Luna Dragofelis ΘΔ🏳️‍⚧️🐱
Furgonomics for cisspecies meltcats:

Meltcats have a *wide* variety in shapes and sizes. For comparison, usual adult human height ranges between 150cm (5 ft) and and 200 cm (6 ft 8 in). A ratio of about 1.3. Meanwhile meltcats can go anywhere between mouse sized (<10 cm/4 in) and blue whale sized (> 30 m/100 ft), a ratio of at least 300, as long as they can supply enough biomass for the size.

Meltcats can also change the amount and type of limbs, ranging from no limbs (like a snake, snail or blob) to dozens of limbs. Hands, foot-paws, stumps, tails and tentacles all are among the possibilities.

That makes it very difficult to design tools and environments suitable for all meltcat shapes and sizes.

But if it's about a tool or environment for a specific meltcat, for example a workplace, the meltcat will adapt to the equipment and not the equipment to the meltcat.

Also the variation is not random and involuntary (making accessibility a moral imperative) like in humans, but more of a choice.
Oct 29 at 4:22pmWeb
Show threadKore Artemis (A-314) Nov 13
@[email protected] it would argue that accessability for different sizes would still be important, given that (to its limited understanding of meltcat anatomy) it is at least somewhat time consuming to significantly change scale (given the need to aquire or shedd significant fractions of bodyweight as biomass). this is especially important for enclosed/semi-enclosed spaces (interior, seating, etc. ). Shape should be a much easier thing to temporarily change so it thinks accessability in a cis-meltcat society would primarily be thought of in terms of scale.
Show threadLuna Dragofelis ΘΔ🏳️‍⚧️🐱Nov 13
@mjustm cisspecies meltcats can attach and detach loose bodymass.
Show threadKore Artemis (A-314) Nov 13
@[email protected] is that bodymass personalized (that is, could a meltcat take some or all of the bodymass another has left behind)?
Show threadLuna Dragofelis ΘΔ🏳️‍⚧️🐱Nov 13
@mjustm As far as I assume, not personalized.
Show threadzaire arcanaNov 20
@LunaDragofelis @mjustm this leads me to once again ask the question, how exactly do meltcats’ minds operate physically? if neurons or whatever are just homogenously distributed throughout the biomass that would make it inconvenient or disorienting/painful to take someone else’s.
Show threadLuna Dragofelis ΘΔ🏳️‍⚧️🐱Nov 20
@soop @mjustm I don't quite know, but I assume they build dedicated brain tissues. Neurons are more efficient if they're bunched up close.
Show threadzaire arcanaNov 20

@LunaDragofelis @mjustm so slime cores :3d_blobcat_rave:

I’m now thinking, if it is homogenous, one could still shift their conciousness away from whatever bits it is that they’re about to detach first, or just have enough redundancy for losing memories on split not to be a problem, but even then that still raises the question of if a meltcat gets sliced in two with no way to anticipate it do they become two separate people

So having cores does make more sense, you just have less potential problems to consider then

Show threadLuna Dragofelis ΘΔ🏳️‍⚧️🐱Nov 20
@soop @mjustm no, I don't think it works like cores. They can still split, merge and resize their brains.
Show threadCoal2d ago
@LunaDragofelis @mjustm i guess every meltcat has like a nucleus and the non-personalized mass contains no nucleus
Show threadCoal2d ago

@LunaDragofelis @mjustm would be cool it there are some standard sizes e. g. cities being planned on 10 cm tall meltcats.
just leave your body at the park & ride and then everyone is about the same size and streets, restaurants, etc all can be designed with that in mind.

Every college campus tries to melt together to one gojira-sized meltcat for fun & profit

Show threadCoal2d ago

@LunaDragofelis humans also have different sizes based on available biomass

we call it children, baby, tall or obese
there are e. g. chairs for children