#space australians

[hihoace]

Other species are often facinated by how much human bodies can take.

Helle (human) is climbing up somewhere that is about two meters high.

Fe'ek: Be careful... You don't have wings. If you fall down from there you'll die.

Helle: Despite falling off from various heights I never broke a bone.

Fe'ek: Never?

Helle: Not even when I hit my head falling from around the same heigh I am at now... I think I didn't even got a concussion... They did have to sew the wound together though.

Fe'ek: Adds to mental notes that some humans can survive stuff that would give most of the other species at least a traumatic brain injury.

(This is not really an episode. I just remembered I fell off of places a lot as a kid, yet never broke a bone.)

#humans are space orcs #space australians #humans are deathworlders

[sunnydaze4501]

Cuteness, Aliens, and You.

Imagine first contact with an alien species. They have never seen humans and you have never seen them. They step out of their landing craft and...

Holy shit. It looks like a space fennec.

As the translators struggle to understand the human word "cute" as they have no parallel, you must attempt to explain without sounding weird.

I, personally, would forget everything and immediately pick it up and hug it.

First contact may not go so well.

#Aliens and You #humans are space orcs #humans are weird #creative writing #writing #hfy #space australians #writing prompt #writing ideas

[narwhal77]

Human ability to throw stuff

I've been dabbling in the various communities of 'humans are weird af in terms of intergalactic species' for a while, but there's one strange attribute of humans I haven't really seen covered in the weirdo human genres, and that is the human ability to throw things.

As shown in an xkcd comic, the human ability to throw things accurately is something not even seen on our own planet. So, for intergalactic species stuff, it could easily be considered that our human ability to throw things and be able to actually hit out target could be considered freaky weird. So imagine...

human: hey, look at that thing over there. I bet you I can hit it with this rock

Alien: Why would you bet against yourself like that? No one could throw something from here and hit something from this distance.

Human: Ya sure?

Alien: of course, no species is able to do that. I see no reason why you humans would be any different.

Human: Well, let's see then. *throws the rock*

*the rock hits the thing

Alien: WHAT THE FU-

I think this would be really interesting as a little story, so if someone writes a story about this, I'd love to see it. just tag me and/or send it to me or smth

#hfy #humans are space australians #humans are space orcs #space orcs #space Australians #humans are weird #humans are space oddities

[rollingtovictory]

Deathworlders

It has become a major topic of late that humans could be perceived as an absolutely insane race to the galactic community, assuming that most sapient species evolved on more ‘Paradise Planets’. For instance, humans are insanely good at adapting to different environments and can consume a huge number of things that are poisonous to other species. One of my favorite ideas that I came across recently is that perhaps humans make the ideal search and rescue species due to our ability to track, even untrained humans can often come up with the right ideas when tracking even if we don’t fully understand why.

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Xelaqua was completely and totally lost, had been for three local days. Xe’d been playing with the other Klitori children around the edge of the forest here on M’Jang, a relatively new colony of the Klitori Union on D’Nik. The moon was a beautiful world, but a dangerous one. Klitori scales could keep most of the radiation from the gas giant they orbit at bay, but they still were advised not to go out after planetrise. 

Xelaqua had been chasing a Zo, a small, brightly colored, winged insectoid being. Being an adolecent, xe could move fairly quickly, but his arms were still short and pudgy, meaning catching the little zo had taken some time and the climbing of a very old tree of some kind. That was when xe’d realized xe was in fact very lost. Xelaqua had roamed for three days now, hiding in the roots of old trees by the river bank or in small caves during the planet day, and trying to find the colony elsewhen. The problem came when a magora, a large predator, had attacked xim. The six eyes and sharp fangs had been all Xelaqua had really seen, as it bit his tail and thrashed him into a tree. 

