Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

see the important distinction in early D&D art is that paintings by Larry Elmore, Jeff Easley, Brom etc could have titles like “Waiting for Shadamehr,” “Lifeless She Waited” or even “What Do You Mean We’re Lost” and all Errol Otus paintings could be captioned “Dude DUDE Does Anyone Else Wanna Get Tacos?”

Last night’s #drawing, which started out as trying to draw something sexy with cock showing, so I think I made a wrong turn somewhere.

"In a Big Country" => "Kurgan's Theme" => "Techno Syndrome" => "Scatman (ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop)"

it doesn't like nassty food, nice hobbitses

ach, ssss, the only nassty thing good Smeagol likes is a nassty groove, will this one do?

#drawings yesterday, going light to ink later.

the bad news; I can't help hearing my housemate's left wing outrage podcast. Look, 1) my options to stop this administration are protest, or 2) write in to my reps and when there's a public comment option on federal agencies, and I've been doing the second. There's only so much good stress will do.

the good news; this carrot salad is *really good, better than the last (similar) carrot salad I made. Leftover pork set aside for banosh, later. This is at least 2 meals worth of green beans, it needs something - I'll get feta or something next time I can.

I got ambitious since I was gonna run the oven so;
* cooking up the boneless pork ribs bought Friday
* roasting carrots in advance for carrot salad, eggplant for this Ottolenghi anchovy parsley eggplant salad I like
* simmering Greek style green beans

a halfway point of a turducken and chile relleno, an Anaheim chili around an ancho chili around a jalapeño around a single Thai pepper.

@thorgrit Both of them are relatively okay roles for how the dude worked; he showed up, was tall (literally the tallest actor for a while), deep voiced, and an expert fencer when needed. Playing Dracula for Hammer Films was sort of how he made rent for a while.

#drawing last night, I usually try to draw more women and I guess I really wanted to draw different facial hair.

@thorgrit You know, I'd always parsed Strahd as Christopher Lee's take on Dracula. With more than a bit of Sir Christopher thrown in.

@Tuftears the fragment of folk song is actually kinda about that, it's this song about how this farmer clears and ploughs land, hunts animals, and then when the (much less Tolkein) elves show up, he puts up crosses all over and chases them away. I absolutely HATE IT, and wanted a scenario where the elves, forest and old gods win instead.

hate how jobs kill empathy. I have a weekend or sometimes after work, I'm surrounded by all sorts of people living their lives - what're they thinking? Are they happy? What lies ahead for the kids?

I go into work and the road's full of fucking rich assholes, the customers are rich assholes someone has decided is officially better than me, and the coworkers I talk to through Slack or email, do they even have emotions and wants I can fathom?

It's like having ice form in my soul.

I can't imagine why a Church full of Hispanics and at risk of being accurately perceived as an eager adjunct to American right winger power grabs would choose as a leader someone loudly opposed to abuse directed at Hispanics instead of playing to evangelical Protestants, can YOU?

#drawing from Tuesday, vaguely vent art.

Design for my character’s little altar out in the woods.

I’m now realizing this lousy administration has already played so many fears coming true (reasonably Trump shouldn’t have won, RFK/Patel/Hegseth/etc shouldn’t have been installed, EOs shouldn’t be parsed as law etc) that it’s easy to believe any fear will come true. This stacks with how any narcissist’s control is rooted in no matter what you do or how reasonable it is, the narc will turn out idealized, lauded, prosperous, while you’re dismissed as just some crazy.

It'll be okay; it'll really be okay.