Just A Guy Named Bob

The knotweed is currently winning, but we have a multi-year plan to hopefully control it all.

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Oh yea? Well guess what bro

Got some more mons for y'all!

And a lot of them are aware of this (like we are when we make these “humans are space orcs” stories)

Maybe one species enjoys getting bit by something equivalent to mosquitoes. Maybe one actively avoids the hospitable places on their planet because it’s boring without a challenge. You get the gist.

I want to see a bunch of aliens (+humans) sitting around a table talking about how their own species is a bunch of freaks

Best possible addition. This is a top-tier insight

@prokopetz proposed that humans ought to get something special of our own that isn't just "We are the bestest and specialist in some generic way that feels like a vague and unsettling metaphor for American superiority and manifest destiny amidst all the other cultures of the world," and settled on space orcs because "Pursuit predators with freakish endurance" was the ecological niche we occupied during our own evolutionary history up until we started doing the civilization thing. The assumption from the start was that every other sci-fi or fantasy species would each be freaks in their own way, and the point of humans are space orcs was to let us be our own sort of freak, too.

People who expanded on the humans are space orcs stories immediately turned it into a reason to write little stories where humans are the biggest freaks or the only freaks and we are, in fact, the specialest most manifest destinyest je ne sais quoi-laden metaphors for the superiority of American culture over all the other cultures of the world. I hate it I hate it I hate it.

The idea that humans are doing something bizarre Way Over There, and none of the traits that humans see as central to our sentience or advancement or ability to explore space actually are shared by other species, is pretty fun.

It's also an opportunity to reflect on the ways that, among creatures of Earth, humans are not the default or the average way to be a creature, and in fact we are weird outliers in our own ways.

We are gigantic megafauna compared to most animals on Earth. We live on land where most of Earth is a water world. We eat everything from leaves, to fish, to insects, to glandular secretions of large mammals, to seeds, to fungi, to algae, including many plants that are toxic to other creatures, and we have all kinds of ways of rotting and heating food items to change them chemically and make more food items. We are ecosystem engineers. Our complex calls have thousands of individual regional varieties that are completely mutually unintelligible. We keep our skeletons on the inside.

*doom music starts to play* I actually kindof like scheduling these kinds of appointments now...

but seriously Fellas, don't forget to schedule a pap smear every couple of years just in case. If you still have a cervix you can still get cervical cancer. ilu

it'd be a shame if this...

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some of the rooms have fully stocked pantries with cooking equipment, some have movies like the one described above, some have books you're allowed to just take but people always put back- every day people bring things from the outside. artists often set up galleries there. there are rooms with mattresses and hammocks set up for people to sleep. one of the room is just a place where people leave shoes for the fun of it.