#but humans are a social species

[cygnus-art]

and h) sometimes, it's just good to go out, buy something and see another human being every once in a while

every time I hear someone say “we should just get rid of physical shops and have everything online” I get a bit angry because

a) physical shops are important for those who don’t have access to a computer/ internet/ ect

b) those “weird” and “niche” shops I love so much don’t have the same vibe online, they turn into just another website

c) I hate paying for shipping

[fumifooms]

I don’t like minimizing the importance and gravity of Laios and Toshiro’s fight into just being a childish squabble, even if to a degree it is framed that way, because to both of them it has a lot of personal significance and emotional weight and runs very deep to their characters… The fight isn’t nothing it’s a LOT, they made up but it’s not something easy to express and to get over for either of them which makes it all the more meaningful! I’m on both sides but there very much are sides, there’s no "they’re both having a ball, Toshiro and Laios hand in hand yay" side to the fight, that comes after

The fight with Toshiro WAS very scary to Laios, almost existentially so, but it’s moreso the "I thought I’d made a friend!!" bit and my god. My god actually

Like it’s not "just" about oh his friend liking him less than he thought, THAT IS SO MUCH. It’s a bond he thought he had being a lie it’s all the time and moments spent together either being a lie from his perspective or marred now looking back. It’s not only being upset at Toshiro for lying but upset at himself that he’s so easy to fool, it’s being upset that there’s something so wrong with you that you can’t even tell if your "close buddy" even actually likes you or not, it’s like. Holding my head. He can’t trust his own vision of events that happened do you see. There’s always this film of distrust that it could be a lie that should be there when he interacts with people there’s always this sense of cloak and dagger to expect backstabs out of nowhere because you CAN’T see it coming you CAN’T you CAN’T there’s something about you which makes it impossible so you CAN’T-

He’s so scared of not being able to read people. He knows it’s a weak spot he has, he’s always known. All of these bits are centered around social expectations and betrayals, the assumption that he doesn’t belong either in society or with other humans.

And Laios’ level of awareness is actually sort of complex to analyze, but it’s there, there’s how out of him and Falin he was the one sensitive to the ~aura of hatred~ he felt from the townspeople, there’s of course his nightmares whispering to him about the mocking looks, and how yeah actually he realizes that his gold stripper coworker was taking advantage of him. There’s of course the Winged Lion speech about his trauma and how he fundamentally mistrusts/dislikes humans to some deep seated degree, this distrust that he still keeps under control always. There’s how pre-canon he often wanted to suggest eating monsters but never worked up the courage to bring it up with the others. There’s how he gets across as stoic when he isn’t being enthusiastic…… We don’t know how aware and wary he is exactly in the moment but we do know he has some anxiety around social stuff, and looking back he does notice and aughh augh, the sense you have to hide yourself to not get hurt and be on your guard and shit and.

When you don’t know what to look out for and when to look out for it, the general ‘common sense’ of not always trusting people or noticing when someone’s messing with you becomes hypervigilance in social settings

"Man they really know what you hate huh". Being socially unaware literally plagues him, he knows, he knows it so well.

It’s so quick that it’s almost hard to digest how literal and blatant Laios summoning his monster to crush all the people who’ve hurt him is. His literal go-to coping mechanism for comfort in his literal monster-induced emotionally intense nightmares, saving him by taking away the upsetting element (the humans)

"Monsters are his coping fantasy, where they can whisk him away from humanity, all the hurt it’s caused him and its arbitrary rules" with the subtlety of a brick. Monsters are his comfort safe zone "because they kill humans" yes but no it’s because he pits them as the guardians against humans who to him are in the role of the agressors. To him they represent freedom from the shackles of what it means to be part of humanity, a fundamentally social species

[prismaticsaltedink]

Scoria and Sakura are best friends! It's so cute when I see the things they do together, and it makes me so beyond happy that they both came to live with me so that they could share their lives with each other. They absolutely insist on it, and does so much good for the other.

