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and if that's true, by definition most times I thought I sucked big red baboon ass I was actually doing okay, but just uncovered another procedural thing.

had this thought/realization about art progress;

what if, in order to spot some problems, you have to get to a satisfactory stage with your last set of problems? Since you're trying to tackle literally an entire world, you still have some of the same issues say 1, 5, 20 years in, but you hadn't and couldn't spot them before?

That'd explain the cyclical appearance of This Sucks => Okay Now This Looks Okay => This Rocks (several tech aspects come together) => This Sucks (next issues spotted)

Tonight’s #drawing, trying to do one of those powerful NPCs the Realms are full of, crossed with the villains with tamed bears in a Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser story. Idk, I’m happy about some of this, unhappy about other parts.

so my idea for an anime has a dhampir vampire-hunter roaming the countryside; he's the son of Count Dracula himself, so technically a boyar, but obviously he doesn't want everyone knowing this and he posses as a humble cook, hence the title CHEF BOYAR D

#subpost Vidal Gaboon, a fancy line of scale-care and styling products

THE ALGORITHM: hey, you're interested in WWII aviation. Why not watch this 15 minute video about how B-17 wings actually saved crews where Liberators and other thin-winged aircraft didn't?

ME: time to listen to the Waist Gunner Fatality song/Don Felder's "Take a Ride" for the 6th time this week!

Bowl of mushroom soup.

#drawing last night

bench press? I can FRENCH PRESS about 3 lbs! *gently circulates water through fine coffee and mesh*

so

Half Price Books had Chaosium Runequest books, but I held off since these are pricey for being sparsely illustrated and a setting/system nearly nobody remembers.

One highlight tho was the troll book? Big forceful b/w pictures by Dan Brereton, better known for doing gorgeous full color comics.

the part of LotR when Gandalf goes to the leader of the Istari for council but finds that, now clad all in denim rainment, his old friend has adopted a new identity as “Jaruman the Blue, far more durable than white robes.”

@Tuftears oh wow, that's awesome! Thanks!

@Tuftears slightly off topic, clicking on Wikipedia's listing really drives home how relatively recently Journey of the West was written by comparison to when Xuanzang roadtripped to India and back. Also, I hadn't realized that rather than being over a big spread of time like the events they describe, most of the "great Chinese novels" are solidly Ming dynasty, which really jams home how prosperous they were for a while.

Let’s try to offset the rage by posting #drawing from earlier today.

the Seattle frieze? Oh, that's a portrayal of the true spirit of this city, what living here is actually like. It's in Post Alley, down the ramp from the iconic Public Market Center sign.

HOT TAKE: as reactions to the casual evil of the 80s with unusual rich instrumentals and particularly memorable lead singer/songwriters, Devo, Oingo Boingo and REM are effectively the same group.

I realized uncomfortably that Maya Angelou quote (I thought for the longest time it was Toni Morrison) about how people will forget what you said and what you did, but will remember how they made you feel?

Is LITERALLY how Republicans work.

Common cognitive distorts include; things used to be great and now it's nearly impossible to do anything, and there's no money for it; some outsiders with money run everything, other outsiders you're supposed to be tolerant of when you'd rather not be; researchers and academics of any sort are off spending money on unimportant bullshit; something you can't understand or accept is by its definition actually something incomprehensible and unacceptable.

You're about to notice *I* fall for similar...

Tell someone they're right to feel that way and you're doing big important sweeping shit to combat it, and they feel powerful, justified, and good about themselves.

They won't remember YOU caused the financial inequities, YOU are the outsiders with money running everything, YOU are the people spending money on unimportant bullshit, YOU are the people pushing an agenda which isn't rational, acceptable or sustainable -- and you're doing so in violation of checks, balances and laws put there to try and protect the populace from whatever whims their government chooses. Those are facts, and not feelings of being powerful, justified, and good about themselves.

https://youtu.be/_5zNH6R1zsE

oh MIGHTY WARRIOR of great FIGHTING STOCK
might I inquire to ask
nyeeh, what's up, Doc?