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My art blog of sorts! Welcome! Have a look around!

[moltenhair]

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.

I’ve also removed sketches from my pricing list. I decided that’s a ripoff and if you get any of these I’m going to show you the sketch anyway. Just to be sure it’s what you want before I go further.

[moltenhair]

So yeah commissions are VERY open so I can buy myself a better tazer than the cheapo i have that doesn’t work. There are sex traffickers in my city looking for young women and I am not taking any chances. 

[moltenhair]

There is this ploy that rapists and sex traffickers are using where they take children and make them pretend to need help to lure women into secluded areas. It’s getting very common these days.

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. 

No child should be unattended ever. It’s okay to call the cops. I know it sounds cynical to not help yourself  you aren’t doing anything wrong by calling the police to pick them up. You’re potentially saving that child from further abuse and being raised to be a sex trafficker. Or at the very least, if you must approach the child, call the police first and stay where you are. Don’t go to a secondary location even if that child tells you that’s where they live. The police will be able figure out where that child really belongs.

[moltenhair]

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.

I’ve also removed sketches from my pricing list. I decided that’s a ripoff and if you get any of these I’m going to show you the sketch anyway. Just to be sure it’s what you want before I go further.

[moltenhair]

Got paid yesterday

Already down to $28 left over from my paycheck.

Could really use the extra work so I can afford groceries and stuff.

[shadowweirdo-blog]

Next stop             ANYWHERE

This new season has me PUMPED and ready for more!I can’t wait to see what Tangled and its characters have in store for me~

[shadowweirdo-blog]

I’m not sure why this guy has suddenly grown on me…. But WOOPS here’s some dumb art

[shadowweirdo-blog]

Next stop             ANYWHERE

This new season has me PUMPED and ready for more!I can’t wait to see what Tangled and its characters have in store for me~

[fiiimbulvetr-a]

((My baby off to destroy people))

[fiiimbulvetr-a]

Half awake thoughts with Varian

@wcrthpride this is for you

[fiiimbulvetr-a]

[fiiimbulvetr-a]

icxolation:

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

his face zoomed at 200% for reasons.

[wonderlandofrogues]

Another commission for @badassdorkaudrey

[fiiimbulvetr-a]

(Megacon pt 4- ME

[wonderlandofrogues]

Don’t let shelters fucking kill your cats

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.

Control population but don’t do it at the cost of your cat’s life. Don’t control population by killing cats slowly because you’re just too impatient to wait.

[theazureesper-deactivated201807]

[thewittyarsonist-deactivated201]

@hernanguerra

[deathtrapnest]

some villains: we’re here to kill superman!

martha kent:

[left-reminders]

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.

Be wary of automation in the present climate, but always trace it back to the class struggle. Robots taking our jobs SHOULD be cause for celebration; why should we treat these potential liberators as harbingers of dispossession? Technological advancements are pushing us exponentially towards a de facto post-scarcity world, where everyone’s needs can be comfortably met alongside their desires for community and leisure and entertainment, and yet we’re held back by Empire’s insistence on keeping the means of production hoarded under the command of a superfluous ruling class. As long as we are divided into capitalists and workers, humanity will never know full liberation.

[thehikingastronomer]

TL;DR: automating jobs will eventually get rid of working for profit, cut down the class system, and give everybody time to focus on whatever they want to do.

[mysticalmoonstone-deactivated20]

Exactly, with automation will actually come more jobs and better paying jobs to manage those technologist. Technology always statistically creates more jobs than it destroys.

[left-reminders]

Okay but that’s also what we want to avoid. It’s not about resigning ourselves to HAVING to work a job just so we can access resources – it should be about determining what jobs are actually necessary for meeting people’s needs and for the maintenance of society, what jobs can be automated away, and how to properly transition towards a system that produces for need rather than for profit (and hopefully eventually reaching a point of abundant post-scarcity that money itself could be feasibly abolished from there), all accomplished by democratic control of the means of production and the infrastructure. I’m sick of this liberal discourse that keeps shifting all these radical developments in technology back towards the status quo, where the wealth-producing machines are still controlled by elites and where we have to just keep inventing new jobs for people to work so they can access resources. If feudalism couldn’t cope with the advancements in technology that eventually made feudal relations obsolete, then capitalism won’t be able to cope with the coming advancements in technology as well, try as it might – scarcity will have to be enforced (more so than it is now), more pointless jobs will be created, and politicians will opt for redistributive universal basic incomes in an attempt to stabilize the whole thing. We need to seize the opportunity to put the exponentially-increasing reach of technology to work for the benefit of humanity, not just for human benefit when it’s convenient to capitalists.

