#alien talk

[doctor-lunar]

Me looking at my bf with my big alien eyes as he tells me facts about human anatomy

[atthebell]

it's really funny going through art for alien on here and seeing people be like "🙀 everything is so phallic!" like yes that is in fact the point both of giger's original works that inspired the designs and of alien itself. the facehugger was designed to specifically be unsettling to heterosexual men, the eggs were originally going to look fully like vulvas before fox pushed back on those designs, the pharyngeal jaws are meant to call to mind vagina dentata, the themes of life and procreation and exploitation and union etc. etc. etc.

[cybersoldier82]

Thinking about adding silicon based life to my universe so im asking a spec evo subreddit for info on what would be needed to make that happen and such :3

[akanemnon]

Shouldn't there be a minotaur in the labyrinth? Who put this goat here? This is not accurate to the mythology! /j

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[maodear]

Have you guys seen the new Vivinos official Art?!?!? It’s adorable

Mizi’s love: A bust of excitement and joy

Sua’s love: Emotional and Beautiful

Ivan’s love: Scary, possibly something he wants to avoid??

Till’s love: Overwhelming love, which he cannot handle & understand

Hyuna’s love: Shocking and unexpected

Luka’s love: Anxious and confusing

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LUKA LOOKS ADORABLE HahHshshaha AND TILL😭😭🫶 SUA LOOKS SO CUTE, MIZI LOOKS SO PRETTY. HYUNA IS EATING SO HARD AND IVAN AVOIDING EYE CONTACT AHhHh THeSE ARE SO CUtE

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

[dollya-robinprotector]

Luka - deciding on what to wear on round 7 to face Till

[shakingparadigm]

ROUND 6 leaks

[emacrow]

Um.. Superman.. what that thing stuck on your cape?

Clark's brain short circuit for a moment as he just got back of flying at great speed in the middle of deep space to thrown one of Lex's giants bombs destroy the city and come back in record time.

He turn a bit to look at his cape to see a tiny humanoid starlight dust covered child with white hair, glowing full green that look like white specks stars were implanted themselves into his big ol eyes, nawing on a handful of stardust with inhumanly sharp itsy bitsy fangs.

A small yet floating crown that look similar to one of Nasa pictures of far out space.

Did he just accidentally abducted an royal alien child/teen?

[doctor-lunar]

It's so close...it's almost like i could touch it...

I just wanna go back home...

[atthebell]

immediate review of romulus: too many aliens, not horny enough, felt a little YA (cast being so young + the plot set-up) HOWEVER i liked the performances and the horror beats were alright

[nottoonedin]

Hm. Interesting.

[surreal-duck]

and the clock goes tick tock, tick tock

[improper-use-of-germx]

Okay so hear me out. Alien who is very close with their human crewmate, and is used to you smelling like the various products humans use for personal hygiene. This is perfectly fine, maybe they even grow an attachment to your preferred brands of deodorant and lotion, but it leaves them completely unprepared the first time they smell your unmasked body odor and realize oh yeah, humans are very sexual creatures and produce pheromones accordingly. It's the alien equivalent of seeing someone you already like half-naked and having an "Oh no they're hot" moment, except you don't even realize the effect you're having on them because you just got done training or woke up from a very sweaty nap and just want to shower.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Grief as a time machine

[gold-pavilion]

A list of things I can now infer properly about Ivan's Nowhere!!

Now that the song is officially out and a bit of context about it was posted on Alien Stage's official page, here's some collected thoughts and things:

+ We now know this was recorded at some point in Ivan's time in Anakt Garden, which makes it his earliest song. Stating the obvious but good to have confirmation that this expression of his feelings came way before what he wrote in Black Sorrow.

+ Ivan did compose and write for himself independently, which he previously wasn't shown to be inclined to, so it's nice to know too.

+ Being a private song that he did intend to keep that way (as he hid or discarded the CD), it makes sense that Nowhere is much more openly emotional, vulnerable and defeatist than the latter Black Sorrow, which was made with public performance in mind.

+ Ivan has always been cagey about his feelings, but knowing the context of Nowhere (personal, private, done without outside input), it turns out it IS the raw contrast between his feelings of love and the impression that he's unlovable/only knows how to love wrongly anyway/destined to be unwanted (what he started with at the intro vs what he went with for the rest).

+ My doubts about some of the self-deprecating parts are now cleared up!! 

I was wondering if the bits about his "disgusting teeth" and "cruel lips" were a general expression of guilt for selfishly kissing Till in Cure, but having a timeframe for when he wrote this song, it seems more likely that Ivan wrote that over the guilt of WANTING to kiss Till in the first place. Might be related to the disgust Till showed him when first learning what kissing was; it would make sense that it resulted in Ivan feeling twisted/guilty.

I think those are all my first realizations / impressions. Gonna write a proper, larger interpretation piece on this song and contrast between Ivan's emotional state here vs Black Sorrow later!!