I remember reading A Short History of Nearly Everything a few years ago and in his introduction the author (Bill Bryson) spoke at length about how odd it was that life developed in a 🔥flammable🔥 atmosphere. And that we are Dependent on that dangerous gas to live! How weird. He postulated that aliens coming to visit would look askance at us.
Yalls have no fucking clue how much JOY and DOPAMINE this gives me because it’s the name of the main character that mostly narrates in Humans Don’t Make Good Pets
If no one knew this now you know because I was curious if Selvim translated
How about: other planets with well developped life are really special and unique. For example: lava rivers and lavafalls, diamond rains, no light reaching the planet, weather so extreme that all life is buried deep underground and many more. Basically, every planet is filled with uncommon traits but they all have something in common. Things so typical that you could successfully look for them on every second planet.
Somehow, all those most popular traits gathered together make Earth. And that’snot normal.
I originally wrote this as a comment on Pinterest but wanted to share with more people so here I go ~
So you know how humans almost universally like to pet animals no matter the size. (Yes I might want to pet a lion and I am not going to apologize for that. Well what if that is a trait that is unique to us/our planet?
Bounty hunting alien group with their new human crew mate lands on a planet to secure their target. After a brief search, the group encounters a guard dog… of sorts. A beast taller than a moose and built better than a bear snarls and growls, bearing its fangs. All members of the group back away slowly and ready their weapons. All, except the human who suddenly gets excited.
“Oh you’re so vicious aren’t you? Who’s a vicious beast? Whose a vicious beast? Yes you are.” The human says.
The rest of the group stares in disbelief at the human, who must have lost his mind. Wondering if they should intervene, but also kind of terrified of both the beast, and now, the human.
The beast leans in, inches away from the humans face, letting out a deep growl. The Human reaches up to pet the it, who quickly leans away, wondering what the furless bipedal is up to. Determined to pet the new animal, the human continues. His hand catching up to its head, he starts to scratch behind his ear.
The beast relaxes, experiencing a joy it never thought it wanted. A few minutes go by, and the beast lays down, relenting to the humans pets. Before long, it shows its stomach, not knowing why just reacting to a primal instinct it did not know existed.
“You want some belly rubs!” The human exclaims, rubbing the beasts belly.
Leg kicking away, the beast gets lost in the bliss for a few minutes, until the alien captain finally speaks up.
“Human, What are you doing. That beast is dangerous!” The captain barks.
“Are you a dangerous beast? Whose a dangerous beast?” The human exclaims, continuing to pet the beast.
“Human!” The captain shouts.
“It’s fine! See he likes it.” The human defends.
Not believing what they are seeing, the rest of the party continue on to find the target, leaving the human to bond with his new pet.
the worlds most under appreciated meme is John Kenn pictures with captions
This appeals to my sense of humour far more than any written words can communicate
Horrific monsters acting in a casual, silly, or otherwise nonthreatening manner is 100% my kind of humor.
I love this. All of this. See this. This is the solidified for of all my desires when it comes to eldritch horrors, shambling creatures and nightmare beasts of stupendous and curdling shapes. Let them be silly and weird as well as scary and frightening.
