#unethical experiments where

[alorastormrider]

Living for this gorgeous goddess “evil” scientist era

[thewildercat]

Something for ArcticFight using the holly berry color palette. Played around with hatching to get some decent half-tones.

[fistfuloflightning]

Genderbent Vincrecia because I was just musing on how even more messed up the situation would be if Vinnie was Sephiroth’s mom.

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

not nonbinary as in not a woman but nonbinary as in rejects the sexualising male gaze and having no internal sense of gender in the least

[real-uwu-hours]

Something kind of silly about schooling fish is if you put one by itself it just kind if stays in place and hyperventilates. Even with other schools of fish in the same tank or places to hide it will instead float out in the open and have a panic attack. If you put two in there then it's the same thing but they have their panic attacks separately. Once you get 3 then suddenly they're able to swim together and it's all good 😎👍

[britneyshakespeare]

i feel bad for raquel lee bolleau and i feel like what she's saying about the lack of transparency behind quiet on set is a bigger issue that the consumers of this type of content don't want to talk about or criticize. social media has led to a huge boom in tragedy porn and trauma porn about the entertainment industry but especially the children's entertainment industry, especially especially from the eras when the largest demographic in that audience were consuming it themselves.

it's already been problematic in itself that there is an oversaturation of unresearched and repetitive videos on the exploitation of former child stars. it seems like the creators and audience don't often ask themselves "have we gotten enough of this? do we need another take on it? is another video full of dan schneider rumors and gossipy forum posts really adding to the public discourse?" i don't know quite at what point it becomes exploitative that this content continues to be made, and be evergreen in social media algorithms. the volume, the reach, and the general lack of quality control are the evil triad. because we are far past the point where i really believe everyone consuming this stuff cares about exploited children. there's far too many people gawking and not reevaluating the systems of power involved. or, to put it more concretely: how many times do we all need to watch those clips of ariana grande squeezing the potato and spilling water on her neck? at what point is this just personally disrespectful and retraumatizing for the victims that for the most part we, the consumers of internet content, are claiming to advocate for?

quiet on set is the first time traditional media got involved in this niche. there is still a lot of value in some of the discoveries made by the series. but it does not have completely clean hands in this either. it does not feel like everyone involved in making the executive decisions cared nearly enough about the vulnerability of former child stars they recruited to share their stories, or hell, whose stories were told without their involvement, such as amanda bynes and racquel in episode 5. these people did not even give statements.

the focus of this docuseries was far too broad and not coherent enough at the end of the day. and they did not give enough support to all of the people they roped in to tell their stories about childhood trauma. i have a hard time trying not to be completely cynical about its whole production, because i really want to believe that many of the people who worked on it do care. not every individual involved knew or had control over the injustices that happened in its own production. but the executives? fuck em. they greenlit this thing, and probably incentivized the creators to make these episodes as fast as possible, because they knew it would be a cash cow. something as sensitive as THIS series should not be so poorly produced just because it will be a guaranteed smash.

[sophieswundergarten]

Had a ✨SpOoKy HaLlOwEeN tHeMeD✨ AU thought that is basically Nicholas Benedict being the polar opposite of Book Victor Frankenstein

He has ALL the degrees and education, and only does extremely ethical science. But, he also adopts/befriends/houses every escaped experiment or person who has been been created/messed up by more careless mad science

[mageless]

I love that I’ve seen Kyle MacLachlan in exactly TWO tv shows and both times he’s been an absolutely off the rails homicidal father of the main character. If I had a nickel.

[mothpupae]

[birdy-brainrot]

Saw this post by @themadscientistofthebigeviltower and knew I had to draw my own mad scientist for it, very fitting

[apostleofthreedimensions]

Had a dream relating to Flatland recently, so I suppose that it's high time for me to talk about my oc Ezekiel.

I've seen a few others toss around the idea of Spacelanders taking a Flatlander out of Flatland and studying them, and I decided to throw my hat in the ring after watching one of those vids where people would capture feral kittens and raise them off the streets (Socializing a Spicy Feral Kitten). Mine is a bit more serious in tone though because I love melodrama. This takes place before A Square's enlightenment.

