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[demaelition]

Who: Mae Borowski
Username: trashmammal
Warnings: Brutal Honesty speciesist discussion, also potential for Mae's specific content warnings

Okay, but real question:
What even are humans or human-like people?
Why don't some of you have fur at all?
Or claws?
Or tails
Or like anything else normal?
Why do you all look the same, smell drastically different, and yet humans can't apparently smell each other super well either, so how do you tell each other apart?

-Signed your resident normal person

Comments

[demaelition]

Oh. Thanks? I mean I guess so, yeah.
We still have a lot of the same problems this place seems to:
not enough jobs and low pay
People moving and trying to live so it makes it worse
Forces of evil trying to kill people
Capitalism
But at least I know who I'm talking to.

Yeah, that's not a bad idea, I mean I guess it's less rude to ask someone their name again than it is to just assume and be wrong.

Question: what if two of them look a lot a like and both have the same name and both live with you so it's worse?

[heyunderoos]

You'd think different worlds would like have less of those problems. At least less forces of evil trying to kill people. Back home it was weird aliens or giant elemental monsters.

...Maybe it's time for like nicknames? Or stickers on them? I mean, if they wanted like stickers to help you anyway.

[demaelition]

Whoa like actual aliens? That's super cool!
Well, not the trying to kill you part.
I always figured aliens would like be above that kind of thing.
Were they squid people?

Also I do have nicknames for them, but that doesn't help visually. Stickers isn't a bad idea.

[heyunderoos]

If the aliens were like way less murderous, I'd definitely be more excited for them honestly. I mean, aliens actually existing, that's mega cool. What else is out there in space we don't even know about!

Well, technically Thor is also kind of an alien? Sort of. He's a whole different thing.

They weren't squid people, they were more... weird lizard-ish kinda guys? But not? I have no idea how to even describe them besides Not Great. Mostly intent on killing people.

Maybe see what colors they like the most, then ask if you can give them stickers to wear? That'd probably make them wanna work with you on that a bit more.

[demaelition]

Ok you know what, that's absolutely a good point. Everything becomes way less ok if it tries to kill you. Like if my favorite band showed up from anywhere and tried to kill me they'd probably be at least third favorite immediately.

But um. Literally everything we don't know is out in space? We don't know shit about space, it's amazing considering how long everyone's been staring at the stars.

And making stories about them.
Hey, do you ever think about how maybe someone sees your world from super far away so it's just a star and they've probably made up a story for it too?

Also
Dude
That's like the best idea I've ever heard. Thank you, I might just do that.

[heyunderoos]

I feel like if my favorite band tried to kill me, I'd at least drop them to fourth? Maybe fifth? That feels like a good spot TBH.

I think there have to be expansive cultures out in space, just we're not even aware of how they work or what they're like. Even with the whole evil aliens thing, there has to be good ones too. Its kind of exciting to think about even now. Cause they came to earth on a weird shaped ship, and well, caused a few problems.

Yeah! Honestly, its fun to think about that kind of thing. What assumptions do they have about our world? About us? Will they ever try to find an answer or keep just thinking about stories until that becomes fact?

No problem! I remember we did something kinda similar back in grade school when there were a set of twins in a class. It helped a lot in telling who was who.

[demaelition]

I would imagine that would cause a lot of people a lot of problems. Even if you take out the part where they probably killed or hurt a bunch of people, I couldn't even get my stupid small town to listen to me when I said a kid got kidnapped, I don't know what they'd do if I tried to tell them aliens were real. If they showed up? Pretty sure half of them would just die of heart failure.

[heyunderoos]

Yeah, if you're not I guess someone everyone knows and likes, its hard to get people to believe you. I know people would be iffier on believing me on some stuff. I kinda just keep to my friend Ned and that's it.

At least back home, everyone already kinda knew aliens existed due to Thor showing up, but it didn't make the giant space ship any less crazy.