[ WP ] The aliens are angry at the huge amount of writing prompts about them . They just want to be left alone .

`` Take this one, for instance.'' Zorblax said. 
 
 `` You mean the one the viewer is reading right now?'' Xanbon replied. 
 
 `` Yes.'' Zorblax said. By way of explanation, he added, `` We have technology that can breach the fourth wall with ease.'' 
 
 `` Why are you telling me that?'' Xanbon asked. `` I already know. I was there when you bought it.'' 
 
 `` It's not for your benefit, it's so that the people whose wall we just broke know how we did it.'' Zorblax replied. 
 
 `` What, so they can file the proper insurance claim? Who buys fourth wall insurance these days?'' 
 
 `` It's typically part of Earthling homeowner insurance, now stop distracting me and let's get to the point: Too many alien prompts.'' Zorblax said. 
 
 Xanbon agreed. `` I agree. I mean, it's bad enough that I'm lowering myself to reading through reddit when no doubt our superior culture has produced no doubt superior product.'' 
 
 `` The human term is'slumming it'.'' 
 
 `` Right, right. I also hate how we have to use human terms. Do n't we speak our own language?'' 
 
 Zorblax nodded, because apparently the aliens were humanoid, another facet of these prompts he found himself hating. `` You know we do. It's likewise vastly superior.'' 
 
 Xanbon continued, `` And the *names*.'Zorblax'?'Xanbon'? Why do they translate our words - a feat that ought to be impossible for them, given how advanced we are in comparison - and not the names. Why ca n't you be'Steve' and I be'Jeff'?'' 
 
 Steve replied, `` I'm not so sure those names are appropriate, given our genders.'' 
 
 `` Oh, I'm sorry, which of the few names that English possesses are appropriate for the three ( of twenty-three possible ) genders you're being at the moment?'' Jeff asked. 
 
 `` Four,'' Steve corrected. `` I took on ** [ Untranslatable: Gender Configuration 18, option B ] ** this morning.'' 
 
 `` I hope you're planning to shed ** [ Untranslatable: Gender Configuration 4, waning ] **, then.'' Jeff said to his friend. `` I know it's a stereotype, but the combination tends to be unstable.'' 
 
 `` And then there's this nonsense!'' Steve added. `` You're my'friend'? As though the word could possibly encompass our relationship! We were pair-entangled at the quantum level before we were even instantiated!'' 
 
 Jeff nodded his agreement. `` And that'stereotype' thing? As though we had n't long ago pruned the evolutionary shortcuts in our neural networks that would cause such a thing.'' 
 
 `` You know what I really hate?'' Steve said, `` It's the idea that the humans are'special' in some way. Like a spacefaring civilization that's mastered faster than light travel could somehow be outdone by a bunch of apes only a few hundred centuries down from the trees.'' 
 
 `` Oh, like'Humans are good engineers'.'' 
 
 `` Right! Did they miss the whole'spacefaring civilization that's mastered faster than light travel' bit? How the hell would we do that without engineers?'' Steve was fully ranting by this time. 
 
 `` You know,'' Jeff said, `` we could just disrupt the whole damn thing. Splice into their internet, submit some prompts of our own, shift the unofficial-theme-of-the-week to something that's not aliens.'' 
 
 `` Good idea.'' Steve said. `` Post some'God' or'Death' prompts, that always gets them going.'' 
 
 `` How about a death god?'' 
 
 `` Perfect.''
