The Once and Future Martian

1. Hartnell: What's this you're working on young man, some kind of death ray? You've got it all wrong, let me fix it.

2. Troughton: Golden retriever who has slipped his leash.

3. Pertwee: Out of the way amateur assholes, the professional has arrived.

4. Tom Baker: What do you mean, "Wanted for murder?" This doesn't even look like me! Well, maybe a little like me.

5. Davison: Wow what a nice group of people. :) I'm having fun with them in a normal way. :) I bet there's no darkly traumatizing horror anywhere. :)

6. Colin Baker: Hello, go fuck yourself. Wait, why am I under arrest?

Autumn Nights Art Prints by Camille Chew

and another one is like ”wait so you’re saying humans don’t have stripes.”

”actually they do, but the stripes are invisible. There’s genetic code that’d give them stripes but they’re just the same colour as the rest of the skin. So the visible stripes are not real stripes and the real stripes are invisible.”

I WENT THROUGH THE SAME THOUGHT PROCESS

BECAUSE WE DO APPARENTLY

SO ITS ACTUALLY A VERY DISTRESSED “MY CAT THINKS I KNOW I HAVE STRIPES?!?!?!”

I remember reading somehwre the human eye can see more shades of green than any other colour. I just googled it and the human eye can see 10 Million different shades of green.

So human could see stripes and patterns on, say, a reptillian race who maybe can’t see as many colours as we do, and think they’re just one boring shade of green.

Human: We have stripes?! I wish I could see them. I hope they look like yours.

Reptile Alien: Wait, I HAVE STRIPES!

And don't get me wrong, I don't say this to discourage anyone from trying to make that ideal world. Quite the opposite.

I feel like it's very naive to continue to approach these big changes we want to make in the world as if there's an "after it's all over" when we don't have to worry about it anymore.

Oh my god

Bagheera playing with butterflies