Tasty Thought Biscuits

OPEN FOR COMMISSIONS!!! He/Him -- Male? -- Demisexual -- I'm a 22 year old disabled evil genius with a heart of gold. I'm an artist, who is dabbling in animation. I love learning all the things. Oh and I might be immortal... who knows. header art by: ayumi-nemera

[neon-scorpion-blog]

IT BEGINS! INKtober: Day 1: “Ellén Trechend” The Ellén Trechend is an Irish mythological monster far too often depicted as a three headed dragon beast. I drew it as it was described. It is said that the Sidhe (Irish elves/faeries) of Cruachan began a fall festival called Samhain, and when they began, from a nearby cave poured a horde of goblins. Behind these goblins followed a flock of copper red birds, lead by a gargantuan three headed vulture, this was the Ellén Trechend. As ireland has no native vulture species (that I could find) I decided to go with my favorite and model it off of The Bearded Vulture. This real bird is beyond beautiful, but it has a habit of swallowing bones whole and rubbing a blood red dirt into its feathers to give it a beautiful red color, as well as resembling a sort of dragon. I thought that fit perfectly.

I used Photoshop, but I created two special brushes that mimic real inking brushes and a water color brush. Only the inking brush and water color were used.

[neon-scorpion-blog]

so for the past week or so After or around midnight I would be sitting there and my mind would wander, every time it did I would picture this figure, walking across space as though it was the surface of a great body of water, leaving ripples as he/it counted the stars in the sky. I don't entirely know who or what he is, but I just had to draw him. I call him "The Midnight Prince". His mask is inverted, creating the optical illusion that his face is turning to follow you. His body fades from an inky black into a shimmering gold, and his skin is translucent revealings stars.

[neon-scorpion-blog]

The Difference Between Boomers and Millennials

I think I have come to see the main difference between Boomers and Millennials.

We both go through the same terrible things life throws our way. But the key difference is how the two generations react.

Boomers have bad stuff happen and are told "that's the way the world is, suck it up buttercup. We all get hurt, the world isn't a nice fair place" and they ACCEPT that is how things are. They then raised us going "The world isn't a good fair place, you need to toughen up..."

Then Millennials, taught from a young age that the world isn't fair or nice, grow up to experience the same bad things. But instead of accepting it we decided to CHANGE it. We go through the bad and go "You say This is the way the world is? Well lets see what we can do about that..."

The conflict comes from Boomers seeing Millennials wanting to change the world and expressing the bad things they have been through and the Boomers going "That's the way the world IS! You are snowflakes and whimps and ungrateful for not accepting the horrible things that happen! Suck it up butter cup!"

Every single fight boils down to this:

Millennials: "wow this part of society or life really sucks, we should fix it..."

Boomers: "Well I grew up suffering through that! you are a snowflake if you can't handle it!"

Like somehow they don't realize that what they are doing is saying "I've been through bad things to, so you have to as well, to try to change the world and make it better makes you weak!"

When all that's happening is the younger generations are just saying "wow, this really sucks, I'm so sorry you were raised believing this is just life and how its supposed to be, I just experienced the same bad things. I want to be tough enough to make sure they don't happen to anyone else."

We see the poor and homeless and go "wow that's a terrible way for a person to live, we should fix that"

We see starving people and go "wow that's terrible, how can we have starving people in the richest country on earth? We have enough food, lets fix that"

We see the sick and go "wow, that person is sick and we have the cure, but its locked behind an arbitrary imaginary number that prevents them from getting it, maybe we should fix that"

We see the wage gap and go "Why do the top 1% of the population control more combined wealth than the other 99%? Why is it so hard to pay people enough to live a comfortable life, we should fix that"

We see racial or sexual inequallity and go "but aren't we all just people? why is it hard to just treat each other as equals and with the respect we all deserve? we should fix that"

We see sexual harassment and assault and say "oh my God I can't believe this is happening to so many people, we need to treat each other with respect and dignity, we need to fix that"

An older person hears all of that and goes "well that's the way the world is! I experienced all of that too! they probably did something to deserve it anyway, your such a pansy for making a big deal out of this, don't you know

IT'S ALWAYS BEEN THIS WAY!?"

What is so wrong with wanting to fix what's broken with the world? Why do people desperately cling to the most horrible parts of life and justify them with "well that's how its always been". Sure, maybe it has been that way, but that's even more reason to fix it.

Standing against those people fighting for real good change is the same as standing for the bad things that they are trying to fix.

[neon-scorpion-blog]

“Day Dreaming” Just finished this digital painting. I spent the better part of the last four days painting it. Took many long hours to get the hair to a point that I liked, and hand painting the hundreds of water spheres took an amount of effort I was not initially prepared for when I first visualized this piece, but I’m glad I stuck to it. Even if it means not being able to use my arm for a few days. Hope everyone likes it! :) If you are interested in prints or posters of this I do have a RedBubble. https://www.redbubble.com/people/neonscorpion/works/33737235-day-dreaming?asc=u&ref=recent-owner

[neon-scorpion-blog]

Mollymauk has Multiple Personality Disorder

Watching this current stream, I have evidence that Mollymauk has MPD, he has people calling him different names, loses memory (personality taking over), and he said "Here WE go by Lucian"... Meaning Mollymauk is a personality... Also the multiple clashing tattoos hint to his conflicted personalities. Im calling it now!

