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My unpopular sci-fi/fantasy opinion is that "humans are the best community-builders" is just the old "humans have the greatest Will to Power" trope wearing a progressive hat.

To be fair, there's not a lot of traits humans have, that other sophonts wouldn't have, that can't be squeezed to 'superior Will to Power' by an audience looking for it. Good colour vision is eye for detail is inquisitiveness is Will to Power. Being good at throwing things is Man The Hunter is ambition and drive is Will to Power. And I don't need to tell you what happened with 'relatively oversized penis'!

Well, yes – you're talking to the guy whose Tumblr post popularised "anomalously high cardiovascular endurance due to an evolutionary history of persistence predation" as humans' Special Hat and ultimately gave rise to the Humans Are Space Orcs meme; you don't need to explain to me how even relatively innocuous traits can be twisted around into "superior Will to Power"! – but my point is that the humans-are-the-best-community-builders thing isn't even a twist. It's a more or less direct attempt to rehabilitate old-school science fiction's "humans are naturally suited to Lead The Lesser Races because of our superior Will to Power" thing into "oh, we don't have an inherent right to dominion, we just coincidentally happen to be meritocratically suited to being in charge owing to our natural superiority at the virtues of leadership".

it's cool how in the 6 years since this tweet was written it's become significantly less useful not because anything has gotten better but because the majority of products on Amazon are now from fly-by-night brands called "ZZPORK" and "GLUM4PANT"

Gets abducted by aliens and put in a zoo and slowly figures out how their language works and starts writing swear words on the glass when the alien children walk by

The aliens are like wait you can write and I’m like yeah I can talk too and they’re like why didn’t you say something sooner and I’m like well I figured you wouldn’t let me go since you’re clearly willing to kidnap a sapient being so I’m just taking revenge by making your toddlers more annoying

The aliens are like we didn’t know humans were sapient and I’m like did you miss all of that human civilization literally everywhere and they’re like what and I’m like look at the planet at night and they’re like holy fuck those lights are people we’ve been trapping and releasing people and meanwhile I’ve returned to writing swear words on the glass with my little alien sharpie

Meanwhile as a result of my missing persons case a strange series of events leads to a teenage fan of a true crime podcast unearthing the first credible evidence of alien abductions

Danku lesbiennes!

i love seeing fantasy media and people in general find out about the extinct irish elk and its mclargehuge antlers and using them in their stories but i feel like everyone's been sleeping on the also extinct bush antlered deer and its equally impressive antlers

if i made a video game where you get to pick the gender of the player character i'd make both the options be nonbinary and you can either have they/them or it/its pronouns. those are your only options

shout out to the old guy who orders egg wraps from my job every day and came in on christmas with a $25 gift card for the two transfems on staff and no one else. the one true ally.