#ripley

[spiderine]

how soon they forget

i understand why the ‘grizzled loner who slowly melts & improves their outlook on life when forced to take care of a kid’ trope is a male exclusive role, bc the optics of a grizzled loner woman healing by becoming a mother are maybe not so good, but every time i think abt a hypothetical female version of that trope i black out instantly. could we maybe just do it one time and all agree to be cool about it

[sameboot]

Drew some of my monster ocs as funny little guys…. for enrichment

[itsrheasgirl]

She is the most at house shows.

Precious little bean.

[rzc11]

[389]

1. Alien 3, directed by David Fincher 2. Girl’s Head beside a Skull by Rex Whistler

[losthiqhway]

[humanoidhistory]

Alien production still.

[hvcklebury]

she is literally me!

[horrorvillaintourney]

HORROR’S NEXT TOP GENDER FINALS: Ellen Ripley (Alien) vs. The Xenomorph (Alien)

PROPAGANDA FOR RIPLEY:

"The character of Ripley was originally meant to be played by a man. also pleaseeee if this competition is a bunch of white guys im going to lose it"

"She is so incredibly butch and cool, she has that butch mechanic thing going on"

"The character was originally going to be a man but Sigourney Weaver killed it at the audition so she was hired and not a single line of dialogue was changed. Also, overall, most of the films leave an implication that gender is not very important to the point of being a practically genderless society. Everyone in these movies is too stressed and too busy working under late, late stage capitalism. My point is that Ellen Ripley is definitely (however unintentionally) agender."

PROPAGANDA FOR THE XENOMORPH:

"Is this a "character"? It's a whole species technically but I think it should count. Anyway I know people like to think about them as female and therefore Girlbosses or whatever and I think that's fine, have fun. However, they are obviously an alien species that doesn't adhere to human ideas of gender- or fit into ideas of binary sex if we wanted to think that way, since they reproduce very differently. I am also thinking about how their (very iconic) design incorporates a lot of sexual elements/imagery, and in that way too they mix-and-match and play around with gender. And again they are just so iconic."

[petitworld]

Dunsborough Park, Ripley, England by Evelina Makau

[allwhiterain]

Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in Alien (1979) directed by Ridley Scott

[ungoliantschilde]

Ripley, by Travis Charest.

[itsrheasgirl]

[annemarieyeretzian]

ripley telling vax “it’s all over.” and vax gasping out “not yet.” and ripley laughing “arrogant to the end.” and vax saying “nah. I just know something you don’t.” and vex rising from the water with her bow raised and arrow pointed directly at ripley’s throat,,, POETIC CINEMA

[yaknowlikenyah]

Dogs need enrichment or they start to get a little too enthusiastic play biting.

[josketches]

nothing in common but some reeboks and discovering a hostile alien species