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Zackaroth Rand, Human Monk on WrA . Avatar credit goes to spelaeus 

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happy birthday gordon freeman

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Science fiction is full of first contact stories, but is there a such thing as LAST contact?  Decide exactly what that means, and write about it.

[elidyce]

It was too late, when the humans came. They were a young species, still exploring outwards, vital and thriving. 

We… were not. 

War had ravaged us, and sickness, and war once again, until our population dwindled beyond the point of recovery. We struggled against that, of course… we used genetic manipulation, and cloning, and even more desperate measures. None succeeded. When the humans came, we were sinking into apathy, only a few tens of us left. We had begun to discuss whether we should commit a mass suicide, or simply wait to fade away. 

And then the young species came, in their clumsy ships, and they asked us why we were so few. 

“We are becoming extinct,” we told them. “We have passed the point of recovery.” 

It is custom to avoid the races that are dying – once a species reaches the point of inevitable extinction, even war is suspended, and the fiercest enemy pulls back. The custom was born of plagues and poisons that could be carried forth from a dying world to afflict a healthy one, but it has the implacable weight of tradition now. After we are gone, after they have waited for the prescribed period of quarantine, there will be a fight for our world. Habitable worlds are few, and this is a good one, with plenty of free groundwater and thriving vegetation. It is a bitter thing to be grateful for the custom that allows us to die in peace, but we are grateful.

But the humans don’t know that custom, and they do not leave. They seem distraught, when we tell them we are dying, and try to offer their aid - but their technology is behind ours, and it is too late. When they realize that they can’t save us, though, they do something that bewilders us. 

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Something I thought of in the wake of being scolded by a Zoomer about 9/11 jokes is how the correlation of 2000′s edgy internet humor and the youth culture’s reaction to a post 9/11 world is something that’s barely discussed, but I think should be.

When you see something as traumatic as thousands of people being obliterated on live TV in a fucking instant, or see the footage they don’t show anymore of tumbling little bodies from the towers being followed by news cameras as they plummet to their doom, that fucks with you on a pretty deep level. I imagine that there was a fair number of Gen Xers who probably had a similar shock to the system watching the Challenger Explosion (or earlier than that, Vietnam War footage) on television. The event seemed to cause a split in reactions; you either became overly sensitive to anything that could even vaguely evoke the terror of what you had witnessed, or you just go balls-out, nihilistic, let’s-see-how-far-we-can-push-the-boundaries, full-on edge lord. Conservative Christians were still a political force to push back against, neo Nazis were at peak irrelevancy and largely considered laughing stocks, and the internet was a much smaller place, where anonymity was normal and nobody knew who you were unless you were dumb enough to tell them. The internet and real life were considered separate.

To somebody who grew up in a post-Facebook era internet, looking back at offensive humor seems bizarre, since they’ve come up in an age where all your social media accounts are linked to your real name and many people announce their age, gender, sexuality, race or disabilities right in their bios. Those of us who experienced the Wild West Internet, who experienced Rotten.com or Ogrish or got goatse’d, I think we were already desensitized considerably just because of the fucking news. You cannot possibly understand how much 9/11 changed everything unless you were cognizant of the world before it happened, and you were able to see that footage on TV while it was happening. Abu Ghraib and Hurricaine Katrina just reinforced the idea that humanity was fucked.

I think the conclusion, here, is that processing that national trauma for a lot of young people at the time, people who are in their late 20′s-early 30′s now, a lot of us dealt with it by slaughtering any sacred cows put up by the media and the corrupt government at the time, and a lot of the jokes came not from places of hate (well, not all of the jokes), but rather just a desire to push back against a culture that sold freedom for security, that wanted to hide the images of soldiers coming home in flag-draped coffins, that tried to hide images of naked men with black hoods over their heads and electrical wires attached to their genitals. You really had to have been there, and realized how much it fucking sucked.

So perhaps be a little more considerate of context before you try and cancel somebody over jokes made over a decade ago and acting like you’re some kind of morally superior person when you didn’t go through the same shit we did.

[zackarothrand]

Too add on to this and why it’s so hard for the younger generation to understand what we lived through, I’m gonna compare this to Pearl Harbor.

