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A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. “Do I look like a fool?” said the frog. “You’d sting me if I let you on my back!”

“Be logical,” said the scorpion. “If I stung you I’d certainly drown myself.”

“That’s true,” the frog acknowledged. “Climb aboard, then!” But no sooner than they were halfway across the river, the scorpion stung the frog, and they both began to thrash and drown. “Why on earth did you do that?” the frog said morosely. “Now we’re both going to die.” 

“I can’t help it,” said the scorpion. “It’s my nature.”

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…But no sooner than they were halfway across the river, the frog felt a subtle motion on its back, and in a panic dived deep beneath the rushing waters, leaving the scorpion to drown.

“It was going to sting me anyway,” muttered the frog, emerging on the other side of the river. “It was inevitable. You all knew it. Everyone knows what those scorpions are like. It was self-defense.”

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…But no sooner had they cast off from the bank, the frog felt the tip of a stinger pressed lightly against the back of its neck. “What do you think you’re doing?” said the frog.

“Just a precaution,” said the scorpion. “I cannot sting you without drowning. And now, you cannot drown me without being stung. Fair’s fair, isn’t it?”

They swam in silence to the other end of the river, where the scorpion climbed off, leaving the frog fuming.

“After the kindness I showed you!” said the frog. “And you threatened to kill me in return?”

“Kindness?” said the scorpion. “To only invite me on your back after you knew I was defenseless, unable to use my tail without killing myself? My dear frog, I only treated you as I was treated. Your kindness was as poisoned as a scorpion’s sting.”

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…“Just a precaution,” said the scorpion. “I cannot sting you without drowning. And now, you cannot drown me without being stung. Fair’s fair, isn’t it?”

“You have a point,” the frog acknowledged. “But once we get to dry land, couldn’t you sting me then without repercussion?”

“All I want is to cross the river safely,” said the scorpion. “Once I’m on the other side I would gladly let you be.”

“But I would have to trust you on that,” said the frog. “While you’re pressing a stinger to my neck. By ferrying you to land I’d be be giving up the one deterrent I hold over you.”

“But by the same logic, I can’t possibly withdraw my stinger while we’re still over water,” the scorpion protested.

The frog paused in the middle of the river, treading water. “So, I suppose we’re at an impasse.”

The river rushed around them. The scorpion’s stinger twitched against the frog’s unbroken skin. “I suppose so,” the scorpion said.

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A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. “Absolutely not!” said the frog, and dived beneath the waters, and so none of them learned anything.

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A scorpion, being unable to swim, asked a turtle (as in the original Persian version of the fable) to carry it across the river. The turtle readily agreed, and allowed the scorpion aboard its shell. Halfway across, the scorpion gave in to its nature and stung, but failed to penetrate the turtle’s thick shell. The turtle, swimming placidly, failed to notice.

They reached the other side of the river, and parted ways as friends.

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…Halfway across, the scorpion gave in to its nature and stung, but failed to penetrate the turtle’s thick shell.

The turtle, hearing the tap of the scorpion’s sting, was offended at the scorpion’s ungratefulness. Thankfully, having been granted the powers to both defend itself and to punish evil, the turtle sank beneath the waters and drowned the scorpion out of principle.

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A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. “Do I look like a fool?” sneered the frog. “You’d sting me if I let you on my back.”

The scorpion pleaded earnestly. “Do you think so little of me? Please, I must cross the river. What would I gain from stinging you? I would only end up drowning myself!”

“That’s true,” the frog acknowledged. “Even a scorpion knows to look out for its own skin. Climb aboard, then!”

But as they forged through the rushing waters, the scorpion grew worried. This frog thinks me a ruthless killer, it thought. Would it not be justified in throwing me off now and ridding the world of me? Why else would it agree to this? Every jostle made the scorpion more and more anxious, until the frog surged forward with a particularly large splash, and in panic the scorpion lashed out with its stinger.

“I knew it,” snarled the frog, as they both thrashed and drowned. “A scorpion cannot change its nature.”

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A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. The frog agreed, but no sooner than they were halfway across the scorpion stung the frog, and they both began to thrash and drown.

“I’ve only myself to blame,” sighed the frog, as they both sank beneath the waters. “You, you’re a scorpion, I couldn’t have expected anything better. But I knew better, and yet I went against my judgement! And now I’ve doomed us both!”

“You couldn’t help it,” said the scorpion mildly. “It’s your nature.” 

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…“Why on earth did you do that?” the frog said morosely. “Now we’re both going to die.”

“Alas, I was of two natures,” said the scorpion. “One said to gratefully ride your back across the river, and the other said to sting you where you stood. And so both fought, and neither won.” It smiled wistfully. “Ah, it would be nice to be just one thing, wouldn’t it? Unadulterated in nature. Without the capacity for conflict or regret.”