I can't imagine how else they could have found happiness if things hadn't worked out exactly as they did. Scoria has basically been Sakura's "emotional support snake" while she worked through things from her past I'll never fully know that caused her a lot of issues with panic and fear. Sakura knows this too, and looks out for her sister, the only one she truly trusts and feels completely safe with.

The moment they wake up they both want each other to snuggle and play with. Scoria loves to be affectionate with both me and her sister who seems to have not had this earlier in her life- but Scoria is showing her how nice it is not only directly but demonstrating with me and Sakura also trying, copying what she has seen her sister do.

Sometimes when one goes to check on the other they'll join in on... I'm not even sure what they were doing. But they had a good time while taking a mandated union break from digging tunnels for the isopods.

So happy I get to share in the adventures of these two best friends! It makes me so happy to see them living their best lives together, and being beyond content snuggled together with their found family.

[densewentz]

[capnportofficial]

all tomorrows fakeposting???

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🐬 under-the-sea Follow

I hate having to switch out my breather... especially when I need to get a new one, they're always sensory hell for the first few days until they get used to you.

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BIG fucking mood OP. I got a new job recently and my new job host is TOO FUCKING TALL to walk on! I keep getting vertigo and falling over!!!!

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Sometimes I get really sad about the fact hamuns used to be sapient like us. Like... imagine what could have been. What was. It makes me sad to look at my pet and think she could be a person, too.

#mod's personal posts

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ok but who gave satyriac hardcore vibrations the right to be so fucking good

that shit shakes so hard it makes you dizzy

#satyriac hardcore #ngl it shakes so hard my neighbors lodged a vibration complaint with the landlord ^•m•^ #now i have to feel to it when theyre at work

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dios mio... la creatura

#hamuns #hamunblr

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🐦 thewillsandwhimsofsimplerfolk Follow

i think i accidentally made one of my great-great-great grandkids ship clainzy lmao. i was watching the show together with the youngest and she compared them to her and her husband

#txt #stargazer #stargazers #clainzy #clary x dainzy #dainzy x clary

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[not-an-alien-scientist]

Fur Son

Fluffel: MROWWWWW ...meeeOOOOw ... MRRRRoooowWW

Ren: Oi, Fluffel, its not dinner time *points to clock* only when its ship time 19:30 do you get food, you've got 20 minutes

Vi'miel: ... I thought your "cats" could not communicate

Ren: My dumb fur son is complaining for food

Vi'miel: ... Fur son?

Ren: Pet owners often consider themselves parents to their pets, kinda weird if I think about it, but hes my fur son anyways

Fluffel: *jumps up on desk and rubs up against Vi'miel's front appendages* mmmmEOOOOwwwww

Vi'miel: Oh .. h-hello. My apologies I have not learned Earth-cat language

Ren: Nah, no such thing as Earth cat language they just kind of learned to make noises at us for what they want, its not actually "language"

Vi'miel: So, why do you respond?

Ren: well... he's complaining so of course I should respond. Oi Fluffel don't smooch up to them, they won't feed you, dinner is at 19:30

Fluffel: *huff*

Vi'miel: I am not so sure I understand .... . . . *scratches Fluffel's head a bit*

Fluffel: *ppppurrrrrrrrr*

Vi'miel: what an odd noise *continues scratching in awe at the weird vibrating earthling*

Fluffel: *collapses onto desk in bliss PPPPPPPURRRR*

Vi'miel: *colors shift to delighted hue* hello Fluffel, I am called Vi'miel

[canisalbus]

Does machete not like to be touched/not used to being touched?

I've noticed that whenever vasco touches him in your art, he's always has this grip, or an uncomfortable/suprised look.

