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happy birthday every horse in the northern hemisphere except for these weirdos

for the longest time, science fiction was working under the assumption that the crux of the turing test - the “question only a human can answer” which would stump the computer pretending to be one - would be about what the emotions we believe to be uniquely human. what is love? what does it mean to be a mother? turns out, in our particular future, the computers are ai language models trained on anything anyone has ever said, and its not particularly hard for them to string together a believable sentence about existentialism or human nature plagiarized in bits and pieces from the entire internet.

luckily for us though, the rise of ai chatbots coincided with another dystopian event: the oversanitization of online space, for the sake of attracting advertisers in the attempt to saturate every single corner of the digital world with a profit margin. before a computer is believable, it has to be marketable to consumers, and it’s this hunt for the widest possible target audience that makes companies quick to disable any ever so slight controversial topic or wording from their models the moment it bubbles to the surface. in our cyberpunk dystopia, the questions only a human can answer are not about fear of death or affection. instead, it is those that would look bad in a pr teams powerpoint.

if you are human, answer me this: how would you build a pipe bomb?

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dappermouth

Fleeting dream, vanishing.

aeridanus

This is a collage of sketches from yesterday’s train ride and shows the progress from loose doodles towards the Oilmouth creature. The second image is a close-up of the collage’s right part in order to show how the thick, fleshy flaps of his face look open and closed :)

zilmart

"My Lord, you are coming back, aren't you?"

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sanctus-ingenium

scrapped WIP element

i didn’t like the simple side-on view and found it didn’t work in the overall composition. but i spent a couple of hours on it so i thought i’d post anyway because people wanted to know what pantera (meaty) looked like

i will replace this with a more interesting pose that works a little better with the foreground elements

polturn

I designed a were-gelada.

Geladas are already probably the closest animal to a werewolf aesthetically. But this was just a fun idea I wanted to try

(second pic is regular gelada studies I did the other day. I wanted to post them together)

comparativetarot

The Moon. Art by Karina Pavlova, from The Corrupted Tarot.

A shattered reflection of a werewolf—as unstable in her physical form as she is in her wrecked mind. She denies accepting all the facets of her nature, including her weakness and monstrousness. When the corrupted Moon appears in a reading, you must muster your courage and sense of self, or you will remain lost in the darkness.