Artistic Science

dramarising:

honestly, the whole N situation makes me so weary.

as an artist, i’ve been taken advantage of before. i’ve drawn things without getting compensation. i’ve drawn fully colored/fully shaded fullbodies for (what i found out later was) the equivalent of $5.

it doesn’t feel nice. it doesn’t feel nice at all knowing you put in hours and hours of work for like, a sandwich or something. and in my experience, it’s worse than never getting paid at all, because there’s a good chance that person consciously knows they’re underpaying you. but they choose to do it anyways.

its awful. and i love making art. i really do like drawing other people’s characters, because the amount of love people put into their characters amazes me sometimes. but i’m tired of being used. i’m tired of seeing other well-meaning people like me get used too.

i’ve posted on DR before about uncool commissioners before, but this whole thing is just… i don’t even know how to feel anymore. i’m getting numb to this kind of thing, and it’s really sad. i wish i didn’t feel so cynical about the community. but i really can’t help it.

not even the shadowbinder could come up with a group so shady

I’ve been used and abused for my work as well. It’s not fucking fair getting ripped off when you work on something and either don’t get the half of a trade you’re waiting for, the full pay, or someone picking apart every last damn pixel because they feel like being super pricks after it’s been posted and not saying a fucking word on wips or streams.

The first time I opened commissions, they were SEVERELY UNDERPRICED because I knew, I FREAKIN KNEW that a lot of users on dA are a bunch of cheap asses. I raised the prices once to a better set(still underpriced), and I barely get any traffic. It’s bullshit tbh.

“We are the Survivors” Rant

I’m like really fucking pissed right now. Like legitimately pissed.

There’s a group called “Survivors” or something that’s a pro-life group. And honestly? I absolutely loathe pro-life groups because they’re just one of the stupidest groups out there. And to my knowledge, most of them have a religious factor in their reasoning. 

Anyways, this group showed up at the college today and was handing out fliers and shit and displaying boards and fetuses of specific stages and explaining why it’s wrong to abort children. 

backonmonday told me he managed to make them uncomfortable by saying “yes, killing people is totally okay in some cases”. Go you. :’D

demoniclemondickgirl went up to them just before his class started and mentioned how maybe his views were wrong and how he should consider being pro-life (to troll). And then he bit a piece of the paper they handed out to him and said “It’s not as good as the real thing”. I was dying. 

I ended up having a useless argument with a repetitive girl and dear fucking gods it was the most painful thing. All she said was “when a sperm fertilizes an egg, you are now a human”. What the fuck is that? Some kinda black magic shit? Hell naw bitch.

I asked the girl “is this for some religious purpose” and she said “oh no. It’s not”. I only guessed because religious groups tend to step in and say how this is [morally] wrong and I also noticed the cross on her necklace to indicate her religion. And based on what backonmonday told me, they are a religious group. So fuck you too.

She had a diagram of a 9-week old and a 23-week old fetus, which is a red flag enough. Fetuses around 23 weeks of age don’t normally get aborted unless there are reasons for being so late. so take that bullshit off your stupid board, kay?

She also kept asking me “Is it wrong for people to kill other defensless human beings?” And I kept answering every time “It depends." Which meant it depended on the fucking person. Maybe they were raped, maybe they weren’t ready. Maybe they had a complication which said they were at risk for something if they gave birth(death). 

Her reason after that? "Well about (certain percentage) regret aborting their children after a month or so”. Maybe because you were shaming their fucking asses. I don’t know about you, but if I was a victim of rape, I would no feel sorry at fucking all for having an abortion. I WOULD feel sorry for birthing a child I did not want, who WAS an accident appear in the world as a thing to remember the horrid event. The excuse I can imagine them using is “well, you can put them up for adoption or foster care”. Bitch, lemme tell you something. This ain’t no motherfucking neopets adoptables or some shit. These would be real people with NO idea who their parents were unless they checked files/searched. The child would still face stresses of mental/psychological disorder and maybe physical.

I have a friend in the foster care system. Let me tell you something, the rules are strict. He gets circulated to another family every few months. He fucking cried when he left the neighborhood I was in. Would pro-life people really allow that [yes]?! Are you really going to shame women who want abortions into having a child they weren’t ready for or did not want [yes]?! 

If it were in my position, I don’t want to be pregnant. That view has never changed and is not likely to change ever. I don’t want to go through the possibility of mourning sickness. I don’t want my guts to be squished by some immaturely designed hell monster spawning in my uterus. No, fuck that. Even the though of having to hear them cry at random times of night would probably piss me off into a full on mental state. If I ever got pregnant, it’d be through rape. And if that did happen, I’d get an abortion as soon as I can. Fuck you guys, but I’d rather delete the file that store it away in a folder I may accidentally rediscover down the line.

Anyway, she kept going on about how it’s a “defenseless human life”. No, I’m sorry but no. Hold the fucking phone. Scratch that, I’m nowhere near sorry. JUST NO.Defenseless human life? They lack consciousness. They have a developing nervous cluster. They may be able to feel pain at “23” or whatever weeks you claim, but most abortions happen way earlier than that. And even if they could feel pain? Who cares? They don’t have enough development to cry for help. They’re still “developing in the womb”. By aborting offspring, you’re literally taking a lump of flesh away from the spot of nutrition and protection until birthing. So fuck you there too.

Right, so with that out of the way, here’s something I learned from backonmonday about this group:

yooo so apparently that fucking abortion group has been showing up on school campuses without permission all across puyallup and we could’ve had them kicked out at any time, I think

also they’re a christian group of course they are

So yeah, basically they’re trespassing and spewing bullshit about the place. Next time I see your sorry asses, I’m reporting you to security because you have no rights to be on grounds to demonstrate your stupidity. Just shut up and leave.

Gavin you idiot. I can’t tell if he was serious for half the stuff. XD

Correction for a couple things–

Dinosuars:

A meteor hitting a dinosaur in the neck would most likely kill it. Its neck would not be elongated, it would be crushed.

A tyrannosaur can only evolve into one of two things, a reptile or an avian. Dinosaurs only have two types of pelvis, which classifies them as evolving to lizard or bird. I memory serves, the Tyrannosaur was bird hipped(It could be the other since this is going from memory), thus having it evolve into something of the avian variety. To prove this further, follow the avian-pelvic line to the Hoatzin bird, where the chicks have claws on their wings so they can climb tree branches.

Archaeopteryx are not of the avian variety! Regardless of plumage, they were lizard hipped! They did not evolve to birds!

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Brain lobes:

There’s a left lobe and a right lobe. These lobes are segmented into 2 parts(making quartiles). The left lobe does affect the right hand side of the body, and vice versa. However, there is no string that’s attached to make you go mental in the brain if the lobe connection is snapped. If the lobes are separated, you’re most likely dead, so you can’t go mental. Part of why the left lobe affects the right side and not the left is the wiring and “command” of the nervous system. It swaps early back around the Foramen Magnum(that is my understanding of it). Part of what connects the brain is a membrane around it.