When a story has a moral or message that is either too simplistic for the complexity of the story or so strange that it doesn’t quite fit. The term is a writer slang and has nothing to do with Aesop becoming a space whale (boo!) other than it's derivation of name
Publisher: .. And what's the ending of the story?
Writer: Uhh.. the Octopus King donates it to an alien in Saturn who is very poor and owns a space pizzeria moral is "always donate to the poor".
Publisher: You made a total of 2874 wars and 78 billion universes destruct and a total of 420 trillion people die and the Octopus King to lose all his friends and family, be alienated by everyone, locked in a prison for 5 centuries, become blind and get the cold side removed from his pillow just for him to donate the treasure that could have made him the all-powerful universe ruler to an alien he has no relation with
Writer: Yessir
Publisher: that's such a Space Whale Aesop
Writer: Uhh.. the Octopus King donates it to an alien in Saturn who is very poor and owns a space pizzeria moral is "always donate to the poor".
Publisher: You made a total of 2874 wars and 78 billion universes destruct and a total of 420 trillion people die and the Octopus King to lose all his friends and family, be alienated by everyone, locked in a prison for 5 centuries, become blind and get the cold side removed from his pillow just for him to donate the treasure that could have made him the all-powerful universe ruler to an alien he has no relation with
Writer: Yessir
Publisher: that's such a Space Whale Aesop
by DictionaryDecimator July 6, 2024

by You is a slap March 5, 2020

Sci-fi. Humorous. Like Doctor Who. Job type. A person who uses rockets to get from solar system to solar system to communicate with planets about what they need to know. A person's entire livelihood is serving an area of solar systems.
The "Space wayfarer" Chris was traveling through space being an overlord to planetary systems, but an underling to the galactic emperor. A space wayfarer has the role of advancing planets in critical development.
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by ducklicker May 5, 2010

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by some guy that someone knows June 11, 2019

1/6 stones thanos needs to balance the universe. The space at one allows you to travel anywhere in the universe on any planet of your choosing. Thanos wears it on his middle finger knuckle (also where iron man wears it in Avengers:endgame)
by Action movies (marvel) May 31, 2019
