Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

Okay, so I may have mentioned this before.

Back when I was a fairly little coyote, there was this show, The Electric Company - it was supposed to be Sesame Street for slightly older kids, fun but educational TV. I have no clue how something so focused on Black people and NYC got air time in rural Georgia public broadcasting but it was a brilliant show.

A LOT of the educational parts were cartoons which taught you about bits of written English - for instance Tom Lehrer contributed songs which got cartoons, about the -ly suffix or silent e. Some cartoons repeated a theme inspired by 2001, which was still pretty recent at that point. There'd be a 2001 style monolith and to the tune of Also Sprach Zarathustra, it'd crumble to reveal a syllable, like OO or AWK, which they'd repeat several times so you'd know how to pronounce it in the future.

So you can imagine how surprised I was when I finally was old enough to watch 2001... and there were monoliths... which didn't crumble at all!

*clicks on image* Okay, it's time for the furry cockworship theme tune again.

Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 - Strauss https://youtu.be/dfe8tCcHnKY via @YouTube

One #drawing today, vampires! Nosferatu, traditional bloodsucker on undead steed, and a Lovecraftian style invisible vampire who becomes visible when flushed with blood, inspired by a video about Mordheim.

Given the sheer volume of very real reasons to be pissed off at other people, ethnicity, orientation and gender are such COMPLETE non entities you know? These are personal things that make DnD edition wars seem important and yet, they're always literally life or death issues.

And it's tempting to reference the beginning of "How Long Not Long?" here. Convince people who are quite safe that they are under attack, and attack marginalized folks so they have to dump their energy into survival and nobody goes after the REAL issue - namely that if we just taxed the fuck out of rich people, our country could look more prosperous than Sweden.

pushed on job hunt stuff, finally ran into one which wanted email addresses for all prior supervisors (not available), calling it a day on job hunt.

@Kyresti Actually - thanks for some weird reassurance here. Because of jobs being in flux I'm basically stuck renewing my lease for my current apartment, which makes me pucker - but it turns out to be about mid-range for studio costs locally (because greed), and having a laundry set up right here is one of the nicer things about the place.

@Kyresti Oh yeah! I and the ex had one for a while when we were in Alameda. We quickly gave up on the dryer (the elastic band vital to it working broke, it's placed inconvenient to replace, but air drying clothes is basically time and a lot more user friendly in NorCal), but kept using the washer until water bills increased enough to make it less economical than going to the laundromat again (and that sounds very NorCal not Seattle problem, so maybe you'd have better luck).

a culture of fear cut through me
I felt my heart contract
to my mind I brought the image of light
and I expanded outward
my fear was just a shadow
and a voice spoke in my head
and She said; dark is not the opposite of light,
it's the absence of light.

I ride on the bus into the city every day
sit on the seat and I dream myself away
I dream I'm on an island with that foxy lady too
when I awaken, I must be mistaken,
I'm on 3rd Avenue!
Won't you take me away, and take away me?
Won't you take me away, and take away me?

it's weird how "Shake Your Rump" is not actually on their "Check Your Head" album

DO YOU PEEK AT MAGAZINES
FILLED WITH DOGGIES AND LEATHER QUEENS?
NASTY HABITS! NASTY HABITS!
*waggles eyebrows menacingly*

@Chip_Unicorn no. I don’t know the spoken language at all so my best predictors (vowel sounds) aren’t there, there are no loanwords or obvious breaks I can follow. This doesn’t fit anything i’m innately good at and would quickly become an exercise in self hate.

Today’s being a shit self worth day; having an assignment end after running into a batch of issues, failing a battery of (I don’t feel, entirely fair) tests right before a birthday (and these are almost never good) will do that.

@sebkha@meow.social oops!

Alpha boy school - Boys don't cry (ska cover) https://youtu.be/u0lrDDx5Z1s via @YouTube

pickitup pickitup pickitup

omg someone managed to make Just Like Heaven even HAPPIER.

The Cure "Just Like Heaven" - Nightmare Ska Remix https://youtu.be/7rCtalWOWvk via @YouTube

#drawngs today, worked up some analog inks - ranger with cacomistle companion stalks a troll, and a burly barbarian fights a jackalwere somewhere in the wilderness mapped out by a comfortable halfling. And pencilled a paladin fighting demons!

@Kyresti I really think this country is utterly foul some days. It's tempting to go off on a tangent, but my alternatives are what, the UK? Israel? But I mean, I look at some stuff happening in Canada, and it's hard not to believe pretty much any countries are basically extensive life support systems for parasitic rich rightwingers.