#dwayne hicks imagine

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Hi!! I was wondering if I could request a poly! Lost Boy's with a female s/o (or gender neutral) who has a southern accent? Like it's real hick and definitely not native to California slang? I think that would be hilarious 🤣 if you don't mind writing this! Thank you and have an awesome day! 🥰💗

Poly!Lost Boys With a Southern S/O

Tw: none

With this, I kind of imagine a southern reader that moved to Santa Carla from a young age that their accent kind of faded, however whenever they’re irritated or not thinking much about it, the accent slips back out. However, your slang never left. 

You were talking about your day before visiting them and you said something like, Hunkey Dorey which literally means everything was great and the boys were super confused, except David.

That’s when you told them that you were originally from the South and said a few things with your accent slipping through. 

Paul was the most surprised out of the boys and was like, “what the fuuuck?”

Marko would react with something like, “Woah, I didn’t know you were southern?? That’s so cool!”

Dwayne would give you a smile and tell you he thought your accent was super cute. 

David basically was like, “Oh damn-” 

I headcanon that David would have a southern accent too which also faded away over the unlimited amount of time that he has. 

Plus, Paul used to tease his accent constantly so David basically went, “yeah, no.” and that accent went straight out the door.  

Paul would constantly tease your accent and say stupid shit like, “yeehaw.” You’re not amused. 

Furthermore, Paul would bug you about saying something in your accent and hear the difference in the way you say things in comparison to California slang.

If you feel a little self-conscious about your accent, well guess what? David would start talking to you in a southern accent too. It kind of slips out of him because it just reminds him of the old times before he was a vampire. Plus, he doesn’t want you to feel out of place. 

He would feel more comfortable that someone else shares the same accent as him and would open up a little more in letting his accent slip on occasion. 

David would use old pet names he used when he would flirt with people back when he was human and they don’t fail to fluster you.

Those pet names would include; Doll, Darlin, and that accent would make those names sound even sweeter with that teasing smirk on his face. 

He would also compare southern slang with you and see which ones were still being used in the South. He’s really surprised that some phrases that he knew were still commonly practiced. 

Dwayne could listen to you talk in your southern accent and wouldn’t get tired of it. He already knew some slang because of David but he liked hearing more common slang that current southerners say. 

Since Dwayne loves to read and he has read some romance that resided in the South and he would call you sweet things like his Southern Belle. 

Marko would happily ask you some questions and how you felt about how different California was compared to where you used to live in the south.

Don’t trust him completely though, he will also tease you along with Paul. He’s still the mischievous vampire we know and love.

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𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 ~ 𝐃.𝐇 𝐱 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫

I’m so sorry about how long this took me to get out! I’ve really been struggling to find time to write lately, so I do apologise for how short it is and if it doesn’t meet standards <3

This is also set on Earth, as an Australian obviously can’t be in the US marines, and this was the easiest way I could work around it.

𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: Just hella fluffy, maybe some mild cursing, stereotypical Australian-ness.

𝐒𝐲𝐩𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬: There were some unspoken laws about being Australian, including that you take every chance you get to convince foreigners that all Australian’s are just as, if not more, stereotypical as expected. Which is exactly what you do when you stumble across an American Marine early one morning.

𝐀/𝐍: I’ll be honest, I hate the way this turned out, BUT it’s been sitting in my drafts for way too long and I needed to post it because A) It was requested (sorry about the wait love xx) and B) I need to do something to make me feel productive.

The reason it took so long to get up is because honestly my mental health has been so awful lately, and I was literally unable to bring myself to get out of bed for a week, and so I’m very sorry to everyone waiting with requests, I’m starting to get a bit better, and I’m trying to write more and more often <3

An orange hue was cast across the sky as you ran, your legs pumping beneath you to carry your body through the park. This early in the morning you rarely ran into people, and especially not in this neighbourhood.

Your breaths came out in short puffs, visible in the air in front of you and you let out a small laugh of victory as you looked down at your watch, noticing that you had beat your record.

You slowed down until you were merely speedwalking, slightly hunched forward as you caught your breath, nearing a bench that you planned to sit at to watch the sun rise.

“You ok there?” A deep voice came from behind you as you slowly lowered yourself onto the bench, your legs screaming at you in agony as you turned to face the stranger, sure you looked like a mess right now.

Sweating, with stray bits of hair that had escaped your ponytail plastered to your face, red cheeks and nose, and panting like a dog.

“Fine.” You said, weary of the stranger, but feeling some curiosity twinge inside you at his accent.

“You from around here?” You asked, putting your bogan voice on.

“My second week here, how’d you tell?” He joked, sitting beside you.

“It was either the accent or the ‘Marines’ shirt.” You shrugged. “Aussies don’t have a Marine Corp, per say.”

“Yeah, well the accent is usually what gives it away.” He smiled. He seemed nice enough, and handsome too.

“So what are you doing down here, Captain America?”

He chuckled.

“Classified.”

“I call bullshit.”

“No really, it’s classified. I’m a corporal.”

Your eyes widened.

“Well then, Corporal America, what do you think of our great land down under?”

“Well nothing’s tried to kill me yet, so that’s always a plus.”

You nodded. “Always. But like, nothing? Not even a teensy weensy spider?”

He shrugged.

“Not that I know of.”

“Well that’s the point.” You rolled your eyes. “They’re so tiny, half the time you don’t even realise they’ve gotten you until you’re half dead.”

“I call bullshit.” He mimicked you from earlier.

“No really.” You said. “Happened to my dad.”

“Holy shit.” He said. “Shit, what happened to your dad? Is he ok?”

“Oh he lived.” You brushed it off. “Had about ten more years left in him, til he was attacked by a cassowary up north. Sliced him open from head to toe.”

You had to hold back a snicker at the man’s face.

“Not so big and tough are we now, Corporal?” You laughed. “I was kidding Darl, the spider thing was true though.”

He rolled his eyes. “You aren’t funny you know.”

“I’m bloody hilarious.” You said. “You’re just too easy. I have friends who could tear you apart from head to toe with their aussie stereotypes, and you would be none the wiser.”

He stared at you blankly, clearly unamused, but he cracked a smile at you when you burst out laughing at his expression.

“So will I see you here tomorrow morning, Corporal?” You asked, standing up from the bench.

“See you tomorrow.” He smiled.

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Dwayne Hicks with an Android!Technician s/o would include~

(Not my gif)(Requested by anonymous)

(This is just meeting and crush headcanons, I hope that’s what you wanted!) 

- You and Dwayne met while working on the same ship. You were programmed to man the ship while everyone was asleep in their hypersleep chambers as well as take care of the machinery on board while everyone went about their jobs.

- Sgt. Apone introduced you to everyone once they’d woken up and were ready to be briefed. Since Hicks is second in command, Apone told him more about you than he did anyone else, explaining your programming and all the ins and outs of what you’d been assigned to do.

- He keeps his distance at first, not because he’s scared but more so because he is; in general, fairly reclusive, particularly when it comes to new people. He needs some time to figure you out and decide whether he likes/trusts you, even if you’re programmed to do no harm.

- He keeps a close eye on you whenever you enter the room, mainly out of habit but also because you interest him. Whenever you happen to be fixing something in a hallway, he’ll slow his pace as he passes and try to prolong how much time he spends near you.

- When he gets more comfortable with you, or rather, when he’s more willing to be around you, he’ll ask you questions about what you’re doing when he catches you working. He marvels at the level of expertise you can achieve and how methodically and inhumanly your hands can move while looking so real.

- Dwayne doesn’t know what to think when he first starts to find you attractive. Obviously, he thought that you were pretty when you first met but there’s a line between a man absentmindedly being able to recognize beauty and a man not being able to stop noticing that beauty. 

- It feels wrong to like you. You’re not human, no matter how human you look.  You’re merely machine; tightly strung wires, tubing and gelatinous substance, but you feel real, when you speak you sound human. Your smile looks more angelic than human but that's neither here nor there. 

- He wonders if you can even feel anything. Would you even be able to return his affections if he admitted them? Could you even cry if you wanted? Would you ever want to? Could you get angry? He knew you could get frustrated but he didn’t know to what extent. 

- At one point, he’d seen you huff and drop your shoulders in frustrated irritation as a machine you were working on refused to react in the way it was supposed to after hours of you fiddling with it. That was the first time he’d ever seen you act so genuinely human while out of view of the others. It was the first time he thought that you could be, on some level, real; more than artificial.

- Androids are common in his field of work, but they aren’t crawling all over the bases he works in. You’re an oddity and he wants to know more about you, especially after he begins to see you in a different light. 

- Being an Android means that you’re naive when it comes to certain things which he finds particularly interesting. He finds it amusing that you can rewire complex machinery from memory yet don’t know what a donut is

- He finds it sort of fun to try and teach you about the things that you don't know about. Your programming calls for you to know about being a technician and other common sense related topics, well, what about guns? Nature? Movies? Food? 

- He gets this special little glint in his eye when he discovers that you don’t know about something, using the excuse to spend more time with you and oftentimes get into close proximity with you. 

- Even though you’re literally programmed to do it, so much so that it’s practically second nature to you, he still feels the need to praise/ compliment you whenever you fix something. It’s usually just “good work y/n” but he can never stop himself and feels almost embarrassed by it. 

- The coolness of your touch is weirdly enjoyable to him. He was a bit taken aback when his hands first touched yours or your shoulder, shocked at how cold you were, but over time, he learned to like it. He even favors it over normal touches just because, well, it’s your touch, unique to you. 

- He tries to be a bit discreet when it comes to his interest in or, rather, his fondness for you. He doesn't want anyone knowing about it, not because he’s ashamed, but because he doesn’t want to face any controversy or problems because of it; though sometimes he does wish he could tell everyone, if only to make them stop talking about you. 

- You’re pretty, he knows that, but he still can’t help but feel a twinge of anger settle in his chest upon hearing the other guys talk about how hot you are. He wishes he could kick all their asses but he’s forced to bite his tongue although he does tell them to shut up when they try to get him involved or get too dirty. 

- He’s a higher up so he has access to your chip, much like how he has access to everyone's trackers. He feels this certain sense of relief wash over him when he’s able to see where you are on the ship. 

- Has he pretended to play dumb when something stops working just to be able to call you in to fix the simple problem? Yes. Do you realize what he’s doing? No. 

- A little while after he finally admitted to himself that he had feelings for you, he tried to flirt with you just to test the waters and it was the most frustrating thing he has ever tried to do in his life. 

