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Something deep inside

Roiling, rolling, fighting to

Break free and rampage

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Part of me wants to equate this to pregnancy… and the other part of me is like 😬

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Ugh… I was thinking more of the movie Alien.

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Oh no, I got you! They just correlated in my head. The face hugger and um… babies… I’m the problem 😅😂

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I chose liberty

Stretched and snapped my bone restraints

Free now from papa

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So proud 🥹 🖤

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Humans love babies!

So why all the sad faces?

Oh right, the chest thing... 😎

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Yeah, being ripped open by a parasite could be upsetting😜

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It's definitely put a dampener on things, for sure. Haha... 😎

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Sweet, hot acid kiss

Only flesh divides

Us from each other

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Oh man, that’s beautiful in the most excruciating way🖤

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Thank you.

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Hmm, seems I'm developing a theme here with these last few ones. Part of my Queasy Collection, I guess.

I stared into the…

…abyss, which was my trashcan

Got dry heaves again!

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Light reading for the commode?

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Envelope with DNA

Glue to cell walls

Tongue tied amoebic leach.

Lie, die, fie.

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Ooo well done! Really vivid language🖤

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Nothing in that long skull but

hunger, hunger and hunger -

Is there any more within you?

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The ripped flesh of birth,

The scream of parent dying,

Happy Birthday Alien

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Nice! Very visceral! I love that the first thing it hears is its hosts scream🖤

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Death’s grip in your chest

Masked in warmth, deceit, and bone

Prey becomes the trap.

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In ribcage shadows

Death’s cunning lie lies hidden

Hunter falls to prey.

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My pulse, false comfort

Death’s embrace, a silent ruse

Xenomorph undone.

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So good! I love how you’ve woven traps and lies throughout, it’s such a pivotal part of the relationship🖤

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Aug 2Liked by Honeygloom

Really? It is safe?

Kinda cool, but it's moving.

Ah, fuck, you bastard.

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Love it! This is definitely how I’ll die, touching the thing that shouldn’t be touched🖤

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Aug 2Liked by Honeygloom

live and learn...hopefully without a new species ripping your sternum

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I mean someone has to learn the hard way for everyone else…

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Aug 2·edited Aug 2Liked by Honeygloom

Oozing acid rage

Mouth like Russian nesting doll

Springs forth its surprise

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Love that image!! The doll reference makes it so jarring🖤

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LV-223

The Engineers’ breeding ground

Where birth begets death

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So awesome, that last line sent me on an existential tangent I might not recover from. Love it so much🖤

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Its not a tumor!

I swear I think it just moved.

I don't feel so well.

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This is a great mini timeline, I love the complete 180 from the first line to the last🖤

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Aug 2Liked by Honeygloom

True intimacy

Is not so pleasing, you'll find

Devoured inside out

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Love this take🖤 I’m so tempted…

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Aug 2Liked by Honeygloom

Just saw this again on my feed and started looking up Alien stuff and it seems like I was kinda right!

"[story creator] O'Bannon felt that the symbolism of 'homosexual oral rape' was an effective means of discomforting male viewers."

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I’ve been looking stuff up, too! Had no idea he wanted men to feel uncomfortable at being “pregnant”, too. Kind of awesome really.

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Dripping mandible

Tongue with teeth licks sweat and flesh

Ellen leaves unharmed

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She’s a badass🤷‍♀️ Love the imagery, that middle line is 😬🖤

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Her eggs hatch, warm, safe

In their cocoons. Their first cries

Muffled by their hosts’.

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“Did you say something?” Love the intermingling of innocent baby images with the word “host.” So disturbing🖤

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