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Inspired: Raster Blaster

uspol 

Technically the President can’t go to war without Congressional approval but has a lot of options as Executive Actions, afaik. It would be within his restrictions to launch some sort of attack at Syria and Clinton, Bush II and Obama all might were they in office now.

Flag waving (at the cost of a batch of money and brown lives) or tough guy yelling on Twitter are fantastic distractions. No matter what happens 45 continues to terrorize *us*. Have I mentioned lately I fucking detest him?

That thing where in some ways you’re superhuman. Someone would write you in their story and you’d say that’s implausible. And then something hits your worst issues, which is somehow so easy to do, and you’re *also* a broken mess!

I suspect a lot of humanity works this way.

Just wanting all sorts of things, but the stomach upset is going away, which is kinda a substantial thing to want actually. So I'll grab a bit more sleep and go into work!

body stuff 

ugh, I have no clue how some poor quality Chinese eats/two day old muffins/leftover pancakes/bowl noodle augmented with spam plays out in terrible acid reflux and bad cramping, but apparently it did.

lewd-adjacent, regretful 

Do you ever look at amateur porn and feel regretful or self hating because someone else is wanted, beautiful and having a hot time, and meanwhile you're over here being the same old bland, mundane, tired self?

And if you start feeling like that, is it a sign you should probably step away from the amateur porn?

art blather 

trying to analyze characters by Edouard Guiton;

* he'll block out an interesting pose/body and tangent both big flowing fabric and close fitting rigid costume elements to that body to retain silhouette

* so there's a contrast in material between rigid and free-flowing (he can use hair either way really)

* rigid elements like plates and jewelry, and flowing fabric or hair "wrap" shapes to create dimensionality

* costume shapes are exaggerated in a way that fits overall style.

racism 

Okay, I wasn't originally sure Wardruna were okay (their frontman has really dissed on Christianity, and I've noticed that when white people diss "Christianity" it usually plays out in dissing Jews) but then I ran into his statement

"The image of the Runes has been tarnished by some right-wing racist idiots who have no business using them and only did so for their own gain. I want to give the Runes a voice and let them speak for themselves!"

so I guess they're at least not fucking neos!

kelp reference 

ah man it's KYUSS

and any moment now I'm gonna have the good variety of bowl noodle, with added spam

no, I'm sober right now, why?

Like; the would be wizard player wants his character to be an outcast from a warlike straightforward group, and likes WoW orcs - so WoW orcs are those guys in your world. The would be ranger likes halflings, so you have halflings, but the would be bard likes kobolds, so your world has kobolds. And then you model your villainous raiding armies or long forgotten ruin builders off your PCs, throw out a few more non player sapient species, call it a day?

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I had a idea;

Most PC races are similar to those intended as NPCs and players constantly want to play them anyway. The big martial dudes who trust hitting things more than magic. The expert foresters who have tame animals. The sneaky trap wise rogues. What if you;

* set those options in front of the players and said hey these are the non humans; you tell me if they’re woodsy hyena-people, bearded gruff axemen, sneaky bat-rats, whatevs

* then extrapolate so those are the big NPC species?

Turns out anyone permanent and sales related has an off site tomorrow and I get 3 hours of my life back (unpaid). Do I;

1) go to an art supply store and a bookstore in the city and still clear out early?
2) head home and work on stuff for customers to clear more time this weekend?
3) head home and get in some needed practice painting?

I never went to middle school. Where I grew up was rural enough that you went from grade school in 7th grade to high school in 8th.

Also, I never skipped grades because the public schools at that point had decided no student could.

cw abuse, homophobic slurs 

Seriously are there many AMAB types out there - regardless of gender or identity - who haven’t been called “faggot” during grade/high school? It just seems like such a quintessentially hurtful part of growing up male in America.

Today remains slow at work which is okay; I’ve been watching YouTube videos about kayaking and using/maintaining an axe for chopping wood, which are things I should probably know more about. Also partly because of hitting my issues earlier, it’s being a processy day.

coyote’s boat safety tip, tmi, drug reference 

“Wear a safety vest and don’t mix alcohol and kayaking” are reasonable things and uh... the creator of naked, tripped-out canoeing would like to remind you that doing that safely was largely good luck.

Also, use your own damn canoe instead of assuming anything on the beach at the music festival is for group use.

Me “y’know maybe I should read up on black-footed cats, I don’t know that much about them.”

One Wikipedia visit later “omg omg look at the tiny cranky-kins, she got a mouse 💙”

So I ran into something which stomped hard on my issues, with cleats. The process of emotionally defusing that got me into just how interconnected my issues are. From here it manages to look like *both* stuff I could theoretically step out of easily *and* a tangled mess which can be nigh impossible to step away from.

How’s your morning going?

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