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sugarcoatednightshade · 4 months
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thinking about how Humans Are Space Orcs stories always talk about how indestructible humans are, our endurance, our ability to withstand common poisons, etc. and thats all well and good, its really fun to read, but it gets repetitive after a while because we aren't all like that.
And that got me thinking about why this trope is so common in the first place, and the conclusion I came to is actually kind of obvious if you think about it. Not everyone is allowed to go into space. This is true now, with the number of physical restrictions placed on astronauts (including height limits), but I imagine it's just as strict in some imaginary future where humans are first coming into contact with alien species. Because in that case there will definitely be military personnel alongside any possible diplomatic parties.
And I imagine that all interactions aliens have ever had up until this point have been with trained personnel. Even basic military troops conform to this standard, to some degree. So aliens meet us and they're shocked and horrified to discover that we have no obvious weaknesses, we're all either crazy smart or crazy strong (still always a little crazy, academia and war will do that to you), and not only that but we like, literally all the same height so there's no way to tell any of us apart.
And Humans Are Death Worlders stories spread throughout the galaxy. Years or decades or centuries of interspecies suspicion and hostilities preventing any alien from setting foot/claw/limb/appendage/etc. on Earth until slowly more beings are allowed to come through. And not just diplomats who keep to government buildings, but tourists. Exchange students. Temporary visitors granted permission to go wherever they please, so they go out in search of 'real terran culture' and what do they find?
Humans with innate heart defects that prevent them from drinking caffeine. Humans with chronic pain and chronic fatigue who lack the boundless endurance humans are supposedly famous for. Humans too tall or too short or too fat to be allowed into space. Humans who are so scared of the world they need to take pills just to function. Humans with IBS who can't stand spicy foods, capsaicin really is poison to them. Lactose intolerance and celiac disease, my god all the autoimmune disorders out there, humans who struggle to function because their own bodies fight them. Humans who bruise easily and take too long to heal. Humans who sustained one too many concussions and now struggle to talk and read and write. Humans who've had strokes. Humans who were born unable to talk or hear or speak, and humans who through some accident lost that ability later.
Aliens visit Earth, and do you know what they find? Humanity, in all its wholeness.
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onlyfangz · 2 months
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the reason some of you are so offended by fiction is because youve never interacted with any creative media that is beyond YA coming of age #relateable books and movies and tv shows
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oifaaa · 1 year
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I want Harley and Jason to crowbar Joker
Jason already gotta crowbar joker tho really I think Harley should be allowed to just straight up merk Joker and DC writers should actually read under the red hood and realise that joker isn't that big of a deal to Jason's story
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engagemythrusters · 8 months
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ALSO to further prove my point about CTs not knowing much Mando’a—literally the book series where it’s made canon that any of them know Mando’a at all states that CTs don’t have access to the culture. The ARC Nulls/Alphas and the RC clones do, but not the rest.
AAAND later on there’s this:
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THEY ONLY KNOW A FEW WORDS Y’ALL. And they respond to most of it in Basic (aka Sicko earlier in Triple Zero responding to “Vor’e” (thank you) with a simple “you’re welcome” instead of “ba’gedet’ye”)
They pass down a few things, but NOT THE WHOLE CULTURE AND NOT THE WHOLE LANGUAGE
PLEASE allow clone troopers’ own culture to develop! This is so so important! Don’t just rely on Mandalorian culture—they were raised so differently! Let! Them! Have! Their! Own! Culture!
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sunbedo · 8 days
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last night i dreamt i held you (stardew valley 1.6 update for console) in my arms.....
