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During the first year after first contact the missionaries interact with humans online a lot because it allows them to be on equal footing rather than having to slog through the "holy crap you're one of those aliens" reactions at every turn. They don't hide th...

Lodestar serves as Ron's sighted guide. Correct posture (when the guide is a human, anyway) is to have the blind person walking behind and slightly to the side, with their hand on the guide's shoulder or upper arm. If the way forward becomes narrow, the guide ...

`sbrPrFbrg` (bonekeepers) are volunteers who maintain the bones lining the inner and outer walls of a lighthouse. They are not considered clergy, so the position is open to both men and women, though the position is associated with older men. They also serve a...

Prayer rings are intended both as meditation aids and fidget toys, with very low friction between the inner gear and outer ring, the gear can spin for a surprisingly long time. Younger pups are often given a prayer ring to fidget with during long liturgies.

Know, o little ones, that the Light, and the Light alone, has kindled thy spirit within thee. Our fore-bearers looked but did not see, heard but did not listen, cried out but did not speak, marked but did not write, felt but did not know. Act, therefor, not a...

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: 2024-12-07T02:15:57+00:00 What fun! Now it’s only a matter of time before you’re selling merch for us terraboos humans (jk of course, unless you really want to…). I've said it before and I'll say it again. On the internet nobody knows ...

A moot is a legal entity within yinrih society. Imagine all the non-romantic functions of a spouse--sharing finances, providing emotional support, care when sick, etc. Legally, childermoots are a special kind of moot, and the vast majority of moots are simply ...

Khemehekis wrote: 2024-12-24T21:12:05+00:00 Do any yinrih cultures have a concept of adolescence? I brought it up in the Commonthroat thread a bit. <scBmg> (literally "sojourners") are a close analog to teenagers. Yinrih are cut loose at around 53 Earth years ...

One Yih year is 1.47 Earth years long. One Yih day is 24.39 Earth hours long. There are exactly 528 Yih days per Yih year. Since Yih has no moons, there are no months. Rather, a year is divided into four quarters of 132 days each that align with the seasons. ...

Around the high southerly latitudes of Yih there is a cryptid known as the rcfrcfDFg b sPnqg (great snow beast), or "yinti" to humans. It is described as being anywhere from grizzly- to elephant-sized, bearing white fur and possessing a roughly cynoid body sha...

Okie-dokie, I want to tidy up Yih's biosphere. For starters, Yih life is not DNA-based, but it is based on a similar nucleic acid that encodes the same proteins. This creates a genetic firewall between Earth life and Yih life. This hopefully doesn't mean that ...

I got some white filament today and decided to test out multicolor printing. This is a female forepaw print, as well as a wind fruit a printed a few days ago. Note the obvious polygons on the wind fruit. I know now that "shade smooth" in Blender doesn't mean "...

Here's the star and gear in color. It's the largest thing I've printed so far, at about 150 mm in diameter. There were some problems on the left side you can see, but since I'm not a 3D printing veteran and can't really see the details of the process as it hap...

This fellow currently cowering in fear of the scary noises outside is my guide dog. He is the inspiration for Commonthroat and to a lesser extent the yinrih as a whole. I posted a spliced-together sample of his sleep vocalizations, the ones that inspired the s...

More 3D printing nonsense. Here's an improved star and gear... coaster? IDK it's way to big to serve as a keychain. The old version is on the left and the new one is on the right. I used a different coloring method and larger layers to make it print faster. I...

Polymerite is a plastic that can be cured to give it the strength of steel. It can be formed using injection molding or additive manufacturing. After it is formed, it is cured by exposing it to gamma rays, either directly or by bombarding it with positrons to ...

Yinrih are about 200 cm long from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail. The back is about 34 cm wide and they stand about 76 cm at the withers. The tail is slightly longer than the distance from the tip of the nose to the base of the tail, allowing them ...

Much like humanity, the yinrih's information age dawned around the same time they achieved spaceflight. Through the millennia their internetwork has grown in size and complexity as they settled throughout Focus, and by the time of First Contact they have amass...