Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

#drawings today; three halfling characters (ranger and spellcasters), and a barbarian encounters giant spiders in the Underdark. Appropriately enough I was listening to Cirith Ungol, which is probably why she’s sort of an Elmore character.

holy shit this 2021 Green Lung album is pure awesome

but you know who I haven't listened to while drawing D&D garbage?

is Cirith Ungol, that's who!

oh YEAHHHHHH the MECO "Star Wars"

Serious throwback to the days when you could have a cigarette to go with your Arby's sandwich. You know, just buy a pack from the nearest vending machine.

I went from from how literally decades after both the Matrix and the Peter Jackson LotR movies came out, making fun of Agent Smith/Elrond is still funny; to how frankly, Mortal Engines was an awesome movie.

I don't think something as large as ethnicities (so a huge number of people, adapting culture across centuries and continents) can be *defined* as good or bad.

I'm obviously biased (I think the whole gadzei for gadzei, Roma for Roma attitude is a dead end, and feel that acceptance is more important here - that what I am is different from the people who surround me, and it's just as valid, no more or less) but I don't think the world works that way.

Every group of people has some folks who want to think they're somehow better - if they're not innately physically better, they're culturally better informed or they're more virtuous for having suffered more. But it's bullshit; it's this mix of trying to justify yourself with someone's money making scheme, and that's by definition not really going to be related to genetic roulette or how most cultures are a mix of the sublime and complete garbage.

*blasts fiddle music probably too late on Friday evening*

AYUH, A QUEER SORTA TAOWN AT TH' MOUTH OF TH' MANUXET RIVER

AH SEEN THEM, AN' AH SEEN WHAT THEY BROUGHT WITH THEM

HEH HEH EVER HEER TELL UV A SHOGGOTH?

Sadly nothing about this involves dangling from the ceiling in a cat suit to avoid laser eye beams

or having a former racecar driver lose the police in a hectic chase after the thieves' stolen electricians' van, culminating in jumping a bridge just as it raises to let boats through

I mean probably none of these people even vaguely looked like Michael Caine in a turtleneck

Hundreds of ancient gold coins stolen from German museum in under 10 minutes, officials say https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/hundreds-of-ancient-gold-coins-stolen-from-german-museum-in-under-10-minutes-officials-say

successfully hoofed it all the way back, which was maybe not a great idea. My shoulders are sore, but I managed to start laundry, transfer money as a hedge against the car being expensive, left vm for car shop and for my folks, put groceries away.

Also I punched the roof of the car hard enough to skin knuckles, because I was frustrated about how no tow places seemed to be open; so I disinfected my hands and cleaned blood off my phone.

Going to shower and cook fish - I think all groceries survived the trip okay thanks to the cold weather.

Would anyone have recommendations for car mechanics in north Seattle?

And while that’s pretty minor compared to “having ultra reactionary voices dominate a space which used to have an okay number of leftist voices” or “when reactionaries get exclusive ‘freedom of speech’ people die,” it still sucks big red baboon ass.

This is fucking depressing. As I age my dreams of pencilling for Marvel, illustrating Osprey books, or even being comfortable living off art are kinda limited, which okay sure, but what was always most important here was making people happier with artwork, not jobs or money. So it sucks to lose one means to achieve that most important goal, showing people stuff, because someone wealthier than my relatives and ancestors all combined decided to remake a huge website into a far right dumpster fire.

I wonder how many of my posts to social media throughout the years wind up being "I don't want to go to/be at work today"?

Coincidentally, I don't want to go to work today.

Okay so this is the first time I've seen bits of "Fury," I missed it in the theaters, it seems pretty good. I think it's for the best I not watch it all the way through.

"Okay Biggs, Wedge, we're going in, we're going in full throttle."
"Luke at that speed will we be able to pull out in time?"
"It'll be just like Beggar's Canyon back home."
*stomps accelerator*

"Lord Vader, we count 30 ships but they're so small they're avoiding our turbolasers."
"They'll have to be destroyed ship to ship. Get the crews to their stations."

I really, *really*, hate that dude.

Only one #drawing really finished today. Adventurers (human ranger, tabaxi rogue, elf wizard) ford a stream.

Steve McQueen - The Great Escape (motorcycle scene) https://youtu.be/O-qHlz4hfak via @YouTube

I'd never noticed this before. At 1:56 the border guard requests his Ausweiss. But wouldn't more logically the request be for his Soldbuch/Wehrpass?