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Christopher Stoll - Off to a Rough Art@TopherStoll
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Christopher Stoll - Off to a Rough Art
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Christopher Stoll - Off to a Rough Art
@TopherStoll
Self-taught artist • Biologist • Author • Anatomy lover • Creature-creator He/Him 🏳️🌈
Katılım Nisan 2011
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“The city’s wealth flows outward in goods and coin, but its waste pools in the depths, stagnating in hidden canals and forgotten waterways. The butchers’ runoff, the tanneries’ bile, the discarded husks of the fish market, the dead rats swept into the gutters, all should choke the city with rot.
And yet, where other beasts would succumb to the sickness, the Dredge Basilisk thrives. Its barbed limbs sift through the silt, its mucous-coated hide repels disease, and its iron stomach devours what the city cannot afford to acknowledge. It is a creature both loathed and depended upon, a living sewer that keeps the water flowing and the sickness at bay, if only just.”
- Magister Alseth, Flesh and Fable: Dragons in History
Learn about Dragon relatives in my new 220+ page speculative biology artbook! Dragonatomy!!
Link pinned on profile.
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I really should have said "we" an not "you" in my original response. But the point stands, I could say this is the right way to factory farm because God doesn't want us to cause needless suffering.
But, saying "this is wrong because I believe in God" is stupid. Anyone can say that about anything. You need to actually explain why. Even if you reasoning is based in Christianity, you have to actually be thoughtful to make a point.
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Why does this inspire such disgust and conflict in us?
It's hard to argue that this solution isn't better. Better a brainless sack of protein than a living creature capable of pain, longing to see the sky but forced to live in hideous lifelong bondage.
So why does the Harvest Hen or the Domesticated Meat Pig feel worse?
I think it's because it makes the instrumentalization visible. We already treat living creatures as production units, but this takes it "too far"... it stops pretending otherwise. An organism that has been openly, unapologetically designed as a object.
And for some people, in some ways, something about that honesty is harder to look at than the cruelty we've already normalized.
Original brainless meat pig "bodyoid" art by @Coolio_Art made me want to make my own.
Kai Micah Mills@kaimicahmills
the ultimate solution is through technology we engineer what has been called a bodyoid: brainless animal bodies that provide as much meat as we desire without harming any sentient beings this would transform medicine - the same platform would allow us to grow organs on demand, eliminate transplant waiting lists, and produce perfectly matched tissues for each patient experimental therapies could be tested on full biological systems without involving conscious animals, regenerative medicine would accelerate as entire replacement tissues become manufacturable in the same way that agriculture turned food from a scarce resource into an abundant one, engineered bodyoids would turn biological material into infrastructure - meat without slaughter, organs without donors, and medical research without sentient suffering
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@Styx_Boatman "I believe in God, and that's why this is wrong."
"How can you be sure you know what God wants? Perhaps God doesn't approve of the horrors we already create."
"wOoooooOOOoooooooow, laying 5th-dimensional theological traps already I see??"
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@Styx_Boatman Will He not judge you for how you have mistreated and abused His creations thus far? Or do other life forms exist only at human whims?
And if that’s true, why is this creature unacceptable in His eyes, but factory farming is okay?
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Every time I have felt a need to use AI it has been one of two things.
1. Fear at the limits if my skill, and a way to avoid facing them.
2. Laziness at not wanting to do the uncomfortable part of an artwork
Both of these instincts if endulged will stunt growth and learning.
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@jessiegender Always happy to get more Trek, even though I definitely didn’t click with this particular series.
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This looks like just speculation and rumor to me but oh I hope it’s true. Nothing would bring me more joy than another season of this great show. The fact that it would also piss off all the anti-woke assholes is just icing on the cake. But oh, I do like icing…
Fandom Pulse@fandompulse
The Tachyon Pulse Podcast is reporting Paramount/Skydance is "close to a deal" With Alex Kurtzman, which would include Starfleet Academy Season 3. Would Star Trek survive this if it happens?
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Some kind of adolescent freak warrior tortoise...?
(2018)
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Original copy of the Mona Lisa arrives today from the Louvre! Not cheap!
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Dune has only become more insightful and prescient as the 21st century unfolds.
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@GayestFesh I adore Firefly, and this is undeniably true. It cemented itself in pop culture by giving a small sharp dose of its best ideas, and fans building an identity around what could have been.
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Firefly was canceled at the exact right moment.
Hoops@Hoopss
What opinion will get you in this position?
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“In the grim darkness of the 41st millennium there is only lore”
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You'll be sitting somewhere wondering if your original character designs are any good and then you see a game like this
Gonktinaauugpuaghhughh@Loudwindow
It's like looking at an unwoke Concord
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I think people are misunderstanding my post. It’s arguing that what we do right now is SO horrible, and unnatural, and unhealthy…
that something like the Harvest Hen is arguably an all around improvement. And that we should reflect on that, not engineer these creatures. Sit with our discomfort and disquiet in what we have wrought.
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@TopherStoll @Lakritsiputki And you want to ensure there's no alternative to that?
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@tungtingshrimp My hand is kinda tired after drawing it. Is that not enough? 🙇♂️
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@TopherStoll this artwork warrants corporeal punishment
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@robustdefiance Why does this disgust us?
Because it is evil.
How do we know something is evil?
Because it disgusts us.
GIF
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@TopherStoll Evil is obvious. In healthy people this triggers a disgust response
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Adding Harvest Hen to my list of potential band names
Christopher Stoll - Off to a Rough Art@TopherStoll
Why does this inspire such disgust and conflict in us? It's hard to argue that this solution isn't better. Better a brainless sack of protein than a living creature capable of pain, longing to see the sky but forced to live in hideous lifelong bondage. So why does the Harvest Hen or the Domesticated Meat Pig feel worse? I think it's because it makes the instrumentalization visible. We already treat living creatures as production units, but this takes it "too far"... it stops pretending otherwise. An organism that has been openly, unapologetically designed as a object. And for some people, in some ways, something about that honesty is harder to look at than the cruelty we've already normalized. Original brainless meat pig "bodyoid" art by @Coolio_Art made me want to make my own.
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