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2024/06/20

June 20, 2024
A pink sky fading to blue. The ground is not visible. Rising up from where the ground would be are two incredibly rickety poles made of bits and pieces that are tied together with cable. At the top of the left pole is a green traffic light; at the top of the right one is a red traffic light. Strung between the two poles is a long cable, hanging downwards. Sitting in the center of the cable, hanging in space, is a person. Several birds circle overhead.

2024/06/05

June 5, 2024
A tall, thin, very unfinished skyscraper. Parts of the skyscraper's walls are missing, revealing beams and infrastructure. On the right side of the skyscraper is a small crane, from which is dangling a pallet of building materials. At the very top, a person is sitting on a chair, holding a cup. The sky is the bright yellow of high noon; the sun hangs above the skyscraper.

2024/05/19

May 19, 2024
A tablet, with a ghostly face reflected in the black screen. The tablet appears to be off, but a green light at the top next to the camera indicates that it is recording something. Reflected on its screen is a blurry, pale face with no expression and empty eyes. They say that sometimes, the abyss looks back. "When one looks long into nothingness, one becomes nothing, empty." –Theodore Van Rooy (totally random guy on StackExchange)

2024/05/06

May 6, 2024
A person stands on the edge of a large rectangular object—could be the edge of a building—shining a flashlight off to the right of the drawing. The location and time of day is indeterminate. The background is the dark blue of early morning or early evening. The flashlight beam is a greenish white. This is a barren place, surrounded by the unknown.

2024/04/29

April 29, 2024
A deep pit, dug into the ground. We are seeing a cross-section of the earth: gray-black soil with a tall pit the size of a multi-story building extending down into it. Scattered throughout the soil are many rocks and pebbles, with a few bones. At the top of the pit are several mounds of soil. At the bottom of the pit, standing on a large mound of soil, is a small figure wearing an orange hat and an orange shirt. The figure continues to dig, seemingly trapped in this towering hole from which there is no escape. Also buried in the ground, a few feet away from the figure but not yet unearthed, is a large yellow smiley-face. Above the pit, at ground level, the sky is blue with a few white clouds.

2024/04/07

April 7, 2024
A surreal, deserted city. A small silhouette of a person is hemmed in by large, blocky buildings that have almost no windows or doors. Behind the person is a blazing sun, a yellow sky, and the blurry silhouette of a building engulfed in sunlight and heat. In front of the person is a cool blue area: another building that seems to be in shadow, with only one illuminated window and an open doorway, casting a greenish white light onto the blue ground. Above the door is a small, neon pink sign that says "open". At the top of the building is a single, illuminated yellow window—the only visible window on the entire building—in which sits a cat.

2024/03/27

March 27, 2024
A hazy, yellow desert, with low mountains in the background. The sun sits high in the sky, as buzzards wheel above. Hovering about 30 feet above the desert floor is a house-sized metal sphere the color of the desert. There is only one opening in it: a circular hatchway, revealing a greenish glow from the interior. A ladder drops from the hatchway to the ground. Walking away from the ladder is a small figure carrying a staff.

2024/03/10

March 10, 2024
A small man with a large round head and thin legs stands in what looks like a barren, remote area. The man is wearing a large, floppy hat with a brim and a white feather stuck in it, and has enormous round eyes that take up most of his face, a sharp nose, and a tight mouth. In his right hand, he's holding a walking staff; his left hand is up against his face, a long-stemmed pipe between his fingers. He is wearing a ragged cloak or trenchcoat, and has a necktie. Behind him is the blurry suggestion of a treeline. The sky is slate-gray, mixed with an eerie, almost auroral green. Snufkin is back, and he's not fooling around.

2024/02/04

February 4, 2024
A figure in a blue suit, seen from the back. The figure has a large, orange, spherical head, facing away from the viewer, and a blue brimmed hat. The highlights on the suit and hat are neon blue-green. The figure is holding a fishing pole with an anchor attached to it. The background is bluish-textured white.

