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2024/04/05

April 5, 2024
A person stands in a rocky, mountainous area. The person is on a craggy open peak, with wooded skylines on both sides. Directly below the person, as if carved into the rock, is the huge form of a stone giant that may or may not be in the process of waking up. The giant is bald with a heavy, jowly face and eyes hidden beneath a heavy brow. The horizon is afire with either a sunrise or a sunset. Above, a hawk turns in the sky. This is probably not what Lebanon, New Jersey looks like, but then again, I've never been there.

2024/04/04

April 4, 2024
A tall, glowing white figure stands astride the curved horizon of a dark planet, reaching over to touch hands with another glowing white figure, this one slightly smaller, on the other side of the planet. There is an eerie green auroral glow on the horizon. Above, many green-tailed meteors hurtle through a starry sky. Anyone who remembers browsing the web in the late 1990s might be reminded of something.

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2024/04/03

April 3, 2024
A small figure wearing a gray-black jumpsuit with a glowing green lightning bolt on the front of it, and a small orange lightning bolt on the shoulder, walks in an empty space that's entirely a light periwinkle blue. The figure is wearing a very large, bulky orange helmet, the front of which is occupied entirely by a giant eyeball with an iridescent green iris. The helmet has horns. In front of the figure, attached to a string that the figure is holding in its left hand, is a small, orange sphere, also with an eyeball in the front of it. That eye is blue. In its right hand, the figure is holding an orange sphere with no eyeball. The shadowy silhouette of a zeppelin hovers bizarrely in the background.

2024/04/02

April 2, 2024
A structure about the size of a very small two-story building sits in a desolate, remote area: high grass on the ground, a suggestion of forest in the background. The structure has only two large, round windows in the front of it. The lower window is a bright, fluorescent green; the upper-story window is red. Both stories are defined by metal panels bolted to the front of the building. The overall effect is that of a building that looks like an old-fashioned traffic light. Visible in the green window is a horned devil figure. In the upper red window, an angel stands with arms outstretched, a glowing halo over its head. These windows are the only colored items in the drawing; other than that, everything is a dull, charcoal gray. To the right of the building stands a small figure looking at the building, the red and green light from the windows reflecting off of it. Perched on the top of the building is a large black bird that looks like a crow or raven.

2024/04/01

April 1, 2024
A person with fiery red hair, a formal suit jacket, and a severely striped black-and-white shirt sings in front of a microphone about how he's never going to give you up and let you down. The background is lavender, because the 1980s.

2024/03/31

March 31, 2024
A glowing white humanoid figure climbs out of a trap door in the ground. In the background is the blurry suggestion of a wooded hill. The sun hangs high in yellow sky. Two birds fly overhead.

2024/03/30

March 30, 2024
A person stands in a clearing at night, a full moon visible in the sky. There are indications of low trees, or a meadow. The person is flying a huge, shield-shaped purple kite with a frowning monster's face on it. The kite has a single red eye, a long nose, and exposed yellow teeth, with red stripes on it as well. Its tail resembles a beard. It is the only colored object in an otherwise grayscale drawing.

2024/03/29

March 29, 2024
A strange, alien object—shapeless, with weird striations that make it look almost like a boulder, and moss and roots hanging off it—stands on two legs. Standing on top of it is a figure in an astronaut suit, planting an American flag. The flag is in colors; everything else in the drawing is in shades of gray. A dim sun or moon is visible in the sky.

2024/03/28

March 28, 2024
A dark gray, hunched-over, humanoid monster prowls a remote area. The sky is a dismal, grayish green. The monster stands on what looks like a meadow with a forested hill rising up in the distance. There appears to be a layer of fog over the ground. The monster has a tail, long claws, and a reddish eye. A black speech balloon is above the monster's head. The balloon looks like a computer error message without any text; it contains a triangular yellow warning icon, and a blue button that says "OK". But things are not OK.

2024/03/27

March 27, 2024
A hazy, yellow desert, with low mountains in the background. The sun sits high in the sky, as buzzards wheel above. Hovering about 30 feet above the desert floor is a house-sized metal sphere the color of the desert. There is only one opening in it: a circular hatchway, revealing a greenish glow from the interior. A ladder drops from the hatchway to the ground. Walking away from the ladder is a small figure carrying a staff.

2024/03/26

March 26, 2024
A person and a cat stand together on a dark surface, silhouetted in front of a dark gray background. It's unclear whether this is a wall or simply empty space. A white full moon hangs in the top left. Both the person and the cat appear to be painting; the person's right hand is up, the cat's left paw is up, and blazing rainbow colors are streaming from them, dripping down the gray space as though made of runny neon paint. Both the person and the cat have rainbow light reflecting off them, suggesting that the colors are actually glowing.

2024/03/25

March 25, 2024
A dark, cloudy evening—or perhaps morning—at sea. The sky is a dark blue, and the water is a very dark blue. Standing up in a very small boat is a ghostly greenish figure holding up a glowing green lantern. Far away, nearly on the horizon, is another small boat, with another pale figure holding up a lantern. Time passes slowly out here.

2024/03/24

March 24, 2024
A large purple head with an unsettling smile, exposed iridescent-green teeth, and no hair or ears. The head is lit from behind with green light, and looks sort of like an Easter Island statue. The head's eye is a round yellow window in which the silhouette of a person's head can be seen. The person appears to be wearing the head like a costume; their legs are visible. The background of the drawing is red-orange.

2024/03/23

March 23, 2024
A river winds through a flat meadow with trees on the horizon. Above is a vast, open sky, covered with banded clouds. In the top left of the sky is a black hot-air balloon.

2024/03/22

March 22, 2024
A black and white charcoal rendering of a small cabin in a clearing, surrounded by trees. It is a foggy night. Hovering above the cabin is a large, black, saucer-shaped spaceship. In the center of the underside is a glowing white opening from which a straight beam of light extends down, illuminating the roof of the cabin. The saucer has a few smaller, glowing lights on the sides and undersides as well.

2024/03/21

March 21, 2024
A bizarre creature with a sharp beak like a bird and a large eye that looks human. The creature stands on two legs and is holding a cane or walking stick. It is wearing a hat with a brim and a white feather, and has a windup key sticking out of its back. This is a black and white charcoal drawing.

2024/03/20

March 20, 2024
An eerie scene that looks like it was created in either charcoal or watercolor. A tall, thin apartment building rises up out of a ground covered with undergrowth. The building has  only one window in the top left. It is lit, with the blurry silhouette of a person in it. Stalking around the base of the building in the lower right of the drawing is the huge form of a shapeless creature with glowing white eyes. In the background is a blurry suggestion of a forest. The scene appears to be at night.

2024/03/19

March 19, 2024
A black and white charcoal drawing of a blurry meadow with a thick metal pipe sticking up out of it. On the right side of the pipe is a small keyhole. Exploding up out of the top of the pipe is a jack-in-the-box-looking creature. Its body is blurry, almost as though it is made of smoke or extremely furry. Its head looks like a bowling ball with a smiley-face embossed on it. It has a pointed jester's cap with a bell. Mid-air is a round lid that must have been on the pipe before the creature blew it off. Also mid-air is a key, ejected from the keyhole.

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.

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