- He decided not to try again but occasionally, he isn’t able to stop himself from doing so. Oftentimes, he does it absentmindedly without even realizing what he’s saying. He always feels a surge of embarrassment wash over him, embarrassment over not being able to control his tongue when it comes to you. 

- You’re the one to confess your feelings first; Dwayne would feel too stupid to do so himself. He wouldn’t want to risk you telling him that you weren’t capable of returning his affections, not because you didn’t like him, but because you weren’t programmed to do so. 

- You’d asked to speak with him one day, looking particularly perturbed. He assumed something was wrong and grew worried but the moment you began to speak, his fear dissolved. 

“Corporeal Hicks, I’m not sure how to put this but I’ve been feeling strange lately. I’ve ran tests on myself and no issues have been detected and yet, I’m sure there’s something wrong. It’s you Corporeal, it’s only when I’m around you or see you. I can’t stop picturing you in my head and this odd feeling comes over me whenever you’re around. I, I don’t know why but I can’t deny that it is happening.” You glanced over at him only to see him smiling back at you. 

“You’re in love y/n. ...How human of you,” He teased, moving closer to you. “It’s a good thing that I know exactly how you feel.”

- All of a sudden, his hands were on your waist and his eyes were locked on yours. After a moment of hesitation, he leaned forward and pressed his lips to yours. You stayed still before clumsily attempting to mirror his actions, he had to suppress his smile as you did so, your inexperience was charming to him. 

- After a long minute, he pulled away and opened his eyes, a small smile pulling at his lips. Your relationship wouldn’t be the most orthodox but he couldn’t care less. He loved you and against what seemed to be all odds, you loved him. 

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Ripley and Hicks’ Wholesome Little Family

Headcannon - Ellen Ripley x Dwayne Hicks - SFW

AN: This is somewhat of an AU, essentially pausing the canon at the second film and not acknowledging the successive films. Just a personal preference... I’m a sucker for happy endings.

After the disastrous and traumatic mission to Hadley’s Hope, Ripley decides to return to Earth with her newly adopted daughter Newt and her cat Jonesy. (Let’s be honest, this poor woman has been through enough. She needs a permanent vacation.)

However, Hicks ends up leaving the Colonial Marines, getting himself honorably discharged a few months later.

He immediately goes to find Ripley, settled down on a peaceful, country farm, raising chickens and trying to heal from her own trauma while also supporting and helping Newt do the same.

It’s not immediately romantic, although the chemistry is definitely present. He mainly makes any excuse to hang around to help Ripley with whatever he can. They build a healthy friendship and Newt begins to see him as a father figure.

Hicks begins a habit of sleeping downstairs on the couch many nights so that Ripley doesn’t have to suffer alone when she has night terrors.

After several months of this, he’s like one of the family and the mutual romantic feelings between them are undeniable.

One night while helping Ripley wash the dishes after dinner, Hicks pauses and catches her off guard: “Ellen, I love this, here with you. Honestly, I want this for the rest of my life. I want you. Would you ever consider... maybe... marrying me?” To his surprise, her immediate answer is yes.

They go on to have the happy life of peace and healing that they both deserve and need. Their days are primarily raising chickens, gardening, spending quiet nights on their back porch in rocking chairs, and watching Newt grow into a happy, healthy girl.

Newt is so excited every time Bishop comes to visit in-between missions. Newt always asks him to do the knife trick, gleefully volunteering her own hand (you know she would, that kid is fearless). Ripley immediately is like NO. So Hicks volunteers his instead.

Ripley often double-checks on Newt after bedtime (always worrying and wanting to make sure she’s safe) only to see her dead asleep with Jonesy curled up at her feet.

Ripley and Hicks find a good therapist who specializes in PTSD that help them process their trauma and heal.

Ripley loves having lavender in her garden. Hicks pretends he’s not allergic to it, which he is because he loves anything that makes Ripley happy.

Jonesy often strolls through their garden, destroying all the catnip plants by rolling around in them and living his best life. They plant them every year anyway.

Ripley and Hicks fight occasionally but otherwise have great communication and a healthy relationship. If they do have an argument they make sure to do so out of earshot of Newt.

After being retired by Weyland-Yutani, Bishop comes to live with them and discovers a deep fascination with and love for gardening; often studying clippings and trying to splice together hybrids. (Omg, imagine Bishop in one of those straw gardening hats, with his smart gardening gloves and a belt for gardening tools.)

Hicks and Ripley are incredibly supportive of anything that Newt wants to do. Hicks loves being the troop mom for her girl scouts and encourages her to become an Eagle scout even though people keep telling her that that’s ‘only for boys’.

Ripley takes up sewing initially just to sew on Newt’s girl scout badges but ends up really liking it and finding she’s good at it.

Ripley makes her first dress and models it for Hicks as a surprise. Even though the seams are crooked and the pattern is hideous, he commends her craftsmanship, focusing on all the things she did well and insisting, “Really honey, you are what makes the dress beautiful.”

[angryhausfrau-writes]

Your Friends Were All Standing Around Looking At Your Cock The Other Dayee...

Interior of the farm house. WAYNE, KATY, and SQUIRRELLY DAN stand around the table, looking at something.

KATY: It's a beautiful cock.

WAYNE: Oh, it's a gorgeous cock.

DAN, shifting from foot to foot, uncomfortably: Now I'ms nots denyings that it's a mightys fines cocks. I just thinks its mights not bes appropriates to have sets outs on the supper tables is all.

KATY: Oh Dan, there's been far worse things than a cock on this table.

WAYNE growls: Better not have been them hockey nutsacks.

KATY: I'm a big girl, Wayne. None of your business what nutsacks I'm spending time with.

WAYNE, begrudgingly: True.

DAN: You knows whats you're afters, miss Katys, and that's what I appreciates about you.

KATY, flirtatiously: Oh, is that what you appreciate about me?

WAYNE: Take about ten, twenty percent off her over there Squirrelly Dan.

DAN, looking at the table: Oh hey look. A cock. What is sets most unhygenicallys on the table we eats off ofs.

KATY: Jesus Dan. Hop off our cocks.

WAYNE: Besides, you're a bigger degen than Dary if you eat directly off the table.

DAN: Where is Darys anyways? Ain't like him to miss such a magnificents cocks.

DARY enters the KITCHEN: Sorry I'm late. Spent all morning wrangling my cock into its cage.

DAN, sympathetically: Its was giving yous some troubles thens?

DARY: Kept making itself all big and plumped up. Couldn't get it to fit in the cage. Ended up having to really wrassle with it for a good long while.

KATY: Could say you had to take your cock firmly in hand there, Dary?

WAYNE: Pert near had to choke that chicken, I'd imagine.

DARY: Pert near.

DAN: But yous gots it settled downs and ins its cage?

DARY nods and hefts a rooster in a wire cage into frame: Yup. Tuckered it out eventually. Now it's placid as anything.

WAYNE: Now that's a handsome cock, Dary. A right handsome cock.

DARY, bashful: Aw, it ain't nothing special. Not like yours, Wayne.

WAYNE SHIFTS OUT OF THE WAY. PAN TO ROOSTER ON THE TABLE.

DARY:  Now that's a real handsome cock, and well behaved to boot.

WAYNE: Ok, Dary. Dary, ok. Ok, Dary. Dary, ok. Youwannaknowwhat? Here's the scoop and I'm gonna tell ya. I look at your cock and I think, well, I think: good for you buddy. Just like, good for you bud. Like I'm real proud of ya, Dary.

DAN: It's a mightys fines cocks, Dary. Yous gots every rights to be prouds.

KATY: Nothing wrong with a spirited cock, anyways.

DARY, bashful: Still reckon yours'll be the cock to beat down the Ag Festival, Wayne.

WAYNE: Oh it's a handsome cock all right.

KATY: A beautiful cock.

WAYNE: Oh it's a gorgeous cock.

DARY: Not to be pulling your own horn over there.

DAN: Oh yous shoulds nevers do thats. Leastwise nots ins mixed companies.

KATY: Says you.

WAYNE, abrupt: No hard feelings Dary. Regardless of who beats whose cock.

DARY: No hard feelings.

WAYNE holds his hand straight out for DARY to shake: Then may the man with the best cock win.

LETTERKENNY TITLE BUT THERE IS A ROOSTER INSTEAD OF A DOG.

ESTABLISHING SHOTS OF A FAIRGROUD.

EXTERIOR SHOT OF THE AG BUILDING.

INTERIOR SHOT OF THE AG BUILDING. WAYNE, KATY, DARY, and SQUIRRELLY DAN are standing around a table with ROOSTERS in cages on it. The DYCKS and the HOCKEY PLAYERS are also there, standing further down the room.

GLEN enters with a clipboard, officiators badge: Wayne! How're you now?

WAYNE: Good'nyou?

GLEN: Oh, I'm just dripping with excitement to be judging all y'alls cocks. Especially yours Wayne.

WAYNE squints into the distance.

DAN: You're judgings the competitions?

GLEN: Indeed I am, Daniel. Although admittedly I misunderstood the nature of the event when I first volunteered to judge. But! I have plenty of experience judging cocks from my years on the family poultry farm. The cocks I raised as a youth...

WAYNE: Pitter patter.

GLEN: Well, fine. If you don't appreciate hearing about my cock judging credentials.

DARY, snickering: Pretty sure pert near everyone in town knows 'bout those.

GLEN: True but uncalled for, Daryl!

NOAH DYCK, joining the hicks: I for one think it is admirable that Preacher Glen has experience handling and judging cocks. And from his boyhood, once.

WAYNE: Noah.

NOAH: Wayne.

DARY: Mr. Dyck.

NOAH: Daryl.

DAN: Noahs Dycks.

NOAH: Daniel. A pity Lovina Dyck could not make it to the cock judging. I'm certain she would have had she known you were showing your cock. For is it not true, mine wife, that the love tree often bears fruit when a young man parades his cock before his sweetheart, once?

ANITA approaches: What nonsense are you speaking now, Noah?

NOAH: Simply that a Dyck chooses a lifemate in part by how well she-

KATY: Or he.

DAN: Ors theys.

NOAH: -raises a cock. Did not you impress me with your cock raising skills when first we were courting?

ANITA, blushing: You say too much, husband.

NOAH: And did not you help raise this cock which I am showing proudly this day, once? Why without mine Anita Dyck's loving and tender hand, this cock would be but small and limp and lifeless.

ANITA: Us Snatches have always had a way with cocks, as well you know.

