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2024/12/18

December 18, 2024
An orange person balances on top of a large, shapeless, green monster. The monster is walking on two legs. The closest thing it has to a face is an opening where its mouth would be. The opening is shaped like a cleanly removed puzzle piece. The person on top of the monster is holding a fishing pole from which is dangling a glowing white puzzle piece, the exact shape of the creature's mouth. The piece is hanging right in front of the creature's face, The creature is clearly looking at it, and reaching for it. The background is a dull gray.

2024/12/13

December 13, 2024
A clear blue night with a full moon. The ground is covered in light bluish fog. Emerging through the fog is an ominous figure: humanoid, but misshapen and bulky, as though hastily assembled from rock or clay. The figure's face is not visible. The moonlight glints dully off it. Hovering above its head is a glowing white halo. This is a mostly blue painting.

2024/12/12

December 12, 2024
A person stands against a yellow orange background. The person's arms are out to their sides, their fingers curled as though clutched in frustration. The person is mostly silhouetted; we can't really see their face. They are wearing a hat with a brim. On their stomach—or perhaps representing something inside them—are red leaping flames.

2024/12/06

December 6, 2024
A figure wearing dark slacks and a white lab coat stands, arms spread in shock. On the floor is a glass test tube which the figure has just dropped, a glowing green substance spilling onto the floor and giving off a greenish steam. The figure, which may have once been a person, is bright crimson, with a fishlike face, spiky crimson hair, and bulging purple eyes. Its mouth is open. It appears to be stupefied by its remarkable transformation.

2024/12/03

December 3, 2024
Two figures against a dark, ugly, brownish background. Both figures are the same muddy brown shade, but the figure on the left is furry and hunched over, with a short tail and large clawed hands. The figure on the right is more humanoid and is stepping back, as though repulsed by the left-side figure. Where the left-side figure's head would be is a large red "pause" button; the right-side figure has a smaller, pale-white "play" button for a head. While this is not indicated anywhere in the drawing, the left-side figure is devoting all of its limited capacities to a noisy something-or-other about how healthy debate makes for a better community. The cavelike surroundings suggest otherwise.

2024/12/01

December 1, 2024
A lone figure stands in a blue, foggy space. The figure is holding what looks like a giant sign, except instead of lettering, it's a large, leering mask that looks like it's made of wood or metal. The right side of the mask is reflecting bright red light, the source unseen.

2024/11/30

November 30, 2024
A person stands amid grass, hoisting an enormous gray monster with one eye and two horns above their head. The monster is easily 2 to 3 times the size of the person. The sky is a bright orange yellow. The sun hangs high in the sky.

2024/11/27

November 27, 2024
A dark concrete room, lit only by a bright orange torch on the left side of the wall. In the center, dominating the room, is a tall black cabinet that looks like a server rack, filled with complex machines and red and green lights. At the bottom of the cabinet, a small door is open. Snaking out from the door is a large black arm with clawed fingers.

2024/11/20

November 20, 2024
A dull, boggy area in the woods on a gray day. Here, the world is more muted and the only trees are dead hulks. Sitting on a dead branch of one of the trees is a large red figure wearing a red suit and a red fedora. Perched on the figure's left hand is a raven. In the background is the blurry suggestion of a treeline and another tree.

2024/11/19

November 19, 2024
A person with devil horns holds out a top hat. A blazing white-green bolt of electricity is leaping from the opening of the hat. A foggy green glow surrounds the bolt. The person is illuminated by the bolt. This is a green drawing on a dark background.

2024/11/13

November 13, 2024
A large traffic light stands in the middle of nowhere, with only a wire fence in the background. The sky is the deep blue of either dawn or dusk, with golden light on the horizon. The red aspect is brightly lit, the yellow aspect is dimly lit, and where the green aspect would be is a black mouth with fangs. As if that weren't unsettling enough, a crow is perched on top of the light.

2024/11/11

November 11, 2024
A dark, hooded figure stands on a rocky promontory in the darkest hour of the night, holding a glowing green lantern. The full moon hangs in the sky, casting a pale light on the wispy clouds surrounding it. Below the promontory, not depicted in the image but no less real or urgent, the dark hordes assemble to fight over whatever tawdry shards remain of a splintering world. You could save 15% by switching to Geico.

2024/11/10

November 10, 2024
An eerie figure with a horned, skull-like head. The figure is wearing a tie and formal pants, and holds a briefcase in one hand and a glowing phone in the other. The figure is walking or dancing under a pink sky, in which hangs a neon-green sun or moon. The figure itself seems to be glowing with a slight greenish light. The ground it is standing on is also green.

2024/11/08

November 8, 2024
A blue, starry evening. Under the night sky is a grassy hill with a cement cylinder—imagine a manhole—sticking out the top of it. The lid of the cylinder is blown back, and a beam of white light projects from the opening. Leaping from the opening is a dark, horned figure, its hour come round at last.

