A PREDATOR FANCOMIC

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[trials-by-blood]

Important Personal Update Regarding Writing Prompts.

I will no longer be taking ANY HumanOC/Yautja prompts. Ever.

This is something I've been agonizing about for a long, long, long time.

I've been in this fandom for twenty-five years. This topic is a major staple of the entire fandom. I HAVE a human OC in this universe, which makes me feel terribly hypocritical about this decision. I'm not in any way taking this choice lightly.

So, hear my story out:

I'm completely burnt out on this romantic dynamic. Completely. Utterly. Totally. Burnt. Out. On. It.

In 2004 AVP hit theaters, the fandom was saturated in the Lex/Scar ship. OC/Yautja pairings blossomed all over the web. It was glorious. I, a monster fucker raised on Street Sharks and Gargoyles, absolutely loved it.

Around this time, I got into text based roleplaying. Can you guess my favorite topic?

This is where things went wrong. Every roleplay, I would be pigeon-holed into playing this Beeflord Surpreme alien whose sole purpose in the plot was to rail a human 20 something and slowly train them up into a mini predator. It didn't seem to matter how these online exchanges started or how the plot began or what, it would always circle around to whatever writing partner I was talking to wanting that specific plot (plus or minus tragic backstory details). It got old.

I feel like I've written the same novel a couple dozen times. I'm tired. I struggle horrifically to find any interest at all in any human/yautja idea/prompt because I've literally done it all! Five times over! Front and back! Left and right!

There is a single exception to this. Machiko Noguchi and Shorty. Because spicy.

So. Yeah... Yautja/yautja or yautja/other-extra-terrestrials only for the foreseeable future.

My own personal human OC may RARELY crop up in the future out of a very personal well of sentimentality, but past that, I'm tired of training up mini predators. Sorry.

[bolognamayhem117]

You know what's had me fucked up for decades? The scene in Aliens where Ripley has fought through this whole damn nest of nightmares to save this little girl and at the end she finds no way out.

She says "Close your eyes, Baby." As the lift brings up the queen nightmare beast.

That raw, visceral despair in Sigourney Weaver's voice is everything and devastating. She couldn't save Newt. She couldn't save herself without also saving Newt. She lost her own daughter on earth to time.

Everything is gone. There's just her, Newt, and the most heinous form of maternal grief making its way up the elevator shaft to meet them in wanton violence.

She bitterly has to hold this child while they face doom; but she'd rather be there holding Newt at their end of all things than have left her in the queen's nest alone.

Just the PROFOUND maternal grief in this scene.

[bolognamayhem117]

.....I don't know man. The skull of an alien with heavily reduced features for a concept. I have no explanation or excuse for this.

[bolognamayhem117]

I saw Badlands, obviously. Redesigned one of the blorbos.

[trials-by-blood]

Asks are open. No longer a PG13 blog. Just mind the pinned post.

[trials-by-blood]

I'm not dead, Y'all.

[kaliido-s]

now seems like an appropriate time to post these sketches :P go my yauters

[hollow-vok]

The people who designed this and took the pictures knew what they were doing cause that arch and waist are diabolical

[artbytimfeeney]

#WIP

Getting into the flats and BG. Inks are done. Details... packed.

I hope you enjoy! Consider following along and I'll keep trying to impress you!

[trials-by-blood]

I have a theory that people who get turbo popular in fandom become isolated and incomprehensible against anyone but other turbo popular blogs because the loudest things in fandom are the kind of horny weirdos who use others as horny content despensers rehashing the same horny content over and over and the discourse farm blogs. That leaves anyone a little more normal about fandom also isolated and frustrated that doors with other semi-sensible people behind them get slammed in their faces to protect the people inside and the doors left open are the "Wow Draw/write XYZ horny thing for me" or the discourse farms.

[bolognamayhem117]

This is Kevin The Merchant. Wanna watch me paint this tomb looting manlet?

Head down to my youtube and SUBSCRIBE!

[liss-art]

Tied. Not broken.

[trials-by-blood]

Olay so I proper posted that last one to the wrong blog. Sorry.

[trials-by-blood]

Hey there! Saw that your reblogged my confession with the tag "You Get It". What do you mean by that, out of curiosity?

That the creature design in Prey was absolute hot garbage on top of all the other little issues with the movie.

I hate his neck so much knowing they stuffed the suit actor's head in that neck to allegedly get a more proportionate head (in exchange for having the most awkward, stiff, unnatural upper body and torso movement of any predator in any film).

I could complain for hours about the creature design.

[super-hero-confessions]

I didn’t like PREY.

I have a lot of problems with Twentieth Century Studios PREY installment in the Predator franchise. Having watched the movie via a streaming party, I can say that it’s an OKAY movie, mediocre at worst but it’s certainly overrated, overhyped and blown out of proportion.The movie’s not THAT fucking good, and in my opinion NOT a good PREDATOR movie.

My problems with the movie aren’t with Amber Midthunder’s character as we’ve had a female lead before in the first AVP movie. My problems lay with the creative decisions in the design of the creature which looks so far removed from Stan Winston’s facial design to where it doesn’t even LOOK like a Predator, the writing and lack of exposition to how Amber’s character knows certain skills such as how to hunt and fight, the portrayal of this Predator being inept and incompetent compared to the previous Predators in all the films, and the changing of lore in regards to the Raphael Adolini character and the pistol which he owned that we see at the end of Predator 2.

PREY would’ve been a much better film as an original production completely disconnected from the Predator franchise with an original creature.

[thelastraigeki]

This is one hundred percent my confession and I do not hold any regrets  about my feelings towards the movie. While it is a fine movie from a  film making and technical standpoint, in my opinion as a Predator fan,  it’s simply not a very good Predator movie for the reasons which I have  stated in this confession.

And I most certainly didn’t like the erasure and re-writing of lore in  regards to Raphael Adolini’s flintlock. I know, the films take  precedence but I didn’t like Adolini’s cowardly character in the film  and much preferred the heroic Pirate captain from the comic Predator:  1718. It just feels more organic and connects better with Predator 2,  than Prey did.  

Don’t get me wrong, the movie does have it’s good parts such as the Feral Predator fighting that big bastard of a Grizzly Bear and him fighting the Wolf in the plains, and even the three Comanches in that one scene but… for me, the bad outweighed the good in the movie.

I ultimately just did wound up not liking the film for what it is, and I find it to be grossly overrated, grossly overblown, and grossly overhyped. I just don’t think it’s a very good Predator movie.

[trials-by-blood]

I love how... Like..... Even fairly large, fit, beefy cats can kinda melt into pancake mode when they relax.

[trials-by-blood]

uh im not sure if your still taking writing prompts, I basically just found you on another account and scrolled through your posts for like 2 hours, but if you are, so a transmasc reader and a male yajuta, the human reader is like super feisty and wants to do everything their alien counter part does but struggles with it, because their smaller and much weaker. They get hurt and into trouble a lot, but their yajuta mate is always there to help them.

Unfortunately no, I'm not able to take writing prompts at this time.

I'm working full time at a high stress job and I have several other OG projects I'm trying to find the motivation to work on, so taking writing prompts for fandom is kinda on the low end of the scale in terms of priorities at this time.