Don’t feel bad if you’re sensitive to negative feedback because apparently after one particular bad review Hans Christian Andersen was found just sobbing while lying face down in the dirt
YOU LEFT OUT THE BEST PART THOUGH! HE WAS CRYING FACE DOWN IN THE DIRT IN CHARLES DICKENSEN´S YARD!!
WHERE HE HAD BEEN STAYING FOR WEEKS, LONG OVERSTAYING HIS WELCOME, AND WAS ANNOYING THE FUCK OUT OF DICKENS
Ok how about a Sci fi universe in which no sapient alien race we’ve ever met is even slightly shaped like us, but almost all of them are familiar with a very superficially humanoid pest that has accidentally spread to hundreds of worlds, and physical contact with it is sickening or even deadly depending on the species.
Almost every race seems to agree they’re the grodiest, creepiest, crawliest, nastiest vermin to ever exist and that we humans TOTALLY look EXACTLY like them. A lot of beings get nauseous just looking at us and are scared shitless of touching us.
So of course we would turn out to be one of the rare species immune to their poison, and due to our similar outline, the little things instinctively imprint on us, follow us around and will defend us if we’re under attack, as they normally would for the eldest of their swarm.
The human species unavoidably goes down in infamy as the spookiest civilization in the galaxy; the equivalent to a race of terrifying, giant space bugs with mysterious bug powers.
Things that might happen in this scenario:
Some humans find the comparison really insulting and fight back against the stigma.
Various disguise suits are developed that allow a human to look cuter
and less threatening or even closely mimic a variety of sentient species.
Other humans embrace our scariness because it keeps us safe.
Either way we find the little things SUPER cute.
Their popularity on Earth is just through the damn roof, they are practically our mascot.
We find out it’s even easier to command them if we dress to match their color.
We name a hairstyle after them, imitating their spiky heads.
We befriend some of the other “creepiest” misfit races because we have this to bond over and can mutually protect one another. The idea of us all manning a starship together is an interplanetary horror cliche similar to a haunted house.
okay but surely some of the alien races would find humans attractive exactly bc of the horroristing qualities
alien monster fuckers surely exist
Yeah every now and then you take off your suit and reveal your hideous mutant bug body swarming with vermin and do your best impression of their chittering (that really freaks them out) but the space jelly is just like “AW YEAH JACKPOT!” which is great if you’re a monster fucker yourself but you still might want to keep a tazer or something on you.
My roommate just described adderall as an upper and not as an adhd med while on the phone with someone and like…
Listen. I’m not about to shame every drug user in the world I’ve toked that good herb I come from a family of addicts I get it
But for the love of good stay away from adhd meds.
You know what happens when adderall becomes the big party drug? The drug students without adhd abuse to get their homework done? It makes it harder for people with adhd to get the prescription
I was once denied my meds because I looked like a suspicious drug using kid. Meds I needed to keep my life together!! I’m unmedicated right now because of financial reasons and let me tell you it sucks I wake up way too late, I forget things, my moods are all out of whack, I cant focus, I have trouble socializing, my grades have gone down.
When you abuse ritalin and adderall you raise the price and the suspicion of doctors and pharmacists that people with adhd who need their meds might actually be drug seekers and its UNFAIR that you guys are taking the meds that just barely even me out and becoming super processing machines getting your shit down ultra fast while I take the punishment.
Find a different drug I dont care what at this point, but stop doing stuff that gets people with adhd glared at in the pharmacy line needing 3 kinds of ID just to pick up their script.
I have adhd, but id like to make a point that people with narcolepsy have the same medication. And they have to go through a lot of testing to get properly medicated for it. Its just another person to consider.
We need a name for the shock-trauma that comes from reading a long fic, chapter after chapter, barely pausing to eat let alone pay attention to what chapter you’re on, and then scrolling down to click a button that isn’t there. There needs to be a word for the way all of the emotions you’ve been carrying that were hurtling forward with you as you read non stop, suddenly crash into a wall around you. There needs to be a word for the way you’re abruptly unbalanced and lost. There needs to be a word for how you futilely attempt to refresh the page, even though you know the next chapter won’t appear.