Xelaqua woke up some hours later, confused and frightend as the planet was overhead. The pain took a moment to set in, but come it did. A broken arm was painful but not too bad, xe had three others after all, but the missing tail was a major issue. Klitori slither along the ground, lacking legs, but with four arms. A Klitor without a tail can’t move very well, as their arms are somewhat weak due to their homeworld’s low gravity. Xelaqua was going to die out here, alone in the forest. It was odd that the magora had decided to only eat xis tail, but that was a mystery for another time. Xelaqua slowly crawled under the roots of the tree, cradling xis broken arm and doing xis best not to look at the stump where xis tail had been. Klitori don’t have the same kind of vascular system we’re used to, so bleeding out isn’t actually an issue. Which is almost unfortunate for the young Xelaqua, as starvation will set in soon. 

Another day passes, Xelaqua only venturing far enough to drink from the small steam. Nothing nearby looks edible, but xe moves so slow that xe can’t go far. Hours later, as Xelaqua sings quietly to ximself in his little hiding hole, xe hears a stange sound. Something almost like someone calling for xim, but the pronunciation was dreadful, something not Klitori at all. While Xelaqua knew not to talk to strangers, this might be xis only hope of survival. Calling out was hard, exhaustion was a major issue, but the sounds drew closer. 

Human. Xelaqua had heard of them. Insane predators, violent, brilliant, and hardy. It was hard to imagine a sapient mammal, but here it was, calling out to others to come. 

“Help need you. Xelaqua you?” Xelaqua almost giggled at the strange way it talked, obviously knowing some words in Klitori Majoris, but not much. Regardless he answered yes as they were lifting him up.

Xelaqua was amazed at the speed at which humans could move. They had set his arm (ouch!), sanitized and wrapped his tail, and given him some food and water from the colony all in less that ten minutes. They moved through the forest in a way Xelaqua had only ever seen on TV shows about predators on death worlds, where the prey might kill you as likely as other predators. Quick, silent, and most frighteningly, hard to see. Xe’d watched the other humans move about around the one carrying xim, a human named Cuthbert, but they seemed to vanish and reappear later. 

Being saved was amazing, getting saved by the galaxies greatest trackers was something else entirely. And they suggested that they might be able to regrow his tale, as reptiles on their world often had the ability. They’d have someone look into it. What an insane world they must live on if regrowing limbs is something that animals can just do. 

#earth is a deathworld #humans are deathworlders #space australians #deathworld

[weesta]

Recently “Space Australian” stories have been in my TikTok feed. I’m here for it. I miss that trend here on Tumblr.

#humans are space orcs #space australians

[aliens-and-shiz]

Pretty sure that wraps up the events of the first book. Hold on, I will have an epilogue.

#humans are space australians #space orcs #az’krah #humans are space orcs #sci fi & fantasy #humans kick ass #humanity is weird #space australia #scifi series #scifi stories #space australians #storytime #sci fi #aliens #humans are weird #science fiction #space war #stabby the roomba #long reads #scifi

[joscail]

Very short Alien-Humans short story.

#humans #aliens #space orcs #space australians #humans are space australians #science #evolution #writing #short story #short

[cura-te-ipsum]

Space Boredom

A sharp bang echoed down the empty corridor. Xyloxu covered their aural openings in pain. What was that? Before they could move away or call for help, a second bang exploded followed by a quieter, tinkling sound. Was that? No. That couldn't be laughter? Concerned, Xyloxu hurried down the hallway towards the laughing and discovered their shipmate, Anne laying on the floor.

"Are you injured?" Xyloxu rushed to Anne's side, only remembering at the last moment to pull back and wait for a response. The ship's captain had been very clear in their briefing not to touch a human unexpectedly. Living on a death world made the species jumpy and prone to lash out when surprised. Anne only continued laughing and smiled up at Xyloxu from the floor.

"Oh hey! What are you up to today?" Anne asked, propping herself up on her elbows. Xyloxu was now well and thoroughly confused.

"I have been seeing to engine maintenance and repairs as I am tasked every 22nd cycle. What caused the loud banging just a moment ago? I had thought you were injured." Frankly, Xyloxu wasn't entirely convinced Anne wasn't injured given the wild state of the room, but she did not appear to be in pain. Didn't the manual say some humans laugh when they're in pain? No, wait. That was emotional distress, not physical.

