#humanology

[screampotato]

Goofball Raven tries to befriend Confused Owl but is Too Annoying

I think we've all been part of this interaction at some point.

[blueprint-poetry]

humanology

We’re human, and we know what that means. We get high off the thrill of destroying everything and the crash reminds us that we’re alive and we love to hate being alive.

—blueprint poetry

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Aradia: f0urth 0f july? y0u kn0w they made that up f0r jaws (1975) right?

[winn-schott-throughtheheart]

For the headcanons thing (that you posted 6 months ago - sorry)

Winn Schott

If you’ve already done him (which is highly likely) give me another character you haven’t done and please tag me in the Winn one :)

I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THIS LMFAOOO thank you for reminding me that's so embarrassing

anyways, I'd had Winn and Lena requested but Kara is my second fav blorbo after Winn so I did her too <33

also, this is going off the premise that both Winn and Kara are autistic, it's canon because I said so I have lists you can fight me on this

Winn

Realistic: Winn is notably the only analyst (in the main cortex at least) that wears dress clothes instead of uniform. At the beginning he really did try to stand the uniform, but he ended up convincing J'onn to let him off because he just couldn't deal with the feeling of it on his skin.

Hilarious: Being the only human member of the Legion of Superheroes, Winn got asked A LOT about human culture. A blatant lie that originally stemmed from being asked the same ten questions a billion times, snowballed into a complicated lore about humanology and Gods and belief systems (because he was too embarrassed to admit to the original lie) and he ended up being the accidental cause of organised religion in the 31st century.

tldr: Winn Schott manages to shitpost his way through space and time

Also, he's asthmatic as fuck. He has to carry an inhaler in his bag and he hates it.

Awful: He hates the smell of teakwood and tobacco because it reminds him so viscerally of an abusive foster home that it genuinely makes him physically anxious and nauseous.

Unrealistic: He's actually really good at handling spicy food. He's even out-performed Alex a handful of times.

Lena

Realistic: Lena actually really hates chess. She hates how everything needs to be calculated properly, how everything needs to be thought out exactly, and it just reminds her too much of how she was brought up.

Hilarious: She has a peanut allergy. Similar to Winn, she has to carry an epi-pen in her bag. This is not public knowledge, of course, because that would probably bring her quarterly assassination attempts up to weekly.

Awful: Lena can only fall asleep with a nightlight- she isn't really sure why, all she knows is that her bed feels less like frigid, murky water when it's on.

Unrealistic: She doesn't know how to cook or how to drive. Her whole life she's had people cook for her and drive her places, so she never had to learn how to. She'd like to one day, though.

Kara

Realistic: Kara LOVES dinosaurs. She didn't have birds on Krypton, which implies either all the dinosaurs were wiped out, or there never were any in the first place, and she was immediately enthralled and fascinated by them when she first learned about them.

Hilarious: She's dyslexic. She relies on Grammarly like it's lifeblood.

Awful: She's insanely afraid of thunderstorms. It takes everything in her not to have a flashback or a panic attack or a meltdown, and she will point blank refuse to patrol if it's storming.

Unrealistic: After Red Daughter was killed, Kara's heat vision stayed permanently purple, and her eyes were purple too for a very long time afterwards.

maybe that first ones a bit of projection, i fucking love dinosaurs

[just-someone-online]

I have a question about G2 Monster high. Do you have any relationship headcanons between Draculaura and Ari Hauntington?

A few, yeah

Draculaura had a mega celebrity crush on Ari's Tash persona, and it didn't completely fade after getting to know Ari. If anything, it's starting to turn into an actual crush.

Ari still feels bad about pretending to be afraid of Draculaura in Welcome to Monster High, even though Drac said there are no hard feelings. She wants to make it up to Drac, but despite what the others have suggested, signing all of Drac's Tash merch doesn't seem sincere enough.

Ari is Drac's Humanology tutor. While Draculaura knows more about humans than most of their classmates, there are still enough gaps in her knowledge that only Ari, who lives among humans, can fill.

After only living with her dad and Webby for so long, Draculaura is big on physical affection when it comes to her friends, more so with Ari after the ghost admitted that she tended not to hug or make contact with her few human friends out of fear of accidentally phasing through them.

