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2023/12/13

December 13, 2023
A giant, furry red creature with two pointy ears and round, shiny, insect-like eyes pilots a white two-wheeled vehicle. The vehicle looks like a bicycle, but instead of a seat and pedals, it has a tiny basket that looks like the lower half of an egg. There is no obvious engine or propulsion system. The creature is, impossibly, squeezed into the basket. A creature this size would presumably have very large legs, but no legs are visible. The overall effect is of a giant red bear riding a cartoonishly tiny bicycle. The background of the drawing is black.

2023/12/07

December 7, 2023
A person wearing a sharp blue suit and tie stands, arms akimbo, controlling a small marionette-figure in each hand. The person's head is a giant rage emoji, styled to look like the one used by Facebook: a scowling icon with the top part flushed red-orange, flames appearing to leap from the top. The background is white, and the marionettes and the ground they stand on is a dark navy blue.

2023/12/04

December 4, 2023
A creature with no arms, two short legs, and a round, bulbous body that is also its head. The creature has no mouth or nose, just one large, emerald-green eye in the middle of its head. It is primarily white, with a slight blue texturing. Bizarrely, it is wearing a black top hat. The background of the drawing is crimson with tints of yellow. The drawing looks like it was drawn in oil crayons.

2023/12/03

December 3, 2023
A person wearing a long cloak and top hat stands near a light. The person's face is disturbingly clownish, with garish pink makeup on their lips and eyes. The person appears to loom towards the viewer. The drawing looks like it is rendered in oil; the texture is rough, the details blurry. The background of the drawing is yellow, and the figure is blue. The left side of the figure has white light reflecting off of it; the right side has a bluish-green tint, as though reflecting a pale green light from somewhere else.

2023/12/01

December 1, 2023
A creature with no arms, a sharp nose, and two large horns. The creature is viewed in profile, with only one eye visible. The creature seems to be wearing a monocle in that eye. The creature looks as though it's wearing large, iron pants; that, or seated in a baby-carriage-like conveyance that has two legs instead of wheels. The background of the drawing is bright orange; the pants are black, the creature is white.

2023/11/30

November 30, 2023
A large yellow speech balloon, containing no text, just an enormous face with two round, empty eyes and a large toothy smile. It looks like a cross between the standard smiley-face icon and a monstrous jack-o'-lantern. The speech balloon is coming from a small figure in the lower right of the drawing. The figure is a silhouette with no defining features and stands in the middle of a small round shadow. The background of the drawing is bright red; the speech balloon and face is yellow; the figure is off-white; and the shadow is dark purple.

2023/11/22

November 22, 2023
A chaotic background of black and white stripes, like television static. In the foreground is a grotesque figure, visible from the chest up. It's a man with a broad, sallow face, wearing sunglasses with thick white rims. The man has a wide nose; a solid, cleft jaw; and short blondish hair the same color of his skin, arranged in an unnaturally neat style that looks like a parody of a fashionable haircut. The man's mouth is twisted into a leer, one thick pink lower lip visible. The man is wearing an ugly brown suit with a white shirt and a black tie. This, to anybody who's vaguely familiar with weird happenings, is Max Headroom—more specifically, the version of him that unexpectedly showed up on Chicago TV stations on this day in 1987. If you're wondering what's happened, so am I.

2023/11/19

November 19, 2023
A creature with a giant head, in profile, and three legs. The head looks vaguely like the talking head icon from old Macintosh operating systems: elongated nose; very simple facial features; a vertical line for an eye and a horizontal line for a mouth. On the side of its head, where its cheek would be, is a large, slightly dimensional speech balloon with a blue lightning bolt inside it. The drawing is blue ink on a green background. The creature's eye, and some of the shading on the speech balloon, is white.

2023/11/17

November 17, 2023
A large figure with two small legs, no arms, a bulky upper body, and a head that looks like a space helmet with horns. Where the face would be is a round glass window with nothing visible through it. On the creature's chest is a lightning-bolt symbol. Extending down from the upper side of the creature's chest is a cable attached to a small rectangular box, making it look like the creature is recharging or refueling. The drawing is bright leaf-green ink on a dark brown background.

2023/11/14

November 14, 2023
A large torso with two legs and no arms. Where the head and shoulders would be is a grassy surface. This is the lower half of a creature, made from soil. The creature stands on a field at night. No moon is visible, but there seems to be moonlight reflecting off the creature. Stuck in the grassy top part of the creature is a short shovel. Buried inside the creature is a crumbling skull, off which the moonlight is also reflecting even though it's totally buried in the soil. This is a black drawing on a dark blue surface, with the moonlight rendered in very pale blue.

2023/11/11

November 11, 2023
A face that appears to be carved into a rectangular block of wood or stone. The face is craggy with a hooked nose, a mouth straight as a ruler, and two round eye sockets without eyes. The left eye socket is empty; not a hole, but a circular indentation, as if you pressed a sphere into clay. The right eye socket is a round black hole, like you'd find on a mask. Sitting inside that hole, as though looking out a window, is a small figure with antlers and a suit jacket. That eye socket is surrounded by odd striations and wrinkles. The drawing is black ink on a green background.

