Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

anyway the horrible self loathing with s**cidal ideation is back, so I'm gonna get outside and walk some

Anyone can combine Flash Gordon serials, spaghetti westerns, and Kurosawa period films and come out with Star Wars, it happened all the time in the mid-70s! Likewise anyone can riff off 40s serials to generate Raiders of the Lost Ark and pff, Jaws is just Moby Dick, that's easy! Anyone with the money for the tool can just CRANK THOSE RIGHT ON OUT!

And I mean, if a visual artist is going to be informed by the sort of folks that usually awe them - let's say Wyeth, Tolouse Latrec, Leyendecker, Rockwell - then you can just REGURGITATE bits of Wyeth, Latrec, Leyendecker and Rockwell paintings in something vaguely like a coherent framework and it's basically better than some mere little underpaid peon who's wanted to do this since high school can possibly produce right?

listen;

if you ever try to justify the rich techbros art-theft, job theft tool to me with talking about how there's no real creativity out there, and everything's a remix, especially if you tell me it's EVIDENCE not opinion?

Then you can fuck off and die you goddamn class traitor. I have no use for you.

Best Zeppelin track?

Okay, last time I was done with D&D was playing through Tomb of Horrors as a kid, you can see how long THAT lasted. But dissing on artists I admire getting to live the (underpaid) dream with AI and a non apology is a little much on top of everything else WotC pulled this year; I think I’m done with 5e.

see Jack was very slightly scarred in an accident, after which he built the first Jack Ball and affixed it to his head while it was molten hot, he’s never been seen without his Jack Ball since. And thus he rules all Jack In The Box as a benevolent tyrant who allows breakfast foods after 10 AM able to view his franchise kingdom through the cameras of Jack Balls on vehicle antennas throughout the west coast

see characters in He Man and the Masters of the Universe are named for their traits. Like Tri-Clops has three eyes, Skeletor looks kinda like a skeleton, or Hordak flirts li

Part of tonight's conversations were about places we grew up. Honestly though I remember some days as being much hotter or more humid than others, the big thing I remember is how *much* of the year it was warm or actively hot. Most of what I remember is about trees far more than about soil or clouds other than when it rained. Without really any comparison childhood didn't include awareness of my home being unusually hot or humid.

What this means is tonight was literally the first time I thought about how my terrible acne in high school might be related to the greater heat and humidity!

popular songs from the 1920s are all like "My Straw-Hat-Season-Sweetie," "Glee-Club Gloria" or "Farting in the Bathtub" and sound like people desperately trying to convince themselves that WWI never happened by bouncing up and down

yes, she's got THE INNSMOUTH LOOK and she knows how to use it

what's her secret? Really big contact lenses? Several generations of inbreeding?

#drawing today, undead jackal dude charges late period looking cavalry. Has undead and primitive firearms.

PREVIOUSLY ON XX MEN

* that short hairy dude DRANK a BEER

* the tall socially awkward dude PAINTED

* the SCIENCE hairy dude was REALLY FASCINATED by FUNGUS

"[King] would be a strong contender for this position should he abandon his obedience to the supposed white liberal doctrine of nonviolence and embrace Black nationalism.

"through counterintelligence, it should be possible to pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them

"and neutralize them

"and neutralize them

WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!

* this was a real memo btw. They sent stuff to King telling him to back down or they'd spill his extramarital affairs to the press. King thought they were telling him to kill himself, so he refused.

what should I draw charging this dude on horseback

if we don't take action now
we'll settle for nothing later
we'll settle for nothing now
and we'll settle for nothing later

in the right light study becomes insight
but the system that dissed us teaches us to read and write
so called fact's a fraud,
they want us to allege and pledge and bow down unto their god
lost the culture, the culture lost
spun our minds and through time
ignorance has taken over

Rage Against the Machine Album - RATM - 8 bit Edit https://youtu.be/6TbcxLSDthY via @YouTube

oh YEAH

can Mario get from the protest to the Lake Merritt station without taking a tear gas canister to the head at point blank range?

and I won't let you hurt my planet
and I won't let you hurt my friends

bitter wishful thinking

I didn't really expect to get the job with the vet clinic, but I was really hoping you know? And finding out that's a no really took the wind out of my sails.