this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2026
346 points (97.3% liked)

Lemmy Shitpost

41633 readers
3555 users here now

Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!


Rules:

1. Be Respectful


Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.

...


2. No Illegal Content


Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.

That means:

-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals

-No CSA content or Revenge Porn

-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)

...


3. No Spam


Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.

-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.

-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.

-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers

-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.

...


4. No Porn/ExplicitContent


-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.

-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.

...


5. No Enciting Harassment,Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts


-Do not Brigade other Communities

-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.

-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.

-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.

...


6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.


-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.

...

If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.


Also check out:

Partnered Communities:

1.Memes

2.Lemmy Review

3.Mildly Infuriating

4.Lemmy Be Wholesome

5.No Stupid Questions

6.You Should Know

7.Comedy Heaven

8.Credible Defense

9.Ten Forward

10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)


Reach out to

All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] iconic_admin@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure it’s the blood too.

[–] restingOface@quokk.au 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

In the films and everything, yes, it is just the blood that is acidic. That "acidic saliva" comment is a reference to The Devil Wears Prada song "Alien"

About 1:00 in this music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiYMS1z8Lrw

EDIT: Lyrics

An extraneous existence
An earth-ending challenger
Encroaches upon humanity
Destruction, destruction they’re seeking destruction
Each ten feet tall without remorse
Crawling along the walls
I see the eyes, I see the teeth, see the monster coming through the window
Closing, the doors are closing
I see the eyes, I see the teeth, see the monster
One cannot fathom such a phantom
The demon’s mouth hisses with acidic saliva
Acidic saliva

Crawling along the walls
I see the eyes, I see the teeth, see the monster coming through the window
Closing, the doors are closing
I see the eyes, I see the teeth, see the monster coming through the window
Game over, we’re done for
Crawling along the walls
Claws extended
No hope to persevere
Closing, the doors are closing
We’ve been surrounded
There’s no way out
Game over, we are done for

EDIT 2: Okay, apparently "acidic saliva" is canon in Alien. I thought that was entirely just from that song (which is just largely inspired by Alien, not supposed to be based on it), but I see that some aliens did have that ability in the films and such.

The Drone and Runner castes have been shown to possess the ability to spit their blood at targets, although the quantity is small and consequently this means of attack is normally used to wound and disable targets rather than kill them. The spitting ability is used more aggressively by Praetorians, Snakes Rangers, and Spitters, which are capable of spitting lethal quantities of their blood significant distances, giving them a dangerous ranged attack other Xenomorphs do not possess.

https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Xenomorph_blood

[–] iconic_admin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the heads up.