Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

THEIR BRANDS WERE STILL FIRE
AND THEIR HOOVES WERE MADE OF STEEL
AS THE RIDERS LOPED ON BY HIM
ONE SAID "YOU POOR SCHLMIEL!"

It’s kinda incredible that The Avengers are basically;

“I engineered a generator to keep shrapnel from piercing my heart and since that worked I figured I’d throw in flying powered armor.” “I’m a literal Norse god.” “I’m a technologically advanced android.” “I’m an extremely pissed off child abuse survivor.” “I’m literally the best archer.”

Then we get into how everyone drifts through the Avengers like “I fight evil with being short, hairy and Canadian but not polite BRAAAAP.”

BIG AND GREEN AND STRONG AND HORNY
THE HULK FROM IPANEMA GOES WALKING
AND WHEN HE WALKS NEAR PUNY HUMANS
HULK SMASH

I checked but nobody has yet made a fanvid of The Northman with "Berserker" by "Love Among Freaks"

#drawing today, an ettercap or some other variety of spider monster is poised to drop on an unsuspecting adventurer deep below the surface.

finding a Ted talk by a Xiaolin monk with added "enlightened" music got me to "Boot to the Head," and King Missile's "Meditation is Boring," and I started sitting correctly before thinking, if I'm doing that, I could listen to the Hannya Shingyo and actually meditate, so I did.

listenin' to "Boot to the Head" in horse stance, having a normal one

together they sing the aria “Ich Wünsche Das Ich Ein Oskar-Meyer-Wurst Wahre”

Subtoot/hot take; money *can* buy you happiness because money is protection in this society, and gets you experiences (Stuff isn’t experiences, but some experiences require Stuff). At some point money doesn’t; travel, good meals, medical care, a good home, maybe your own boat, etc is basically the same whether you’re making a 6 or 9 digit salary. I suspect being poor is similar (there’s only so much better off you really are) and it’s actually a bell curve.

Last boost of my own #drawings, I figure maybe people would like to see real rough stuff and sometimes I like how it looks.

so let's see. I need to better internalize an emotional belief that I can succeed and be happy, and in fact have been successful and happy in the past, as part of breaking out of a bad feedback loop of observer bias to despair and anxiety.

And, I need to better internalize this despite a batch of fairly constant, sometimes increasing, external stressors which play *right into* the observer bias.

ooorgh

I am a bundle of anxieties, mostly related to money (I paid car insurance, and it was a hefty chunk after I dropped a chunk this month getting a tooth pulled *after insurance*), with a little bit of; I will never get to relax about politics, I will never get to relax about covid, and doing a batch of things I'd like seems impossible. Etc.

I know that my emotional state is being hammered by a batch of stuff with little recovery time, and that's part of why the despair; I know this is how I got to the worldview I had stumbling out of high school (and out of undergraduate, etc - college is stressy). Beyond that not entirely sure how to de-fuse all of the despair plus anxiety.

she opened STRANGE DOORS that we'd never close again!
she began to wail jealousy's scream
waiting at the lights, you know what I mean?
scary monsters and super creeps
keep me running, running scared.

[this song is not in fact about opening a portal and awakening the Ogdru Jahad]

apparently in a French enough mood to think these "pommes de terre avec haricots verts" from Trader Joe's needs a little extra tarragon

Really rough #drawings today, all Norse stuff and cavalry. Dwarf shield wall vs elves; dwarf heavy and light infantry; goblin champion victorious over a halfling champion. #wip

Nick Fury, Agent of AGENT (American General Exploration and Nationwide Transportation)

Re last boost; I hate how Twitter has this solid product (people want to share cat photos/art/little dumb comments/etc with friends, and as much as it makes me pucker, that’s a way to advertise) and yet constantly tries to sell it for other stuff. It’s again, like if Coca Cola pushed how you can use Coke to degrease engine parts or flavor cakes or literally anything other than as pop you can drink.

I really hate the simple dualism that socialism or communism will fix everything, as opposition to how what’s going on now is definitely not working, I don’t trust ANY government. I think accountability and transparency are way more important than any particular economic/government system.

And what we have now, a government owned by churches and corporations, is not a balance to those churches and corporations, and cannot be trusted to self regulate.

Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898) – alternativ versjon https://youtu.be/Y1FvpEeUBQo via @YouTube

oh wow. Okay so the first chunk of the clip is definitely comedians who've acted together for a while. But the second more seen part too. They're dressed middle class and the whole thing is people playing to Black theatergoers. And that's a batch of legitimization - the folks in Black Wall Street, or how Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway came from these really middle class backgrounds. This is what all the racism in the 20s was pushback against. If that "read" makes any sense.