i love experiencing how my classmates work to avoid misgendering me. for instance, today one classmate greeted the rest of our small group: “All right ladies and gentlemen — and Avery”
another time a classmate went: “Pardon me, ma’am — uh, sir, uh….esteemed one”
and, my absolute fave: “Hey ladies! — and gentleThem”
i love these moments both because they’re humorous and because they show how hard these folks are trying! it’s not about getting it right every time at first, but consistently correcting yourself!
It’s not about getting it right every time at first, but consistently correcting yourself!
“Around sundown, an adult Scorpio and several adolescents came trundling into our camp and attempted to communicate, clumsily. After we got the xenoanthropologist in to help translate for us, we discovered that they were attempting to initiate a trade for supplies. Pictured, research assistant Max haggling for a crude hand-axe.
It seemed rude to turn them down.
The hand-axe was purchased for a single protein bar after we ensured that it contained no ingredients that posed any threat to the Scorpio, and they left with their bounty, satisfied.”
Alright, this is adorable. Might not have much use for a hand axe, but isn’t that a cool souvenir? “oh, yeah, I traded a snack to a member of a sapient alien species for that.”
fun fact for all who have been watching the growth of Coffee – baby cat is a GIRL! 😀 i suspected she was a girl when she was a newborn but she was still too young to tell for sure. but now she’s old enough and yay!
my fav thing about this video is after she toddleruns across the wood floor she hits the carpeted floor and just seems so… CONFUSED and stunned about how the floor suddenly feels different underneath her paws.
she’s like “??? soft floor??? but back feets is on hard floor???¿? cannot compute???”
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