pruningthemindsgarden:

bounemr:

Okay but we have these posts about humans being super weird compared to aliens and I’m just picturing meme culture

Humans, these terrifying space orcs, are prone to temporary and sometimes destructive lapses of reason. The aliens, by inference, realize the human word for this madness. “Aesthetic”

“Human, please stop misspelling your words on purpose. I can not understand.”

and somewhat linked to that, our tendency for calm overstatement. “I’m pretty sure she’s an actual goddess.”
“As a standard, we do not allow religion to influence our mission.”
“I’d let her step on my face”
“Human, please stop with this aesthetic behavior.”
*giggling*

Or our tendency to be ridiculously vague but understand anyway, and relate to inanimate things.
*compacted trash cube gets ejected into space*
“Same”
“Human what do you mean.”
“That. Same.”
“Commander, what’s wrong with the human?”
“He’s having an aesthetic fit, I think. He’ll be back to normal soon.”

An “aesthetic fit,” I love that. It goes in the Meme Box, my alien friend.