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2024/09/07

September 7, 2024
A mostly dark environment, illuminated only by a bright yellow bulb hanging from the top right of the drawing. Approaching the bulb from the left is a reddish figure holding up the frayed end of an electrical cable. There is a windup key sticking out of the figure’s back. The figure’s head is a sphere with a frowning emoji face on it, floating above its neck.

2024/09/06

September 6, 2024
A huge crescent moon hangs in the deep blue night sky. It's large enough and close enough to look spherical. Below it is a small mountain, blurry in the dark. Standing on top of the mountain next to a roaring yellow bonfire is a figure with wings.

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.

2024/09/03

September 3, 2024
A tall human figure with a traffic light for a head stands in grass, a small dog on a leash. The dog also has a traffic light for head, but a smaller light, with no orange signal. The human's light is set to red; the dog's is set to green. The green light is illuminating a patch of grass. This is drawn from ground perspective, looking up at both the dog and the person. The dog is closer to the viewer. In the background is the blurry suggestion of tall buildings. This is a blue painting that looks like early morning or evening.

2024/09/02

September 2, 2024
A figure, colored leather-brown, wearing a coat and tie and carrying a crooked walking stick. The figure's head is a combination of two faces: one looking forwards, and one seen in profile. The figure's right eye is shared by both faces. The face in profile is looking down and to the left, at the deep right pocket of the coat in which is seen a third face. The figure is wearing a dark brown top hat. The drawing is on a tan yellow background.

2024/09/01

September 1, 2024
A rocky mountaintop at night. On the right is a small plateau that looks a little like a platform, with stairs leading up to it. Hovering over the plateau is a tall, featureless ghost with two eyes and a halo. It is phosphorescent green. Near the stairs is a small sign with an icon of a ghost and an arrow pointing towards the actual ghost. To the left stands a person, one arm raised. In the distance is the tree-covered outline of another mountain. A crescent moon hangs in the sky. This is a mostly purple drawing.

2024/08/31

August 31, 2024
A small pond nestled at the foot of a forested hill. The hill is blurry, suggesting fog. The pond has mist rising off it. On the side of the pond, closest to the viewer stands the dark silhouette of one person; directly across from them, on the other side of the pond, stand a ghostly white figure, looking back. It appears to be a dull, foggy day. This is a primarily indigo drawing.

2024/08/30

August 30, 2024
A blue night sky filled with stars, and a yellow-green meadow beneath it that seems to be glowing. Standing to the left in the meadow is a dark figure, holding up a wand with a flaming blue light at the end. In front of the figure, hanging in the sky like a mirage, is the glowing green outline of an ornate church window. The three circular panes at the top of the window, arranged in a triangle, and the square panes below it, form a key.

2024/08/29

August 29, 2024
A large, rusty, spherical bomb embedded in a hillside. This is one of those cartoon grenades with the fuse sticking out of the side. The bomb has a smiley-face visible on one side. Approaching over the hillside are a number of people, one of which is ominously holding a shovel. The sky is a greenish yellow. A single bird circles overhead. Perhaps it will be the only remaining witness of whatever happens here.

2024/08/28

August 28, 2024
The left side of the drawing shows a wall, or the edge of a building, largely in shadow. On the right side is a lighter, open space. A creature with a large, staring eye and a sharp nose is peering around the edge of the building, only its face visible in profile. The outline of a body is roughly spray-painted in white on the building itself, and the creature's face aligns perfectly with the neck on the body. This is a black-and-white drawing that looks as though it was done in charcoal.

2024/08/27

August 27, 2024
A red sky with a tear in it: a blazing white and yellow streak that appears to be a rip in the sky. Below is a small house on supports with a sharp, conical roof. A path winds past the house. Next to the house is what looks like a warning sign with a red triangle on it. The ground is barren, almost volcanic. This is not a good place to be.

2024/08/26

August 26, 2024
A grayscale drawing of a tall person walking at night under a full moon. There's a blurry forest in the background. The person has a scarf draped around their neck, and is wearing a very tall stovepipe hat. The hat has a hole and a small perch sticking out of it, like that of a birdfeeder. Flying in front of the moon is a large dark bird.

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.

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