Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

alternate version of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in which Henry Sr. did, in fact, mail his Grail diary to the Marx Brothers. Assuming the actual Brothers and not their stage personae, there's a fair chance that they'd successfully sabotage the German war effort, though this assumes Chico doesn't completely spill the beans while trying to schtupp Ilsa.

*sigh* The secret to being successful is actually having enough money and power that everyone wants to play along. I'm sorry, I guess that means "confidence," the egomaniacal certainty that whatever you want is actually the right thing, or that G-d is personally on your side no matter what you do. Great, little job personality quiz thing. Just great.

"Good evening... heh heh, Fraulein."
"The bar's closed."
"Ve... heh heh... are not thirsty."
"Whatta you want?"
"The same thing your friend Doctor Jones vanted. Surely he told you there vould be other interested parties."
"Must'a slipped his mind."
"The man is... heh heh... nefarious. I hope for your sake he has not yet ackvired it."
"Why, are you willing to pay more?"
"Ohh, almost certainly."
"I don't have it. But I know where it is! How about a drink for you and your men?"
"Your fire, it is dying. Vhy don't you tell me vhere it is now and be reasonable?"
"Listen, Herr Mack. I don't know who you are or what kinda people you're used to dealing with, but nobody tells me what to do in my place."

I mean... the Ark has been buried for nearly 3000 years. None knows its secrets. It's like nothing you've ever gone after before.

I don't mean to yuck anyone's yum and I'm as vindictive as anyone else but

even assuming Trump actually goes to trial, gets convicted, etc, that frees up the GOP nomination to DeSantis who I actually think is potentially a lot more murderous, it won't undo Trump's SCOTUS nominations, it won't undo Boebert and MTG and all the other more-fashy-than-thou competitors, it won't undo the tax revisions, etc. It will probably allow the Republicans to wash their hands and claim they're the good guys again. It certainly won't do anything about the environment or the shitty inequalities whitewashed by the Democrats as usual as how we're enjoying unprecedented prosperity.

It's fixing the barn door after the cows come home, and the barn door may as well be on the moon and the cows may as well be Iron Age bones dug up in a midden.

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idir ann is idir as

Ducked into Asian Family Food Center to avoid traffic, figured I've wanted to make chopped liver for some time. They didn't have chicken livers but they did have gizzards so I treated myself... and I kinda forgot how cooking gizzards can be an elaborate process.

I’m tired of living, I’m tired of being me, and I’m ESPECIALLY tired of living in Seattle. If I were elsewhere maybe I’d have fursuits, cons, an Aeldari army and frequent games, a train layout, something. But nope, because it’s very important my landlords get $75 more monthly from an apartment and neighborhood not visibly different from when I moved in.

Realized that when I’m stressed I already feel bad so judging myself to be this utterly unlovable moron is easier even without the association of being stressed “because” I’m officially a terrible person and possibly being told such, possibly at top volume.

@Bwee already following and a lot of animals are my favorite but, I still like coyotes.

the bisexual urge to pose atop high buildings during electrical storms and declare I AM VENGEANCE I AM THE NIGHT I AM BATMAN

If you're rich, you look like a genius by default because you're surrounded by incredibly smart engineers, accountants, lawyers, and marketers. It helps if you have enough brains and charm to know when you're upsetting or charming people - which makes sense for someone trying to advocate their position in front of venture capitalists or boards of directors. A little philanthropy makes you look like a saint. This is Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc - this is the old myth that the rich are smart and charming in ways that deserve the money.

For a rich person to come across as less capable than their underlings, or completely charmless, therefore requires believing in their own mythology to just do whatever the hell they want while creating legitimate hatred.

Being clinically a narcissist helps with that but I'd also suggest that how you can be ultra-super-mega-incredibly rich these days helps with that because now even merely rich people you need to talk to will play to you same as any other underling (like an accountant, lawyer or engineer who needs the job) and there's nothing stopping you from believing your own mythology.

*Cate Blanchett voice*
The world has changed. Much that once was, isn't. And much that is, wasn't.

It all began with the frying of vegetables of power. Crispy zucchini sticks for the Elves. Curly and waffle cut potatoes for the Dwarves, great lovers of starch. And beer battered mushrooms for Men, who above all else desire to dump ketchup on everything. But they were all of them deceived. In the land of Mordor, in the fryers of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret an Onion Ring.

Realistically this is probably about a lack of color work plus how deeply I’ve been trained to think 1) I’m a shitty inept failure or 2) maybe I’m not actually a shitty inept failure but if other people are the special wanted people and I never am, then it’s academic (or is it?). Fuck, bad case of childhood.

Idk maybe I should just give up posting drawings to Bluesky where nobody appears interested, and keep that as a shitpost account only. This shouldn’t feel like some huge recrimination of how I’m a failure and a shit artist, but it DOES.

damn when Joe Madureira pencils on Spider Man don’t make you less upset that IS a bad mood

*sings along with the Lawrence of Arabia theme*
DESERT!
Yes we’re in the DESERT!
Yes we’re in the DESERT DESERT DESERT!

Crab Louie, this looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship. *wolfs down salad*