Frankie and the others are betting on whether or not Drac and Ari like each other and when they'll get together. Cleo in particular has enough riding on it that she's been secretly bribing Fangelica for info.

Ari took Drac out for a tour of the human world on Halloween. Honestly, the fact that only Drac was invited (She promised to invite everybody else next year) was what tipped off the rest of the Ghoul Squad that Ari might have a thing for Draculaura.

[etheries1015]

Immortal!Yuu is definitely crying over Malleus' human knowledge because sir?? You're going to be a king yet your EQ is that low?? 😭😭😭 Also having some kind of teacher-parent discussion with Lilia because my good Sir what did you teach him???

However, immortal!Yuu teaching younger yet smarter faes about manipulation and negotiation to get what you want from your parents and stuff. Basically intermediate class.

"I know a simple trick to get things from your parents easily. Do you want to know what it is?"

And there's also the advanced tricks™ for the young fae nobles who have to get used to manipulation and persuasion.

"You will be surrounded by people like Azul because of your status. Here are some tactics that they use to manipulate you"

Immortal!Yuu casually telling the fae youngsters about harsh truths and manipulation lmao.

Omg I just had a thought. Well it makes sense Malleus isn't fully versed in the world of humans, seeing as he is going to rule oger briar Valley full of Faes, but what if he brings Immoral Yuu to briar Valley to work as a teacher?? Classes for Faes to learn about humans and how they are, to prepare them for intragrating humans into the kingdom? Malleus things it'd a wonderful idea to have Yuu of all people to teach the population as they had taught him!

Until one day walking into the class Yuu holds with the younger generation he hears Yuu teaching them about manipulation tactics and how they can use their own emotions to manipulate a situation to become beneficial for them HAHA.

"So what do we do when someone tells you no?" They all eagerly hold up their hands before one blurts out; "We cry just enough for them to feel bad about their answer!"

"Close! You-" queue Malleus holding Yuu by the back of their collar with one hand on his hip.

"Is this what you have been teaching my people?"

"Of course not!! I have to um...make sure they are aware of manipulation tactics that could be used upon them so they may see the signs of a toxic person!"

....Malleus was not buying that explanation, and has Lilia, Silver, and Sebek look over classes from now on (seeing as they are the most possible candidates who understand "humanology" the most from your school years) ejfiwjfiejfiw

[hottakehoulihan]

I recently reread all the questionablecontent webcomic, and the dumbingofage, and a couple years ago I did a few other webcomics I like and they usually are kind of terrible at the start and then as the gags get old they start becoming good or even amazing. Continually, as the author runs out of gags or out of patience for gags, it stops being a work about lazy gags and starts being about character growth and worldbuilding and humanologies and more.

I'm not sure how long I'll move on with BNHA, for instance. Conventional wisdom is I need to make it to episode ten or perhaps into the second season before it really hits its stride.

In our era of "we don't have a scarcity of media we have a scarcity of attention" (well, I certainly have a scarcity of attention hehwince) this is a rough sell, but I want to acknowledge that you can't really give something a fair shake unless you experience enough of it to know what the fans are on about.

So it's not my thing now, and it turns out I can't afford (physically) to have some ethanol and snacks with every episode, but I intend to keep going. It'll sound like I'm giving a flippant dismissal if I do drop it now (and hell, I've got things I'm eager to watch that are in the queue and I'm not getting around to those either) but while it is still hard for me to imagine getting my heart wrapped up in this series, I wouldn't have thought I could even tolerate several other things I now enjoy, based on their first few pages/minutes.

Cheers at you anyway

[princess-of-the-corner]

que monstro te mordeu (what monster bit you)

First of all, this is the synopsis of the serie: Every time a child draws a monster, it will come to life in the Monster World of Monsters, spreading chaos wherever it goes.

So with that in mind, I can start debating what is basically a puppet show, because all the characters are puppets or are played by botargas/motley(?

It doesn't really have much lore because it only had one season (thankful it's 50 episodes) but it mostly deals with the antics of Monster kids meeting other Monsters.