[belcanta]

Guaranteed basic income to every citizen, whether or not they are employed to ensure their survival and that they live in a dignified, humane way, preventing poverty, illness, homelessness, reducing crime, encouraging higher education and learning vocations as well as helping society become more prosperous as a whole. 

[attentiondeficitaptitude-deacti]

Wow. Forget raising the minimum wage. This is much much better idea.

The minimum wage could actually drop if we had basic income.

But Americans would never go for it. Miserably slogging through 12 hour days and having businesses open 24/7 is too engrained in our culture.

[nikkidubs-deactivated20150519]

“BUT WHERE WILL THE GOVERNMENT GET THE MONEY?” screamed Joe Schmoe, slamming a meaty fist onto the table and getting mouth-froth all over the front of his greying tank top. “You libt*rds all think money grows on TREES!! HAHA!” “But where will people get the incentive to work?!” Mindy Bindy cried, flapping her hands in front of her face. She’d had a fear of the unemployed lollygagging about ever since she was a child and her mother told her to be afraid of the unemployed lollygagging about. “You think people should get paid for nothing? I work hard for my money!”

“But who will serve me?” grumbled Marty McMoneybags. “Who will make me feel important? Who will do my laundry and cook my food and stand in front of me wearing a plastic smile while I take out all my stress—because I do have a lot of stress, you know, being this rich is stressful—on them?” He paused and straightened out the piles of hundred dollar bills on the desk in front of him, then raised his two watery, outraged eyes up to the Heavens. “Lord, if there are no poor people, how will I know that I’m rich??”

[belcanta]

I laughed. This is perfect! Well said!

[doomhamster]

The thing is, while I’m sure you could scrape up a few people who’d be willing to just float by on a guaranteed minimum income? For most people the choice to work would be a no-brainer. “Hmmm. I can get by on 33k a year, or I can take that part time job and make 48k… enough to move to a better apartment, maybe take the family on vacation. Sold.” Hell, most people would want to work simply because it gives one a sense of dignity and something to do with one’s time. (Speaking as someone who’s been unemployed, on extended sick leave, etc. in her time, the boredom and sense of isolation that comes with not having a job is almost as bad as the humiliation of having to depend on other people for one’s survival.)

And with this system, part-time jobs and “non-skilled” jobs would be much more readily available because nobody would need to work two or three jobs just to stay afloat!

Which would ALSO mean that employers and customers couldn’t shamelessly exploit employees the way they can today, because if losing a job weren’t necessarily a financial disaster, more people would be willing to walk out on jobs where they weren’t being treated with dignity.

And if this also applies to students (and it should) then student loans would become much less of a problem, and fewer people would flunk out of school because of having to juggle studies and work.

Far fewer people would be forced to stay with abusive partners, parents or roommates because they couldn’t afford to move out.

And the thing is, all those people who suddenly had money? They’d be spending it. They’d be getting all the stuff they can’t afford now - new clothes, books, toys, locally-produced food, car repairs - and with each purchase money would flow BACK to the government, because VAT, also income tax.

The unemployed and/or disabled wouldn’t need special support any more - which would also mean the government could fire however many admins who are currently engaged in humiliating - *cough* making sure those people aren’t getting money they don’t deserve. Same for medical benefits and pensions. And I’m no legal scholar, but I somehow imagine less financial desperation would lead to less petty crime, and hence less need for police and security everywhere?

TL;DR Doomie thinks this is a good idea, laughs at those who protest.

[cptprocrastination]

reblogging for more top commentary

[queen-mayhem]

They tried something like this out in Canada as a sort of social experiment, called Mincome. What they found was that, on the whole, people continued to work about as much as they did before. Only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less hours. 

But wait, there’s more. Because parents were spending just a little more time at home and involved with their families, test scores increased. Because teens didn’t have to work to support their families, drop-out rates decreased. Crime rates, hospital visits, psychiatric hospitalizations and domestic abuse rates all dropped, as well. More adults pursued higher education. Those who continued to work reported more job flexibility and more opportunity to choose employment they preferred.

Basically, now you can go prove to your asshole family members that society won’t collapse without poor people for you to feel better than.

[havocados-deactivated20141216]

*muffled sound of conservatives imploding in the distance*

[neon-scorpion-blog]

Well here is some random artwork! Recently I have felt handicapped artistically because I kinda jumped into art straight to trying photo-realism. I didn't really evolve as an artist over years of practice, and recently I found out I was incapable of stepping back from realism to do a stylized anime/realism style that a lot of artists do and many people love. So like with everything, I studied the style last night and after watching a few videos I was able to draw my first female portrait in the style in about 2 hours. I know its not perfect, I had some difficulties with some facial proportions and how to draw certain things a certain stylized way, but I'm pretty happy with how she turned out! I hope everyone likes it! :D

[neon-scorpion-blog]

Picarto.TV - NeonScorpion's Channel

NeonScorpion is live on Picarto.TV! Watch our streamer do Painting stuff and chat with likeminded people. 35 have watched NeonScorpion’s stream!

