Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

underneath the chilly gray November sky
we can make believe that Kennedy is still alive
we're shooting for the moon and smiling Jackie's driving by and
they say, good try.
Tomorrow Wendy is going to die.

I wanna shine some pennies!
I wanna mend some leather!
I wanna crazy-glue my head to the bottom of a biiiiiiiiig
steel girder!
Please no CODs, don't miss out on this deal!

why do sharks suddenly appear
every time you are near?

... also, because the version in Mirrormask is JUST THAT GOOD, any time I sing the song, it's very slightly off key with stilted movements

Tangent from reading about British aircraft.

Ultimately, the Allies won because (despite instances of American/British/Soviet bravery, strategic brilliance, and incredibly good designs) the biggest contributions of all three nations were essentially unexciting. The USA contributed overwhelming logistics from factories and oilfields which weren't bombed; the USSR was simply so *large* that with any logistical support whatsoever it could grind down a Wehrmacht successful in going after smaller countries; simply by being *there*, Britain pulled German and Italian energy that would otherwise be directed eastwards, and provided a valuable staging ground later in the war.

This is not something that gets your country into the history books for brave, tough military men commanded by legit geniuses and supplied with fantastic equipment. Especially since afterwards the USA and USSR are trying to indoctrinate kids while they build empires abroad, and Britain's dealing with the national embarrassment of no longer being an empire. (The first step, before you get to embarrassment of empire being not actually a good idea.)

This transfers undue attention to the Pacific theater for Brits (Slim and Wingate were legitimately brilliant) and Americans (tough Marines, Nimitz's incredible abilities, awesome designs like the Superfortress and F4U, without having to credit Brits, Aussies, Chinese or Sovs). Throw in subtle racism too if you're American (remember, but as soon as Asians got involved, the same rightwingers who were trying to keep us *out* of a war were suddenly on board).

"what your favorite composer says about your personality"

my favorite composer is Schostakovich, a man who HATED the regime he was obligated to work for with an incredible competency, who obviously would rather have been left alone to make his own stuff, sympathized with Jews and Hungarians as victims of the regime, and who was a neurotic enough wreck to smoke himself to death. I dunno, you tell me what that says?

and I mean I see everything I did wrong now, but I dunno, beating myself up is not going to fix artwork.

Okay, art mistake corrected.

I'm not interested in your antisemitism and in fact, if I could I would teach you to cease spreading it.

I would teach you this PERMANENTLY, rich man.

#drawings today, I’m not sure why you get furry and D&D pinup art, but you do.

"inside you are two game masters," said the grognard. "One keeps PCs mostly human; monsters remain quasi mythical, as the adventurers move further from the known medieval world into the cthonic unknown. The other runs the fantasy world as a cosmopolitan place where bullywugs, orc, tabaxi and aarakocra PCs rub elbows with more conventional elves and dwarves."

"Which one of them runs the game?" asked the new player.

"The one you brought pizza," was the reply.

it should probably not be surprising that given asparagus is literally a vascularized stalk popping up from the ground like Diglet and has a sorta mild flavor on its own, pickled asparagus is basically a little crunchier than just drinking the brine directly.

inspired by the unexpected commercial success of 1972's Zatoichi tai Gyoza, Toho planned a sequel, Zatoichi tai Yakimeshi, but this never materialized

omg look at these little guys

Australian Shepherd Puppy Attack! https://youtube.com/shorts/NZJu7JMI4jU?feature=share via @YouTube

#drawing so far today is analog inking. Apparently today was “draw ugly toenails” day.

In the morning; laughing happy fish heads!
In the evening; floating in the soup!

*to the tune of Mendelsohn’s War March of the Priests*

It’s DOCTOR PHIBES!
He is that DUDE who plays the OOOOORGAN!

oh man it turns out that if you search "Cranberries Aaaaaahhh Aaaaaahh" you will in fact turn up "Dreams"

#drawings tonight

A few years ago I'm watching Wizards with @obscurestar and it includes an exclusive interview with Ralph which is more entertaining than the movie. He's got this shirt open with this generous tuft of chest hair poking out, and the interview's classic Ralph. I forget most of it now but the parts I remember are him being unusually self-congradulatory about how wonderful he was to hire a Black animator at that point in time, and how he wanted Wizards to be a more urban fantasy that kids could relate to, not like Disney films which had, and I quote "horses eatin' apples in a field or some shit."

shoutout to the 8-10something kid in line ahead of me at the register, and the cashier. Y'all reminded me that I basically LIKE people, right in the middle of feeling really misanthropic, and also, I really hope the birthday party is a great one.