Alexa, play Humans are Weird

[tiarasnteakettles]

My belief is that anyone can be a princess. 

And while I can’t turn everyone into a princess myself - this holiday season, one lucky human is going to have a fairytale ending to their year - once upon a December! The winner will receive the iconic faberge-inspired music box and necklace from the animated film Anastasia!

Did I mention the winner gets Anya’s gorgeous kokoshnik style tiara as well? 

Well guess what - they do! 

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[recklessfiction]

Things that humans do, jokes that we share between ourselves and just inside things that we all understand maybe wouldn’t be understood in the same way by aliens, and they could even come off as far more important and impactful than we really mean them to be.

Let me explain. I was thinking recently about the Judgement of Paris and how he had to choose the fairest goddess. It seemed to be a really important decision which could end in big consequences if his choice led to insult. But what if that whole thing wasn’t actually that huge a deal to Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena? What if it was an inside joke between them, like ‘oh we’re always joking about who’s the most beautiful lol this is just another part of our running joke.’

But Paris wouldn’t know this and so the Judgement of Paris became this whole huge thing at least in Paris’ perspective and he had to choose properly or . Now in the same vein, humans have a lot of inside jokes and things that outside sources wouldn’t understand unless they hung around for a long time. What if our jokes and actions were taken more seriously than we mean them to be?

Say a group ends up being welcomed by an alien community and during a feast, one of the humans asks for water. They’re told that this society doesn’t rely on water for nourishment and so there isn’t any in the palace. The human responds, as you do, with “Well, guess I’ll die.”

These aliens, while not understanding the joke, understand what death is and are horrified. They’re appalled and wonder at the cruelty of these creatures to one another as the other humans only laugh at their companions terrible plight. How awful. A knight immediately goes on a quest for water (it takes them a full month to find and return with it) and when they return, presenting the human with the precious liquid, are hailed as a hero by the community and the humans, who grace the knight with an exuberant “wow thanks.”

In another part of the galaxy, carvings in the pillars of a royal temple depict the transformation of a human into a Roctoa, one of the local animals. The discovery of the human’s ability to shapeshift came about when the human entrusted their intimate secret to the kingdom’s princess decades before. The story goes that as the royal caravan and the human visitors were passing through a field, one of the humans pointed to the creature as it snuffled and shuffled passed them and said very simply, “Me.” 

Believing that what the human meant was that they were, in fact, a god of some sort, the princess returned home and wept for days, unable to believe how blessed she was. To be chosen and protected by such a powerful spirit that it could change it’s shape!? She was favoured indeed and her reign, she believed, would be long. With this in mind, the princess staged a coup and overthrew her mother, becoming Monarch herself. Ardent and impassioned, she attempted to wed the spirit who had privileged her so, but soon found that it as well as the other humans, had disappeared. A search was put out, but the spirit was not found and did not return to the princess. Distraught, she hid herself away for a month before returning to reign. 

A temple was built in honour of the human who was a spirit and still the Monarch can be found sitting silently within. 

These are the legends we leave behind. 

[interstellarjukebox]

Some quick visual references I made for our resident humans! I imagine that Arjun and his family lives and worked on a research station, so he's more reserved, analytical, and gets flustered pretty easily. Kara, on the other hand, grew up on a still-being-terraformed planet, and is used to having... No rules. Lol

[interstellarjukebox]

Humans are Weird: assigning pronouns to random objects/creatures

My sister was carrying a box around, and instead of saying "be careful", I shouted "don't drop him! He's a fragile little man." All my friends do the same thing to me, taking about moths and plants like sentient creatures: "oh Robert? Yeah, I had to trim his leaves yesterday". So how would aliens react to this extension of pack bonding?

......

Kara, Arjun, and Do'Kuron were taking turns at the ship's helm, with Arjun currently at the controls. The debris field meant they had to pilot manually, and since none of the other crew members volunteered to help out, they were the ones chosen to be stuck there for at least the next eight hours.

Kara and Arjun were relatively new, and the first humans Do'Kuron had met. During their first meeting, he was concerned about how they would react to his appearance. Most species were put off by his height, bristly black fur, and clubbed tail.

But not the humans. As soon as they saw him, they introduced themselves, and started asking questions about him, his homeworld, and even his bonded, Do'Fena and Do'Taro. He had never met a race so inquisitive, and so unafraid.

"Oh! Watch out for him!" Kara said to Arjun, snapping Do'Kuron back to the present situation.

"Kara, who do you want Arjun to watch out for? We three are the only sentient creatures within my scope of vision." Can humans detect life forms unknown to others? Do'Kuron wondered. Kara laughed and bared her teeth, a sign of happiness that Do'Kuron was glad to see at least one other species shared.

"No, I was just referring to the asteroid on our left."

"Does it have some form of gender marker that I was unaware of?"

"Ha! No, it's just... I dunno, we just have this thing we do called personification, where you assign sentient traits to non-sentient things. Or that's how my English teacher explained it anyway, ya know?"

"I believe I understand. Thank you, Kara."

"No problem!" She replied. Do'Kuron smiled to himself, excited, in a strange way, to make his own first entry to the human manual.

[interstellarjukebox]

Hey, I'm korben, and welcome to my blog! I love Humans are Weird stories and think about aliens every day of my life, so now I'm making you look at my thoughts about them too >:). She/her pronouns!