Extra limbs mean extra hugs.

As long as I don’t die

“Only if you promise that I won’t be assimilated.”  
“… I can only promise to try not to assimilate you, but different parts of me think independently of each other, and some parts may not intend to keep that promise.”  
“… Eh, good enough I guess.” Then BP hugged the Thingpone.

Of course, you adorable little death muffin!

…………………………….sure?

@Background Pony #06B3  
WTF no link… https://www.fimfiction.net/story/258844/blossomthing

@moonchosen
 
@Tetrominon
 
There you go. It’s not really a cute and cuddly story. It has some of that but it focuses more on world building and detailed description.

@Background Pony #06B3  
I am likewise intrigued.

@Background Pony #06B3  
I’d love to give it a read! Could I have the link?

@moonchosen  
I wrote a fic based on Thingpone. First and only fiction I have ever wrote so it is kind of bad in the beginning but I think I am improving.

I wonder if anyone’s ever used her in a fanfic, or a roleplay.
 
 
@Ping_chan  
I read that too. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s how the alien really felt about it all. I wish Child’s consciousness had lasted long enough to explain to it why its actions might not be so good after all, but sadly that never happened.

@Ping_chan  
Alright I found the short story  
It’s pretty good! I fee sympathy for Thing Pone! I wish to assimilate! Make my biology better! Fix my flaws!  
(I can also shape shift into a pony too!)

@Pagan  
That’s what I love about The Thing! After reading the movies wikia, I found out that someone wrote (a book? A comic?) detailing the story from the first movie from the creatures perspective!  
That supposedly the creature was not evil and that it just wanted to spread it’s gifts with the humans!  
Kind of like how Nurgle entrusts his children to spread his gifts!  
Okay maybe that example is not the best.  
But I would like to believe that the movie happened simply due to poor communication and a lack of trust.  
Okay the movie was all about lack of trust!  
But that doesn’t mean that Thing Pone doesn’t deserve a second chance, right?  

@Ping_chan  
The more important lesson is have you learned to hug it properly?

Okay, so I finally broke down and watched a copy of John Carpenter’s The Thing!  
And in doing so I have learned a very valuable lesson! If you find a alien spacecraft buried in Antarctica, leave it the Explicitive! alone!

…I’d hug it.
 
It’s not a wasp pony, at least.

@Cirrus Light  

You won’t get another launch window for 24 hours. And I’ll adjust my orbit so you gotta do crazy orbital mechanics maths to align orbits and rendevouz with me. That’s after solving the problem of figuring out my orbit. This stuff is hard. NASA actually failed the first time they tried. I mean, they got it down easy now, but they really had to learn it, first. My Inclination is 29’64”, and my LAN is 170’39” West, and my epoch of 9:00 PM Jun. 29th UTC had me at 80’39” W, and my periapsis and apoapsis altitudes are 450 and 390 km, with my argument of periapsis being 40’W. Good luck doing the math, I’d be interested to see your progress/results XP
 
I mean, Kerbal Space Program has a nice visual interface that makes this easy. Real life doesn’t. Gemini was hard stuff :p

@Cirrus Light  
Oh! Don’t worry! We got a space ship! So we can be there in about 30 minutes?  

@Ping_chan  
Sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of being in space!
 
Checkin’ out a comet…  

@Cirrus Light  
But if you hang out with us you get free _{virus infested} crab legs!

@Ping_chan  
Nopenopenopenopenope I’mout
 
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Sure Thingpone! Let me just get my “hugging flamethrower”…
 

@Cirrus Light