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2024/11/07

November 7, 2024
A tall figure wearing a long black coat and tie carries a briefcase in one hand and conjures up a small greenish flame in the other. The figure is also wearing a fedora. It has four legs, as though two people are under the coat with a third person standing on top of them. This is a primarily dark-teal drawing.

2024/11/04

November 4, 2024
A chaotic mixture of red and blue charts and graphs that form a frowning face. Two pie charts form the eyes, a bar chart defines the nose, and a jagged pair of red and blue lines are the mouth.

2024/10/28

October 28, 2024
A person on a dark blue background carries a giant pumpkin balloon on a string. The pumpkin is bright orange, large enough that the person could fit inside it easily, and has an angry face on it: Facebook's "angry" reaction. There's a lot happening this time of year.

2024/10/26

October 26, 2024
A grainy, monochrome drawing of four eerie figures gathered in front of a digital camera on a tripod. The foremost figure is a small person wearing a dark suit and tie with an ID badge. The person's face is blank, the eyes empty, as though it's a mask. Standing behind them is a figure with devil horns and glasses, and a figure wearing a white robe and a bowler hat. That figure's face is also masklike, with empty eyes and a mouth stretched in an unsettling smile. The rearmost figure is a dark, indistinct blur, with the suggestion of a suit coat and glowing white eyes. Something that could either be the sun or the moon hangs in the sky above.

2024/10/16

October 16, 2024
The old factory room was dark. Too dark for my liking. Heavy beams and wires dominated the ceiling. The mottled gray concrete walls were covered in dust and grime. Some unnamable object—a large metal cylinder with rusty pipes emerging from it—squatted to my right, in the darkest corner of the room. I trained the blinding white flashlight beam on the dirty wall and started in horror, even though I knew in my bones what I would find: that damned mark. The crude red circle, the smile, an O and X for the eyes, the dripping paint. He had been here, sure enough. He was out there. And tonight, I was sure, another dirty wall somewhere would bear his mark.

2024/10/09

October 9, 2024
A dark sky. Hovering in the sky is a large round yellow-green face with a wide, red-lipped mouth and a single blue eye staring down. The mouth is stretched in a smile that extends halfway around the face. The eye is a blue iris on a black background. The face has a slight greenish glow around it. Below, in a bright yellow field, a person stands, arms upraised. The field has a slight crimson glow to it. The back of the person is covered in a purple shadow.

2024/10/03

October 3, 2024
A figure walks in cartoonishly large reddish boots that are easily twice its size. It is carrying a mask that is also much larger than it is; a lavender-tinted monster mask with a heavy brow, an open mouth,and fangs. There is a blurry tree line in the background. This is a predominantly blue drawing.

2024/09/24

September 24, 2024
An irregular geometric shape on a purple background. On the right side is the abstracted profile of a human face that should be familiar to anyone who used a Mac in the 80s or 90s. The shape is a mix of red, yellow, and iridescent blue, and has many straight lines connecting to it. The lines look like lines on a printed circuit board.

2024/09/10

September 10, 2024
A clown with a dark suit and tie, a top hat, and long indigo hair. The clown has a bright red nose, a white face, red lips, and is holding several colored balls, one of which has a smiling face on it. They are wearing several colored star stickers.

2024/09/09

September 9, 2024
A headless figure wearing a red suit with a yellow shirt and a blue-green tie balances on a blue-green ball. The ball has a frowning face crudely drawn on it. The figure's arms are up, as though it is juggling, and it is surrounded by random colored objects: stars, triangles with exclamation points in the center, spheres with smiling faces on them. There is a neon yellow heart with a red, frowning face and X's for eyes. Hovering above the figure's neck, where a head would be, is a red devil mask with empty eyes and an eerie smile. The figure is set against a dark blue background.