Because the title is literal, if someone starts acting strange instead of being 'what Bug bit you?' is 'what monster bit you?' , Monsters affect each other and sometimes it is difficult to know how to get out of their effects without strong determination or a third party interfering.

Special note that all the Monsters were designed from children's drawings so they can be both silly and cute or something out of the mind of someone stoned-

Characters!

As secondary we have Gorgo (a garbage can that eats everything it sees), Luisa (a talking chair) and Dede (a ball of tangles with multiple eyes), of which, in the intro it is seen that Gorgo and Luisa were designed by children 6-8 years.

There is also Morgume (a tuber(?) and Dr. Z (a giant plant monster that has a ball with a brain and an eye and a book for a mouth), in the intro it is also seen that he was designed by an girl 8-11 years

They are, Monsters, their existence as such is not questioned because they obviously look like Monsters.

Until we go to our main character. Lali

In fact we see the creation of her in the first two minutes of the first chapter.

A child in the darkness of a room begins to draw, no distinguishing features of what he is doing are seen until he begins to color what is obviously a humanoid figure and once finished, he begins to cover the drawing with leaves, hiding it until only his closed eyes is all that is seen. To then change to the scene of a forest where eyes open in a mound of leaves.

(I am legally bound to share the escene-

https://youtu.be/0ysNka_8_yk

And the Intro

https://youtu.be/GKC5QtLJdZ0 )

It's. Fucked up. Cinema. Mostly because the music of that time is very captivating and mysterious. Literally the best thing about this show is the music, which although it's mostly happy, things like the background music and the intro become quite mysterious.

Anyway, Lali. She is human, at least her face is because her torso is covered in leaves and her arms and legs are red with large claws at the end.

In her awakening scene she is confused, she was just born and she doesn't know who she is or where she is, you can see her confusion during the scene.

While she is in that confused state she runs into Luisa, Dede and Gorgo (the latter actually eats her-)

After a bit of talk, the Monsters realize that she looks very human, so they decide to do a test which is to see if she sneezes, because Monsters don't. She for a moment she's cool, she doesn't, but in the end she does and everyone freaks out.

And in a matter of seconds the whole place finds out about the existence of a 'human' and they panic.

A bit dramatic because they are the Monsters but eh-

Dr. Z who was already watching them decided that 'ah, a human' and basically traps Lali and takes her to his house, all because he likes humanology and wants to get all the information out of her.

But that don't go long because the Dr's assistant, Morgume, frees her and feeds her, but there is only Monster food there and Dr. Z is scared because that can't be possible.

But in that he realizes the rest of her characteristics and that she is not quite human.

After a little chase with other Monsters, Lali lets out a roar that is definitely not human and everyone decides 'yeah, it's a Monster, it's all over guys, come home'. In the end Dr. Z ends up registering her in the world of Monsters as 'Half Monster, Half Human' while at the same time it is where she is named 'Lali'.

With that concludes the first chapter where something of the Monsters society was seen, it's not much, but it's good to start raving.

Firstly because, 1, Monsters are drawn by children, 2, all Monsters are common objects or things that scare children or are completely deformed, 3, a small child drew a human as a Monster.

Is this a criticism of humans being monsters? that we may look soft but are in fact Monstrous on the inside?

Who knows, they never specify it and the theme of Lali being half human is never touched on again-

But does she really raise a red flag over the life of the kid who drew her, is everything okay home kid? draws another Monster to know-

(Fun fact, in one chapter a superhero arrives by accident (human) and is mistaken for a monster until he says that he is a superhero from the land of superheroes, I don't remember much but I always had the theory that in fact he was a Monster, drawn by a child who was afraid of superheroes- ( I reemphasize the child from the beginning, did you draw this???!!!)

Keep in mind that although there are 50 chapters, more than 60% are lost and there are only 14 chapters that were dubbed out of Portuguese so basically this series is lost media, chapters 2 and 3 cannot be found.

But I remember Chapter 2 where even though I don't remember that Monster caused damage, I do remember the important part, which is that Dr. Z and Lali were somewhat uncomfortable with each other because, if Dr. Z took her in, both to give her a home and to study this strange species, but it is not really related. At least until the end where Lali addresses him as dad before going off to play with her friends. Your Honor , they are a family.

