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@nonpositiveartist
TEAM TRAGEDY GO GO GO!
Yippie, it's time to roll on with my first ever Art Fight! I've been working some while over the character refs and other stuff and now it's all finally at place and I can share my profile with you.
FIGHT ME, SMASH ME, KICK ME, YOU'LL BE IN FOR REVENGE!
An art gifting game
Art Fight attack for Bestuzh and their Novakid named Farady. ...I did threaten that I'll go down for every Starbound OC on that site? Well now I sure do.
Art Fight attack for skakominor, because who would I be if I'd not attack fellow SCP fandom members?
been practising some pixel arts during art fight because why not?
The lady on the left is Verolae by Reyynn, the android on the right is Cerio by clov3rii , and the tiny jumpy creature is Mycota, the rain world character by Abstractforkk. Not gonna lie, making these little 200*200 (which is AF's convenient size for thumbnails and such) character icons feels like fun and are a good rest from full-fledged artworks. Weighs down on the artblock somewhat.
Art Fight attack for @ren-is-real. Dunno man this guy just can have all my guts and a buncha spare change from my pockets, I still like him.
Okay guys I need a lil bit of assistance with some stuff so here's my callout.
Who wants me to use their designs of Dr. Iceberg in my next artwork?
I don't need many, but I need some varied versions of him and, while making up my own variations could be fun, I thought some engagement from the fandom would be more interesting.
Ofc I'll tag you along when the thing is completed. So, yeah, please just type me a comment if you're okay with it and I'll consider it a green light and go from that.
Never mind, I just looked down at the idea I scribbled down long before said exam session and realised how much of a braindead idiot I am. I mean, okay, colours could be creepy and all but the composition itself? Sucks.
Like, genuinely the idea was about that one tale where Iceberg gets reincarnated into a robot, yet instead of a robot we have these non-identical clones which are being incubated and then kept in the giant freezer. And when Iceberg dies it's his different-looking version that gets sent back in. And when that one dies another one goes and so on and so on so no one remembers what real Iceberg did look like so each version of him is as canonical as any other one.
Would work nice in a fanfic, yes, but the way my sketch looked like it's just half-dead Iceberg standing in a fridge with a bunch of dead Icebergs. Which is, boring and crampled up somewhat.
And my brain is fried and I really do despise myself for failing an idea as funky as that but yeah. Braindead wyrm. Apologies to everyone who made their submissions. I am no Lazarus so no sudden wakenings will happen. My creativity's dead as each and every Iceberg in AO3 fanworks. Might as well go and break my wrists since I ain't using them for drawing as I should. Maybe that'll teach me anything.
Okay so uh, I've randomly became witness to someone's wedding, and the main question now is:
Were there ever attempts to visualize leannegears wedding? Whether a classical European style one or something involving Leanne's family side traditions as well? Like, ever ever?
Gawd give me normal exam grades and some time to sober up after I pass them and darn me if I don't see that happen and I'll have to make it-
'kay, I gave up on making pixel icons for all the characters I want to submit this year, but here are the lucky ones
to be fair the middle one's success was the only reason I though this might be a good idea. but now I think it's more of Leo's own charisma and not my skill level that made it work.
Okay guys I need a lil bit of assistance with some stuff so here's my callout.
Who wants me to use their designs of Dr. Iceberg in my next artwork?
I don't need many, but I need some varied versions of him and, while making up my own variations could be fun, I thought some engagement from the fandom would be more interesting.
Ofc I'll tag you along when the thing is completed. So, yeah, please just type me a comment if you're okay with it and I'll consider it a green light and go from that.
Gotta give an update on that one:
First, I already gathered enough designs to fill the composition, so no further submisson are to be prompted from me. Thanks to everyone who participated, I've seen and liked each design that was sent even if I didn't make a comment of it directly.
Second, while the illustration itself is not that complicated in terms of stylistic, I'll probably finish it up somewhere closer to the end of the month, since a) I'm having exam session which has me rather tough rn and b) i sorta prioritise building up my ArtFight profile and completing whatever concepts are needed for that first. Individually they don't take as much time as a full illustration but it needs plenty of them, so, yeah, right now it's the main way to lowering my cortisol levels and i hella need to do that.
