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2023/12/24

December 24, 2023
A small figure wearing a space suit, floating in space. Inside the figure's spherical glass helmet floats a goldfish. The figure is short, both arms outstretched. The stars are all around. The drawing is pale blue-green ink on a black background, with white highlights. The fish is gold-tinted.

2023/12/23

December 23, 2023
A barren landscape at night; a clear sky filled with stars. A weird, conical structure protrudes up from the ground, sort of a cross between a drillbit and a wasp nest. Inset into the structure is a window—the silhouette of a person is visible. In the sky is a glowing celestial object. The drawing is yellow lines on a black background, with white highlights.

2023/12/15

December 15, 2023
A dark, northern forest at night, the full moon high in the sky. Green and blue curtains of auroral glow hang above the low treeline. Down among the trees stands a large, shambling figure, hunched over a glowing white fire. The fire is more of a greenish hue than the yellow one would expect. There are strange things in the woods at night.

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.

2023/12/11

December 11, 2023
A clear, starry night. In the middle of a meadow stands a tall, boxy stone column with the word "here" carved into it. Visible in the sky behind it is an asteroid flaming towards earth, presumably headed for the designated landing spot.

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.

2023/12/05

December 5, 2023
A spooky, abandoned castle looms out of the fog on a dim evening. Visible is a tall, wide tower the size and shape of an apartment building, with a crenellated top, and—in front of it—a smaller wing with a sloped roof and a round window at the top. Behind it is a forest. Standing in front of the castle is a small figure holding a glowing yellow lantern. The figure appears to be standing in a low layer of fog. At the top of the tower, looking back, is another figure: a glowing white one. The background is mostly a dull blue with hints of green and yellow. The drawing is shades of dark blue.

2023/12/02

December 2, 2023
A tall, blocky object that looks like a spaceship or a machine built for traveling. The object is roughly the size and shape of a small tenement building. It has angular, irregular sides, and an overall alien shape and appearance. It has two mechanical legs that keep it upright. On the top and on the lower left side are placed two glowing red lights. The object has two glowing green slots in the top left and a glowing green window in the top right. White steam is pouring out of the object from the middle of the lower left. On the lower right of the object, a hatchway is opened, revealing internals. Someone is standing on a platform, looking into the hatchway and making repairs. The background is blue; the drawing is black; the lights and windows have white highlights, and are red and neon green.

2023/11/28

November 28, 2023
A tall, wedge-shaped rock. It looks like a stone spearhead planted point-up in the ground. Emanating from two points in the rock is a ghost. A moon—or maybe the sun?—hangs in the sky. The drawing is black ink on a yellow background. The ghost is white, and the celestial body is also rendered in white.

2023/11/16

November 16, 2023
A dark night. Rearing up out of the ground is what appears to be a tree, although it's hard to make out in the gloom. The tree does not have any branches, it's just a winding trunk, extending upward. Hanging in the sky, right behind the tree, is a large orange moon with a smiley-face on it. Below, to the left of the tree, emerging out of the gloom, is a figure wearing a tall hat and carrying a lantern, which casts an orange light on the trunk of the tree. The figure is dimly illuminated by both the lantern and the smiling moon in the sky. The drawing is black ink on a dark blue background. The moon is orange; the lantern and lantern light is yellow.

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.

2023/11/12

November 12, 2023
A scene at night. A ramshackle construction sits on a beach: a small shack, with another shack raised on stilts, fused into one corner of the first one. Both have windows, but the window in the ground-floor shack is lit. A television aerial is planted on the roof of the second shack. Flying over both of them is a large pirate flag, fixed to a pole emerging from roof of the ground-floor shack. This is a slightly different design of a pirate flag, though: instead of a skull, there's a smiley-face. The moon sits right above the horizon, reflecting on the ocean, either rising or setting. The drawing is rendered in black ink; the lit window is yellow; the moon is a pale white, and the rest of the scene is dark blue.

2023/10/31

October 31, 2023
A spooky house. The house is tall and thin—"spindly" might be a better word—with at least three stories, and two covered porches, one above the other. The architecture is almost cartoonish: curvy and warped. Most of the windows are dark, except for the very top one in the attic, which glows a bright, otherworldly green. Nothing is seen in this window, just the light. Above the house hangs a large, orange moon, the shadows suggesting a skeletal face. On the first-floor covered veranda stands a blurry, translucent white figure.

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.

2023/10/24

October 24, 2023
A huge asteroid-like rock hangs suspended in a dark blue starry sky. Built on the top of a rock is a small concrete house that looks a bit slipshod in construction: uneven walls, uneven windows. In the back is a porch with a roof. Hanging from the bottom of the asteroid are what looks like weeds or Spanish moss. In the top right of the sky is a bright, full moon, the white light reflecting off the roof and sides of the house. The house has several windows, most of which are dark, but one of which is lit with bright yellow light. No living things are visible.

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.

2023/10/03

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.

2023/10/01

October 1, 2023
A glowing, elongated, house-sized pumpkin at night. The two blazing yellow eyes look like upper story windows; the mouth is an open doorway. There is no nose. In the right window sits a black cat. The yellow light spilling out of the mouth is reflected off the ground as though the ground is slightly wet or icy. In the foggy sky sits a full moon, the pale light reflecting off the stem of the pumpkin. This beautiful Sunday the first of October is decorative gourd season, and we at #notesArt Industries have been awaiting this moment since the weather got warm half a year earlier.

