#off world colonies

[nestedneons]

By john seru

#nestedneons #cyberpunk #cyberpunk art #cyberpunk aesthetic #cyberpunk artist #art #cyberwave #megacity #futuristic city #scifi #scifi art #scifi aesthetic #scifi geek #spaceship #space art #spacecraft #off world colonies #offworld #outherworld #outher space

[likealittleheartbeat]

I try to generally be constructive and engaged with the show I love on here, so on this day, I’ll just say that one of the most thematically important aspects for me from the original ATLA is Aang’s emotional core of real shame for running away when he was hurt by the monk’s decision to send him away. People who feel the kind of deep-seated shame that Aang feels from this decision can understand how that kind of all-encompassing shame is not built around a simple failure or a lie they tell themselves; it’s constructed from real misbehaviors and transgressions of their own sense of ethics—lashing out, telling lies, attempting to hurt others intentionally—that then have consequences (abuses, abandonments, or deaths) which seem to far exceed their expectations or even basic logic.

The combination of the misbehavior with exaggerated existential punishments (along with a lack of support and amend-making in the immediate wake of the events) is what transforms a sense of guilt (I fucked up) into shame (I am a forever fuck-up). Then shame, that sense of being a secret monster ‘no matter what I do or how good everyone thinks I am,’ invites all the avoidance strategies (Aang puts on big smiles, makes lots of jokes, constantly tries to make everyone happy, hops from town to town without building deeper connections). One doesn’t want to acknowledge one’s true feelings or let others in to see those feelings and experiences because it’s too painful to face the grief at the same time that you have to look at yourself for being responsible—even when you recognize it wasn’t totally your fault. It’s just that if you had just been good, less emotional, less human, then maybe the world wouldn’t be so messed up. Of course, in a zen view of things, the world will always be messed up in the same way it will always be beautiful. These are constant facts that always coexist in balance, and this is the truth that Aang learns and that undergirds the whole series.

So I always loved that Aang ran away. It was his sin and his salvation. And it becomes this constant tension for the series—he gets hurt in Bato of the Water Tribe and starts to run away from Katara and Sokka, he runs away to the Guru in the Crossroads of Destiny and his best friend is attacked, he and the gaang retreat after the Day of the Black Sun failure, he runs away to meditation in Sozin’s Comet when everyone wants him preparing for war. Aang’s reluctance to be a hero and the attachments and petulance for which he gets criticized are what metamorphasize to become his most noble attributes. They allow him to empathize with others shame and, ultimately, wield the kind of compassion that can deconstruct the power and perfectionism of imperialism.

So yes, Aang ran away from his temple 100 years ago. It wasn’t the mentally healthy choice. It wasn’t the ethical choice. It wasn’t the wise choice. It was human and emotional and shameful and real. Aang is a better character for it. ATLA is a better show because of it. And we are better people when we understand these kind of tragic emotional experiences that people are trying so hard to grow through.

#aanglove #vague posting about the nf adaptation lol #I won’t go off in my posts but I will in my comments #only 17 minutes in tbh #and already amazed at realizing how cool it was that the of series wasn’t told in a linear style lol #I do think the casting department went off for the nf series tho #the kid playing aang is so perf #and all the actors fit their parts so well #but the show doesn’t understand or seem interested in depicting colonial violence at alllll #and the language of the fire nation wanting to ‘take over the world’ is so much more marvel than a colonial rhetoric #and then aang just wanting to ‘go get some air’ to clear his head…😑 #we aren’t allowed to have problematic protagonists anymore I guess #only people with perfect mental health strategies allowed in young adult fiction #because we view fiction from a moralistic standpoint now instead of an empathetic one #but 🤷🏻‍♀️

[newsfrom-theworld]

28/01/24

Today's breaking news:

•The Isr@eli occupation forces raid Jenin city.

•Gunfire exchange with the occupation forces in Jenin  city.

•The Palestinian civil defense forces continue doing its job to save the life of the people in the north of Gaza despite of the lack of equipment and without any kind of support or aids

•White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby: The case brought by South Africa against Isr@el is meaningless because there is no intentional genocide, the true number of civilian deaths in Gaza is zero.

•A number of homes were destroyed by Isr@eli air strikes in Dhaira village, southern Lebanon.

•Heavy Isr@eli air strikes targeted several areas in Gaza city.

•An Isr@eli soldier assaults a Palestinian child in Hebron.

