Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

okay, somehow I went from the mideastern leitmotifs in The Thirteenth Warrior to listening to Niyaz.

This is going to end with me getting stuff to make sabih or something

oh YEAAAH it's time for the Thirteenth Warrior soundtrack again!

My name is Ahmed ibn-Fadlan, ibn-Hamid, ibn-Rashid, ibn-Alabas. And things were not always thus.

Okay, so I may have mentioned this before.

Back when I was a fairly little coyote, there was this show, The Electric Company - it was supposed to be Sesame Street for slightly older kids, fun but educational TV. I have no clue how something so focused on Black people and NYC got air time in rural Georgia public broadcasting but it was a brilliant show.

A LOT of the educational parts were cartoons which taught you about bits of written English - for instance Tom Lehrer contributed songs which got cartoons, about the -ly suffix or silent e. Some cartoons repeated a theme inspired by 2001, which was still pretty recent at that point. There'd be a 2001 style monolith and to the tune of Also Sprach Zarathustra, it'd crumble to reveal a syllable, like OO or AWK, which they'd repeat several times so you'd know how to pronounce it in the future.

So you can imagine how surprised I was when I finally was old enough to watch 2001... and there were monoliths... which didn't crumble at all!

*clicks on image* Okay, it's time for the furry cockworship theme tune again.

Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 - Strauss https://youtu.be/dfe8tCcHnKY via @YouTube

One #drawing today, vampires! Nosferatu, traditional bloodsucker on undead steed, and a Lovecraftian style invisible vampire who becomes visible when flushed with blood, inspired by a video about Mordheim.

Given the sheer volume of very real reasons to be pissed off at other people, ethnicity, orientation and gender are such COMPLETE non entities you know? These are personal things that make DnD edition wars seem important and yet, they're always literally life or death issues.

And it's tempting to reference the beginning of "How Long Not Long?" here. Convince people who are quite safe that they are under attack, and attack marginalized folks so they have to dump their energy into survival and nobody goes after the REAL issue - namely that if we just taxed the fuck out of rich people, our country could look more prosperous than Sweden.

pushed on job hunt stuff, finally ran into one which wanted email addresses for all prior supervisors (not available), calling it a day on job hunt.

a culture of fear cut through me
I felt my heart contract
to my mind I brought the image of light
and I expanded outward
my fear was just a shadow
and a voice spoke in my head
and She said; dark is not the opposite of light,
it's the absence of light.

I ride on the bus into the city every day
sit on the seat and I dream myself away
I dream I'm on an island with that foxy lady too
when I awaken, I must be mistaken,
I'm on 3rd Avenue!
Won't you take me away, and take away me?
Won't you take me away, and take away me?

it's weird how "Shake Your Rump" is not actually on their "Check Your Head" album

DO YOU PEEK AT MAGAZINES
FILLED WITH DOGGIES AND LEATHER QUEENS?
NASTY HABITS! NASTY HABITS!
*waggles eyebrows menacingly*

Today’s being a shit self worth day; having an assignment end after running into a batch of issues, failing a battery of (I don’t feel, entirely fair) tests right before a birthday (and these are almost never good) will do that.

Alpha boy school - Boys don't cry (ska cover) https://youtu.be/u0lrDDx5Z1s via @YouTube

pickitup pickitup pickitup

omg someone managed to make Just Like Heaven even HAPPIER.

The Cure "Just Like Heaven" - Nightmare Ska Remix https://youtu.be/7rCtalWOWvk via @YouTube

#drawngs today, worked up some analog inks - ranger with cacomistle companion stalks a troll, and a burly barbarian fights a jackalwere somewhere in the wilderness mapped out by a comfortable halfling. And pencilled a paladin fighting demons!

What are chances that the last assignment felt fairly toxic to me and the poor moods I’ve been in recently reflect no longer having to hold it together?

Again; the reason I made it through college debt free was afaik a legal settlement (and the setup being a bit less predatory). So I view college costing equivalent to nearly dying, being badly traumatized, and relearning to use my hand. I feel like nobody should have to live with that translated to debt when they’re just starting out you know? I hate that we’re governed by this dead weight who think this is a great situation to continue.

Oh no, it’s the Gay National Anthem! I cannot resist!
*grinds hips to Sweet Dreams are Made of These*
* in the used bookstore *

man I really wish I had a cute fursona that everyone wanted to draw repeatedly, including myself

related; I wish I drew my fursona in all sorts of comforting happy situations

* draws elf rangers fighting huge chasme fly demons etc *