Sami's Strongest Soldier

thing whose humour has aged poorly

thing whose humour was honestly kind of shit even when it was new, but you were too young to pick up the subtext

thing that was life-changing in its exact contemporary circumstances and incomprehensible outside of them

thing that's an inferior knock-off of a different thing

thing that's actually an unwitting conflation of poorly remembered fragments of several other things

thing that moves anyone you show it to to remark that it explains some things about you

thing where revisiting it prompts a profound sense of alienation as you realise it's no longer relatable to you

thing where revisiting it prompts a jarring revelation that this is probably why you have that one specific kink

Look at that thing. We get used to sci-fi where the spaceships try to look aerodynamic and cool, and the Nostromo went in the exact opposite direction. It is an entire industrial refinery floating through the void, matching the interior of overly complex panels, cramped spaces and chimneys dripping with water, chains dangling and clinking in the factory shafts.

It's enormous. It gives the impression of being understaffed by its sheer size - it doesn't seem to fit that a crew of seven, only two of whom are engineers, can be responsible for this towering manufactory, an implicit reference to the corporate mishandling at the core of the story.

It takes the symbol of antihuman greed - the factory with its barely paid, unsupported, physically endangered workers - and slaps it directly into space. It tells you that Weyland-Yutani did not invent exploitation, but is part of a repeating cycle that never ended even once we commodified travelling to the stars.

Its labyrinthine layout, exposed piping, its ridiculous size, it all gives the alien a perfect place to hide and hunt the crew, as if the alien turns the very ship against its passengers, which Ripley then discovers was an intentional collaboration from the start. Even the vent shafts they believe they can corner the alien in have an unforseen advantage in the alien's favour.

Finished the design for the Jurassic Park T-Rex roaring as the banner falls, with different Pride Colors! Life Finds A Way~

(I tried to make as many as I could think of just off the top of my head. So it would be easier, I did the Rex in a silhouette using MS Paint pixels, and made the banner into a simpler shape so I can get different stripes/colors in there without it being too difficult)

From the top, left to right-

Community Rainbow Original Pride Flag, Progress Flag, Skin Tone Flag, Intersex Flag, Disability Flag, Lesbian Flag, MLM Flag, Transgender, Transfem, Transmasc, Bisexual, Pan, Gender Queer, Polyam, Asexual, two versions of Aromantic, AroAce, Agender, Genderfluid, Nonbinary, Bigender

Turns out there's a childhood disease to the tune of measles that erodes the carapace, and the first symptom shows up about a week before any actual damage is caused.

Grace comments to Rocky that one of his students seems to be turning oxidisation-green. About a week later that student has to be hospitalised for this illness.

Eridian scientists realise pretty quick that Grace can detect the illness long before any of their equipment can, and when caught that early it is much, much easier and safer to treat.