cookingwithroxy:

karla-chans-bjds:

fluorescentnova:

We had to write a Mini Comic for my Illustration Class so I did mine based on The Frog and The Scorpion. Hopefully you all know the story! 

But if you don’t know the story… In the original the scorpion stings the frog in the middle of the river. When the frog asks “why” the scorpion says “it’s in my nature” and they both die. I like my ending more.

Done with watercolor and pen and ink nib.

I always thought this story was fucked up, even when I heard it as a very young child. I even got put in the naughty corner, and a star next to my name crossed off for questioning it.

This story is so much better, and I like it’s message much more.

The original moral was PROBABLY meant to be about ‘well, if you know someone’s toxic you can’t be surprised when they’re toxic to you too’. but in general it is more used as ‘those people are bad and evil and you should only expect bad and evil of them (and they can’t be good even if they try)’