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@colorfulcipher
Every time I try to be active here again I log in and one of the first posts I see are either people I follow or MUTUALS that I've had for literally years rabidly hating on fandoms or sharing that type of posts
Like buddy, I get it, modern series/books/movies/whatever are bad we all should have pure puritanical interests and adult media is sinful and yucky, you're not going to convince people by calling them slurs or mentally ill
Anyway I am logging off again
Midnight fishin'
or When the full moon syncs up with your holiday plans
'thats probably fine' is my favourite thing to say after seeing something that is incredibly obviously not fine. it is very played out and i will never ever stop doing it
Itās funny how science fiction universes so often treat humans as a boring, default everyman species or even the weakest and dumbest.
I want to see a sci fi universe where weāre actually considered one of the more hideous and terrifying species.
How do we know our saliva and skin oils wouldnāt be ultra-corrosive to most other sapient races? What if we actually have the strongest vocal chords and can paralyze or kill the inhabitants of other worlds just by screaming at them? What if most sentient life in the universe turns out to be vegetable-like and lives in fear of us rare āanimalā races who can move so quickly and chew shit up with our teeth?
Like that old story ātheyāre made of meat,ā only weāre scarier.
HOLY SHIT THEY EAT CAPSAICIN FOR FUN
YOU GUYS I HEARD A HUMAN ONCE ATE AN AIRPLANE.
A HUMAN CAN KEEP FIGHTING FOR HOURS EVEN AFTER YOU SHOOT IT
humans are a proud warrior race with a pantheon of bloody gods: Ram-Bo, Schwarzenegger, etc.
REMOVING A LIMB WILL NOT FATALLY INCAPACITATE HUMANS: ALWAYS DESTROY THE HEAD.
WARNING: HUMANS CAN DETECT YOU EVEN AT NIGHT BY TRACKING VIBRATIONS THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE
WARNING: HUMANS CAN REPRODUCE AT A RATE OF 1 PER SPACEYEAR. DESTROY INFESTATIONS IMMEDIATELY
THE HUMAN MOUTH HAS OVER THIRTY OUTCROPS OF BONE AND POWERFUL JAW MUSCLES.
HUMAN BITES CAN BE FATALLY INFECTIOUS EVEN TO OTHER HUMANS
WARNING: HUMANS CAN AND WILL USE IMPROVISED WEAPONS. SEE CLASSIFIED DATA LABELED J. CHAN.
HUMANS CAN PROJECT BIOWEAPONS FROM ALMOST EVERY ORIFICE ON THEIR BODY. DO NOT INHALE
OH GOD THE HUMANS FIGURED OUT DOOR HANDLES OH GOD OH GOD
More seriously, humans do have a number of advantages even among Terrestrial life. Our endurance, shock resistance, and ability to recover from injury is absurdly high compared to almost any other animal. We often use the phrase āhealthy as a horseā to connote heartiness - but compared to a human, a horse is as fragile as spun glass. Thereās mounting evidence that our primitive ancestors would hunt large prey simply by following it at a walking pace, without sleep or rest, until it died of exhaustion; itās called pursuit predation. Basically, weāre the Terminator.
(The only other animal that can sort of keep up with us? Dogs. Thatās why we use them for hunting. And even then, itās only āsort ofā.)
Now extrapolate that to a galaxy in which most sapient life did not evolve from hyper-specialised pursuit predators:
Our strength and speed is nothing to write home about, but we donāt need to overpower or outrun you. We just need to outlast you - and by any other speciesā standards, we just plain donāt get tired.
Where a simple broken leg will cause most species to go into shock and die, we can recover from virtually any injury thatās not immediately fatal. Even traumatic dismemberment isnāt necessarily a career-ending injury for a human.
We heal from injuries with extreme rapidity, recovering in weeks from wounds that would take others months or years to heal. The results arenāt pretty - humans have hyperactive scar tissue, among our other survival-oriented traits - but theyāre highly functional.
Speaking of scarring, look at our medical science. We developed surgery centuries before developing even the most rudimentary anesthetics or life support. In extermis, humans have been known to perform surgery on themselves - and survive. Thanks to our extreme heartiness, we regard as routine medical procedures what most other species would regard as inventive forms of murder. We even perform radical surgery on ourselves for purely cosmetic reasons.
In essence, weād be Space Orcs.
