what i’m getting from all these “humans are weird aliens” things is that we as a species are best known for being batshit fucking crazy
batshit crazy brave [the “lets get the space pirates to talk about their babies and see us as people so they won’t murder us, and it WORKED” species]
batshit crazy loyal [the “defend pack bonded entities until death” species]
batshit crazy affectionate [the “pack bond with cleaning droids and name them Stabby” species]
batshit crazy curious [the “tape two warp cores together and ride them into the sun, twice, just to see what would happen” species]
batshit crazy resourceful [the "we made a replacement warp core engine out of duct tape, a bobby pin, and a spare nuke” species]
or just batshit crazy in general [the “sees a predator and tries to tame it” species]
we’re not big or mean or super smart
we are, at least to other species, out of our fucking minds
and they like us for it