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2024/08/25

August 25, 2024
A large, engineered structure, somewhere between a building and the detail of a spaceship. It has various facets and panels. It does not look like a recognizable building; more something made out of metal. There are two tall windows on one side, glowing green, and a few windows on another side, reflecting the dark blue of an evening sky. A large door is open on one side, with a gangplank stretching down from it. A person is walking down the gangplank, pushing a suitcase on wheels. This whole thing seems to be positioned on a tarmac. In the background, a blurry large building is visible, antennas on the roof. This is a mostly blue drawing, with the structure being a metallic dark green.

2024/08/24

August 24, 2024
A person wearing a jacket and tie stands to the left inside a giant stone arch. The back wall of the arch is covered with graffiti. The person looks startled and is peering upward. Hovering in the top left of the arch is a blurry, glowing, fluorescent green apparition.

2024/08/23

August 23, 2024
A fluorescent green meadow that looks as though it is illuminated by sunlight, except the sky above is dark and filled with stars. One star in particular is greenish and particularly prominent. In the right is the blurry dark outline of a distant forest, a slight glow above the trees as though the sun has just gone down. Hovering above the meadow is a very large orange-gold bubble. Below the bubble, making its way through the meadow, is a hunched, dark figure holding a staff.

2024/08/22

August 22, 2024
A movable platform, like that a window washer would use, attached to the side of some iron girders; perhaps an unfinished skyscraper. A person is standing on the platform applying a tool that looks like an acetylene torch to a spot on the girder. The white glow reflects off the person. Perched on top of the arm from which the platform is suspended is a large bird. The sun hangs in the yellow sky.

2024/08/21

August 21, 2024
A dim, heavy evening, the air purple with fog and clouds. In the background is the large blurry suggestion of a mountain or perhaps a building. On the right side of the painting, an eerie building. The architecture, from what we can see of it, is indeterminate: an alien blend of brutalist and Gothic. There is a vast yawning mouth of a door with a few round windows above it, suggesting an enormous fish with its mouth open. Red light glows from the interior, spilling out onto the grass in front of it. To the left, approaching the doorway, is a figure riding a hobby horse, as one does not simply walk into Mordor.

2024/08/20

August 20, 2024
A foreboding, heavily clouded sky. Beneath it sits a castle on a hill, a small path running below the castle. There is a suggestion of patches of trees. The castle has a few lit windows, but seems largely abandoned. This is a mostly blue-green painting.

2024/08/19

August 19, 2024
A person balances unsteadily on a haphazard pile of unevenly sized boxes. The boxes are worn, with faded paint on them. They look almost like they are made of wood. Each one has a checkbox on its side, painted in a different style. Some of the boxes are very large, several times the size of the person. The background is a featureless blue-and-yellow painted texture.

2024/08/18

August 18, 2024
A hairy, horned figure on a bicycle pedals madly through a heavy, gray sky. The bicycle is flying above a thick, spiky lightning bolt that is positioned horizontally, like a road. The bike has a light on the front, casting a greenish light. The figure has a glowing greenish halo above its head.

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.

2024/08/16

August 16, 2024
A factory, bristling with smokestacks, that is also a small house. The sky is a heavy, slate gray. Several of the taller smokestacks are pouring smoke into the sky, and have small glowing green lights on them. On the front of the factory is a door and a glowing green window, which, by scale, suggest that the factory is the size of a cottage. Someone is silhouetted in the window, looking out.

2024/08/15

August 15, 2024
In the foreground, two figures climb a jagged black mountain peak, arriving at the summit. In front of them looms a vast white mountain, something on the scale of Everest. The very tip of the mountain has swung up to the left side like a lid, and a flying saucer has emerged from within the mountain. The sky is a clear blue.

2024/08/14

August 14, 2024
A dark gray scene. Perched on top of a misshapen tower of what looks like rock stands a figure, clearly agitated, pointing a flashlight down to the right of the drawing. The beam of the flashlight is a glowing fluorescent green. In the background on the left, dim but unmistakable, another blurry figure is approaching.

2024/08/13

August 13, 2024
A small round building, white, with a pointed dark roof, sits in the middle of a grassy meadow on a clear blue day. It has a red door with two crossed boards on it, like a barn. Below the building, below the earth, is a subterranean room with brick walls. A single torch burns in the gloom. Snaking from behind one of the walls is a giant gray tail.

2024/08/12

August 12, 2024
A monochrome, charcoal drawing of a dark figure wearing a long black coat and holding a black umbrella. It stands by the side of the road, buildings in the background. Most unsettlingly, the figure is wearing a ghost mask from the Scream film series. The buildings in the background look like shopping centers and fast food places; the McDonalds logo can be seen. This is at night, the full moon high in the sky. Unlike most of the other stuff I post on here, I didn't imagine this; I saw this person standing by the side of the road while driving home tonight.

2024/08/11

August 11, 2024
A tiny house with graffiti on the front, a small door with a warning sign, and a single large window through which can be seen the silhouette of a horned figure. The house is under the arch of a bridge that looks like an aqueduct. Walking across the bridge, above the house, is a billy goat. The sky is the red-orange of sunset.

2024/08/10

August 10, 2024
A large body of water. On the right side of the painting is an outcropping of heavily wooded land jutting into the water: maybe an island, maybe the coastline. On a small beach, someone stands next to a fire, the dark smoke rising into the otherwise clear blue sky. To the right, in the dark of the trees, another figure stands next to the water. In the sky are two moons: a huge one, looming over the scene, and then a smaller one closer to the horizon. A few white birds circle over the fire.

