I'm getting a bit tired of the "earth is space Australia" narrative.
What if earth was space Japan instead?
Like, imagine if human media was really popular throughout the galaxy amongst young extraterrestrial beings for whatever reason. Aliens love to watch our movies, comicbooks, literature and whatnot. And we end up with a niche community of aliens who are obsessed with human life - or at least the weird idealised version of it as seen on TV.
Imagine a bunch of edgy alien teenagers (or the alien equivalent of it!) dreaming of travelling to Earth and meeting Percy Jackson, or visiting the Krusty Krab, or exploring the ruins of the Titanic. Imagine some bizarre-looking creature from Andromeda with fifteen legs and tentacles for eyes learning Latin so it can understand christian prayers better. Imagine some space incel defending human war crimes on alien 4chan.
Estrogen is pretty cool 😎 but unfortunately it will never be my IDEAL form of gender transformation, which is to fall into a tub of acid flailing and screaming before anxious surgeons rush me into an crowded operating room theatre where an overconfident lead surgeon reassures his team that, “we can rebuild her - we have the technology.” And then he pulls off the veil on top of a big glass box revealing the charred and shrapnel-pocked remains of my body that has only one arm and one eye left and everyone screams then he shows me a photo gallery of different famous models and swipes through them asking me to pick one like I’m in the character creation manual in Fallout
Like seriously, who was gonna tell me?!? JK, I actually like that name for him, although I had the name Cielo in mind for him, it means sky/constellation.
sick of sci-fi authors making characters randomly describe their technology in intricate detail. can you imagine if regular people did this to household items?
"How are you doing, man?", asked Rob
"Awesome, bro," Bob answered, "Just bought this new car a few days ago."
"Cool!"
"Yea. Cars are expensive wheeled machines designed for locomotion that can hold up to five people, though more expensive models have enough room for far more. Like many vehicles, they can only function when injected with a special industrialised fluid most people call 'gasoline', whose raw form is harvested from the deepest pits of the Earth by special machines. Most people consider them a mark of wealth, and its invention is said to have been one of mankind's greatest achievments."
"Indeed. Though recent data has shown that cars are responsible for emitting over four metric tons of CO2 per year. Since the start of the current climate crisis, several people have been pushing for the destruction of car-centric environments in benefit of walkable neighbourhoods. But since most people exclusively depend on it for their daily errands, it is a rather troublesome subject.
"Anyway, wanna eat pizza tonight?"
"Sure!"