Xenomorph XX121, commonly referred to as simply the Xenomorph, known colloquially as the Alien, and classified as XX121, is a highly aggressive endoparasitoid extraterrestrial species. The Xenomorphs are vicious predatory creatures with no higher goals than the propagation of their species and the destruction of any life that could pose a threat to them. Like wasps or bees, Xenomorphs are eusocial, with a fertile Queen breeding a host of subordinate castes. The creatures are known for their potent acidic blood and their pharyngeal jaws, although their biological life cycle, in which their offspring are implanted inside living hosts before erupting violently from their chests, is in many ways their signature aspect.
Aside from their repeated conflicts with humans, Xenomorphs have notably been associated with the Yautja, who know them as kainde amedha (“hard meat”). The Yautja revere the creatures as incredibly dangerous and thus highly worthy prey, notably employing them in initiation Hunts that serve to test young members of their society and mark their progression into adulthood
The Xenomorphs’ design is credited to Swiss surrealist and artist H. R. Giger, originating in a lithograph titled Necronom IV and refined for the series’s first film, Alien. The practical effects for the Xenomorph’s head were designed and constructed by Italian special effects designer Carlo Rambaldi. Species design and life cycle have been extensively augmented, sometimes inconsistently, throughout each film.
Unlike many other extraterrestrial races in science fiction (such as the Daleks and Cybermen in Doctor Who, or the Klingons and Borg in Star Trek), the Xenomorphs are not sapient toolmakers — they lack a technological civilization of any kind, and are instead primal, predatory creatures with no higher goal than the preservation and propagation of their own species by any means necessary, up to and including the elimination of other lifeforms that may pose a threat to their existence. Like wasps or termites, Xenomorphs are eusocial, with a single fertile queen breeding a caste of warriors, workers, or other specialist strains. The Xenomorphs’ biological life cycle involves traumatic implantation of endoparasitoid larvae inside living hosts; these “chestburster” larvae erupt from the host’s body after a short incubation period, mature into adulthood within hours, and seek out more hosts for implantation.
Characteristics
Xenomorphs are primarily solitary ambush predators, although they have been known to adopt swarm tactics when acting in larger groups. Despite their voracious ability to kill, they often seek to take their victims alive to be hosts for more Xenomorphs; victims are taken to the Hive (or simply a secluded location if no Hive exists), cocooned and/or immobilized before being impregnated with a Xenomorph embryo. However, when their target becomes a threat or is deemed unsuitable for harvest, the Xenomorph will not hesitate to quickly dispatch the chosen host.
Appearance
Notably, Xenomorphs will alter their physical appearance during development depending on the physiology of the host in which they gestate – in all likelihood, this incorporation of physical traits gleaned from the host is designed to ensure the adult creature is better suited to the environment in which it will find itself.
Outwardly, they are encased in a tough mesoskeleton, lending them a skeletal, biomechanical appearance, and are usually colored in muted shades of black, blue or bronze. The outer shell is incredibly resilient, impervious not only to the creature’s own potent acid blood, but also capable of withstanding some forms of small arms fire. Whatever organism a Xenomorph gestates within, they invariably possess distinctive, elongated, cylindrical skulls, but have no visible facial features other than their mouth. The carapace atop the head has been seen to vary, from smooth and vaguely translucent to ridged and opaque
Culture and society
Xenomorphs operate under a caste system, with groups of specialized individuals performing distinct tasks within the species. It is not clear to what degree these castes are subject to a social hierarchy, although certain Xenomorph types, notably the Praetorians and the Queens, clearly exercise some degree of control and superiority over other more common variations.
While individual Xenomorphs have been known to operate independently, owing to their tendency to reproduce rapidly and in large numbers they are more commonly encountered in groups and often likened to an infestation owing to their tendency to spread and consume all suitable host organisms in an area. As with many other eusocial organisms, Xenomorphs, particularly in larger groups, will create a central nest or Hive in which they will reside, often overseen by an Egg-laying Queen. Raiding parties will be sent out into the surrounding area to search for and capture more hosts, which will then be brought to the Hive and used to create more Xenomorphs. In larger infestations, smaller “satellite” Hives may be created, containing just a few Xenomorphs, allowing victims to be cocooned and impregnated even far away from the Queen herself.
Behind the Scenes
The script for the 1979 film Alien was initially drafted by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett. Dan O’Bannon drafted an opening in which the crew of a mining ship are sent to investigate a mysterious message on an alien planet. He eventually settled on the threat being an alien creature.
Prior to writing the script to Alien, O’Bannon had been working in France for Chilean cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s planned adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic science-fiction novel Dune. Also hired for the project was Swiss surrealist artist H. R. Giger. Giger showed O’Bannon his nightmarish, monochromatic artwork, which left O’Bannon deeply disturbed.
