oh me, oh my

Commissions remain OPEN!

If only to supplement my income because chances are I’ll need to move at the end of the year and having to spend all my money on bills because the person I live with can’t seem to hold onto money isn’t making that very easy.

No fandom off limits (Even though most of the art featured is Tangled) but there are some things I don’t have the ABILITY to draw:

Realistic looking animals.

Buildings

N.SFW. 

Just not good at them. Will save you the trouble.

HMU If you wanna talk art. I like to think I’m pretty reasonable  when it comes to what people ask me to do.

Well, this just happened to the daughter of one of my coworkers YESTERDAY and I just found out. And she lives roughly 5 miles from where I live.

She got home from work and there was a man standing across the street. When she got out of her car the man stopped and started staring at her. She felt super uncomfortable and could only describe it as a “predatory” way the man was staring at her. Even after she went in the house he was still out there for a little while staring at her house before walking away.

A little while later there was a knock at her (thankfully locked) front door. She was still home alone.

She was so freaked out by the guy that she didn’t answer the door. Instead she peaked out through the curtain and what does she see? A small child wearing nothing but a diaper standing at her door. No one with him. Totally alone. Not crying or anything. They just kept knocking. She waits and watches for a moment because that seemed weird. This saved her life.

People: If a child is lost or hurt they will look distressed. They will be crying. If that child isn’t crying then they know where they are and what they are doing. Or at least, they are being told what to do.

After knocking a couple times the girl heard a man’s voice telling the child to “knock harder” and then “ring the door bell”. They were trying to lure her into opening the front door.

The girl was freaked out and called her mom and a friend for help before finally calling the police. After she got off the phone she checked the window again and saw the man from across the street yanking the child away by the arm and walking off down the street with him.

The police haven’t caught him because the description of the man she was able to give was too vague and no one had any idea who he was.

People: Be careful. Keep a look out for people you don’t recognize in your neighborhoods. And if you see an unattended child CALL THE POLICE. Especially if they aren’t crying. Because that means there is an adult you cannot see somewhere near by watching that child. And that advice comes straight from the police officer who took the report last night.  Do not approach the child alone. Don’t go anywhere with the child. 

Commissions remain OPEN!

If only to supplement my income because chances are I’ll need to move at the end of the year and having to spend all my money on bills because the person I live with can’t seem to hold onto money isn’t making that very easy.

No fandom off limits (Even though most of the art featured is Tangled) but there are some things I don’t have the ABILITY to draw:

Realistic looking animals.

Buildings

N.SFW. 

Just not good at them. Will save you the trouble.

HMU If you wanna talk art. I like to think I’m pretty reasonable  when it comes to what people ask me to do.

Already down to $28 left over from my paycheck.

Next stop             ANYWHERE

Next stop             ANYWHERE

Half awake thoughts with Varian

trying to break out of my art funk. So I did some Ice Magic!Varian

As much as the media likes to say “SPAY AND NEUTER- CONTROL CAT POPULATION” they never tell you about the negative side effects.

With female cats it’s less of a problem but TONS of male cats die every year because they are neutered as small kittens. Either by shelters that adopt them out, or by owners who don’t know any better. By doing this you are dooming your boy cat to a slow and painful death.

A male cat that is neutered before their penis is mature enough will develop “blockages” that can be life threatening. Your boy cat will lack the ability to properly pass urine and will develop a block that will distend their bladder and back their urine into their kidneys and cause infection. This leads to having to either repeatedly have a vet put a catheter in him which will become VERY expensive, or you have to pay for an equally expensive surgery where the cat’s penis is removed. Essentially turning the “male” opening to a “female” opening. And even then this is not a permanent solution that guarantees success. 

My cat is in the emergency room right now. He’s fighting for his life because a shelter neutered him before his body was grown enough to heal properly. He’s only two years old and his life is in danger. Because this shelter decided that this cat who was too young to make babies, needed his tubes cut.

If you’re going to neuter/spay, at least wait until your cat is done growing. Let them fully mature so that their bodies can heal and know HOW to heal. If you took a human man and cut his tubes when he was a baby, this would cause major complications into adult hood with growth and hormones. It is no different in another other species on our planet. It’s not like a circumcision, you are removing function from an entire ORGAN. One that is connected to parts of them that are necessary to LIVE.

martha kent:

If you would go out of your way to argue how easy it is for capital to automate away jobs when labor costs become too high, then you should probably know that you’re giving all kinds of credibility to those of us who advocate fully-automated luxury communism. I mean, think about it: you’re arguing that so much of human labor ISN’T NECESSARY because said jobs can be done by machines, and yet you STILL want the bulk of humanity to pointlessly scrape by laboring for the capitalist class, receiving meager wages to buy the shit they helped generate in the first place. The above billboard is a THREAT. Let’s not mince words – that billboard is bourgeois propaganda designed to turn the working class against each other and against the broader goals of resource democratization. “If you fight for a basic livable wage, just know that you’re easily replaceable, peon!”

This is what leftists mean when they say that capitalism is an economic system filled to the brim with tensions and contradictions; it’s also what they mean when they say that capitalism inevitably produces its own gravediggers. Automation is one of those gravediggers, and it’s a major one at that. As more and more jobs become automated in the coming decades, the working class will face widespread dispossession, ramping up revolutionary class consciousness in the process. At that point, capitalism will either focus on generating more superfluous jobs for people to work or set about instituting a universal basic income – regardless, the point is to keep enough scraps flowing downward so that people don’t call for a broader system change. In this way, capitalism’s ruling class can maintain control over the wealth-producing means of production and imperialist capital accumulation can continue unrestrained.

For these reasons, “more jobs” and universal basic incomes are not enough. We need to democratize the broader social infrastructure and eliminate the profit system. If you recognize how possible it is to automate away human labor, then you should defenestrate yourself out of the Overton Window and use some political imagination – cut out the unnecessary jobs, automate all the labor you can, produce for human need rather than elite profit, and you end up with drastically reduced working hours and bountiful leisure time. This is the essence of fully-automated luxury communism – the natural conclusion of the conditions that capitalism set in motion.

Now in the show this is obviously a statement about how easy Mr Jetson has it in the future’s workforce, but it more effectively highlights the absurdity of a capitalist system once technology has become able to automate entry-level labor: no one NEEDS Mr Jetson to do anything, but because his value in society is entirely based on income and thus employment, they need to FABRICATE a role for him to fill. In reality the only human necessary to keep the plant running is (maybe) Mr. Spacely, but goodness knows we can’t let EVERYONE enjoy an upper-middle class income in management, so they give him a bunch of useless peons to boss around all day.

Some folks would still want to tinker and fix machines. Some people would still want to landscape and make gardens. Some people would still like to cook and host and make meals for lots of folks. Some people would still like to teach and be caregivers to children. Some people would still want to do a lot of things we’d see as work because people still like doing things.

People think that without the boot heel of suffering and death everyone would stop doing everything and become caricatures of humanity. It’s not a choice between having a capitalist job system and absolutely nothing getting done (not even maintenance on the machines we’d be relying on somehow?). That’s just a false dichotomy.