Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

#drawing today, trying to get a nicer balance of cartoony stuff, idk.

oh shit guys I'm crying about cats again

I think almost the most hilarious thing about Lovecraft is how he became famous by NOT becoming famous. He was only kinda sorta a name as a pulp author, so when people were casting around for stuff to reprint for GIs a few years after his death, HPL's stuff was cheap, and after the war there was lots of it around. Suddenly a much broader audience was reading Lovecraft's work and going "hey actually this is pretty good."

HP Lovecraft’s TALES of TERROR! 18 spoooooopy horrors from the master of cosmic neuroticism, including

“Oh Shit Weird Smells Are They Actually Cooking an Octopus?”
“Oh Shit I’m Not Actually White”
“It Was Cold and Everything Was Built After 1850”

Storing everything from cookware to family snapshots in blue jeans at home so that when someone asks “what’s in your pants” I have a good variety in potential answers.

“Is the seafood you just bought RUSSIAN?” Check for signs like baritone choral singing. I’d say watch for fish driving really badly but that’s more of an international problem.

"Why Does the Sun Shine," TMBG => "For Science," TMBG => "Gort/The Visor," Bernard Herriman => "Mars Attacks Theme," Danny Elfman => "Orion's Belt/Cat Stinger," Danny Elfman => "Doc Ock's Machine," Danny Elfman => "Spider," TMBG

Consequences of antisemitism are felt by Jews, not by antisemites. And if I were okay drinking tonight, I would drink until I forgot that.

there are basically two types of people who listen to Siegfried's Death and Funeral March, Nazis or fans of "Excalibur."

gah! I didn't explain the little derro wizard dude. My man's keeping some sort of deific/fiendish fetus in a covered cage, and uncovers it to flash opponents with blazingly intense light.

#drawings today, D&D/fantasy adversaries

My politics have shifted from despair to hatred again, but that never lasts long.

When I give money to someone’s emergency, something else is also vital and at some point I have to roll with “saying no lets me contribute to further emergencies in the future.” Now I am trying to think the mindset of wanting to help moves us closer to a (unattainable) Tikkun Olam, even when I see myself as merely trying to keep things from getting worse. And of course; if I throw $25 at something it’s big, throwing $100 is beyond possible, but that’s nothing for the folks causing the problems.

Realizing that like everyone else I’ll want to follow more proficient artists, which solves towards more technical skill and professional status, which could become reasons to beat myself up.

Oh and there’s more and more I keep forgetting like how I lost a friend in June, how my mother is probably on her way out, etc. 2023 hasn’t been one of my easiest years, at least not yet.

I don’t especially see myself as fey, despite having played a selchi online and unrelatedly used “Vodyanoi” for a different character, but the pronouns fae/faer really appeal to me at some level and I kinda want to try them sometime.

okay, apparently I am pretty stressed at a consistent low level - which tallies with unemployment, family stuff, new temp job, recently raised rent, record heat as an indicator of climate change, my dreams of professional art vanishing more than usual, and the omnipresent threat of the right/far right.