Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

also apparently I'm having a gender/body dysphoria sort of morning

melatonin's really doing the brick to the head thing, gonna sleep some

what if you extrapolated "horse opera" and "space opera" into other genres

so like the Underworld films would be fang opera, or film noir would be dame opera, or filmed adaptations of the Ring cycle would be opera opera

a discussion of whether "Finlandia" or "Maamme" makes a better national hymn

look, Sibelius was brilliant and inspiring and all that, but can you really sing along while completely hammered and waving your own underpants as a flag?

BONUS and NOW a completely accurate rendition of "Maamme," the Finnish National Hymn.

maamme
ei sinun maasi!
maamme
ei sinun maasi!
maamme
ei sinun maasi!
vittuun!
missä se vodka on?

underneath the chilly gray November sky
we can make believe that Kennedy is still alive
we're shooting for the moon and smiling Jackie's driving by
they say, good try.
Tomorrow Wendy, you're going to die.

https://youtu.be/4GrRWdmQMcc?si=Xwq3Ye8JHRCU58Nr

meine Herren heute sehen Sie mich Glaesser abwaschen
und ich mache die Bett fuer jeden
und Sie geben mich ein Pfennig und bedanken mich schnell
und Sie wuesst ich bin ein Lump in dieses lumpiges Hotel
und Sie wissen nicht mit wem Sie ereden

out of all the ways you could mess up hot and sour soup the first time you made it, "too much liquid and not enough cornstarch" is pretty minor and I will take it, especially since I'm now most of the way through a BIG pot.

#drawings from earlier this week!

https://youtu.be/MBRH1g1eF3Y?si=7odOjH8q5s4xNzBn

@egypturnash @obscurestar

... they get you all stoked for the animation at the end and then ugh, it's 90s kid fare.

ah yes, interrupting a performance of Prokofiev's "Dance of the Knights" with "The Imperial March"

instead of interrupting pretty much anything with the Teutonic Knights' leitmotif from Alexander Nevsky, which is James Horner

* bad Peter Steele impression *

DEAR PRUDENCE
OPEN UP YOUR EYES
DEAR PRUDENCE
SEE THE SUNNY SKIES
WITH A PURPOSEFUL GRIMACE
AND A TERRIBLE FROWN
YOU PULL THE HIGH TENSION WIRES DOWN
DEAR PRUDENCE
WADE PAST BUILDINGS INTO TOWN

cooking tofu with Chinese cabbage

the incredible shrinking meal, goes from "uh oh I'm making way too much food" to "eh, this is kinda a large plate."

Playing The Sword to get pumped for a quick strandhøgg on Ikea. You know. Normal Wednesday stuff.

Imagine if they’d had Marvin Gaye as Marvin the Martian.

New THRUST VECTOR cereal! It's time to put Pitch, Roll, and Yaw into your morning!

all the little monsters on the block run into the street when the Vitreous Humor truck shows up!

#drawings yesterday, including… trying some of LotR other than hobbits, for the first time?

really bothers me how quickly "I want to do [x]" becomes "I want to be loved for doing [x]" becomes my old baggage about "it's never me, no matter how much I tried [x] there'd be some reason or excuse someone else is the wonderful person and I'll be pushed off to the side, so I may as well stick to my own little weird whatever and not try" which doesn't in fact make me want to do [x] or be loved for it any less.

I have more baggage about drawing porn than most furries, I can tell you that much.

I'm into all kinds of kinky shit IN THEORY because in actuality I'm afraid of getting it wrong, too undersocialized, and too poor to try. I'd adore having a dominant, but the more I think about it, the more I need a therapist instead.

an extra bonus to hanging around east side for longer after work is that when rush hour's dying down KNKX goes back to playing music (which reminds me that the world's not shit) instead of news (which reminds me that the world's shit).

So tonight's COYOTE KITCHEN FRENZY; I deep-fried zucchini to marinate later, put together a Chinese cabbage salad, and since the eggplant I'd fried up for sabih was pretty bland on its own, I chopped it into small pieces and added an Ottolenghi inspired spicy garlic-cumin-lemon sauce for dinner.