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š Prometheus Fics I Adore š
Just here to share some Prometheus (Alien) fics I love to re-read. š
Forbidden Gifts by Ardath_Rekha On Ao3 (Has not been finished) - This fic actually has the Last Engineer x Elizabeth Shaw ship! It's such an extreme rare-pair, and it's very well done! I love this ship with my whole heart, istg. - The bridging done between the prequels & the main film is interesting, and the whole story takes you on such a journey. The only thing I remember of reading this the first time was that it was a perfect vibe for mid-winter. - I won't spoil anything, but it does something really interesting with David's character, so for any David sympathizers (*cough cough* @elecctromechanika ) this one's pretty fun! - Is super internal-dialogue centered, and I love it for that! - Just as a note: there is a sex scene in here, but the author warns you thoroughly, and you can skip it if you please.
Those Whom Fortune Favors + Intrepid by JShale on Ao3 (Intrepid isn't finished, but the first one is!) - Those Whom Fortune Favors doesn't need much artistic liberty when going in, as it keeps the same isolated feeling & story as the movie. - Elizabeth's characterization is so fucking on-point. It's always the little things that make each character so distinct from one another, and makes them layered. - Intrepid is basically TWFF, but from the Last Engineer's P.O.V. & adds really interesting perspective I think I needed to recognize how severely a language barrier can warp your perception of a character.
Alone by @wingedmidnight on Ao3 (My apologies if you don't want to be tagged! I'll get rid of whatever upon request. :3) - This fic is OC & David centered, but I love it a lot because of that. It's a very interesting take, seeing the world through a different human's eyes while exploring the weird world of Alien. - David also doesn't turn out to be a creepy little murder machine! No war crimes here. Love that for him. - If you don't like shipping, romance, or sexual tension (the latter of which happens in the both of the above listed, seemingly only on Shaw's side in TWFF-) this one's better suited! - The world building is so creative! Not just in environment, but in the personalities and culture of the Engineers. - Not finished, but I don't mind. I love re-reading it either way.
Curiosity is a Virtue by MewMidnight fanfiction.net (Is also not finished) - There's definitely Elizabeth x Engineer stuff in here, but I'm a little less focused on that. There's also like... one chapter of smut, but it can be easily avoided, if that's not to your taste. - Shaw is as curious as she always is here, constantly seeking answers. - I enjoy the little chunks of world-building in here, but it's mostly funny to watch the other Engineers gawk over Shaw and David the whole time. - CiaV is a far lighter read by comparison, for multiple reasons. It's just such a nice ride.
Figured I'd make this list to give a bit of love (and life) back into this niche corner of the Alien fandom! I hope you give at least one of these a try, and happy reading! š
#alien franchise#prometheus 2012#elizabeth shaw#the last engineer#david 8#prometheus engineer#alien engineer#engineer#lv 223#fics i adore#favs tag
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compilation of this type of post
edit: idk how much this is gonna do but since making this post i got covid and need some help, please consider it
#juno.txt#'k smog and batboy caught flipping a grunt' and 'is chep a brambles company' get me so bad every fucking time#actually preemptively putting this in my fav tag just cuz they make me laugh so much#fav
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are you a Byron or Wilde apologist?
concerned citizens from 1895 are messaging me
#anon this was a hit with the group chat. like i won't answer it seriously. but easily my fav message ever#begrudging byron tag
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not caring too much about a fandomās favourite guy is the worst. youāll think āoh iāll look into the tag see if anything new and coolās thereā and itās just that fucking guy again
#this is about astarion. gale to an extent too#had this with dragonage too because 80% of the time it was just solas or cullen. who i dont care for too much#and i do LIKE astarion and gale. But my favourites are the girls and wyll#something i had less with the dao cast because i generally also like the popular guys of that one alistair and zev#but then itās like. ādo you guys even understand these charactersā#da2 i dont care for anders dragonage all that much. Fenris i do LIKE and heās my fav guy. but i dont care for them the most#sorry for complain posting. Went into a tag today if you couldnt tell#roscoe rambles
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best trope and you can fight me over it (i abuse this so hard with my ocs)
#tag your oc#draw the ocs#best trope#tropes#just prompt things#bonus points if theyāre a cutie patootie when theyāre smiling#favourite ātropes#fav trope#good tropes#JPTās homemade ship dynamic posts
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all drawings i did in this style in past several months
was there one which you liked and if yes - which one and why?