"Oh! I've been testing whether it is possible to bust a panel off the ceiling with a homemade slingshot! Wanna try?" Anne grinned and held out a small weapon to Xyloxu that had clearly been cobbled together with bits of whatever Anne had found in the room. No way was Xyloxu touching the thing.

"I don't understand. You're goal is to damage the ship? I thought you were happy here." Their skin descended into a mottled grey.

Anne groaned. "I'm not doing any real damage. I swear I'll fix the panels when I'm done. Besides, it's perfectly safe. I'm even wearing safety glasses this time!"

Xyloxu was still confused. This time? "Then why-?"

"Ugh! I'm booored!" Anne flopped back down on the floor, slingshot skidding out of her hand and across the floor. "Nothing was working anyway."

Suddenly, she sat up and grinned brightly at Xyloxu. "Hey Xu! Wanna blow stuff up? I bet we could pull old wires for ignition." Xyloxu was beginning to associate that smile with danger. They shrank as small as their exoskeleton would allow and slowly backed out of the room.

"Maybe next time?"

Once back in the corridor, Xyloxu rushed to the nearest comms station. They would need help curing Anne's boredom before she blew a hole through the side of the ship and sucked them all out to space. Who knew humans were so dangerous? Though Xyloxu supposed on a death world like Earth, "dangerous" was always a relative term.

#original short story #I've been writing so much today I needed a cute fun story for me #humans in space #short fiction #Space Australians #partly inspired by my initial reaction to COVID lockdown #boredom is dangerous #either that or I am dangerous when bored #who's to say? #scifi story #story #story time

[a-break-from-reality]

We've established aliens would learn quickly to avoid kangaroos, hippos, bears, honey badgers, etc.

How would aliens react to porcupines?

#creative writing #funny #weird humanity #space australians #writing prompts

[honepiii]

In the prequels, Jango’s got a kiwi accent (since the actor’s from nz), but in cw the va gave the clones australian accents. I’ve come to the conclusion that the accents come from the kaminoans, and so the longnecks should’ve been aussie as fuck.

#clone wars #clone troopers #space australians #star wars

[injuries-in-dust]

I don't know why, but I like the idea of humans being to aliens, what cats are to humans...

Alien1: hey, when did you hire a human?

Alien 2: we didn't. They just wandered aboard one day, saying they wanted to "hitch a ride." Then they never left. I think they like it here.

Alien 1: the human distribution system has chosen.

***

Alien stares at the human, who has climbed up a very high shelving unit.

Alien: Human, get down before you hurt yourself.

The humans response is to climb higher.

***

Alien is secretly filming their human, who is spaced out and just staring at nothing.

Alien (whispering): I think the human is about to intercept the brain cell. (Laughter) don't worry human, if it tingles that means it's working.

#funny #humans are space orcs #humans are weird #adorable #cute #humans are space australians #humans are space oddities #humans are space cats #feel free to add to this

[hihoace]

Human show affection in weird ways sometimes.

It could be a very sweet moment when other species learn about the 5 love languages of humans, but there is also the fact, that we bite the people we love and it would definitely confuse them too.

Alien crewmate: "I think John is mad at me!"

Human crewmate: "Why would you think that?"

Alien crewmate: "Well he bit me yesterday!"

Human crewmate: "Oh... That actually means quite the opposite when it comes to him!"

Alien crewmate: "Elaborate please!"

Human crewmate: "Well it's called cute aggression. When we, humans see something that we really like, a neurochemical reaction happens that makes us wanna bite the thing that makes us feel good. This is our way of regulating our emotions so our brain won't get distracted or overwhelmed by the cuteness."

Alien crewmate: "So does this mean John finds me cute?"

Human crewmate: "I can't say this for sure, because for us it happens with both friends and lovers, but either way he definitely likes you very much and is not angry at you."