Suddenly, Asya-
I really needed a profile pic since the art for the previous one was like 3 years old already but simply redrawing Dr. Iceberg felt somewhat boring yet I adored that palette still, so now we have the character most opposing to me in terms of worldivew there.
Still am trying to figure this whole pixel ordeal up, but I like it so far so guess it's tolerable enough.
Right now and until June 30th, I am midst rather tough exam session.
Throughout July, I'll be occupied with college specialization-related practice assignment.
I am no original creator, for each and every full-fledged work of my is a fan art and whatever OCs I have are underworked both in designs and backstory.
... But how does that stop me from creating an art fight account, just in case? Yeah right, nohow.
Cortisol? Nah, I'm running on something stronger than that already.
So, I suddenly remembered it's like, 1.5 months left till Iceberg's 29th death. Not that I'm planning to do something for the occasion, really, but... good to know.
Okay guys I need a lil bit of assistance with some stuff so here's my callout.
Who wants me to use their designs of Dr. Iceberg in my next artwork?
I don't need many, but I need some varied versions of him and, while making up my own variations could be fun, I thought some engagement from the fandom would be more interesting.
Ofc I'll tag you along when the thing is completed. So, yeah, please just type me a comment if you're okay with it and I'll consider it a green light and go from that.
okay, but what if i just, jump in and squeak a bit to get em out of my systems
Cursed be the day when I decided to depict younger Gears in a pumpkin orange cardigan, because now each time I try to sketch up something, this guy just randomly spawns somewhere in the corner and messes my mind up.
I mean, sure, the colour may fit him and all... but man, you're the one happy version of Gears that isn't destined to live for long, can you please step out for a minute?
And I swear, if I hear another joke about GlassGears lovechild... Although, to be fair, it's just me who noticed some shared traits, but still, I swear...
A longing for the one who is looking for the wasteland
Let me stand on the shore and see what the tide may bring A little love — perhaps, A little love-
Decided to check if I'm still capable to draw backgrounds and chose this work from 2 years ago as a base. Tweaked the palette a bit cus if it isn't color picking that I improved most through these two years, then what?
And hey, is it just me, or this time Gears' figure is much more embedded into the background than before? Anyways, I consider this a successful redraw somewhat.
I remember when I was younger, anytime I watched a movie where the characters have to kill a scary monster/alien, I always thought the act of killing it was intended to be part of the horror. Like there’s this amazing creature that we’ve never seen before, and maybe under different circumstances we could’ve coexisted with it, but it’s trying to attack you and you have to defend yourself, but by destroying it you also destroy the ability to ever understand it and that’s sad and is supposed to make you feel conflicted.
It was not until well into my adulthood that I realized most people do not have complicated feelings about movies where people have to kill a scary alien monster, nor is that necessarily meant to be part of the narrative (unless it very obviously is). They just want the scary thing to die because it’s scary. I don’t have a real conclusion to this I just started thinking about it for some reason.
...
I think this is one of the themes of the SCP Foundation. The Foundation goes to enormous lengths not to kill anything unique when they can understand it. They'll even let it coexist, to whatever extent gives them maximum control. But they can't reconcile this moral conflict. They lock their creatures up to try to defend the world from them, but they'll condone spending however much of the expendable they have to in the process. And they don't really approach understanding either, because the whole idea of preserving normalcy is about protecting their understanding from what it doesn't already contain, the concept that learning about things outside of your framework of reality is fundamentally distressing and only a few special people should have to shoulder that burden.
It traps them in the paradox. They can't bring themselves to destroy the chance at knowledge, or to cleanse what is exceptional. But they still feel threatened by it, by the circumstances of the meeting. So they try to change those circumstances to the circumstance of containment, which is necessarily costly in blood, in resources, and in impact.
This is further complicated by the fact that there are often good reasons to contain something that is legitimately dangerous beyond just being weird, and good reasons not to destroy an ill-understood anomaly. These categories often overlap, creating cases that justify, even necessitate the Foundation's strategy. But necessary evil isn't generalizable beyond states of actual crisis. The classification of the anomalous employed by the 05 council treats many SCP objects as if they fit this overlap even when they clearly don't.