NOAH: A good thing too. Us Dycks require a skilled hand with raising our cocks. Lovina will be delighted to know you've raised such a magnificent cock as are being shown here this day. Perhaps I shall send one of my young sons to go fetch her, once. So that she might see your cock.

DAN, hurriedly: Oh nos, I'm nots showings anybodys anythings. That's all Waynes and Darys.

GLEN: Daryl! I didn't realize you were showing your cock today too. Oh, this is so exciting! Me, in the middle of a Daryl/Wayne cock sandwich.

WAYNE growls.

GLEN: Although I don't know how I'm supposed to choose between the two of your cocks. I think it will take some lengthy deliberation.

KATY: This is already taking fucking forever, I'm going to go sit down.

DAN: I'll join yous, miss Katys.

KATY as they leave: Still not over Lovina Dyck, eh?

DAN: I don'ts knows that I'll evers stop thinkings abouts Lovinas Dycks, miss Katys. Ands that's a facts.

KATY and SQUIRRELLY DAN exit.

DARY (aside): Katy's right. This is taking fucking forever.

WAYNE to GLEN: I say again. Pitter. Patter.

GLEN whines.

WAYNE: If a man should be one thing, he should be efficient.

GLEN: Fine. Everyone here? Then lets get y'all registered. What's your cocks' names? I'm sure you've come up with some good ones.

WAYNE: Plenty of good names for cocks.

DARY: Oh, you can have a lot of fun naming cocks.

WAYNE: I'm surprised we're not naming cocks right now.

DARY: Could name one after the fictional prizefighter Cocky Balboa.

WAYNE: Or the legendary real life comedian Chris Cock.

DARY: There's always actor and former wrassler Dwayne the Cock Johnson.

GLEN: Ooh, that's a two-for-one special right there.

WAYNE: Or jazz musician John Cocktrain.

DARY: I like that one.

WAYNE: Not too obscure?

DARY: Nah, it's a gooder. Cultured - but not trying too hard.

GLEN: All right, all right. So what are your cocks' names?

DARY: Cock.

GLEN: Come again? And please note, I'm saying that in a completely different context to the one I usually use.

DARY: My cock's called cock. I din't name the damn thing. I know what it looks like.

WAYNE: Well I should hope so.

DARY: And I only got the one. Not liable to mix it up with someone else's cock.

GLEN: Ok. Fine, Dary. Ruin all my fun. TURNS TO WAYNE. What about you, Wayne? What's the big fella called?

WAYNE: Only nutsacks name their cocks.

RILEY breaking into the group around GLEN: We're all saying our cock's names, boys?

JONESY: Just naming silly cock over here, boys?

RILEY: Just christening silly amounts of cock over here, boys?

WAYNE: Again, only nutsacks name their cocks.

GLEN: Yes, boys. Everyone who's entering the cock judging needs to tell me their cock's name so I can make sure to call out the right name during the handling. It's just so embarrassing to call the cock in your hands by the wrong name...

RILEY: We've got a cock to register for judging, boys.

JONESY: Well, really it's Riley's cock we're entering. And it's a real beauty, buddy.

RILEY: Hey, buddy. It's as much your cock as mine. It is a real beauty though buddy.

JONESY: Just a real beauty of a cock here, boys.

RILEY: Half clapper top cheddar.

JONESY: Guaranteed W. Ferda!

RILEY: Ferda!

GLEN: Now boys, we're talking about roosters here, not actual cocks. Don't feel bad - I too was confused at first. So, while I'm sure Riley's cock is just delightful...

JONESY: It is. He's a registered beautician, buddy.

RILEY: Thanks buddy.

GLEN: Yes. But I just want to stress again – this is the animal we're talking about here.

RILEY: Yeah, boys. Cocks.

JONESY holds up a rooster in a cage: And this is our cock:

RILEY: Four time Stanley Cup winner.

JONESY: Four time Vezina Trophy winner.

RILEY: Hockey hall-of-famer.

JONESY: Goaltender extraordinaire.

RILEY: Terry Sawcock. Ferda!

JONESY: Ferda!

DARY (aside): Kinda surprised they have a whole cock between 'em.

WAYNE: Ain't surprised they share it though, fuck.

DARY: Same way they share a set of testicles. And maybe a tongue.

GLEN: Ooh, don't tempt me Daryl.

WAYNE (turns to RILEY and JONESY): Now where in the hell did yous two nutsacks get a cock from anyways? You better not've stolen it right out from under some poor unsuspecting farmer's nose.

RILEY: We bought it down at the feed store boys.

JONESY: Heard about people keeping chickens as pets boys.

RILEY: How they're so cute and cuddly. Plus free eggs boys.

JONESY: Need plenty of protein to keep up with the gains boys.

RILEY and JONESY flex. GLEN watches avidly. WAYNE is unimpressed.

RILEY: Accidentally bought a rooster though buddy.

JONESY (sadly): Can't get eggs from a rooster buddy.

RILEY: Still a good pet though buddy.

JONESY: Yeah, just really loves to cuddle with us buddy.

RILEY: Yeah, just really loves to cuddle with us on the sofa buddy.

WAYNE: Shouldn't keep farm animals as pets. Fuck.

DARY: Farm animals belong on a farm. S'why they're called farm animals.

WAYNE: Like. You wouldn't let a sow into you're living room. And you wouldn't let a cow into your living room. So why the fuck are you cuddling up on the couch with a cock?

JONESY: Shouldn't knock it till you've tried it.

DARY: I'll knock you.

GLEN: Boys please. Lets not fight. Not when we're all gathered here today for such a noble purpose as comparing cocks.

ALL: Fine.

GLEN: All righty now, let's see. We've got Daryl's cock: cock. We've got Wayne's cock: only nutsacks name their cocks. Riley and Jonesy's collective cock: Terry Sawcock. What do you call your cock, Noah?

NOAH: While there are a great quantity of cocks at the Dyck farm, this is our most quality.

WAYNE: Quality Dyck if you will.

GLEN: Quality Dyck it is.

DARY: Sure 'nough.

WAYNE: Like you see that cock and you say, that's Quality Dyck all right. And no mistake.

GLEN: Mhm! And I know from Quality Dyck. Now, if that's everyone, we can get on with the judging...

MCMURRY barges in: Wait! (Approaching WAYNE) Wayne. How're'you'now? Good'n'you. Ohnotsobad. Okay! (Turns to the GROUP) I, McMurry, am entering my cock in this little competition. So all you sumbitches can make a hole.

GLEN: Well someone's all riled up! You can go ahead and enter your cock right here, McMurry. No need to shout.

DARY (angry): Yeah, no need to bust our balls.

WAYNE (placating): Go have a dart.

DARY (begrudgingly): Yeah, I'll have a dart.

WAYNE and DARY exit.

FADE TO BLACK.

ESTABLISHING SHOT OF THE AGRICULTURAL FESTIVAL.

ZOOM ON TWO COCK SHAKUR PLAYING FOR A CROWD IN FRONT OF THE AG BUILDING.

PAN OVER KATY AND DAN IN THE AUDIENCE.

ZOOM ON GLEN AS HE ENTERS THE STAGE AT THE FRONT OF THE CROWD.

GLEN: How'reyounow?

AUDIENCE: Good'n'you?

GAIL: All this cock talk's got me wetter than a lighthouse keeper's slicker in a Noreaster, I can tell you that much.

DAN: Gailer!

KATY: First Glen is here judging and now Gail's here.

GAIL approaches KATY and DAN.

DAN: Yeah, Gail. I didn'ts know you were so interesteds in the agriculturals.

GAIL: Less interested in the agriculturals than in seeing some. Good. Hand. Raised. Cock. Specially when I heard Wayne's entered in the cock judging.

DAN to KATY: She knows it's nots actual cocks, rights?

KATY to GAIL: More importantly, is Modean's actually closed?

DAN: Tells me it didn't burns down agains.

KATY: This town needs a fucking bar.

GAIL: Nah, Modean's 3 is still alive and kicking sure as this old goat. But when Glen told me he'd be judging cocks at the agricultural festival I figured the whole fucking town'd be here rather than down Modean's.

DAN: Nots a bad turnsout for Letterkenny's first evers ag festival.

KATY: A great fucking turnout.

GAIL: Plus, I get a chance to see Wayne's cock today – and that's worth a day's profits right there.

KATY: Gross.

GAIL: Not that I've actually lost a day's profits. Bonny's been making the rounds at the Ag festival and apparently, business. Is. Banging.

CUT TO BONNY WEAVING HER WAY THROUGH THE CROWD WITH A TRAY OF SHOT GLASSES AND BEER BOTTLES.

KATY and DAN whistfully, along with CROWD: Bonny McMurry?

GLEN (impatient): Can I have your attention please!

PAN BACK TO GLEN.

GLEN: The event we've all been waiting for – I know I have – the cock judging. Lets meet our contestants!

GLEN gestures to the stage like a game show host: First up is Wayne!

AUDIENCE applauds.

WAYNE enters with his rooster and stands stoically, hands in belt loops.

GLEN examining the rooster: An impressive cock. Sturdy. Well built. And a real big fella. Nearly eight pounds, and pure muscle. Wayne, I think you've got a real champion cock here.

WAYNE nods stoically.

GAIL: And that's not the only cock of his I hear is impressive.

GLEN: Oooh, tell me more.

WAYNE: Glen.

GAIL: That rooster's not the only cock almost eight somethings.

MCMURRY (from backstage): Wait, is that measured over or under the balls.

GAIL: And plenty of stamina to make it through those cold Canadian winter nights. If. You. Know. What. I. Mean.

GLEN: No, please continue in explicit detail.

WAYNE: Glen!

GLEN: Ok, fine. (Gestures WAYNE to move to the rear of the stage.) Moving along, next up is Dary!

AUDIENCE applauds.

GLEN examining the rooster: Oh, you've got a feisty one here, Dary. Plenty of personality! A little smaller than Wayne's but still an excellent cock. And those freckles are just too cute!

DARY: Aw, thanks Glen.

GLEN: And I'd happily take a look at your other cock if you want, Daryl.

DARY: Thanks for the offer Glen, but like I said, I only got the one.

GLEN: Oh never mind.

GLEN waves DARY off the stage.

DARY moves to stand next to WAYNE.

GLEN: Here's our next contestant, Noah Dyck!

AUDIENCE applauds.

GLEN: Now this is something special, y'all. An excellent example of a Canadian heritage breed, known for being an excellent layer and quite robust as well. Yes, I think we can all agree that this is certainly Quality Dyck right here.

