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Anyway as you’re probably here for #drawings more than for my declining mental health (*I’m* here for my drawings more than my declining mental health anyway), here’s last night’s.

basically SW fandom solves towards exploring characters who have something individualistic about them, so any Imperial who gets a line or any alien. You never knew that dude third from Boba Fett when he's on the Sail Barge, is named Siegfried Bassoon and is there fundraising for environmental suits for disadvantaged youth.

I think most people have never been in a situation where the system was so obviously not there for them/so obviously self interested at their cost. Unfortunately for me, I haven't been in that sort of situation since my self-worth was a lot worse as a coping mechanism, so this is new territory for me, as well; the flip side of "hey I don't think of killing myself daily" is apparently "I'm angry and low on energy."

Here's the thing with my Polish ancestors;

My great grandfather's family were blond, blue eyed, had names like "Adolph," and spoke fluent German - not Polish. Despite this they always maintained they were Poles. (They were also SHORT. I've seen photos of them next to my Grampa, who barely made the NYPD's 5'6" height requirement.)

My best guess is either they were Silesian, OR decided Poles were a lot more popular in their new country (they came over a little bit before WWI), or possibly both.

yep, the "clean up your crime scene" stage of cooking with beets

and I used a LOT of poppy seeds in this tovchanka, but y'know what, it's not really getting into the spirit of my German - sorry, did I say German? I meant POLISH - ancestors unless you use enough poppy seeds to set off a drug test.

#drawing today, I think I just ran with the idea of Japanese beetle grubs.

This weekend’s used bookstore treasures!

magickal ritual for shapeshifting (M shifts only);

first take thee hence a BURRITO, grande, and dip it thus within THE COCK'S BEAK, while chanting thus; I am a COYOTE, and that's AWESOME.

#drawings from or finished up today. You can probably tell where I got tired. CW, futuristic firearms and cartoon but bloodless violence.

@anthracite He actually had some Erol Otus in there, would you believe? He also kinda rushed over Larry Elmore/Clyde Caldwell/Keith Parkinson/etc to get to his thesis that 5e art like 5e is sort of an appeal to people who grew up on LotR, the MCU, Harry Potter/Percy Jackson etc. I don't necessarily buy that, but I do think having most illustrators come from the same generation and just how technique *leapt* forward in the 200s has an effect.

yesterday I watched a YouTube thing about D&D art by edition. The OSR dude (with obvious bias) talked about grimy, gritty 1e-2e art versus the young adult fiction/superheroic look of 5e art.

This gets me realizing part of why I like 4e's art most; 4e art's got some of the technical polish I really like in 5e, but it's still obviously different styles, different artists. In a subtle and probably unintended way it says "there's no one way to run or play D&D."

@Tuftears Thank you!

#drawing from Tuesday that I was too depressed and upset to post till now. Oddly pretty much the opposite of vent art.

This post brought to you through the realization that Mozart had THREE cool names, which is not really fair, and most known classical composers have really cool names (Erich Wolfgang Korngold is fucking badass, and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is up there too).

grateful for the amazing legacy of music but I feel like we missed a great opportunity to have a John Williams Jazz Trio including both the guitarist and the composer/pianist (there’s gotta be a drummer named John Williams out there)

Something great about Seattle not obvious from the outside is we have a jazz and blues station. Unfortunately for me, they double as the NPR news station, so I can’t listen during peak commute hours without being hit by, you know, THIS.

It’s not currently peak commute hours.

lately my emotions have vacillated between denial and negotiation - you know, maybe it's not so bad, maybe there's something I can do about all this - and feeling completely drained of energy and emotionally low, versus being enraged. I'm sure there's a word for this.

since I know all the stress is basically about pacing, taking a break is definitely improving the pace of feeling trapped, stuck, and treading water. This was a good idea, let's check the weather for the next few days *click*

tomorrow it clouds up and this weekend temperatures drop. Okay then.