[saltymantears]

So this post reminded me of something from my childhood, and I couldn’t place what, until I remembered this joke from the Jetsons:

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.

The capitalist system the Jetsons live in finds THIS absurd future preferable to a system where everyone’s basic needs are met using the massive surplus generated by a fully automated workforce. The people who paid for the billboard in the original post above are even LESS sympathetic, as they’d apparently blame US for “making” them fire 90% of their employees in order to remain competitive. What a grand system, this capitalism.

[freakonakaleesh]

also in regards to that post above about automation creating “better jobs”: automation today is not like the automation of the 20th century. it’s getting rid of more jobs much faster than it’s creating any. if an electronic cashier is putting human cashiers out of business, those people can’t just up and learn coding or IT. it’s not that simple.

at the end of the day though? I’m tired of talking about jobs. I’m tired of hearing politicians say “more jobs,” like pointless and inefficient positions that exist solely to give someone a job are anything to be proud of “creating.” I’m telling y'all it’s inevitable that luxury communism will come once we stop placing so much importance on the Almighty Job

[kid-nickels-fanclub-deactivated]

this post helps me wake up in the morning

[girlbossjodiarias]

So, who maintains all the machines necessary for automation

[left-reminders]

A society with a highly automated and democratic economy would probably have curriculums that teach the essentials to students. The education system’s structural purpose is preparing students to take part in the economy. Early/long school days and hours of homework under capitalism serve the purpose of preparing students for the drudgery of wage labor – working extra hours or “taking work home with them”, as well as taking orders from bosses and “knowing their place”. An automated/democratic economy would have different structural needs, and would therefore have a different education system.

Of course work will always be necessary, but I don’t understand this self-defeating “gotcha” that tries to refute post-capitalism by implying some work would still need to be done. It’s like….yeah? So? It’s about cutting down the hours as much as possible and then letting people live.

[looroobryoons]

Couldn’t agree w this more

[pom-seedss]

Also like… there will still be people interested in… doing things?

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.

There will always be work and there will still be people who can and will do the work, but there doesn’t need to be pointless busywork jobs just for the sake of them and certainly not under threat of pain and death.

[fakeharmless]

A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD ACTUALLY WANT TO BE PRODUCTIVE! AND DO THINGS! WITH THEIR TIME! A lot of people are emotionally fulfilled by working!

All that shit about having a job you love making it so you’ll never work a day in your life could ACTUALLY BE TRUE FOR WAY MORE PEOPLE if huge swaths of the population weren’t forced to work jobs they hate for under livable wages just to fucking survive. Which, I realize this is what pom-seedss just said, but fucking please.

[solarpunkstargazer-blog]

I’m like 99% sure that the only reason we believe that people would be “lazy” and would “never work if they didn’t have to” is because the job system as it is now is soul crushing.  So many people love and cherish their time off, and openly hate their time on, because their time on is at best boring and at worst borderline torturous.

Far more people would happily engage in working if working wasn’t practically designed to crush their spirit for not enough money to even live on.

[2catsruby-boris]

Always reblog and always read to remind myself

[crabnebula-deactivated20180708]

As an automation engineer, this warms my heart.

[theoverfish]

After my grandparents both retired, they took a bit of time to simply relax and enjoy life, but shortly afterwards, they started spending much more time doing other things: compiling and writing their history, learning to draw, making sure their grandkids had what they needed to be successful in life. That became their work. Nobody asked them to do it, but they started doing it because it’s what they wanted to do with their lives. People are motivated by having purpose in their lives, not just by threat of starvation. When people say “I wouldn’t work if I didn’t have to”, what they mean is “My job is unfufilling and I’ve become so accustomed to the idea of work as a chore that I can no longer comprehend the idea of working towards my own goals and self-actualization”, which, in my opinion, is a worse fate than the image of “spiritual death by convenience” that sci-fi movies like Wall-E have portrayed.

[gokukazoo]

10 hours of my day gets sucked away by my job, 5 god damn days a week, when all I wanna do is write. I’d write 10 hours a day if I could, 12 hours, 15 hours. But I don’t have the energy at the end of the day. I don’t have the energy at the end of the week. We have to work to survive, but as we forgo our dreams to meet our needs, can we really call this living?

[angelcommunist]

Such a long post omg, but so important

[selardohr]

never not reblog 

[striders]

staff i am BEGGING you to let me reblog this fucking ad

[bigmeansweatydyke]

“my 7th kickstarter”