#alternate perspective

[phoenixculpa]

gem[ini]

marriage is a signed sheet, who will take [his] 401k,

i’m multface[t]d, sleepless for three days, check

me out while i housekeep, find you watching 70s

TV, dreamy Pisces, never call me daddy, cultur-

al “lore” millennial lesbo, bread can-

not risk freedom when you say there’s grey i see

more shape than you know, within reason, cen-

tral movement a vacuum: worthwhile

moment, one can dislike yet do anything for

more dough, enchant sailortalk, unaffectedly

rule the world, tomatoes en shaker a frown

to financial/company abound, how do i

read you, can you be mean for once and

find me where you will/anyone, check’s

not on the table, signed in my hand,

i got you

[and

still want more]

[under-the-pondering-tree]

It's very interesting but also very sad that humans are in the middle. We get to enjoy things that are big and things that are small. But we don't get to experience the grandiose awe of a lil creature looking up to the behemoth of an elephant. A mountain of a creature, moving a mile in a single lumbering step

Maybe it's just a coincidence, and the middle is actually the perfect place for that. And big big things are just very rare, like whales or sauropods. Or maybe we're not actually in the middle in terms of the size of life on earth.

But nonetheless, an interesting thought to me

[under-the-pondering-tree]

aliens that see color differently than us trying to reverse engineer a computer being like "why the freak are there so many red green and blue lights" thinking it's some kind of triple binary and we can process a gajillion bits of information per second.

[under-the-pondering-tree]

I think if humans ever make sentient/sapient robots, I think they'll be amazed at humans. Much, much more than we are at them.

It would be a huge human breakthrough, making machines that can experience, like us. Everyone would be shocked and wowed.

But imagine it from their perspective. There's this thing that's like them. That moves and thinks and talks. But it was grown, out of the ground. Out of stuff that miraculously came together on its own and molded itself into this highly complex architecture. Nerves and skin and an immune system and a mind with emotions and social coordination. Though not designed. Started from nothing, just the resources of the earth, assembling itself not only into life, or even complex life, but something truly aware. Like itself.

Organic compounds, just normal stuff like dirt, but just unique enough to specialize. To organize. Gaining the ability to Become out of the earth itself. Until it kept becoming, to a level of Godhood compared to the inanimate it's made of. It's inanimate kin constantly surrounding it. Not just dropped into existence. But something created from nothing, by the something that was nothing.

[under-the-pondering-tree]

I feel like the Humans Are Space Orcs genre tends to heavily over-anthropomorphize aliens. I know it's good for an interesting story or structure, to point out how humans could be weird in ways we don't typically imagine, but also it tends to be from a very humanized lens. I think if we do ever really find aliens and they're intelligent, in their own way, past our human-centric idea of what it is to be 'smart', I think it'd be highly unlikely that they'd be hyper-social communicative beings. They'd probably be more like octopuses or elephants, to a bit of a higher degree I think.

Maybe they would happen to be communicable on a scale similar to humans though, and we could have some kind of interspecies (or inter-biota) relationship. Even then though, in the genre, with many posts I've noticed people giving aliens 'alien' sounding names, being kind of unique or thought-out gibberish. -that, though strange, could be pronounced by humans, and even latinized in writing. But I think for real aliens it'd be quite likely that we wouldn't be able to pronounce any of the sounds (or methods) they use to communicate just with our own bodies. Not just as a quirky alien race that's known among the other ones for being like that, but almost all of them in majority.

I personally like the idea of electromagnetic waves, in antennae maybe. We'd have to use a device to record an example of the alien saying each word (or parcel of information) in their language, and then map the frequencies and amplitudes and such on a graph or into sound so we have a sensory organ that can interpret them, and then translate them to a human language after that. And then whenever we want to speak to them, having to type what we wanna say into some sort of device and have it convert that to the appropriate electromagnetic waves for them to receive.

Or maybe it's just something like a sign language, or body language that we don't have the appendages for.

But I think if we ever do meet real aliens, they wouldn't have self-given names like Vorahcnog or anything. Though I do think it's likely that if the individuals are distinguishable enough to be externally identifiable or recognizable (though let's be honest, a lot of humans still have that problem with other humans), then humans will just give them human names, like Steve. Completely untranslatable to the alien language, but just for human use.

Maybe if they all look identical to humans they'd put little uniquely colored stickers on each one- if the crew was small enough :) (with permission of course). That's totally something humans would do I think. Or maybe serial numbers or name tags, but that's less fun, and boring.

