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My pins came in the mail today! Thank you @prideknights , they are even more beautiful in person

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asking people to be mindful of others when sharing a communal space (especially one you cannot just up and leave from) is not selfish or misanthropic. come on now

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Humans entering space and realizing we are so small. We are mice compared to these giant races with their advanced machinery and technologies and experiences beyond us- except that we're humans. And our engineers dive into the new tech and once we learn the principles we also soon realize how Inefficient everything is. Their "microchips" are the size of cars, their storage drives are basically buildings, and they somehow store less data than ours. So, human companies take advantage, and tech starts rolling out. Massive and there's a lot of wasted space so that it can be managed with larger hands/pincers/claws/tentacles, but also so much more efficient than anything the galaxy has seen before.

Human technicians start hopping ships and upkeeping the general maintenance, the stuff that most aliens put off or don't notice because they never access the crevices of their ships. As human companies become more popular and lead the tech world in everything from warp cores to game stations ("it's so compact! How are the graphics so good?" Says a 60' tall grimbleback, holding a new VR headset that has all of its components included because it's so BIG by our tech standards), soon many things have accessibility ports for humans to be able to use as well. This means that these shiprats hoping ship to ship cause such a huge improvement in everything running smoothly, and there's a huge downtick in pests on ships because those "pests" are not only big enough and aggressive enough to bite a pitbull or a person in half, they're invasive to so many planets and humans hate nothing more than dog killing planet overrunning monsters.

All the while, from the Aliens perspective, humans are an elusive race that don't fraternize much with them. You almost never see a human as most places aren't exactly safe for the little things to run around in. They do export so much stuff though, and the custodial staff at the Central Galactic Outpost insists that there's more humans around than any other race if you just know where to look.

And sure it's somewhat known that some of the little daredevils hop ships and help out in exchange for room and board, usually without permission, but that can't be that common, can it?

Maybe your ship is running better this cycle ever since you stopped at the last station, that just means that tuneup was better than you thought. And maybe for some reason that program you were working on last night is finished when you wake up, but you're so tired maybe you finished it before you passed out. Somehow that faulty light in the galley has fixed itself as well, which is odd, but maybe the Engineer finally got to it. You'd know if there was someone else on your ship.

Right?

... You leave a little bowl of berries out as a thank you, just in case. You're not sure what humans like but you've heard they have a sweet tooth.

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i saw 2 bunnies hanging out last night

this is big

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absent for 500 years and then the first thing I do is open comms but it is how it is.

5 slots open, please dm if interested or if you have any questions c:

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Extremely pleased with the stunning quality of these @prideknights enamel pins. A lovely surprise to receive today

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dear newly-out trans girl: you need to wear yr skirt up on yr waist, not on yr hips. trust me on this one

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Humans Are Space Oddities idea. Humans have some of the strongest noses in the universe, and our planet compared to others is strangely devoid of scents. To us, everyone and everything not from earth smells extremely strong. We become the galaxy’s sentient canines. We can’t bring actual canines to space because the smells are painfully overwhelming.

And we can tell when someone’s trying to poison us because “why tf does my drink smell like bleach?”

"This smells like poison" "what's smell?" Downs it anyway cause fuck it why not, turns out it's just concentrated caffeine. Instead of killing us it makes us terrifying, and an earth historian later says “oh yeah that’s just the Berserker effect, it happens when they’re running on pure adrenaline.”

Alien 1: why does Human Mike avoid me?

Alien 2: idk did you offend him?

Alien 1: I don’t think so, I’ve tried to be extra friendly. I even performed the earth custom of blowing him kisses.

Alien 2: how strange. Oh! You might want to perform your yearly oral detox soon, your gums are starting to turn green.

Alien 1: I appreciate the advice, but I’m not due for a detox for another month.

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This footage of Elmo after messing up a take on Sesame Street is peak relatable

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just fucking with some dinosaurs. some raw forces of nature

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waters so amazing because you can drink it really sloppy style and like spill it all over yourself and it doesnt even leave a stain. you dont even have to wash it out/ . because its already washed

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hmmm, maybe Iceland feeling like he messed up at a conference where he had to talk in front of a lot of other countries? and then norway comforting him afterwards at his home? just a thought🍂🤍 you don't have to write super fast or post it today (use all the time you need, don't stress yourself out)

I love that idea.