In Spaceland, the time to find a new apostle is still a quite a ways away. But due to the lack of information they had from the previous visit, Spacelander scientists are vigorously researching the second dimension and it's inhabitants so they can be as prepared as possible. They find themselves in an impasse when they realize how little information they can get when they aren't allowed to interact with the second dimension whatsoever. Past knowledge about Flatland and Flatlanders was destroyed in a great revolution, and what little information thats still available is restricted by the Spaceland government.

At this point, they think of Flatlanders as quite primitive, almost animal-like, so they plan an extended experiment to capture and study a Flatlander up close.

Many years and a failed attempt later, they find Ezekiel; a 21 year old isosceles triangle that lives on the outskirts of a city as a serf-like laborer with his aging obtuse father Phineas. Ezekiel's mother has been out of the picture for a long time, and Phineas is missing her more and more. So much so that he leaves home and goes on a long journey to find her.

Ezekiel cares for the house alone for a few weeks, but increasingly odd and inexplicable things keep happening, like there's some sort of ghost or spirit haunting him. Eventually things come to a fever pitch and he finds himself locked in his house with a large cage in the patio that he didn't put there. He's left with no other choice but to let himself be captured.

[the-weeping-dawn]

Ilztaun's father and his own long term mind flayer research partner: Hey what if we made someone who both was able to use psionics, but also because we might just be trying to get his brain to fuse with a tadpole, kinda just freak out any illithid who might be considering using him as a thrall/potential illithid? What if we did that? Would that be fucked up to do to someone or what?

Also Them: Doesn't that just make it even more tempting to do if we just happened to have a small child who is more than happy to feel included while here?

[edgebug]

need a bi4bi t4t m/f pairing where the girl is a giant freak and not in the "cute manic pixie" way but in the "unethical experiments in my fucked up laboratory" way and the guy is a golden retriever who thinks he can fix her. and he brings her cute bento lunches and she's like "bradley shut up put on your fucking gloves and hold this possum down so i can graft these giant grasshopper legs to it"

[amberinn]

no but my shippers buddies r so awesome literally the best

Most DRDT fans: God this series is so heart-wrenching at times. I just want these kids to be happy...

Charwhit shippers specifically: My sweet baby boys! I'm gonna write a 30k word fic where one of them gets thrown in a wood chipper and the other watches helplessly. Right after my 40k word fic where both of them get strychnine poisoning and die in each others arms.

[drchucktingle]

three point tether

the reason art with ai at the creative helm will never get traction in any long term or meaningful trot is because art is more than what is in the text of the book, or notes of the song, or runtime of the movie. art is whats OUTSIDE of the medium, a performance piece between creator and experiencer

i say this all the time and i think most buckaroos think im off in the clouds as eccentric ART WEIRDO (theyre NOT WRONG) but in a practical BUSINESS sense what i am saying is true. folks want to pretend art is in some lab where art and artist and viewer are separate things. but they never will be

art exists outside of a vacuum. it is not static. it grows and lives and evolves based on culture its in and who is experiencing it. whether you know it or not, what you LIKE or DISLIKE has just as much to do with the story AROUND the art than the art itself.

you carry what you know about me to my tinglers, you carry what you know about the beatles to the beatles, you even carry what you DONT KNOW to artists and THAT changes your experience. the STORY outside of the art is unavoidable because the lack of a story is still a story

so what does this have to do with ai art? my point is, the STORY of ai generated art is potentially interesting when it FIRST happens, or when its a one of one, but when it is co-opted by corporations to make slop, or when you consider the ethics of data scraping and theft, the story becomes sour

in other words, REGARDLESS OF WHAT AI GENERATED ART ‘MAKES’, the STORY outside of the story is derivative and unethical. what is even more important, and the greatest problem of all, is that its very very BORING. ‘oh wonderful someone made a painting from a prompt CANT WAIT to dive into this world’

so fundamentally these projects from tech goofs only serve to show that they have absolutely no understanding of art in the first place. the starry night is not just a painting, it is a three point tether between van gogh, the painting and us, which is constantly breathing and moving and living

if i was to give advice to any artist about how to stand out in their field i would say this: figure out what YOUR STORY is, not just within your chosen medium, but OUTSIDE of any medium. THAT STORY is your art, and it is infinitely cosmically unique. USE IT. EMBRACE IT. that is your power buckaroo

[kaidatheghostdragon]

Found this while going through my fanfic files, and i absolutely had to share.

