And unlike quadrants, they can 6verlap. In fact, this is the n6rm! One charm is a casual relati6nship, tw6 charms is a c6mmited relati6nship, and three 6r m6re charms is called a tr6ve, and is c6nsidered the "end g6al" 6f m6st relati6nships. I've... never actually been in any charms t6 any meaningful extent, th6ugh, s6 the exact definiti6ns 6f them all escape me. It's terribly c6nv6luted, particularly t6 s6me6ne c6mpletely unfamiliar with alien r6mance stystems like y6u, I kn6w. But I h6pe I was able t6 answer s6me 6f y6ur questi6ns.
✰┆I suppose this is what you meant in your reply to my earlier post! Between this and the other four romances the others are talking about, I have much to learn :,^> Thank you for this, though!
Y6u're welc6me! D6n't w6rry, I'm in the same b6at as y6u when it c6mes t6 tr6ll and carapacian r6mance 🥲 We 6nly have 6ne carapacian in 6ur gr6up, and I d6ubt I c6uld get a single w6rd 6ut 6f her ab6ut her l6ve life. But fr6m what I've seen, the <3< 6ne can get... scary... Like h6rsesh6es teasing, but w6rse. And Itchy already makes my life hell by trying t6 h6rsesh6es flirt with me...
✰┆Okay, here goes my first open question: How does the apparently numerous romances work?
Loaded question but from what I gather it's putting emphasis and importance on relationships that we take less seriously, ultimately used by the powers that be to force individuals to expand a gene pool of future soldiers, but individuals and groups have their own spin on it. ♡ is love, romantic partners type deal ◇ is companionship, described as pitying. While not fully platonic think like life partners that support one another. ♤ hate, rivalry, opposition. Someone to compete against, someone to challenge you and drive you to improve. They're also not fully platonic rivals either. ♧ mediation, someone to hold you back, someone to make you think on your action. Not limited to romance but can be there to help keep you in check if relationships are going awry but can also just be there to stop you from being a dumbass. This one perplexes me how it's not fully platonic but hey I'm doing my best here.
oh and now we get someone humansplaining ourw system okay
✰┆So it is somewhat alike to the buttons you can use to interact with posts, but it is a relationship with a person instead of the feeling you have toward a post?
it s almost like they werwe designed that way forw a rweason
✰┆What does this mean? If there is a better way to explain this romance system, please do share!
i mean that is just the brwoad strwokes it lacks a lot of the detail and rweasoning and passion that descrwibes why the rwelationships arwe the way they arwe and most imporwtantly theirw benefit see with a lot of the human rwelationships all they have arwe like sappy surwface level flings and it rweally is just forw self grwatification that just so happens to sometimes be mutually sharwed but trwoll rwomance is much morwe in depth and interwesting and above all else matterws way morwe than whateverw the hell feelings humans have
✰┆Well, I see what you are saying. I am glad you can share something meaningful like that with someone else :^>