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usareiis · 8 days
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Lost my original post of this from the other day but I genuinely don't understand how Black Butler discourse ever shifted into the does Sebastian ~really~ like Ciel or is Ciel just dinner line of conversation that is pervasive as it is because Sebastian is the one that has absorbed his whole existence into Ciel's. Sebastian's face is what Ciel wants Sebastian's whole purpose is doing things for Ciel Sebastian's every hell of a butler yes my lord speech is about how he's Ciel's and Ciel is the one going around saying shit like whatever Sebastian is just my pawn 💅
#like sjdjdkdd??????#it's not that i don't think ciel loves sebastian per se bc. well. i don't think he'd ever process it in terms like that no matter what...#...kind of relationship they have bc the most important thing to him is getting him to do tasks like a dog and proving he will over and over#which is why sebastian does it all so overkill#but the most acknowledgement you ever get that ciel likes sebastian is stuff like idk the fucking book of atlantic you did good today#or if we're feeling really crazy the you were the only demon there line#like the dynamic has gotten way skewed in fandom away from the actual text#and i know why but it's still annoying bc i am not even saying this in a shippy way bc i don't give a fuck about ships#but they're so crazy entwined and in completely incomparable inhuman situations that it literally has no merit on this story to sit and...#...definitely piece together how this relationship works with real life normie standards like it literally is going to fit into no box of...#...what we think of as friends or siblings or parents or partners bc no victorian guy on the face of the earth has a real pet demon.#it's so boring you're missing the bigger picture that they're everything to each other and completely stuck together forever#does x mean y mean z? (least problematic answer only) they're stuck together! forever!#and no one has demons in real life it's all comparable to real life nothing#other than the asthma that's real#anyway. it's like fandom has made up a version of this story in their heads that is so devoid of anything that makes the story the story#twitter is like another planet for this i am mostly talking about twitter where i have been looking for news about the anime and oh boy#i have said this before but sebastian doesn't have a grip on human relationships bc he's not one and ciel doesn't give a fuck#but like this post started with and strayed from. well. sebastian isn't even trying to act like he's indifferent. ciel actually is.#and we're all missing several funny bits from that just trying to fit everything into a box#we could have more interesting conversations if we got past the same three people have been having for 20 years#kuroshitsuji#my kuro posts
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Eskarina Smith… from another Discworld book :) one day I’ll design Granny Weatherfax too… I promise.
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skiitter · 10 months
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Cannot bring myself to start the latest Dungeon Crawler Carl book because lowkey this series is propping me up like i'm soggy cardboard and the next one isn't out until fucking July and I just don't know what I'm gonna do without these idiots until then.
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melhekhelmurkun · 6 months
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The coolest thing about reading a Stephen King book is finding all of the little mentions of other books inside it. Reading Pet Sematary now, he mentioned Cujo at the start and just now he mentioned The Shining (except not the book, he quoted the movie, which is infinitely funny to me considering he hated it lmao). I’m sure there have been other ones I’ve missed since I’ve only read a few of his books (Shining, and Carrie, but I know the story of Cujo, Outsider, and Mist). I can’t wait to do a reread later on when I’ve read more
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tasmanianstripes · 11 months
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Maybe it's the result of my main fandom for the majority of my life being one where canon just genuinely doesn't exist, where there are so many different canons and literally any sort of interpretation of a single character is correct and can range from a moronic maniac with a chainsaw to a depressed old asshole boss, but
Literally who gives a fuck about canon?
Especially when the character is practically a blank slate or if it's an AU
Like, I'm sorry, but if you're butthurt about a mischaracterisation of a fictional character in an Alternative Universe then I don't think you understand what an AU is
#thylacines can talk#Maybe that's the reason I do not have the same violent reaction to mischaracterisation 99% of fandom spaces seems to have#I genuinely think that getting butthurt over somebody not writing a fictional character exactly how they appear in canon is the stupidest#most juvenile pet peeve you could ever have. Literally WHY do you care so much? It's words on a screen. Calm down.#I think it's only a problem when you believe that it's canon or try to shove your own interpretation of a character or AUs onto everybody#else. Otherwise...literally who cares? Somebody else treating characters like dolls is not hurting me. I'm not about to get legitimately#annoyed over fictional characters in a children's cat book. Unless it's like. Bigoted. But then I criticise the person's beliefs not a#goddammed characterisation of a fictional character.