Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

spaaaaaace Israelis on acid

If I’d been curious what 36 lbs of Ferrero Rocher chocolate hazelnuts look like I now know. Even I can’t eat that much chocolate hazelnuts. Also I vaguely remember my goal in becoming an office worker was NOT hauling 30-50 lb boxes around warehouses?

Whoa. Discovering Mdou Moctar this morning, he drives forward with this intense energy, check his stuff out!

Arrakis https://youtu.be/7TkYszd7MxY via @YouTube

the Spice is vital to space travel. The Spacing Guild and its Navigators whom the spice has... mutated over 4000 years use the orange spice gas to fold space, that is, to move without moving.

clearly discovering that za'atar on sweet potatoes is pretty good actually can only lead to listening to "Dune" themed dance remixes. The Spice extends life. The Spice expands consciousness.

Texas, a beautiful state of wildflowers and fantastic limestone caves, and made completely fucking unlivable by people who probably are completely incapable of appreciating where they live.

skipping the nice bits of Pictures at an Exhibition and Symphony Fantastique to get to the AWESOME parts at the end, known to the classical music world as "cheating"

drawing "furry" art while listening to Rite of Springs. and it's not even anthro-dinosaurs.

I think the most problematic RPG I'd like to run would be a less British take on Space 1889, in which the players serve the Emperor, trying to carve out a spot on Mars among other colonial powers racing for "a place in the canals," and facing attacks by Shinsengumi nationalists.

This would be very much The Splitting Up of the Melon on another planet; our heroes wouldn't necessarily be the good guys, here.

Did you want to listen to rai? Well too bad, because on Lawrence Welk of Arabia it's nothing but all epic symphonic music ALL THE TIME.

and now it's LAWRENCE WELK OF ARABIA! The epic saga of how Peter O'Toole brought an entire musical show to the elderly residents of the Middle East!

So the Istari are all similar Maiar right? And Gandalf looks enough like Saruman everyone goes OH CRAP IT’S SARUMAN when he returns from death. What if all the istari look basically identical? Such that Radagast is rugged outdoorsy Ian McKellan, the blue wizards are Ian But Blue Robes?

Demo gorgon, called such because he was the first demon lord rushed into production and was never intended as more than a demo version.

I now feel like how the Eastern Front was presented to me - as rapid German gains meeting the harsh winter - was some sort of pro-German or anti-Soviet bias during (and after) the Cold War, rather than what actually happened.

Here's why; I was reading a Squadron book (so all about the tech, no actual historical analysis) about three similar German self propelled guns, developed and rushed into production in 1942 to meet challenges - long range artillery, lack of armored close in fire support, difficulty transporting heavy 8.8 cm guns without roads. For reference Barbarossa started in June 1941, and T-34s started production in 1940. Reading between the lines here gets me "they screwed up thinking it would be a repeat of the 1940 offensives" and "they ran into significant and possibly very intelligently led resistance beyond just mud and cold weather."

(It gets better. Tiger tanks started rolling out in August '42, Nashorn tank destroyers date from October '42, which plays into the "what you've been told about Tigers being ultra super fantastic is basically Wehrmacht fanboying if they needed a *different* way to get 8.8 cm guns to the front.")

been a while since I had a "can sleep through the battle of Kursk next door/2-4 hours later WHOA I'M AWAKE" night.

It's weird that theoretically I like Dr. Strange more than my other favorite superheroes but I honestly don't know all that much about that canon.

and now singing along with No Doubt's "Spiderwebs" and "Just a Girl," in my best Bronx accent. Thus transforming both songs to Arlene Sorkin singing to/about her puddin'.

hot take; Spider-Man is basically Batman only the secret identity is Clark Kent.

bitten by a radioactive horn section, he learned that with great soundtrack comes great responsibility.

Food photos;

spiced meat and (coconut) yogurt over pita, roasted peppers and onions.