2017-02-03 3:15:21 ¶ ● ⬈

## So, I heard you had troll reproductive headcanons! I'm interested in what you have to say! =O

blu-cid-deactivated20171117:

> Okay……. I mean… Anything 4 u anon….

> I’m going to go ahead and put a disclaimer on this, so if you don’t want anything to do with Oviposition (it’s not, really, but it’s similar I guess??) then look away ig

> I prefer my aliens with alien biology, personally, so I don’t really go by the human genitals headcanon and i try to stray a lil farther from the rest (they’re okay to have but im just not into them). So that said.

> - I headcanon trolls as having glowing baby gravy, meaning just that it is of a very dim luminescence and why is bc A. it’s pretty imo and B. I imagine the caves are fucking dark, dude, so
> - Trolls reproduce by storing material in a special organ, but it takes time to store, so it requires knotting in a sense, so you don’t just spill your shit out all over the place. In doing so, it’d prolly gestate for a span of a day or two and turn into what are called “packets” (see cephalopods/crustaceans) and then they expel them and put them in a bucket. I’m into ovi honestly but if you want a logical reason I’d say it’s bc it’s VERY hard to fake, so you couldn’t just nut in a bucket and be able to get away with not contributing to a totalitarian race concerned with the expanse of itself. Also easier to transport.
> - Average dick size on Alternia is anywhere from 10-16 inches given that I headcanon trolls as a naturally large race, as you’d have to be, seeing as everything else is fucking large there.
> - Finding partners who produce big ass loads is probably encouraged LOL
> - “Tieing” for trolls is a v v intimate process as a standard which means lots of cuddling and little affectionate gestures until the swelling goes and you’re f r e e

2017-02-03 5:40:05 ¶ ●

@lithelight and I were discussing the topic of glowing blood and it reminded me of some 2012-era headcanon blog post about troll blood glowing the higher up it is on the spectrum

and i’ve always dismissed it as a pretty silly idea but i think if you view it from an angle of being like… a warning sign? like in the sense that something with luminescence is really obvious in caves and nighttime environments where trolls spend all of their time, then i think like

if you can assume, for the sake of the headcanon, that at first all troll blood had a very visible glow when it reacted to air, then it seems likely that lowbloods over time would have bred the glow out for the sake of their own protection; an injured lowblood is an easy target, and to have a trail of blood so easily trackable through a cave or through the night would be a really huge weakness.

highbloods, on the other hand, get an advantage out of it; because everybody knows a highblood injured is more likely to be angry and dangerous than any kind of vulnerable. because of this, a highblood who might be severely damaged and not actually any kind of threat still gets the advantage of having a trail of ‘stay the fuck away’ leading behind them, which gives them a chance to lay low and have their highblood biology deal with the problem. even if a smarter troll might decide to stop and actually take into account the amount of blood visible, the fear factor behind glowing purple is still there.

2017-02-09 9:57:34 ¶ ● ⬈

## How does a motor unicycle work and what does it look like in your head? Because it seems to me like it'd be that scooter the kid was riding in the Lorax

dingodad:

> while ago i made a post about how trolls should have monowheels shaped like slater bugs

> so that’s one possible idea!!

> though i’M TORN bc while i love this idea bc its alien and buggy i also love the idea of keeping pure the central idea of a unicycle and doing something really funny slash cool looking w/ it like…

> REAL LIFE MOTORISED UNICYCLE TYPE THINGS are also a possibility but they’re for hipsters and trolls as a whole are anything but hip

2017-02-10 0:02:20 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

## Black speed-dating

dingodad:

> my understanding of how speed dating works is VERY limited but i’m just. in love w the idea of conversation starters aimed at quickly finding things trolls will absolutely hate eachother about. the ‘pineapple on pizza’ questions of the troll world. you sit down with an attractive tealblood with nice pointy horns and teeth and are prompted to ask ‘does trollmeat belong in food?’ and the two of you imMEDIATELY erupt into a dreadful shouting match about it

2017-02-10 0:02:47 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

## Do you have thoughts on the idea of cuspie trolls? The ones that are between purple and violet. Usually clowns that have little bby fins.

dingodad:

> the concept is CUTE and i like seeing the tiny little purble fins bUT socially it’s a very awkward thing because racial tensions are a pretty huge presence on alternia.

> highbloods hate seadwellers bc they’re a bunch of rich pricks and also, they’re freaks of nature! so immediately i’m certain they would not be allowed to become official clowns. some more open minded cultists might allow them some freedom to participate in religious activities, but they could never become officially recognised members of the cult.

> i wanna say they’d probably only be accepted by seadweller society but fish are pretty purist too, so… I dunno. if you wanted to get any kind of nice treatment at all you’d probably want to aim to renounce any signs of land dweller highblood culture and try to fit in with the fishies as a lower member of the royal castes.

> thos r my thoughts!!

2017-02-19 3:00:39 ¶ ●

if you’re ever designing an alternian thing and you stop to think ‘should this be a bug?’ remember literally karkat’s fucking doorknob was a bug

it’s all bugs

2017-02-19 3:08:41 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

culledtrolls:

> lime-bloods:

> > if you’re ever designing an alternian thing and you stop to think ‘should this be a bug?’ remember literally karkat’s fucking doorknob was a bug

> > it’s all bugs

> Isnt his doorknob a crab?

it displays basically the primary identifying trait of insects and essentially zero of the immediate identifying traits of crabs, so, no