Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

holy SHIT I just discovered Savana Funk while searching to see if anyone had done a funk cover of the Lawrence of Arabia theme (no, but there are jazz covers)

check them out it's all stuff like https://youtu.be/4JKOqEanIKk?si=UsJz5v1RvI3PjMRK

This book I’m going through riffs off a several generations long feud to talk about 9th-11th century England in general. So far the really neat thing has been a discussion of how coinage worked after Alfred and how there sure seems to be a ton of silver coin circulating England as indicator of why folks like Duke William or the Great Pagan Army would be that interested in the place.

Have you ever considered that Beowulf (outsider in local politics, and a sheer force of nature which does not and cannot negotiate) is basically Jaws? Okay, there’s Grendel’s mother, and the dragon, so it’s basically a summer blockbuster with a lackluster sequel and a tangential third installment.

Checking on whether sleep disturbances is an ADHD thing leads to what SHOULD be a useful article, but it's really tempting to be snappish about so many things.

I'm reminded that growing up steeped in the idea that I'm am innately terrible person who invariably fucks up, is NOT a good match for an internet in which any opinion once expressed can be promptly condemned as an indication that I'm an innately terrible person fucking up. Time to remember boundary setting a little more.

@rachelw cool, thank you for the useful term!

anyway, this is a sparse weekend on drawings (or art content, if you prefer) so have an overly elaborate joke thanks to Clip Studio - cw monster, eye contact and just being safe

@joabaldwin is it actually going to be a b/w line piece when finished?

Re last boost: Professor Eeeeeee is here to instruct you about Fatiiiiiiiimiiiiiid Eeeeeeeegypt.

the little American flag in the burger represents only the continental US, otherwise it’d be a salmon burger or have Spam™️

@frang even I forget we exist sometimes!

Oh yes I forgot to tell you. The Spice is found on only one planet in the Known Universe. The planet is Arrakis, also known as… Dune.
* very 90s into music *
* radical Paul ridin’ the sandworm*
* Chani crescent kicking Harkonnens*
* trio of the Baron Harkonnen, the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV and Reverend Mother Helen Gaius Mohiam as radical Paul slides into place *
Frank Herbert’s
DUNE
THE ANIMATED SERIES

Urine and feces are processed in the thigh pads

so when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist and a round thing in your face

she’s clearly just crossed the deep desert, sire

Dude, someone with the right pedal food cart could make a real killing in this traffic; how many burritos you could sell to people stuck outside of Lewis McChord!

"Krull," a fantasy movie in which the hero quests for a magical doughnut which returns to his hand when thrown, the "Kruller."

YOU like ancient Greece because you imagine it as a white marble place of pale people discussing philosophy

I like ancient Greece because I imagine a noisy place where the statuary's painted pink, brown dudes with kinky hair argue loudly, and everything smells like goats and fried fish.

we are not the same

COMPARE AND CONTRAST

ROMANS
* Suetonius' bullshit stories about the Caesars' sex lives
* don't like tragedies but love sitcoms
* did NOT successfully invade Iran, this is because Sassanids are AWESOME
* boring loricae segmentata/squamata/hamata
* oh geez we don't sail we hire Celts to do that for us
* ooh lookat our art we like gladiators so much we put a big fresco of them in the snack bar and then someone graffiti'd about his sexual prowess on it
* wanna study on site? then you gotta go to Naples or something

GREEKS
* Herodotus' bullshit about distant places
* epic tragedies, comedies are 2500 year old The Onion articles
* successfully drove off Iranian invasion and then fell apart in really dumb loud arguments
* AWESOME hoploi, the occasional full monty
* fuckin' big noisy naval engagements
* all the marble is painted AWESOME colors
* fuck yeah let's go to Crete!

"apparently women are asking men how often they think about the Roman empire"

I'm reminded of someone I met who'd been a classic civ grad student. The leader of her cohort tried to get them all to get SPQR tats while they were drinking heavily and her take was "why do I care about the Senate and People of Rome?" and she got a big gorgon head instead.