2024/09/07

September 7, 2024
A mostly dark environment, illuminated only by a bright yellow bulb hanging from the top right of the drawing. Approaching the bulb from the left is a reddish figure holding up the frayed end of an electrical cable. There is a windup key sticking out of the figure’s back. The figure’s head is a sphere with a frowning emoji face on it, floating above its neck.

2024/09/02

September 2, 2024
A figure, colored leather-brown, wearing a coat and tie and carrying a crooked walking stick. The figure's head is a combination of two faces: one looking forwards, and one seen in profile. The figure's right eye is shared by both faces. The face in profile is looking down and to the left, at the deep right pocket of the coat in which is seen a third face. The figure is wearing a dark brown top hat. The drawing is on a tan yellow background.

2024/08/17

August 17, 2024
A person plays a horn while in front of them, a white ghostlike apparition gushes out of a top hat, seemingly summoned by the horn. The apparition has two horns and a halo, one hand upraised. This is a mostly yellow drawing, with the hat and person drawn in dark brown.

2024/08/08

August 8, 2024
A human face in profile, facing right. The face appears to be carved out of stone: smooth dark surface, a few cracks and chips here and there. The eye is a round porthole-style window, glowing fluorescent green. A small figure inside is pressed up against the window, looking out, hands against the glass.

2024/08/05

August 5, 2024
A person holding a lantern walks across an open field at night under a clear, starry blue sky. The person is approaching a large statue of a person wearing a suit and tie, hand extended as though giving a speech. The statue has no head; in place of a head is a large, glowing white moon-like smiley-face hovering above the statue.

2024/07/19

July 19, 2024
A person stands on the porch of a small house in early morning. The person is holding a cup of coffee and looking at the sky, or where the sky should be. The sky is the blue of a Windows "blue screen of death"; a giant white frowny-face hovers like a celestial object. It is going to be a Day. It is going to be several of them.

2024/06/28

June 28, 2024
A giant yellow smiley-face, mounted on the side of a building as though it's a billboard. The sky is the dark blue of oncoming dusk, pink-tinged in the top right, and is slightly foggy. On top of the smiley-face sits a small hunched-over figure with dark fur and horns, wearing an angry-face mask.

2024/05/31

May 31, 2024
A short figure with a large Napoleon-style tricorn hat and a heavy overcoat. The figure has a fashionable cane or a stick in its right hand. Its left hand is planted on its hip. Its smooth face and empty eyes suggest that it is wearing a mask. In the center of its hat is a very realistic eye. It is standing on a small hill. This is a primarily purple drawing, with highlights rendered in bioluminescent green.

2024/05/28

May 28, 2024
A person wearing a fedora and a dark suit and tie. The person has wide, staring eyes, and an extremely intense expression. The person's head is disproportionately large, and looks more like an illustration or cartoon than a realistic rendering. The right side of the person's head is bright red, as though caught in a red spotlight. The left side is white. This is a craggy, round face: perhaps a businessman gone to seed, or a dissolute government agent with too many years on the job. This is a primarily black and white drawing, with the exception of the red.

2024/05/27

May 27, 2024
An unsettling goblin-like person with a bald head, pointed ears, and round, unpleasantly glistening eyes. Its mouth is hanging open, teeth exposed in a prominent overbite. It looks like Gollum's clueless uncle. This is a mostly dark, monochrome drawing that looks like it was rendered in charcoal.

2024/05/26

May 26, 2024
A creature with two legs and one arm. The creature is simple, brightly colored, and set against a black background, as though cut out of construction paper. Its body is reddish-orange with touches of magenta. It has spikes on its shoulder and arm. It is wearing a bright green and yellow mask with three red eyes and a beard that looks like it's made of connections on a circuit board. The mask has two horns. Floating above the creature are blurry multicolored bubbles.

2024/05/25

May 25, 2024
A dark, gray night. A remote, grassy hill. Rising up from the hill is a small, oddly shaped house, with no windows, a pointed roof, and a doorway like an open mouth. On the side of the house, at the top, is a large white eye. Hanging over the door is a small, glowing sign that says "open". This is a monochrome drawing rendered primarily in gray and black.