Our jaws have too many TEETH in them, so we developed a way to WELD METAL TO OUR TEETH and FORCE THE BONES IN OUR JAW to restructure over the course of years to fit them back into shape, and then we continue to wear metal in out mouths to keep them in place.Ā
We formed cohabitative relationships with tiny mammals and insects we keep at bay from bothering us by death, often using little analouge traps.Ā
And by god, we will eat anything.Ā
We use borderline toxic peppers to season our food.Ā
We expose ourselves to potentially lethal solar radiation in the pursuit of darkening our skin.Ā
We risk hearing loss for the opportunity to see our favorite musicians live.Ā
We have a game where two people get into an enclosed area and hit each other until time runs out/one of them pass out
We willingly jump out of planes with only a flimsy piece of cloth to prevent us from splattering against the ground.Ā
Our response to natural disasters is to just rebuild our buildings in the exact same places.Ā
We climb mountains and risk freezing to death for bragging rights
We invented dogs. We took our one time predators and completely domesticated them.Ā
On a planet full of lions, tigers and bears, we managed to advance further and faster than any other species on the planet.Ā
Klingons and Krogan and Orcs aināt got shit on us
We drink ethanol (in concentrations high enough to be used as an effective as microbicide or a solvent!) for the express purpose of achieving blood toxicity and disrupting normal brain functionā¦ AS A RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY!
On the same subject, we also deliberately incinerate assorted substances and then inhale the particulate-heavy smoke and vapor resulting for the same effect. EVEN IN THE FACE OF SAID SUBSTANCES BEING CARCINOGENIC, BECAUSE WE JUST DONāT GIVE A FUCK.
Humans do not have biological castes. Kill their commander and another will take its place. Soldiers left alone on a planet will start farming and manufacturing to survive. Farmers and manufacturers will take up arms and kill you if pressed. Just because two humans look different doesnāt mean they cannot do each otherās jobs.
Breeding does not kill them. A single human can mate dozens or hundreds of times in a lifetime. They often do so as recreation. Xenobiology team six believes they do not have a mating season but this is too strange to be true.
Their appendages are not designed for hitting, so they developed special training to make them very good at hitting anyhow.Ā
The proteins making up their bodies are toxic and cause prion disease. Do not touch anything humans have touched. Do not consume earth foods. Fire does not adequately remove this contamination.
Humans perceive sixteen times the colors we do. Do not hide in bushes or vines from humans. They can distinguish your pelt from the foliage with ease.
We tried venting waste gas into the tunnels to kill the humans when they attacked. Turns out they breathe it.Ā
Everything on their planet came from a single biological strain. They developed comprehensive genetics BEFORE they developed space travel.Ā
They lack radio receptors and cannot be brought into compliance with right-thought simply by broadcasting to them. Even after we learned how to translate it into sound-waves one of their hatchlings drove the Great Authority mad by responding to every demand with a single question: āWhy?ā
#an individual human being is actually a microbiome in its own rightāyou are dealing with a legion each time you approach themĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā #they carry pathological agents inside their deep tissues and this is advantageous to their healthĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā #one of the most widespread and resilient viruses on their planet is treated as mildly hazardousāeven though it causesĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā #massive disruption to the bodyās homeostasisĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā #(their young offspring endure multiple rhinovirus infections EACH YEAR yet they seem unperturbed by this)Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā #they have developed such long lifespans that now their primary threat is their own bodyās degenerationĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā #humanity has literally figured out how to survive so long that their body gives out under themĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā #and they are not satisfied with thatĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā #stupid willful vengeful survivalists who treat mortality like a challengeĀ Ā Ā
I am speechless
We are the real terror to the aliens. Thatās why they donāt come around
HERITAGE POST
this is the OG humans are scary space monsters post!
@hellsite-hall-of-fame tell me youāve got itttt
ppl who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying pass it on
FUCK this post and happy birthday sonic
honestly
My favorite piece of tumblr linguistics to ever come out of this site is āthe horrorsā. Itās delightfully evocative and also gives absolutely no information about what Iām talking about. āSorry I canāt go out today Iām facing the horrorsā am I talking about the encroaching dread and existential despair of our dystopian world? am I talking about the fact that I have to wash dishes? No one knows. Itās all horrors.
friendship
Old comics about horny Vox
Oh I kinda miss themš„¹
The Dionysian Aspects of Queen Bee
Looking at Bee through the lens of a devotee of Dionysus is very interesting. So, I thought Iād make a post about it.