Giger conceived the Alien as being vaguely human but a human in full armor, protected from all outside forces. He mandated that the creature have no eyes, because he felt that it made them much more frightening if you could not tell they were looking at you
A cultured Alien
O’Bannon’s original concept for the Alien was that it was a member of an advanced civilization, an idea ultimately dropped in favor of a more simplistic, animalistic take. In his initial vision, the final form of the adult Alien was in fact part of a peaceful, cultured race who first had to pass through a period of adolescence, at which stage they were consumed with ferocious violence and aggression. The creature’s incredibly complicated reproductive cycle would form the basis of a religion the species followed, involving the use of sacrificial hosts to breed more young inside ornate, ritualistic pyramids. After birth, the violent adolescent creatures would be tended to by the more docile adults, but when those adults were wiped out by an unknown event, the unborn children were left dormant for thousands or even millions of years, waiting for more hosts to arrive.[48] It would be one of these hyper-aggressive, untended adolescents that would stalk the crew of the Nostromo.
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Did i say first yer? First.
Having a rough night. Bipolar inclines me to strong emotions and i can’t always tell if my responses are reasonable or not. That kind of self-doubt creates fertile ground for introspection, but there’s also an element of horror in not knowing if you can trust your own perceptions and feelings.
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Now YouTube has paid comments that get sent to the top
We are entering an inversion of the attention economy where instead of people paying to see you
You pay to be seen by other people
The mainstream internet is going to get drastically shittier in the next few years
Shit for the enshittification god
The mainstream internet is going to get drastically shittier in the next few years
It’s been been severely downhill since about 2016. Probably earlier too.
the internet sucks ass and has had a negative effect on humanity, i hope it continues to decline and more people embrace the immortal science of dialectical goingoutsideism
Death to America
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Abolish linear time
Abolish time
Sometimes i dream about being able to travel freely in the time dimension, living an impossible myriad of lives interwoven in a vast and uncanny fabric of love, discovery, learning, and invention. A limitless life extending in all possible directions.
you can see income disparity on google maps by searching “amazon” and noticing which parts of the city have all the amazon lockers, and which parts have all the amazon warehouses
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The academy gave him an Oscar when he had been living in exile for decades for some of the cruelest crimes imaginable
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i just got done arguing with someone online defending the letter the celebrities wrote asking the cops not to arrest him because “the cops were abusing their power and and lots of people worked hard on the festival” . and everyone was agreeing with them because “cops are bad”. SO WE CANT ARREST PEDOPHILES because thats anti worker and pro cop. Im gonna screeeeeeaaaaaaaaam. could you imagine people doing this for anything other than a cis white man??? i have an idea ban him from the fucking festival, or work with the cops i think its ok for things like this!!! so glad i have sane people on hexbear to make me feel less crazy.
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I’ve never met a farmer who wasn’t just at much of a petit bourgeois shithead as a landlord or “small” business tyrant. By the third time you get cornered hearing the same talking points about how no one wants to work anymore, but it doesn’t matter anyway because your land is worth 5.5 million dollars now, you start getting a little annoyed. Modern kulaks.
Office is doing a Harry Potter-themed group costuming for Halloween
Getting cancelled for dressing up as a goblin banker.
Pretend to be a die hard Christian who’s against witchcraft
Honestly I’m thinking of reaching out to the very nice woman organizing it and be like this is not a politically neutral choice
Also its weird for it be themed around one series, like for some plausible deniability they couldve said “wizards and witches” wink
This is inspiration for my writing so you’ll have an alternative magic college student to dress up as for the event. The drug using, laid back students who go to the less prestigious of the schools in the continent.
Pointed out in /r/DeProgram during a discussion about the Romanovs that rules lawyering about the kids ages echoes of creeper shit and someone actually said that 16 year old isnt a kid and talked about age of consent . Fucking disturbing to see communists say that shit.
Like to be clear. I think killing the Romanovs was an unfortunate necessity under the circumstances I was merely protesting the rules lawyering about their ages.
A 16 year old boy is physically equivalent to 25 year old man in almost every way.
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The type of shit cops pull out to rationalize brutalizing or even shooting teenagers.
Yeah I gave up on responding to him because I just started to feel uncomfortable but like has he seen a 16 year old boy lately? A handful can pass for maybe a few years older but not 25.
Maybe if its someone who’s basically training full time like Mike Tyson but thats so far out of the norm it would be comical if not for how examples like that get used to justify violence.
If we’re being generous, I think a lot of people don’t regularly interact with teenagers and dramatically misremember their own maturity at that age.
