Image, fantasy creatures, eye contact
#drawing - the centaur is from earlier, and Harkon Lukas (from Ravenloft, canonically though he’s a violinist I think?) from today. Not fantastic but drawing past an art block (lots of earlier unfinished stuff not shown).
Food photo
Snow meant bailing out on my parents early, but my dad got a windfall of shittakes… which he doesn’t like, so I got a windfall of shittakes. I used them to make mushroom gravy for some meatballs I’d made and needed to use up. I also started marinading pork, made green borscht with sorrel, and made skordalia so I can have it over fried cod later this week.
I really think we need to reject the term "content creator."
That phrase is used by people who aim to Monetize™ us without needing to care about what it is we create. A "content creator" is there to make the stuff that attracts people so they can be fed advertising.
Call us what we are. Artists. Essayists. Film makers. Authors. Photographers. And so many others. We are creators, yes, but what we create has so much value beyond filling otherwise empty space on a website.
wwii stuff
oh wow Operation Coup de Main (it's not actually Operation Dead Stick which was my original search string!) - ridiculous good luck; the bridges were held in part by ex-Sov/Polish/French troops under German leadership who probably didn't want to be there and when the German general called for tank support he couldn't as tanks couldn't be moved without Hitler's direct order (and nobody wanted to wake Hitler up for this).
When German tanks arrived a Gammon bomb took out the lead and blocked their column; and an attempt to bomb the bridge while the Brits were taking it fizzled. A close thing.
Like most things around Juno/Sword/Gold beaches, and the aftermath in Operations Goodwood and Cobra, nobody ever bothered telling me about this.
Image, fantasy creatures, violence implied burns
#drawing tonight turned out to be playing with big black shapes and listening to The Anti-Nowhere League. Black dragon breathes a stream of acid on a hapless opponent!
This isn’t a particularly depressive spiral day, but it’s still a “if I could simply stop existing I would” sort of day. That’s not possible, so gonna see if the Food Trailer of the Unusually Large Chicken Katsu is open for lunch. They were open when I left work last night but they’d been closed during lunch break the last couple of weeks so this is probably too optimistic. Seriously last time I went I got two meals plus enough rice to use for fried rice later.
Lots of random gunk, but some drawings and cooking talk too. Obsesses about DnD and related topics. Left-leaning/profoundly frustrated politics. Black lives matter; trans rights are human rights.
Occasionally NSFW art and discussion, please do follow if you're 18+.