2024/01/30

January 30, 2024
A desert sun, low in the sky. Below it is a red mountain with a small figure standing at the very top of it. The figure is holding a string attached to a huge black balloon, high above the ground. The sky is mostly shades of yellow, and the mountain is black, with red highlights.

2024/01/21

January 21, 2024
A vast sky filled with heavy, billowing clouds. Below it is a foggy lake or river, with mountains on the right. It's mostly dark, in the way that a very cloudy late-afternoon feels like nightfall. Floating on the water is a small boat with a person sitting in it, illuminated by a single white lantern.

2024/01/18

January 18, 2024
A wide, flat desert, bluish mountains visible in the distance. The sky is a pale green, textured with clouds, a white sun high in the sky. In the foreground is a small shack, the size of an outhouse. The arched doorway is open, revealing an entirely different interior: a blazing crimson landscape with yellow clouds. This is a portal into another terrifying world. Standing in the doorway is a figure silhouetted against the red glow of whatever land this is. Placed above the doorway is a small, green Exit sign, the kind you'd find in a European country.

2024/01/13

January 13, 2024
A peculiar figure with two horns, a long fur robe, and a pointed snout stands on what looks like ice. The figure is gripping a thin staff in its right hand, back to the viewer, looking up at a full moon. This is a mostly black painting on a purple and lavender background.

2024/01/11

January 11, 2024
A milk carton sits on a barren, perhaps snow-covered hill. The lighting suggests sunrise or sunset. Orange cirrus clouds cover a deep, indigo sky. The milk carton has "found" printed on the back of it, like those advertisements for lost children. Where the photo would be is a window, with someone looking out of it.

2024/01/07

January 7, 2024
A small, brightly colored, furry creature with two legs, no arms, and one blue eye. The creature has iridescent fur; red and gold, turning holographic green at the edges. It is walking in a forest at night, surrounded by gold brown grass with the same greenish tinge to it. Above it hangs a perfectly round, green object, like the moon, if the moon was actually hovering inside the forest.

2024/01/05

January 5, 2024
A figure stands alone, silhouetted in the blazing glare of two bright white spotlights in the top right of the drawing. The figure appears to be wearing a jacket and hat, and is holding a glowing red lantern. There are very few details about the surroundings or the ground—most of the painting is gray—but there are hints of reflections on the ground, as though the figure is standing on a wet surface.

2024/01/03

January 3, 2024
A dark figure stands in front of a roaring inferno. This is not a mere bonfire; it's a wall of flame, something only seen at the edge of a volcano or the mouth of Hell. The figure is holding a staff, staring into the flames. In the top right is a circular analog clock, displaying 5:05. It's time to get up or it's time for a drink, your choice.

2023/12/30

December 30, 2023
A grassy meadow on a bright, sunny day. The sun isn't visible, but the sky is mostly clear, and the grass blazes with sunlight. Speckling the grass are small, white flowers. In the sky, a number of soap bubbles are visible. The largest one contains an armless person reading a book, which is floating in front of them. I spent—I'm not joking—an hour trying to get the arms right. Time was drifting, this rock had got to roll. Couldn't get it right, I couldn't get it right.

2023/12/29

December 29, 2023
A tall, thin person, standing with arms apart. The person does not have any visible facial features. The person is surrounded by a dark, amorphous shape that could either be a hole or something that the person is wearing; there are two three-dimensional horns on top of the darkness, but the body appears to be a cavelike entrance. The edges of the shape are blurry; if you saw only the silhouette of the darkness and nothing else, you would think it was a large, round, furry monster with horns, two legs, and no arms. The drawing is black pencil on a light green background.

2023/12/19

December 19, 2023
A small figure stands on a rocky slope at the edge of the ocean. Waves crash up against the rocks. The air is heavy with sunlight and moisture, as if directly after a rain; the sun hangs high in the sky, partially obscured by yellow clouds. The slope is covered in yellow light. The figure is flying a red triangular kite with a red tail streaming out behind it. The kite is flying towards the sun.

