Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

For whatever reason the world seems huge and intimidating this evening, like I were still a kid wishing I could go trick or treating or to parties or something, with getting Dragon magazine as the highlight of my month (October tended to have new or more info on undead).

#drawings today and some of yesterday’s; fighter and cleric, and a minotaur charges halfling infantry levies.

frantically checking my high 6 at the appropriate music cues in "The Battle of Yavin"

I’m home sick today so thought it’d be a good time to cook acorn squash which I got a while back, but previously it was too hot to run the oven.

The Smashing Pumpkins - Ava Adore (Official Music Video) https://youtu.be/9uWwvQKGjLI via @YouTube

In which Billy Corgan tells you about this awesome Chronicle he was in. He had like *five* dots in Obfuscate.

IIIIIIiii can't stand it!
I know y'planned it!
I'ma set straight this Watergate!
I can't stand rockin' while I'm in here
'Cause y'crystal ball ain't so crystal clear!
So while y'sit and wonder why
I got this fuckin' thorn in my side
Oh my G-d, it's a mirage
I'm tellin' you it's sabotage!

okay apparently after all the "Doctors HATE Her" and "Are We Spending Too Much Time Following Outrageous Headlines" the clickbait I literally can't resist is posting a photo of Tollund Man.

okay please note that "Alech Taadi" is pretty much a perfect match for the speeder chase sequence in Ep II Attack of the Clones.

good: the Redline/Whiteline version of "Jesus Built My Hotrod" is long enough to basically work with the chase sequence from The Matrix Reloaded

bad: frequently going YEEE HAWWW during the chase sequence from The Matrix Reloaded

huh. It turns out my favorite Foo Fighters track "Aurora," *is* actually about Aurora, and when Dave used to live near the street.

everything keeps happening, and it's happening to me
I'm losing sight of it's meaning
you blew away the meaning
had you in my hand, now where did you go, Aurora?
see you up ahead, but I don't know
if I can go as far as you go.
#SongsForChainSmoking #AmericanSpirits

ever notice that the chord progression in Against Me's "Fuck My Life 666" would go right into "Dead Man's Party"?

Tried going out for a little bit while masked, and bought bog roll and more vitamin D. Risked the used bookstore, and came away with an old Dragon magazine instead of a batch of books on WWII. Went to a practically unoccupied park, photographed some mushrooms.

Honestly I really don’t like how the bare minimum for survival is all stuff you pay for. You need food, housing, clothes, basic cleanliness, and emergency medical attention; you probably need a phone, a college degree, more long term medical needs, feminine hygiene products, some sort of voice in your government, and a way to get further than on foot. Imho there should be some sort of basic (so not necessarily good or comfortable) answer to all of these, or you’re just in a cruel plutocracy.

Again; i didn’t take out student loans, afaik i got through thanks to it being a little less predatory at the time, and a legal settlement from an accident. If this Is true, I set amount of money for college equal to nearly dying, significant trauma and relearning how to use a hand. This is why I feel we need college debt relief.

It's Italian Wedding Soup! So called because you're supposed to eat it while sitting in a large chair with dramatic afternoon light streaming through the blinds across your face.

I've run into this;

I know that even in my most miserable times I've had sparks of joy, memories I hold onto for years later; no matter how bad it gets, I can look forward to something being good. Whether I can look back at a chunk of my life as good or bad is very much about intensity and frequency.

I find that I'm conflating how happiness is around every corner in a difficult life, with how I'm frustrated by not getting big goals (confused both by how some of them are the societal standards, and how some might just be unlikely out the gate). Part of how happiness and success is nuanced.

The last time I watched this it really bothered me that basically all of the adults in Jen's life are lying to him or using him in some form or another. Hello, Jon's issues! Anyway it didn't bother me that much this time around.

This movie is so British they switch from Jen wandering around rural Yorkshire to this big involved Gormenghast plot. I'm also noticing that the Chamberlain is set up to be Jen's foil; they're both reluctant to leave, SkekZil can't wait for the Emperor to die and being stripped of his finery is the worst thing ever, compared to Jen runnin' around naked and really not wanting his old sifu to die.