Athena

Peace for Armenians.

[snoozbttn-deactivated20230607]

what happens in camp unus annus stays in camp unus annus

[sammymationsart]

Unus Annus Cryptids in Gravity Falls journal page style ⏳💀

[cqlementine]

One Year.

a lot can happen in just one year, can it?

[rattseye]

i fixed the bloodbath :))

[toviatoris]

There's no going back.

Memento Mori.

@markiplier

@crankgameplays

@unusannus

(Open for better quality).

[afina10k]

Portuguese Girl Supporting Armenia By Singing Sareri Hovin Mernem

[afina10k]

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CFscfhGHDTs/?igshid=b2rfj1syq0pg

[afina10k]

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A post shared by Shushan Stepanian (@shushanstepanian) on Oct 3, 2020 at 8:08am PDT

[feministism]

[godihatethisfreakingcat]

Exactly. When you got no choice, you got no choice.

[afina10k]

Armenia needs our help, civilian homes are being bombed and many have already been killed. Our men and women are forced to defend their homelands for a war they didn't start. We have survived a genocide and never got the justice we deserved. When will their be peace for Armenians?

If you can donate, do it. I'm paying monthly to this cause on himnadram.org/en

If Turkey and Azerbaijan are willing to go against ceasefires and start a war, what makes you think you will be safe?

[i-homeostasis]

dude seeing these Mega high quality images of the surface of mars that we now have has me fucked up. Like. Mars is a place. mars is a real actual place where one could hypothetically stand. It is a physical place in the universe. ITS JUST OUT THERE LOOKING LIKE UH IDK A REGULAR OLD DESERT WITH LOTS OF ROCKS BUT ITS A WHOLE OTHER PLANET? 

[i-homeostasis]

LIKE THIS JUST LOOKS LIKE IT COULD BE A PERSON’S BACKYARD. LIKE YEA A LITTLE DUSTY MAYBE THERE WAS A SANDSTORM BUT THAT’S COOL I’M JUST GONNA WALK DOWN TO THE STORE P S Y C H YOU’RE ON MARS BICH!

[schro-dingus-deactivated2023030]

i hate to be rude and intrude on this post but we have decent pictures of the surface Venus too! 

[jumpingjacktrash]

#venus has a low render distance

[thecraftychemist]

See also below Saturn’s moon, Titan. Mars has a blue horizon at sunset so it looks even more Earth-like in this image:

Source

Also: Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

[ultraviolet-divergence]

So it’s not quite snowing on Churyumov–Gerasimenko, unfortunately; the white specks are artifacts of cosmic rays impinging on the CCDs in the camera, as well as a rotating starfield in the background (since the comet is spinning). A few specks could be dust. But, holy shit, that’s the surface of a comet. That’s a spot you could in theory cling to for dear life sit down on. The Cliffs of Comet 76p are a place. 

If that isn’t the neatest shit I don’t know what is.

[arsanatomica]

We’re only finding out recently that a lot of animals have colors and patterns that we cannot see because they’re outside of our visual range. It calls to attention how much of the world we can’t experience because our senses are limited. When we shine UV lights on them, they glow pink or blue, but these are the colors that we CAN see…. they could be a bunch of different colors, which we SEE as all pink. It’s also interesting to consider that most of these animals are not aware of having glowing patches on their bodies…. isn’t it also possible that we have skin or hair patterns that were not aware of? . . (There is actually some research out there to support the idea that our own skin fluoresces as well and that there are gender differences in the pattern and glow.) Other places to see my posts: INSTAGRAM / FACEBOOK / ETSY / KICKSTARTER    

[marlynnofmany]

Humans do have invisible stripes!  They’re called Blaschko’s Lines, formed as  skin cells divide at the embryonic stage.  Normally we can’t see them at all, though certain skin conditions follow those same lines. 

Apparently this is roughly what we’d look like, if our eyes could see in a different spectrum:

Dunno about you, but I want to use this in a story someday.  Aliens can see our stripes and we can’t!  Magical transformations follow Blaschko’s Lines!  A subtle sign of lycanthropy is darker hair there!  Wizards are bald with that cool spiral on their heads!

Speculative fiction is so much more fun when you can speculate about something strange but true. 

[theriu]

THIS??? IS THE COOLEST???? SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY EVER??????????? AAAAAAAA THAT IS FLIPPING AWESOME!!!!!