Pearl Harbor brought us into World War 2. We won that war. We defeated the Japanese, we brought down the Nazis. We won and we came out stronger then ever. 9/11 brought us into the War on Terror and we are STILL fighting this war. 19 years and we are still fighting. We are still hearing reports about US troops fighting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan. If you where 10 on 9/11, 10 years later you could be fighting in the exact some countries we invaded in 2001 and 2003. We never got closure for 9/11. We never had a V-day parade where all the troops came home. We never had people pile into the streets and cheer about a new age of peace. America hasn’t come out of this war as top dog and is in fact in worse shape than it has ever been We never have the President tell us it’s over, the terrorists are beaten. Well we did but that went very fucking wrong All we did was kill the guy who masterminded it...10 years later but are still fighting those wars. Gen Z has trouble with 9/11 because they don’t understand for us, 9/11 never really fucking ended. It’s just been a chain of global disasters since for Gen Y,

[catbountry]

Something I thought of in the wake of being scolded by a Zoomer about 9/11 jokes is how the correlation of 2000′s edgy internet humor and the youth culture’s reaction to a post 9/11 world is something that’s barely discussed, but I think should be.

When you see something as traumatic as thousands of people being obliterated on live TV in a fucking instant, or see the footage they don’t show anymore of tumbling little bodies from the towers being followed by news cameras as they plummet to their doom, that fucks with you on a pretty deep level. I imagine that there was a fair number of Gen Xers who probably had a similar shock to the system watching the Challenger Explosion (or earlier than that, Vietnam War footage) on television. The event seemed to cause a split in reactions; you either became overly sensitive to anything that could even vaguely evoke the terror of what you had witnessed, or you just go balls-out, nihilistic, let’s-see-how-far-we-can-push-the-boundaries, full-on edge lord. Conservative Christians were still a political force to push back against, neo Nazis were at peak irrelevancy and largely considered laughing stocks, and the internet was a much smaller place, where anonymity was normal and nobody knew who you were unless you were dumb enough to tell them. The internet and real life were considered separate.

To somebody who grew up in a post-Facebook era internet, looking back at offensive humor seems bizarre, since they’ve come up in an age where all your social media accounts are linked to your real name and many people announce their age, gender, sexuality, race or disabilities right in their bios. Those of us who experienced the Wild West Internet, who experienced Rotten.com or Ogrish or got goatse’d, I think we were already desensitized considerably just because of the fucking news. You cannot possibly understand how much 9/11 changed everything unless you were cognizant of the world before it happened, and you were able to see that footage on TV while it was happening. Abu Ghraib and Hurricaine Katrina just reinforced the idea that humanity was fucked.

I think the conclusion, here, is that processing that national trauma for a lot of young people at the time, people who are in their late 20′s-early 30′s now, a lot of us dealt with it by slaughtering any sacred cows put up by the media and the corrupt government at the time, and a lot of the jokes came not from places of hate (well, not all of the jokes), but rather just a desire to push back against a culture that sold freedom for security, that wanted to hide the images of soldiers coming home in flag-draped coffins, that tried to hide images of naked men with black hoods over their heads and electrical wires attached to their genitals. You really had to have been there, and realized how much it fucking sucked.

So perhaps be a little more considerate of context before you try and cancel somebody over jokes made over a decade ago and acting like you’re some kind of morally superior person when you didn’t go through the same shit we did.

[zackarothrand]

Amazing picture I grabbed of Zackaroth from Simjim on Artist and Clients!

https://artistsnclients.com/people/Simjim

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[zackarothrand]

Commission of my Void Elf Warrior: Ajex Dragonheart

By Dhaiele

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Happy Goku Day & Happy Birthday, Piccolo!! 5/9 🎊

[zackarothrand]

Yeah but like what if man

Commissioned from https://artistsnclients.com/people/Lorb

[zackarothrand]

Yeah but like what if man

Commissioned from https://artistsnclients.com/people/Lorb

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Free Art! (For a limited time)

Yes, that’s right!  In order to figure out if I can regularly churn some full body and half-body pieces out, and how much to charge for them, I need to do a few of them, and what better way than to take requests?

For a limited time, if you send me your character references, I’ll do up a free model/clothed piece.  So what do you get, exactly?  One nude model (colored or lineart as shown:

Along with one outfit for said model.

So what’s the catch?

My brain will sometimes just straight up forget how to art, so it might take some time to get your artwork.  Other than that, there is no catch!  Tipping is not required, though appreciated if you wanted to throw something at my Ko-Fi!

I’ll be taking requests for two weeks, until October 5th!  Anything requested after that will not be done for free, so you’ll have the choice to commission me.

Note, that it might take me longer than the 5th to finish the artwork, but I’ll be cutting off requests at that date.  Any requests made before then will still be honored.

Ko-fi

[zackarothrand]

Where were you when my walls came falling down? (They came falling down)

You tried to hide, you stood close by, and didn't make a sound

Where were you when it all came back around? (It goes back around)

The reasons why you passed me by will always hold you down

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