The ethos of "we die in the dark so they can live in the light" also describes not just the idea that the knowledge represented by the anomalous is dangerous and should be restricted, but, in my opinion, also a desire to spare the rest of humanity this dilemma. SCP Foundation employees know that even the most innocuous anomalies are threatening to the average person's sense of normalcy, and that rejecting something with good qualities for unbalancing you creates a sense of moral conflict. The dark that they die in is moral uncertainty, while protecting the light of the status quo.
It mirrors trends like color blind racism and don't say gay. The system identifies something as threatening and proscribes violence against it, then protects the conscience of the average citizen by obscuring the existence and humanity of those marginalized by this violence. In many versions of the canon, the SCP Foundation couldn't exist without the contributions of clandestine free ports like Three Portlands and Esterberg -- settlements forced to be clandestine by the policy of the veil. The status quo doesn't function without the victims it refuses to acknowledge.
OP's original observations reflect a cultural attitude of the seperation of man and nature. In particular, the exaltation of man above nature, at leisure to impose his will on it thanks to his rationality, and therefore non-culpable for destroying it when it gets in his way. It construes elements foreign to our social systems as obstacles to overcome, the only alternative being providing some use to our species. An alien, here, fills the same role as a tiger or native tribe in 19th century adventure stories -- excitingly foreign and in need of subjugation.
The SCP Foundation, appropriately, also traces its roots to the 19th century. Canons disagree, but it clearly came about at the height of colonialism, and from the merger of secret organizations largely associated with colonialist institutions, such as the British, French, and American governments, Meiji Japan, and the East India Company. The fact that the 05 council leadership has access to the Fountain of Youth has kept the core of this organization largely consistent since it's founding, depending on canon.
From those roots in determining "normalcy" in a colonialist, euro-centric context based on Enlightenment ideas of reason and science at the time, the Foundation permeated the modern world order, founding front companies in every economic sector and entering symbiotic (though rocky) relationships with nation states. In short, the Foundation inextricably became one with of the status quo they defend.
This inherent bias made the idea of the anomalous fraught from the beginning. Many things contained by the Foundation had been an accepted part of society for thousands of years, such as thaumaturgic rituals and ghosts. These were rejected from normalcy not because they were more dangerous than things left uncontained, but because they conflicted with the supremacy of the "rationalist" viewpoint.
Every alien predator, slumbering monster, even vengeful ghost has its place within the natural -- if they were truly supernatural, they would not be in nature. The horror they cause is from their displacement, their disruption, and the threat of their intersection with humanity. Many stories even emphasize the age of the creature, being from a land "time forgot" -- one that has failed to make one for anthropic progress.
Killing these things restores safety, but it also restores sanity, and the sense of living in a human made world. That is what Lovecraft often tries to convey in his horror -- that the terror of a creature may not be in what it is, but what it means for the scope of one's existence. Killing the alien is the rejection of the foreign, the ancient thing a resubjugation of the Earth. It comforts us that such things cannot challenge our place in the world. That is why Cthulhu cannot die, because that comfort cannot be restored, anymore than we can unlearn of our mortality.
Taken in aggregate, again and again, the truth of these incursions cannot be denied. The SCP Foundation cannot escape its fascination with this truth, which is why it studies the anomalous. Nor can it escape that its normalcy relies on the exploitation of what was never actually paranormal, but merely normal, and so it contains what it cannot dispose of. But the threat to the brittle rules of convention that the Foundation clings to as a essential is inherent in these beings. That is why they must be othered, for self protection.
Sauelsuesor Sedira Phoibe Ohirume-no-muchi-no-kami Galatia Nira Servus Tenebris Lucy SCP-179 put it well when she indicted the Foundation for its solipsistic priorities. She wouldn't pledge herself to them because they didn't care for others she cared for, "others beyond the little walls of rules and bone and laws and flesh you build around yourselves until you don't even remember them."
That is why we fail to see the tragedy in killing what is alien to us. Because we don't even remember that we could see it as a tragedy.