2024/05/22

May 22, 2024
A blue shield with a realistic portrait of a devil on it. The devil has a heavy brow, muttonchop whiskers, and no ears. The devil is rendered in fluorescent green, with yellow light illuminating one side of the devil's face. Above the shield floats a green bar with diagonal yellow stripes on it, looking sort of like those barriers you see at construction scenes. Floating above the bar is a ghostly greenish star. A dark figure is standing behind the shield, aligned in such a way that it looks like the face on the shield is the figure's head. The figure is holding a glowing greenish-yellow key. The devil in the shield appears to be looking at the key. The background of this drawing is black.

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)

2024/05/17

May 17, 2024
A Martian landscape: yellow sky, red soil, desert landscape. Hovering above the ground is a strange figure. The top of its head is perfectly flat, its eyes are large and empty, and it has a haggard expression. Its face looks almost like a mask. It has thin arms and two short legs. It is being suspended above the ground by a very small red balloon attached to its backpack.

2024/05/15

May 15, 2024
A dark figure with long, clawed hands and a pointed tail stands on a small promontory. In its right hand, the figure holds up a glowing blue orb. The figure's head is white, with two long, thin horns, a thin scraggly beard, and empty black eyes that suggest a mask. The background is dark blue, suggesting night.

2024/05/12

May 12, 2024
A strange figure wearing a gray suit and tie. This is a portrait taken of the figure from the chest up. The suit is mostly featureless, except for what appears to be an ID card and name tag on the left breast, and a small yellow star pin on the right. The figure's head is green and yellow, perfectly circular, with seven eyes scattered about it. Each eye has a different, colorful iris. The irises on two of the eyes are stars. The head also has three horns: two on the left, and one on the right. Floating above the figure's head is a dim, hazy, bluish-green star.

2024/05/10

May 10, 2024
A desolate, grassy area at what is either sunrise or sunset. The sky is pink and purple. Standing in the middle of the grassy area is a tall pole. At the top of the pole is a large smiley-face sign. It looks like the sort of sign a gas station might have: this giant round smiley-face that appears to be made of metal. The pole is supported by another pole right next to it, and a glowing white street lamp is mounted on it, extending out to the right. To the left of the two poles is a small electrical box. The leftmost supporting pole has some cables and pipes mounted on it.

2024/05/05

May 5, 2024
A creature comprised of two halves that look like they're stacked on top of each other. The top half is the upper part of a head and nose. It is yellow-green, facing right, with three eyes that are looking down and to the left. The three eyes are different colors and have different colored concentric circles in the irises. The lower half has nothing but two short legs and a giant open mouth with teeth. The left side of the lower half is orange crimson; the right side is a glowing, bioluminescent green. The background is dark gray.

2024/05/03

May 3, 2024
A bizarre ghost-shaped creature, vaguely reminiscent of the ghosts in Pac-Man. It has a dome-shaped head and no arms. The lower half of it is ragged. Its color is a mixture of crimson and roughly painted, iridescent green. The green texture extends beyond its body, as though it is dripping or glowing. The upper half of its body is covered by four eyes with multicolored irises. The largest, top-most eye has two irises. It also has three horns, and a glowing halo that appears to be dripping with paint.

2024/04/25

April 25, 2024
A ghostly blue-green figure standing against a dark background. The figure is wearing a suit jacket and black tie, with an ID badge on its left breast and three stars on its right shoulder. The figure does not have a head. Floating above its empty neck is a round, blazing orange object that looks like a coin. The head on the coin is gaunt, with staring, empty eyes and two horns. Floating above the coin is a pale blue halo.

2024/04/22

April 22, 2024
A ghostly white figure in a meadowlike wasteland holds up a large white mask with a cartoonish smiley-face on it. Far away, on a hill, another ghostly figure holds up a similar white mask, but it's too small to see an actual face. This is a primarily black and teal drawing.

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