homunculus-argument

Imagine an alien sharing a cool human fact they just learned like ”hey guys did you know that the silvery markings on humans actually aren’t true stripes? They’re called stretch marks, they happen when the human is growing fast enough to actually outgrow their skin, which is apparently something that just fucking happens to almost all of them at some point of their life.”

and another one is like ”wait so you’re saying humans don’t have stripes.”

”actually they do, but the stripes are invisible. There’s genetic code that’d give them stripes but they’re just the same colour as the rest of the skin. So the visible stripes are not real stripes and the real stripes are invisible.”

”I swear if you tell me one more weird human thing today I’m beating your ass.”

thantos1991

The human in the room looks up and goes "Wait I have stripes?"

cosmicbumfights

"what do you mean cats can see them, but I can't?"

messiambrandybuck

what do you fucking mean cats can see them

beenovel

I WENT THROUGH THE SAME THOUGHT PROCESS

MY CAT THINKS I HAVE STRIPES?!?!?!?

messiambrandybuck

NO NO ITS NOT "IT THINKS I HAVE THEM"

BECAUSE WE DO APPARENTLY

SO ITS ACTUALLY A VERY DISTRESSED "MY CAT THINKS I KNOW I HAVE STRIPES?!?!?!"

AND I THINK THATS A BIT WORSE TO BE COMPLETELY HONEST

beenovel

MY CAT KNEW I HAD STRIPES BEFORE I DID?!?!?!?!?!?

messiambrandybuck

I DIDNT THINK OF THAT

beenovel

WELL I DID AND NOW I CANT UNTHINK IT

blueberryrock

@beenovel @messiambrandybuck these are the variants

beenovel

WHAT

messiambrandybuck

apparently there's a disease where they become visable, and these are the most common kind??

Ngl it looks cool but???? I'm still in shock tbh

hachama

I NEED TO KNOW WHAT PATTERN OF STRIPES I HAVE AND THE CATS WON'T TELL ME

kreftropod

For those curious, they're called "Blaschko's lines", or "Lines of Blaschko". Go look them up, it's interesting stuff :D