Chapters tagged bisexual

by Zeebop

Chapter 50

> The brain is still the brain slug host's largest erogenous zone. While they do not speak, they listen, they process speech. Moans excite them. Dirty talk can encourage them. Safe words can be used and heard. Sometimes, they enjoy just listening to their favorite people. > —H...

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Chapter 58

> Brain slugs are naturally hermaphroditic, and gametes analogous to sperm and ovum in Earth life, although the actual cell structures are different: the "traveler cells" have four flagella, hair-like appendages that provide movement, while the "receptor cells" aggressively absor...

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Chapter 68

> Brain slug hosts prefer sex when brain slug hosts equal or outnumber human partners, and in rooms with clearly accessible exits and with mirrored surfaces. The latter enables both the brain slug's eyespots and the host's eyes to keep track of their partner, a double visual conf...

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Chapter 69

> Brain slugs have no written history. They carry their memories in generational hive minds, with important memories shared widely among members to act as a baseline cultural memory. The loss of a single brain slug host and its memories does not mean all of its memories are gone,...

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Chapter 76

For the refugees of the Exodus, the apocalypse had already happened. They lived in the aftermath of the end of everything they knew. Their home worlds, their native biospheres and cultures, were lost to them. They landed on a strange world, outnumbered, outgunned, with limited re...

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Chapter 80

> Humans have dreamed of first contact for over a century. Yet when it happened, there were so many who were scared. They saw refugees as threats, or worse, strategic advantages over their enemies in their own petty, bullshit conflicts. Politicians can be imaginative in all the w...

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Chapter 90

> The great epidemics that ravaged the globe after the Exodus were blamed on the extraterrestrials. This was, in part, correct. The spacefaring species had been dealing with the contact and conflict of different microbial ecosystems for generations; they were both wary of Earth's...

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Chapter 99

> To seek the proper balance of flavors in a bowl of ramen is to seek the proper balance of life. Time, temperature, saltiness—there may be no perfect bowl every time you get hungry. But there is always the best bowl you can make at any given moment. > —*1,001 Ways to Cook Ram...

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Chapter 102

> The first hate crime against a Rhizomat was a cause for celebration in their community. The Rhizomat was a scrounger: old, bloated, in constant pain, and dying. The sudden, violent by a pair of young, bigoted human men armed with baseball bats released a toxic cloud of...

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Chapter 125

> If a human wishes to lift a rock, they might simply bend over, pick it up with their hand, and straighten up. This simple act, expending chemical energy to create kinetic energy, is an expression of human biomechanics. We do not need technology to achieve this, but we might use...