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2024/01/06

January 6, 2024
A humanoid figure facing to the right. The person, if that's what it is, has no hair; a long straight nose; a small, set mouth; and eyes narrowed to slits. This is not a pleasant face to look at. Especially because the one visible eye has an eerie green glow, as though the figure is not human. The right cheek is covered with small wrinkles and veins. Behind and above the figure are a glow of vertical yellow beams—not sunlight, but something technological, like the transporter "beam" effect from Star Trek.

2024/01/05

January 5, 2024
A figure stands alone, silhouetted in the blazing glare of two bright white spotlights in the top right of the drawing. The figure appears to be wearing a jacket and hat, and is holding a glowing red lantern. There are very few details about the surroundings or the ground—most of the painting is gray—but there are hints of reflections on the ground, as though the figure is standing on a wet surface.

2024/01/04

January 4, 2024
A bizarre figure wearing a formal jacket and tie. The figure has two large round ears on top of its head, similar to Mickey Mo—er, "Steamboat Willie"—and one giant eye in the middle of its face. No other facial features are visible. This is a black drawing on a cold blue background.

2024/01/03

January 3, 2024
A dark figure stands in front of a roaring inferno. This is not a mere bonfire; it's a wall of flame, something only seen at the edge of a volcano or the mouth of Hell. The figure is holding a staff, staring into the flames. In the top right is a circular analog clock, displaying 5:05. It's time to get up or it's time for a drink, your choice.

2024/01/02

January 2, 2024
A vast, eerily green sky. The dark silhouette of a house sits alone on a flat landscape. Facing the viewer is an open door, like one would find on a barn or garage. The house has two small windows in the top left of it: dull green, more like they're reflecting the light of the sky than illuminated from within. Above the house, as though something has punched a small hole in the sky, is a bright dot of white light surrounded by glowing clouds. Tendrils of lightning snake out of the dot. Something is brewing.

2024/01/01

January 1, 2024
A gray, nearly black sky, heavy with clouds. The only hint of sunlight is a dull gray light around the horizon. Sitting on a flat, barren landscape are two objects: a barn-like building on the right, and a tall, black rocketship on the left. To the right of the barn is a spindly metal antenna with a red light on top. To the left of the rocket is a metal support structure. There is a glowing green window lit on the body of the rocket. There are two lit windows on the right side of the barn, also.

2023/12/31

December 31, 2023
A roaring bonfire in which stands a giant figure, the flames rising around it. Flames come out of its eyes and mouth. Next to the bonfire stands a much smaller figure, holding out its left hand, from which is erupting a small fire. The drawing is primarily yellow, white, and brown, on a black background.

2023/12/30

December 30, 2023
A grassy meadow on a bright, sunny day. The sun isn't visible, but the sky is mostly clear, and the grass blazes with sunlight. Speckling the grass are small, white flowers. In the sky, a number of soap bubbles are visible. The largest one contains an armless person reading a book, which is floating in front of them. I spent—I'm not joking—an hour trying to get the arms right. Time was drifting, this rock had got to roll. Couldn't get it right, I couldn't get it right.

2023/12/29

December 29, 2023
A tall, thin person, standing with arms apart. The person does not have any visible facial features. The person is surrounded by a dark, amorphous shape that could either be a hole or something that the person is wearing; there are two three-dimensional horns on top of the darkness, but the body appears to be a cavelike entrance. The edges of the shape are blurry; if you saw only the silhouette of the darkness and nothing else, you would think it was a large, round, furry monster with horns, two legs, and no arms. The drawing is black pencil on a light green background.

2023/12/28

December 28, 2023
The edge of a foggy wood, set against a light orange sky. Looming out of the fog are many straight, tall tree trunks. The branches aren't visible, giving the impression of a forest of dead trees. A low white fog covers the ground. Standing among the trees is a tall figure wearing a robe, with two horns that look like tree roots sticking up out of its head. It is holding a tall staff, which also has small roots and branches sticking out of it. It is walking towards the right of the drawing, where there is a small sign pointing to the right. No lettering is visible on the sign. A hazy white sun hangs high in the sky.