NOAH: Thank you Preacher Glen. Such comments mean much coming from such an experienced judge of cocks as yourself.

GLEN: Oh, Noah. You'll make me blush. (GLEN rapidly ushers NOAH to stand next to DARY and WAYNE)  Anywho, our next contestant is Riley and Jonesy!

AUDIENCE applauds with some confusion.

DAN: What, both of thems? Collectivelys?

KATY: It makes sense. They do everything else together.

DAN: Everythings?

GAIL: Ev. Ry. Thing.

DAN: Katy?

KATY: Can confirm.

DAN: Wow. Didn'ts needs to knows thats.

KATY: You did ask.

GAIL: It's not like we gave you a blow. By. Blow account. But if you really want to know...

GLEN: This cock's a little smaller than the ones we've seen previously. Not as much muscle – might want to exercise it a little more, boys. Just really put it through it's paces.

SHORESY: Yeah! Give your balls a tug titfuckers!

RILEY: Fuck you, Shoresy! Where's your cock, if you think you're so good!

SHORESY: Fuck you Riley! If you want to know about my cock, just ask your mom. She saw plenty of it last night. Rode me so hard reverse cowgirl style I thought she was going to snap it off.

JONESY: Fuck you Shoresy!

SHORESY: Don't worry, Jonesy. Your mom was there to kiss it all better.

RILEY and JONESY: Fuck you Shoresy!

GLEN: Well! All audience commentary aside, I think you've got a very shapely cock, Riley. And I think if you put in the time, worked hard and raised it properly, you could have a real champion cock on your hands.

RILEY: Thanks, boys!

JONESY: Yeah, thanks boys!

GLEN: You're welcome. Now go sit down so we can get to our next contestant!

RILEY and JONESY fistbump and move to join the others.

McMURRY pushes forward through the other contestants: Yes, I McMurry am here to have my cock judged in front of all of you. And I'm gonna win this cocksucking cock competition, just you watch.

MRS McMURRY: Knock 'em dead, baby. Love you.

McMURRY: Love you too baby.

GLEN (awkward): Well, this cock's a little on the small side...

KATY: And that's a little bit of an understatement.

JARED KEESO CHARACTER #1: It's fucking tiny, McMurry. I've got a bigger cock hatched out an egg yesterday.

JARED KEESO CHARACTER #2: How'd you get a woman like Mrs. McMurry with a tiny cock like that?

JARED KEESO CHARACTER #1: You're a piece of shit, McMurry.

MRS McMURRY: Don't listen to him. Your cock's perfect, baby.

GLEN: Yes, well. They say it's not size that counts, but in this case – and a few others – that's just not true. Sorry, McMurry. You're out of the competition.

McMURRY: Goldangit all! (Exits STAGE mumbling profanities)

MRS McMURRY rushes after him.

GLEN: Now on to our last competitor! Modean Three's own Bonny McMurry!

AUDIENCE applauds.

DAN: I's hads no ideas she raised cocks.

KATY: I seem to remember her raising your cock pretty frequently there Dan.

DAN: I seems to remembers yous were plentys affected as well, Miss Katy.

KATY: What can I say? I like a woman with a championship cock.

GLEN: And what an excellent cock it is! A little on the slender side, but shapely! And what a lovely temperament. Outgoing without being pushy! Oh, it's just gorgeous!

WAYNE (aside to Dary): Now that's a lovely cock.

DARY: It's a beautiful cock for sure.

WAYNE: Oh it's a gorgeous cock.

GLEN: I think we have a winner folks! Let's hear it for Bonny McMurry's excellent cock!

FADE OUT TO AUDIENCE APPLAUSE AS BONNY McMURRY ACCEPTS A TROPHY.

SHOT OPENS ON THE PRODUCE STAND. WAYNE, DAN, AND DARY ARE SITTING IN THEIR USUAL SEATS WITH THEIR USUAL PUPPERS. KATYS CHAIR IS TAKEN BY WAYNE AND DARY'S ROOSTERS.

DAN: Recon Miss Katies is going to wants her seats back anytimes soons?

WAYNE: I imagine she's occupied for the evening.

DARY: Can't really blame her. I mean, who knew Bonny McMurry had such a championship cock?WAYNE: Hell, anybody'd want to go celebrate down MoDean's after a win like that. She's more than earned it, showing up all our cocks like that.

DARY: Still, there's no shame in coming second, good buddy.

DAN: Especiallys nots against such stiffs competitions.

WAYNE: I reckon you're right there, Dary. Andyouwannaknowwhat? Ain't no shame in coming third neither.

DAN: Especiallys nots against such stiffs competitions.

WAYNE stands and holds his hand out for DARY to shake: Congratulations Dary. That's a mighty fine cock you've got there.

DARY stands and shakes WAYNE's hand: Not as nice as yours, Wayne. Congratulations on the cock.

WAYNE and DARY sit.

WAYNE looks at where the roosters are sitting next to each other: Well, I'll give those hockey nutsacks this. They are cuddly little fuckers, aren't they?

DARY hawks a loogie in agreement.

WAYNE: Still not letting 'em in the fucking house though.

WAYNE, DARY, and DAN take a drink of PUPPERS.

CREDITS ROLL.

[meduseld]

I'm curious, what would you imagine an au of Ziggy and Nick meeting? Like it wouldn't even necessarily have to be tied to Fear Street. But I'd still imagine their personalities are mostly the same.

Huh that's interesting! It does harken to a trope I love, the repressed emotionally pained man who would die for the loud loose canon woman. I could have phrased that better but nothing is coming to mind, still like Dwayne Hicks and Ellen Ripley? That. And I do love it. For reasons both trope-y and personal. But as close as they might hew, and well trauma can happen in any fictional universe, I do think they'd stop being the particular Nick-and-Ziggy i love because their trauma is so tied to the demonic Pact at the heart of the series, you know?

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Imagine: RWBY / 80s movie AU

Aliens (1986)

1) Raven Branwen as Ellen Ripley (reasoning: warrior leader and also because of who I have Yang cast as) 

2) Taiyang Xiao Long as Corporal Dwayne Hicks (reasoning: Raven’s love interest and being an all-around good guy) 

3) Whitley Schnee as Carter Burke (reasoning: let’s say that the Schnee Dust Company replaces the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. In that case, it made sense that Whitley took the role of the slimy corporate exec) 

4) Penny Polendina as Bishop (reasoning: android assistant) 

5) Yang Xiao Long as Rebecca “Newt” Jordan (reasoning: Raven’s daughter. Although in this AU, Yang would be Raven’s daughter-figure) 

6) Cardin Winchester as Pvt. Hudson (reasoning: the arrogant, douchebag bully) 

7) Peter Port as Lt. Gorman (reasoning: I was thinking who among the adults could be an incompetent commanding officer and for some reason, Port kept coming to mind) 

8) Winter Schnee as Pvt. Vasquez (reasoning: badass female soldier who hates incompetence) 

9) James Ironwood as Capt. Apone (reasoning: the competent military officer)

10) Clover Ebi, Caroline Cordovin, Vine Zeki, Harriet Bree, Elm Ederne, Marrow Amin and one extra Atlas soldier as Drake, Frost, Ferro, Spunkmeyer, Dietrich, Crowe, and Wierzbowski aka the marines who get wiped out by the Grimm-Xenomorphs in the first ambush (reasoning: Atlas soldiers under Ironwood’s command) 

11) The Grimm take the place of the Aliens/Xenomorphs

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Scarface (1983)

1) Adam Taurus as Tony Montana / Scarface (reasoning: minority facing discrimination, power-hungry asshole who becomes a violent leader / EDIT: Oh, I just realized, the name ‘Scarface’ could also reference the branding on his face)

2) Ilia Amitola as Manny Ray (reasoning: member of the White Fang. Also, I have Ilia as Manny mainly because of who I have Blake cast as)

3) Neopolitan as Elvira (reasoning: to keep with the themes of human-faunus relations, Elvira had to be a human character. Also, Neo is a crazy criminal, so she fit the role)

4) Blake Belladonna as Gina Montana (reasoning: one, to reference Adam’s unhealthy obsession with Blake and Blake’s initial fascination of Adam. Two, since Manny and Gina get together and Ilia has a canon crush on Blake)

5) Roman Torchwick as Frank Lopez (reasoning: Roman’s connection to Neo and Roman being a criminal mastermind) 

6) Jacques Schnee as Alejandro Sosa (reasoning: the big-name supplier, just switch cocaine with dust. Also, since Adam is the main protagonist, it made sense to have the Schnees as the main villains) 

7) Klein Sieben as the shotgun-wielding assassin who kills Tony (reasoning: works for the Schnee family) 

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The Breakfast Club (1985) 

1) Cardin Winchester as John Bender (The Criminal) - reasoning: the asshole bully who harasses everyone

2) Weiss Schnee as Claire Standish (The Princess) - reasoning: the snobbish girl who thinks she’s all that 

3) Sun Wukong as Andrew Clark (The Athlete) - reasoning: this was a surprisingly hard role to fill in. Eventually, I just went with the character who I thought fit the mold of the “stock high school athlete”, which was Sun.  

4) Ruby Rose as Brian Johnson (The Brain) - reasoning: the goodie-two-shoes nerd who has trouble socializing with people

5) Blake Belladonna as Allison Reynolds (The Basket Case) - reasoning: the shy, introverted goth (well, closest to goth) girl who is seen as an outcast 

[stanathanxoox]

Our Little Fighter

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@thebeckyjolene  said:

Hey, it's Becky here! I was wondering if your not too busy if I could request an imagine where Pride and the reader are married, the reader is pregnant with their first child, and the reader is caught in a really bad storm where the reader goes into labour with the baby and the team goes out to search for the reader. Is that okay for you to write?

It was howling outside, the wind was so strong, lightning flashed every couple of minutes and the rain pelted the building, scaring you. It wasn't exactly the most ideal situation, being stuck miles away from your husband as he worked to close the case before the storm became too bad in the city. You were south of the city and were hoping that he was going to make it back to you soon enough, you were on your way back from visiting your sister when the weather became too much for you to cope with, so booking into the nearest motel was your only option before getting run off the road. Normally you were more determined to make it back to your husband, however with the life of your unborn child in your “hands”, you had to consider what the best options were and getting stuck on the road was not one of them. You had checked in with Dwayne when you had decided to check into the motel, and again as soon as you had made it into your room. But now that you were truly alone, facing a storm by yourself at eight months pregnant you were beginning to panic. At first, you felt like you were suffering from braxton hicks contractions, the pain wasn't unbearable but they were coming quite close apart. You decide to keep an eye on them, timing how far apart they are.