#my art#sonic#illustration#sth#knuckles one is my personal fav#it's the only one which came out exactly as i wanted it to#also i ain't tagging all of that
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iām. killing you. iām KILLING you. i donāt care about ANYTHING else, i donāt give a SHIT about anything else. i- my programming is just get. that. fucking. guy. right. now.
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oh boy oh boy oh boy am i here to tell you how much that was not rhetorical.
i guess the best place to start wpuld be simply with HR Giger and his rise to fame with his biomechanical artwork. Biomech, as it sounds, is the combination of organics and mechanics, most often represented with human/animal anatomy where joints are replaces with gears and pistons, but infused with muscles and tendons. Gigers art was particularly inspired by Salvador Dali, HP Lovecraft, and Alfred Kubin
(some examples of their work in order of who was listed)
(The Temptation of St. Anthony ,The Shaggoth,Homage to Rimbaud)
Giger was enlisted to the design set by Ridley after he viewed Giger "Necronimicon IV", for which the Xenomorph was designed after.
"Giger's design for the Alien evoked many contradictory sexual images. As critic Ximena Gallardo notes, the creature's combination of sexually evocative physical and behavioral characteristics creates 'a nightmare vision of sex and death. It subdues and opens the male body to make it pregnant, and then explodes it in birth. In its adult form, the alien strikes its victims with a rigid phallic tongue that breaks through skin and bone. More than a phallus, however, the retractable tongue has its own set of snapping, metallic teeth that connects it to the castrating vagina dentata.'"
The Alien is meant to incite sexual horror in men specifically, between ita phallic shaped head/inner tongue and vaginal secondatry mouth, whule still maintining no sexual dimorphism (except feom the queen) so you cant tell if its a male or female.
"however, he could not conceive of an interesting way for it to get onto the ship. Inspired after waking from a dream, Shusett said, "I have an idea: the monster screws one of them", planting its egg in his body, and then bursting out of his chest. Both realized the idea had never been done before, and it subsequently became the core of the film. "This is a movie about alien interspecies rape", O'Bannon said in the documentary Alien Evolution. "That's scary because it hits all of our buttons." O'Bannon felt that the symbolism of "homosexual oral rape" was an effective means of discomforting male viewers."
after this point all of my thoughts devolve into a garble of pointing and hand flapping so enjoy what i was able to provide and i hope we become moots bc i wanna talk abt alien w ppl so so bad
BY THE VOID, THANK YOU! This is so well done. I fucking LOVE IT. I'd LOVE being moots! š I need somebody to info dump on, too!
Putting my own thoughts below the cut so nothing gets too long.
I always thought the idea of making (usually cis) men uncomfortable via graphic, fictional representations of rape was SUCH a good change of pace. It's refreshing, not just in terms of "flipping the script", but the way it's presented is often beautiful, and grotesque.
I remember watched the "horror" (read: fetish) movie "Don't Breathe" with my FATHER not knowing the plot twist (because that's the point of watching the damn movie...) It made me so fucking uncomfortable. It's just a fetish film, honestly. It handles extreme, very real events with no grace or creative liberty. It's horrible.
ANYWAY! Back to Aliens, I think that's also why I fucking LOVE the hive system the Xenomorphs work in. I know some people don't enjoy these terrifying, eldritch organisms being "reduced" to something so earthly as a hive system, but let's be honest, it's effective way to reproduce/gain numbers, and it's still just as scary.
