How Many Times Have I Diedin Gaza?
I am without any family in my 35th year of life
How many times have I died in Palestine?
Like the children of Gaza I too have an imagination
How many of these children have died to account for my existence?
Though I know I do not send the bombs
I know that the pay for my labor does.
My labor does not compare to the labor of refugees
My labor is tedious but lacking in difficulty
Yet it is enough to afford so much military.
The labor of Palestinians running for their life
Can't hardly put food on their table
Even if it could, they may be shot trying.
How many times have I been killed in Palestine?
"Israel" wouldn't mind me being there as I am
Trust, if i spoke Arabic and were brown the number would be only once
Because none of us are superheroes.
Without hospitals or refuge, a wound in Palestine is life-threatening.
We don't get nine lives
Like the stray cats that feed on the vacant bodies.
One life in one world can feel very lonely.
If you can't fathom how many are dead,
Try to think about how many are still alive.
You are alive, with one life, and you have the power to do something.
Not a super power, that is not the world on your shoulders.
Breathe with me.
Palestine will be free.
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okay, continuing the journey we started in this post, where we left off with the demon children of lilith
i now present to you the saga of joseph and mary, in three parts, which bring us to the end of prometheus (2012)
Part IV. The Fool’s Journey Through the Sperm Donation Clinic, or: I hate Charlie Holloway and He Should Have Suffered More Before He Died
Part V. Our Lady of Sorrows (Latin: Beata Maria Virgo Perdolens), Our Lady of Dolours, the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows (Latin: Mater Dolorosa), and Our Lady of Piety, Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolours are names by which the Virgin Mary is referred to in relation to sorrows in her life.
Part VI. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Part IV. The Fool’s Journey Through the Sperm Donation Clinic, or: I hate Charlie Holloway and He Should Have Suffered More Before He Died
in Part I-III i established my theories on how the contaminant effected the sacrificial engineer, the proto-facehuggers, and Fifield. now let’s further examine Exhibit B to get to the more basic mechanics of the First Xenomorph’s evolution
a fingertip of contaminant diluted in alcohol + charlie holloway = zombie charlie
that is a full branch of one evolution, from start to finish. contaminant in vase, taken to the UCSS Prometheus, transferred from David’s fingertip to Charlie’s drink, Charlie started to get sick, Charlie was midsommar/hereditary-d
what’s more interesting is the branch off of this path wherein Charlie served as a vector species to bring the contaminant to Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (but that’s Part V)
charlie was poisoned directly, but was exposed to a much smaller amount of contaminant than fifield, so his transformation took longer
we see the morning after Prometheus lands on LV-223 that holloway looks in the mirror and sees something silvery worming its way out from his tear duct before slipping back inside his eye
honestly i could argue that this is less a contaminant life cycle stage and more of a cool visual in a space horror movie, but, let’s not take it as such
instead, let’s note that the earth worms became proto-facehuggers by transforming into Dick Cobras and keep in mind what i said in Part III: that the contaminant adapts itself to its environment through a shared collective memory
charlie’s drink was poisoned at the same time that Fifield and Milburn were lost in the caverns overnight despite fifield not only designing and engineering the pups that mapped the entire structure but also having a live 3d map of the entire thing literally strapped to his arm it’s fine i’m not bitter we can just say he was high i guess and that millburn was stupid
from all those miles away, that tiny little speck of contaminant became to work inside of charlie to do what that giant pool of contaminant did to fifield
it (the sample) knew how it (the collective consciousness) had transformed those worms into something slithering and deadly, so it became something slithering and deadly inside charlie
it (the sample) learned that it (the collective consciousness) enveloped fifield whole and turned him into a monster, so it started doing the same thing to charlie from the inside out
Part V. Our Lady of Sorrows (Latin: Beata Maria Virgo Perdolens), Our Lady of Dolours, the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows (Latin: Mater Dolorosa), and Our Lady of Piety, Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolours are names by which the Virgin Mary is referred to in relation to sorrows in her life.
this is hard to type out because thinking about Shaw for too long makes me go banana nut brazy but i will limit myself, in this specific post, to talking about her as a xenomorph progenitor
as i promised in our intro, i’m here to talk about how charlie holloway served as a vector species to bring the contaminant to Dr Elizabeth Shaw
the mechanics of this are important to note because the dilution that happened here (exposure to the atmosphere, minuscule dosage, passage through vector species) allowed elizabeth shaw to nurture death and bear it as a squalling babe
so: david poisons charlie, charlie inseminates elizabeth, elizabeth becomes pregnant with an alien fetus which develops to a third of its maturity within a matter of hours
in mammalian pregnancy, as proven in lab rats and extrapolated to human subjects, the fetus is a parasite
anyone who knows anything about pregnancy and the resulting complications could tell you this, but the fetus inside elizabeth starts killing her pretty graphically
even as she stumbles to vicker’s chambers to use the bypass surgery pod, the thing is ripping through her insides. it was never meant to gestate. to mutate, certainly. to corrupt. but to grow? to develop? that has never been its way.
every act of creation the contaminant has performed from its inception has been an act of destruction (see Part I-III). Doctor Elizabeth Shaw did the impossible.
but, of course, the creature was not of woman born!! it was, paradoxically, illogically, alive when it was from its mother’s womb untimely ripp’d!!
to return to our equation:
contaminant + exposure to atmosphere + vector species + elizabeth shaw = The First Facehugger
Part VI. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
okay, here is where my two key points become the most relevant: that the contaminant has a collective consciousness where it can learn from its vector and host species, and that the contaminant is Death
by becoming (Becoming, if you will) rather than destroying, creating rather than subsuming, the contaminant changes the core essence of itself
it has taken apart many things, and so been many things, and now it has been born
why did Elizabeth’s baby take the form of a giant squid? because it looked tight as shit
but if you look at the little pulsating mouth-suckers on its underbelly you’ll see that they look quite a bit like the Dick Cobra’s secondary faces
maybe the First Facehugger actually resembled some sort of animal the Engineers had on their planet, but most likely the SFX team was given a task to make something slimy that looked like a facehugger but not quite and that’s what they did
personally i fucking love the big baby i think her character design and performance are both utterly stunning
the Final Engineer comes on board Vicker’s pod to kill Shaw, he fails, and is instead enveloped by the First Facehugger. she sticks her proboscis/ovipositor down his throat and he dies
this further supports my theory that Dick Cobras are proto-facehuggers AND the monarch butterfly theory because the way she killed the Final Engineer was just like how they killed Milburn, and the appendage she used to do it looked like them as well
then, very simply, we have an equation that looks like this:
First Facehugger + Final Engineer = First Xenomorph
of course the facehugger would have learned about birth and gestation from having experienced it herself. and of course the birth she would give to her own child would look like the one she had experienced. violent. cruel. forced.
the design for the baby xeno sucked major ass tbh i hate its stupid little goblin shark mouth i hate that it’s like... teal? and i hate how smooth it is. many many thumbs down, especially after how beautiful its mama was.
but there you have it, the First Xeno is the final step in an evolution of distilled Death becoming a very different kind of harbinger, one focused on its own perpetuation and the complete and total annihilation of everything else
the contaminant learned about birth and so built itself a process that would facilitate further death. it made itself a creature that begins and ends in death, and pulls all in its wake down with it
a xenomorph is a perfect organism, its structural perfection matched only by its hostility. a xenomorph is death that exists only to breed. death made to breed? death carried through perpetual breeding. a hive species of death. idk i’m workshopping the final sentence on this one, but that’s my spiel.
stay tuned for all my Covenant xeno-biology theories!!!!!
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