Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

#drawing today, a trio of adventurers take on a fearsome giant in the forest

How desperate do you have to be to need abridged notes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it’s like the most enjoyable Shakespeare you could read?

@Bordigan you know a pomme? Same thing

not that I would know of course, my response to "I wish I could commission awesome art" was to try and become an artist, and honestly I still wish I could spend money to get art by my peers who are better at it than I am.

wading into this one - a lot of furries have no clue what art should be priced at. It doesn't help that some non furry employers/commissioners cheap out too, some fans are well paid enough to pay fairly, and some artists have self-worth stuff which keeps them from charging more.

There's a confusing mix of artists charging less than they should, artists charging fairly but who seem hugely pricey by comparison, and maybe the real people charging too much aren't artists but say supermarket chains.

Imagine you’re in a desert. Now imagine juicy red apple. The apple lies on its back, its belly baking in the sun, but you’re not helping, Leon. On a scale of 1-5, how vividly do you imagine the apple?

The Turkish place was too busy chatting with a friend to sell stuff and the line for (eh I pass) Mee Sum was not where the posted line was. On the other hand I pet a cat, I got a cut price graphic novel (Humberto Ramos rocks!) and didn’t spend $8 on the air war over Khalkin Gol.

@KitRedgrave “merchant.” I can tell you about why the chosen family last name though.

there’s a certain crappitude to this place which is practically magical. Also even tho the magazine place is out of business I can still get fried unmentionable pieces of chicken OH YEAH. There’s a place with overpriced cheese too now, that oughta make my Dad happy.

The requisite angry homeless dude. I mean why not I’m pissed off myself, about the usual. I’d be a Kahanist if that weren’t completely vile.

Gonna see if I can get some fried livers and gizzards and stuff.

Downtown Seattle is as bleak and grimy as I remember. I went here willingly?

Bad case of the “I’m a terrible person and have quite literally nothing to live for” this morning. Trying to get moving despite that.

Thinking while driving yesterday.

A lot of conservative morality distinguishes good people by their ability and willingness to punish bad people. (The other thing conservatives fixate on is deservedness - you don't deserve things just because you're around, you have to earn that by being good, which includes by punishing. The idea that someone might get a safe space, like universal health care or UBI, infuriates them. If you mandated work programs or enlistment in return for UBI they'd be all over that shit. This is part of why they're all about Jesus *redeeming* people by dying, and by threatening Hell - Jesus can't simply show up, say something enlightened like most of the sermon on the mount, heal some people, and be reborn as an example of divine love, that alone wouldn't make him officially good to them.)

This is really obvious in the worship of police and military, or Reagan and the Bushes, who were good because they created an enemy and punished them (while the domestic disasters of all three didn't count because it was officially happening to Someone Else).

But I was also thinking of the groomer/pedophile/etc rhetoric now; people transitioning or simply having Queer relationships is pretty inwardly directed, and in order to make the average conservative truly willing to do something about that, someone needs to be phrased as the bad guy whom you (or your proxy) can be good for punishing.

More upsetting; by definition, raising awareness of inequalities from largely socially unaware, in order to enact change, is an active process, there's *literally no way* to do it without "wokeness" becoming a way to get rightwingers all hopped up about how they've been grievously wronged, and therefore need to punish (or get someone else to punish) to protect their desperate need to be the good people.

The personal end here was thinking about my response to bullies in high school. I started out frustrated, not trying to use social dynamics to be left alone, even if I eventually went that way. Now I realize that I was victimized for being a Bad Person - therefore the victimizer was Good for punishing me. So oddly being very much the bad guy (I escalated to violence first) meant moral ambivalence (it's good to pound the hell out of someone who attacks you, it's bad to pound the hell out of someone smaller and weaker than you).

If that makes any sense?

Anyway here’s photos from today’s adventure. Was nice and the company was fantastic.

I've finally decided that Frank Frazetta's pen and ink illustrations for LotR really aren't at all Tolkien but all of them have such masterful blending shapes together through shadows that they're gorgeous anyway.

do I really want to sit through 2.5 hours of 1985 movie about the Battle of Courtrai, and it's in Nederlands but subtitled?