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SpikedMcGrath — Alone by-nc-nd

Published: 2010-07-25 19:55:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 3231; Favourites: 73; Downloads: 0
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Description Have you ever felt entirely alone? As if you were trapped on a spaceship orbiting a distant planet in the aftermath of an alien attack watching the last escape pods shrinking into the distance and wondering why this stuff always happens on your wedding day?

Me neither. But that' the story behind this picture. Evidently women and children first doesn't apply in the future. I didn't originally intend it this way but I think in hindsight it's a great metaphor for loneliness, albeit somewhat overwrought and melodramatic.

Also, this is my first ever science fiction painting, and it was difficult. Technically it was only as hard as any of my other paintings, but ideas wise it was pretty challenging! I just didn't know what to make things look like, and I'm certainly no interior designer. The big glass escape pod door was borne simply of trial and error along with whatever looked least awful.


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Lucas-Stl [2017-07-08 02:58:39 +0000 UTC]

Strange... I feel this could relate to my own story is some way... a different... "reality" that could have been, or perhaps, did happen.
Would you care to listen? 

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SpikedMcGrath In reply to Lucas-Stl [2017-07-08 15:54:58 +0000 UTC]

Well you've made that sound intriguing, so I guess I'm all ears.

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Lucas-Stl In reply to SpikedMcGrath [2017-07-09 07:40:49 +0000 UTC]

(Click me first then read while plays: youtu.be/FwFrOgh1mc0

"Anela!" 
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Shouted the captain as the airlock closes and the final pod is ejected into space, carrying it's captain to the planet. They say "A captain should go down with his ship", meaning he be the last one aboard. That was surely the plan, was it not? 
One remains aboard the damaged vessel, beyond repair... power failing. With life support going with the power, she sings one last song.
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"Oh Captain, my Captain... Forgive me. 
The battle was won, it's over, it's done.
You've always tried to protect me..."

The Ship shakes as an explosion occurs, sending the ship adrift. She stumbled for nought a moment before continuing, now staining through her white dress with blood.

"Oh Captain, I'm sorry!
I pushed you to fight! I hide my injuries!
The end was in sight, I told you I was alright...
...Now here I am, my time has come. 
O Captain, My Captain... Forgive me..."
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She sheds a final tear as the ship turns cold.

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Not my best work, but it did pull on my gut having to write it... might have been the background I know these characters have... or YouTube playing in my ear. Go ahead, start it before reading and not cry. Odds are you won't, most likely because you needed to read it first to get down here... or you don't know who they are yet... idk
-Stl

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SpikedMcGrath In reply to Lucas-Stl [2017-07-09 21:41:51 +0000 UTC]

Well I'm not sure what to make of that, but it seems you got more out of that artwork than I have. An emotional and creative response is always good!

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Lucas-Stl In reply to SpikedMcGrath [2017-07-10 09:30:01 +0000 UTC]

1) you drew it; can't beat that.
2) thanks
3) to understand a bit better, read my prologue in my gallery. That'll make a bit sense to what I wrote here.
4) as for what I wrote, most of it was from what I knew and what worked. Which in this case worked quite well with my own story that I'm writin. I also barrowed from "My Captain, O Captain"... Point in case the "Song" and the blood on her dress being close to her heart there...

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AlexLang1188 [2016-07-20 09:06:17 +0000 UTC]

i feel the pain

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SpikedMcGrath In reply to AlexLang1188 [2016-07-20 19:20:36 +0000 UTC]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLN…

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B-rad-Tyga [2011-06-14 22:10:22 +0000 UTC]

I like the story behind it. It does sound quite lonely.

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knoodlesmcgee [2010-07-25 22:52:10 +0000 UTC]

eopdfjk
this is amazing ;A;

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KrazyD [2010-07-25 19:59:56 +0000 UTC]

wahhh i like thiss. I think you got the science fiction air down perfectt. The interior look's just like in a movie +w+

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SpikedMcGrath In reply to KrazyD [2010-07-25 21:48:15 +0000 UTC]

Cheers Krazy, glad you like it

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KrazyD In reply to SpikedMcGrath [2010-08-03 02:36:33 +0000 UTC]

yes i doooo~

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