Things I Have Learned In Today’s Research Binge:

This is the first discussion of The Great library of Alexandria that hasn't made me feel anger and regret I am just confused but I like it

The Great Library of Alexandria was burned for a very good reason. It was hopelessly contaminated with the works of time travelers and the paradoxes were soon to be catastrophic. Only a full purge would save the world.

Love it

Compared to the rest of the galaxy, humans are small, adorable hunters who enjoy breaking things to see what happens, but are still well liked because they take care of minor problems. It turns out humans are not space elves or orcs, but intelligent space cats.

Same

I resent the inevitable consequences the second law of thermodynamics has on my tea and the entropy of the universe. It always happens too damn soon.

Notice how it's okay to be a

" proud autistic parent "

aka the parent of an autistic person

but

It's not okay to be a proud autistic person..

I'm seeing a bunch of proud autistic parent merch everywhere but not one single

" I'm proud to be autistic "

Or

" Proud autistic "

Anything....

I feel this kinda falls into the it's okay with neurotypical people to profit off disabled people + be proud of " dealing " with disabled people but as soon as a disabled person has pride in themselves then that's not okay.

Volunteer firefighters

Volunteer medical professionals

And non professional volunteers that you rarely hear about.

“And that is why, no human would ever risk their life to save another.” “Firefighters.” “Huh?” “Firefighters disprove everything you spent the last ten minutes going on about.”

All intelligent aliens fall into one of two categories for humans: Adorable or Uncanny Valley Horror. This wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the fact that humans are firmly in the Uncanny Valley Horror category for all other intelligent species.

Don't forget about the people who only see them flying high overhead or visiting briefly in the spring and the fall. Signs of when winter will begin and end this year at least. And yes I am thinking of Canadian geese. (Moving south where they were hated and even had a urban hunting season was a small culture shock)

Worldbuilding idea: Different cultures with climate overlap should have different cultural associations to the same animals. Like one culture looks at a specific kind of a migratory bird like "these birds are the divine messengers of the Gods, they are more intelligent than humans, as they have souls like we do but they are free of sin. They only visit us in the summer because they spend the winter in Heaven :)"

And on the other end of the birds' range the people are like "these feathered little bastards are too smart for their own good, can and will eat your trash. Some say they taste great when fried with scallions, but I wouldn't eat them after seeing what they eat. They always disappear for rainy season - nobody knows where they go but at least they are gone."

You can time travel at the snap of your fingers. You mainly use this ability to get gas for your vehicle at $0.50 per gallon.

i have two heroes