absolutely stellar

A girl at my school tried to seduce one of our (super straight-laced) math professors. She ACTUALLY sat on his desk and had a super low-cut shirt on and everything and actually leaned over to him and according to eye-witnesses:

Girl: “Oh professor, I’m really struggling but I would do ANYTHING to pass this class.”

The professor leans in until his face is just inches from hers and whispers in the same seductive tone:

Before promptly getting up and walking away just leaving her on the desk.

“Then study”

Soulmates AUs

Imagine your OTP…

Humans Are Weird

So there has been a bit of “what if humans were the weird ones?” going around tumblr at the moment and Earth Day got me thinking. Earth is a wonky place, the axis tilts, the orbit wobbles, and the ground spews molten rock for goodness sakes. What if what makes humans weird is just our capacity to survive? What if all the other life bearing planets are these mild, Mediterranean climates with no seasons, no tectonic plates, and no intense weather? 

What if several species (including humans) land on a world and the humans are all “SCORE! Earth like world! Let’s get exploring before we get out competed!” And the planet starts offing the other aliens right and left, electric storms, hypothermia, tornadoes and the humans are just … there… counting seconds between flashes, having snowball fights, and just surviving. 

To paraphrase one of my favorite bits of a ‘humans are awesome’ fiction megapost: “you don’t know you’re from a Death World until you leave it.” For a ton of reasons, I really like the idea of Earth being Space Australia.

Earth being Space Australia Words cannot express how much I love these posts

Alien: “I’m sorry, what did you just say your comfortable temperature range is?”

Human: “Honestly we can tolerate anywhere from -40 to 50 Celcius, but we prefer the 0 to 30 range.”

Alien: “……. I’m sorry, did you just list temperatures below freezing?”

Human: “Yeah, but most of us prefer to throw on scarves or jackets at those temperatures it can be a bit nippy.” 

Other human: “Nah mate, I knew this guy in college who refused to wear anything past his knees and elbows until it was -20 at least.”

Human: “Heh. Yeah everybody knows someone like that.”

Alien: “……. And did you also say 50 Celcius? As in, half way to boiling?”

Human: “Eugh. Yes. It sucks, we sweat everywhere, and god help you if you touch a seatbelt buckle, but yes.” 

Alien: “……. We’ve got like 50 uninhabitable planets we think you might enjoy.” 

“You’re telling me that you have… settlements. On islands with active volcanism?” “Well, yeah. I’m not about to tell Iceland and Hawaii how to live their lives. Actually, it’s kind of a tourist attraction.” “What, the molten rock?” “Well, yeah! It’s not every day you see a mountain spew out liquid rocks! The best one is Yellowstone, though. All these hot springs and geysers from the supervolcano–” “You ACTIVELY SEEK OUT ACTIVE SUPERVOLCANOES?” “Shit, man, we swim in the groundwater near them.”

Sounds like the “Damned” trilogy by Alan Dean Foster.

“And you say the poles of your world would get as low as negative one hundred with wind chill?” 

“Yup, with blizzards you cant see through every other day just about.”

“Amazing! when did you manage to send drones that could survive such temperatures?”

“… well, actually…”

“… what?”

“…we kinda……. sent……….. people…..”

“…”

“…”

“…what?”

“we sent-”

“no yeah I heard you I just- what? You sent… HUMANS… to a place one hundred degrees below freezing?”

“y-yeah”

“and they didn’t… die?”

“Well the first few did”

“PEOPLE DIED OF THE COLD AND YOUR SOLUTION WAS TO SEND MORE PEOPLE???!?!?!?”

My new favorite Humans are Weird quote

“PEOPLE DIED OF THE COLD AND YOUR SOLUTION WAS TO SEND MORE PEOPLE?”

aka The History of Russia

aka Arctic Exploration

aka The History of Alaska

Being from Alaska, this was sort of how I felt going to college in the lower 48′s and learned that no one else had been put through a literal survival camp as a regular part of their school curriculum, including but not limited to:

1. Learning to recognize all forms of animal tracks in the wild so you can avoid bears and moose and search out rabbits and other small animals to eat.

2. Extensive swimming and climbing on glacial pieces with competitions to see who could last the longest, followed by a group sit in the sauna so we wouldn’t get hypothermia (no, not kidding, I really did this many times as a kid!)

3. How to navigate using the stars to get back to civilization.

4. How to select the right type of moss from the trees to start a fire with damp wood (because, y’know, you’re in a field of snow. Nothing is dry.)

5. How to carve out a small igloo-like space to sleep in the snow to preserve body heat and reduce the windchill so you won’t freeze to death in the arctic.

“I’m telling you, I don’t think we need to worry about territory conflicts with the humans. You know all those deathtrap hell-worlds in the Argoth Cluster?” “Those worthless rocks? Yeah.” “80% of them are considered ‘resort destinations’ by those freaky little primates.”

This would be an interesting read if this was a book.

