Could one also put her into a sort of terrarium with soft and watery surroundings surrounded by heating elements while feeding her food from a blender? Or can she only survive in living organisms?

@Background Pony #F75F  
She leaves. Best way to get rid of her is to eat a lot of salt :D

@Badumsquish  
So in the event a host becomes inhospitable for her, what happens? I remember seeing an episode of “Monsters Inside Me” where someone with stomach worms and a fever was triggered to cough up the worms because her body was too hot.

@Background Pony #F75F  
She doesn’t go near the intestines at all :P

People have mentioned things along the lines of her coming back up, but how does she swim through the intestines and climb up the esophagus? Or does the latter happen by wagging her tail and stimulating the gag reflex?

I want one

An alp-luachra crawled in my mouth when I was preschool-age…

I’m gaging right now but I don’t mind maves cute

I would probably not even notice if she crawled down my throat… when I fall asleep, I fall asleep.

@Eeveeinheat  
Lol yeah I’d assume most of these more, for lack of a better word, “extreme” fetishes would be extremely painful or unpleasant in real life. But whatever turns us on on the computer screen turns us on, so…

@Eeveeinheat  

 
don’t worry, that’s how you know that you’re not completely insane

@Badumsquish  
Unbirth is a massive turn-on for me. I just find it immensely sexy. I have mixed feelings about the second one, but it’s more neutral than anything. I guess it’s because this image is a cute parasite made to live inside someone’s stomach, while the other one is predation. But hey: fetishes are hard to quantify, so explaining why one thing turns you on while another that seems really similar doesn’t is tough.
 
But I think the real question is why the fuck does >>964897, >>906213 (No, it’s not the eating aspect of this I enjoy. It’s the fact that her insides are outside her, making her seem more three-dimensional and real.), >>1166124, and >>1016358 turn me on. People who are into soft-vore are normal compared to these. However, do note that I gag at the thought of any of this in real life: like most people with extreme fetishes… I hope.

@Eeveeinheat  
Vore’s a pretty widespread concept, really. For me personally it’s just the concept of death and digestion that’s a massive turn-off. Stuff like this and this and this I can get into.
 
@Eeveeinheat  
I won’t speak for other artists, but yeah it’s a compliment as far as I’m concerned.

@Keith Mowz  
Meh, I guess I just like sharing when I find someone’s work really good, in spite of my attitude towards the concept. From me that’s one of the best compliments an artist can get. I used to take my time to share the opposite a lot, but lately I’ve been trying to tone down on that. Usually it’s just constructive criticism, but I guess I do sometimes ‘flame’ things if I am in a bad mood. I’m only human.

@Eeveeinheat  
If I wasn’t pathologically lazy, I would make a compilation of all the times you’ve said stuff along these lines :V

I’m not into vore, but I find this strangely hot…

@aerion111  
Maybe, but the big thing is that these creatures are very rare and almost never try to or get the chance to parasitize ponies.

@Badumsquish  
Eh, that psychological ‘drawback’ would fairly quickly disappear if they were useful enough to be a common ‘feature’ among ponies.  
After a few generations, ponies might just have a ‘best not to think too closely about it’ attitude, like we have with all the bacteria we carry around.  
Of course, there’d be the issue of how to get one into your stomach, but theoretically they’d adapt too and whatever way they breed would be adjusted to make ‘infection’ of foals more convenient.

@aerion111  
@Parallel Black  
I honestly can’t remember if I even gave any real thought to how they breed since it was so long ago now. I’ll have to reread some of the comment sections on the other pics. However they never at any stage of their existence cause any direct harm or damage to their host. Their intake of food compared to what an adult pony eats would be negligible. It’s just the weird feeling of having it in one’s stomach that leans them that much toward “parasitic”. In other words, it’s mostly psychological what makes them parasites: the idea of having an intelligent creature inside your stomach that learns by listening to you speak.

@aerion111  

 
Nope nope nope nope
 
Also, I think Badum once said about the eggs being lain in the stomach and then being pooped out into the nearest stream by the host. Whatever the case, these things are way too pony-like for this kind of thing. Reproducing like botflies doesn’t exactly suit them.

@Badumsquish  

 
I’d definitively argue Starswirl’s one was a symbiotic relationship; He knew he was at risk of food-poisoning, given his travels, so it was easily worth the extra discomfort and need for food.  
If food-poisoning was a frequent danger for the average ponies, I’d be counting the Alp-Luachra as a symbiotic the same way I consider it symbiotic when birds ride around on rhinos (on their own, the birds do nothing but add weight. But, in their own interest of eating, the birds take care of a frequent bug-problem and occasional dental hygiene for the rhinos, as well as warning the rhino when there’s danger to what the bird probably thinks of as a moving buffet)  
But, generally speaking, I think these are parasites; They solve a generally-rare problem, and in exchange they add to one of the (or possibly the ) biggest problem for ponies; Nutrition.  
And they likely increase the chance of various other illnesses; It’s a complex organism in your belly, at best it’s unlikely to cause complications, but there’s still going to be the occasional issue when the body over-reacts to the intruder (or, to whatever the intruder does to make the body stop freaking out)  
Heck, they almost certainly are doing something to keep your body from reacting, so there’s probably behavioral changes, and maybe even some changes purely to serve their purpose; Lowered metabolism, increased tendency to eat, changed tastes to suit their nutritional needs rather than your own, maybe even increased aggression if they sometimes live in predators and are able to eat meat.  
And if they breed like a parasite, then their later life-stages likely result in reckless behavior from the host - with the intent of them dying so the spawn can either be eaten by predators, or grow in a decaying corpse, depending on the exact nature.

@WordsmithBellatrix  
@Keith Mowz  
While technically a nuisance as opposed to outright harmful, they’re still an invasive creature that gets in your belly and flops around like it owns the place when it’s hungry or pissed that you’re eating food it doesn’t like, and yeah it’s only real “benefit” comes from it looking out for its own little hide.

@WordsmithBellatrix  
Their only benefit is incidental, though, and you have to deliberately exploit them to gain it.

They’re not parasitic, they’re symbiotic. If they were parasites, they’d be actively harmful with no benefits for the host.

@bAv_DB  
As an Australian, our spiders are the best sort!