“…dude, it was so stupid - he was so overconfident that he advanced his marshal next—the biggest piece!—and it hit a bomb! It was just—gone! He barely made a dent in the enemy ranks.”
“What the hell? Wasn’t he winning?”
The reply came quickly, in between giggles - “Yeah, but after that happened—he just got up and sat on the couch and just went completely silent, he was so shocked. The other guy went nuts!”
A shout of laughter followed from both the girls as they rounded the corner of the hallway leading to the center of the spaceship, where humans and aliens alike were working or mingling.
The girls parted - Nora to the sleeping quarters, Mags to the mess hall.
Nora ran into Vulkith along the way down another hall. “Hey, man.”
“Hello, Human-Nora. I was wondering if I might ask you about the report on the ship’s recent departure from the Earth port. There seems to have been a spike in one of the tables that is affecting the rest of the data.”
“Well, we’re still in orbit. What’s the sp—”
She stopped dead in the middle of the hallway, then as Vulkith looked back at her, metal plates clinking in confusion, she walked backwards a few steps, stopping about a meter away from xer.
“Human-Nora, what are you—”
Xe saw her bare her teeth so wide it looked almost like a snarl (except her nostrils weren’t flared, xe noted), quickly take off her shoes, and kick them to the side.
She let out a quick, breathy laugh. If Vulkith wasn’t on edge before, xe certainly was now.
And then, so quickly that xe almost couldn’t believe it even happened in the first place — Nora’s body shook violently, trembling from her shoulders and ending with rotating her neck slowly in a few circles. She let out a puff of air in a quiet “ooh”, flinging her head back, rubbing her arms and letting out an expression of gratitude.
And then, normally, she put on her shoes and walked back up to where Vulkith was standing, rooted to the spot.
“There was a warm spot there. Are we getting closer to the sun?”
Xe could not for the life of xer make out the changing expression on her face: wrinkled eyebrows and a downturned mouth first, and then instantly wide eyes and bared teeth and rounder features.
“Er… well—yes, we are—could you explain… what that was?”
“Oh, I’ve been feeling cold on the ship ever since we entered the dark side of the Earth’s orbit. It’s mostly been an annoyance, but I’ve gotten used to it.”
The pair started walking again, Vulkith a little hesitantly lest the human stop suddenly and walk backwards into xer.
“I don’t know if other people experience this, but when I’ve felt cold for a long time, and then I find a patch of sunlight back in my house, I’d just stop and feel the warmth on my feet. I’d give off this big shiver that sort of… lets the cold feeling… fall away from my body? After that I feel a lot warmer. It’s really nice.”
She was baring her teeth again, Vulkith noticed, and her eyes squinted—signs of a genuine smile.
“So… humans have normal shivering when cold, and then they have… this?”
“I told you. I don’t know if anyone else—any other human—does this. Maybe it’s just because I grew up in a cold-ish climate? I don’t know. But yeah, there’s normal shivering—which, I don’t really shiver so much as I want to curl in on myself when it’s cold, rubbing my arms and such—to preserve body heat—but… yeah. Basically what you said.”
The two walked together toward the sleeping quarters, Vulkith still trying to process this new information. Xe certainly hadn’t read this in the Human Manual before… and it had gone through so many revisions and rewrites that one more couldn’t possibly hurt…
Shouts out to the folks getting misgendered during the holidays, and to all the folks who have to listen to their family’s spout homophobic and transphobic shit. I love you. Remember the bathroom is a great place to take a five minute break and no one will question you. I’m thinkin about you and I hope the holidays aren’t too stressful and you have some peace. I see you.
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 💙💗🤍💗💙
Like to give a trans girl boobs
Reblog to give a trans girl boobs with anime jiggle physics
It will soon be 25 hours in a day because the moon is slowly getting farther and farther away from earth
It seems like you guys liked the space orcs post-
Alien *over coms*: Your ship is pinpointed, and you are targeted, you can stop or we may have to use excessive force to dock.
Humans *over coms*: We will file a police report! This will not go unknown. If you dock without permission, we might put this on your permanent record
Aliens : All it takes is one shot and your entire system goes now, red-tape is of no concern!
Humans : Who told you that?- It doesn’t matter. According to A-B5.6 we will be notifying you of our departure
Aliens : Humans, silly ones. So worried about red-tape.
Aliens: *Shoot a missile to the thrusters*
Humans: *Ship slows down to a halt*
*The Alien’s ship docks on the human ship*
*In the Alien ship*
Alien Commander: Why isn’t the dock opening? I demand answers!
A1: Well- I think I know the issue-
Alien Commander: Well, what are you waiting for! Lead me to the issue
A2: *Leads him to a wide glass panel overlooking the human ship*
The shields of the flicker from light blue to a dark blue with white text overlaid.
System.S0x073SXE has crashed
Overriding SYSTEM account
Device DIV0348.637.dock(1.94) has stopped
Device DIV0845378.637.Athrust(6.27) has stopped
Device DIV03458.637.Bthrust(7.24) has stopped
Restarting System. S0x073SXE.bUP.Athurst
Restarting System. S0x073SXE.bUP.Bthrust
The dock, thruster A and B fall away from the humans ship
2 new thrusters the show up were thruster A and B show up with yellow paint and green text saying “Backup Thruster”
Alien *over coms*: What happened?
Humans *over coms*: Have you every heard of modularity, the power to throw away part as we see fit! We can remove up 95% of our ship and it will still work just fine! However, one hit to any part of yours you render you unable to perform!
Aliens : *…* Why haven’t we thought about this before?
No but seriously, their capacious fur have me flinged to oblivion itself
First of all I'm just gonna thank @uhm24 for writing about Aliens getting to know people who have different sexualities and genders than other people :)
But i got another request, since I'm not a writer, and english isn't my first language :')
Anyone can volunteer C:
(I feel like I'm asking for too much since i did ask for a request yesterday, but let's not rush, I'll be patient.)
2nd Request:
- Aliens finding out two of the humans in their ship are trans by hearing two other humans talking shit behind their back. They approach them, interested and ask what them being a "trans" is (if you aren't trans, and you think of writing this, please do not write the t slur since the word is offensive to the trans community.)
I wish you good luck if you've thought of writing this!
Got any ideas? Because everything i come up with is already written down 🧍
So humans have a funky little sixth sense for when someone/thing is looking at us and honestly wtf.
So an alien spy is trying to get human info getting progressively more concerned when the human they're tailing keeps looking around and acting like they know the alien is there. Maybe it's an alien species renowned for stealth and no other sentient in the galaxy had ever been able to spot them so at this point they're double checking themselves and going insane.
At this point the human's figured shit out and so they lead the alien into a trap much to Sneaky McSneakfuck's dismay and confusion.
So eventually humans hold a press conference about the whole stalker and the galactic federation or whatever it would be called is like:
GF: How in the dick shitting fuck did you know they were there??
Human: felt them watching me.
Gf: felt them fucking What.