2024/08/09

August 9, 2024
A huge red tower with hornlike turrets rises from behind two dark hills covered with trees. Cutting between the hills is a small curving road. Most of the hills are in shadow, but the trees at the top are flaming red, caught in red sunlight. The sky is blazing yellow, with no sun visible. Hovering about the tower are small reddish blips that suggest aircraft. Such an infernal vision can only be born of the dismal labors of SATAN, whose awful Clutches know no Bounds.

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.

2024/08/07

August 7, 2024
A field with spherical objects connected to the ground by vines. The objects look like fruits or vegetables, but have smiley faces on them, as though they are emoji. In the distance is a ragged scarecrow, its head a frowning face. Perched on its right arm is a bird. There is a suggestion of trees in the distance. The sky is cloudy. This is a pink and purple painting.

2024/08/06

August 6, 2024
A lonely, wooded mountaintop under a greenish-yellow sky. Blazing in the top right of the sky is a white dot: not the moon, not the sun, something else. A small gray path winds up the mountain. At the top of the mountain is a crumbling, abandoned radio installation: a small shack and a large dish on a tower. A single bird is in the sky.

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.

2024/08/04

August 4, 2024
A large monster with two horns and a tail stands glowing white in a blue spotlight. The monster appears to be performing, holding a top hat up in its left hand and a cane in its right. It is surrounded by a crowd of people, at least one of whom is holding a phone. The surrounding theater area is dark.

2024/08/03

August 3, 2024
A very small cylindrical building with a conical roof. It looks like the top of a castle turret. On the left side of the building is an open doorway, revealing glowing blue light from within. To the left of the building is a small round sign with the word "Bus" on it. The building is on a raised structure that looks like a bridge that abruptly ends in midair. Below, and all around, is an unending inferno that suggests hell. Below the building are a few tall posts with flames at the top like torches. Circling in the red sky are large batlike creatures. This is what happens when a nation doesn't prioritize public transportation infrastructure. It's a damned shame is what it is.

2024/08/02

August 2, 2024
A monochrome painting of a person wearing a black coat and fedora. The person has a white face and is looking over their shoulder at the viewer. They are holding a staff flaming like a torch at the top end. There is a clock key sticking out of their back, as though they are a windup toy. A white halo hovers over their head.

2024/08/01

August 1, 2024
A painting of the wolf and Red Riding Hood. The wolf is a tall, looming, humanoid figure standing on two legs, wearing a suit and tie. It looks like a tall man in a suit with a wolf's head and a white eye. Red Riding Hood, much shorter, stands to the right. She is holding her phone in front of her and turning to look over her shoulder at the wolf as though he has surprised her. Red Riding Hood is wearing a red dress and hood, but has no face; just a white blank where her face would be. They are both standing under a blazing streetlight. The background is blurry gray.

2024/07/31

July 31, 2024
A tall, narrow house with an upper story slightly overhanging the front porch and a sharp, sloping roof. A rear window on the first floor is lit with an eerie, greenish light. A tall window on the second floor is also lit with the same light. Framed in the window is a robot, staring out. The top of the roof has several antennas. Sitting on the steps of the front porch is a human figure, partly illuminated by the porch light. The sky is pink, as though the sun is going down or just coming up. The only visible celestial object is a bright white dot, too small to be the moon and too large to be a star.

2024/07/30

July 30, 2024
A person sits on a dark, planetlike sphere hanging in a blue, starry sky. The sphere is about the size of a small house relative to the person. The person is sitting at a small round cafe table, illuminated by a ceiling lamp hanging from above. What the lamp is attached to is not clear. In the sky to the right is a crescent moon.

2024/07/29

July 29, 2024
A large field under a hot yellow afternoon sky. The field has tall grass with a suggestion of woods in the background, and small white and yellow flowers about. Standing in the middle of the field is a person with their left hand on their hip, a phone in their right hand. In the sky is a cloud shaped like the "typing" bubble on iOS Messages, partially obscuring the sun.

2024/07/28

July 28, 2024
A tall, narrow building with a pointed roof, about the size and shape of an outhouse. The building is actually a trailer, with a single wheel and a small balcony in the back. It is brown, with orange pinstripes. Most of the side is taken up with two colorful stained glass windows. Above the windows is the Facebook "angry face" emoji. Hanging on the right side of the trailer is a small sign with "Open" in red letters. Inside the trailer is a large shape; a blurry silhouette seen through the glass. The sky and the background are yellow, with the sun hanging high in the sky.

2024/07/27

July 27, 2024
A large meadow with tall grass and wildflowers. The sky is a very pale, mostly white blue. In the distance is the blurry hint of a tree line. Hovering in the air is a stone cube with a question mark carved into it; an object that should be familiar to anybody who's played Mario. The cube is covered with vegetation and has moss hanging from below. Colored butterflies flutter around it. On the ground, someone approaches the cube holding a ladder. The ladder does not look long enough to reach the question mark. A few birds circle high in the sky.

2024/07/26

July 26, 2024
A scene at night. The full moon hangs in the sky, casting light on rows of clouds. A creature with fur, horns, and a tail holds a hand out towards a large raven perched on a pole. The scenery is barren and indeterminate. This is a primarily black-and-white drawing that looks like it was rendered in charcoal.

2024/07/25

July 25, 2024
A mountain peak set against a greenish-yellow sky. Hovering at the very top of the peak is an iconic depiction of two white four-pointed stars, similar to the "AI" icon used by web apps. Arranged around the base of the mountain are small blue icons that look like representations of people, or "users".

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