#In the fandom I was in most of my life a trigger-happy clown with a chainsaw canon and an old deppressed asshole boss were seen as the same#character and only had like. One design detail in common. And literally nobody batted an eye. You could write a dynamic between two#characters being incredibly hateful and toxic and somebody else could write them as old friends or an old married couple and both of these#interpretations would be equally canon. A single guy could have two wildly different personalities and backstories and he'd still be#treated like the same character as long as the two looked vaguely similar physically wise. Sure there were interpretations of characters#that were more popular than others but literally the only people who would treat one specific interpretation as canon and shove that#interpretation onto everybody else would be people who came from different kinds of fandoms and let me tell you. They were annoying as fuck#So coming from that kind of fandom into more generic mainstream fandoms feels like such a culture shock. Genuinely cannot comprehend why#people care so much.#'oh this character is so far from canon they might as well make an oc' okay...cool...and?#Maybe they don't want to make an oc?? I mean come on. It's fictional characters. You're an adult. It's not a fucking English class#People don't come to fandoms to study book literacy they come here to have fun. Literally WHO CARES if somebody's interpretation of a#character has only name and looks common with the canon version. WHO CARES. ITS WORDS ON THE SCREEN. Who are they hurting if they're just#making AUs in their own corner and not shoving it in anyone's face?#Idk I just see a characterisation I don't agree with and just go oh. Kinda weird but go off. And move on.#This got longer than I meant it to but whatever#I mean if you have that pet peeve but aren't an asshole about it. It's also whatever. That opinion also doesn't hurt anybody. It's only#people who act so butthurt about it and shit on other people having fun that I have a problem with. If you put it on your own blog and#criticise that sort of content in your own space instead of coming to somebody and going 'hey. I don't like what you're doing'. Then I#couldn't care less. Again. That's kinda weird but go off#It's kind of like. I like horror but I dont care if you dont like horror and talk about it in your own space. But I'm gonna care if you#go up to horror fans and go 'hey I think horror sucks' or 'I dont like horror so you shouldn't either'.
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shadowy-dumbo-octopus · 7 months
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At some point I'll get a Jirachi and call it Uraziel, but for now here's my Bartseq-themed Pokémon Ultra Moon party.
If you put all of their canon selves into one room they'd kill each other immediately. I love them so much. I'm gonna feed them so many beans.
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trouvailleamor · 6 months
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y’all,,, i’m gonna be thinking about pet sematary for a long long time
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dykepulpfriction · 10 months
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message for everyone who draws andrew miyard skinny: die
give him back his muscles right fucking now did we even read the same book
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dogsharks · 9 months
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man. I’ve only had my service dog for about two years and one thing I’ve noticed is the abled people and even other disabled people around me who don’t use highly visible aid/accommodation—including my own family who spend time out and about with me and my dog—do not understand the sheer level of harassment I receive doing normal mundane activities. And how degrading it is??
I had conversations with two different family members recently. About improving how I tell people no when they ask to interact with my dog. They suggested I add “sorry” and “he’s working” to my “no thank you” so that these strangers invading my space don’t feel let down so hard.
and I promise you they meant well, that’s just when I fully realized they don’t get it at all. Like, I went on a popular (no pets allowed) hike during a fairly busy time a few days ago, something that at the time was only possible for me by having my service dog. I was on the trail for around half an hour and was gawked, gasped, and stared at, loudly pointed out and cooed about by what was probably 30 or so different people. Most of them grown-ass adults. It felt constant.
It’s not that pointing and going “omg a doggy!” necessarily makes you an asshole, it’s the fact that 10 other people will do the same thing when I’m just trying to get groceries.
I just wish abled people would think about how they interact with working service dogs more. Because it’s absolutely weird and uncomfortable. Do you ask every person you see using a cane if you can borrow it because “it’s so cute omg I have a stick just like it in my backyard!” ? Do you touch wheelchairs without asking or tell them “Yeah I bought registration online I hate leaving my couch at home.” I’ve seen people wait until they thought my back was turned to pet him, had total strangers trauma dump about their dead pets, watched a lady take a picture of my dog while he was mid-piss and go back to her car without acknowledging me at all???
I know these example are not necessarily exclusive to service dog teams and that there are definitely people who have done those things. Y’all see how fucking bizarre it is?? It happens even more when he’s vested, because I swear some people view service dogs in public as an opportunity for THEM to have this “magical experience with a real working dog” /s.
Like I’m not a dick about it but I’m not apologizing for not letting people touch my service dog and it’s wild that I’m expected to placate strangers in the first place.
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emblazons · 7 months
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the problem with having a cat with anxiety as bad as yours is you come home to him being spooked and hiding and suddenly have your own version of a panic attack over how he might be sick (so you call 5 vets in the area and know you're gonna WFH tomorrow just to MAKE SURE he's legitimately just scared and not dying HELLO)
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gideonisms · 2 years
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I still don't know what cringe actually means or how you tell if something is or not. I am the ideal reader of the memes in tlt
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