lavabendinggemqueen:aliens living in galaxies

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lavabendinggemqueen:

aliens living in galaxies we’ve named would have their own name for their own galaxy and probably have their own name for our galaxy but which names would take preference? is like a thing if you live there you get naming rights or

I’ve never thought about this before but maybe it would be like how country names work? like how english speakers call the nation Alexis Tsipras is prime minister of “Greece”, but in Greek it’s Elláda and in Azerbaijani it’s Yunanistan. like, maybe english speaking denizens of earth would call… aliens from alpha Centauri “centaurians” or, heh, “centaurs” or, horrifyingly, “alphas” but they would call themselves… 🌗🌘🌒🌗🌘🌓 and ➡️⬅️⬇️↘️↘️↙️⬇️ in their various own languages. with maybe, dominance of native names for places that, like, did not already have well known or easy to use names in various human languages, like faraway planets with, uh, 673-tyt-jty-5 type names (or however those things are generated idk)

but if you mean like… what would the deciding factor be for the name of the planet in SpaceBasic, idk, I would think native names would take precedence, but if there were multiple native names, as with the earth, idk what would happen!

I watched X men days of future past a couple days ago

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I watched X men days of future past a couple days ago and I’m still fucking howling over this “actually, if you go back in time, you should UN-kill hitler”… fucking… are you kidding me? dry your eyes Erik! so you lost your parents, grandparents, your aunts and uncles and friends all your little cousins and your ability to have faith that at any calm, still moment, someone isn’t going to show up at your door and take your life away. that there is a world, existing, in which the people who surround you will not turn on you, and turn on you viciously. turn on everyone like you, and everyone who you love. that your internment isn’t imminent.

my sister ditched me for being a liberal, Erik! I haven’t seen her in years! there’s no one around here for me to patronize!

just because someone is constantly campaigning with all his governmental powers to have you considered a public menace because of your purportedly dangerous levels of power, and actively preparing to round up you and everyone like you to cleanse you all from the earth doesn’t mean you can get violent, Erik! maybe if you were nicer, Erik! maybe if you self advocated!