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2024/03/18

March 18, 2024
A giant head that looks like it is made of reddish iron, mounted on a rickety-looking tower of beams and crossbeams. The head is the size of a small house and has an open, arched doorway in the back, and an open, arched window for an eye in which a lit candle is placed. On top of the head sits a person operating a quad copter. The only thing visible in the background is blue sky, suggesting that the tower is quite tall.

2024/03/17

March 17, 2024
A hulking, crimson devil-figure with horns, a crimson jacket, and a tie stands on what looks like a surfboard with a small jet engine mounted under it, soaring over a landscape. The figure is silhouetted against an orange sky. Its right arm is behind it for balance; its left arm is holding up a phone that it is staring at. The phone screen shows a head with horns, suggesting that the devil is taking a selfie. The screen is reflected in the devil's large, mirrored eyes.

2024/03/16

March 16, 2024
A dark gray day, edging into evening. Fog is visible on the ground. The world is slate-gray. In the distance is a blurry suggestion of a forest. Rising up from the forest is a tall, spindly tower that looks like a radio mast. At the top of the tower is a glowing yellow neon smiley-face. Large birds circle the top of the tower. In the foreground, a person stands looking at the tower, holding in their left hand a glowing spherical smiley-emoji as though it's a lantern. The emoji casts yellow light on the ground, which looks as though it's wet.

2024/03/15

March 15, 2024
A small promontory that looks like a crater. On the left side of the drawing, standing on the slope of the promontory, is a small person, holding up a wand or bar. On the right side of the drawing, in the center of the crater, is a tall glowing white form stepping out of a perfectly straight beam of white light from above. The white figure is tinged with an iridescent green and is about twice the size of the person. It is pointing a finger at the person, from which a bolt of electricity is leaping. The person is warding it off with the bar, which seems to be acting like a lightning rod, catching the bolt and stopping it in its place. The background is an indeterminate blue-green, giving little clue about where this is taking place or the time of day.

2024/03/14

March 14, 2024
A flat landscape with a blurry suggestion of trees in the background. On the left side is a tall, cylindrical pillar with a chunk missing from the lower left near the base. Perched precariously at the top of the pillar is a giant boulder that looks like it's seconds away from tipping off. Keeping it balanced is an ominously thin metal support that looks like something you'd find supporting a sign or streetlight. On the side of the boulder is a small window, lit crimson from the inside. It's not clear what's happening inside the boulder. Hanging from the metal support is a small birdhouse. The sun hangs low in the yellow sky. No people are visible.

2024/03/13

March 13, 2024
On the left of the drawing is a large rocky cliff with a flat top. On the right is an open space. A huge black tentacle, like that of a monstrous squid or octopus, is reaching up from the bottom of the drawing, yanking a fishing pole out of the hand of a person standing on the top of the cliff. The sky is a greenish blue; the tentacle and the cliff are black. Below, where the tentacle is reaching up from, is white fog and ocean spray.

2024/03/12

March 12, 2024
A statue of a person stands on a small conical rise that looks like the very tip of a mountain. The statue, vaguely Soviet-ish, appears to be made of metal or concrete. It is wearing a coat and its left arm is raised in a wave, as though to a crowd. Its head, though, does not look like the rest of the statue: a spherical, bright yellow emoji with a laughing face. There is a bird perched on top of it. Below, to the right, two small figures about a quarter of the size of the statue are standing together, taking a selfie. The sky is an orange-red and the statue and mountaintop, mostly black, are tinged red.

2024/03/11

March 11, 2024
A drawing evenly divided into two sections: an upper one, all yellow, and a lower one, which is purpleish black. The effect suggests a cross-section of a two-story building. In the upper section, a reddish monster with a long snout and horns seems to be entertaining a person in a chair. The monster is talking to the person and holding up glowing white orb. The sun is shining in the sky. Below, we see the monster is actually a puppet on the end of a long pole held by a yellow person. The basement area, such as it is, has a small, dull-purple clock on the right side, with a bookshelf of colored books below it.

2024/03/10

March 10, 2024
A small man with a large round head and thin legs stands in what looks like a barren, remote area. The man is wearing a large, floppy hat with a brim and a white feather stuck in it, and has enormous round eyes that take up most of his face, a sharp nose, and a tight mouth. In his right hand, he's holding a walking staff; his left hand is up against his face, a long-stemmed pipe between his fingers. He is wearing a ragged cloak or trenchcoat, and has a necktie. Behind him is the blurry suggestion of a treeline. The sky is slate-gray, mixed with an eerie, almost auroral green. Snufkin is back, and he's not fooling around.

2024/03/09

March 9, 2024
A small, sparrow-like bird with a red eye, oddly long, spindly legs, and no tail stands on top of a small, rocky promontory. The way it's standing is more like how a person would stand. The bird is mostly black, silhouetted against a blazing yellow and orange sky. It has highlights of iridescent green. The strangest thing is that it has a clockwork key sticking out of its back and a glowing white halo over its head.