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“By the way,” said the frog, as they swam, “I’ve been meaning to ask: What’s on the other side of the river?”

“It’s the journey,” said the scorpion. “Not the destination.”

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…“What’s on the other side of anything?” said the scorpion. “A new beginning.”

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…”Another scorpion to mate with,” said the scorpion. “And more prey to kill, and more living bodies to poison, and a forthcoming lineage of cruelties that you will be culpable in.”

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…”Nothing we will live to see, I fear,” said the scorpion. “Already the currents are growing stronger, and the river seems like it shall swallow us both. We surge forward, and the shoreline recedes. But does that mean our striving was in vain?”

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“I love you,” said the scorpion.

The frog glanced upward. “Do you?”

“Absolutely. Can you imagine the fear of drowning? Of course not. You’re a frog. Might as well be scared of breathing air. And yet here I am, clinging to your back, as the waters rage around us. Isn’t that love? Isn’t that trust? Isn’t that necessity? I could not kill you without killing myself. Are we not inseparable in this?”

The frog swam on, the both of them silent.

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“I’m so tired,” murmured the frog eventually. “How much further to the other side? I don’t know how long we’ve been swimming. I’ve been treading water. And it’s getting so very dark.”

“Shh,” the scorpion said. “Don’t be afraid.”

The frog’s legs kicked out weakly. “How long has it been? We’re lost. We’re lost! We’re doomed to be cast about the waters forever. There is no land. There’s nothing on the other side, don’t you see!”

“Shh, shh,” said the scorpion. “My venom is a hallucinogenic. Beneath its surface, the river is endlessly deep, its currents carrying many things.” 

“You - You’ve killed us both,” said the frog, and began to laugh deliriously. “Is this - is this what it’s like to drown?” 

“We’ve killed each other,” said the scorpion soothingly. “My venom in my glands now pulsing through your veins, the waters of your birthing pool suffusing my lungs. We are engulfing each other now, drowning in each other. I am breathless. Do you feel it? Do you feel my sting pierced through your heart?”

“What a foolish thing to do,” murmured the frog. “No logic. No logic to it at all.”

“We couldn’t help it,” whispered the scorpion. “It’s our natures. Why else does anything in the world happen? Because we were made for this from birth, darling, every moment inexplicable and inevitable. What a crazy thing it is to fall in love, and yet - It’s all our fault! We are both blameless. We’re together now, darling. It couldn’t have happened any other way.”

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“It’s funny,” said the frog. “I can’t say that I trust you, really. Or that I even think very much of you and that nasty little stinger of yours to begin with. But I’m doing this for you regardless. It’s strange, isn’t it? It’s strange. Why would I do this? I want to help you, want to go out of my way to help you. I let you climb right onto my back! Now, whyever would I go and do a foolish thing like that?”

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A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. “Do I look like a fool?” said the frog. “You’d sting me if I let you on my back!”

“Be logical,” said the scorpion. “If I stung you I’d certainly drown myself.”  

“That’s true,” the frog acknowledged. “Come aboard, then!” But no sooner had the scorpion mounted the frog’s back than it began to sting, repeatedly, while still safely on the river’s bank.

The frog groaned, thrashing weakly as the venom coursed through its veins, beginning to liquefy its flesh. “Ah,” it muttered. “For some reason I never considered this possibility.”

“Because you were never scared of me,” the scorpion whispered in its ear. “You were never scared of dying. In a past life you wore a shell and sat in judgement. And then you were reborn: soft-skinned, swift, unburdened, as new and vulnerable as a child, moving anew through a world of children. How could anyone ever be cruel, you thought, seeing the precariousness of it all?” The scorpion bowed its head and drank. “How could anyone kill you without killing themselves?”

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Commissions may take up to 3-6 weeks for completion (depending on complexity / my schedule) with payment in full via PayPal invoice once the flat color has been laid down. The form will close March 1st 5:00PM (PST) with folks selected messaged over Tumblr.

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🌿- Shoot me an email at [email protected] with a brief description of what you want, including descriptions/images references and commission type. I’m open to drawing mostly anything, let me know what you’re thinking of and we can talk about it!   (This includes any previous commission types you don’t see on the sheet!)

🌿- Here’s a link to a reference resource i made, to help you make easy references for your characters, please give it a read through before emailing (a clear reference will make the whole process much easier for me) !

🌿- for DND character sheets;  I’ll need all the additional info to do so, so if that’s what you want, don’t forget to send me it!

🌿- I do payment up-front as an invoice and via Squareup, in Pounds Sterling (GDP) after receiving References and I begin work upon payment (commission price does not include Squareup fees).

🌿- Estimated finish time for pieces is about 2 weeks and i’ll send you the finished commission via email as an A4 piece in PNG format.