2023/12/09

December 9, 2023
A person stands under a streetlight, holding a phone. The streetlight looks like it may be placed in a city park at night. The scene is rendered in an impressionist style; the light is surrounded by a blast of yellow, neon green, and white. The glow is rendered in thick brushstrokes. Behind the light is the suggestion of a deep blue night, and symmetric rows of lights suggesting buildings. There are a few bright red dots that might be traffic lights or warning lights on buildings. In the top right is a smaller glowing object that could be the moon.

2023/12/06

December 6, 2023
A person stands on a grassy hillside, silhouetted in the dull afternoon light. Buried in the ground below the person is a huge red speech balloon with some strange alien writing in it. The tail of the balloon points to the figure's mouth, snaking out of the ground like a red sprout from a giant red seed. It looks as though the person is consigning a vast, weird secret into the earth. The sky is yellowish green; the hillside, drawn like a cutaway, is gray-black; the intricate writing inside the balloon is yellow.

2023/11/26

November 26, 2023
Two black rubber boots, positioned as though someone is standing in them, with steam rising out of each to form a large, amorphous cloud. The background of this drawing is gray; the boots are black; the steam is white.

2023/11/20

November 20, 2023
A figure stands silhouetted against the sky. In the background is a city skyline of skyscrapers. In the sky, where the sun would be, is a giant black ball, sort of an inverted sun that resembles a black hole or a vortex. The figure, mostly black, has small yellow rectangles on it, suggesting the windows of a skyscraper. Other than those specks of yellow, the drawing is black and indigo ink on a light blue background.

2023/11/13

November 13, 2023
A flat plane: maybe a desert, but it kind of looks like a frozen lake. In the distance are craggy mountains. Positioned on the plane nearer to the viewer, like an iceberg poking out of the ice, is a sharply angular mountain or boulder. Walking across the plane next to the boulder is a small figure, casting a shadow. The drawing is dark blue ink on the light blue background. In the sky, the clouds are rendered in white.

2023/10/29

October 29, 2023
A person holds a string attached to a very large crimson balloon floating above their head. The balloon is the size of a small cottage. Instead of being spherical, though, the balloon looks like a rose, albeit one with smoother, simpler petals: something that might have been created by a machine. The rose is crimson; the person is a black silhouette; the background is a light featureless blue.

2023/10/28

October 28, 2023
A portrait of someone from the neck up. The head is slightly blurry, the facial features blank and indeterminate. Half of the face is in shadow. The only striking detail is a sharp, prominent nose; the eyes are just hollows, and the face is mostly smooth, like a store mannequin. The only hint of anything in the person's face is the slanted brows that suggest they are scowling. The drawing is black ink on a yellow-orange background.

2023/10/27

October 27, 2023
A forest at night: the full moon high in the sky, and a black wall of narrow, twisted pines. A low fog hangs over a path. Walking along the path, on the right side of the drawing, is a person holding a walking stick, the moonlight reflecting off them. They are going to need that stick, because creeping directly behind them, crouched and ready, is something else: something vaguely humanoid but furry and brutish; something that does not look like it comes out during the day. The drawing is black ink on a dark teal background. The moon and the moonlight are white.

2023/10/11

October 11, 2023
A figure stands looking at its phone. The figure has two short legs, a heavy barrel-shaped body, and a face that looks like a smiley-face mask. The face is lit eerily from below with green light from the phone screen. There are no background details, and the ground is hazy in a way that suggests the figure is standing in front of fog.

2023/10/09

October 9, 2023
A thin, almost skeletal figure, wearing an expressionless mask with no facial features except two empty eyeholes, stands on a small, barren mound, holding a crooked stick. The figure is also wearing a heavy fur cloak piled on its back, giving it a hunchbacked appearance, as well as some ragged clothing.

2023/10/07

October 7, 2023
A humanoid figure, the edges rough and hazy, as though it's in the process of fading out. The head and chest area are the most solid. The face looks like it was crudely drawn with a red crayon. There's a white halo, also drawn in crayon, over its head.

2023/10/06

October 6, 2023
A large, red, house-shaped lump. Imagine a roughly cubical brick or rock with a pointed top. A door is spray-painted on one side, and a window is spray-painted on the other. On top of the house sits a person with a can of spray paint, spraying a jet of black paint into the air.

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