[nutmegthings]

Humans are weird

Inspired by various tumblr posts about humans being the weird ones in alien relations.

what about boredom? Like how would aliens deal with the humans being bored, and their little ways of coping with it… Like tapping fingers on a desk, foot jiggling, pen clicking, whistling, humming, making a tune by banging a spoon against their cheek while waiting for food to be ready.

humans have so many weird things they do just to keep occupied, even for just a few seconds of boredom. how would another species perceive that?

[flamekinz]

“I’m telling you Ka'tha, they’re up to something.”

“And I’m telling you Ra'ney, they’re doing nothing. Look at Jon, he’s just staring into the void.”

“But look at his foot! He’s clearly communicating to the lower deck.”

“… Ra'ney, the lower deck is the exterior hull.”

[nonbinary-octopus]

Humans are Weird: Spices

Alien: Today in my “Human Studies” book, I’m reading about human foods.

Human: Ooh, cool.

Alien: But I’m not sure this is accurate. It says here that humans purposely ingest a plant high in a pain-causing chemical, capsaicin.

Human: Oh, peppers? Yeah. Spicy.

Alien: But why would you want to eat something that causes you pain?

Human: Some people like the burn. I think it causes the same sort of reaction as drinking alcohol…?

Alien: That activity doesn’t make sense to me either. Can we discuss it after?

Human: Sure.

Alien: So, these “peppers.” Do you enjoy eating them?

Human: Me? Well, not by themselves. But I do like somewhat spicy foods. My brother, though, he likes them much hotter. He’s eaten some really spicy peppers, even ate a ghost pepper by itself.

Alien: Ghost pepper.

Human: Yeah, it’s the spiciest natural pepper. His face got pretty red, and he got the hiccups.

Alien: That… doesn’t sound like a healthy reaction.

Human: It just means that it’s a really spicy pepper. I mean, if I ate one of those, it might kill me, but he was fine.

Alien. Why would it kill you?

Human: Too spicy. You have to have a tolerance for capsaicin or it can literally kill you. And the ghost pepper is so hot that to handle it, you gotta wear gloves.

Alien: Your planet has plants that can KILL people, and which you can’t handle directly, and your brother ATE ONE, by ITSELF??

Human: Yeah.

Alien: …

Human: He says that when he gets desensitized to ghost pepper, he wants a Carolina Reaper.

Alien: I’m almost afraid to ask.

Human: …

Alien: What’s a Carolina Reaper?

Human: A pepper scientifically engineered for spiciness. It’s currently the world’s hottest pepper.

Alien: *stares at human in disbelief*

Alien: *stares at human studies book*

Alien: *stares at human again*

Alien: *whispers to self* How… how are humans real?

[giraffepoliceforce]

I really want a science fiction story where aliens come to invade earth and effortlessly wipe out humanity, only to be fought off by the wildlife.

They were expecting military resistance. They weren’t counting on bears.

[splintercellconviction-deactiva]

Imagine coming to a hostile alien world and being attacked by a horde of creatures that can weigh up to 3 tons, run at 30 km/h (19 mph), and bite with a force of 8,100 newtons (1,800 lbf).

By the time you realise that they can traverse water, it’s too late. The surviving members of your unit manage to make it back by shedding their excess gear and running for their lives; the slower ones were crushed to death within minutes.

You later describe the creature to one of the humans you captured, wanting to know the name of the monstrosity that will haunt your nightmares for cycles to come.

The human smiles as it speaks a single word, slowly and distinctly, in its barbaric tongue.

“Hippopotamus.”

[artdeactivate2025]

This is giving me the biggest, creepiest grin I might have ever grinned 

[dykeactivities]

alien soldier: *heavy breathing* holy shit………….HOLY SHIT DUDE DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THE AUSTRALIA UNIT

[letliv3]

It’s your unit’s turn to guard the humans your leaders want kept alive, supposedly to give you and your fellow officers a break after that dreadful hippopotamus encounter. Just thinking the word makes you want to recoil in sheer terror.

In the quiet of the containment area, you hear a strange, high pitch sound, and turn around to investigate. It turns out the noise is coming from one of the humans. You are your unit’s translator, so you take it upon yourself to ask the human,  “You, human, what is that strange noise you are making?”

The noise stops and the human says, “Oh, that? I’m just whistling to pass the time and entertain myself and my friends here.” The female opens her arms as though to try and encircle all of the other captives. “Anyone have any requests? I’ll be here all week.”