Sometimes a family is a giant plant with a brain and zero self-care, a biological nightmare between two different species, and a tuber too tired to act as the voice of reason every time.

There is not really a lore that is mentioned much, but with the little that is shown between chapters, it is interesting, it is known that there can be many Monsters of something, this is because there are two Bat Monsters that are very different from each other.

Adult Monsters have monster names and regular names, but child Monsters only have regular names.

The Monsters do not seem to have contacts with humans but they know what they are and are afraid of them (because they were gods, what created them? Because they were destroyers, what hunted them?)

There are many mysteries why this program never closed and it only makes you think about every thing, every implication can drive me crazy.

The program is a creation of the world waiting for someone to decide to do something, it is a children's program that decided to leave everything up in the air so as not to get a higher rating but leaving enough to the imagination.

It's my favorite show for everything it can be, for the music it brings and my fucking nightmare for the same reasons-

This sounds fascinating and a little fever dreamy but fun!

[huhnkie-lee-wiki]

Huhnkie Clip from November 16, 2021

Huhnkie’s view on drinking human blood

From Humanology 1831

[creations-of-a-certain-no-one]

The Woes of Human Existence

Fandom: Obey Me! Genre; comedy Characters: MC Ren, Satan and unnammed snobby teacher Summary: Devildom literature was usually a chill course for Ren. Until one exceptionally important yet stupid novel that was just absurdly ridiculous and the teacher just had to ask him for opinion. Surely, expecting him to confirm all the bullocks. Oh how little the teacher knew…

Literature was one of the least straining courses - at least for Ren. He was friends with Satan, after all, so a school course was hardly a challenge after all the book exchanges they had, and so were any assignments. Even with the demon history behind it, he could always count on the most knowledgeable brother to provide him with context, and Ren already knew very well what kind of snobbish interpretation would be praised and rewarded with a high grade. So the course was a breeze.

The most challenging part however was this very specific novel they'd been assigned recently. Not because of its inherent difficulty - no, it was basically nothing but romance with an obviously noble and righteous take.

But the key was why such romance was even included in the most influential books of the recent millennium, and it was the reason why it was difficult: because of all the egregious bullshit it contained and about what Ren had to keep his mouth shut.

"One of the most moving parts was when the human addressed her constant dread of how short her life was. It was really eye-opening," a student said, her tone already indicating how struck she was by the character's portrayal. "The constant awareness of a life as short and fleeting as hers, accompanying her in every moment of her life… I never had any idea how brave humans are to live with that, all the time. That is unimaginable bravery."

"Yes, you're right," the teacher agreed, nodding his head. "The author has indeed portrayed the essence of human existence and life. As I said earlier, the human character became one of the most striking and realistic portrayals of humans in fiction ever made, but at the time of this novel's release it was still quite controversial."

"The scene where she begs her beloved to find a cure for her mortality was so heartbreaking!"

"Yes, it is indeed a brilliant scene. At the time of the novel's serialisation, this chapter had shaken the readers so much that it caused a flood of letters demanding the magazine to release the next chapter immediately."

"As much as I understand the importance of the novel, I would find it necessary to add," Satan spoke up, "that some of the author's ideas aren't grounded in reality."

"You're right. We've already addressed many misconceptions about the human world. With our current knowledge, we already know that not all of the human world is as dangerous to humans as it's described in the novel. Humans are able to find safer places to live in, and choose to move there, which the author wasn't aware of due to her skewed and incomplete information about the realities of other realms," the teacher admitted. "However! All the knowledge was pursued and eventually uncovered only as an effect of this novel. Its popularity was the main reason for the interest in the human world to rise. With all the faults in mind, we can still say with certainty that the descriptions of the reality of human internal thoughts and lives are exceptionally accurate."

"I've read the reviews of the humanology researchers. They gave the book flying marks on the accuracy, however…"

"I expected nothing less from you, Satan. That is an excellent addition to the context around this novel. It was indeed one of very few novels that actually were consulted with a specialist."

"The author's wife, yes. Though… I am slightly skeptical of her expertise as she might have watered down her feedback due to their personal engagement."

