My take on svtfoe's slimes.

-Their hydras, relatives of corals and jellyfish. They have substantial bodies, but their regenerative abilities allow them to heal from pretty serious injuries, and their known to live thousands of years- abilities that are overlooked by mewmens, who often can't differentiate individual slimes.

-while they aren't made of slime, their bodies are covered in an anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial mucus that serves to protect their bodies on land. It also helps ease the pain caused by a slime sting.

-Slimes are hermaphroditic, and can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Gonad development is triggered by stress and starvation, budding is triggered by warmth and a surplus of food. Unlike most other species, who have gonads permanently, slime gonads develop as needed and fall off once their job is done.

-Slimes born through budding are seen as superior to slimes hatched from eggs, in part because wealthy slimes are more likely to bud while poor slimes are more likely to produce eggs. Budded children are prioritized in terms of inheritance, partially because of perceived superiority and partially because there's no ambiguity as to which parent should be prioritized, as there is only one. Eggs are still produced by slime nobility for the purpose of both strengthening ties with other slime families and marrying them off to nobles of other species. These marriages are political in nature, and cannot produce heirs.