2024/03/08

March 8, 2024
A rectangular machine with two legs and no arms. The machine has a complex, intricate exterior of interconnecting pipes and wires, interspersed with round, colorful, glassy panels that look like lights, buttons, or perhaps screens. Centered at the top of the machine, where a face would be, is the largest of the round panels. It is glowing green, with a smiling face on it rendered in blocky, white pixels, reminiscent of the Happy Mac icon. The round panels are red, yellow, and green. The body of the machine is a rust brown. The machine is wearing bright orange high-top sneakers. It is set against a blue background.

2024/03/07

March 7, 2024
A bizarre, humanoid figure with two arms and four legs. The legs start at two and then branch off into four, forking like lightning bolts. The left arm of the figure is normal; the right has a giant hand with jagged lightning-bolt fingers. The figure's body is a purpleish black, while its head is a simple red sphere with an angry emoji-like face on it. It is on a yellow background.

2024/03/06

March 6, 2024
A room, darkened. The walls and floor are the blue color of a normally white room that's mostly dark. There's one light source, though: the large door in the center of the room, in which a tall demonic figure with horns is standing. The figure looks like it is wearing a leather jacket and has one hand on the lightswitch next to the door, as though it is walking into a closet and flicking the light on. In this case, the light is an inferno of yellow flames that spill out into the floor of the room. To the right of the flaming door is a small picture in a frame, the subject indeterminate, and an electrical outlet.

2024/03/05

March 5, 2024
A blazing yellow sunset over black mountains. From a vantage point high on a hill, a large, furry creature with two pointed ears looks down at a small building in the valley. The building has one large open door, like something on a garage or warehouse, and some smaller windows in the second wing of the building. The large door is spilling greenish light out onto the ground. Green light is also visible in the other windows. The ground of the valley is also covered in yellow light; the building is casting a shadow. We are looking at the creature from the back, but the front of the creature is lit with yellow light.

2024/03/04

March 4, 2024
A large, spacious room, like a warehouse or lab. A blazing white light hangs from the ceiling, casting a sterile glow over everything. Stand beneath it are two people and a robot. One of the people seems to be adjusting something on the robot. The other person, closest to the viewer, is seen from the back; they are wearing a black hoodie with a gray lightning bolt on the back of it. Above, on the far wall, are large windows through which other people are seen, observing what's going on in the lab. Various cables hang from beams below the ceiling.

2024/03/03

March 3, 2024
An open, swampy area in a forest. It's the late afternoon; the sky is pink with the sun lowering towards the trees. There is an overgrown path with dead, branchless trunks of trees next to it. In the distance is visible a tree line. Crossing the path, heading to the right into the part of the drawing that suggests an open bog, is the shambling, hunched silhouette of something with two sharp, pointy ears and a humanoid hand. Closest to the viewer is a large, weathered yellow sign that says "area closed". A hawk wheels in the sky.

2024/03/02

March 2, 2024
Two people are in a dark room, staring at a bank of glowing green screens on the wall. The person on the left is sitting, and only their back is visible to us. The person on the right is standing and seen in profile: a figure with a short crew-cut and a hard, expressionless face. The screens are showing video feeds from different cameras. One in the lower left shows lines of text; one on the lower right shows a grainy picture of the pipe that everybody's so interested in. But the biggest one, above the first two, is the most horrifying: a night-vision image of a monster with two horns or ears, no eyes, and a savage mouth rushing the camera, arms raised. Some people consider being filmed without their permission rude.

2024/03/01

March 1, 2024
The interior of a large, mostly lightless, concrete room. Towards the top of it, white light blazes from a circular opening. Crouched in the opening is the figure of a robot with a spotlight for a face. A ladder descends from the opening. In the foreground, lurking in the darkness but silhouetted in the light, is a large furry figure with horns. This is a mostly black drawing, with pale-green-accented white highlights.

2024/02/29

February 29, 2024
A dark, cavernous war room. Hanging from the ceiling is a long, desolate fluorescent light. Projected onto a giant wall is a dim green aerial view of something, with indecipherable information overlaid onto the image. Below it is a bank of computer screens, showing blurry images of a tunnel pipe and a robot; yesterday's drawing. Three people are looking at the screens: a short person stands at the left, a taller person stands in the middle, and on the right, a third person sits in an office chair in front of two computer screens. This is a mostly black and dark-gray drawing, with the lighted areas rendered in dull, fluorescent green and white. One of the computer screens is blue.

2024/02/28

February 28, 2024
A desolate sun hangs in the sky. In the foreground is a concrete wall with a giant concrete pipe opening out of it. The ground appears to be scrubby grass. A short distance away, a robot with a spotlight on its head stands facing the tunnel. In the sky, a helicopter flies overhead. This is a primarily monochrome drawing: black on gray beige.

