Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

so I already had the blinds open to watch the rain and lightning, and I'd just turned the lights off when I realized this was PERFECT to sit in my chair and play

https://youtu.be/G6kZKJ6IWco?si=uwPlem1nWY8wDSKg

oh yeaaaaaaaah

Whoa, this rainstorm skipped straight from "Bladerunner" to "Das Boot."

Song lyrics similar to “I need you like the desert needs rain”…

But a desert only needs occasional rain! Everything living there has adapted to the aridity! Rains are destructive, causing flooding that takes out the topsoil!

The latest bathroom reading is October '84's Dragon Magazine, in which the PCs can go visit Gladsheim, home of the Norse gods (and a few others apparently PCs don't want to visit like uh... Bast?), so here's a list of spells which won't work and penalized class abilities (also, you probably can't get anywhere by climbing Yggdrassil).

Old AD&D was full of stuff this offputting like class requirements and I'm having a "how did this get off the ground without being heavily house ruled?" moment.

aww man there actually WAS a Vincent Price episode of The Muppet Show and I never saw it? I would have been so completely in love with that as a kid.

doughnuts would work too because as toroids they are a cross section of cylinder, but you'd really need to eat several of them for it to truly count as "cylindrical food"

I could really go for a huge gyro or a big falafel sandwich preferably with babaganouj, or a burrito. some form of cylindrical food.

apparently tonight's being a broken/weird sleep night but it's actually on a weekend and when I haven't committed to doing anything, for a changev

a large button labeled BOOP which does exactly nothing but make an appropriate sound when clicked

#drawing today

The ongoing “is Jon trans?” saga.

Today I was thinking about how my desire to be a girl is confused by how I really hate being the official bad guy for being male. Then I thought; even with how desperate I am, “I wish I were a girl [even if just to dodge blame]” is not something cis men think.

This doesn’t clarify whether I’m “I want HRT and FFS” trans or whether if I can sometimes wear skirts, use she/her pronouns and not have the goddamn body hair, I’ll be okay.

@GoodNewsGreyShoes @Tuftears quote from Led Zeppelin’s “Dancing Days” which was on while I was finishing up.

also apparently I'm having a gender/body dysphoria sort of morning

melatonin's really doing the brick to the head thing, gonna sleep some

what if you extrapolated "horse opera" and "space opera" into other genres

so like the Underworld films would be fang opera, or film noir would be dame opera, or filmed adaptations of the Ring cycle would be opera opera

a discussion of whether "Finlandia" or "Maamme" makes a better national hymn

look, Sibelius was brilliant and inspiring and all that, but can you really sing along while completely hammered and waving your own underpants as a flag?

BONUS and NOW a completely accurate rendition of "Maamme," the Finnish National Hymn.

maamme
ei sinun maasi!
maamme
ei sinun maasi!
maamme
ei sinun maasi!
vittuun!
missä se vodka on?

underneath the chilly gray November sky
we can make believe that Kennedy is still alive
we're shooting for the moon and smiling Jackie's driving by
they say, good try.
Tomorrow Wendy, you're going to die.

https://youtu.be/4GrRWdmQMcc?si=Xwq3Ye8JHRCU58Nr

meine Herren heute sehen Sie mich Glaesser abwaschen
und ich mache die Bett fuer jeden
und Sie geben mich ein Pfennig und bedanken mich schnell
und Sie wuesst ich bin ein Lump in dieses lumpiges Hotel
und Sie wissen nicht mit wem Sie ereden

out of all the ways you could mess up hot and sour soup the first time you made it, "too much liquid and not enough cornstarch" is pretty minor and I will take it, especially since I'm now most of the way through a BIG pot.

#drawings from earlier this week!