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For the next six hours, she tried everything. Fish-shaped treats? The splootalien rolled onto its side, splooting laterally. Holographic prey? It batted it once with a limp paw, then ignored it. A mirror? The alien looked at its own reflection, seemed to admire its pancake-like grandeur, and splooted harder.

Not attacking. Not scheming. Splooting —the full-body, belly-down, legs-akimbo sprawl of a creature that had given up on dignity entirely. splootalien

It was the size of a beached cargo pod, shaped like a deflated bouncy castle, and covered in short, orange fuzz. Its four limbs—if you could call them that—splayed outward at cartoonishly perpendicular angles. Its belly, a pale cream color, was pressed flush against the cracked mudflat. Its face, such as it was, consisted of two googly eyes (genuine, not metaphorical) and a tiny, pursed mouth that made a soft "mrrp" sound. For the next six hours, she tried everything

She reached into her kit and pulled out a standard-issue xenopsychological comfort cube—soft, warm, and shaped like a triangle. She placed it two meters from the creature’s nose. Holographic prey

And Dr. Voss? She filed her report with a single photo attached: a googly-eyed, orange-fuzzed alien splooting next to a very relaxed xenobiologist, both of them belly-down in the mud, looking up at the stars as if to say: Come sploot with us.