"Now is fine, you seemed to be focusing on lunch and I didn't have anything to say."

"I'm curious about the other species."

"Angels and fairies are like demons but with different magic. Fairies move stuff, angels change stuff. Humans are like us but they can't do magic to speak of and they can have kids and can die. Elves are taller and prettier and patient and prudish and cyborgs. Orcs are uglier cyborgs and they might give you a run for your money on the children thing but they don't have population controls, at least not yet. Maiar and Valar are psychologically wacky magical beings that only sometimes bother to have bodies; Maiar are less powerful."

"We didn't have universal population controls until we hit five billion and universal access to contraception for both genders and the birthrate didn't fall and everyone realized we had to do something. It was a rocky transition. Hopefully it'll go more smoothly for them - or are they one of the species with FTL -"

"They have access to it."

"Oh good."

"Mmhm."

"Is there any chance we could meet them?"

"It'd be a logistical nightmare."

"Ah well. Have there been problems with any of these species getting FTL and tearing off to murder others?"

"No. Elves had it first and Elves are weirdly peaceful. Nobody else has done much with it yet."

"I should suggest to my people that we put together a package of - media that can manage the language barrier, dance and music and silent movies and so on - for distribution to all these distant aliens."

"Elves have the prudish thing, they had some human and daeva - daeva's collective for demons and angels and fairies - media and wound up censoring most of it for having gay people or antisocial conduct or whatever."

"Huh. - wait, gay people? Why gay people? That seems really random."

"They have an extremely narrow range of acceptable romantic and sexual conduct and it draws the line around monogamous married couples who could have kids if they felt like it."

"Well, okay. I can tell people to look for media that doesn't depict any antisocial behavior or, uh, conduct not between monogamous married couples that could have kids if they felt like it but that might restrict it down to dancing."

"By dancers with long and neatly braided or covered hair. Short looks disfigured and loose is obscene."

...giggle. "It's a big internet, we probably have something Elves won't mind."

"They also just have really high artistic standards but the cream of the crop will probably be fine."

"Everybody else can cope with depictions of poor judgment and the occasionally consensually extramarital kiss?"

"Outside ideological minorities, sure, as far as I know."

"We have ideological minorities who assign moral importance to monogamy but I can't think of any with an opinion about gay people. I guess there are people who lost their children and resent it?"

"Lost their children?"

"Children born without a credit are put up for adoption, in the countries that don't kill them."

"...you would have serious trouble getting along with Elves."