Come watch me do art LIVE! I’m livestreaming right now! :D

[neon-scorpion-blog]

I'm live streaming my "artistic process" right Now! To watch me flail at making something resembling artwork, click the link! Everyone's welcome! :D

[dailyjackiechan]

You have been visited by the Chan of wealth, reblog this and you will have money come to you!

[misscokebottleglasses-deactivat]

I REBLOGGED THIS YESTERDAY AND LIKE 2 HOURS LATER THE WALLET I HAD LOST 6 HOURS AWAY FROM HOME THAT HAD MY DEBIT CARD AND LIKE 80 DOLLARS IN CASH WAS DELIVERED TO MY HOUSE WITH NO RETURN ADDRESS I CANT HELP BUT THINK IT WAS JACKIE CHAN WHO SENT IT GOD BLESS YOU JACKIE CHAN

[seej500]

Last time I did this it was payday so duh. Let’s see what you’ve got this time, Chan.

[seej500]

Er, actually, about a minute after I hit reblog I got some very important (and positive) money-related news out of the blue. The system works, guys.

[pugfarts]

Betting it all on Chan.

[sassy-dad]

Come on Financial aid!

[dioxazzine]

A series of illustrated symbols for the classic schools of magic from D&D.  This was a fun warm-up project to get me back into painting!

[neon-scorpion-blog]

I was going to hold off on any new artwork until I got the new display tablet, but I got inspired and bored so I painted this! Took me about 3 and a half hours to make all in all, and I'm super happy how it turned out! I learned how to paint candles the other week, so I wanted to do something with Candles, semi transparent wax, and my favorite color pallet (Orange/Blue complementary) so this is what I made! I hope everyone likes it! I tried to capture a sense of cold warmth. Just one more step to reaching my random goal of becoming a professional artist! :D

[tofuimpala]

anyone else feel like they missed the entire month of october. And the entire month of september. and the whole summer. and everything before that. anyone else passively floating through space and time. anyone else feeling like a member of the audience in a movie theater screening their own consciousness who’s just sitting back and eating snacks while everything plays out before them

[indigo-oceann-deactivated202307]

BIG MOOD

[neon-scorpion-blog]

That Broken Feeling...

I can't help but feel so broken sometimes. When confronted with an event that should shake me, I tend to feel nothing...

And sometimes that is scarier than whatever is going on. Then some months down the line, maybe even years, it will hit me like a freight train, and I will finally feel whatever I was supposed to so long ago.

For the longest time I thought this made me a sociopath, or unempathetic... but I realize now that it is because after everything I have been through any other crisis or emotional event after that feels small, or insignificant... like my mind shrugs it off with a "yup, saw that comming..." and somehow this allows me to put whatever is going on aside and move on, in seconds I can go from receiving devistateing news to reading a meme and laughing and going to show someone only to realize they are still emotionally wrecked by the thing I nearly forgot about already...

I don't know if that makes me broken, or a sociopath, or sick, or strong...

But I do know days, months, or years from now I will probably be sitting in my room alone at night, and it will hit me, and everything I pushed aside for the sake of continuing to function today will come flooding out,

and I will become dysfunctional,

and I will feel more deeply than I ever thought I could,

and I will cry and smile and realize that at least I am still human... even if I am a broken one.

[so-over-ableism]

5 Things Not To Do When You See A Disabled Person Under 21

I’m a disabled high schooler so I experience this shit a lot and I just wanna tell y’all what not to do, not to be mean but to just educate y’all

Assume we don’t know things. This happens to me a lot. I’m a straight A student, I’m in honors classes, and yet people still think I’m in need of educational help. I know it’s the cane cause people will talk to me normally, but then speak like I’m a 5 year old when they see my cane. It’s rude and honestly disrespectful so pls don’t.

“You’re too young to be disabled.” Holy shit no. Some of us are born with a disabilty and even if we aren’t, you don’t get to say shit about that. My legs didn’t stop working because I’m young, it’s because I have an actual illness.

“You’d be better if you went out more.” I have dealt with this so often. When I’m in extreme pain, instead of getting me pain meds or help, I normally get told I need to go out more. Walk around a bit. Fuck you.

“You shouldn’t rely on that ___” Hell no. If you take away my cane, I can walk but I’ll be in so much pain I’ll start crying. Also? Have you thought that maybe I actually need this cane? I’m not doing it for attention.

Which brings me to… DONT CALL US ATTENTION SEEKING. I promise you that if I could walk without my cane, I would. I don’t want this shit, and you saying it’s not real makes it worse.

This is just the tip of the iceberg but here’s some basic no-nos.

[neon-scorpion-blog]

So I watched one video on painting human portraits and decided to give it a shot! This is the first “realistic” human I have ever done, She took 3 hours to paint (which is pretty good for my first time) and I know I probably made a LOT of rookie mistakes, but I’m super proud of how she turned out! :D

[phroyd]

Thank Your Local Republican!

Phroyd

[ohgodshesloose]

Eat the rich