#i feel like for sympathetic aliens they have to be monkeylike and for scary ones they have to be octopi/bugs

[ruthlesslistener]

My (probably unpopular) hot take is that alien designs based off of simians is fuckin boring and ugly as hell. Like, this is 100% biased by being a simian myself, but that's just a human being that's shaped a little weird, that's not alien enough. There's millions and millions of other face shapes out there you could have picked from, but you chose the one closest to ours because you weren't creative enough to try to fabricate a sympathetic being that didn't break out of familiar and comforting forms with humanlike means of self-expression. You are boring and you are weak, I say. Go back to the drawing board and think of something else. And beforen you do, cepholopods and insects are OFF LIMITS