#naja

[beithiochan]

"It immediately changed direction, bolted for the side of the plateau, and jumped into the forest. Clear communication for the win, I guess."

Martha Wells, Platform Decay

[betweentimes]

Ja, thank you very Matsch für den Vorschlag, Autokorrektur :) you tried

[herpsandbirds]

Sumatran Spitting Cobra (Naja sumatrana), family Elapidae, Singapore

photograph by Ilan Parikh

[razielim]

idk about y'all but once it became clear that nanna naja liked it just fine whether it knew it or not, i began to assume the reason she was "glaring" all the time is because murderbot is far less familiar with reading expressions of the elderly (not "attractive" enough to be cast in serials, at least not the unrealistic adventure kind that murderbot prefers, you see)

all its efforts to grow accustomed to reading human emotion foiled by a respectable collection of a lifetime of wrinkles. naja's expression markers that it's frantically feeding into its emotional analysis function to figure out what it did wrong this time are all just long-engraved

"glaring" frown lines

"suspicious" crow's feet,

"disapproving" grooves framing her mouth

jowls adding more emphasis to her "frown"

i'd wager it'll need at least a couple more years to have its moment of clarity and suspect that the elderly display their emotions differently from all other humans and augmented humans... somehow. and another year after that to fully grasp the concept of wrinkles

[snototter]

A cape cobra (Naja nivea) eats a puff adder (Bitis arietans) in Nossob, South Africa

by Judith Stopforth

[official-lauchzwiebel]

'Was erdreisten Sie sich?' auch einer der Top Ten Sätze in der deutschen Sprache. Kaum eine andere Frage spielt so schön mit den Nuancen 'Was glaubst du, wen du hier vor dir hast' und 'Wir kannst du es wagen, so mit mir zu reden/umzuspringen'

[king-of-kaoss]

your idea has been secunit approved! 👍

[i4got-myname]

Oh mein Gott, schade, dass ich das noch nicht für den Zusammenschnitt hatte!! Wie stolz er auch noch ist!!