Dionysus is often mischaracterized as a drunk, but in reality heās all about consumption within reason. He encourages drinking to excess so far as it brings you pleasure and joy, but the moment your over-indulgence brings you or others pain or shame, youāve gone too far. He doesnāt approve of making an ass of yourself.
Which is exactly what you see with Queen Bee and Blitz. The moment Blitz is no longer enjoying himself, but drinking to forget and avoid his problems, she speaks up. If heās not enjoying himself, she canāt enjoy the energy coming off of him. Heās tainting the punch, killing the vibe.
Dionysus also encourages (especially women and the disenfranchised) to free themselves from the bonds of social restrictions and norms. He influenced women to throw down their weaving, uncover their hair, and run wild in the woods during a time when they rarely got to leave their homes.
We see this with Beeās party. The guests are all Imps and Hellhounds - those of the lower classes. She chooses to socialize and consort with these classes. While you could say this is because theyāre her people, and sheās the progenitor of Hellhounds, she doesnāt have to party with them. She still has a higher position than they do. And while having an affinity for Hellhounds makes sense, she also seems to prefer imps which I personally think points towards simply enjoying the company of lower class demons.
Bee strikes me as someone who would willingly lower herself to their level to an extent for the fun of it. And she may potentially have a preference for those who are more downtrodden in society.
Note I say āto an extentā because she still has power and shows no signs of not wanting it. And she can be a bit rough with her encouragements to party. Her reasons for doing so arenāt entirely altruistic either. She wants others to feel good because she wants to feel good, too.
Dionysus can also be harsh and forceful with his liberation and freedom. It is not always something he allows his followers to choose to engage in. Sometimes, he also throws you into the punch bowl lol.
Heās a powerful God and he has no desire to be anything else. He uses that power and status to get things he wants, fuck with people for fun, and have his own good time. Bee is no more equal to the Hellhounds at her party than Dionysus to the bacchanates of his thiasos. So, in my interpretation, neither wish to actually be equal to the downtrodden they seek to uplift.
I do like to imagine Bee could incite her Hellhounds into a Dionysian frenzy and it would fit with her bee influence fairly well. That is of course just a head canon. But I think it would be a fun power.
Dionysus was also about sexual liberation, and I think she showed a bit of that with her musings over Satan lol.
But, I think, much like Dionysus, Bee is likely an extremely morally complex person. I donāt think sheās as purely good and benevolent as Iāve seen some speculate. Who in Hell is? Sheās likely got her darker shades even if on the whole, sheās much more interested in others having fun than some Sins probably are.
Disclaimer: this is just a ramble because I really liked drawing the parallel. It is not an attempt to say that Bee is a terrible, horrible, evil bitch since I know someone will misconstrue it that way somehow, this being the internet and all. But she has notes of a God I worship so it should be obvious that I like her and this is not an attempt at slander.
you're telling me people DONT like when their cat is talkative?? you don't like meow meow?? mrrp? mmrp?
you don't like meow meow ? š ? mrrp mrrp ?
Three qualities of a great cat
talkative affectionate and large
Asmodeus week Day 2 - Engineer Ā
friendly reminder for the new twitter refugees:
change your icon/pfp and put something coherent in your blog description or you're going to get blocked bcs people think you're a bot
this site is built around reblogs, so please actually reblog posts(especially art and fics!!)
you can set your likes and follows to private
checkmarks here are a meme and mean nothing
follower counts are private and we like it that way, so get used to not judging people by that metric
drama and discourse is boring, use your blacklist and block button liberally
DON'T CENSOR YOURSELF!! we can swear and say kill and make fun of corporations all we want, and if you tiktok-ify your tags people who have things blacklisted for whatever reason will still see them, and people who want to see that content won't be able to find it!! spell words out normally, you won't get in trouble!!
tumblr live is sketchy as hell and full of fake accounts, if you decide to use it anyway may god have mercy on your soul o7
be nice to the reddit refugees, they're our friends <3
rinsing the sink, running the garbage disposal, fork balanced on bowl slips off and slides into the drain, subconscious reflexes kick in as I shut disposal off just in time, staring at fork, only conscious thought in brain is pitch perfect recreation, ten years buried, like i tripped and hit play on a dusty tape recorder lying forgotten in the room, of let's do the fork in the gaaarbage disposal!! dingdingdingdidingdingding
hes trying to explode you with his mind