After an hour you decide to ring your husband and let him know that you think you may be in labour, his normal calming demeanour turns into one of panic and urgency. He's shouting at the others to let them know that he's going out into the storm and that he needs to get to you, needs to be by your side and help you through this, and then you can hear his voice on the phone again, letting you know that he is on his way to you, he doesn't hang up the call but he urges you to rush next door and ask for someone to assist you. You agree, not wanting to be alone during this experience. You race to the room next to yours and knock the door, explaining your situation the couple in the room follow you back into your own room and help you. As you get to know them you learn that your neighbours are a nurse and doctor on vacation, you thank whatever lucky stars you have and follow all the instructions given to you by the pair. They reassure Dwayne as well, keeping him updated as well. What feels like an eternity later you are being encouraged to push, you cry out in frustration and panic, wanting your husband to be by your side. When the doctor says that there isn't any time, your baby was coming here and now you began to panic, even more, sobbing uncontrollably as they coach you through labour, it's not until you hear the slamming of the door as it opens and you look up, relief washing over your sweat soaked face as you call out to your husband

“Dwayne!” you manage to say before screaming out in pain, in a flash he's by your side, grabbing onto your hand and whispering words of love and encouragement into your ear, the doctor calls out to Tammy and Chris that an ambulance needs to be called when the doctors manages a glimpse of your babies head. You begin to panic again at hearing the words coming from the doctor's mouth, words like possible still-birth and not breathing echoing around your head, but Dwayne doesn't let you focus on any of that, capturing your full attention and encouraging you to keep pushing, keep doing whatever you can until the paramedics arrive.

With one final push, you can see your baby, and you can hear the sound of sirens in the distance, your encouraged to give one last final push as the doctor tries to get your baby to breath, after announcing that there is a faint pulse, he keeps performing CPR before you hear the first cries of life coming from your baby, the sound is loud and strong and the doctor places your baby gently on your chest as he announces that the baby seems to be a fighter. When the paramedics arrive at the motel they finish the last of your birth, cutting the umbilical cord before placing you and your baby on the gurney before rushing you out to the ambulance, saying that even though you and your little boy are doing alright right now, you might not be out of the woods just yet and it was always safer to escort you to the hospital to ensure the safety of you both.

Dwayne and you are waiting anxiously in the maternity ward, after seeing a number of doctors and nurses running tests and check-up on you, just waiting to hear news of how your precious baby boy is doing. It feels like forever since he was whisked away from you and you were required for different testing. You look over at Dwayne tears beginning to fall from your eyes again, as the worry encompasses you again

“Do you think our little boy is doing ok Dwayne? Do you think he's going to make it?” you ask fearing the words that are about to come, Dwayne is about to answer you when someone speaks instead, turning to the voice you hear the doctor say

“Your little man has had a rough start, but he's stable now. If you would like, I can get one of the nurses to escort you to see him” you beam at that, wanting nothing more than to see for yourself just how well he's doing. On the way to the nicu, the doctor explains to you that although your son is stable they want to keep him in the nicu for a couple of days just to ensure that everything really is ok. You feel a reassuring squeeze to your shoulder coming from Dwayne and you nod.

Seeing your son, laying in the incubator hooked up to so many different machines freaks you out to start with but then you accept them, these machines are monitoring this little mans life. You look down at him and smile, before you look up to Dwayne and see that he too is smiling happily

“There's our little man” you hear him whisper and you smile

“Our little Cayden, our little fighter,” you say and Dwayne nods,

“Our little fighter”.

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[solesurvivorkat]

Top 10

(Tagged by @teamhawkeye, thank you hon! Missin’ you something fierce! 

<3  :-D  )

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Top 10 Fictional Female Characters (in no particular order):

1) Diana Prince/Wonder Woman

2) Rey (Star Wars - say what you will, but I like her)

3) The Bride/Beatrix Kiddo (Kill Bill)

4) Hit Girl/Mindy McCreedy (Kick Ass)

5) Ellen Ripley (Alien)

6) Moana

7) Donna Noble (Dr. Who)

8) Ursula (The Little Mermaid - might sound weird, I know... but I love how sassy she is, lol)

9) Molly Weasley (Harry Potter - sweet mom, but will totally kick your ass if you mess with her family)

10) Eleven (Stranger Things)

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Top 10 Fictional Male Characters (in no particular order):

1) Obi-Wan Kenobi/(Older) Luke Skywalker (Star Wars - it was a tie for me, lol)

2) Corporal Dwayne Hicks (Aliens)

3) John Seed (Far Cry 5 - I am way too attached to this unhealthy man, LOL)

4) Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

5) Arthur Maxson (Fallout 3 & 4 - begone haters, I love him, lol)

6) Paladin Danse (Fallout 4)

7) The 10th Doctor (Doctor Who - ooh, David Tennant...)

8) Indiana Jones

9) Rick O’Connell (’The Mummy’ series... shut up, I like him too, lol)

10) Peter Quill/Star-Lord (Guardians of the Galaxy - I like a man who can make me laugh  ^.^)

AND: I also need to include the many OCs in the Far Cry & Fallout fandom. So many creative, amazing characters... way to go, guys. ❤

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Music Shuffle:

Put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs:

(...be prepared for a real weird mix, LOL  *XD )

1) ‘Any Means Necessary‘ - Hammerfall

2) ‘Bleeding Out‘ - Imagine Dragons

3) ‘True Love’s Kiss‘ - Amy Adams & James Marsden (’Enchanted’ movie soundtrack)

4) ‘You’ll Be In My Heart‘ - Phil Collins (’Tarzan’ movie soundtrack)

5) ‘Flora’s Secret’ - Enya

6) ‘Eye to Eye’ - Jonathan Young (this guy sings rock versions of Disney songs, and it’s a total crime that Disney has not snatched this guy up yet. Seriously. Total crime.)

7) ‘All in a Day‘ - The Corrs

8) ‘Prayer’ - Disturbed

9) ‘Sunshine Highway‘ - Dropkick Murphys

10) ‘I Hope that Something Better Comes Along’ - ‘The Muppet Movie’ soundtrack

(.....I told you so, lol.)

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(Feel free to steal this if you wish! I’m always so far behind everyone, so I’m never 100% sure who’s already been tagged/done this)

[douxreviews]

Aliens (1986) Review

[This review contains spoilers.]

Aliens is a perfect sequel, if there is such a thing. It's bigger, glossier, a bit longer, and it did an exceptional job building on the original story.

There are a number of parallels to the original. The story begins with Ripley waking up, and ends with the survivors going into cold sleep. The characters are again only known by their last names; even Newt has a very non-little-girl nickname. There's a huge explosion at the end, but the alien still manages to make it aboard the "lifeboat" to wreak more havoc. There's an android on board who ends up in pieces. Best of all, like Ridley Scott did in the original, James Cameron spends an entire hour setting up the story, and successfully pays it all off during the rest of the movie.

There are a number of differences, of course. Instead of "truckers," we have a crew of badass marines. There are many aliens instead of just one. The cast is twice as big and the stakes are higher, too, since there were sixty-some families on the "shake-and-bake" colony.

But we still have Ripley, and she is several levels of awesome. This is the movie where Sigourney Weaver proved to the world that a woman could be an action hero. She was terrific in scene after scene, from her tirade in the conference room at the beginning, to the pulse-pounding Ripley-in-the-loader versus the alien queen battle at the end. I've always loved the way she took over and drove the tank to the rescue, and the sequence in the lift where she loaded up with many, many, many weapons on her way into the queen's lair to rescue Newt. Sigourney Weaver was nominated for best actress for this movie, and she absolutely deserved it.

I also loved Michael Biehn as Hicks. He and Ripley were on the same wavelength throughout the movie. I particularly enjoyed the "nuke the planet" exchange, and the one where he showed her how to use that massive assault rifle. Ripley and Hicks were made for each other. I really wanted Ripley, Hicks and Newt to end up together as a family, maybe with Bishop as the weird uncle who sleeps on the couch. Maybe in Alien fanfic. Is there Alien fanfic?

Paul Reiser gave a wonderfully slimy performance as the Company rep. Very smart, casting a comedian, since this is a character that we expect to be evil, but the fact that it's Reiser makes us think we might be wrong. Bill Paxton is wonderfully annoying as the cowardly Hudson, and I loved that he went out in a blaze of glory. Newt is likable and has courage; she's not a cutesy kid at all, and Carrie Henn certainly had a greater acting range than Jonesy the cat. And I always liked that Bishop turned out to be the opposite of Ash, since we expected him to be just as bad. Especially since he was played by the master of evil, Lance Henriksen.

My favorite supporting actor in this one, though, is Jenette Goldstein, who is a standout as Vasquez. Hard to remember so long ago, but when this movie came out, women didn't serve in combat. Vasquez made a very strong impression on me. And I loved that Gorman redeemed himself by going back for Vasquez. Their scene in the air duct always gets to me.

Unlike most of my favorite movies, I saw Aliens in the theater. It was an unforgettable movie experience, literally edge of your seat. I remember actually feeling mildly nauseous. (That's when you know they got you – when your audience wants to throw up.) Aliens doesn't hold up quite as well as Alien does, in my opinion, but it's still an outstanding movie. I always watch them together. Like I said, pretty much the perfect sequel.

Bits and pieces of androids:

— The action takes place 57 years after the original. The planet got a name, or more accurately, a designation: LV426.

— Alien and Aliens always makes me think of two of my other favorite movies, Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. It's not surprising, since the two franchises share James Cameron and some of his favorite actors: Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Jenette Goldstein and Bill Paxton.

— Bishop explained that Ash was a Hyperdyne Systems 120-A2 model, and a bit twitchy. (You'd call what Ash did in the original movie "twitchy?") And that the more recently manufactured androids are subject to Asimov's rules. Hyperdyne always makes me think of Cyberdyne.

— There are several shots of Ripley's feet and she's wearing Reeboks. Really fun product placement that didn't detract from the story at all. I usually hate product placement.

— James Horner's music is memorable, and effectively heightens the tension. Like it needed more heightening.

— Dan says that Alien is a cold movie, and Aliens is a hot one. I thought that was an interesting observation.

