AUGUSTINA

song of the day

Puscifer - Augustina 

counting down to my Puscifer concert Friday!  this is the sweet song Maynard wrote for his daughter

Bit of a quickie today! In between all the other stuff going on this month I've been updating a few of my character designs here and there. Augustina doesn't have much of a story to her yet, but she's fun to draw anyway. Hope you like! 😄

Aurora Borealis captured on 05.10.24

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Augustina Wang (@owo_soldier)

Poeisis

Oil on canvas

Augustina Anon

His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

AUGUSTINA

I feel like in the realm of “science fiction,” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Tender is the Flesh, and Snow Crash create an interesting trilogy all surrounding western capitalism and its effects. On one side there’s Androids, where Dick creates an intense drive for empathy (for animals, primarily) as overcompensation for the lack of connection people have in the real lives towards other humans (think pigeon-heads, thing emigration to the moon, think Mercerism and empathy boxes) and the creation of androids as non-human, non-animal slaves that aren’t worthy of empathy but take over the labor that “real and worthy” humans “shouldn’t have to do” because they are intrinsically better than these other groups. And then there’s Tender is the Flesh, the most truly dystopian, that has cannibalism as a deep metaphor for how we’re already destroying and dehumanizing each other in the pursuit of capitalism: the intense cognitive dissonance we all reach for and support, not just allow, in order to go about our daily lives, and the death of empathy that leads humans to do such inhumane acts. And then there’s Snow Crash. The ultimate individualistic hyper-capitalistic future where everything is corporatized and empathy has dissolved to allow survival, because no one can afford to assist anyone else, and everyone relies on avatars to escape the super shitty world they can’t afford to change. I think these three all lend understanding to each other and allow for deeper interpretation of just how deep capitalism can go to undermine the control we think we have over society, and just how much personal power we have in such a deeply flawed system.

Tender is the Flesh, a Book Review

Well..........that was fucked up. What do the folks on AO3 say? "Dead dove, do not eat?"

Tender is the Flesh, by Augustina Bazterrica is a dystopian novel about a world where all animals have been rendered inedible to humans. As a result, humanity has switched to eating bugs and plant protein.

... just kidding. It's people. They eat people. Of course they do. They have a special designation of human cattle, known as "heads" that they raise and kill for meat. Marcos, the protagonist, works in a slaughterhouse. One day, he is given a lavish gift: a "head" with a very good pedigree. As these heads are supposed to be treated as animals, there are things you are and are not supposed to do with them, but Marcos can't help but break these rules and create a whole host of problems.

This book uses cannibalism to explore the dark themes of dehumanization. One of the ways is with language. Everyone in this book knows they're eating human beings, but they use euphemism like "head" and "special meat" to distance themselves from those they are exploiting. It brings to mind a lot of current events. You can tell you're reading a good dysyopia by how well it correlates to the real world and how much it feels like a not-so-far-off future.

The book also goes into so much gruesome detail about how the meat industry in this book works. This stuff was really well researched! There's this span of about 23 pages where Marcos is giving two job applicants a tour of the slaughterhouse's assembly line and it goes through everything. And this book is only about 220 pages, so that is a solid 10%.

I really liked the book, but I do agree with a lot of book reviewers that the ending wasn't great. I felt like the book didn't end so much as stop. It felt like it was building up to more.

Augustina Wang (@owo_soldier)

Lover & Fighter

Oil on canvas

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Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans —though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

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oil on linen, 2023