•An Isr@eli air strike bombed a home in Zawayda area, central Gaza.

And always,

Free Palestine

#free palestine #palestine #pro palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #boycott israel #boycott starbucks #news from the world #boycott disney #boycott mcdonalds #gaza #gaza under attack #lebanon under attack #fuck colonialism #fuck genocide #fuck israel #fuck zionism #hands off khan younis #ceasefire now #ceasefire

[tenspontaneite]

Drew Learner when she was younger and her pups were small 🙏

#rain world #rain world slugcat #slugcat oc #her pups are grown up and living with a colony as of Assembly timeline #Learner was a very cautious mother and was glad when they went off on her own #constantly keeping them safe gave her metaphorical hives #she definitely does not plan to have slups again #her slups inherited her points and some of her pattern genes just in different colours #they're very young here so only really have pigment on their faces and tail tips #my art #assembly

[astragatwo]

In contrast to my last two Rain World OC posts, these guys aren't one offs and are part of my current core OC group. More info about them under the cut since it's lengthy.

First starting with The Serpent —

The Serpent is one of AV's many bio-engineered slugcats - if you can even call him a slugcat at this point - as part of a simple passion of experimenting with flexible slugcat biology

They share several traits in common with red lizards, those being constant hyper-aggression, tremendous strength, projectile spit and size

As for similarities with slugcats, well, a general elongated shape? Oh, mobility, unlike red lizards, the Serpent is very adept with vertical movement

AV didn't really have a clear goal in mind with the Serpent unlike the rest of their tube babies, they just sort of... happened.

The spontaneity of their creation though has been very interesting as despite initially being created with the solitary lifestyle of a red lizard, the Serpent still keeps his slugcat instinct of adopting random children they find

Though the Serpent seems at first, displeased with this development but rest assured that if you ever LOOK at his pup wrong they will kill everyone in the room and then himself

Though not pictured in his reference since he was my first Rain World OC, created with very little knowledge of the lore and started as a one-off, he has a citizen ID drone which AV uses to keep track of him

He was also simply created out of my desire to have a long slugcat and my obsession with red lizards combined so there's that, too

Speaking of AV, moving on to Administrative Violence —

Named after the song of the same name by Lauren Bousfield, you'd expect them to be - well - violent. They're not, at least not with those they commonly interact with

They are actually quite sweet with Blown Blooms, their partner, and Peach the slugcat

Weather conditions, all things considered, are pretty mild where they are but far, far off into the distance their partner Blown Blooms isn't so fortunate and natural erosion as well as other random unfortunate events unrelated to weather, has taken quite the toll on them

As a result and fearing for Blooms in every way possible but especially for their communication's inevitable severing and also Blooms being lonely all on their own, AV created a slugcat who resembles a strawberry lizard - a species of lizard Blooms is especially fond of

Peach was designed for protection and companionship first and foremost and an emergency messenger/relay secondly.

Outside of worrying for Blooms' condition and yearning & longing for close physical proximity to them the way creatures who aren't supermassive structures have the luxury of, AV spends most of their time studying their bio-engineered slugcats.

Each and every one of them is given a citizen ID drone for ease of tracking as well as general classifications

They couldn't give a shit about whatever problem the other iterators are working on - just these funny little slugcats

They take the occasional interest in other animals too but it's mainly slugcats

And finally, Blown Blooms and Peach —

Blooms, like AV, is named after a song of the same name by Lauren Bousfield. Peach is just named after her colors.

Blooms, like their partner AV, has a complete disinterest in the great problem and a very big interest in bio-engineering

This time with plants rather than animals though they have a soft spot for small critters but they're usually never the subject of any experiments - just study and admiration

However, due to a deteriorating state, Blooms isn't quite able to use their equipment to manipulate genetic information like they used to - which is upsetting

So instead, they help AV with their current studies as well as keeping tabs on their own prior experiments

They have Peach now, though, which brings a much appreciated break from constant studying and nice close companionship

Peach will often catch prey outside and come back to eat it with Blooms and occasionally Blooms will play around with Peach and levitate the prey around for Peach to chase in anti-grav

The event that pushed AV to create Peach was when a creature entered Blooms' chamber and attacked them, partially damaging their puppet before being killed and then expelled from the chamber

Blooms is absolutely still capable of themselves and ultimately damaging the puppet a bit is nothing when taking account the sheer scale of an iterator - but AV will be AV

Plus, Blooms isn't complaining about getting a cute little companion from AV

And general trivia/info —

Everyone here is aroace. All of them. AV & Blooms' relationship is non-romantic in a sapphic way

The Serpent's pup's name is Pipsqueak

I know rudder tails shouldn't curve like that but I decided that after I finished drawing the Serpent and I wasn't about to redraw anything at that point

The other Iterators in AV and Bloom's local group are Illuminated Crown of Fire, Projections of Watchful Eyes, and an unnamed lunar-eclipse inspired iterator.

