Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

political in the small p sense of "I would like to be permitted to survive, for a definition of survival which includes being able to be open about who and what I am"

and there, in the stygian shadow of Thoth-Amon's tower, they did the Hyrcanian Hustle, the Vanir Two Step, and other popular dance moves of the Hyperborean Age.

#drawings today- a Neanderthal hunter, his spirit hawk companion, and a crossbow wielding Uldra face a yeti high in the mountains, and more small D&D characters - the second monk and second fighter.

I'm REALLY STOKED about Dial of Destiny, despite how I was REALLY STOKED about Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and then incredibly pissed off at the thing after I saw it. I haven't been this stoked about a sequel since JW Dominion, which was kinda incoherent and disappointing.

I was about to describe the Aeldari as "magical space racists" but then I remembered pretty much everyone in 40K qualifies as "magical space racists."

and from trying to remember the quote about the neolithic barrow near Hazelton, I get to how there's actually a book about the long barrow. Please tell me I don't need to see if I can buy the thing.

having watched the Desert Chase sequence enough to know exactly the points in the soundtrack when someone says SCHEISSE

I'm now remembering watching Raiders with my grandparents and there were enough old German speakers in that chunk of FL at the time that they bleeped the word

the Ark continually emits a low menacing hum ("zamzom mayim namoch"), says so in Leviticus

I can't believe I attempted to read Hebrew just to make that joke

"CAIRO! CITY OF THE LIVING, A PARADISE ON EARTH!"

"I knew the Germans would hire you, Sallah, you're the beardiest loudest digger in all Cairo."
"MY SERVICES ARE ENTIRELY INCONSEQUENTIAL! THEY HIRE ONLY STRONG BACKS AND THEY PAY ONLY PENNIES FOR THEM! IT'S AS IF THE PHARAOHS HAD RETURNED!"

I was GOING to say "Indiana Jones and the Ship of Sand" where he races to excavate what's obviously Mound I at Sutton Hoo despite heavy rain and before war stops all excavation and instead big anti glider trenches go through the site, but it turns out Netflix already dramatized it!

DUNE

ARRAKIS

DESERT PLANET

Shadowrun allows players to experience fantasies like being a troll with a Gatling gun, or being able to afford an apartment on your own in Seattle.

Indiana Jones and the Awesome LaTene Sword We Found in this Bog. Featuring exactly no chases or Nazi punching. It’s just Harrison Ford at dramatically shot and lit angles talking about this cool Iron Age stuff from a bog.

So if The Curse of Strahd is not actually foul language, what is it? It can’t possibly be “may green onions sprout from your pupik.”

Again; part of why I hate rich people is that I can’t relate to their existence.

Rich people spending money b/c they want to see something in the ocean is something I relate to more than golf or private yachts or whatever. I “get” dying that way and it moves my POV to sympathy. These people died in a terrible way doing something THEY WERE CURIOUS ABOUT, and I really don’t like belittling their deaths because they were wealthy.

Last boost mentions Accadian root word so I wanted to shout out to @kurgarru as the local Assyriologist.

I think I don't dig nightmares with extra acid reflux wakefulness.

#drawings today a fire giant attacks two little intruders in his forge (I know incorrect lyrics to “Fatty Boom Boom”), and more small D&D characters, rangers (tabaxi and a goliath! With their death dog companion).

Thursday’s “I really have nothing to offer the world, it’s too late for me to do anything significant and I’m imminently hate-able” feelings, by comparison to Wednesday’s and Tuesday’s similar feelings (it’s a short week).