Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

housemate is listening to her Angry Leftist™️ Podcast again

What'm I supposed to do here, quit visiting Starbucks? Personally stage a Marxist revolt, with the Schostakovich 11 blasting and the battleship Aurora shining searchlights? Go to bed feeling smug that I got pissed off so I did my bit?

So I realized today that part of why school (then work) always felt like punishment was that the hard-work-is-virtue, punitive mindset of my schools really DID send the message I was being punished. Add to that how more/more difficult uninteresting tasks feels punishing to someone with ADHD, how more tasks WAS used as punishment, and how frequently I really WAS being punished for doing things wrong, and I came away, feeling that I was being punished with school (then work) daily.

#drawing from Saturday, I realized the forest floor looked a little too consistent so I edited that later.

Apparently there was Important Breaking News and I therefore wanted to share fungi in the interest of sanity.

Finally, *finally*, I stopped being perfectionistic and finished #coloring this #drawing today (most of the heavy lifting had been done earlier). Oh yeah CW for graphic portrayal of dead bodies.

One of #colored #drawings from today.

luckily the "I MISS THE 90S I HATE BEING OLD" set off by The Rocketeer soundtrack was quickly offset by snickering at the musical cues for the Genesis Device

ah yes there's that cool in the air and the leaves are changing and it's time to play Type O Negative's 1999 album "World Coming Down" again and again and again and a

so wait if Warren Zevon "saw Lon Cheney walking with the Queen" doesn't that imply that he's not so much a Wolf-Man and more accurately a Corgi-Man?

"YES, SIMBA?"

"Well we rule from Pride Rock, right?"

"YES, MY SON."

"Are we... you know..." *hand gesture*

"UH. UM. REALLY WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT WHAT DUTIES A KING HAS TO HIS SUBJECTS."

"I mean there's Uncle Scar, he's like eight on the Kinsey scale."

The whole "Haitian immigrants eat pets" bugs me worse than I originally thought, anti-Blackness has nearly always been crucial to the GOP;

Pretty sure the sheer over the top nature is a deliberate ploy to make less ridiculous claims ("they're dirty and shoplift") more believable.

There's always the chance they'll sour communities enough that at some point Haitian expats will riot or w/e so they can point and go SEE?

Last, just the open ugliness of even a flimsy excuse working for what they want to do.

TACO BELL AD: It's time for a new era of chicken, a zesty quesadilla era, a...

ME: a red day, a chicken day, ere the sun's rising! Ride now, ride now, ride to Gondor!

“In the darkest depths of Mordor I met a girl so fair”

Oh boy Cirith Ungol, just where I go to meet girls. Let me guess, shapely undershot jaw with huge tusks, eyes the most radiant shade of red, delts out to here?

realizing that I hate the "all furries are brilliant super ultra professionals" because it's basically the "all disabled people heroically overcome spectacular obstacles" trope - which is its own iteration of bad, and which I tend to miss under "oh great someone's expecting me to be a smart success for them/has just implied or told me I don't belong in the GOOD people."

the DEN OF EVIL!

you could say it's pretty much the heart of the Split Level of Elemental Evil since it's right between The Garage of Chaos and the Kitchen of Danger, and also there's the Laundry Doom

this in turn gets me to the goblin songs in the Rankin-Bass "The Hobbit"

and again, I love how most of the songs in that movie are happy "let's play hackey sack on the Diag then see if Truth House has that tofu salad I like", and then the goblins show up and their songs are all "OH YEAH FLOGGING"

and then in this ad for baby food this woman kept saying "my baby" and obviously this is the cue to listen to Dance Magic Dance again

slap that magic dance on me
slap that baby, make him pee

one of my favorite just weird random facts is how Julius Fucik's "Entry of the Gladiators" got associated with clowns. For a while it was a cue to alert circus folks that something had gone wrong without alerting the audience, and in that case the clowns would come out and do their thing for as long as it took to get stuff back under control. (This might not be true but I like the idea.)