PeriodicallyPedantic

Each of the novels is more detached than the last - it's great but probably not for someone just starting their journey into fiction

Until we get data to the contrary, we must assume they are

Coconuts

I wish I could be so unfettered

Four dogmen?
Horsedogs?

I'm getting Blood Machines vibes

(And by extension Turbo Killer)

Yeah I knew they weren't plants but it made the analogy easier to pretend they were 😅
They have plant-ey vibes

They were all like "let's get the Calvin cycle up in this house, lets light it up!" And so they did, and the atmosphere caught fire

Very cool!

It reminds me of my fav, The Oxygen Catastrophy, where basically a plant did something new and caused the earth to freeze. In this case, by converting methane to carbon dioxide, a much weaker greenhouse gas.

I like it!
I kind of feel like "locomotive" itself is a niche so this is more like a collapse of a niche rather than a mass extinction, but I love the analogies

That's my fav too.
"The Oxygen Catastrophy" is just such a cool name.

• Also some upstart bacteria just start pumping out poison that kills almost everything (oxygen)
• Causes the ocean to rust
• Causes the atmosphere to catch on fire
• then causes the earth to turn to a snowball

Fuckin metal

I'm judging you, as I said I would

That's the Holocene, and I'm judging you.