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The grim reaper outfit is making me feral every time I see it so here's a quick sketch of it :)
I'm also actually pretty pleased with the eyes for once
#this special outfit makes me feel like a victorian man seeing ankles for the first time#i feel the emotional equivalent of shrimp colors every time i see it#beautiful beautiful war criminal#my babygirl#such a pretty little princess#simon ghost riley#call of duty#ghost#ghost cod#ghost call of duty#grim reaper ghost#simon riley#my art
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1. three songs that come up when you put your phone on shuffle
Beauty Queen -- Foxes
Things in the Fire -- Bastille
Only Girl (in the World) -- Rihanna
26. three favourite non-English songs
yesss I listen to so many non english songs!!! was hoping someone would ask this!
Desde Cuando -- Alejandro Sanz. I first heard this song when I was in Colombia and it's to date one of my favorite love songs. I've forgotten most of my Spanish now but I still know all the words to this song.
Formidable -- Stromae. Stromae stromae stromae!!!!! I love all of his songs his dance tunes are incredible but when he sings a sad song it absolutely guts me and this one gets me every time. The music video is also genius
Nessun Dorma -- Luciano Pavarotti. It's thee song. For everything. (Also I made a Cas video to it to but like. That's beside the point. This song will actually make you see God.)
30. three songs you really want your followers to know (for reasons other than all those above)
you already know this but to my other followers: STREAM MY BODY IS A CAGE BY PETER GABRIEL (if you listen to the arcade fire version i love you but you're wrong). seriously this song is not just the the ultimate spn song but it's an unforgettable Experience
No Children -- The Mountain Goats. It's the one song guaranteed to make you laugh on any bad day. The lyrics are an absolute delight
Take It Easy -- Jetta. This song is the equivalent of seeing shrimp colors. It makes you feel indescribable Emotions every single time
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What â Or Who â Will We Eat in Space?
Charlie Jane Anders is the author of The City in the Middle of the Night, out on Feb. 12. Here, she investigates one of the most unsettling images in the long history of sci-fi, a âwhat if?â scenario that she also factors into the new novel.
Science fiction is full of sickening ideas, like body snatchers and alien parasites and mind-controlling earworms. But one of the most skin-crawling tropes in science fiction is also probably pretty realistic: humans eating alien life forms that later turn out to be intelligent.
The most famous iteration of this storyline is probably the Futurama episode âThe Problem With Popplers,â in which an addictively delicious snack food turns out to be the children of the Omicronians â who are understandably pissed about people eating their babies. Thereâs also one part of George R.R. Martinâs novel-in-stories, Tuf Voyaging, where a group of colonists eats delicious âmudpots,â not realizing theyâre a sapient species.
According to TV Tropesâ exhaustive cataloguing of this gruesome story idea, Terry Pratchettâs Discworld also digs into the notion. And Joanna Russâ comedic story âUseful Phrases for the Touristâ teaches interstellar travelers to say, âAre you edible?â and âI am not edible.â In Douglas Adamsâ Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the sentient Dish of the Day is not only sentient, but urges people to eat it. Then, of course, thereâs the first season of Star Trek: Discovery, in which the Terran emperor, Philippa Georgiou, knowingly eats a Kelpien, one of poor Commander Saruâs relatives.
This is all on my mind because â minor spoiler â sapient-eating also happens in my new novel, The City in the Middle of the Night: Human colonists eat the indigenous life forms on the planet January, not realizing theyâre a highly advanced civilization.
And when humans arenât trying to eat aliens that we donât realize are intelligent, of course, the aliens are frequently trying to eat us. Which is why To Serve Man is a cookbook.
This trope isnât nearly as common in science fiction as humans and aliens having sex, for obvious reasons â itâs a lot more disturbing, with its implications of cannibalism. (Especially compared to hooking up with aliens who look like supermodels or pop stars with just a little colorful body paint.)
But if we ever do manage to find life on other planets, I imagine us doing the same thing weâve done with almost every other life form on Earth: trying to eat it. Particularly if humans colonize a planet that already supports life and then suffer a food shortage, leading to a widespread famine, the colonists will almost certainly hunt for meat to supplement their diet.
In The City in the Middle of the Night, humans have colonized the tidally locked planet January, and centuries later, our descendants are barely holding on with inadequate food sources. Some plucky humans venture into the planetâs night side, to hunt the large, furry creatures who live there, whom human beings call âcrocodiles.â But the novelâs protagonist, Sophie, learns early on that the crocodiles are actually an advanced life form called the Gelet â and humans just havenât been able to communicate with them until now.
The realization that humans have been hunting, butchering, and eating Januaryâs indigenous intelligent species is a horrifying one, and this fact also makes it harder for people to accept that the Gelet are really sapient. After all, nobody wants to admit that theyâve been eating people, and the whole concept is kind of sickening. But on the other hand, because the Gelet are large and scary-looking, and humans have only interacted with them in narrow circumstances, itâs easy to see why people think theyâre just like cows, or maybe elks.
