No, said Aziraphale, it's ineffable.

z-nogyrop

imagine we make contact with an alien species that’s like, vastly technologically superior, they could fucking kill us in a single shot if they really wanted to

and this species has never eaten salad before. and we show them salad and they eat it and they’re like holy living fuck this is tasty. and suddenly they’re offering us huge houses with all kind of advanced technological shit and incredible medical care and all the amenities and everything, with the only condition that we keep making salad for them.

and like, salad isn’t even hard to make. grab some plants, dump em in a bowl. it doesn’t have to be fancy salad, they’ll fall all over themselves for the most mediocre salad in the world. we can make so much salad that we’re practically drowning in it, even if we eat some of the salad ourselves. and in exchange we’re protected from danger, we have great living conditions, it’s basically paradise compared to life on earth

imagine

z-nogyrop

now realize that this is what bees have done to us

invertebrates

idk, it might be more accurate if the aliens just LOVED to eat our spit and placenta

tinsnip

bmouse said: It makes a lot of sense. It would be interesting if there was more fic with that flavor of Julian characterization, representing neuroatypical people that can ‘pass’ but not all the time and there fore straddling the boundary, trusted by neither.

Mmm. Wouldn’t that be fascinating? I mean, I confess I put rather a lot of that into DD9 Julian. I ascribe it to his not really learning to socialize properly due to Richard’s refusal to let him do anything but Be Better, Learn More, Make Me Proud. It’s one of DD9 Julian’s defining characteristics, to me: his ability to fake being “normal”.

And the idea that DS9 Julian might be walking around with the same kind of thoughts inside his head… that’s really quite fascinating, isn’t it?

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.