it's really funny going through art for alien on here and seeing people be like "🙀 everything is so phallic!" like yes that is in fact the point both of giger's original works that inspired the designs and of alien itself. the facehugger was designed to specifically be unsettling to heterosexual men, the eggs were originally going to look fully like vulvas before fox pushed back on those designs, the pharyngeal jaws are meant to call to mind vagina dentata, the themes of life and procreation and exploitation and union etc. etc. etc.











