Challenge #02579-G022: What the Feces?
You’re shit is an insult, you’re the shit is a complement. You’re not shit is a reassurance, and fuck this shit is not related to the previous phrases. – Anon Guest
Humans don’t have to be confusing, but they will frequently do it anyway. Their idioms, axioms, and expressions are many, varied, and assumed to be understood by everyone. This can hold true for some Human words, as well. Enormous papers have been written on the versatility of some of their ancient four-letter words.
One of the more popular was a synonym for excrement. It could describe the item itself, be descriptive of something awful, and simultaneously something awesome. It could be reassuring, and simultaneously derogatory. It’s truly versatile and also truly confusing for newcomers to Human interaction.
Human Dru has often been asked for clarification when the offensensitivity filters have replaced idiom with scientific terms and removed any kind of inflection that could help a casual listener. For example, someone using offensensitivity filters would hear hir saying things like, “I keep telling you, this [excrement] little trick is the [excrement]. Like, the ordinary way is like [intercourse] this [excrement], but it’s absolutely no [excrement] of anyone’s noses. The guy who told me about it? I called ‘em and told 'em, dude, you are not [excrement]. This thing is the [explosive]. It’s top [excrement].”
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Challenge #02573-G016: Cultural Exchange Program
Harvest festival, feast time, Thanksgiving, people have a lot of reasons for sitting to celebrate this time of year. A time to give thanks for what one has in their life, to remember what it is they are thankful for. But, for some, it was just a time to put out a feast and be a glutton, and enjoy it! A person had been researching the Vorax, in fact, their entire race, learning their culture and their ways. Learning that the Vorax was not the race itself but the warriors amongst them. Learning of the farmers, the workers, the entire system the best they could. Then, as it came time for the feast festival, an invitation was sent out to as many as they could invite. They’d saved up a rather impressive amount of Time for this. The food they’d gathered was food they knew the Vorax could eat, and the humans they invited, friends and family, would enjoy as well. The drinks, mild intoxicants that would not inebriate either side but were also completely safe for both sides, along with juices and water, was provided, and the large series of tables were set out. Then, on the appointed day, they awaited the arrival of their guests for the Feast of Giving Thanks. And smiled, the doors to the large place wide open, looking forward to this moment. – DaniAndShali
Contrary to all the opinions of those originating from the United States, and their deep-time colonies, Thanksgiving is not a universal concept. Many mistake otherwise ordinary harvest festivals for their unique phenomenon of Thanksgiving. The spirit of egocentrism is strong in many Human cultures. Such an egocentric Human has found out about the Thranityr… the species who are the origin of the Vorax.
There were, of course, the travelling raiders called the Vorax. There were the farming caste, the Chakkyn. The manufacturing caste, the Thekkar. The Honyk were the builders, and it went on and on. Each with their own language, each with a tenuous peace with the other castes. Each with a rather… interesting relationship with any neighbouring Humans and their colonies.
Galactic Society often uses the fact that Humans willingly make alliances with Vorax as definitive evidence that Humans, as a species, are insane. Humans point to this conclusion and accuse Galactic Society of being a bunch of ignorant bigots. Some things cannot possibly change, but Human Kon is determined to at least try to change things anyway. His bright idea? A shared festival feast. Food, after all, brought people together. The festival, chosen with typical Human egocentrism, was Thanksgiving.
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Challenge #02325-F135: Where the Mouth is
“That will never Work!”
“Bet you a (Insert Currency) that you can’t.”
“Be ready to lose that (Insert Currency)!!!” – Anon Guest
If there is anything that a Human can be relied upon, it is their ability to take on ridiculous wagers and then win them. No matter how impossible the task. No matter how ludicrously low the bet. Humans will move galaxies to get those bragging rights. Even the tenderest and least offensive Havenworlder can goad a Human into action with, “Bet you can’t do it.”
It’s so inevitable that it’s practically a law of nature. Many amongst the Allied polities are campaigning to have it recognised as a natural aspect of Humanity. The law of Human nature. Any Human can accomplish the impossible if there is a bet to the contrary against them.
However, for every rule, there is an exception. The statistical outlier who should not be counted. The fly in the ointment of every statistician and surveyor everywhere. This one was called… Human Mark. Human Mark was well aware of Galactic goading techniques. Compared to most Humans, they were also remarkably cautious. In Mark’s on words, they were, “not stupid, not expendable, and not gonna do it.”
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Challenge #02290-F100: Celtic Legacy
There are some scientists that wants to make human look unbridled and untrustworthy. They make a bullet with weird mixture that makes humans aggressive and bloodthirsty.
Human [name] was spending some time with her co-workers when she feels a little pain in her neck, she blackout. When she wake up she was bonded by her friends and not her blood was on the floor, her and her co-worker. – Anon Guest
Like all problems in the known universe, this one started with ambition mixed well with hatred and xenophobia. Those three have forever been a toxic combination and will ever be so. Beware them, no matter the pretty cover stories they wrap around themselves.
Nevermind the name of the instigator. People like those are best forgotten, anyway. They had their justifications, they always do. The Humans were everywhere. They were outnumbering civilised folks. They had a barbaric faith. They were barbarians. They were toxic. They had horrific traditions and history. They smelled bad. Take your pick. They were always and ever will be pretty words surrounding a core of unreasoning hatred.
It culminated in a tiny dart no bigger than a carob seed. The toxin within was as clear as the soluble material that was its casing. It was a work of art. It was a work of evil. They called it ‘berserk’, after the raw savagery that some Humans were known to be capable of. What they had done was find the perfect formula to trigger any given Human into their deepest, most brutal fight-or-flight instincts, and ensure that the switch was flipped to 'fight’. This, they reasoned, would highlight exactly what the Humans could do to the Alliance. They were not wrong.
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Tumblr advertising its own enemy.
Way to shoot yourselves in the foot -again- staff.
…and I can’t even use Xkit 9_9
When Historical Dramas Fail History…
I can forgive AU’s. I have a great love for them. I can understand a writer willing to explore an alternate time stream.
But when they pretend they’re set in our history… nails down the chalkboard.
You can NOT show the Mona Lisa in-progress on a freaking canvas. She was painted on an oak board.
[You should also not make Jesus white, but that’s a whole different can of worms…]
Similarly, having era- or locale-incorrect fashions can do a lot to disturb viewers. No matter how sexy they happen to be.
A little fact-checking can go a very long way, folks.
Freaking use some.