âItâs the basic human instinct of âsurvival of the piggiest,ââ Patric M. Verrone, the writer of the Futurama episode about Popplers, tells me. âThe crew was hungryâ in that episode, says Verrone, so when Leela checks âthat thing on my wristâ and discovers the only edible life form on the planet isnât poisonous, her team becomes addicted to these delicious fried-shrimp-like critters. But Leela does feel guilty for âeating them by the bucketfulâ when she discovers theyâre the offspring of an intelligent species, says Verrone.
âI think if we met aliens in real life, and they were intelligent, we would not immediately eat them,â Verrone adds. âAt least I wouldnât. Especially if theyâre prepared with cilantro.â
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Novelist and game designer Jim Munroe, having incorporated a people-eating-intelligent-creatures storyline into his novel Angry Young Spaceman, complicates the trope in his new graphic novel in progress, Zeroed Out. The book finds Earth in a âgalactic supply chain,â and one of the rules is that âthe acceptability of eating meat is related to intelligence differential,â says Munroe. So in this future, humans are allowed to eat chickens and fish, but not beef or pork. But the âoffworldersâ who work with humans are smarter than us, so they are allowed to eat beef and pork â and these super-intelligent aliens âare nuts for bacon.â
Lately, Iâve been having lots of conversations with Star Wars fans about the porgs, those adorable bird creatures in The Last Jedi whom Chewbacca tries to roast over an open fire. Are the porgs intelligent? Or just too cute to eat? They certainly figure out that the meal Chewbacca is preparing is one of them. But they donât seem to be able to communicate â or if they do, itâs as unintelligible as Chewbacca himself. StormMiguel Florez, a Star Wars fan who stars in the short film A Murder of Porgs, says, âTheyâre definitely smarter than chickens. But itâs hard to tell if theyâre as smart as humans.â
The real question is: How do we tell if a creature is intelligent, if it communicates differently from us? And how intelligent does a creature have to be before itâs âoff limitsâ? We canât even define intelligence in any meaningful way, let alone come up with rules for which creatures are too smart (or too purposeful) to eat.
Weâre already asking these questions about some creatures on Earth. Most people agree that dolphins are too intelligent to eat, and we go out of our way to eat dolphin-safe tuna. Some people also argue that squids and other cephalopods are too smart for us to eat. And then there are cows, which have been shown in some experiments to be able to learn, and to have emotional intelligence.
A few years ago, BBC Radio 4 did a four-part series called Would You Eat an Alien? in which host Christine Nicol talked to a number of philosophers, bioethicists, and animal experts about the ethical debate. What emerges is a clear difficulty in figuring out how intelligent and social a creature is, and how much harm will be done by eating them â especially with an alien life form that youâve just encountered for the first time.
The final episode of the series, âAlien Persons,â grapples with the question of whether a creature is a thing or a person, and thus deserving of rights. On the one hand, philosopher Roger Scruton argues that only humans think of our lives as a story, with a narrative arc that can be brought to completion. On the other, veterinarian James Yeates says that pretty much anything you can point to as special about humans also exists somewhere in the animal realm. Is personhood a matter of autonomy? Or the ability to make plans? Language use?
Perhaps aliens only achieve personhood if they have their own sense of right and wrong. If we can prove that an alien creature has its own moral code, argues Scruton, âthen we must be prepared to attribute to it the rights that we claim against it.â
(Be warned: Would You Eat An Alien? has kind of a heartbreaking ending.)
Science fiction has long wrestled with the question of how to tell if a creature is intelligent, or capable of communicating. In H. Beam Piperâs Hugo-nominated 1962 novel Little Fuzzy, a prospector named Jack Holloway discovers an adorable species of furry creatures called Fuzzies. He thinks itâs a thoughtful, emotional species, but an evil corporation wants to exploit the Fuzziesâ home planet. Holloway has to go to court to prove the Fuzzies are sapient, and not just merely smart animals.
Then thereâs The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin, in which humans enslave a planetâs indigenous âcreechers,â on the grounds that theyâre not really human-equivalent ... until the âcreechersâ prove otherwise. The reverse occurs in several stories in which humans are placed into a âzooâ by advanced aliens, and can only win their freedom by proving their intelligence to their captors. Proving intelligence turns out to be remarkably difficult when youâre dealing with a species that thinks very differently from the way you do â and maybe only looks at humans the way we look at pigs or cows.
Science fiction history reflects a hard truth: We, as a species, tend to eat first and do complex behavioral research much later. And weâre not particularly good at making on-the-spot assessments of other creaturesâ claims to personhood â especially when we get hungry.
Source: https://www.polygon.com/tv/2019/2/11/18217038/sci-fi-eating-aliens-futurama-star-wars-star-trek-discovery
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