2023/12/27

December 27, 2023
A hazy, almost ethereal view of a city. Bluish skyscrapers loom out of a low fog in the distance. In the foreground is a dark hill with a small, stubby building perched on it. The hill appears to be covered in foliage or trees. The building has a cluster of antennae sticking up out of it, and two windows on it are lit. The hill and building are a dark blue. Hovering in the distant sky is a blurry oval shape that looks like a flying saucer. The saucer has a blazing white beam of light shining from below like a spotlight, bathing some of the skyscrapers in a white light.

2023/12/26

December 26, 2023
A person wearing a suit and tie holds a vast black speech balloon. The balloon is about twice the size of the person, and hangs over them. It's not a sharply defined shape; more a rough and foggy cloud with a tail dangling down. Inside the balloon are a warning icon—a yellow triangle with an exclamation point—and a blue button, the sort of thing you'd find in any computer dialog box, with the letters "OK".

2023/12/25

December 25, 2023
A slate-gray night sky, almost completely overcast. The ground is covered in gray snow. A narrow, concrete building, perhaps two stories, stands in the middle of the scene. It has only one window set at the top. Sitting in the window, bathed in the glow of a screen, is Santa Claus. Extending from the right side of the building are several wire poles supporting a glowing neon star. Hung at the base of the building is a desolate string of colored Christmas lights. Parked behind the building is an Amazon delivery van. A single bright star is visible in the top right of the sky. This is mostly a gray drawing; the building and van are dark gray.

2023/12/24

December 24, 2023
A small figure wearing a space suit, floating in space. Inside the figure's spherical glass helmet floats a goldfish. The figure is short, both arms outstretched. The stars are all around. The drawing is pale blue-green ink on a black background, with white highlights. The fish is gold-tinted.

2023/12/23

December 23, 2023
A barren landscape at night; a clear sky filled with stars. A weird, conical structure protrudes up from the ground, sort of a cross between a drillbit and a wasp nest. Inset into the structure is a window—the silhouette of a person is visible. In the sky is a glowing celestial object. The drawing is yellow lines on a black background, with white highlights.

2023/12/22

December 22, 2023
A desert at either sunrise or sunset. The sky is burning shades of yellow and crimson; the desert floor is a dark bluish-black. The horizon is mostly flat, punctuated by one tower of rock in the distance. Stretching towards the viewer is the dim blue line of a road. A single car is visible, the yellow headlights glowing dimly. Hovering above the scene are two huge, spherical balloons, reflecting the colors of the sky. They look like the size of planets, but are probably smaller. Hanging beneath them are tiny baskets. Both have small, glowing lights on the top.

2023/12/21

December 21, 2023
A view over a vast, mountainous forest: hills covered with heavy woods. The hill closest to the viewer is dark brown, with a small cabin on top of it. There is a light on, and smoke drifting up from the chimney. On the hill beyond it looms a massive dish antenna; something the size of a football field or larger. The sky is heavy with wispy clouds, a weak sun filtering through. The whole scene is a brownish yellow, suggesting a hazy, muggy day. Above it all circles the small form of a hawk or eagle.

2023/12/20

December 20, 2023
A small pond surrounded by dark woods. It's late afternoon, and the clear blue sky above the treeline is starting to get pink. There are no visible clouds. The pond is clear and reflective; a low fog hovers over it. In the sky hang two planets, both a ghostly white the way the moon is when it's out during the day. One planet is huge, and looms over the scene. The more distant one is closer to the horizon. Arcing into the sky, cutting between them, is the tiny white dot of a rocket ship, smoke billowing out behind it. A few birds are visible flitting over the trees.

2023/12/19

December 19, 2023
A small figure stands on a rocky slope at the edge of the ocean. Waves crash up against the rocks. The air is heavy with sunlight and moisture, as if directly after a rain; the sun hangs high in the sky, partially obscured by yellow clouds. The slope is covered in yellow light. The figure is flying a red triangular kite with a red tail streaming out behind it. The kite is flying towards the sun.

