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AaronRWilson1's avatar

88 girl sighs. " The intergalactic age is boring, duty duty, stuck on spaceship mostly, to poor you just watching entertainment, same boring ass life of the past but distant future." 88 girl said. I frown. " At least you in that particular space age, your time period got everything I want. Here in fucking 21st century everything is so freaking old outdated, all these outdated primitive civilizations I hate every second of it a nightmare. In your time period growing up I would of, studied so much, participating in clubs, meeting friends, enter competitions, other. Why? Because all the technology whatever already exist is there. This is why I hate when God denny folks who's more worthy not placed in situations they could easily thrive at. In the 21st century folks are complaining I never do strive for nothing , " It's because I want nothing to do with the old primitive day!." I said

Excelsior8's avatar

I bought the print of this. It's one of my most favorite pieces of art I've ever seen. I don't know the word for it but it just gives that feeling of euphoria but lonely. It's just so beautiful.

Can I use this on my YouTube lo fi video?

Nekderp's avatar

Your work is just wonderful! Congratulations!

Excelsior8's avatar
This is my computer background. It gives me an inner peace like nothing I've known. Looking into the nothingness of space with just a reflection looking back. This is beautiful. 
That's my aesthetic right there
krytykg's avatar
Where you inspiration? Stunt thing. Which program do you have?
JohnnyQuid6250's avatar
Love this girl.  Now Is she lost in space or is she out there traveling to some mission, like WHAT IS HER STORY??
DuncanIdahoXIX's avatar
Great drawing love the Ms. 88 series!  Please keep going with her, see her all the time on youtube, best wishes!
Hi friend,

Ii wrote and produced a perfect song for that emage.

Is it ok please to use it on youtube?

youtube.com/drarky

Thank's
Dale-Husband's avatar
I have created a backstory to try to fit the artwork above.

"88", real name Diana Miller, is the 88th Caretaker of the sleeper ship Salvation that has been traveling from the ruined planet Earth to an Earthlike world that is over 100 light years away from the Solar System. The Salvation can only go as fast as one-tenth the speed of light, so the ship was intended to take a total of 1,000 years to reach its destination.

Though she appears to be a teenage girl, 88 is actually over 1,000 years old, having spent most of her existence in suspended animation along with thousands of other teenagers dispatched from Earth as its biosphere was slowly collapsing. She was awakened from her sleep by the 87th Caretaker, who intended Diana to take his place while he returned to sleep. To prepare her for her lonely task of overseeing the Salvation's operations, 87 had Diana undergo severe mental conditioning which suppressed both her normal human emotions and her sex drive, making her rather like a Vulcan of Star Trek. Well, not quite; sometimes her original personality does surface anyway and makes her feel very depressed.

Despite her lack of emotion, 88 still needs to be entertained, and she mostly gets it in the form of video games. The Salvation's computer has hundreds of video games programmed into it, but 88 also has access to game consoles that were taken from Earth and were originally owned by an earlier Caretaker who collected them; now they are hers.

About two years after 88 began her duties, the ship arrived at the targeted planet and she found the world to be suitable for colonization, so after the analysis of the world is complete she will  begin reviving the other people on the ship, including the other Caretakers who served before her. Once they are all revived, 88 hopes to have her conditioning reversed so she can live like a normal teenager again (something denied to all the other Caretakers, who served until they were middle aged). She knows that she will likely be expected to have children quickly to help populate the world too.
Yogin-Sothoth's avatar
 my wallpaper haha
I would love to hear some backstory on this character, like is there a reason she's in space? Was she born there?
TheTrueEmperor's avatar
don't we all live in the world of 88, trapped on a planet going nowhere in a void of space with no point or purpose. Just sitting on our phones or video games to keep us from the nihilist reality. 
ChristinaSkyye's avatar
She always seems to have this, often not so subtle, nihilistic sadness in her eyes that I empathize with and find beautiful in some unconventional way.  I can't discern anything about her or her story except that she seems to always be alone in the world in which she exists (which I empathize with as well...maybe that's why I absolutely fell in love with this character (so much so that I joined DeviantArt just to comment).
yuukikusanagi's avatar
I like the subtlety of the shadow and the mood of the whole piece.
DunkleMaterie's avatar
" Entry Number 000.000.000.128.138.

It is the year of 2560. 5 May currently alltough I question myself what kind of purpose it has to maintain the system of months and weeks etc.
In the former half of the second last century, scientists finally made a breakthrough in spacecraft-technology.
Humanity initial thought was that it was now the Age of interstellar travel and great discoverys.

But it was quite the opposite, really. Since the last 400 years, a group that suffered under loss of reality,
the mentally ill "Left-Transgender-Humanitarians" as they called themself, split Human Societys everywhere but mostly in the European and American continent.