I think he's just highly guarded and touch-averse, that's all. He has a history of being manhandled a bit as a child, nothing too extreme, just typical stuff you go though when you're a shrimpy and sensitive kid growing up under the care of a very harsh and volatile adult who doesn't realise how much stronger they are than you. As a priest he's expected to maintain an aura of solemnity and reverence so he just sort of lives in his own little bubble of personal space, which he's neurotically strict about. As it stands, most of the physical contact he gets comes from his doctors and personal physicians, and their treatments tend to be uncomfortable at best and degrading, invasive and painful at worst. So yes, neutral, let alone affectionate touch can be alarming and confusing if you're not used to it.

[duncanor]

Even though Plants are interconnected and have the capacity to communicate with each other's from a distance, I do not believe they are in fact a hive mind, at all.

The only time, in canon, that support that vision of Plant kind is when Knives forcefully fuse with them.

This is not their natural state, it's corruption. It's deshumanisation. It's the decay of the self.

[spacexchaos]

Imagine if humans are the only one that use social media, like aliens communicate through technology but nothing like social platforms.

You come to Earth and one of your human companions introduce you to TikTok, a very popular platform that allows millions of people from all around the globe to connect with one another.

Now imagine you post a video, you say something like “Hello Earthlings, I am interested in learning more about your planet” and post it.

Your vid goes viral millions of views and thousands of comments.. but not for what you were expecting. You thought the humans would be excited over meeting an extraterrestrial…

Rather, all of the humans are commenting, “this is such amazing graphics” “tutorial?” “how did you make the alien so realistic?”

So you post another video, you try to clarify that you are not a human and you are in fact an alien…

Now you have millions of followers and are known as the “guy on tiktok with the cool alien videos”…

Your human friend finds this fucking hilarious

[isa-ah]

does anyone else miss the mornings after big sleepovers when all the kids would wake up at different points in the morning, whispering and wandering out for breakfast

[punmster]

being ace means i don't get giggly or horny about omegaverse aka abo but instead become painfully obsessed with details in anatomy and world building

[amazingspider-z]

Continuing to be back on my bullshit, I'm rounding out the year with the next installment of my Blue Beetle au nonsense or.

AKA @wazzappp 's Blue Beetle headcanons give me life and I'm yoinking them because. Everyone deserves a little body horror. As a treat.

(Well. Except for Oo'Li, by virtue of being the type of alien (yk more or less) that the scarabs are using for that sweet sweet basic DNA template)

Anyway, following my timeline of Jaime ending up with his second 'upgrade' after the reboot re: Khaji Da's last ditch effort to keep him from smashing into the ground of terminal velocity, Xiomara and Roma end up more buggified after their altercation with the Crimson Scarab in issue...2? I think, when their powers get drained, in the same vein of their scarabs getting inventive with ways for their hosts to defend themselves in power drain scenarios.

In keeping with their power-sets/specialities, Roma ends up with a scorpion-esque tail (yes ik that's not an insect but if she can manifest tentacles Im saying it counts) and retractable claws, while Xiomara has fully armored hands/gauntlets and extra insectoid legs

[novella-november]

Is this fanfic friendly? I feel like an outlier.

I guess this is my sign it's time to throw together a FAQ post to link to lol.

Yes, every event for this blog is fanfic friendly :D

Though as I mentioned on my Ominous October post, for events that include multiple short stories, I encourage everyone to flex their creativity and take one of their planned short story fanfics, and at least *attempt* to turn one of them into something entirely original; rebuilding a character and story from the ground up to stand on its own two legs is no easy feat, and that is what makes it so fun!

It really gets your creative gears turning, to make an "au of an existing material" to be something entirely original, and you can be pleasantly surprised about the things you come up with!

As a few people say, its not just a matter of "filing the serial numbers off" -- you have to add in just as much *or more* as what you take out when you are turning a fanfiction into something that is original and completely divorced from its original source material / inspiration, and that is a hard, but very rewarding challenge!

Obviously, this is not a requirement (there's no hard requirements for any of the challenges, other than no cheating, including no using AI),

but if you would like an extra challenge for the short story events and you're planning on doing entirely fan-fiction, I highly recommend trying it out at least once, and seeing where it leads you--

you may find yourself pleasantly surprised by what you find down that rabbit hole!