#humans are weird #space australians #humans are space orcs

[nopennyallthoughts]

One thing that I am 100% convinced would send an alien into cardiac arrest is sweating.

It sounds stupid but think about it: apart from horses, humans are the only species on earth that can sweat so it's not a far stretch to believe it would be incredibly rare in extraterrestrials as well.

Just imagine, one day the AC in the main engine room is broken and everyone starts panting like crazy because of the heat, but the human? Just keeps working like usual? It's not like they aren't affected by the heat at all, but they aren't breathing quite as hard as the rest and everyone thinks ahh yes, humans must have extreme durability to heat coming from that death planet. And then. The human starts melting?!?? And suddenly everyone is panicking because their human is leaking all sorts of important nutrients, metals and water out of every pore - are they dying? Surely this cannot be normal!

And the human has to explain that, no they are perfectly healthy and yes it is actually just the human body's way of cooling itself down and no they don't think it's "the coolest thing ever!!", wait till it starts to smell!

#humans are eldritch horrors #humans are space orcs #humans are space oddities #humans are deathworlders #humans are space australians

[what-if-i-just-did]

So, something I learnt the other day. So, you know how dinosaurs supposedly can't see you if you stand still? Well that myth is based on real-life lizards/etc and how eyes in general work. So, once my dad starts infodumping, here comes some other cool information. We, humans, can in fact, also not see something unless it's moving. We fixed this by having our eyes constantly shake. And then our brain compensates for us, so we don't have to have shaky vision.

What if aliens don't have this? Like. What if they find out when one of us was looking at something in the distance, and they walk around this thing that's in front of them, and the alien is confused so they bob their head and oh, there's a thing there, but how did the human know that, and then we explain and they're like, horrified.

Humans are apex predators. They can hunt in packs. They can hunt in pairs. They can hunt on their own. They're persistance predators, which is unheard of. They get stronger when they're mad or scared. They have this thing called 'body language' which acts like a type of hivemind, even if they'll claim it isn't. And. They can see you. When you're not moving. They can still see you. If you ever find yourself in a fight against a human, for whatever reason? Run. Run as fast as you can. And hope, pray if you have a religion, that they won't follow.

#humans are space fae #humans are space orcs #humans are the weird ones #humans are space australians #earth is a deathworld #humans are deathworlders

[skritzzy]

I feel like any aliens that were prey at some point in evolution would have an odd fear of humans. Mostly cause they look like predators, act a bit like predators, and ARE predators. One perfect example is when we're focused on something like a mosquito that's been bugging us for a long time and we are just done.

Alien: "What. What..?"

Human: *HUNTING down a mosquito it saw*

Alien: ".... yeah I am really uncomfortable...."

Human: *quiet footsteps, pupils dialated, intense focus,*

Alien: *WAR FLASHBACKS*

Human: "Found you." *absolutely desimates the mosquito, squashing it into a million pieces as it's guts and various body parts liquidize into blood of the bloodthirsty, now stained on the palm of the human. A living being now reduced to a useless corpse as the human wipes the remains on their pants*

Alien: "I feel like I've just gained trauma."

#inspired by the hill of mosquito corpes i've placed on top of the fridge #aliens #humans are space orcs #humans are weird #humans are space oddities #space australia #humans are space fae #humans are space australians #humans and aliens

[kurara-black-blog]

I just love the "they're more scared of you than you are of them" thing because, yeah, Earth is a Deathworld filled with very dangerous beings, but also everyone in it is scared and would rather not interact with each other unless necessary

Alien: This is a very dangerous animal!

Human: Don't worry, we'll just walk away.

Alien: But it's watching us!

Human: It's hoping we leave already, so we're leaving.

Alien: It... It is?

Human: Yeah, it is more scared of us than we are of it. Let's go before the fight instinct kicks in because then it'll become a dangerous animal

Alien:...

#humans are space fae #humans being humans #humans are deathworlders #humans are space oddities #humans are space orcs #humans are weird #humans are space australians