When the technology was perfected as much as it could, people did not percieved the development of it with hope and dreams.
More so... with paranoya, fear, envy and greed... cause the first spacecrafts where invented by those who openly considered and adress themself to be "Asian."
Closely followed by the ever hated and persecuted "Bright" ( formerly "White") population, which has abandonded their homecountrys and has barricaded themself in certain Nations or zones.


When the new tech was leaked by some unknown Hackers to the public, this is when shit hit the fan.
Along with a conspiracy theory that some Nazis want to board the spaceships for their own ehtnic.
And later bomb and pollute the whole world with radiating bombs and other landpolluting weaponry.
So that they can return later to Earth after an eternity and finally have a "bright racist supremacy" world to live in.

Other crazy theorys appeared as well, but the core storyline of the script never changed.
Some kind of group wants to use these ships to have a safe haven while they destroy all the other Ehtnics.

After multiculturalization finally failed in the year of 2148 and all kinds of small wars broke out,
and the chaos finally subsided in the year of 2188, the world has been divided into highly paranoid and spiteful districts.
So when the technology was proofen real, districts " Africa 1 to 32", "Hispanic 1 to 73" and the "United caliphate of Mohammed" declared a new war immediately.
Which were no surprise really... cause the only thing that has changed was that the warlike conditions in those zones simply expanded outwards now.


Ironically alot of spacecrafts were stormed in the chaos by civilians who knew how to use them or forced people along who knew it.
The Militarys of the world shot one spacecraft down after the other, some were used primarily to secure some kind of "space-dominance" over other districts.
And I am writing this entry from one of those ships. It has a ton of crazy and exaggerated warmachinery build into it.
Never to be used as I think cause... the last formerly hostile ship which has followed us and still held contact with us has not replied since 2 years by now.
And before they ceased reacting they openly admitted to change course,
While wishing not to be followed or tracked by our craft in return, they altered their route and disappeared into the vast reaches of space.
For reasons unknown and only known to themself.


Sometimes I wonder what became of Earth? Indeed there were a shitload of Nukes and Beamweapons used as the ships record has shown us.
I cannot help but to wonder sometimes, what it is to live on a planet. The scent of "fresh" air instead of filtered one.
The feeling to sink your feet into real snow instead of the one on the Holo-Deck. Or does it really feel the same?

Due to maintainance and survival management, there can only be 1/9th of the Human Crew be awake on this ship at the same time.
Consisting out of mix of technicians, medics, doctors, farmers... and amusingly, of military Soldiers.
Oh well I think they are more interesting as the 'entertainers' though. Why some people find those funny I will never know.
Whoever is not awake and sleeps in the cryo-chamber, is aging 1/3 slower as well.
People are awake for a year and in this year they must train their bodys also a little in order to stop them from breaking down.
As for now a Human is only woken once in 10 years though and this process only starts once a Human has reached the age of 25 years.

Anyone younger, is thrown into a high-elite study to become someone who can maintain the ship.
Cause we are too young and cannot switch with others to be put to rest in a Cryochamber yet.
Time is percieved strangely irregular anyway for me.
Sometimes I have the feeling one day is over in the blink of an eye, others feel like 3 days before the clock calls me to sleep.
But I wonder if it will feel the same once when my time has come.
People are so dizzy when they are woken up, they can barely react for a whole day.

My parents went to sleep when I was 4 years old. They are to be woken tomorrow. I still remember how much I missed them as a small child.
I wish I could greet them with the same smile I had once. But I guess the satisfaction of finally meeting them again must suffice.
Just thinking about how I can only see them for a whole year is still annoying me. And I will be 24 when it their time to be woken up once again.
And when I am 25 I will finally and for the first time, follow them into Deepsleep.


Everything is fine I guess. Reading Human History has made me really realize how great the stabile life is that we are living on this craft.
The thought that we will have a person one day, holding up a sign and demanding the destruction of our current society,
to change it into a wild experiment of something new and questionable, is pretty silly and laughable when I think about it.

But I just cannot help to wonder how it feels to live on a Planet and be able to meet your family and friends every single day, as long as all of you are still alive.
When it is normal, it will not feel special at all, will it? The more I think about it the more I am nervous for tomorrow.
It is the "dizzy day" for my parents after all. I have so much I want to say to them but I must restrain myself.
Cannot bother them too much when they have just woken up after all.

Wierd, I am nervous, but I do not want to avoid the subject and fear failure or anything.
It is almost like I cannot wait. Why do I think so much of my time when I was just 4 years old in the last days?
Oh well, I guess I will know tomorrow.


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DunkleMaterie's avatar
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just what was that? ... the... f... :XD:
DiabolicNoxiancandy's avatar
she looks a bit like me . . . I realy like it !
keep up the good work :D
terthik's avatar
Similar look or similar feelings behind it - sitting alone. spleen, looking into endless darkness thinking about life, universe, about past and future knowing you cant get answers that will satisfy you ^^
n3onX's avatar
Breathtaking...
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