not-an-alien-scientist

[not-an-alien-scientist]

Me, a writer: *creates characters*

Me, a writer: *puts said characters into a fucked up situation*

Characters: *behave in ways I absolutely did not predict*

Me, a writer:

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A common thing I see on here is "adrenaline is unique to humans and terrifying to everything else".

Now I know realistically it's unlikely other alien species don't have some sort of survival hormone as well, but in the chance that they don't I feel like there's a lot of untouched potential for this.

Because adrenaline has been discussed for fight-or flight situations before; mothers protecting their children, people lifting cars or buildings off other people, surviving in bullshit situations out of sheer willpower; but the way we play with it has to be a cause of conversation amongst other intergalactic species too.

Like we have rollercoasters, theme park rides, horror movies. We jumpscare each other and teach our kids little hunting games like tag, hide-and-seek, and red light green light. We play video games where we hide from a pursuer in a threatening environment and our bodies react like we're actually being stalked in real life, and we do it on purpose.

Because most other earth animal species have adrenaline (or epinephrine), but none of them really seek it out for thrill purposes like humans do. It makes you wonder what aliens would think of us, since we're apparently little freaks that like to be scared on purpose.

[not-an-alien-scientist]

What if oxygen is poisonous and it just takes 75-100 years to kill us?

[not-an-alien-scientist]

"i asked chat gpt-"

well I asked the Glow Cloud (all hail) and it emitted a low whistleing and dropped a lizard on my head.

[not-an-alien-scientist]

*proof reading my own fictional writing* ... *cries* .....hm I suppose that means I got the proper emotion across.... ?

[not-an-alien-scientist]

reblog and in the tags write a reddit “Am I the Asshole” post title but from the perspective of your oc(s).

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reblog and in the tags write a reddit “Am I the Asshole” post title but from the perspective of your oc(s).

[not-an-alien-scientist]

that is pleasantly horrifying, thank you

An alien returns from a visit to Earth severely traumatized.

Their friend: What happened?

Alien: Everything eats meat.

Friend: Yes.....the planet has many carnivorous species.

Alien: No, you don't understand. *Everything* eats meat. The herbivores eat it, the *plants* eat it.

Friend: Surely you're exaggerating.

Human walking in: Nah dude, they're right. Feeding a flytrap is way more fun than you'd think

[not-an-alien-scientist]

i think it's fucked up that there are plants that decided they wanted to eat meat

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@leatherandtea

excuse me?!?!?!

An alien returns from a visit to Earth severely traumatized.

Their friend: What happened?

Alien: Everything eats meat.

Friend: Yes.....the planet has many carnivorous species.

Alien: No, you don't understand. *Everything* eats meat. The herbivores eat it, the *plants* eat it.

Friend: Surely you're exaggerating.

Human walking in: Nah dude, they're right. Feeding a flytrap is way more fun than you'd think

[not-an-alien-scientist]

"If you use em dash in your works, it makes them look AI generated. No real human uses em dash."

Imaging thinking actual human writers are Not Real because they use... professional writing in their works.

Imagine thinking millions of people who have been using em dash way before AI becomes a thing are all robots.

REBLOG IF YOU'RE A HUMAN AND YOU USE EM DASH

[not-an-alien-scientist]

An alien returns from a visit to Earth severely traumatized.

Their friend: What happened?

Alien: Everything eats meat.

Friend: Yes.....the planet has many carnivorous species.

Alien: No, you don't understand. *Everything* eats meat. The herbivores eat it, the *plants* eat it.

Friend: Surely you're exaggerating.

Human walking in: Nah dude, they're right. Feeding a flytrap is way more fun than you'd think

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[not-an-alien-scientist]

IT HAPPENED WITH A SECOND THING

I guess the night I got the idea I wrote it out .....so now I can add it to the story now

I just had the most day dreamer writer thing ever happen to me

I had this one Thing in mind that I wanted to bring back but I could not get any of it write. I thought I'd go look in my notes (i have hundreds for this particular world) I assumed it wouldn't be there, it was a desperate hope, I went to the search function just to see if there was any possible way. I found a contender. I read through the note and about half way down yelled YES out loud... because for once i had written The Thing in detail