🌿- I’ll post up the finished work here on my blog unless you ask otherwise. 🌿- Here’s a waitlist for commissioners, so you can see what the line’s like!

I retain the right to refuse a commission, and this is not commercial work but strictly for private use, not for further profit or outside projects

✨reblogs are always appreciated!✨

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Commissions

I'm opening a few commissions slots for the upcoming months; please DM/email me with the type of art you'd like to commission (bust/half-body/etc) and we can discuss when we will work on it. Basic price list:

Bust - 100USD

Half-body - 140USD

Full-body - 180USD

For additional information about the commission process as well as ToS please head to my carrd.

Contact me by DM or by email [email protected].

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I forgot I have to be active here so here’s my Twitter tutorial on how to draw folds I made a while back to help a friend!

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*KICKS DOWN THE FUCKING DOOR* YALL ARE NOT GONNA BELIEVE THIS SHIT LOOK

YOU CAN FUCKING. GET ACCURATE LIGHTING REFERENCE?!????!? ON ANY FUCKING SUBJECT?????????????

(FIRST GIF BEING DUMB AND NOT WANTING TO LOAD HERE GO LOOK: https://imgur.com/t4iLmR6 )

YOU CAN HAVE MULTIPLE LIGHT SOURCES WITH DIFFERENT COLORS WHAT THE FUCK

YOU CAN CONTROL AMBIENT LIGHT AND EVEN LIGHT THE GODDAMN BACKGROUND??????????

I’M NEVER SHUTTING UP ABOUT THIS I’VE WANTED A MAGIC TOOL LIKE THIS MY WHOLE LIFE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

https://clipdrop.co/relight THIS IS THE THING GO GO GO

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Hades Animation | Glitter and Gold

There comes a time with any project where you have to be like “do I actually want to make an entire music video, or do I just wish an entire music video existed”, and sometimes you realize it’s the latter and it’s best to simply cut the project short.  Anyway here’s this.

Fandom: Hades Song: Glitter & Gold by Barnes Courtney Programs Used: Clip Studio Paint (Animation), iMovie (Combining w/ SFX)

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I spent hours staring at gold bars stock photos while making this and now my head hurts

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made this little process video over on tiktok since I got so many kind comments about the lighting/shading on these pieces! A surprisingly simple but effective setup 😎🏴‍☠️

#oo #art #reference #tutorial

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I’m open for commissions now!

Hi, it’s herheim here and please see the picture for my Commission details! 

Just note that for Icon commissions, couple heads in the same image would be $60, and the prices are sometimes flexible depends on the complexity and specific requirements of the image, but always feel free to ask! I’m also welcoming other forms of commissions, just drop me an email and I’m always happy to discuss about your brilliant ideas ;)

Check the bold words to see more of my icon and general commission examples. I also do a lot of fanart work based on my interest and hope you enjoy them too.

I’m also active on Twitter and Pixiv, so feel free to get in touch through those as well! Thank you for the support ♪(･ω･)ﾉ

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Decided to try something new with this one, I haven’t been satisfied with my current style as of late so I’ve been experimenting quite a lot. Needless to say this was mostly harmless fun on my part.

Please reblog to help a girl out.

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COMMISSIONS OPEN

Hi, guys!

✨I don’t require prepayment. You can pay after you confirmed the sketch

✨You can make 2 edits to the sketch if you need it

✨Hon, i don’t like official communication. Commission will done at few days or ~1,5 mounth - if that’s OK for you, if you, like me, prefer frendly discussion and you’re ready to give me some creative freedom - you’re welcome

Payment: Paypal ([email protected])

Also, now I have a ko-fi. If you could help me, I would be grateful  ❤️

(Sorry, English is not my native language)

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Welcome back 🕶

Haha thank you

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Hi I’m not dead and I have a new OC.

This is Dulcet, my tiefling oath of ancients paladin.

#my art #oc #art #mine #dnd #dulcet #cambion #rpg #ttrpg #sketch #animation #gif #d&d #dungeons and dragons #dungeons & dragons

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Hi! Your art is amazing. I've been playing Arcana and came across your blog. Are you still doing free art of OCs? If not that's totally fine. If you are though, what requirements do you need to draw my oc? (or six of them..oops) Again, your art is lovely and it would be amazing to have some characters drawn by you.

Thank you so much and yes, I can do some art for you! Just dm me with a description and some references if you have any. I may not get around to it quickly and it may not be top tier work because I have a lot of schoolwork right now, but I’d totally be willing to doodle some oc’s for you. 🥰

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Me: Why canno my art be like that tho,,

The art I’m looking at: Made by people who do it literally everyday as a career and maybe even went to school for it

#be kind to yourself... #op #my post #rambling

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Commissions 🤟