astercontrol:

This is the worst fucking picture I’ve ever seen, thank you ads:

“wearing tribbles on your feet is fashionable for kids these days” … whatever

“they are winter snow boots” NO. NO NO NO FUCKING NO CAN YOU FUCKING IMAGINE THE EXACT HORRIBLE WAYS THAT WOULD TRACK SNOW INTO EVERY BUILDING

“they are from Shein” FUCK YOU. JUST FUCK YOU AND FUCK OFF FOREVER AND EVER

“only GIRLS are allowed to stick their feet up a tribble’s ass” occurred to me as a possible further terrible detail

But then A Certain Part Of My Brain Who Shall Remain Nameless started nitpicking about whether tribbles have an ass, or a cloaca, or some even more general-purpose orifice that’s also for eating, too?

And we came to the conclusion that

– since the entirety of TOS (the only source I accept as canon on the subject) never showed any tribble excretions, which would logically have been visible in scenes with that many tribbles–

therefore, tribbles must be just SUCH efficient breeders that they use ALL parts of the (whatever they’re eating)

and so long as the food is not literally poisonous to them (in which case they would just die, this is also canon) …they will just go ahead and turn it into babies with absolutely zero waste

(or an amount so negligible it can’t be seen)

so, the cloaca of tribbles is more of just a fundamental aspect of who they are. Not only is their poo hole also their baby hole, but their babies are also their poo

… which is still, without question, a thing I would much rather think about than goddamn Shein Kids Snow Boot ads.