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echthr0s · 2 years ago

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been tryna ignore it but I am so goddamn annoyed at "human" as the default adjective for every kind/lovely/awe-inspiring/whatever thing y'all like about people/characters/concepts/whatever. frex, posts with the framework of "I love it when characters do the thing, it's just so beautiful and human" like give me a break

and i tried to ignore it bc this is very much a me-as-nonhuman problem as opposed to there being something actually wrong with that descriptor but that's a poor reason to ignore being aggravated, tbh. like yeah it's a me problem but 1) it's not just a me problem bc other nonhumans complain about it all the time and 2) it's literally fine for me to care about something that other people don't lmao

it's just so anthropocentric in such a casual way, a casual and unexamined equation of [goodness or sociability or intelligence or complexity of mind or complexity of emotion or capacity of compassion] with being human. that doesn't even make any sense but it's so ingrained in speech (in English, anyway) that if I tried to explain my frustration to anyone that wasn't also nonhuman, or alterhuman, or aware of this in some other way, they'd be like "lmao you're kidding right. you're making up something to be mad at" yeah well I Am Not

just tired of reading posts and bein like "yeah!! that's so good, I love when that happens" and then gettin to the "it's so ~human~" part and goin "well fuck me then" and scrolling on instead of happily reblogging. sure I could just reblog it anyway but now I don't fkn want to :)

#possibly-necessary preemptive strike: hi! if you don't like this post i don't care to hear about it! have a lovely day :)#i am not a monster seeking a way to be human. i am not a creation that wants to be seen as a real boy.#i am simply a monster. a creation. an entity. nothing about me is seeking humanity or aligned with humanity.#except in the purely taxonomic sense of my current biological configuration. but ain't none of y'all biologists.#humans are cool and all but no more cool than a robin or a whale or a wolf or an android or a xenomorph or an elf or a tree. or whatever.#when people show a particular cleverness or resourcefulness do people go ''that's so arachnid'' or ''that's so cephalopod''#or ''that's so vulpine'' or ''that's so corvid' or ''that's so fungal'''#actually they'd be far more likely to look at one of those species and talk about how much like a human they are #barf.#anyway all the qualities about me that people enjoy are nonhuman qualities not human ones thank you good day

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