— While looking up quotes, I discovered that James Remar (Dexter's father) was originally cast to play Dwayne Hicks, and was later replaced by Michael Biehn. I hadn't known that. I can't imagine this movie without Michael Biehn. I absolutely loved him in the first Terminator movie.

— As with Alien, there is an extended version. I prefer the theatrical release. But the extended version gives more weight to Ripley's need to save Newt; Ripley had a daughter.

— For me, the story ends with this movie. I'm not fond of the other sequels. One of our writers has offered to review them, though, and if he does, I'll very much look forward to reading them.

Quotes:

Ripley: "Did IQs drop sharply while I was away?"

Gorman: "Look, we can't have any firing in there. I want you to collect magazines from everybody." Hudson: "Is he fucking crazy?" Frost: "What do you expect us to use, man? Harsh language?"

Ripley: "I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." Burke: "Hold on a second. This installation has a substantial dollar value attached to it." Ripley: "They can bill me."

Ripley: "Look. No bad dreams there." Newt: "Ripley, she doesn't have bad dreams because she's just a piece of plastic." Definitely Carrie Henn's best line. And she delivered it beautifully.

Newt: "My mommy always said there were no monsters, no real ones. But there are." Ripley: "Yes, there are, aren't there?" Newt: "Why do they tell little kids that?" Ripley: "Most of the time it's true."

Ripley: "You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage."

Ripley: "Get away from her, you bitch!" I remember the audience cheering that one.

A worthy sequel to an excellent movie. Four out of four M41A pulse rifles, ten millimeter with over-and-under thirty millimeter pump action grenade launchers,

Billie Doux loves good television and spends way too much time writing about it.

[thedestrcyer]

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RIPLEY BREATHES IN HERSELF.     -----  in through her nostrils,   out through the mouth still lingering somewhere near bella’s own.     the answer could be simple;   she just really wanted that kiss. there’s a very specific reason she grabbed hicks along the way. normally with a family lingering along her side,  all her mental trauma stays far away,  she has enough to fight for to remember that she’s fighting for them,  fighting to not only survive,  but to LIVE.    her real answer was something else:   she was legitimately worried,  just a little hurt that bella decided to mutter fine instead of the truth.    all this really only makes her realize that she’s really,  truly in love with bella.   she trusts the woman,  she’s probably do just about anything for the woman  (wrapped around bella’s finger).   so if something actually happened to bella,  imagine how ripley would feel?    torn to pieces. although,  she doesn’t mention any of that and the emotional interlude is only written on her features for a few seconds before dark eyes flick across bella’s own.   ripley’s thumb slides across bella’s bottom lip before the taller woman simply just pulls away.   professional aspect is back,  the officer,  the mechanical worker.   she doesn’t actually answer bella, she just smiles once and turns to walk away.   let’s be honest though,  she didn’t get very far.   there’s dwayne hicks standing in the doorway.  he moves just the slightest so that he’s blocking most of the door frame.   the man’s both taller and bulkier than ripley  -----     not that she’s aiming to get in a fight with him over something so small.   his arms are crossed over his chest,  he tilts his head in just that way where he knows something is up. ---------------     the man mutters:   you do know that because of what just happened,  we have the few next days without work?    downtime.    YOU have nowhere to go. now they’re both staring at each other.    his emphasis on you floating around in her mind.

OH,  she doesn’t look too happy that she’s caught in an emotional state.

[gleymy17-blog]

Aliens Paper

Gleymy Garcia

ENG 3690 

Aliens Film Post 

20th February 2017

                                  Can Women Live in Outer Space?                               

“Women have been taught that, for us, the Earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge” (Andrea Dworkin). However, women have ventured and while they did not fall off the edge, they are perceived negatively.

Science fiction as a work of literature “constantly interrogates the limits of identity and the nature of difference”(Seed, pg. 27).  It perceives this notion of women venturing off Earth throughout history, specifically their roles in stories to outer space. The difference in gender roles in outer space has undermined women as individuals within society, as shown in Ridley’s Scott films Aliens and Alien3 through the main character Ripley.

The term alien “are by definition always imagined through reference to familiar humans groups, animal species, or machines” (Seed, pg.28). In the sequel action/adventure movie Aliens, the epic fight against extraterrestrial life that destroyed a colony takes place between Aliens and the combat squad sent out to fight them. Throughout the movie Ripley is portrayed as more of a motherly figure and not the head protagonist, as she does not have any power to make decisions until the middle or end of the film. Lieutenant Gorman makes all the decisions and even when he dies the person in charge than becomes Captain Dwayne Hicks, illustrating Ripley may make tough and good decisions on her own but get no credit for it. The lack of acclamation the film portrays through Ripley as women character illustrates the denial of society to accept women as important figures within society.

 “Even though issues surrounding fatherhood and masculine subject were central concerns in many 1980s blockbusters, anxieties surrounding motherhood and feminine subject can also be witnessed in the genre at this time” (Cornea, 147). It seems as if writers, authors, screen players and even society as whole was scared to accept the fact that feminism existed. Ridley Scott the writer of the film, even he had “originally planned to have Ripley Killed, but the studio insisted that she should survive and the alien be killed” (Seed, pg.39).

Well I guess it’s a relieve to know some crewmembers had the decency to still care about women’s rights!

Although Scott soon came to understand that Ripley was an important figure in the film as he kept her alive throughout the whole Alien Trilogy, in Alien3 the audience once again was given the standard of women being unfit to be superior. 

“The film charts Ripley’s emotional course from despair to beyond despair to a brief moment of rebirth (in community) to a death that’s no less bitter for all if principled defiance” (Taubin, pg.96). Stuck in a prison where she is the only woman and surrounded by men completely, the film illustrates masculinity as a main element needed within society. While the “dialogue implies that the aliens are as indiscriminate as ever in their choice of hosts, on the screen it is a female human who suffers the involuntary caesarian birth”(Taubin, pg.95). Ripley is seen as the suffering character and with her tomboyish look in the film is seen as what is the “acceptable form and shape of a woman” (Cornae, pg.150). Not only that but the overall meaning behind the film is to send a message against women’s reproductive system and the advancement of AIDS.

So basically one portrays the woman as a hero in a time of history where woman are not accepted as a figure role, but at the same time one chooses to let this character be misrepresented, suffer and die? Many would believe that it makes no sense, which your right it doesn’t!

However, critiques feel it makes perfect sense given the fact that at the end of both films Ripley is seen as having a bit of power as a female figure. Not only that but Ripley “operates in a futuristically post-feminist environment “ and her depiction in the film is seen as a “set against time when not only had 1970s feminism challenge patriarchal structures, but feminist science fiction writing had dared to make inroads into the masculiniist preserve of the writing genre”(Cornae, pg.150).

Now if feminist writers are challenging and daring to write about the representation of woman against masculinity, there must be reasons for it don’t you think?

The relationship between both films and the trilogy by Ridley Scott is that it allows for “a notion of the feminine which does not depend for its definition on a concept of masculine” (Cornae, pg.150). The films want to articulate a masculine fear of gender dissolution, a dissolution

that is initially presented under the guise of a progressive futurism and then quickly undercut with the introduction of the alien (Cornae, pg.150).

Ripley is only seen as a mother figure and nothing more. Her character portrays the struggle of power women go through not only in the film, but also in reality historically and today. How can women strive in a society they are constantly being put down in? How can one even strive to make their presence known here on Earth if individuals do not give them a chance?

Without acknowledging the presence of women here on Earth, we will never make it outside of it. Science fiction about outer space may be fictional now but a reality later; Something women still may never be able to achieve.

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                                                  Works Cited

Cornea, Christine. "Gender Blending and The Feminine Subject in Science Fiction Film. “Science Fiction Cinema : Between Fantasy and Reality. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Edinburgh UP, 2007. 145+. Academic Search Complete [EBSCO]. Web. 20 Feb. 2017.

Seed, David. "Chapter 2: Alien Encounters." Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction. N.p.: Oxford UP, 2011. 27+. Print.

Taubin, Amy. "Women and Film. A Sight and Sound Reader." Ed. Pam Cook and Philip Dodd.Women Against the Grain 2.3 (1992): 93-100. Print

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I will write for any character, regardless of gender, so please don't be shy at all; if you want it, ask and you shall receive in 1-1000 business days.

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Feel free to request for any character in any of the above, it is highly encouraged!

Anything that doesn't have a masterlist yet should have one coming out within the next few days, even if it's empty because I need it to be perfect <3

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Masterlist

A list of my old writing that you can request I revise

Song Prompts

Meeting and Dating Headcanons~

Pretty in Pink

Andie Walsh

Duckie Dale

Blane McDonagh

Steff McKee

Sixteen Candles 

Jake Ryan

The Lost Boys

Paul

Dwayne

Poly Lost Boys

Edgar Frog

The Breakfast Club

Brian Johnson

John Bender

Andrew Clark

The Outsiders

Sodapop Curtis

Dallas Winston

Two-Bit Mathews

Rumblefish

Steve Hays

Ferris Buellers Day Off

Cameron Frye

Karate Kid

Daniel Larusso

Johnny Lawrence

Dutch

Heathers

Veronica Sawyer

Jason Dean

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Jeff Spicoli

Brad Hamilton

Better Off Dead 

Lane Meyer

Weird Science

Gary Wallace

Wyatt Donnelly

Dream A Little Dream

Dinger Holfield

Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure

Bill S. Preston Esquire

Ted Logan 

Dating Poly Bill and Ted 

The Princess Bride

Inigo Montoya

Interview with the Vampire

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Children of the Corn

Malachai Boardman

National Lampoons 

Rusty Griswold (European Vacation)