2024/02/27

February 27, 2024
A vast forest: mountain after mountain of heavy trees. The sky is indigo fading into the clear blue of an early dawn. Hovering above the purple trees is a black helicopter, a red light on the tail and a green light on its underbelly. The helicopter is pointing the brilliant white cone of a spotlight down into the trees below. Someone is looking for something.

2024/02/26

February 26, 2024
A deep, slightly foggy woods at night. Filtering through the trees on the left is an eerie white glow, suggesting a very bright light somewhere nearby. Wandering through the trees are two robots, glaring greenish lights on their heads. Overhead, the branches of the trees interlock. This is a primarily purple and indigo drawing, suggesting a dull, foggy night with little illumination.

2024/02/25

February 25, 2024
Night, deep in the woods. In the sky is a thin crescent of a moon. In the background is a hilly tree line indicating heavy woods. On the left is a windowless concrete warehouse with the number "3" stenciled on the side. On one wall of the building is a large open door, casting an eerie green glow out into the darkness. A robot has just left the building—perhaps without permission—and is walking out into the darkness. The robot's head has a light on it that looks like a headlight, casting a beam forward. The robot's body has several other colored glowing lights. This is a mostly dark blue and indigo drawing, with highlights of white and glowing green.

2024/02/24

February 24, 2024
A large, haphazardly constructed robot, about the size of a two to three-story building, standing in what looks like a large laboratory or warehouse. The robot is mostly black, with tinges of blue, red, and gray. Its head has several brightly colored lights. It is a humanoid combination of a number of complex shapes, wires, and lights. Various wires connect it to the ceiling. To the left of it is a tall tower made of scaffolding. At the top of the scaffolding stands a small figure, inspecting something on the robot's shoulder. The wall behind it is yellow, with what looks like warning signage on the left: indecipherable lettering and a triangular red hazard symbol.

2024/02/23

February 23, 2024
A clear, cold night. The full moon blazes across a frozen lake with what appears to be fog on the surface. In the foreground, walking across the ice, is a hooded figure. On the far shore is a wooded hill with a single house on the side. There is a yellow window glowing on the side of the house. This is a mostly blue drawing: the sky is blue, in the way that it is when there's a full moon, and the ice is a lighter but cold blue.

2024/02/22

February 22, 2024
A gray monster with three legs and one large arm with a huge, clawlike hand. The hand has three figures and is about half the size of the monster. The monster's head is obscured by—or perhaps composed of—a number of colored circles with small, emoji-like faces in them. Most are angry or unhappy-looking. The monster is on a light gray textured background.

2024/02/21

February 21, 2024
A heavily wooded black skyline, with a small road cutting through it. It's either sunrise or sunset, and the horizon is a blazing red, giving way to heavy slate-gray clouds. Hanging in the sky above the trees is a small dirigible, reflecting the red glow. There is a small, glowing green light on its top tailfin, and a red light on the basket.

2024/02/20

February 20, 2024
The tall, rocky archway of the mouth of a cave. You're standing inside the cave, looking out. In front of you is a small figure, silhouetted in the opening, holding up a glowing yellow torch. The figure is about a third of the height of the cave opening. The opening looks out onto the ocean and the blue sky beyond. The floor of the cave is brown, the rocks are gray.

2024/02/19

February 19, 2024
A huge, rocky cliff jutting into the ocean. At the top of the cliff, somewhat set back from the edge, is a small white house with an orange roof. Someone is walking away from the house towards the edge of the cliff. Farther down along the side of the cliff is the large black opening of a cave. Someone is standing in the cave, holding up a lantern that is illuminating the sides of the cave with yellow light. All around stretches the vast blue sky, with a scattering of seagulls in the top left. There is a hazy suggestion of white clouds on the horizon. The ocean is green.

2024/02/18

February 18, 2024
A huge stone head sits in a remote area at night. It's a cloudy night; a heavy gray sky, no stars or moon. The head is obelisk-shaped, covered in graffiti, and seen in profile, with an open mouth; its eye is a single hole drilled through the stone. In front of it is a small yellow bonfire, into which a person is feeding papers. This is a mostly black and dark gray drawing, with yellow and white for the fire and reflections.

2024/02/17

February 17, 2024
An ornate archway, the sort of thing you might find in the cathedral or a very old building. It's relatively small by architectural standards, about the size of the doorway to a large suburban home. You're viewing it from the interior of a dark building. It opens out onto what seems to be a desert, or a barren, sun-bleached area. Dimly visible is the blurry outline of some natural formation, and a ghostly sun high in the sky. Standing in the doorway is a person, silhouetted in the light coming through. They are wearing a fedora and a leather jacket with a lightning bolt on the back.

2024/02/16

February 16, 2024
A cloudy night. A sleek military aircraft sits on a tarmac. A large building looms behind it, windows glowing green in the fog, antennas with red lights on top. The plane is seen from the front, straight on. A small green light glows on its underside; a bright white light is lit on the left wing. This is a mostly blue drawing: the blue of a cloudy, rainy night.

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