#drawing today, works in progress and or drawings that stalled out. Githyanki command group aboard an astral brig (look, I'm stoked about Spelljammer coming back) and two stalwart adventurers explore a semi-submerged crypt.
dream last night
elaborate dream about being at a convention on multiple floors of a big hotel although dream logic wise there weren't always distinct rooms; about trying to get on an elevator full of people all taller than me, taking a wrong turn and being in the room selling con swag; meeting a fursuiter with a friend's name, but they weren't my friend; trying specifically to find @baxil; and when I finally got to where I could suit up, the detail of putting my belt through loops of my tail, and having full sleeve arms rather than gloves. The most wildly off the rails part was suddenly being in a big garden and some of the suiters were life size Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus suits made for a museum to give visitors a better idea of how big these things were.
this by comparison to the average Jewish folk song which goes something like "In Bialystok there was nothing but poverty/and cold/my lover was from Bialystok until he was conscripted into the Army/and never returned/Oh my Bialystok/I miss my home so much"
Swedish medieval songs are all like "Herr Anders went riding on his gray horse/and there he met with a troll wife so grim who promised him three favors/a fine coat, golden treasure, and all the coffee he could drink/but he refused saying the Holy Virgin safeguarded his soul/so she ate him/under the lindens so green"
quasi political rambling
Maybe they also think a little pushing now will require a lot more effort to push back later, and then they can depend on their mega churches and Fox News screaming about that, or maybe they just figure they’ll ride this wave and by the time there’s enough push back, they’ll have moved on to autobiographies and speaking gigs. It’s incidental , artifactual, but they will skew more extreme. And unfortunately the rest of us get to be on the ground for it.
quasi political rambling
Currently thinking that Trump was a reaction to Obama and the current crop of vile assholes are reaction to Trump. Say what you will about Barry, he’s a fantastic speaker and I feel like right wingers wanted their own rock star (biased by years of shock jock tactics; Reagan or Dubya would’ve been too subtle). So now Abbott, DeSantis et al are obliged to try to grab attention in an atmosphere shaped social media and Trump getting away with everything.
Unfair that I can listen to the soundtrack at the office but can’t also go up on toes, tuck my arms towards my chest with thumb and two fingers out, and screech. Yes, I know that’s not what the movie version of Deinonychus looked like. Yes, I know dromaeosaurs were not necessarily cracked out corvids.
mh ish, abuse mention
I was thinking that part of why I tend to think things are worse than they are, comes from stuff being dismissed as a kid as well as being surrounded by catastrophizing adults.
Like... if something was upsetting, I obviously wasn't supposed to get upset over that and thus be inconvenient to adults and peers. But suppose what I was upset about was some big huge enduring thing? Then I'd be justified in feeling bad. That sort of fucky subconscious thing if that makes sense.
Lots of random gunk, but some drawings and cooking talk too. Obsesses about DnD and related topics. Left-leaning/profoundly frustrated politics. Black lives matter; trans rights are human rights.
Occasionally NSFW art and discussion, please do follow if you're 18+.