Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

Oh no! this coffee shop has NIN on the speakers and I need to drop whatever I’m drawing to doodle people in trenchcoats doing backflips firing twin mini-Uzis instead…

Wait they moved on to Death Cab for Cutie. I’m good.

combining "people dissing WotC announcements" and the "Van Helsing" soundtrack gets me back to the idea of running Vampire the Dark Ages but Ravenloft, except then I face the players basically seeking to diablerize what's basically Cain in Barovia.

Werewolf Trap https://youtu.be/zqBH2yj8u_s via @YouTube

at 0:58 I AM THE LAW

since Jolene is a country song, you can assume the titular character has a cousin Abby-lene, from Texas

the ability to fold space, that is, to get burritos without moving from the couch

the Spacing Guild and its Navigators who the Spice has... mutated over 4000 years also use the orange spice gas to lie naked in the middle of the floor listening to Kyuss

"You can't imagine how bad the pizza box is" dear clickbait article, I'm a furry fan. Believe me I can imagine.

periodic reminder not to bellow MONTJOIE ST-DENIS! and cut downwards at footsoldiers as a response to "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi"

good my liege, this is a starbucks

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO FOOD MONEY
PROVIDED
YOU DON'T MIND A LITTLE
INVESTIGATION
HUMILIATION
AND IF YOU CROSS YOUR FINGERS, REHABILITATION!
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
THESE ARE YOUR RIGHTS!

I just love how my having-origin-in-the-middle-east-second-class-citizen-ass gets labeled as "white." I am however relieved that the forms don't require me to identify my gender, ethnicity and disability. It bothers me enough that someone asks, but when it's mandated it really upsets me.

someone was looking for angry music, and I forgot this one but it's a favorite;

Gas Chamber (Remastered) https://youtu.be/9bFcEnFxBVQ via @YouTube

someone reminded me this album existed and

CANTUS LUPUS AGNES TOTUS
WE ARE THE WEREWOLVES OF ARMENIA
WE ARE THE ARMY OF THE WYLD

Was thinking about stuff from this summer, a couple of nights spent in rural enough nowhere to get a great view of the stars, and with some of the best people out there.

was talking about this over on hellbird; I feel like one big benefit of AI *is* randomness. It's a way to generate a lot of possible shapes, lighting and camera angles quickly - and then if you knew what you were doing, you could find what you liked in there, tweak stuff, and it'd get you out of your head. Even the "in the style of" part, it'd get you thinking about how whatever artist solves problems.

(The other big benefit is, for non-artists, you'd have a way of generating images at a low level. NPCs for the game you're running, or the equivalent of a thumbnail you can hand an actual artist and say "can you work off this"?)

My perception though (and maybe that's an accurate one) is that this isn't about any benefits someone who's already an artist gets from the tool. Instead I feel it's been pushed as the latest scam, cheap out on paying artists, crediting artists, or developing skills yourself. A way for people with no real interest in art to flog their ego. The *tool* is the okay part here, it's the *everything else* that's an issue.

this whole thing where everything riffed off everything else; self-hate as a coping mechanism for fear and anxiety (distraction, personalization means problem can be under my control etc) but then, because I was so sure at some level that I'd fuck it up/was innately a fuck up that amplified anxiety as bad as anything I got from the basic fear of being slammed at any time by stuff out of my control.

And remembering that the accident sits right in the weak spot about self-determination leading to failure, over in Erickson's stages of childhood development, so it really did open me up to buying into "what if stuff *I* did wrong is what people don't like/what will lead to losing comfort and safety?"

Having mostly gotten past the self hate, and having gotten part through at least the related "what happens to me does not reflect my worth and whether I'm actually doing things well," gets me back to anxiety and as part of that, RSD. I'm really terrified that I'll say or do the wrong thing and alienate people, caught up in wanting everyone to like me.

no, *you* ate half an edible to deal with anxiety and now you're alternating cat videos and the "Friends on Mushrooms" album

MINUTES LATER
it's okay to cry about cats, right?

Also here’s some pan fried polenta with garlic parsley tomato glop, made to use up the polenta and half a can of tomatoes.

#drawings this evening are pushing on inks, see if I can do more of what I liked earlier. Fire giant attacking a human warrior; anthro fennec with a cup of tea, and wereshark with flensing hook.

the bisexual urge to lean forward, arms folded, thumb and two fingers out on each hand, and to SKREEEEE during the appropriate parts of the Jurassic World soundtrack

Okay talked to another recruiter. Gonna do that paperwork tomorrow, I want to push on inking for a bit.