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.

2024/11/01

November 1, 2024
A dull, foggy November day. A thin figure with a greenish coat, boots, and a pumpkin for a head walks across the barren ground carrying two worn suitcases. A hazy sun hangs in the sky.

2024/10/31

October 31, 2024
A dim, foggy, purple night. Placed in the middle of a meadow is an odd building: a small tower with one glowing, narrow window on the first floor and two tall, arched windows on the second floor. The windows glow green. The second floor of the building is slightly wider than the first. The roof of the building is tapered to a flat deck with a small railing around it. On the right side of the building is a small covered porch with a long staircase. Approaching out of the fog is a vast, lumbering figure with glowing white eyes. The figure appears to be, if not as tall as the building, definitely larger than anybody who lives in it. An enormous orange moon partially covered by clouds hangs in the sky.

2024/10/30

October 30, 2024
A figure with horns and a tail dances on top of a tree stump. The figure is seen from the back, and is holding a violin in one hand and a bow in another. The horizon is the pink and yellow of either a sunrise or a sunset, with the yellow light reflecting off the stump and the figure. The upper portion of the sky is blue.

2024/10/29

October 29, 2024
A skeletal figure wearing an old seaman's coat and a tricorn hat stands behind an old-style ship's steering wheel. The entire scene is illuminated in eerie green light. Above is a starry night sky crisscrossed with green lines. Meteors streak through the night. People who were online back when the floppy disk icon meant something might think this looks a little familiar.

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.

2024/10/25

October 25, 2024
Four crows cluster in front of a film screen on which is projected a scene from a black and white horror film featuring a scarecrow. On screen, the scarecrow is menacing a crow. Offscreen, it is night. A thin crescent moon sits in the sky.

2024/10/21

October 21, 2024
An ominous figure standing alone in the dark. The figure is humanoid, but has a short tail and a horned head that's shaped roughly like that of a rhinoceros. (You just know there's going to be that one guy who's all "RHINOS DON'T HAVE HORNS IN THOSE LOCATIONS.") It stands in the greenish gloom of a starless, moonless night, in what appears to be a meadow. The only light is produced by a phone, which the figure is staring at.

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.

2024/10/15

October 15, 2024
A person—very few details, visible, really, just a dark silhouette—stands on a small rectangular promontory the way someone would stand on a stage. The person is holding a thick book in their right hand, left hand upraised as though they are preaching. Fixed to the person's head with a clearly visible rod is a glowing white halo. in front of them stands another equally featureless figure, hunched forward and staring at its phone. The figure has horns, is short and thick, and is wearing suspenders. In the background, the sky is pink fading to blue.

2024/10/11

October 11, 2024
A hillside at dusk, the horizon tinted with eerie pink. A full orange moon hangs in the sky. Lurching over the hillside is a creature: a large sphere with an open, fanged mouth and no eyes. Fleeing before it are two small blue ghosts with frightened expressions. If you want to find out what happens next, you'll need to insert another quarter.

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.

2024/09/29

September 29, 2024
A featureless gray background. Looming in the background is the dark blurry figure of a person. In front of it stands a much smaller, white human figure, one arm raised towards the glowing halo above its head, as though it is putting on the halo or positioning it. It is unclear whether the huge figure in the background is a shadow cast by the smaller person, or whether it's a separate identity.

2024/09/21

September 21, 2024
Two weird creatures walk under a red sky, the blurry suggestion of woods in the background. Both appear to be slightly demonic. One, the taller one, has horns and a tail. It has a hand extended, conjuring up a small fireball. The shorter creature behind it has a long, beaklike face with spikes on its back. This is a primarily red drawing.

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.

2024/09/05

September 5, 2024
Two dark figures stand in a meadow of red and golden grass, speckled with small yellow and white flowers. The figure closest to the viewer is facing away from us. It is wearing a fedora hat, a coat with a yellow lightning bolt on the back, and it is holding a glowing white sword. In front of it, some distance away, crouches a figure wearing green armor and a horned mask. That creature has its right arm upraised, a ball of white fire hovering above its palm. Above, the sun hangs in a dull sky.

2024/09/04

September 4, 2024
A figure stands on a small stage under a dark sky. The stage is slightly conical with two shiny stripes towards the top, like the upper half of a barrel. The grass all around is glowing blue. In front of the stage is planted a small sign with a warning icon and illegible text on it. While it's not clear what the sign is warning against, the figure on top of the barrel is wearing a bright red-orange ghost costume with a single large blue eye on the front and holding a glowing wand with smoke coming off it. That, and it has a glowing halo above its head, and orange sneakers. Nature has its ways of indicating that some creatures are best left alone.

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