Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

this would be a GREAT time to listen to profoundly sad music, of course

https://youtu.be/FVC2XP_wAZM at 8:51 VROOOOOOM! VRRRRM VRRROOOOM!

So if the Space Wolves are Norse (and therefore Swedes) we can safely assume a “lemon russ” to be a lemon custard tart. Further, a “regal dorn” is presumably sponge cake with whipped cream and jam covered in marzipan. Both best accompanied with coffee, perhaps at 1600 on a cold Fenrisian afternoon.

the thing where my brain clicks over from panic to realization some stuff really hit buttons from childhood. That resulting spiral was *really* no fun.

some sort of fucking anxiety about jobs and car during the recession that asshole is setting off

the AI thing pretty much forever killing the dream of art for bucks is not helping either.

https://youtu.be/U8bPsBvdEZU

this was SO AWESOME!!1! that it earned an honor hitherto only earned by Metallica. 4d6, minus lowest.

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I'm thinking Ranger. SURELY GARL GLITTERGOLD'S LUCK SHINES UPON US THIS DAY

oh no, the curse of the Generation X! I thought I'd enjoy listening to TMBG's "Spider" but I've listened to the album so much I then needed to listen to "Dinner Bell" and now I'm on "Hall of Heads"

Dude who comes up with playground rhymes up at 2 AM scribbling frantically. “There’s a place in Paris, where the naked ladies pee. No, not it. There’s a place in Marseille where the naked ladies play. A place in Langue d’oc where the naked ladies mock. Nothing seems to work, it’s missing something.”

#drawings tonight. Drew and now posting to try staving off a bad case of The Sunday.

@CoyoteTraveller have you ever read "Isola"? It's a comic where the Queen is transformed into a tiger as basically an excuse to draw tigers. A little like how "Hellboy" started as a way to make sure there was a monster on pretty much all pages.

I hate how public school prepares you for the adult world during 12 years of your life, and most of what you learn is "this isn't a place you're safe or valued no matter what you do, this is where you go because there's NO choice." Or at least that's what I got out of the exercise.

housemate's soothing music as white noise to sleep currently is playing an unusually mellow version of Amazing Grace and all I can think of is "how nice! A soothing version of the theme tune for Gilligan's Island"

see I have this theory;

* People gain expertise if given resources to do what interests them. The truly rich didn't JUST start with money, they're people who think money and power is interesting, and if you're not also interested in money or power, they're not going to be very interesting people to you.

* Being a leader requires decisions which may hurt those you affect. This is easier to do if you're emotionally and physically remote from them. Wealth, including the seed capital needed to become truly rich, creates remoteness and the assumption everyone else has equal chances ( which makes it really easy to assume an active superiority to your underlings). But being low on empathy definitely helps.

* Wealth also buys the ability to make mistakes. If a immigrant family decides to start a restaurant, or a middle class kid goes off to college, and that tanks, that's basically their chances. Whereas if you're rich enough to try out five investments, and four tank but the other turns out fantastically solid, you're great financially and ego will follow.

So what I am saying is the very wealthy tend to be too privileged to question themselves, even if they're not profoundly self-absorbed bigots, and also can be incredibly boring people if you're not them.

The less polite way to say it is that I think we're ruled by uncreative, uncreatING, complete sadists.

okay one small bowl of malt-o-meal later I'm a little less "who I WANT to be is so different from who I'm REQUIRED to be and the irritable burned out person I am as a result" and more "I was trained to be self hating, which is even easier on ~4 hours of sleep, lower-intensity constant stress, screwed up eating schedule" followed by "oh wow I'm sleepy."

that well loved character Hickey Mouse

if you go to the theme park you can actually meet him in person!

the chunk of my personality which is "I wish someone would take care of me, but that'd require me to be likable and I don't think I am."

do drow elves introduce themselves as being from "the land of wonder, the land down under"? if so do they swear frequently and delight in a spread made of brewer's yeast, developed after they could no longer obtain marmite from the duergar? will they slip another chuul on the barbie for you m8?