making aliens is a lot tougher than ud think!!!
theres always the "oh aliens wouldnt look like dat! das just a tall human but purple!", and then u go, "yeah i know how to alien better than that"
and so you make some aliens. and then you accidentally let your human drawin instincts kick in, and suddenly it looks way more human. you accept this and keep goin. then you want to give one member of the species top surgery scars. congrats youve accidentally implied that perchance some of these fish aliens have tiddies.
then you try again, new species, and its human again. cuz the human mind relates best to humans.
so then you move on to their social elements. BUT THEN you accidentally give them the same social taboos as our planetary ones. shared across most of the planet, but despite that, entirely arbitrary!!!
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and so you realize, those scifi media with the pretty human aliens are actually doing their best, and what the designs do bring to the table should be appreciated!!!
what was made wasnt perfectly detached from all of our societies ideas, so what?!?! the orbit you made was cool. their skin reacting differently to water due to humidity conditions on their planet was rad. you made some cool shit along the way. and who knows. maybe were just space crabs, and u were right all along.
















