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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.

2024/11/09

November 9, 2024
A foggy gray woodland. Floating over it is a dark navy-blue metal sphere with several round glowing openings. Two are green, and one is red. Projecting from below the sphere is a long thornlike rod with radio dishes and antennas sticking off of it. A single bird flies over the trees.

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.

2024/11/06

November 6, 2024
A small building with a tall clocktower, a narrow arched doorway, and a narrow arched window. The building is on top of a grassy hill of greenish-brown. Behind it are orange hills that suggest fall foliage. The sky is a golden yellow, and sunlight blazes behind the building. A single bird circles in the sky.

2024/11/05

November 5, 2024
A large white oval sticker on a blue background. The sticker has the letters "I voted". The "I" is in red; the "voted" is in blue. Below "voted" is a drawing of an American flag. The sticker looks slightly worn and degraded.

2024/11/04

November 4, 2024
A chaotic mixture of red and blue charts and graphs that form a frowning face. Two pie charts form the eyes, a bar chart defines the nose, and a jagged pair of red and blue lines are the mouth.

2024/11/03

November 3, 2024
A small shack at night, under a starry sky. The shack has a roof sloping down to the right, and a single door with no windows. On the door is what appears to be a warning sign, although what it's warning against isn't legible. There is a green glow under the door. Directly to the left of the shack is a giant test tube, taller than the shack, with a glowing greenish substance in it. Glowing green pipes connect the test tube to the shack. Rising from the test tube is a faint column of smoke.

2024/11/02

November 2, 2024
A large dark green metal sphere floats like a balloon in a blue-green sky. The balloon has a cable fixed to it below, and is haphazardly bolted together from various metal plates. Two small pipes are sticking off of it on the lower right. Sitting on top is a person in a chair, holding a telescope up to their eye. The telescope is trained on a bright round object in the distant sky.

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.

2024/10/27

October 27, 2024
A deep canyon winds between two steep, craggy cliffs. The bottom is flat, like a road. The sky above is a blazing yellow-green. One bird floats in the sky in the distance. There's no sign of any other life.

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.

2024/10/24

October 24, 2024
A red sky in which an enormous comet the size of the sun can be seen. The landscape is mostly flat, the ground covered with fog, through which rises jagged, pointy mountains. Walking through the fog, only the top of their bodies visible, are two people: a person wearing a backpack and carrying a hiking stick, and a person in front of them wearing a wide-brimmed hat. See if this reminds you of anything.

2024/10/23

October 23, 2024
A tall, rusty contraption stands in the middle of a bright green field under a cloudless blue sky. The purpose of the contraption is unclear; it looks vaguely robotic, with two dilapidated legs and a boxy body with various protrusions and openings. A rust-colored cat is looking out of the largest opening, a circular window that looks like a pipe may have plugged into it. On top of the body is a rusty dome with another round hole in it. Protruding from the front of the contraption is a long metal pipe from which hangs a rusty mailbox. Whatever this machine once did, it sure isn't doing it now.

2024/10/22

October 22, 2024
A tent is pitched on top of a tenement building. Sitting on the edge of the building, silhouetted against a yellow sky, is a person holding a fishing rod, the hook dangling into empty space. In the background are blurry red outlines of buildings. A hazy sun hangs in the sky. A few birds circle overhead.

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.

2024/10/20

October 20, 2024
The sea floor. Sticking up from it is a large rock. The rock has a glowing red opening that looks like an entry to the interior of the earth. Hovering above the sea floor, directly in front of the red opening, is a small spherical submersible with a large dorsal fin and a small camera on a robot arm. A person can be seen through a round yellow porthole on the side. In the distance swims a school of small iridescent green fish.

2024/10/19

October 19, 2024
A blue, foggy evening. A person stands on rocky, uneven ground directly to the right of an enormous bonfire. Far in the distance, on top of a blurry mountain ridgeline, is a small yellow dot that indicates another fire.

2024/10/18

October 18, 2024
A rocky fragment of what appears to be a planet hangs in starry space. On top of it is a small red car, headlight beam stretching out into the unknown.

2024/10/17

October 17, 2024
A black-robed monk stands in a spare stone room defined by a stone arch. The room has a single arched window. The monk is standing at a brown wooden podium on which is a white book. The monk is writing in the book with a white quill pen. In front of the podium is a square pot in which is planted a small, blue-trunked tree with white leaves or flowers.

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.

2024/10/14

October 14, 2024
A hilly brown desert under a yellow sky. Rolling across the hill is a small, brown, six-wheeled contraption reminiscent of a Mars rover. The machine is comprised of two metal boxes: a small one up front and a longer one in the back, sort of like a truck. Protruding off the boxes are various antennae, a small solar panel, a camera on an arm, and a robotic hand. The boxes have a few lights and vents on them. A slightly faded sun hangs in the sky. There is no sign of anything living.

2024/10/13

October 13, 2024
A flat neon-pink grid that stretches off into the distance. Wireframe pink mountains sit on the horizon. In the foreground is a rocky mountainous area that looks dimensional, not flat or wireframe. The ridges are illuminated yellow. The sky is dark and starry, with a horizontal texture that suggests television static. In the sky, like a moon, is a yellow circle with another yellow circle inside it. More light pink circles are arranged in a geometric pattern in the sky. Hovering above the plane is a dark sphere with glowing red and yellow light reflecting off the side facing the moon.

2024/10/12

October 12, 2024
The surface of the moon, flat, with mountains in the background. Hovering above it in a bubble is a person floating in front of a laptop. The sky is filled with stars. The earth is visible in the top right.

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.

2024/10/10

October 10, 2024
A desolate purple landscape under a greenish yellow sky, with sparse grass and a small rocky promontory on the right. The sun appears to be setting on the left; there's a crimson glow highlighting the grass, and the yellow sky is brighter. There is a small, conical tent pitched among the grass, with a flag flying from the top. On the right, sitting on the rocky promontory smoking a pipe, is a small figure with a wide-brimmed hat. The figure resembles Snufkin, from the Moomin tales, which I was into before any of the cool people knew about them. A single bird glides through the sky.

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