Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

#drawing today, human wizard, tiefling warlock, halfling sorcerer.

DUDE! TIME BABY III IS ON THE SPEAKERS AT STARBUCKS!

Victims, aren’t we all?

Hang my head, drown my fear
Till you all just disappear.
Black hole sun, won’t you come and wash away the rain?
Black hole sun, won’t you come, won’t you come?

Do not weep openly at Starbucks because “Interstate Love Song” is on the speakers but it’s 2023 and everything looks a lot bleaker than the 90s

@anthracite gonna make a move to a town that's right for me
kind to my arthritis where new bifocals gonna help me see

the Imperial March, aka the Desssstiny Theme, aka the Standing in Front of Windows at Parade Rest Theme, aka the

This *started* as a rant about how I don't get arguing for the Imperium of Man as this wonderful society, since to me part of the *fun* of 40K is that there's no single faction which is obviously The Good Guys, and *especially* not the Britain stand-in. You can have the fun of Necromundan hives and gang wars, clunky cybernetics, servitor skulls, Inquisitors, Adeptes Sororites, and everything else because the Imperium *isn't* good.

It's a great bit of 80s reaction to Thatcher, still relevant today. The idea that the "good guys" can be antiheroes, or heroes who are part of a terrible system, is very much the same Britain that gave us Lobo, Elric and 2000 AD. I don't think Americans with our self-righteousness would ever create a universe like this; the after the fact, conservative idealization of the Imperium suggests it could have easily gone a different direction.

But here's where I get fan-worshippy instead. Pulling on an Arthurian golden age turned to backwards pop medievalism is also very very British - and simply a brilliant way to build a mythological explanation for all the story details which aren't really the far future.

And those story cues as visuals are brilliant too; a "dark future" full of cybernetic putti, censers, huge tomes, and skull-encrusted shields won't raise eyebrows when tanks slightly more modernized than WWI versions are supported by infantry inspired by Rambo movies. Among other things *that* sets up other factions believably having a clunkier design aesthetic (orks, Kroot) or a more futuristic one (Aeldari, Tau).

And all this came into being organically, it's amazing.

remember I'm making up for lost time listening to Iron Maiden albums, so; I really like Seventh Son of a Seventh Son so far - it's very different from earlier albums I like, simultaneously introspective and bombastic.

Today’s definitely a “sail a ship made of dead men’s nails into Asgard and end the world so a fairer one can take its place” mood. A little too much sympathy for the redhead is definitely why I’m not Asatru.

I'm remembering that the reason I could do something as hostile as job hunting while that self-hating is that blaming myself for being not good enough in part blunted how hostile it felt.

Okay, the desire to beat the fuck out of some Nazi stoolie is my sign that I should get the hell off Twitter right now.

man, The Head on the Door is such a good album

man, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me is such a good album

huh, I haven't actually listened to 4:13 Dream, or Wild Mood Swings. Easy enough to fix.

So apparently I didn't do well enough on their fucking customer service evaluation to proceed. I'm unsure what wasn't good enough for these piece of shit rapacious bastards. Between the evaluation and the initial phone screen that's somewhere 90-120 minutes of my life wasted.

@obscurestar well the red enamel pin with a swastika is a little too on the nose

Robert Smith is making me wanna run around in cemeteries and the woods, kiss people (not picky about gender here), and play Changeling the Dreaming until 0200. But noooo, I can't go do any of that because I need to be a good little job hunter.

In a crummy mood, so here’s some photos from Big Finn Hill park a couple of weekends ago.

You probably won't believe it, but I'm stressed about the future and feeling sad about the past again. Who'd a thought.