2017-09-24 7:58:23 ¶ ●

The new information about sopor slime we got in Hiveswap really puts the recooperacoon situation in a whole new light. It’s less like a handy safety measure to safeguard against daytime trauma, now, and more like ‘the government is literally putting its people on toxic drugs to make them conform’.

If you interpret the Alternian race’s daymares as coming from the chucklevoodoo dolls planted in people’s minds, then it further becomes ‘either flood your body regularly with this harmful substance, or put yourself through regular psychic terrorism at the hands of the cultist government’

It potentially goes even further to add another possible layer of deliberate lifespan shortening of lowbloods at the hand of the establishment; Hussie specifies that the placement of chucklevoodoo dolls specifically goes toward lowbloods, meaning that their incentive to use slime is even higher. It could be even worse if you follow the headcanon that lowbloods’ higher reliance on their brains means they need more sleep than higher castes.

And it all provides a bit of explanation to the fact that not even the above-water dwelling sea dwellers have recooperacoons in their blocks.