more journaling
The really uncomfy truth about me and wanting to be a professional artist is, it was always my indoctrination (you're good at THIS THING, therefore you should do THIS THING to make money) and my baggage (maybe if I do THIS THING, I can get out of being relegated to disposable convenience for the actually valued people, forever).
This is a pretty rickety scaffold to hang any sort of professional ambitions from, and faced with anything that fits my indoctrination that the adults/peers have engineered it so I can't go in whatever direction, I give up waaay easily.
#subpost there’s Showa and Heisei Era Gojira so if your D&D characters face the tarrasque or w/e is that technically Kamakura Period Gojira
The Administration would like to redefine the ESA to include evaluating species by economic considerations rather than by population, and to define a species' habitat as its current range, thus blocking any return to historic ranges.
Comment is available at https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FWS-HQ-ES-2025-0039-0001
probably the biggest new thing I got from watching Dark Crystal stoned was really appreciating the storytelling with extracting/drinking essence. It rachets up threat - there really IS a fate worse than death - makes the Skeksis pretty irredeemable, but it's also an excuse to show you a young version of the Emperor so you really do get the sense these guys are an arthritic, fearful shadow of what they once were.
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+.