If we’re not being generous,
They’re likely talking about strength, endurance, and physical fitness in fighting. A 16 year old is mentally a child, but a fit 16 year old is absolutely capable of learning to fight and being an effective combatant. I’m not endorsing this, but history is full of horror and many children have been forced to carry a sword or a gun over the long millenia.
If I didn’t want my children killed I simply wouldn’t participate I a system where their existence required oppression via divine right. Skill issue.
Not the point of my post. You’re knee jerking to an argument I’m not having the same way the person I’m linking is. I didnt come here to have this argument. My post is about people doing weird age lawyering shit.
Oh, fair. You have way more patience in regards to dealing with people on issues like that than I do.
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Ah ok. Didnt know that part about the whites not doing that. I always hear they were in left circles. Thanks for the new information.
Anyway I was mostly ranting about the weird rules lawyering about minors here. And the idea that we should apply cultural relativism and that “they weren’t considered kids then” is a reasonable argument. Idk. I dont really like that line of thinking.
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Yeah, and in another post someone implied that he deserved to die because of Nikolai sending people to die in the WWI meatgrinder and I was like “y’all understand that Alexei was a child with no adminstrative power whatsoever right?”.
I don’t get it.
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Yeah, not disagreement with any of that I’m just bothered by the collective guilt stuff.
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I have considered doing something like this to become hot.
So far all I’ve come up with is going to the gym a lot
If you’re gonna be someone else, be the Fonz.
I unironically know people who got in to larping becuase nerds doing nerd stuff, but after years of pretending to be Chadrok grimtooth, chad orc barbarian, and yelling at monsters and standing up for fictional justice, they actually got pretty good at actually being a chad and having convictions and growing in to a better version of themselves. Portraying the fictional character creates a safe space for your ego where you can pretend to be the person you want to be, and through the process of creativity and play learn how to actually embody those qualities.
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Hmm. I’m afraid I don’t have anything for that.
Homeless adventurer was pretty cool for a while. I don’t recommend it past your id 20s though.
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Become a guy from Brooklyn that says “Ayyyhh woah” a lot
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Brooklyn is not a place, it’s a state of mind
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Uhh. When I did that as a kid I went with “Suppress all involuntary expression, and instead express a stereotype of someone who might snap and stab you in spite of it being a bad idea.”
This was not, on the whole, helpful
Edit: Buuut I don’t involuntarily express much besides anger, so somehow it just looped its way back into toxic masculinity
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Tucker Carlson
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I want to fuck tucker carlson and that’s not complicated in the slightest
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you get to choose who and how to be
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make better choices and be a better person ig
no but really you can be someone you like being. You just gotta let yourself
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it’s hard and I’m stuck recycling aphorisms because I’ve tied myself to the blind optimism of tomorrow being different. Some days you’re done but some days you’re better, and every day is one day further in any direction.
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yep tru
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If your core personality is weak, then you may as well not have a weak regular core as well. Join c/fitness and get FUCKING JACKED COMRADE HELL YEAH
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My aunt just told me that if she wasn’t related to me she would be hitting on me
What the fuck how do I even respond to that
It’s a good thing they never expanded on the origins of the aliens. That’s so good, because revealing their origins would have undercut their incredible alienness and the “nothing is scarier” aspect of this horrible thing that emerges from nowhere to spread death and terror. So it’s good we know nothing about their origins!
It’s been a disaster, Scott should never have been allowed to touch the franchise again. And this is coming from someone who found Prometheus tolerable. Sucks that Neill Blomkamp never got his shot at an Alien movie.
i was totally convinced they were gonna do a ‘what the fuck went down at lv426’ prequel before they did prometheus and shit. after seeing prometheus im glad they didnt touch it
I made a meme once. I showed my dad, I said “Dad, look, this meme is about you, I drew you as a Chad! People all over the world are going to see this meme!” And he looked at it, and I noticed he started to get all misty eyed. And I thought that it was just pride welling up in him. But he shakes his head and just mutters “I don’t get it, son.” And I said that’s okay, dad, most of my students don’t get it either. But he just kept shaking his head, starring down at the meme and repeated “I don’t get it.” And that look of defeat in his eyes, that’s what meme-illiteracy does to someone.
If your car alarm is going off for no reason I think people should be allowed to break your windows and take whatever’s inside
Actually though car alarms should be fucking banned and forcibly removed from every car on the road, fuck you thinking you have the right to ruin my day with your loud noise on the off chance someone might maybe decide to take the radio out of your 2002 Camry.
Two communist nerds arguing about philosophy in a Star Trek meme community to the point where they’re issuing personal insults and reporting one another is the most insufferable thing. Five day time out to both parties so they can touch some grass.
i feel seen by this star trek mod
I screenshotted it because lol