Like, an alien invasion is about to start and the book is a chronicle of how the aliens couldn’t handle both humans in general and the range of environments and ended up being destroyed through the eyes of one of the aliens.

Like a caption from the book would be something like

“So we sent a recon team to this place called Russia, but all we’ve heard back thus far is about the temperatures, giant monsters with fur the humans call “Bears”, and that once again, we have been reminded of how heavily well armed almost ever human settlement is.

Thus far we have lost more than a good chunk of our forces through experiments gone wrong, unsuccessful fire fights, and above all else, the humans seem to be more worried about these strange variation of their species calling themselves “Clowns”.

I don’t know what a Clown is, but sounds as if it is the dominant faction of this planet, and considering we only just found out humans practically poison themselves with this thing called beer and only get stronger and more violent, I don’t ever want to encounter such a being.

I believe this invasion was a mistake.“

I’ve been reading a bunch of these and all I can think about now is aliens finding out about our insane ability to walk away from accidents.

“Human Colony SDO435**, this is Gxanimi survey vessel 3489. We regret that we must inform you that the wreckage of your ship ‘Gecko Flyer’ has just been detected on planet F56=K=. We offer expressions of sympathy for this catastrophe.”

“Shit, thanks for telling us, we’ll be right there.”

“Why?”

“To find our people, of course.”

“… you wish to retrieve the corpses for your traditional death rituals, of course, we understand. We have sent the coordinates.”

“What do you mean, bodies? No survivors at all? There must be some.”

“Official mouthpiece of Human Colony SDO435**, the ship has crashed. It has impacted the planet’s surface at speed. Moreover, this might have happened as much as five vek ago. We do not understand why you speak of ‘survivors’.”

“Oh, there’ll be survivors. There always are.”

“(closes hyperspace voicelink) How sad that they are unable to accept the reality of their loss.”

“Hey, Gxanimi survey vessel 3489, thanks for letting us know about the Gecko Flyer. More than half the crew made it!”

“Made what?”

“They survived! A couple of lost limbs and so on, but they’ll be fine.”

“… but that vessel was destroyed! Images have been examined!”

“Oh, well, everyone in the fore-below compartment was crushed, obviously, but the others made it out.”

“… but the crash was vek ago! Excuse we… at least eighty of your ‘days’! How could they survive without a ship? Without shelter and supplies?”

“Well, the wreckage gave them some shelter, and of course the emergency supplies kept them going until they could start growing stuff. It’s actually a nice little planet, they said. Quite a lot of edible flora and fauna. T-shirt weather, in summer, too.”

“What is… t-shirt weather?”

“Oh, you know, when it’s comfortable to go around with only modesty covering over the epidermis. Exposed limbs.”

“That planet is so cold that even water solidifies in its atmosphere!”

“Well, in winter, obviously. But we like that. Listen, our people have been raising crops down there, and that’s usually how we rule a planet as ‘colonized’…. is anyone else using it, or can we call it?”

“Er… we have claimed the warmer planets in the system, but we believe we could come to some arrangement.”

It was really nice, the humans thought, how carefully most of the aliens kept an eye out for downed ships after that, once they found out that humans tended to survive anything less than explosive decompression or… well, explosions generally. They’d immediately inform the nearest outpost of a wreck’s location, or even ship survivors back themselves. It was very thoughtful.

They didn’t find out until a long time later that the Gxanimi had put out the word to every species they were in contact with. It was vital that everyone knew the things they had learned about humans after that first encounter.

1. Humans can literally walk away from an impact that renders a space-worthy hull so much scrap and would have actually liquefied a Gxanimi.

2. Humans will eat just about anything not immediately fatal to them - including, in extremis, the corpses of their dead crewmates. In fact, most human vessels keep a list of those willing to be eaten and those whose socio-religious scruples forbid it. They have a ridiculously high tolerance for dangerous substances, and if they can breathe on a planet they can probably eat something on it too. They also have something they call the ‘Watney Protocol’, which requires them to carry live soil samples, seeds, and simple tools that will allow them to start farming their own native foodstuffs on any remotely habitable planet immediately in the event of an accident.

3. Once they’ve farmed a planet, they bond with it. They’ll be polite, but it’ll take significant effort to get rid of them even so.

Conclusion: If a human ship crashes on a planet you like and want to keep, get other humans to come and get them immediately. Remove them yourself if you have to. Even the worst crash can result in a thriving colony in a few vek.

And don’t, for the love of gravitational regularity, try to solve that problem by killing off the survivors. Just don’t. It won’t work and it just makes all the rest of them mad.

This is the best one yet! 

if any humans spill on your planet, make sure to scrape them up real fast and repackage them or you’ll never get them out. 

Humans also have a pretty crazy ability to survive traumatic injury and just keep coping. Imagine those alien rescue craft landing, and looking for human survivors they don’t expect to find–it’s been nearly six months–and coming across a thriving human settlement. Happy healthy humans–except nearly a third of the survivors are down a limb or two, some with massive scarring, etc. But they’re otherwise healthy and happy too, and working alongside everyone else like it’s no big deal. The aliens are so so baffled.