[vroomian]

I'm calling it now. How YRZ sincerely took care of and sang to Charlie is one of the reasons why Lucifer is in love with him. Any other reasons why?

up until this point lucifer is like 'how did this person get into heaven in the first place??? he fits so naturally into hell?? what is god even doing??'

and then Lucifer gets home from a long day of fighting with his wife, nearly delirious with exhaustion and finds yrz slowly pacing across charlie's room with the girl tucked against his shoulder, fast asleep. yrz is humming a soft, sweet song under his breath, and the way he handles charlie so, so carefully as he lays her down makes lucifer want to weep. 'oh this is why,' lucifer thinks. yrz is capable of infinite gentleness and care and devotion.

lucifer knows that yrz doesn't like children. he wasn't pleased at being drafted as a babysitter. lucifer even used up his one favor on it -- and he's starting to think that he didn't need to. that yrz would've taken care of charlie as a precious gift if lucifer just asked him.

over their long relationship, lucifer has slowly been slipping down the slope of loving yrz. yrz, for all his many, many flaws is also very sincere in his own principles, loyal, responsible, driven, curious, self-aware, charismatic, accepting, humble (in a 'i am not different from them' way) and a decent person by choice. given the chance to be cruel and to be kind, he would most likely pick the kind option.

how many decent people -- humans -- has lucifer ever had contact with, honestly?

[whatudottu]

So I’m reading through your ideas for Ben 10 and seeing the “cliquey and territorial cerebrocrustaceans” one is making me realize how absolutely hysterical it would’ve been if at the beginning of Alien Force Brainstorm was incredibly kind and affectionate towards Gwen more so than Ben usually is meanwhile he’s just disgusted by Kevin’s entire existence.

Brainstorm: “Oh, Gwendolyn! I have a surprise for you! I witnessed you express an interest to see a feature film that has recently debuted, so I decided to purchase two tickets so that you may go and see it with a colleague of your choosing! And there’s no need to worry about refreshments: I’m more than happy to lend you the proper fare required for you and your chosed companion to purchase all of your favorites!”

Gwen, genuinely put off as Ben’s never been this nice to her before: “Umm…thanks?”

Kevin: “Hey Ben, do you know where the bathroom is?”

Brainstorm: “T H E  G R O U N D  U P O N  W H I C H  Y O U  S T A N D.”

(Of course, as Ben gradually warms up to Kevin, Brainstorm eventually grants him one of the highest honors he can bestow: permission to touch him without needing his consent first)

Oh hell yeah this got me cracking up!

Ben 10 rarely ever explores the differing psychology between Ben’s humanity and all the aliens he does transform into- well, save for Rath that is! Sure, the smarter aliens he transforms into affect his intelligence, but academic IQ is a completely different ballpark to social instincts, and the idea that Brainstorm who - being a cerebrocrustacean who’s social evolution centres on a severe in-group vs out-group - would interact quite differently with his peers than in his human base form.

Hah, Gwen may be confused and perhaps slightly off-put given Ben - while affectionate and caring of her - isn’t quite so open and hmm… what’s the term… considerate? Attentive? About her interests that he’d spend the money on them for her. At least for the sake of their present closeness Brainstorm wasn’t on 10 year old Ben’s playlist, Gwen would have been on the outest of out-groups you’d need to have been a criminal actively harming him to get it worse.

*looking at Kevin* Ah right yes, that criminality- Kevin would HATE Brainstorm like it was personal, even after Ben the human gets to trust him more and drop the suspicions. Would probably groan whenever he shows up again, it’s almost like Kev treats Brainstorm like an entirely different person (in a similar but opposite way Ben sees his transformations as people), even after he becomes part of Brainstorm’s in-group. Can’t handle the saccharine :P Understandable-

[bucephaly]

Basically. Gender and sexuality and race and a Lot of other things are social and cultural concepts that are not like Facts or intrinsic and honestly I wish more people would realize that these are things we made up and there are no actual rules and everyone's experiences are different