"That is a valid point. We cannot exclude the possibility that the reality of human mental strain due to their unique circumstances is much more dire than in the novel."

Ren barely kept a groan of misery from escaping his mouth. It was about as preposterous as the comment section of any of his Devildom social media, where demons were constantly causing flame wars about the most ridiculous misconceptions and utterly absurd ideas about humans.

Now he had not only to nod along but pay attention to the unbelievable bullocks.

He could understand why the first novel to portray a human as equal to demons would be groundbreaking at that time, but literally everything else about it was just so completely unbearable he couldn't listen anymore.

He tried to just tune out of any further discussion for it to be like the tedious buzzing of flies in his ear. Like meaningless background noise.

Unfortunately, the teacher decided to ask him for feedback when the boy was already hiding his face in his hands from the nonsense he'd heard.

"Maybe you would like to add something, as the only mortal in this class?" the teacher's tone turned gentle, as if he didn't want to pressure the boy to address the paralysing existential dread that Ren as a human must have been feeling every horrifying second of his life. "If you'd prefer not to, we understand, of course."

Satan reached for Ren's hand, giving it a supportive squeeze. The compassion and pain in his eyes were unbearable.

Something snapped in his resolve to stay out of trouble. Ren simply had enough, and albeit his reason tried to stop him, he lifted his head with the usual bright smile plastered to his face.

"Yeah, I'd probably rather not talk about how unbearably daft this book is," he stated with a cheerful voice.

The silence that followed weighed over the classroom like a storm cloud ready to throw thunders because it was exactly how Ren was feeling at that moment. And likely how the teacher's mood was souring.

The students looked back at him, first interested by the unexpected harsh words but then confused by his usual smile.

Satan however was much less surprised. He knew what was coming: Ren was about to say something mean! And a lot of somethings, probably. If it was directed at him, Satan would be beyond frightened, but since it wasn't - he was just going to observe it with glee.

An extremely rare sight he could never miss.

But the teacher didn't sense the danger, or maybe just didn't particularly care that a mere human was about to talk back. He composed himself after the initial surprise.

"...would you care to elaborate?"

Ren just said he would prefer not to - and just a few seconds ago.

"First," his smile grew only more blindingly bright, "humans are among the longest living inhabitants of the human world. There's nothing to compare and to come to the conclusion our lives are short. That's bull. The lives of literally everything around us are short. And our lives are short only from an immortal perspective. For us, in our world, we are the long lived ones around."

"That cannot be true. Humans are fully aware of their mortality and fragility and fear it."

"Well, duh. Like if it is a tempting perspective. Okay, for some it is?" a few students gave him a horrified but als fascinated stare. "Nevermind. The point is, find any demon doesn't fear the same."

The students looked at him baffled.

"No?" Ren looked around, not even slightly discouraged by the curious faces of his classmates. "Never scared of the possibility of some very strong demon tearing you apart? Or an unfixable fatal curse?"

An enlightened "oohhh" washed over the classroom.

"That is about as possible as a human getting incurably sick or into an accident."

"That one aspect might indeed be shared but the limited time makes it inevitable and, as a result, makes human lives miserable with the distress it causes."

"The only thing it really causes is the worry about the elderly loved ones."

"Just like the demon felt," Satan concluded with a nod.

"Pretty much. Furthermore! Those researchers' reviews are just stupid. It was actually correct that many humans live in hazardous areas. And surprise, they don't spend their lives shivering in fear either. Humans don't flock only to the safest places on Earth. We do absolutely live around volcanoes, in earthquake and flood areas. Humans live in deserts and in polar climate. They've been there for ages and they're not moving away!"

"How do you survive that?!" one student exclaimed, fascinated. "Isn't the cold there deadly for humans?"

"Exactly." The teacher huffed. "That is obviously false, no human can survive that."

"Have you heard of… clothes?"

A wave of laughter shut the teacher down.

"...I see." The teacher tried to keep a pokerface. "That's quite interesting feedback albeit clearly biased." He turned away, an expression of hope briefly crossing his face as he looked at Solomon. "You have not spoken up yet. You've always been a very reasonable human, I am sure you understand the topic broader."