Cant Buy Me Love

Kenneth Wurman

The Chocolate War

Jerry Renault

Archie Costello

The Mighty Ducks

Fulton Reed

Dean Portman

Adam Banks

Les Averman

Porkys

Brian Schwartz

Anthony ‘Meat’ Tuperello

Tommy Turner

Tim Cavanaugh

Mickey Jarvis

Just One of the Guys

Terry Griffith

Greg Tolan

Dead Poets Society 

Neil Perry

Todd Anderson

Charlie Dalton

Knox Overstreet

Steven Meeks

Earth Girls are Easy

Mac

Combat Academy 

Perry Barnett

Waynes World

Garth Algar

Austin Powers

Austin Powers

Toy Soldiers

Ricardo Montoya

Good Will Hunting

Chuckie Sullivan

10 Things I Hate About You

Joey Donner

My Bodyguard

Ricky Linderman

Melvin Moody

Stand and Deliver

Angel Guzman

Something Wild 

Ray Sinclair

Three O’Clock High 

Buddy Revell

Intruder

Randy

Young Guns

Jose Chavez y Chavez

Billy the Kid

Doc Scurlock

Dazed and Confused

Benny O’Donnell

Don Dawson

Kevin Pickford

Randall “Pink” Floyd

Fred O’Bannion

Mitch Kramer

Ron Slater

Shavonne Wright

Dogfight

Eddie Birdlace

Ladybugs

Matthew

Goosebumps

Sticks

Freddy Renfield

Twister

Robert ‘Rabbit’ Nurick

Stand by me 

Ace Merrill

School Ties

Rip Van Kelt 

Chris Reece

The Untouchables

Eliot Ness

The Godfather

Tom Hagen

(Young) Vito Corleone

(Old) Vito Corleone

Goodfellas

Henry Hill

Little Shop of Horrors

Seymour Krelborn

Newsies

Specs

Near Dark

Severen

Friday the 13th

Jason Voorhees

Scream

Billy Loomis 

Poly Billy and  Stu

Stu Macher

The Craft

Nancy Downs

Hocus Pocus

Max Dennison

Thackery Binx

Beetlejuice

Lydia Deetz

Adam Maitland

The Crow

Eric Draven

Ghostbusters

Ray Stantz

Aliens

Bishop

An American Werewolf in London

Jack Goodman

Sleepaway Camp

Ricky Thomas

Re-animator

Herbert West

Silence of the Lambs

Clarice Starling

Fright Night

Jerry Dandridge

Candyman

Daniel Robitaille

The Evil Dead

Ash Williams

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Harvey Kinkle

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Spike

Full Metal Jacket

Sgt. Hartman

Joker

Animal Mother

Pyle

Preference~ the boys with an s/o whose ex stalks them

Grease

Kenickie

Labyrinth

Jareth

Total Recall

Douglas Quaid

Requested “Would Includes” and Imagines/Fics~

Darry falling for Johnny’s sister

Allison Reynolds dating a shy nerdy girl

Starting a family with Cameron Frye

Making out with Cameron Frye

Cameron Frye comforting you when you’re upset

Getting drunk with the Ferris Bueller crew

Gary Wallace dating a tall girl

George Mcfly with a dominant flirty s/o

Comforting and being comforted by Will Hunting

Will Hunting having a crush on you

Being apart of the good will hunting gang

Armand with a virgin s/o (including nsfw)

Lestat and Louis dating a girl who loves horror movies

Making out with Duckie Dale

Duckie Dale cheering you up

Cliff having a crush on you

Making out with Cliff

Making out with Bryce

Bryce having a crush on you

The Lost Boys with an s/o having an anxiety attack + fighting depression

The Lost Boys with a sweet and innocent s/o

The Lost Boys with a curvy mate

The Lost Boys fighting with their mates

The Lost Boys dating a shy short girl

The Lost Boys taking care of you when you’re hurt

Getting drunk with the Lost Boys would include

David x Laddies older sister

Making out with Edgar Frog

Being Married to Archie Costello

Going to the beach with Archie Costello

Making out with Archie Costello

Darrys girlfriend landing a job at a local cafe as a singer

Making out with Kenneth Wurman

Being Cindys friend and Ronalds crush

Harold Sherbico having a crush

Kim Kelly dating her polar opposite

Neil Perry dating an artist

Making out with Charlie Dalton

Jealous Charlie Dalton

Jealous Knox Overstreet

A study date with Steven Meeks

Spending the winter season with Neil Perry

Comforting Charlie Dalton after he gets expelled 

The dead poets walking in on Charlie and his secret, shy girlfriend 

Simon Boggs having a crush on Laneys friend

Faking It-Cindy Mancini falling for the girl who paid her to be her friend

Spike having a crush on you

Steff McKee having a crush on you

Marko having a crush on you

David having a crush on you 

Paul having a crush on you

Dwayne having a crush on you

Dwayne x vampire reader who dresses like Stevie Nicks

Making out with Keith Nelson

Meat having a crush on Peewees sister

Admit it- Mickey Jarvis and his future s/o having crushes on each other

Being a part of team USA and meeting Adam and Charlie

Dwayne Robertson having a crush on you

Sleepover with Bill and Ted (including nsfw)

Being pregnant with Ted Logans child

Starring in the schools Romeo and Juliet with Ted Logan

Ted Logan asking you to be his valentine

Spending Valentines day with Steff McKee

Spending Valentines day with Steven Meeks

Spending Valentines day with Keith Nelson

Spending your first Valentines day with Bryce

Wishing I Was Her (Nick Andopolis)

If You Want Out Just Say It (Ace Merrill)

Going on the Ferris adventure

Going on your own adventure with Cameron Frye

Making out with Randall ‘Pink’ Floyd

Travelling back in time with Marty McFly

Tommy Devito dating a chubby artist

Years Gone By (Michael Corleone)

Sonny Corleone dating his opposite

Phillipe Gaston x reader~ Fairy Tale 

Being Fulton's sister and Dating Dean Portman

Comforting Todd when he’s upset

Being married to Bill S. Preston Esquire

Being married to Ted Logan

Spending Halloween/October with Knox Overstreet

Making out with Knox

A will they, won’t they relationship with Seth Brundle

Falling in love with Edward Scissorhands

Dwayne Hicks with an Android!Technician s/o

Private Joker dating an artist 

Jareth falling in love with you

Being married to Matt Hooper and going to Amity

The way you make me feel~ John Bender

Being in a long term relationship with JD

J.D. with a chronically ill s/o

Archie with a chronically ill s/o

Making out with Ted Logan

Archibald Craven falling in love

Andy Dufresne falling in love

Nsfw Headcanons~ 

Group sex with the lost boys

Sam Emerson

Threesome with Obie and Archie

Armand

Archie Costello

(sub) Archie Costello

Obie

Johnny Cade

Cameron Frye

Duckie Dale

Blane

John Bender

Randy (Intruder)

Joey Donner

Kenneth Wurman

Keith Nelson

The Dead Poets Kinks

Knox Overstreet

Charlie Dalton

Steven Meeks

Todd Anderson

Neil Perry

Gerard Pitts

John Bender taking your virginity

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Dinger Holfield

The Lost Boys

JD

Randall ‘Pink’ Floyd

Benny O’donnell

Fred O’Bannion

Cliff

Bryce

Johnny Walker

George Mcfly

Brian Moreland

(sub) Perry Barnett 

Bill S. Preston Esquire

Ted Logan

Randy Meeks

Michael Emerson

Nancy Downs

Ray Stantz

Egon Spengler

Spike

Angel Guzman

Sgt. Hartman

Brad Hamilton

Douglas Quaid

Chris (night of the creeps)

Sonny Corleone with a shy, virgin s/o

George Mcfly getting jealous and being dominant

Grease Monkey (Keith Nelson smut)

Sins of the flesh and matters of the heart (David x reader + Dwayne smut)

[alienvirals]

Sorry, Ridley Scott: Sigourney Weaver is the only true Alien scream queen

Its a shame the veteran British film-maker has blocked Neill Blomkamps plan to resurrect Ellen Ripley (again) in favour of a tedious-sounding Prometheus sequel

Let me paint for you, just for a moment, a nightmarish scenario to compare with the hellish visions seen in HR Gigers Necronom IV, the Swiss surrealist painters inspiration for his later work on the hideous xenomorphs in 1979s Alien.

Imagine for a moment that George Lucas, not long after Disney hired JJ Abrams to direct the first new Star Wars movie in more than a decade perhaps even after the release of that first teaser trailer for The Force Awakens, which sent everyone into apoplexies of expectation found something in the small print that allowed him to change his mind about handing over the long-running space saga to a bunch of newbies.

Phones suddenly buzz in Tinseltown, frowns are seen erupting on the foreheads of Mouse House lawyers, and within days the creator of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader announces that the whole darn $4.05bn sale of Lucasfilm to Disney is off. Instead, Star Wars fans can look forward to a Lucas-scripted spin-off about Jar Jar Binks ongoing political battle with the Trade Federation.

Fortunately for Star Wars fans, gorgeous George remains locked out of the Jedi braintrust. But a similar dynamic of huge anticipation followed by crushing disappointment has been playing out for real among Alien acolytes over the past year or so. Ridley Scotts middling Prometheus may not have been the Phantom Menace of Alien prequels, but compared with Neill Blomkamps uber fan-friendly pitch for a belated sequel to 1986s Aliens starring Sigourney Weaver and Michael I wanna introduce you to a very personal friend of mine Biehn, it might as well have been.

Blomkamps Alien concept was very nearly the Deadpool of sci-fi movies, resurrected by 20th Century Fox from Hollywood development hell after the film-maker began posting concept art for an abandoned film featuring Weaver as Ripley, Biehn as Corporal Dwayne Hicks, and an all-new take on Gigers famous xenomorphs on Instagram. The internet went into predictable meltdown and the District 9 director dramatically announced in February last year that the studio had given him permission to move ahead.

Then Scott, like some terrifying party-pooping alien critter bursting out of funs chest cavity, stepped in to make it clear that his own Alien movie, a sequel to Prometheus now titled Alien: Covenant, must take priority. So instead of a Weaver-led movie from one of Hollywoods most promising young science fiction film-makers aimed at restoring the saga to its pre-Alien 3 glory, we face the prospect of another portentous pseudo-origin story about mankinds connections to the xenomorphs and their utterly tedious extra-terrestrial Engineer creators. Or if things go really badly, another three movies on said subject matter.

Ridley asked Neill not to make our Alien til after Prometheus 2, confirms Weaver in new comments published by Indiewire. He wanted his movie to shoot and be released first. But [our Alien film is] an amazing script, and Neill and I are really excited about doing it … Its just going to take a little bit longer to get out to you, but itll be worth the wait.

So why is Blomkamps movie a more attractive prospect than Scotts, especially when the veteran British film-maker kicked off the entire slasher-in-space subgenre with 1979s searingly superb Alien? The answer lies in Weavers return and the pitching of the new movie at the point just before the long-running sci-fi saga began to haemorrhage all credibility.

In the real world, David Finchers Alien 3 by no means a terrible film, yet hardly one which makes any real argument for its own existence debuted in 1992, followed by the ersatz afterthought of Jean-Pierre Jeunets Alien Resurrection (complete with clone Ripley and her half-xenomorph child) in 1997. Lets not even mention the two execrable Alien vs Predator spin-offs.

