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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.

2024/02/15

February 15, 2024
A desert scene, late afternoon: a golden sky with clouds scattered across it, and a partially concealed sun. A truck is parked in the middle of a barren rise, the driver standing next to it, casting a long shadow. Visible in the distance is the hazy brown shape of a natural rock formation. Flying overhead is a black triangular aircraft seen from the rear, the red glow of the engine visible and a bright green light on the underside.

2024/02/14

February 14, 2024
A high cliff, somewhere in the desert. It's a gray day, the clouds heavy in the sky. Gathered at the edge of the cliff are two people, with a third running towards them. Directly above them, relatively close to the ground, is flying a very futuristic, triangular aircraft. Visible in the background is the blurry outline of another natural formation; a tower of rock. This is a primarily black and gray drawing; the only color is a tiny green light on the underside of the aircraft.

2024/02/13

February 13, 2024
An enormous stone head: a mouth, eye, and nose carved into a tall obelisk. The eye is a hole drilled right through the stone. The head is situated in the middle of nowhere, on top of a mountain, covered with snow. Visible in the background is a snow-covered treeline of another mountain. The head is covered with garish graffiti: neon pink, white, and green. Next to the head is a person, making the head look the size of a three-story building. Up in the sky is a hawk; the person appears to be signaling to it. The sky is the dull cloudiness of a winter day, with a weak sun filtering through.

2024/02/12

February 12, 2024
A crimson sky, suggesting sunrise or sunset. Dominating the foreground is a vast radio dish, rendered in black and cement gray, mounted on a heavy industrial base of beams, pipes, and concrete. There is a red light mounted at the top of the dish, and a small green light over the doorway to the installation. In the sky, to the right, in the direction that the telescope is pointed at, is a single bright star.

2024/02/11

February 11, 2024
A mountaintop, lit red on the right side, with a small figure of a person also standing on the right side, looking taken aback. The person is staring at a huge, inhumanly colored figure, covered with colored bars that vaguely suggest a skeleton. Perhaps the bars are painted on the outside of the figure, or showing through from inside. They are neon colors: pink, blue, and green, with the figure's head and chest area a glowing white. The giant figure has a green halo above its head, and appears to be leaping into the air. The sky behind it is an apocalyptic yellow-green. And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

2024/02/10

February 10, 2024
A disturbing figure wearing a black coat and a black bowtie, and a round black head with no ears, no nose, and a wide, neon-pink mouth with yellow teeth. The figure has two round eyes, both different colors: the right eye is concentric circles of red, yellow, blue, and orange; the left eye is crimson and blue. The face has wrinkles on it as though it is made of leather. The figure is wearing a cartoonish fedora-esque hat. The drawing is on a pink and orange background.

2024/02/09

February 9, 2024
A ghostlike yellow-green monster with a craggy-toothed smile, three eyes—brightly colored in red, orange, blue, and purple—and three horns. The monster has several stars printed on it and is on a dark blue background.

2024/02/08

February 8, 2024
A bizarre, neon-pink figure: a giant head on five legs. The head has a panicked expression. This is a pink and yellow drawing on a black background.

2024/02/07

February 7, 2024
A head, rendered in a series of bright colors: red, bright, yellow, blue, crimson. The head is floating in space on a white textured background. Its mouth is open, its eyes are wide, and it has a surprised expression. It has three horns and bristly crimson hair. It looks like a monster.

2024/02/06

February 6, 2024
A large figure in a crimson jumper with yellow and crimson stars printed at various locations on it. The figure is very wide and looking at a phone in its hand. It has devil horns. Its face is illuminated blue from the phone screen, and it is set against a yellow-green background.

2024/02/05

February 5, 2024
A cuckoo clock where the pendulum is a wrecking ball. The clock sits at the top of the drawing: a small square clock with Roman numerals displaying around 6:50 and a pointed roof. The wrecking ball has swung the left and is preparing to swing back to the right. At the right of the drawing is a small figure wearing boxing gloves, posed in a boxing stance, preparing to punch the pendulum like a punching bag. These are pale green lines on a black background.

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