Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

#drawings from or finished yesterday.

gotta shower and pretend to be a human boy for a while.

I originally moved up here partway to be around in case my parents needed help with health stuff.

What actually happened with my parents' health was my Mom's mobility finally really went so that she's mostly housebound, and a lot of her other health has been in decline since. My Dad was taking a break from work, but became a full time caretaker. There's not much I physically do to help, but I'm basically there regularly so my Mom feels wanted and valued (mobility issues mean there's little chance of meeting with them anywhere else), and so my Dad has someone else to talk to, and another excuse to take a break from being at home.

Neither of my parents had been easy to be around before and now it's worse. Part of why this is such hard going is this setup (get Dad out of the house, let him vent, make sure I'm around Mom for a bit) means visits are always 7-10 hours, plus time to get there, and trying to get back to emotional equilibrium afterwards usually is a few more hours, so it's basically an all day thing.

THE YEAR IS 1864

THE RISE OF A MIDDLE CLASS HAS BROUGHT ABOUT THE END OF AN ERA AND THE FALL OF A DYNASTY

A SAMURAI ONCE SERVANT TO ROYALTY IS FORCED TO WANDER WITH NO MASTER TO SERVE

AND NO DEVICES OTHER THAN HIS WITS AND HIS SWORD

*scratches frantically behind ear*

another science fiction movie only instead of lifting plot elements from Shichinin no Samurai, it lifts them from Blazing Saddles

you'd do it for Randolph Scott.

@GoodNewsGreyShoes Thank you so much! *wags*

Most people make that mistake, what I understand is that Frankenstein’s the monster, and the creature he made is named Adam.

oh yeah also I pretend to be a serious artist sometimes. #drawing

anyway just dropping this here

Real bad case of the “nothing to live for” today, I realize this is probably missed sleep and just not wanting to lose another half weekend to my parents, but it’s still not comfortable.

@rkniner I mean there's any number of things I'd like to magically disappear - F150s come to mind - but yesterday I was particularly angry about the whole AI th...

okay, so not really yesterday. I suspect like the Reagan Administration I'll be angry about it for the rest of my life, however long I get.

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

1-800-GOT-JUNK AD “we brought a truckload of magic. What would you like to make disappear?”

ME, N THE PHONE UNDER A MINUTE LATER “this is 1-800-got-junk? Yeah. See there’s this company, OpenAI and…”

https://youtu.be/43bkF9u9_aI?si=2IxdyNMfX_0RmynS

in case you were wondering, The Best Parts with the Allosaurus start at 9:23 and not only are they pretty awesome they are, in fact, reminiscent of Sato Masaru's score for Gojira tai Mekagojira.

seriously fanboying about Primarchs for some reason seems even more pointless than a lot of nerd fictional hero-worship like "who would win in a fistfight, Carl Sagan or Richard Feynman" or whatever

https://youtu.be/aidKzrYAo8E?si=Y09zrJTnEHwnHqOD

*riots*

we all know that the primarchs dwarf space marines and normal humans but what we really want to know is just how much did Magnus completely wreck Leman Russ' nord-hole

ugh

forget I said that

nobly listening to all of Sacre du Printemps instead of skipping to the best bits with the Allosaurus