I have little information on them right now, but they are each based off of solar eclipses, stars and lunar eclipses respectively

In all, this local group is just a bunch of experiment freaks to varying degrees except for ICoF whose presence is often forgotten because of how little they speak but is also ever looming

And that's all! Thank you for reading this far in <3

#my art #my ocs #fanart #rain world #oc tag: the serpent #oc tag: administrative violence #oc tag: blown blooms #oc tag: peach #THE READ MORE IS VERY LONG i have Thoughts about my little weirdos #i have a whole iterator log between AV & blooms written out that i really want to draw something for but idk if i'll get to that #sure iterators off their string is cool but im obsessed w the fact that they're supermassive structures that cannot move from where they ar #yet feel so deeply and can create deep meaningful relationships with one another #i can only dream of articulating and capturing The Longing AV feels to be close to Blooms physically #it's there just trust me it's just stuck in my brain and i'll never be able to translate it out of my brain but just trust me on this one o #av looks at slugcat colonies and wishes that they could live with their local group in close proximity like that #blooms longs and yearns too but not as much as AV their mind is more preoccupied with their inevitable collapse and ruin

[sciderman]

I’m sorry.I’ll do better.I just didn’t know what exactly to say because I’ve never felt with it before.That and it auto corrected me- But I am deeply sorry.

bless your heart anon – it's okay, i hope that you do take the time to do a little read into the region - it's actually really interesting!

and you know, here's a fun fact i've noticed a lot about people from iran and iraq specifically - the majority of my iranian friends prefer to introduce themselves as "persian" before they say "iranian" - it's kind of funny - and my dad, who's iraqi, much prefers to introduce himself as "babylonian" rather than iraqi - i think it's so interesting to see - that they're not eager to claim the nationality that has been carved out for them by the modern day division of the middle east (as per the sykes–picot partition imposed by the british), but are so proud to proclaim their heritage based on the greater history of their regions and their people. i think it's interesting, i think it's interesting. maybe i should start introducing myself as babylonian, like my dad. sumerian, actually, i think. i've always been so interested in sumerian culture specifically,, (it was one of my special interests, at a time!) and i've done so many research and art projects based in that history... ough. i should get back into it, maybe.

#i kind of long for a movement that's like... arab-futurist in a similar way that we're getting a wave of afro-futurist artists and media. #it's so beautiful to see people imagine a world were africa wasn't devastated by colonialism #and it would be nice to see artists do something similar for arabian history #i mean i guess we have dubai. but that's kind of built off forced labour and i mean. it's real. with ugly bits. not just fanciful fantasy. #i don't think there's a human edge to it either. people look at it and see rich oil tycoons and princes and influencers and not. #real actual people. #the arab world really doesn't have a lot in the way of humanising depictions of them in any sort of media at all. #anyway i cried today. because i was watching the news. #and saw a child. who couldn't move his legs. #and i cried. i cried a lot today. #sci speaks

[souredfigs]

Israel is an illegal state which has no right to exist and every european white settler living in the terrorist state of Israel is fully and wholly aware of the fact that they are in a land which they stole from carrying out the genocide of Palestinians who have been living there for as far back as 11000 years on the basis of a fake ridiculous piece of writing . It's very simple to understand .

#in fact the events of october and November and of the past 75 years should be a wake up call for you #its not complex #free palestine #palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #fuck israel #zionism is a colonial concept exactly similar to manifest destiny and nazism #and white supermacy #zionism is a facist ideology #it has nothing to do with Judaism #just like kkk has nothing to do with Christianity #and like ISIS has nothing to do with Islam #dont ever expect me to stop posting about Palestine #if it bothers you fuck off from my page #palestine has literally existed ever since the dawn of civilisation #like Jericho is one of the oldest cities in the world #you cannot ignore history #and history is never complete without Palestinian history

[littleruffian]

forget me not

(alt because i liked how the sliv came out)

#rain world #rain world spoilers #ish? #sliver of straw #not my exact interp of how her puppet would look post-3a (completely obscured by rubble and overgrowth) #but a mental image i needed to draw #in an off the string au i will one day write a colony of slugcats nesting in her can is an important plot point #im normal about her. #art tag

[bliphany]

The former prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, was shot. It looks very serious.  Abe has always been very friendly towards Taiwan. The two countries are friendly allies. I hope everything will be alright.

