Whenever I see a post on tumblr suggesting aliens donāt have gender, I always thinkāābut what if also the reverse. What if aliens also have some fundamental social construct we donātā.
Like, they come and meet us and theyāre likeĀ āhey this is an awkward question but whatās your gooblebygark?ā
And weāre like what.
āYou know, theā¦ the thing. Your goobledygark. The thing that dictates whether youāre gnarfgnoovles or brubledoopesā
What. What. What the fuck, those words donāt even mean anything??? What are you talking about?
āLook, your ridiculous human languages donāt seem to have the words for these! But theyāre totally a thing, theyāre like, fundamental aspects of social life for our species, justā¦ just let us lick you so we can know what verb tense to use when we speak to you.ā
What does one thing have to do with the other??? That makes noā
āUGH, nevermind, youāre totally brubledoopes, I can just tell, I donāt even need to taste your bacterial skin colonies.ā
And then another alien overhears and is likeĀ āholy shit, you canāt stereotype like that, thatās SO NOT COOLā
āyeaH BUT THEY WONāT LET ME LICK THEMā
Or like. If theyāve got some kind of intrinsic traits that seem entirely immutable for sentient life to them, but which we would find entirely strange, like āhey whatās your Lususā
āwhat the fuck is a Lususā
āwhat do you mean, whatās a Lusus everyone has a Lususā
you fucking homestuck
you say that but you recognizing what it as that implies some things about youā¦
Kids, kids, stop fighting. Weāre all filthy homestucks on this post.