2023/11/10

November 10, 2023
A promontory shaped like a horn. Standing below it, in its shadow, is a small figure holding a hiking staff. Balanced on the promontory, tipping forwards and about to come crashing down, is a huge boulder with an eye on it, staring at the figure below. The drawing is black ink on an orange background.

2023/11/08

November 8, 2023
A very short creature, with two short legs, no arms, a large toothy open mouth, and one visible eye. The creature's head is its entire body. This basically looks like a monstrous incarnation of Pac-Man with a terrifyingly realistic eye and legs. Escaping from the creature's mouth is a white cloud that looks like a speech balloon. In the cloud where the text would be is an eye. The iris of the eye has a small lightning-bolt icon. The drawing is black ink on a light teal-blue/green background.

2023/11/07

November 7, 2023
A hunched-over creature holds a large, triangular sign up to its face, covering its head entirely. The sign looks like one of those warning signs with the exclamation point in a triangle, but this design is slightly different: the dot in the exclamation point has been replaced with a wide, frowning mouth. The drawing is bright, neon green on a black background.

2023/11/04

November 4, 2023
A small, grassy hillock. At the very bottom of the drawing, set into the hill, is the top of an arched steel door. Most of the door is not visible, cropped by the lower edge of the drawing. The door has a round window set in the top center of it. A large eye is peering out of the window, looking up. Planted in the top of the hillock is a weed-covered, dilapidated sign with the word "exit" in rough uppercase lettering. There are a few wispy clouds in the sky. The drawing is indigo ink on a yellow background.

2023/11/02

November 2, 2023
A sinister figure with no arms, spindly legs, and a vast body covered in what looks like an overcoat. The figure has a small hat with a brim, a face mostly in shadow, and eyes that glow. Incongruously, the figure is wearing a pin with a smiley-face on it.

2023/11/01

November 1, 2023
A scarecrow with two stick legs, no head, a large wide-brimmed hat, and a tattered T-shirt with a smiley-face symbol on it. The scarecrow stands under a blazing sun in the middle of a meadow with a couple of stalks nearby. A black bird is perched on the scarecrow's hat. The scarecrow and field are black; the sun is white; the background is orange.

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.

2023/10/23

October 23, 2023
A confusing amalgam of a figure: two legs; a cloak with a pocket in which is stuck a giant wrench; three large horns sticking out of the top of the cloak; and a spherical white face with a shock of white hair, sticking out of the right side of the cloak where an arm might be. Imagine a cross between some sort of dinosaur and an armless hunchback with a smiley-face for a head. If you have any loose bolts, he'll tighten them, somehow.

2023/10/22

October 22, 2023
A rough, misshapen mask of a face—more suggestive of a fragment than a single object itself—with a large nose, open mouth, and bony, irregular striations. The eyes are two blank spheres that seem to float next to the mask. The mask is bright green on a black background.

2023/10/21

October 21, 2023
A figure with three legs and no arms. The figure is wearing a trenchcoat and a large-brimmed spy hat, with one giant crimson eye appearing under the hat. The coat is buttoned up tightly around a large eyeball that, while most of it is concealed, appears to be the entirety of the creature's head.

2023/10/20

October 20, 2023
A window on a bright yellow wall in a well-lit room. Outside the window, it is night: a deep blue. Also outside the window, peering through it, one large paw against the glass, is the huge, shapeless figure of the Groke. You will find the ground beneath this window frozen solid tomorrow, as though the dead of winter visited this one specific spot. Nothing will grow there until spring.

2023/10/19

October 19, 2023
It's night: a clear sky, and a bright full moon. A figure is standing in front of a large, abandoned-looking building, shining a flashlight beam on an arched doorway. Above the doorway is an ornate metal arm from which hangs a sign, sort of like what you'd see on a tavern in an old city. The sign has the word "exit" on it. There is an arched window above the doorway, completely black, except for a sinister figure looking out of it. The figure looks like it is wearing a coat and tie; the face, dimly illuminated by the moon, looks like a skull or mask.

2023/10/17

October 17, 2023
A figure that appears to be wearing a ghost costume made of a sheet. The figure is yellow, with no arms, and is also wearing a crimson broad-brimmed hat that looks like something a cartoon spy would wear. The figure's face is a simple smiley-face arrangement of two round holes for eyes and a smiling empty mouth.

2023/10/15

October 15, 2023
A chunk of misshapen metal with ripples and striations across it, as though it's partially melted. At various locations on the metal are neat round holes, like for bolts or or screws. The metal resembles a roughly crafted mask of a cyclops, with a large single eye at the top, a straight rudimentary nose, and a gaping horizontal hole for a mouth.

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.

2023/10/05

October 5, 2023
A furry, orange, two-legged creature with a tuft of hair, three horns, and one bright green eye with a narrow slit for an iris, like a snake's eye.

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.

2023/10/02

October 2, 2023
A large stone archway with a small cylindrical turret built on one side of it. The turret has a glowing window on the side. A full moon is shining in a clear, starry sky. Inside the archway is built what looks like a decrepit wooden platform. Sitting on the platform is an oddly large humanoid creature smoking a pipe.

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.

2023/09/23

September 23, 2023
A figure with exaggerated proportions—small head, thin arms and legs, a very wide body—stands on a black background. The figure's chest is covered by an expressionless face with empty eyes. The figure is standing beneath a bright yellow star.

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