It was times like these that made Iceland partially wish he wasn't immortal. He wished he could jump into a volcano and live in the hot boiling lava.

Iceland is, by no means, a good speaker. There was a reason he preferred communicating through texts or even letters. He just never was able to communicate properly through words. He stuttered a whole lot, he had the occasional voice crack, he was almost never able to present his thoughts in a clear and concrete way through his intense nerves. He often panicked whenever he had to ask someone to let him through, let alone having to speak in front of the other nations.

Iceland didn't think it was possible for him to mess up every single word. He didn't even have to say that many things. He'd been so determined to seem like he had a good grasp on the situation. He'd practiced in front of his bedroom mirror for an embarrassing amount of time all for nothing. Even Italy, whose speeches almost always involved one word, looked sympathetic.

By the end, he'd gotten nowhere. None of his points made any sense, he'd embarrassed himself, and to add insult to injury, in a panic, he'd fled the conference hall and accidentally bumped into poor Greece who'd been running late, spilling his hot tea all over his (already cat hair covered) suit.

The other Nordics had all but died from the pain of watching Iceland choke so embarrassingly.

Norway waits for a total of five minutes before loudly getting up from his chair and storming out of the hall.

By this point, he knows where he'll find Iceland. Lo and behind, there sat Iceland on the ground by Norway's car in the parking lot.

Wordlessly, Norway unlocks the vehicle and gestures to Iceland that he should get inside.

He and Iceland get into the car, and Norway turns to his brother.

"so... What happened?"

Iceland makes an agonized cry.

Norway sighs and pulls his little brother into his arms, pushing his head into his chest, gently stroking his hair and occasionally leaning in to leave little kisses on his forehead.

"come on... It wasn't so bad... It was getting boring, we needed something funny to happen."

Iceland gives his big brother a sad look.

Norway laughs.

"I'm just messing with you. It's really not that bad."

"Norway, I messed everything up! Why did I have to say anything? Now everyone thinks I'm even more useless than I already was!"

Norway sees Iceland expression fall further with tears actually threatening to spill over his lashes.

Norway's biggest weakness.

"Iceland, what are you talking about? Useless? Who on Earth told you that?"

"oh come on, Nor! I'm not stupid. I'm literally no different than any of the micronations. I don't even know why I had to do this! Ugh, I messed everything up."

"Iceland, you think none of us mess up with our speeches? Sweden doesn't even talk in these things anymore because he stutters so much. All of us mess up. Heck, Italy is just screaming the word pasta half the time."

"so why doesn't anyone look at him weirdly when he does that?"

"well, there are a few theories, but I'm a firm believer in that they just don't want to anger him, lest he takes his final form and wreaks havoc on planet Earth."

This makes Iceland chuckle involuntarily.

Norway starts wiping Iceland's face with his own sleeve.

"you're overthinking all of this. Literally no one cares. It's one of the perks of coming from one of the most silent corners of the world. No one hates us enough to remember the embarrassing shit we do."

Iceland smiles briefly before the waterworks return. Norway, sensing what must be done, pulls Iceland in closely again to let him cry it out.

He cries for a bit more before finally settling down.

"better?"

"mm"

"you wanna go home and watch some trashy TV shows?"

"what about the rest of the meeting?"

"eh... Who cares?"

Iceland looks down and finds himself smiling.

"yeah... Who cares?"

Ugh, that was one of if not the worst fic I'd ever written. I did write it in a hurry so that explains it. I hope you like it. Thanks for the ask.

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Humans being like herding dogs to aliens 👽

Loyal, gentle, strong and patient. They'll rest and relax with you on the porch, or play with the kids all day every day.

But if something tries to threaten that alien family, that same human will vanish for two days and come back covered in blood (none of it their own.)

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its been p common knowledge for decades that light pollution can be massively reduced by just putting shades on streetlamps, and that doing that would save energy, help wildlife, and let us see the stars better, but are society says if u wanna change any minor little tiny thing u gotta dedicate ur whole life to campaigning for it and this is a good ways down the list of priorities for most ppl, so instead i gotta walk past newly-installed streetlamps that are just dumb glass globes that use half their electricity to blast half their light directly into the sky where it does only bad things for no reason and think "we should overthrow the government"