But in Blomkamps wonderful new fantasy timeline, these movies never happened. With the slate miraculously wiped clean (no one knows quite how, and the film-maker himself partially backtracked on his own promise at one point), Ripley and Hicks can set off for new adventures after destroying the xenomorph-infested planetoid at the end of James Camerons Aliens (it was, after all, the only way to be sure). There might even have been space to bring back poor little Newt, the tough little orphan girl who many fans never forgave Fincher for killing off at the start of Alien 3.

In the grand pantheon of great Ripley moments, almost all emanate from the first two Alien films. The warrant officers beautifully bleak sign-off after destroying the final xenomorph in Alien; her sweary mecha-suited battle with the giant queen in Aliens. These are performances unparalled across three famous genres: action, horror and science fiction.

Meanwhile, Alien Covenant will offer us a film set on a mysterious planet (possibly the Engineers home world), where Michael Fassbenders David the android has been kicking his heels for 10 years waiting for a new human crew, led by Katherine Waterston, to turn up. There will be xenomorphs this time, but you get the impression Scott only agreed to include the monstrous beasties as a result of the popularity surrounding Blomkamps concept. As recently as 2014, he was still indicating that Gigers creations were gone forever.

Star Wars began to get back on track when it brought back centrepiece figures from the hugely popular original trilogy to inject The Force Awakens with some much-needed authenticity. Now its time for Alien to follow suit.

If the saga has any hope of getting back to its own 70s and 80s high point, it surely needs to bring the original all-action Hollywood scream queen along for the ride. Then fire up the afterburners and nuke the rotting corpse of Alien: Covenant from space.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us

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Ripley and White Womanhood

Angelique Leacock

Dr. Smalls

February 20, 2017 

English 3690 

White privilege is real. There’s no better time to see that statement come to life than in the year, 2017. The condition of the United States is slowly falling apart because of the advantages that whiteness gives certain people. But white privilege isn’t something that has only been evident in this year, it’s something that has been evident for a while. And while whiteness is revered, if someone is a white woman they are protected even more when compared to Black men and women or Latinx men and women. White womanhood is sometimes afforded a pass or allowed understanding when others would be ridiculed for the same thing. Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection, which both star Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, seem to demonstrate how white women are given the space to do what others simply can’t. Out of the the four movies that comprise the movie franchise, the last two movies show how Ripley’s character could do things without any backlash. 

 Ripley’s character in Alien 3 was one portrayal that made me think about how she was afforded a privilege that a Black character would not have gotten. Her relationship with Clemens is what intrigued me the most. The relationship that begins to cultivate between Ripley and Clemens is the the first sexual relationship that we see Ripley take part in. In Aliens, there is some tension between Ripley and Corporal Dwayne Hicks, but nothing happens between them. Hicks is injured at the end of Aliens and then dies at the beginning of Alien 3. Her relationship with Clemens intrigued me because in this movie her appearance is the antithesis of femininity, especially when compared to how she loved in the previous movies. Her head is shaved and she wears loose and masculine clothing. On an alternate theatrical movie poster, her face is shown to be sooty looking, as though she had been in the dirt for an extended period of time. This contradicts the image of Ripley audiences had grown accustomed to and we are invited to accept this new image. Her sexual relationship with Clemens demonstrates that Ripley’s new image was acceptable. A man found her appealing without hair and in unfeminine clothes and that’s a signal to the audience that they too should love this look. But when I saw this scene I was left wondering whether or not a woman of color could have done this and received the same reaction? Could Viola Davis have had no hair in a movie or television and have gotten a warm reception from the audience? I say that she would not. On Davis’ show, How to Get Away with Murder, there was a scene where she removes her makeup and wig on camera. The next day, she was ridiculed on social media and radio stations for what she had done as her character, Annalise Keating. The only comforting words seemed to come from Black women and that was it. When Alien 3 was released, Sigourney Weaver did an interview where the interviewer mentions backlash towards her haircut, but not because people thought she was unattractive now but because there was too much similarity between the characters and it was hard to tell people apart (Alien Series).  There is no backlash about whether or not Ripley’s new hair makes her less attractive or if the choice of hair does something to the idea of Ripley’s character that audiences had gotten so familiar with. While the first film seemed to focus and prey on the “anxieties set loose by a decade of feminist and gay activism” it seems that this movie seems to embrace those anxieties in a positive way (Taubin, 94). But the fact that her hairstyle was not met with any sexist criticism, has made me ask the question if her privilege as a White woman was what caused the lack of criticism? This film in particular is often lauded among feminist critics because Ripley seems to “embody the traditional feminine qualities of being “nurturing, loving, sexual, vulnerable and feminine” as well as embody traditional male qualities of heroism, that is, kick-ass aggression and violence” (30, Creed). Had society really matured to a point where there was no criticism for any woman who didn’t fit traditional feminine roles or had they only matured to accept White women? I think Ellen Ripley’s character in Alien 3 proves the latter to be true. 

 In Alien Resurrection, Ripley has been resurrected after she died at the end of Alien 3. The Company was trying to bring Ripley back to life because they wanted to find a way to extract the alien that was inside of her, when she died. It took them about eight tries to perfect their experiment and so the Ripley that appears in the movie, is the perfect clone. They keep her alive to continue to study and the rest of the crew gets the opportunity to meet her. One of the crew members who she meets is Call, who is played by Winona Ryder. In the first half of the movie, Call recognizes Ripley’s name and then decides that she would try to kill her. The scene that commences is one of the more unusual ones that occurs between Ripley and Call. The relationship between Ripley and Call is an unusual one because it seems to mix to contrasting characteristics. In the earlier Alien movies, there was a concentrated effort to make Ripley come across as a motherly figure. Aliens spends the whole movie showing the audience that Ripley can be a mother figure to Newt, even though she hadn’t had contact with her daughter in over 50 years. The second characteristic that is being fused together in the film is the sexual nature that was introduced in the previous film. The scene where Call attempts to kill Ripley is off putting because she seems to be building a motherly connection with her that is slightly sexual. Ripley allows Call to trace her face when she is discussing how Ripley can still feel the alien inside of her, as though Call is a child who is learning the features of her mother. Ripley then proceeds to caress Call’s face in a way that seems to be more motherly than sexual. But then Ripley draws Call closer to her by the neck and brings both of their faces close to each other, as though they were about to kiss. This action seems to contradict what was happening previously in the scene and seems to tell the audience that this relationship is one of a sexual nature, not a nurturing one. Ripley’s character is no longer the Ripley from the first two films, instead she has become cold and calculating like the alien that had once used her body has an incubator. But Joss Whedon’s decision to incorporate two of these very distinct and opposite traits seems to point out how different this Ripley is, but in a way that is slightly uncomfortable. The second scene where Call and Ripley’s relationship is confusing is the scene where Call reappears after being shot. In this scene, Ripley figures out that Call is an android. But the way she figures that out Call has been injured, is by putting her fingers into Call’s chest and seeing that she was filled with white fluid. Ripley could have just looked at her and saw that she was not human but having her put her fingers in Call, seemed like it was trying to invoke that there was some kind of sexual tension between the two women. Had the motherly role not been invoked throughout the film then it wouldn’t have been awkward to see this kind of behavior between Ripley and Call. 

 The relationship between Ripley and Call is an awkward relationship that I have a hard time understanding. But it seems that fans of the quadrilogy seem to have taken a liken to the pairing. There are fanfiction’s that expand on what audiences saw in the film. It didn’t take much searching to not only find a fanfiction that included them, but it didn’t take long to find a story that showed these two characters in a sexual relationship. A story called “More Human than Human” by a user named, thedevilchicken, was the first story I found. It was written recently and takes place in Call’s point-of-view and takes the reader through her mind, as she imagines having sex with Ripley. I wasn’t surprised to find the writing or other stories like that because fandoms can be rabbit holes, but it did surprise me how this pairing had been normalized within this community of fans. Here was a relationship that within the film had been been characterized as a mix between a motherly and sexual relationship and people write fanfictions about it or make edits on YouTube, without much criticism. I had to wonder to myself how could a pairing like this gain such popularity without anyone questioning it? And the answer seems to be that their Whiteness protects them from anyone questioning Whedon’s decision and the fandom’s choice to play out that idea even more. The fandom continues to humanize her and her actions, although she is still the character from the first two films. 

Ellen Ripley’s character is humanized in Alien Resurrection in ways that I felt were surprising. Ripley seemed to embody the alien fully in this movie and there don’t seem to be any traits of the old human Ripley left behind. But in Caroline Joan “Kay” Picart’s article  “Ripley as Interstitial Character: White Woman as Monster and Hero in Alien Resurrection”, she brings up how Joss Whedon wanted to emphasize Ripley’s human characteristics. To Whedon, this film was more about Ripley “accepting her own kind of humanity, on her own terms even if she doesn't necessarily fit the description of 'human' ” (4). The kind of flexibility Ripley’s character is afforded is fascinating. She is distinctly not human, the opening credits and the scene where she finds her other clones, tells us that. But she is still afforded the ability by the writer and director to be assigned these human characteristics. This Ripley is cold and feels regret for killing the alien who is technically her child and yet she is allowed to be “human”.             

The Alien films are a testament to the idea that movies can include women as the leads and not be boring or only about romance. The screenwriters and directors were able to explore different identities of Ripley within each film. But they were able to be so forward with her character because her Whiteness made any concept easy for the audience to accept. Her appearance in Alien 3 and the intricate relationship with Call in Alien Resurrection are two things that might not have  been accepted had the lead been someone who wasn't a White woman. 

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Works Cited 

 Frederick, Ursula and Silke Andris. Women Willing to Fight : The Fighting Woman in Film. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. EBSCOhost. 

 “Interview with Sigourney Weaver, 1992.” Strange Shapes, 5 Aug. 2013, alienseries.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/interview-with-sigourney-weaver-1992/. Accessed 20 Feb. 2017. 

 Picart, Caroline. "Ripley as Interstitial Character: White Woman as Monster and Hero in Alien Resurrection." FILM & POLITICS 16 (n.d.): 1-12. Web. 

 Taubin, Amy. “The 'Alien' Trilogy : from Feminism to Aids.” Women and film: a Sight and sound reader, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 1993, p. 93.

Thedevilchicken. “More Human Than Human - thedevilchicken - Alien: Resurrection (1997) [Archive of Our Own].” Archive of our Own, 8 Feb. 17ADAD, archiveofourown.org/works/9624419?view_adult=true. Accessed 18 Feb. 2017.