Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

Some stuff just pressed buttons enough that I was furiously angry, then had a little suicidal thoughts, and my chest still hurts. Remembering I’ve been in bad situations plenty of times before only makes me think, why can’t it be enough ever that I can be done with bad situations. I think this is a specious thought pattern that has been getting to me all my life.

Years ago I was inspired to make a werehyena fursona by a Dragon article about African monsters, which gave werehyenas as "makishi." There's actually no such folklore; there are makishi who are masked dancers in Zambia, afaik unrelated to kishi, hyena monsters in Angola, next door. Turns out I'd happened on the only real anti-semitic stereotype in Africa - not only were Beta Yisroel distrusted outsiders but the guys tended to hire out for work as smiths, deepening their association with witchcraft and hyenas!

NOW ALL OF THESE RAPPERS SOUND EXACTLY THE SAME
IT'S LIKE ONE BIG INBRED FUCK FEST!
NO I DON'T WANT TO STOP, COLLABORATE OR LISTEN!

THERE'S COTTON CANDY IN THEIR HANDS
SAYS A POLKA DOTTED MAN WITH A STICK OF JACARANDA
THEY'RE ALL DIABOLICAL BOZOS!
MAGIC BOZO SPIN!
* stomps the accelerator *

compare and contrast

https://youtu.be/oMfjgQ8ptrE

https://youtu.be/BU1VOiFmb0g

#SummerFun #WithGORT #Zzzzzap

WHO is John Galt?
WHO put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?
WHO lives in a pineapple under the sea?

Oh hey they’re playing my favorite Cure song! SHIFT TO HISPO! SHIFT TO HISPO!

so hey!

I am now @ brushwolf.bsky.social

over on this new site with management I don't really trust!

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