WIP

I've been busy.

BloodRayne

I did a painting of titular Rayne for Jim Sterling, and got a bit carried away with it. It was just going to be a quick, one off, as a bit of fan art, because... well, because thank god for Jim Sterling. But it kinda got away from me, and have a look for yourself.

One for the portfolio, at least.

Art

 

Truly, I am a great artist.

New York City, here I come, spread ya legs.

 

Fool's Errand

April Fool's Day: a day to commemorate Christians mocking pagans for celebrating the new year on a different, mostly-trivial point in the Earth's orbit around the sun. Also, unfunny people trying to pull pranks.
I'm not a grump. OK, I am, but really the attempts at being funny by people who aren't funny... it's just tedious. A good prank is both believable and ridiculous. Convincing people that Bathesda is working on Fallout 4, is not a prank. Convincing people that Bathesda decided to make it a point and click adventure game or a mobile game, would be a prank. The first thing is completely believable, but has no punchline. It's just a lie, there's no element of being fooled. Why wouldn't Bathesda be working on Fallout 4?
The key, really, is not believing a lie, the key is getting people to believe a really stupid lie. [Make your own religious joke here]

Something

 This is what I think, when people say this phrase.

Maybe I should do a whole series of portraits of goofy-looking schmucks,

saying things that annoy me.

More realistic take on Eve, in the style of renaissance portraiture.

Playing God

I'm sick of the "playing god" trope.  Sci-Fi Network's (or as they spell it, Syfy) newest show, Helix, has based the entire ad campaign around this nonsense. The show might also, or it might not, I don't know because the advertising left me cold and annoyed.



"Play God, Pay the Price" we're told; a phrase so patronizingly stupid it could only have been coined by a young earth creationist. Possibly while suffering from head trauma. I'd love to find the regressive quarter-wit who came up with this campaign, so I could introduce some head trauma of my own, preferably in the form of a '64 Buick. Or at least its tire iron.
Allow me to explain something to the mouth-breathing, Duck Dynasty-watching, Honey Boo Boo's mothers of the world: we "play god" every time we turn on a bloody light switch. "Playing god" is, effectively, harnessing nature. Any and every time we bend nature to human will, we are "playing god." Jack Kavorkian put it best: "... any time you tamper with the natural order, you're playing god."
Damn right, Jack. But no, again and again we're shown science and technology as scary monsters to be feared and distrusted. This ties into the natural fallacy. But let me remind you why it's a fallacy: everything found in nature, isn't good for you. Nature produces arsenic, parasites, bacteria, viruses, and things that will eat you. Conversely, things that are not natural include your computer, your car, your clothing (natural fibers, maybe, but still had to be made by human hand), and eating with a fork.
You don't want to play god? Enjoy eating whatever you can find, with your bare hands, without a fire, in a cave, getting dysentery. I'll stay in my house, with electric lights, the internet, and utensils.

"Uncle" Phil Robertson Is Not Being Persecuted *Updated

Updating this with a link to Hemant Mehta's Friendly Atheist post, because he brings up a lot of good points.

For those who don't know, Phil Robertson is one of the rednecks on A&E's Duck Dynasty. It's a show about rednecks who got rich making duck calls. No, really. It's kind of like the Beverly Hillbillies.
Anyway, Robertson said some things, specifically about homosexuality being like beastiality. Honestly, I couldn't give two squirts of duck shit (see what I did there?) because he's another ignorant redneck in a long line with the same ignorant programming and none of them have ever had an original thought in what passes for a mind, in redneck culture. Trust me, I know these people, I live among them.
So A&E suspended him from the show. Of course, this pissed off all the other Christian bigots. Now they're claiming his free speech has been infringed. Once again, Christian bigots don't understand how free speech works.
I'll try to explain and use small words so you can follow along, oh ye of little brain and much faith.
A&E is a television network. A&E owns and broadcasts airs the show, Duck Dynasty. That makes Robertson, basically, an employee of A&E. Their employee said some things the network doesn't agree with, so they suspended him. Robertson is not being prosecuted (that there legal stuff what can lead to fines and/or jail). If he were being prosecuted, that would be an infringement of his free speech. But he's not. The network (A&E, his employer), doesn't want said network associated with Robertson bigoted, anti-gay views, so they gave him a time out. They are well within their right and if you had an employee telling customers things you didn't agree with, you'd do the same.
If you owned a business, and one of your employees was going around telling everyone within ear shot that "the heterosexual lifestyle choice causes parasites," no matter how funny I may find that, I couldn't disagree with your decision to suspend said employee, from work.
Free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequence of that speech, it means freedom from legal action, within certain boundaries - "fire in a crowded theater," slander/libel, and all that.

Christians, You aren't being persecuted in the US. Don't believe me?