@ss-shitstorm

WEREWOLF AU'S

Art.

Sneak peek of next chapter of KBF~KBS — TEAM GREEN

So, let's analyze the roots of Team Green in my new story, Kissed by Fire ~ Kissed by Steel (a time travel fic in which Sansa gets transported back at the time of the Dance of Dragons, a couple of years prior Viserys' death, ft. Firesteel — Sansa/Aemond — Sansa & Helaena friendship, etcetera).

As things stand during the Battle of Winterfell, Sansa Stark, lady of Winterfell has been wounded to death in the Godswood and somehow got transported back in time to 126 AC, barely a couple of years before the beginning of the Dance of Dragons, where she has been found by ser Criston Cole and prince Aemond Targaryen starving, almost frozen to death and mortally wounded outside the gates of the Red Keep).

Since the Dance will explode anyway, I'm giving you a resume of the main players by what you already know (keeping out important bits of the fanfic's plot so that it doesn't get too spoilerish)

The Greens

Opposed to the succession to the Iron throne of princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and her natural born sons. The main players of this factions were (with quotes from the next chapter, chapter 4):

Grandfather of king Aegon II, queen Helaena and princes Aemond and Daeron Targaryen; he defended strenuously his grandson's claim to the Iron throne as opposed to princess Rhaenyra's.

The Lord Hand, Otto Hightower, as depicted in a painting still hanging in Oldtown, circa 125 AC.

2. Alicent of House Hightower, Queen Dowager of the Seven Kingdoms.

Mother of king Aegon II, queen Helaena and princes Aemond and Daeron Targaryen; she was the heart and moral compass of the Greens.

Queen Alicent of House Hightower, Queen Dowager of the Seven Kingdoms, as depicted in a painting still decorating the hall of Oldtown; circa 124 AC.

3. King Aegon II of House Targaryen, “rightful” king of the Andals, Rhoynar and First Men.

Firstborn son born from king Viserys II's second marriage with lady Alicent of House Hightower, first son of king Viserys to survive to adulthood, eldest trueborn son of the king.

King Aegon, second of his name, king of the Rhoynar, Andals and First Men, Lord Protector of the Realm; as depicted in the painting sent to several lords to inform them of his ascension and remind them of his “right to rule”, wearing all the symbols of legitimacy (the crown of the Conqueror, the ruling chain and depicted inside the Great Sept), circa 129 AC.

4. Helaena of House Targaryen, queen consort of the Seven Kingdoms

Sister-wife to king Aegon II, she was a dragon rider and a dreamer of House Targaryen. Heavily misunderstood, but not for that less loved by her family. Mother of Jaehaerys, Jaehaera and Maelor Targaryen.

Queen Helaena Targaryen, sister-queen to Aegon II Targaryen, as depicted in a painting still hanging in Kings Landing; 129 AC.

5. Aemond One-Eye Targaryen, prince of the Seven Kingdoms

Second son born of the marriage between king Viserys II and his second wife, queen Alicent Hightower. Rider of Vhagar, queen of all dragons.

Prince Aemond One Eye of House Targaryen, as depicted in 128AC; the painting was to be sent to many noble Houses, as his hand was yet free to be given in promise of marriage to help his brother's cause. [The painting never left Kings Landing] It was the prince's choice that his eyepatch was to be on first line, but his scar as hidden as possible to not scare the ladies of the kingdom.

6. Ned Rivers, the Lady Ned, the Lady in Grey, Lady Bat

Also known as the Needle of the Greens, no one knows whence she comes, save that her origins somehow connect her to the Riverlands and perhaps to a small House of landed knights who have not yet distinguished themselves (House Whent); whose banner depicts several bats.

The Lady Bat, as depicted in the first moons of 130AC, some say by her lover, some say by some unnamed painter who got his eyes' cut out for having dared to presume to capture her beauty on oil and canvas.

6. Guest star, Daeron of House Targaryen, prince of the Seven Kingdoms

Third son of king Viserys and queen Alicent Hightower. Currently squiring in Oldtown.

Daeron the Daring, prince of the Seven Kingdoms, in a painting still hanging in Oldtown, next to his mother and grandfather's; as depicted aged 16.

To come soon the Blacks (queen Rhaenyra Targaryen “rightful” queen, consort Daemon Targaryen, princes Jacaerys and Lucerys Velaryon; lady Baela and Rhaena Targaryen, princess Rhaenys Targaryen and lord Corlys Velaryon).

Also, yes, I know that the first mention of the Whents is during the reign of Maekar, yet, that is the first recorded mention and as House Lothston has to come from somewhere, the same goes for House Whent. So I have them mostly unknown little House of hedge knights of the Riverlands. It is fitting since Sansa's grandmother was Minisa Whent (whose banner spots several bats) and Sansa herself is said to have killed Joff with a spell grown bat-like wings and flown away.

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