Confused, you lean away from the bars in case of any danger. Another human leans around one of the posts inside the containment cell, and says “I have a request Rachel!”

The first human smiles wickedly and responds, “I think I know which one you’re requesting, Judy! Our favorite Christmas song, yea?”

Christmas, Christmas….. You had heard of this word before, when learning the language of these strange creatures. It is an event that stemmed from one of their ridiculous “religions” that are quite prominent on this planet. It involves gift giving and celebration, if you remember correctly.

“You guessed it! Who wants to sing along?” The second human- Judy- asks the rest of the captives. Suddenly all of the humans are showing you and your unit their teeth, and you feel dread in the pit of your three stomachs. 

Together, all of the humans begin to chant at an odd tone, and when you recognize the words, you scramble back from the bars and try to ward off the strange chanting, taking off down the hall.

You hear the human’s chanting in your cycle that night. Their haunting repetition of that word, talking about that creature will haunt your cycles for as long as the creature itself…

“I want a hippopotamus for Christmas, only a hippopotamus will do!”

[what-are-even-humans]

I absolutely love all the space australia/ humans are weird/space orcs things going around, so I haven’t been able to stop thinking about stuff like metaphors and idioms and figurative speech. Like, what if those had been purely human concepts?

Human: “He really broke Omar’s heart”

Alien: “What?? Is Omar still alive? Can he be healed? Is it culturally appropriate to seek out revenge?”

Human: “No, no, like… He hurt him badly.”

Alien: “Yes I understand that your cardiovascular system is important.”

- - -

Human: “She’s a real wolf in sheep’s clothing.”

Alien: “What is a wolf?”

Human: “It’s a predator - you know, the one dogs descent from?”

Alien: “… She looks human. How do you know the value of her clothes?”

- - -

Human: “That dickhead stabbed me in the back”

Alien: “MEDIC!!!!”

- - -

Human 1: “Wish me luck!”

Human 2: “Break a leg!”

*Horrified aliens in the background*

[jumperjohn]

You know that one post about humans being really durable compared to aliens and that one about humans being really cute to aliens?

What if they were both true at the same time. Like the aliens decide to take their human on a landing mission because they get so exited and it’s so cute but then a storm hits and they crash. And the aliens are all freaking out because they can’t be rescued without going outside to fix something but the readings say they’ll die if they do because of the storm. The leader’s all prepared to make a heroic sacrifice when the cute human just walks out the airlock to fix the thing and when they get back they’re just like “what? It’s not that bad out.”

And the aliens find out humans are made of iron on top of being adorable.

[sewickedthread]

                                                                   Humans are weird                                                        

There’s a ‘humans are weird’ scifi thing going around (it’s part of the reason why I joined tumblr). And here’s a little vignette based on the idea above.

Captain Blagrank responded, along with medical officer Ch’ch’tk, to the frantic call from the Head Nutritionist. In Nutrition Prep, Head Nutritionist was wringing three of xi’s gripping palps as the fourth one made abortive grabs at their human, who was making the cutest noises. It was a little like a soft version of a baby klubib trill.

“Call me Betty Jo” was doing something with some of her nutrition ingredients and one of the fruits they had found on the new planet. Rsiskis hissed to Blagrank and Ch’ch’tk, “Stop her. It’s full of C18H27NO3!”

“Ah told you, Rsisy, it’s fine. I’m making some of my momma’s cornbread, with a kick, just the way she used to. Don’t get me wrong, the food’s good, but it’s been a little bland since I ran out of my hot sauce. I just need to remove these seeds, and it’s just like a Carolina Reaper.”

Ch’ch’tk, scanning the fruit, gently clicked, “Betty Jo-human, C18H27NO3 is a mucal irritant in mammals. In the amount you are using it will, minimally, cause severe discomfort.”

As she divided her mix into smaller portions onto a tray and shoved it into the food heater, she nodded. “Oh, yeah, I scanned, and it’s just like a Carolina Reaper. That’s why I’m using less of it, I just want a kick, not a kick in the teeth. And I’m not using the seeds. I tell you, we ship this back home and the chiliheads will go wild.”

Blagrank checked xi’s files on humans but could not believe what xi found. Under the “rumors: unlikely,” the files stated humans consumed C18H27NO3, which they called capsaicin. It was discounted because of the well-known effects of C18H27NO3 on mammalian mucal membranes and additional reports of it being used as a weapon and as a medicine.