Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

@frost oh neat, how? I’m okay, just kinda low energy. This week was a lot of buttons being pushed.

@GoodNewsGreyShoes and, thinking about this today connects up to other stuff

* terrible things happen, but they’re not always death rushing to meet me, acknowledges a future with both good and bad (given PTSD I’m notoriously bad at thinking there’s any future)

* I feel like most of my negativity is extrapolating a few terribles to be bad to be all the time. In this case it only takes a few times I fucked up or wasn’t enough, to plug right into the worth/morality stuff I was taught

@frost yap!

The definition of entertainment media is "something big comes along which blows the lid off what was there before and you ask yourself, wow, you mean they can actually do this?" I can see this in how prior generations hit Tolkien and science fiction in general, but my lifetime's included an okay amount of "wow, you mean they can actually do this?" There's obviously going to be a great deal of that long after I'm gone.

@GoodNewsGreyShoes was realizing, it's the First Noble Truth. Years and years and years of trying to deal with my very "everything is about how good I am or not," and I rediscovered what the Buddha flat out said and which I've reread multiple times.

reminded myself that a story I still want to work on involves how 1940-44 is technically a "greatest hour of need" for most countries in Europe, and consequently awakened Ogier Dansk and Roland fighting Friedrich Barbarossa's troops, Owain Glyn Dwr and Arthur unsure about defending foreigners from England, etc.

@StormyDragon since I grew up Jewish, all I can do is look on in confused wonder.

It is a wild ride how *really* European takes on St. Nikolai somehow wound up as this incredibly American cultural figure. It's like if Paul Bunyan was actually Ogier Dansk mythology or something.

In a brief fragment of dream I saw these drawings - they weren't mine in the dream - with this really brilliant interplay of white and black space. I now can't remember what they looked like.

@y6nH Thanks for the help!

starting to feel that life is essentially being okay with yourself despite the INEVITABILITY of rejections, failures and letdowns

I hadn't realized that Germans had grafted a British/American style Santa Claus onto their previously Very Christian St. Nicholas as "Weinachtsmann." Literally Christmas Man. Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot, and I must strike Christmas into their hearts. The carol "Tomorrow Comes The Christmas Man" does not help with this.

hot take re earlier; those editorials about "Skipping Meals is Actually Good," "Why Rising Rents Benefit Everyone," "I Managed to Own 12 Rental Properties Immediately After College" etc, are essentially the moneyed version of "Bat-Boy Trapped In Walmart Again"

"I test AI for a living and here are the most exciting 5 AI tools"

sweet sacred Corellon Larethian, get fucked

we really need a neologism equivalent to "scab" or "quisling" to describe "writes those articles about Capitalism Making Life Completely Untenable Is Good, Actually"

my next character is going to be an oomancer

and not just for the stylish yellow and white robes

there are tons of useful oomancy spells you can cast! Like "Cast Egg," "Egg 10' Radius," "Fry," "Otto's Over Easy," "Scramble Thoughts," "Drive By Eggings Plaguing LA"...

#drawings from today (okay finishing fanart from Wednesday too), lest you thought I only got depressed and shitposted.

SHAFT IN LOW GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBIT

badder than Bowman
stronger than Armstrong
he's got a plan to stick it to the man!

the MOB wanted the SPACE ELEVATOR
they got SHAFT!
right up to HERE!

she eyes me like a pisces
when I am weak
I've been locked inside your heart shaped box for weeks
broken hymen of your highness, I'm turned black
throw down your umbilical noose so I can
climb right back

HEY WAIT I HAS A NEW COMPLAINT
forever in debt to your priceless advice
HEY WAIT I HAS A NEW COMPLAINT
forever in debt to your priceless advice
your advice
your advice

meat eating orchids forgive no-one just yet
cut yourself on angel hair and baby's breath
I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap

some of those who work forces
are the same that burn crosses
some of those who burn crosses
are the same that hold office
UNGH! Killin' in the name of!

* very Zach de la Rocha voice *

I AIN'T GONNA ROOM WITH MAGGIE'S COUSIN NO MORE
NO I AIN'T GONNA ROOM WITH MAGGIE'S COUSIN NO MORE
WELL THEIR MURRSUIT SHEDS HAIRS
THAT ARE COLORED BRIGHT PINK
AND WHEN THEY JERK OFF
THEY DON'T CLEAN UP THE SINK
THEY DANCE AND THEY PRANCE THEN THEY CRAWL ON ALL FOURS
NO I AIN'T GONNA ROOM WITH MAGGIE'S COUSIN NO MORE
UUNGH SHIT!

*instrumental*

@robinhood who tooted