Consider current world news, I hope people who aren’t familiar with Asia international politics can resist any improper jokes or making this whole situation all about the English-speaking world again (I don’t want to make any example, but, you know those kinds... If you want to joke about your own government that’s fantastic. It’s not necessary to bring every other countries with it.)

#shinzo abe #asia politics #Japan #Taiwan #asia pacific #also some people have to understand some not every county’s parties divided into left and right like English speaking ones do #sometimes Asian countries have one right wing and another pro china ones #the right one can be a dick sometimes but it can be negotiated but the pro china ones are DANGEROUS #and sometimes those progressive policies are pushed by parties not right or left but just ones that’s more connected to the society atm #you can just wiki and decide you want to burn every right parties in the world but how about starting from your own #stop your everyone has to be just like ME attitude for just one second would be nice #some English speaking people are just showing off that they’re as ignorant and self centered EXACTLY like their president or PM #and consider themselves progressive because of that #tbh I find this attitude more colonialism than what they claimed to fight against #making memes online about things you half know won’t changed your own country’s political atmosphere #vote and engage in your local and national social movement are only ways

[mycomori]

i should legally be allowed to stab someone i think like i don’t wanna hurt or kill anyone but also i really wanna fucking stab somethin over an dover and over again until i pass out

#like not just anyone #but god every time i get angry i imagine stabbing the corpse of a person vaguely shaped like all the hatred evil and hell in this world #fuck those asshole #i wish we could all exist peacefully but since then fucks gotta make their living off abusing other humans #committing war crimes and crime against humanity #they don’t deserve to be #plain and fuckin simple #i’m angry #i’m so fucking angry #the world is so fucking terrible and millions of people showing their opinion does nothing because we live in a fake democracy #the united states is a spit in the fucking face to democracy #an utter affront to everything it stand for #just like the colonial zionist state of israael is NOT equatable to all jewish people #it’s an affront to judaism at its core #and yet they use the very real problem of anti semetism as a pathetic shield for criticisms of their genocidal crimes against humanity

[nestedneons]

By jilt with stablediffusion

Cyberpunk art commissions

Ko-Fi

My ai workflows

#nestedneons #cyberpunk #cyberpunk art #cyberpunk aesthetic #cyberpunk artist #art #cyberwave #megacity #futuristic city #scifi #dystopia #dystopic #dystopian #offworld #off world colonies #scifi art #the outpost #scifi aesthetic #scifi geek #scifi architecture #pastel #pastel art #pastel colors #pastel aesthetic #scifi dystopia #dystopiacore #stable diffusion #ai art #thisisaiart #neoncore

[rustchild]

.

#It’s kind of wild to see how people talk about mizrahim and the beta israel on here. Like. #people are Just Now discovering that people(s) who are colonial subjects #which they are #as much as anyone else from the mena region #can also perpetuate and have conditional gain within colonial systems #and there’s like… no awareness of how that works over and over again in colonial and immediately post-colonial societies #When in fact one of the most basic structures of colonial power #is pitting colonized peoples against each other through the construction of elaborate unstable racialized hierarchies #like #I think the thing it drives home for me #is how many people in the west a. Operate off of a purely binary moral framework #in which oppressed is good and oppressor is evil and no one is both #And b. Don’t know enough about the histories or current realities of the colonized world to draw meaningful conclusions about anything #And also c. Don’t know shit about Jews #of course #but especially non-ashkenazi Jews #it’s easier to view Israel as the embodiment of the sin of western colonialism #than to genuinely unpack and understand the structures that comprise it #and the ways in which they truly aren’t unique #and the sheer horror of that reality! #Y’all absorbed one (1) idea from fanon and really just stopped there huh #Anyway. The closest parallel to Israel in the world isn’t Algeria #that’s just the only one y’all know about because fanon wrote about it. #the closest parallel is maybe Liberia and that’s sure something to think about

[newsfrom-theworld]

24/01/24

Today's breaking news:

•The Isr@eli occupation forces targeted the schools in the vicinity of Nasser hospital with artillery shells which caused to injury of a number of displaced Palestinians and the martyrdom of a child.