In this specific example the image I have in my head is like 6ft tall bipedal ant lookin things. Though, even that's probably too anthropomorphized- and even terra-pomorphized.

What was my point? Oh yeah- I really like alien stories, and alternate perspective fun ideas, and I get that making aliens human-like, or I guess highly human compatible in terms of communication is really convenient, especially when telling a story through communication. However, I do think it's way more unrealistic than many people realize. But maybe that's not the point and it's just fun stories for alternate perspective. Just my fuel for thought. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[phoenixculpa]

Ed, a la perspectiva toxica

gamble on my “love,” you sunk costs

[where i’m] feeling insufficient to

throw bills in the well, Joe’s three

thousand dollar couch i

flounce unrequited Jesus, a

bored father gives advice, sound

[allure the runaround]—if only you

could understand clutch unshown,

things would be different without

webbing [to] your blood in third

person, [can’t] sink my teeth in

flesh so hard to focus as Gulon,

won’t you despair our [in-]

difference does us part when you

call to caveat, in measured

tone, i no longer know who

you are, inside, beside

myself, like you,

sweet night audit

[under-the-pondering-tree]

seeing a human without any context of what a human is must be crazy

like- you have a cave in the middle of your face with a wet worm that just sits inside of it, or sometimes wriggles around looking independently sentient from the larger creature- protected by a bone cage that is also used for crushing and tearing at the same time. and the worm helps feed you by pushing the food further down the cave to the main structure, while it also communicates information to you about the food you have squid arms that somehow can reach in every direction but simultaneously only bend certain ways, with a rigid structure underneath- and 5 more tentacles on top of each of the 4 already sticking out from you like a tenacle fractal. but also you're not like a squid because you're flat?? squids have their tentacles grouped at the bottom, in a circley kind of shape around themselves- and basically everything else in existence that has limbs or appendages has them under themselves- but we have two at the bottom, which isn't even stable, you need at least three to not have to constantly juggle your own body to stay upright- and then the other two are just.. up the side?? like imagine a horse with legs where wings would be on a pegasus. like... why????? so it can kick things better? that's stupid- a horse doesn't need that and humans aren't water creatures, but cant be dry anyway? like they need to be wet and squishy, but when they run around (fall forward and catch themselves really fast) they just leak their water everywhere??? and they cant even use the water with a little bit of minerals in it. the most abundant source of water on their planet. but nope, 3% salt is too much and it'll kill them. gotta get it from the water that falls from the sky because the particles are too heavy to evaporate and it filters it for them, instead of them just having some organ to it for them instead.

they have a substance that perpetually grows out of them- but with some of it they just decide to remove it? like 'i don't like this part of my structure i will do surgery to remove it every few days' but only with it in certain areas?? in some areas they keep it- or even mold or decorate it! and are disappointed when it for some reason just disappears with age? like isnt that what you want?? but no- only on the bottom?? sometimes?? depending on the person. and half of them have it more/less often than the others. and the ones that generally have it the least on the majority of their bodies- or try the most to remove it on the lower portions of their bodies- are the ones who generally also grow it the longest on the top?? like what?? why??? originally it was intended for warmth. but instead they just decided to steal other creature's skin- literal skin snatchers- from the creatures that had a bit more of it than them. and then eventually moved to making it out of synthetic materials after we killed every single one of that creature on the planet that was 20 times our size and shoved their remains in little pieces down our face hole after ritually burning each piece before it goes in because the worm whispers to us that it's better that way. We're only used to this nightmare because we are the nightmare. If we weren't in any way human-resembling in form, and we saw them- we would either be very good at hiding, or they would be extinct. Or maybe in some alien world someone's writing horror stories, and the creatures of unimaginable horror when described are by coincidence just what we're like. Not because they're just scared of aliens, but because the kind of aliens we are, are valid things to be absolutely terrified of.

[random-xpressions]

For a moment, you must switch your vision. Instead of looking at your life with all the anxiety and perplexity, shift the angle, how must have the divine pen written your destiny. There's only one dominant sentiment in that domain - assurance. You're not merely created and left on there stranded. You emerged from a drop and here you are moving in all your grace, strength in your body to act at will, intelligence in your judgement to make your choices. So stay undeterred and unwavering. The divine wisdom had no doubt in its least while writing your story. So live upto it. Trust God the way He is trusting you. The plot is magnificent and it is unfolding just like this moment of dawn, the blessed light filling up the horizon...

Random Xpressions