"Hmm, yes," he let off a thoughtful hum, "My perspective differs a bit, you see, since I'm in a slightly different situation." The teacher nodded at his words, relieved, probably expecting Solomon to contradict Ren's words. But his relief was premature. "Though, I absolutely second what Ren said. His expertise is on point and absolutely accurate. I would highly recommend asking him for feedback more often."

The teacher's face fell.

"I am sure that you both are just… not a very representative sample. It's certainly not a common belief among humans. Our research has already confirmed that beyond any doubt."

"And who exactly has more expertise about humans, some academic shut-ins who never visited the human world, or actual humans themselves?"

"Research conducted by a third party is not skewed by personal beliefs."

"The so-called research has no methodology whatsoever. A fourth rate human college has better academic achievements than that, and got those without conducting any kidnappings on top of that."

Ren sat down and hid his face in his hands again.

Satan patted him supportively on a shoulder, but this time the only thing that flickered in his eyes was amusement.

He turned to the teacher.

"Sir, we've already agreed the book isn't particularly accurate in many places, so inaccuracies aren't a surprise, are they? I would strongly recommend asking humans about human things for a better view on such motifs." Satan added. "The book obviously revolutionised the Devildom's perspective on humans. It remains one of the most important pieces of our literature…" it might have seemed like a merciful thing to say, but Ren knew Satan too well not to expect a devastating punchline, "…especially as an example of good intentions but exceptionally misguided execution."

A few students snickered.

The teacher didn't say anything to that. He just finished class ten minutes earlier and let them leave without addressing the issue any further.

.

In the afternoon he found a surprise on his DevilTube account as someone tagged him in their video.

It was Levi.

"Human student reacts to DEMONSPLAINING".

It had already gone viral. And was shared by Solomon with the applause emoji.

Ren could only sigh.

Then he could only sigh again when Lucifer informed him that he received several requests from researchers seeking an interview with The Human.

Well, at least some misconceptions got cleared. 

[magnusmodig]

A VERY DESCRIPTIVE PROFILE OF YOUR MUSE

NAME: Thor Odinson, King of Asgard NICKNAME(S): Point Break ALIAS(ES): The God of Thunder

AGE: 27 (human), 1500 (actual) SPECIES: Asgardian Aesir PRONOUNS: he/him

ORIENTATION: Jane Foster ZODIAC: Cancer (July 9th) MORAL ALIGNMENT: neutral good

INTERESTS: inter-galactic history, cultural anthropology, architecture, humanology, aerospace and astrophysics, general astronomy, military and combat training, piloting and sea-faring, adventuring FEARS: Losing his family, being unworthy/not good enough (in general, of his family/loved ones), failing his people, being lonely, becoming like his father. GUILTY PLEASURES: Thor is an avid humanologist and a studier of Midgard. Which is only something he's "guilty" of according to his father.

SPOKEN LANGUAGES: Asgardian (The progenitor of Midgardian Old Norse), Groot (and other alien languages.), Midgardian languages (notably: English, Latin, Old Norse, all other Scandinavian languages, etc.) PROFESSION: The King of Asgard, All-Father and Protector of the Nine Realms. (Formerly the crown prince.) Also the mightiest Avenger.

BODY TYPE:  tall, muscular, certified "beefcake". At minimum, 3x denser than a 250lb human male. HEIGHT: 6'3"

COLORS: Gold, silver, warm-greys and red DRINKS: Water, juices, alcoholic beverages. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: Yes. Mostly: mead, ale, beer, whiskey, rum and wine. SMOKES: No.

DRIVERS LICENSE: No. Thor IS an experienced pilot and ship captain, though! EVER BEEN ARRESTED: Technically yes, once by S.H.I.E.L.D. in 2011, but not for longer than 8 hours. He spent longer as a gladiator slave on Sakaar.

[thefiresontheheight]

Ritual Resets

with thanks to @rainboq for helping me come up with this idea

Humanology was a new field, the arrival of terre-originating life to the Llys Don Reach only dating to around twelve kiloperiods ago, after all, and the Elect of Parabuteo were not even sure the field was valid. They had spread so fast, and talked about themselves non-spot, so why would an alien, to them, biont ever want to study the new arrivals? Even the name humanology was in debate, terre being far, far less constrained a concept than human.

