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Whoooo. So the Big Revelation of PLatRoA is that Amel, the spirit who went into Queen Akasha and turned her into a blood-drinking creature, thus creating vampires, is a ghost of a genetically engineered life-form sent to Earth to destroy the mammals and their squishy icky feelings. Amel rebells against his creators (aliens), and founds Atlantis. His creators engineer similar life-forms (Replimoids), and send them to Earth to destroy Amel, Atlantis, and the mammals.

The creator aliens are described by the Replimoids as having bright black eyes. And wings. And feathers. And beaks. The creator aliens are space birds. (The book never refers to them as that, but with those descriptors, what else can they be?)

thinking about...

murder-"careful don't let any emotion bleed through to the feed"-bot patting itself on the back for a good job sounding professional as it makes contact and establishes rapport with the stupid pet bot

meanwhile, miki, very familiar with emotions and effortlessly plucking them out of the feed: what the fuck this is the single most traumatized wet cat i have ever met; gods alive, gotta be extra nice and friendly to this one; who DID this to it it's LITERALLY crying in a closet rn i am NOT equipped to handle this; ill just be EVEN MORE nice for now and make a note to download an emotional support and trauma recovery module once we're off milu

murderbot: ugh it's so dumb and nice and annoying and infantilized

I just remembered that this was a thing that was HILARIOUS in 2006 and apparently that was ten years ago now.

Old people: join with me in remembering how funny we found this on LiveJournal.

Young people: look at this lolrus, it’s so happy, it has a bucket.

"Damn! Damn! Damn! Every year he forgot. Well, no. He never forgot. He just put the memories away, like old silverware that you didn’t want to tarnish. And every year they came back, sharp and sparkling, and stabbed him in the heart."