Danny: i want in

Red robin: …what?

Danny: your bat family. I want in.

Red robin, blinking in surprise: i dont know what you think you know about my associates, but we're not-

Danny: dont be obtuse. I know youre the smart one. And i also know that your all one big relatively happy family. I want in.

Red robin: …why?

Danny: because you guys are the first people ive found that are wealthy, intelligent and powerful enough to take on my fruitloop godfather and win AND are decent enough human beings that i can be assured that when all is said and done, my well-being will remain a top priority.

Orphan, appearing out of nowhere: new brother!

Danny: *stares in shock*

Danny: *sudden uncanny grin* well that's one convinced. How do i win over the rest?

Orphan: no need. New brother!

Red robin: *pointed glance of betrayal* fine. Who is your godfather?

Danny: vlad masters. He's a fruitloop.

Red robin: for real? B's been investigating him for years! Tell me everything! *genuinely excited for a new lead*

Danny: well, he's tried to murder my dad and marry my mom, gained his wealth illegally, committed voting fraud to become the mayor of my hometown, has a secret underground lab where he does unethical experiments, and he's abducted me more than a dozen times even before my parents disowned me to make me his evil apprentice or whatever. Now that im homeless, he's literally out to get me. Oh! And he's cloned me too! She's cool though, we're buddies now.

Batman, who just arrived but heard everything over comms: hn. (Translation: who are you?)

Danny: my name is Danny. No last name anymore, but im hoping itll soon be Wayne! *winking suggestively*

Batman: hn? (how much do you know?)

Danny: enough to know that youre a much better alternative to vlad.

Batman: …hn (i dont know anything about you. What if youre a spy for vlad?)

Danny, giving his salesman pitch: i was a teen vigilante in amity park before i had to run away from home for my own safety. Vlad is one of my rogues. I know how to fight and defend myself, how to minimize collateral damage in a fight, and ive gotten really good and escaping kidnapping attempts. Ive also managed to reform and/or make allies out of approximately half of my rogues and can talk down about 30% of all rogue confrontations before they turn into a messy fight. The other things i can bring to the table are: one, i can teach all of you guys proper liminality self care; two, i can probably minimize and possibly cure red hood's anger issues; three, i can get along with stabby robin because i consider fighting a friendly social interaction - he can even stab me and i wont be injured by it; four, i can be your go-to guy for supernatural cases so you no longer have to deal with that sad trenchcoat man; five-

Red robin: *blurting* youre hired.

Batman: hn (i am deeply concerned)

Danny: if youre concerned now, wait until i tell you about the anti ecto control act

Nightwing, who showed up in the middle of the sales pitch: ive never seen anyone crack B's grunt language so quickly

Danny: grunt language? He's just using ghost speak - which will be covered by the liminality self care lessons

Robin, who arrived with batman: what is a liminal?

Danny: all of you, of course! Otherwise you wouldnt need to learn about it, obviously

Robin: and why would we trust you?

Danny: did i mention i have a pet ghost dog?

Robin: …you drive a hard bargain

Danny, fist pumping: yes! That's three!

Nightwing: four, you got me when you could understand B's grunting

Red Hood, arrived with nightwing: five, assuming you arent lying about the pit rage

Danny, hand to his chest: i would never!

Orphan: honesty. Earnest. New brother.

Oracle, over comms: six. The anti ecto acts are legit and im terrified for his safety, assuming he's phantom, who is the vigilante of amity park

Spoiler, arrived with orphan: seven, as long as youre down for a few pranks

Batman: hn (ive been outvoted)

Batman: hnn (i dont wanna hear any jokes about adoption habits when you all forced my hand)

Batman: hn (that said)

Batman: welcome to the family

Duke, the next day: man, i miss out on everything exciting.

Duke, blinded by danny: and who the fuck told bruce he could adopt the fucking sun?!