Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

in my dream there was a xenomorph (like from Aliens) who'd been raised by humans or something and was desperately trying to do the right things. So she stuffed her mouth with spongecake because she liked the taste, also with lemons so that her breath would smell lemony, and she liked Christmas because it was cold and dark like space.

#drawings today were just horses, nothing more or less!

I’m trying to unlearn and survive my bullshit. Kudt, Akutagawa, Chris Cornell and Robin Williams weren’t able to survive *their* bullshit, and they were smarter than me, so the odds aren’t great, but what else can I do?

up with anxiety and the usual siren song calls of "maybe take a day off?"

#drawings today. A trio of orcs hold a bridge, and a "dragon hunter" goes after a Crylophosaurus.

IN THE DARK CYBERPUNK FUTURE

"Replicants are either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem."
"May I ask you a personal question?"
"Sure."
"Do you eat your boogers, or just stick them under your chair?"
"Bladerunners don't pick their noses."
"But in your position that is a risk."

okay, I never believed the claims made against English cooking until I tried this spring vegetable soup from the Gordon Ramsay cookbook and found it improved several dozen times with adding not just salt and pepper (as suggested) but also paprika and dill.

see, most movie directors during the 30s and 40s wore glasses and removed them so they wouldn't get in the way while kissing. That's why movies from the time period always have soft focus during the romantic bits, it reflects the directors' lived experience.

See it’s actually called “crab Louie” thanks to a misunderstanding. Any shellfish will do, but you shred the crab/lobster/shrimp meat with a small explosive charge (easily available in CA around 1900), hence the original name, “cra-BLOOIE!”

I’m now wondering (thanks to an Oglaf strip with salamanders); what D&D monsters are potentially really cool and yet you never get to see?

omg I'm reading Oglaf and the title of this strip, that they're a fucking big enough nerd to DO that

https://www.oglaf.com/conjurationVSM/

oh yeah also it is probably not worksafe

"Pelosi has stark warning for Putin" oh given how firm she was in dealing with Trump, she's gonna make fun of Putin for his hair loss any moment now!

So I was thinking about this today among other things.

One thing I feel is that it's very hard to compare marginalized experiences on a one to one basis. For instance; African Americans have been basically kitbashing an identity as a new ethnic group ever since slavery brutally took away Ife, Hausa, Fulani, Ashanti, whatever African identities almost all at once. By contrast, there's a thread of identity across Europe and even into Africa and East Asia which unites Jews *but* the destruction of Spanish and Portuguese Jewish communities, most recently the Shoah's destruction of Jewish culture throughout Europe and even the Middle East, the hostile conditions of Ethiopia or the steady isolation of China, and the siren song of assimilation all mean that not just one but several Jewish cultures have been all but destroyed.

You can't clearly compare those and say one group's experience was worse than the other.

So if you put a flag in history - and you have to because that's context for what's going on now, *and* to ignore in creates the invisibility and silencing which is a universal problem for all marginalized groups - you're left with the important, well what are problems now. And there any comparison becomes specious because foci tend to emerge as immediate and clear. The suppression of Black voters is very clearly anti-Black and it's big enough to be urgent right fucking now. The wealth of trans panic bills are intended as a distraction but they still impact trans folk with dire effect and that's urgent right now. At some point, with anti-semitism on the rise, it will be time for hate crimes, casual comments and state suppression to be addressed as urgent - but now's probably not the time.

Does this make any sense?

Not only did I wander into the ladies’ room (I’m currently male presenting) but I really had to cut one! I don’t *think* it was particularly beefy but I feel TERRIBLE for accidentally challenging gender assumptions and potentially stinking the place up!

So this Disney series, “Boba Fett’s Little Black Book,” is it any good?

Dude dude dude I got this cookbook for a spicy cucumber pickle recipe but it actually has instructions for salt bake chicken! I’ve wanted to try that ever since I worked at a bakery! And notes about cleaver use and stuff!

So the trailer reveals that in Jurassic World Dominion, exiled House Tagaryen is massing a new army of tyrannosaurs north of The Wall, and only Kylo Ren stands between them and

Ishmael 💖 Queequeeg, I ship them…

… okay technically Ahab does.

bad: anxiety after waking from a dream about thick ice all over everything, cleaning paint off metal, and Mifune Toshiro in a depressing art film

good?: this .50 back issue of WILDC.A.T.S is already so 90s it made me giggle.