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2024/04/15

April 15, 2024
A dark, dungeon-like room. There is only one window in the top left: narrow, gothic-looking, and glowing red. To the right is some sort of dimly visible pillar or arch. In the center of the room is a glowing pile of coals, gray smoke billowing from it. Rising up from the very center of the coals is what appears to be a small, black plant with leaves that look like claws. The underside of the plant is illuminated red in the glow from the embers. The flower part of the plant suggests a creature, or a Venus flytrap: two mandibles open, belching yellow fire.

2024/03/06

March 6, 2024
A room, darkened. The walls and floor are the blue color of a normally white room that's mostly dark. There's one light source, though: the large door in the center of the room, in which a tall demonic figure with horns is standing. The figure looks like it is wearing a leather jacket and has one hand on the lightswitch next to the door, as though it is walking into a closet and flicking the light on. In this case, the light is an inferno of yellow flames that spill out into the floor of the room. To the right of the flaming door is a small picture in a frame, the subject indeterminate, and an electrical outlet.

2024/02/18

February 18, 2024
A huge stone head sits in a remote area at night. It's a cloudy night; a heavy gray sky, no stars or moon. The head is obelisk-shaped, covered in graffiti, and seen in profile, with an open mouth; its eye is a single hole drilled through the stone. In front of it is a small yellow bonfire, into which a person is feeding papers. This is a mostly black and dark gray drawing, with yellow and white for the fire and reflections.

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.

2024/01/03

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.

2023/12/31

December 31, 2023
A roaring bonfire in which stands a giant figure, the flames rising around it. Flames come out of its eyes and mouth. Next to the bonfire stands a much smaller figure, holding out its left hand, from which is erupting a small fire. The drawing is primarily yellow, white, and brown, on a black background.

2023/12/14

December 14, 2023
A roaring yellow bonfire at night, casting a yellow glow all around it. Sitting directly in the middle of the bonfire, at the heart of the white flames, is a person taking a selfie. That's it. That's the tweet.

2023/10/03

October 3, 2023
A roughly bullet-shaped creature—cylindrical body, domed head, two spindly arms—stands on the ground at night in front of a small fire. The creature's left arm is up, fingers apart, conjuring up a flame. A full moon and starry sky are visible over the creature's right shoulder. The creature's face is eerily lit from below by the small fire in front of it.

2023/09/28

September 28, 2023
A figure stands on a mound. It appears to be dancing: left leg upraised, arms apart, head down. It is silhouetted against a red blaze, as though it is dancing in front of a volcano—or hell itself.

2023/09/02

September 2, 2023
A stumpy stone pedestal stands in the middle of an empty grassy area. On the pedestal is a small, child-sized statue, arms out. The right hand holds a long, crooked staff reaching down to the ground; the left hand holds a flaming torch. The statue is wearing a giant pointed Viking-esque helmet with three horns on it. The helmet is about the size of the statue itself. The background and sky are empty, suggesting an open, barren area.

2023/08/17

August 17, 2023
A rough, humanoid shape—its silhouette would resemble a person in a cave painting—stands in what appears to be the middle of a desert. The sun blazes behind it. Everything is red with heat; a glow around its legs suggests the ground is radiating energy. The figure is facing the viewer, arms stiffly straight on both sides, an inscrutable expression on its face, zombie-like. To the figure's left—your right, that is—stands a barren, leafless tree. Both the figure and the tree cast long, red shadows.

2023/06/08

June 8, 2023
A hellishly crimson day: a cloud-choked sun at high noon hangs over a wooded mountainside. The sun is dimly reflected in the lake below. Everything is red, everything is washed out. The air looks heavy, either with humidity or smoke.

2023/05/20

May 20, 2023
A large, high-ceilinged room with an old-style mainframe computer in it. The room is somewhat dismal, containing a wall clock, bucket, and mop. The computer has a data cassette on the front, and a steel-framed door and window below it. The computer has many large pipes coming out of it, as though it is a furnace. Below the computer room, in a basement area, the base of the computer extends into a large concrete fireplace with a fire burning brightly inside. The basement is dark; there's no light except for that cast by the fire. A figure stands next to the fireplace holding a shovel. The effect is of a large computer with a door that opens into a coal burning furnace below.

2023/05/10

May 10, 2023
A person stands on a barren hilltop on a gray, cloudy night. Next to the figure is a phosphor-green bonfire, pouring smoke; the smoke forms an enormous figure looming overhead, wearing a formal hat. The person is holding a phone and seems to be looking up in surprise at the figure. This is not what DoorDash deliveries typically look like.

2023/04/18

April 18, 2023
A chapel-like building with three tall bearded, robed figures carved into the walls. It has no windows; the walls are covered entirely by the carvings. The doorway is an arched overhang. Below the entrance steps is a large arch over a drainage ditch or something. A figure with horns sits in the ditch, possibly seeking protection from—but, most likely, simply admiring—the vast fireball streaking overhead; the reckoning that those tired old men on the chapel wall failed to prevent.

2023/04/13

April 13, 2023
A scene of two large, tenement-like blocks placed on a flat, desolate plain. Between them stands a huge, blazing figure, terrifying in its brilliance. Those who imagine angels as being of light should picture Lucifer. Standing in the shadows of one of the blocks is a small figure, up against the wall so as not to be seen. The blazing figure appears to be looking for something.

2023/04/08

April 8, 2023
Two people sit before a campfire at night, facing each other. The person on the left has an arm raised, as though they're telling a story. Looming behind them like a huge shadow is a great black cloud with the radioactive trefoil on it, warped and distorted, like the face of a monster formed by smoke. Part of the cloud rises up from the head of the person on the right, as though it's a speech balloon; something they're describing. There are dark things out there on the desert—and under it.

2023/02/20

February 20, 2023
A person stands high on a rocky mound on the middle of nowhere, arm outstretched, a fireball flaming up from their hand. Bizarrely, a mailbox is placed at the foot of the mound, door open and flag raised.

2023/02/14

February 14, 2023
A person stands on a hilltop at night, blowing an enormous red fireball out of a bubble wand. (You have to look closely but yes, that is a bubble wand, and an absolute hell of one.)

2023/02/03

February 3, 2023
A vast stone obelisk with a face. The mouth is an open cave with a fire burning inside. It is night. The obelisk is illuminated by a moon; an eerie, pale-green scene.

2023/02/01

February 1, 2023
A figure sits on a blue sphere suspended in starry space, staring at a glowing red cloud a ways off. The figure holds a floating yellow ball, as though about to toss it into the cloud.

2022/12/27

December 27, 2022
A giant furnace-like espresso machine dominates a tiny room, a cup of coffee balanced on one of its edges

2022/09/03

September 3, 2022

Continue reading “2022/09/03”

2022/07/24

July 24, 2022

2022/07/08

July 8, 2022
A person with a sphere for a head holds up a torch in a surreal desertlike envronment

2022/05/25

May 25, 2022
A muscular serpent breathes fire!

2022/01/06

January 6, 2022
A burning firetower surrounded by an inferno

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