Xanthophobia is a fear of the color yellow or anything that might involve the concept of yellow. I can't say that yellow is my favorite color, but it's very nice for certain things. But a fear? Seems silly to me, but the world is filled with a lot of silly seeming things...
Xenomorphs are not something that might ring a bell with a lot of us from the term, but if you've seen those films in the Alien franchise or similar types of films then that big ugly creature is what I'm talking about. In the original Alien (1979) by Ridley Scott, the creature was imagined by artist H.R. Giger, a sci-fi surrealistic artist from Switzerland. Giger has designed creatures for many films as well as doing the artwork for many album covers. He has done some wild imaginative work, but those creatures have been terrifying.
Looking at one of those dark fearsome xenomorphs I can imagine that they don't like bright things and that probably especially goes for bright colors like yellow. I might venture to guess that a xenomorph might even have something like a fear of the color yellow. If anyone or anything might display indications of xanthophobia it might be a xenomorph.
And in this age of reproducing things and cloning, what if we were to start duplicating xenomorphs? It would in essence be like xeroxing xanthophobic xenomorphs.
Are you a fan of the Alien movie franchise? Do xenomorphs frighten you? Is yellow a color that you like a lot or not so much?
What a delightful X post, Lee! I'm absolutely finding a way to work "Xeroxing Xanthophobic Xenomorphs" into a conversation today.
ReplyDeleteDeborah, I'd love to hear that conversation!
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thecontemplativecat here the elements of molecular stuff has more X words than one can images. I wrote about them on one April Blog hop.
ReplyDeleteYellow is a good color for a windowless kitchen, the color of sunshine. I've never known anyone who didn't like it so I guess I haven't run across any Xenomorphs ;-)
ReplyDeletediedre, let's hope you never run into any xenomorphs unless they are extremely friendly and helpful.
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So many Xs! My favorite color is blue, a bright one like in the 2020 Mission Accomplished badge on the right! I have doors that color, but the house itself, and kitchen, are yellow.
ReplyDeleteAlien did not scare me, it was so over the roof special effects/things in dark rooms, that it had the averse effect of being boring. A movie that did scare me was The Body Snatchers - the old one.
ReplyDeleteWhile yellow is not my fave, blue is, I do not really dislike any colour, and this time of year the dandelions fill me with joy seeing their yellow faces in the sun.
Clever use of letter X
Charlotte, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original) is one of my favorite films. A classic of scary films.
DeleteI love colors of all shades.
Lee
Not a big movie guy, but saw enough to know it would not have been visually appealing to moi.
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