•Palestinian families in the north of Gaza use corn and barley’s flour to prepare food as the siege continues on the city.

•Displaced Palestinians are living in hard conditions during the rainy weather without any kind of relief or humanitarian aids.

•Artillery shelling targets the residents in the north of the Gaza Strip.

•Heavy gunfire, air strikes and artillery shelling in Khan Younis city which has become more dangerous than before.

•Fire broke out in the shelters of displaced Palestinians in the west of Khan Younis in an area which is besieged by the occupation forces.

•Heavy Isr@eli bombardment and artillery shelling in Khan Younis city.

•Massive damage caused by the occupation forces in the west of Gaza.

•Palestinians were injured by Isr@eli air strikes in Rafah.

•Isr@eli forces open fire directly at civilians while they were receiving humanitarian aids in the northern of Gaza Strip.

•Isr@eli warplanes destroyed a mosque and a number of homes in Rafah city.

•A Number of injured Palestinians arrive to Al-Najar Hospital in Rafah, after they were evacuated by the Red Cross teams in coordination with the United Nations from the “UNRWA Industry College” building west of Khan Yunis.

•“We won’t leave the hospital” .. The message by the doctors who are staying at Naser Hospital in Khan Younis city.

•A bloody day in Khan Yunis.

More than 60 martyrs and 100 wounded in one day in Khan Yunis arrived at Nasser Hospital, which was surrounded by Israeli tanks and firing at it.

The hospital's capacity is not sufficient to receive this large number of wounded in one day, especially with the lack of staff whom were displaced to the city of Rafah with their families, fearing for their lives.

And always,

Free Palestine

#free palestine #palestine #pro palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #boycott israel #boycott starbucks #news from the world #boycott disney #boycott mcdonalds #gaza #gaza genocide #khan younis #hands off gaza #hands off khan younis #ceasfire now #ceasefire #fuck colonialism #fuck genocide #fuck israel #fuck zionism

[6ebe]

Got downvoted to hell for trying to make a point about homonationalism on reddit. I don’t think Reddit has unlocked the critical thinking to be ready for homonationalism ….

#it was a typical case of sports fans all felating themselves over how woke they are for hating the Middle East #and wanting to keep ‘blood money and homophobia out of our game’ #like just fuck off with the western moral superiority as if western imperialism isn’t to blame for large amounts of global homophobia #and as if most English sports weren’t built on the back of colonialism as well #the sport was built on blood money 🤣🤣 #and the next 2 hosts for the World Cup are Australia and the US. totally exempt from blood money 100% 😐 #no one complaining abt they I wonder why 🤣

[soldier-poet-king]

Last thought but like. The ptolemies....kinda sucked???? If we wanna romanticize a cool af Egyptian dynasty why do we have to Pick Them and insist that Cle*patra was a girlboss or whatever, when there are literally So Many Other ancient empresses and queens

#like theyre my fucked up lil guys. bc i love the awful hellenistic period #the same way i eat up the late roman republic of terrible bad politicians #but MODERN MORALS AND CONCEPTIONS OF RACE #DO NOT MAP ONTO THE ANCIENT WORLD #LITERALLY MODERN NOTIONS OF RACE ARE A COLONIAL INVENTION POST RENAISSANCE #GET OFF MY ASS #geez #everytime smthn classics goes mainstream i die a little inside #see also. tsoa #LET ME HAVE MY FUCKED UP LIL GUYS IN PEACE

[pieces-of-memories]

q and a? QNA!

Pieces of memories, Before you got the rot, how did you use to spend the time with your lover?

What did you chat about, did you play any games with them, stuff like that.

Before getting the rot, POM and ESH would generally spend most of their time chatting, usually about purposed organisms! The two also did have a game of sorts where they'd send physical objects (mostly pearls, clothes/accessories, or other general things they thought would be interesting) back and forth with modified creatures, and the other would get to guess what sort of changes had been made to the creature as a bonus! This did only start happening after the mass ascension, though.

Aside from that they'd also probably play like. The rain world equivalent of 1v1 tetris and get rlly competitive about it :]

#rain world oc #iterator oc #rain world askblog #tbh their whole relationship was based off of talking abt purposed organisms so it's like. a big thing for them #both of them repurposed their cities to be colonies for all the creatures they send eachother :) #but yea auauaua i need to draw that comic abt them from before POM mellowed out