That's the reason I adore the QUEEN herself. Her design is powerful, and elaborate. She sure as hell plays and looks the roll of queen. She's the epicenter of the species who commands all those under her as she "births" more of the monstrosities to destroy worlds in her children's wake. She's the only feminine being binding the hive together into an organized destructive force, and she doesn't even need a male to fertilize the eggs. (<- also a detail I really like.) She's quite literally an evil girl boss LMAO I love her.
These are the main reasons (and I'm sure there's more,) as to why I love HR Giger's original art work, and how it was shown in the first two movies, then later beautifully presented again in Prometheus 2012. (<- somebody please be obsessed with the Engineers with me, I love them, and need to bang one asap LMAO)
It's an amazing example of art that's meant to "comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable."
#tw rape mention#h r giger#alien franchise#alien 1979#aliens 1986#alien movies#h r giger art#hr giger#autistic stuff#favs tag
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Their name is Barry and they can't escape the digital cir
#sonic art#sonic fanart#sonicfanart#sonic artist#sth#tadc#tadc fanart#I'm not sure if i should tag tadc characters but i will anyway hello other fandom#barry the quokka#tadc pomni#any rose#tadc ragatha#sonic the hedgehog#tadc jax#silver the hedgehog#tadc kinger#shadow the hedgehog#tadc zooble#i love zooble btw they're my fav#tikal the echidna#tadc gangle#gangle is close second i love her#yes i made shadow and tikal zooble and gangle cause i ship both pairs my brain is HUGE#my art#to whoever in the tags said i used the wrong pronouns for barry#you are correct#my bad I've fixed it
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Female characters who are the sole voice of reason <<<<<<< Female characters who think of themselves as the sole voice of reason but who are actually just as insane as those around them
#meryl stryfe#trigun meryl#trigun#trigun (1998)#I havenāt actually seen tristamp#but based on the gif sets and clips Iāve seen I think itās still accurate#weiss schnee#yeah Iām a rwby fan so what#there are probably more examples but modern media is sooo bad at writing female characters that I canāt think of any#also old time media#all media is bad at writing female characters#anywho if anyone reblogs this can they put their fav insane lady blorbo in the tags
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Things that are better than sex:
1. when a masked character does the head tilt thingy
#i think about this a lot tbh#tagging all my masked favs because theyāve bewitched me body and soul#michael myers#ghostface#thomas hewitt#bubba sawyer#leatherface#nameless ghouls#ghost ghouls#swiss ghoul#rain ghoul#dewdrop ghoul#jason voorhees#shitpost
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All the corrupted namecards from Game Changer episode Deja Vu
#game changer#dropout#sam reich#mike trapp#ify nwadiwe#siobhan thompson#brian david gilbert#josh ruben#zac oyama#do i tag grant??? i dont even know#the gilbert david brian one took me a second to realize it was wrong lol#i think my fav is cambridge or Ppp
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the suns setting
#mouthwashing#daisuke#idk if i should tag anya n swansea but theyre there. it matters#anya n curly r my favs i think but i didnt expect to like daisuke n swansea so much. now every time i think abt them i get so so sad bro#doodle#draws
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MY CHELLL
my friend paid me 5 uro to draw chell portal
#YYEYEAAAAAAAGAHHHHHHAHHHHH#CHELL FROM PORTALL#spending money on my friends is my favorite thing <3#worth the whole 5 bucks#portal#friend art#favs tag#art to me
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was reading little kid with a big death wish (@remedyturtles) and wanted to play around with visualizing leo and sensei's headspace and putting it alongside the outside world and i'm mostly happy with it so i'm posting it
#it's messy but umm it's charming i think#i realized as i was tagging the author that they also wrote firefight which is probably my current fav fic ever the codependency is so good#disaster twins#rottmnt#tmnt#this is my art tag#rise leo#rise donnie#i took so liberties as it's been a while since i read the scene in it's full context so it might be a little different#rottmnt leo#rottmnt donnie#gonna tag the twins since they're the main focus#seriously go read this fic and firefight tho they're amazing
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