One day she’ll accept the trade-off, losing a piece of her humanity. She’ll look back and see the wisdom in it. But not today. Today she just wants back what she’s lost. (Oh this better, updated last sentence: Today she screams.)

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3mq5v2fdv4k2n

As much as I like cybernetics and media with it, I don’t want it. I have a few irrational fears, this is one. The other is finding a toilet in a dream and using it.

Every other entry in this series has been at peace with or loved the trade-off. But I wouldn’t and when I saw the reference image I knew exactly what I was going to paint with it. Someone tortured with the choice.

I also love Fredrik Backman, Bear Town is one of my all time favorites. The way he gets me to feel emotions with his words is something else. So the blurb above is my attempt in his style.

Thoughts? Also is the rain convincing?

  • BallShapedManOPEnglish
    5·
    13 days ago

    Yeah they would, I was trying to make it convincing without painting each individual droplet. This is my first attempt at it and not really sure it lands. Maybe at a macro level but it falls apart close up.

    And that’s exactly how I feel about it. And I like the way both fictional worlds handle it. My first exposure was Rifts which to my knowledge has no impact on the character. But it always freaked me out.

    Johnny Mnemonic and Ghost in the Shell for example were both great and creepy for that reason. Totally cool and bothers me at the same time.

    • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
      5·
      13 days ago

      Johnny Mnemonic… I really should get that Movie in whatever capacity as physical media. Not just because I love Keanu Reeves, but it was such a classic Cyberpunk Scenario (Hello William Gibson) and that fricking Dolphin!

      Maybe at a macro level but it falls apart close up.

      you will get there, I am sure of it! Its poignant as it is already!

      • BallShapedManOPEnglish
        6·
        13 days ago

        Oh so good! And yes the dolphin was mind blowing the first time watching it.

        And it just means I need to focus on rain at some point and do a series on it. Just like I struggled with hair, hands, skin, and everything else. Just gotta practice it out of me 😁

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      2·
      13 days ago

      You did fine. Johnny Mnemonic completely tempered a naïveté in my view of cybernetics.

        • Maeve@kbin.earth
          3·
          13 days ago

          Well, I only used to think of positive applications and ramifications; I thought surely no human would allow conditions that create rampant misuse, or abuse, and guidelines would naturally arise to curb or mitigate any harmful potentials, despite already having seen how humans in uh… suboptimal environments behave. I was yet unaware that humans in optimal environments could behave as abhorrently, or worse. And we, the masses, don’t really get to see the goings-on behind oak doors with leaded glass, do we?