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late night sci-fi thinking 

this can even be small stuff! weird housing arrangements for species that tend towards different family structures, open areas for flight for species with wings, cities where all the roads are replaced by canals for amphibious ones, completely different forms of entertainment that often only really make sense in the culture and history they came from, weird cuisine due to diet (granted, humans being omnivores have an advantage there), et cetera

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late night sci-fi thinking 

space adventures and otherworldly encounters are fun and all but I honestly feel like the sheer sense of scale and otherworldliness would be greatly helped if more people showed what made their aliens y'know, alien

not necessarily totally unrelatable by any means, but also definitely having different solutions to problems than ours, different social institutions and values due to culture & biology, and stuff we'd never think of doing ourselves, or only did in the past

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late night sci-fi thinking 

y'know if there's one thing that bothers me about a lot of science fiction it's that there's always this implication of a world way different from ours but there's never anything there to really like, explore that fact

I know why this is mind you (Chekhov's Gun, keeping the story relatable) but at the same time it's like... you have entire alien societies here, what does an ordinary person go through in your universe? what's their life like, what do they do for fun?

LB: god if I ever end up with a basement apartment this is literally exactly what it'd end up looking like

teeming with life right outside the entrance, perfectly pleasant on the inside, a place untouched by the pressures of capitalism, far more welcoming than society at large ever will be to those that need it

ah yes that new game all the kids are playing, jortnite

worldbuilding thing 

those last two spheres are comparatively tiny and pretty much powerless outside their own domain compared to the former three (who routinely work together to keep things that way); the royalists still consider themselves the true leaders of the empire however, hence their use of the thabash sign (also found in the tuxlalthist and pro-revolutinary emblems) - the former three are unsurprisingly also much freer and generally better places to live in

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worldbuilding thing 

did some quick drafts for emblems used within the althoinic empire, general use stuff would probably be simplified compared to this

in order: the democratic sphere (early breakaway dem. socialists), the tuxlalthist sphere ("what if the USSR but huge, post-scarcity & w/o the descent into authoritarianism"), the pro-revolutionary sphere (imagine europe if it'd gone along with #2), the royalist sphere (deposed by #2's revolution) and the capitalist sphere (what you think it is)

hey I think I found why that "millennials are killing mayo" article was written

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meta 

mastosoc has been rendered completely useless for the moment by the sheer influx of new users

yeah we may wanna collectively plan for the incoming influx of people from bird hell because I feel this is only the beginning

Is your mom texting about mayonnaise? Know the signs. 

LMAO - Loser Millennials, aioli ogres
WTF - White, tasty, fabulous
ICYMI - Identity condiments yuck my innards
MFW - Miracle Freakin' Whip
IMHO - Invited to My Hellman's Orgy

steamed hams but it's literally just a video of someone steaming several hocks of ham

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