Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

Friday night’s #drawing

Today’s #drawings were vehicles, while listening to soundtracks for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Bridge at Remagen.

Tonight’s #drawings were mythical creatures. Discovered my Osprey book about Scythians still has a Sword of the Phoenix price tag.

"Do you still have my old Ring? I should very much like to see it!"
"The Ring we were talking about only an hour ago being something literally made by a demigod, indestructible, and so innately, profoundly evil it makes people hiss like BART pulling into North Berkeley? THAT Ring?"
"SKREEEE!"

and then Aragorn and Arwen are boringly het at each other while listening to Enya, probably because they're stuck camping out at Arwen's dad's place and he'd throw an epic fit if he caught them doing ponyplay using *his* riding elk tack

SAURON: go to this Shire, secretly, as riders clad all in black. Stealthy you must be to take the Ring of Power and kill its bearer.

ULAIRI: SCREEEEEE! HSSSSSSSS! SKRAAAAAAA!

"Sam! Wood-Elves! They're going to the harbour beyond the White Towers. To the Grey Havens."
"They're scarpering. They've seen what this is and they don't want any part of it."
"They've buggered off m8."

listening to the Howard Shore FotR soundtrack and enthusiastically declaring "BUGGERY!" every time they play the little hobbit pennywhistle motif since I'm not at work and can get away with this

"Why the fuck do I have to cope with this egregious bullshit on top of everything else?" asked Frodo.

"So think I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

Look, I was there to protest Iraq War II, and it went forward anyway and afterwards everyone forgot there were protests. For Occupy Oakland and SF, and everyone was really optimistic, finally us peasants were joining together, finally we'd do something about it. It wasn't long after that Occupy was dissed as an aimless ineffectual movement. Everyone thought a Black president would change things, it didn't even with the Black dude being straight up the second best public speaker I've heard even in recordings. I was excited about Sanders, and then THAT got downplayed as us being misogynists.

Then years after an experience in Oakland really soured me on BLM, I protested and threw money towards bail and hospital expenses in 2020, and everyone was really optimistic, the little people were coming together as a community, and guess how that turned out?

Now I'm hearing the same rhetoric about Minneapolis (surely they didn't stop fucking with LA, SD and DC in this time did they?) and you'll pardon me if I'm really skeptical.

TOUCHED BY A NINJA! Every show follows the formula that obviously the same kindly Japanese-American, with different names and professions every episode, befriends someone whose problems can be traced to one or two powerful people, who turn up dead later, although nobody can figure out how or why.

Tom Waits and the Heartbreakers

“She’s a good girl, loves her mother, loves Jesus and America too, makes pretty good Bloody Marys. She has that razor sadness that only gets worse with the boom and the thunder of the Southern Pacific rolling by.” klang THUMP THUMP

what you see you might not get
and we can bet
so don't you get souped yet
schemin' on a thing that's a mirage
I'm tellin' y'all it's sabotage

WHERE IS THE HELM AND HAUBERK AND WHERE IS THE HORN A BLOWIN'
WHERE IS THE HORSE AND RIDER AND THE PALE HAIR FLOWIN'
AND WHEN I FIND MYSELF A FALLIN' FOR SOME GIRL
I TAKE THE WHALE'S BROAD HIGHWAY AND I TRAVEL ROUND THE WORLD
YES I'M THE WANDERER
OH I'M THE WANDERER
I GO AROUND AND AROUND AND AROUND AND AROUND

WELL THERE'S SKOGUL ON MY LEFT AND THERE'S BRYNHILD ON MY RIGHT
AND MATHILDE IS THE GIRL THAT I'LL BE WITH TONIGHT
AND WHEN SHE ASKS ME WHICH ONE I LOVE THE BEST
I OPEN MY T-TUNIC THERE'S WEALTHEOW ON MY CHEST
YES I'M THE WANDERER
OH I'M THE WANDERER
I GO AROUND AND AROUND AND AROUND AND AROUND

I know what will help with the feelings of being stuck as an aging failure while other people in the world are off doing exciting, meaningful, cool stuff! Let's listen to a batch of stuff that would've been on the Oldies station in A^2 while I was in college!

Last night’s #drawings

* sings along with Duel of the Fates *
PARRY
CUT TO FIVE
PARRY
LOW LINE LUNGE
PARRY
PARRY
PARRY
RIPOSTE
PARRY
PARRY
PARRY
RIPOSTE

#drawings last night

trying to think of more cheerful stuff, yesterday after buying a used book about vikingr and a used guidebook to deserts, the thought that I basically would like to be a sword wielding Aldo Leopold led to wondering if they fixed ranger in 2024.

Answer; no, apparently you need to house rule them OR they're basically get 6 levels and get out.

I know Thufir I was sitting with my back to the door, I heard you, Doctor Yueh and Gurney Halleck making fart noises by sticking your hands in your armpits

those sounds could be imitated!

I'd know the difference

*makes fart noise with armpits*