Kaf had set out to prove them wrong through potentially the worst possible way. It was widely acknowledged that terre history could not be backtracked any further than their arrival. They evolved on a planet called Earth, and then, at some point, for reasons unknown, they had left, in vast, subluminal barques, not having discovered the secrets of tei al-ardh. And some indeterminate period of time later they arrived in this reach, from their own. To try to find out any more was foolish, when even details during their first kiloperiod in the reach had been forgotten, such as on which world they first landed.

It was to one of these purported first worlds that Kaf traveled, on grant, along with her pack, eight strong, small, but supportive. Bept was unremarkable, orbiting its sun on the edge of terre-habitable proximity, and so had never achieved much population growth or influence. But, in orbit, it still had one of the old inter-reach barques, as a museum piece. The terre allowed Kaf to study it, although clearly not expecting anything they had not discovered during the long time it had orbited their world. “We know the physical properties of Earth, yes?” Kaf said, in frustration. “It’s size, day, year?”

“Yes,” the terre researcher, named Yao, said, maybe sadly, although it was hard to tell with aliens. “Everything but it’s location in the universe.” “But this is impossible,” Kaf protested, “I can see the a-machine in this barque? It is still counting the time. Why could you not simply plot a reverse vector and then extrapolate based on time in transit?” “Earth,” the researcher said, “seems to have had some sort of cultural preoccupation with resets. Jubilee years. The Long Count, which was in use at least a hundred years prior to launch. The burned house horizon. This tendency extends into the computers of this barque. Around every one hundred and thirty-eight terre-years its count resets. We can only guess the makers, from so long ago, had some sort of religious, or ceremonial purpose behind it.”

Kaf sighed, defeated for now, although ⸘ would try again, hedgewise, as Freetravelers said in their peregrine patois. For now, ⸘ looked at the label, in a language long lost, but, helpfully translated, next to the counter ticking upwards.

“UTC,” the label said, and then, helpfully added, “(Unix Time).”

[hatchetfield-humanologist]

Heya humans! The name’s Adelaide!

I’m a sniggle who’s recently become a doctor in Humanology, and I was given a grant to study this town here. You humans have a disproportionate amount of interactions that should be beyond the scope of your consciousness, so it makes the perfect place to wiggle in!

I’ve also seen data indicating a particular interest in this place from the Lords in Black, so I’m here to keep them from harming the native human population too severely, we can’t mess with you guys if you’re all dead! I am the one who kept the fae from killing all the people they took, after all.

And for anyone, human or otherwise, if you have questions regarding humans and their care or reasons for being so, well, human, I’m your gal! If you’re interested in what a university in the black and white looks like, I’d be happy to share what life’s like from outside the dimensions!

{hatchetfield rp blog, original character}

[huhnkie]

Huhnkie i know you are trying to hide from me as you block my accounts but I will never give up until the day you show us Theodora Villavicencio on Humanology and explain to us what it contain

From Ronald Reagan the 40th President of the United States

Go to church, go to school ty

[blueprint-poetry]

disconnective

I close the door. Let go, I tell myself. This isn’t much we didn’t already know, just waking up from warmth to realize we’ve been cold all along, fever starved and shaky hurt wracked by the sweet, sweet curse of humanology wrapped up in handy excuses to excuse it, the bad behavior.

Well I started waking up with the bitter taste slowly making sense. We tout self-responsibility, but only when it comes to telling others they should just get over it cause no, it doesn’t matter what anyone did to them. I can’t help thinking how that absolves us of how we treat each other.

I don’t want excuses anymore. You’ve always had a foot out the door with another reason to excuse your inconstancy. What a boring load of a dismal disconnective theory.

—blueprint poetry

[gia-batmm-crickle22]

(Alien OC) Charlie: We have a very dedicated humanology department in our learning hives.

Gabby: Humanology?

Charlie: You know, the study of humans and their habits-

Gabby: Oh! Cool, we call them anthropologists here.

Charlie: …

Charlie: You have humans that study humans…?