2023/09/29

September 29, 2023
A small figure sits on the edge of what could be a giant cube or a building. The roof is deep blue; the left face of the cube is bright green, and the right face is bright red. The left face has a window in it, in which a cat is sitting. The strange part is that while the edge that the figure sits on looks like the outer wall of the building, the perspective applied to the window makes it look as if the window is set on the inner wall. The figure and the cat are looking at each other across the gap of two perspectives that don't match. Behind the figure is a dark night sky with a moon and some slight fog.

2023/09/19

September 19, 2023
A night scene, with three blazing white objects in a dark indigo sky. The horizon is crimson. In the middle is an archway with light blazing from it, suggesting a portal or gateway of some sort. A figure stands in the archway, silhouetted in the white light.

2023/09/16

September 16, 2023
A clear night, the deep blue sky dominated by a blazing white moon. Reaching into the sky are two tall, thin buildings: imagine very thin skyscrapers without the rest of a city. They're planted in the middle of nowhere. There's something eerily non-human about them; almost like some natural construction—wasp nests, termite mounds—rather than buildings. The ground around them is barren, reflecting the moonlight, and could even be snow-covered. In both structures, only one window is illuminated. In the one closest to the viewer, a silhouette is visible. The drawing style uses a texture comprised of rough, heavy brushstrokes.

2023/09/13

September 13, 2023
An eerie scene. A tall, spindly figure and a thick, crooked tree stand silhouetted against an unsettling green light: the atmosphere of a foggy wood or swamp at night. The figure stands on the left; the tree is on the right. The figure carries a small briefcase or lunchbox in one hand, and has a broom in the other. The unevenness of the ground suggests a swamp or wild area.

2023/09/08

September 8, 2023
A tall, oddly, thin building stands in the middle of nowhere. It's a dark, starless night. The building is about three stories high, but only as wide as two ordinary-sized doorways; imagine a three-story walk-in closet with no windows, except one at the very top on the left side of the building. That window is boarded shut, but something is clearly going on inside, judging by the eerie green light filtering between the boards. The door is closed, but the same light is trickling underneath it. The door has some papers stuck to it. The lower left side of the building seems to have a chunk taken out of it. The most distinctive feature of the building, though, is the giant vertical sign bolted onto the right side. The sign is about 2/3 as tall as the building itself and has the word "Diner" on it in glowing, radioactive-green lettering; the same color as the light from inside the building. The light from the sign illuminates the ground under it. Perched on top of the sign is a large bird that looks like a raven. In the background is the blurry suggestion of a treeline.

2023/09/05

September 5, 2023
A large bird-like creature stands on a branch at night. The creature looks a little like an owl, with long pointed ears, but has a face more suggestive of a cat. In the center of the creature's chest, there's a round, brightly lit yellow window with someone looking out of it. The creature's eyes are also round and yellow. The creature stands against a starry sky.

2023/08/29

August 29, 2023
A vast desert plain. Above, the sky is black and starry; below, a light blazes on the horizon, less like a sunset and more like a bonfire. Hanging above the plain is what appears to be an asteroid with a huge eye on it. The eye is looking down at the desert, where a tiny figure stands, both arms raised, seemingly signaling to it.

2023/08/25

August 25, 2023
A cliff, and then a ravine. It's that part of the evening where it's mostly night: not quite black, but a deep blue. Parked on top of the cliff, at the left, is a car with its lights on. To the right, the cliff drops into a sharp, rocky ravine, filled with weeds and small trees. Down in the depths of the ravine is a person hunting for something with a flashlight. In the background is a blurry suggestion of woods. There's no moon or stars in the sky. The sky is empty.

2023/08/21

August 21, 2023
A large person with a shaved head and a suit and tie, apparently walking down a city street at night. Behind them is a streetlight; further behind are the suggestions of skyscrapers. The whole scene is rendered in rough textures and bright red, green, and blue, suggesting a neon woodcut.

2023/08/19

August 19, 2023
A hillside, gleaming in the moonlight, possibly covered with snow. In the sky sits a blazing full moon. The whole scene is blue. Cast sharply in the moonlight, moving up the side of the hill, is a shapeless lump of a figure: a troll-like creature with large paws, a heavy brow, a long nose, and white, staring eyes. It appears to be transfixed by the full moon. This, for anyone who is familiar with Tove Jansson's Moominland series, is the Groke: out and about on a night when no one but the Groke would be stirring.

2023/07/19

July 19, 2023
A scene through a tall, grimy window with venetian blinds at the top. The window looks out onto two tenement buildings, either next door or across the street. It's night, but not a dark night so much as a dull, cloudy, light-polluted night. The buildings are mostly dark, with no street lights or external illumination visible. There is no moon or stars. A few of the windows in the buildings are dimly lit, suggesting television screens or reading lamps inside. No figures can be seen behind the windows.

2023/07/16

July 16, 2023
An overcast night, with no stars and only a hazy moon in the sky. Below is a house; more specifically, the cross-section of a small house. By "small", it appears that the house has only three rooms: a cramped little attic, a living room area, and below, a basement. The interiors of all three rooms are visible, like an open dollhouse. The attic is very dark and mostly empty, except for some boxes, dimly illuminated by the light coming in from a skylight. The living room is empty, except for a glowing television and a person standing in front of it, slightly hunched, hypnotized by the light from the screen. There is no light in the living room other than that which comes from the television screen. There is one indiscernible picture hung on the wall, and no other furnishings. But it's the basement that's most startling. The basement is totally empty, except for an enormous red blob with tufted fur, horns, and no facial features to speak of. The blob has one outstretched, clawed hand, reaching through a hole it has evidently punched in the basement wall. It appears to be digging a tunnel under the small porch of the house. If one is going to harbor monsters, one needs to bury them deep and remain alert.

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