2023/12/18

December 18, 2023
A gold sword or dagger stands, or perhaps hovers, point-up in a large dark space. The blade has a face in profile, looking to the right. The eye of the face is shaped like a regular human eye, but rotated 90 degrees, and has a red stone set in the pupil. Standing on a ledge at the right is the yellow silhouette of a person. The sword and the person seem to be talking.

2023/12/17

December 17, 2023
A tall, oddly narrow brick building in the middle of a snowy field. The sky is slate-gray, the way it is when snow is right around the corner. The building is roughly three stories tall, with a small closet-like door at the base and a single small window in the top right, directly under the pointed roof. The roof is covered with snow. The door is covered with illegible graffiti. The window is boarded up. Bolted to the right side of the building is a metal pipe chimney. While the building appears abandoned, there is smoke rising out of the top of the chimney, and numerous footprints in the snow around the door, implying that someone is inside. Most strangely of all is the sign—a slab suspended from a metal arm, similar to a shopkeeper's sign—extending off of the left side of the building, with the word "exit" on it. Behind the building is the blurry mound of a snow-covered hill, and then nothing: just the heavy gray sky. The building is drawn in black ink.

2023/12/16

December 16, 2023
A small hill on which is built a chaotically complex steel tower. It looks like a short radio mast, with many beams and crossbeams. At the top of the tower is a compact dish antenna. Extending off the left side of the tower is a network of horizontal beams that are supporting a small metal chamber with a door and a round portal window, in which is visible a dim figure. The effect is that of someone living in a treehouse made from a safe and an erector set. Below the chamber is a black mailbox. The sky has a few wispy suggestions of clouds. The drawing is black linework on a light gray background, with white used for the clouds and a few highlights.

2023/12/15

December 15, 2023
A dark, northern forest at night, the full moon high in the sky. Green and blue curtains of auroral glow hang above the low treeline. Down among the trees stands a large, shambling figure, hunched over a glowing white fire. The fire is more of a greenish hue than the yellow one would expect. There are strange things in the woods at night.

2023/12/14

December 14, 2023
A roaring yellow bonfire at night, casting a yellow glow all around it. Sitting directly in the middle of the bonfire, at the heart of the white flames, is a person taking a selfie. That's it. That's the tweet.

2023/12/13

December 13, 2023
A giant, furry red creature with two pointy ears and round, shiny, insect-like eyes pilots a white two-wheeled vehicle. The vehicle looks like a bicycle, but instead of a seat and pedals, it has a tiny basket that looks like the lower half of an egg. There is no obvious engine or propulsion system. The creature is, impossibly, squeezed into the basket. A creature this size would presumably have very large legs, but no legs are visible. The overall effect is of a giant red bear riding a cartoonishly tiny bicycle. The background of the drawing is black.

2023/12/12

December 12, 2023
An irregularly shaped, translucent object, sort of like a lump of frosted glass or ice. Sitting inside the object is a blurry figure of a person holding a glowing object in their hand; perhaps a phone. The drawing is white lines on a black background.

2023/12/11

December 11, 2023
A clear, starry night. In the middle of a meadow stands a tall, boxy stone column with the word "here" carved into it. Visible in the sky behind it is an asteroid flaming towards earth, presumably headed for the designated landing spot.

2023/12/10

December 10, 2023
A skull and crossbones, except the skull is that "grimace" emoji: a round face with two dots for eyes and a mouth in a straight, horizontal line showing teeth. The face and bones are white, on a black background.

2023/12/09

December 9, 2023
A person stands under a streetlight, holding a phone. The streetlight looks like it may be placed in a city park at night. The scene is rendered in an impressionist style; the light is surrounded by a blast of yellow, neon green, and white. The glow is rendered in thick brushstrokes. Behind the light is the suggestion of a deep blue night, and symmetric rows of lights suggesting buildings. There are a few bright red dots that might be traffic lights or warning lights on buildings. In the top right is a smaller glowing object that could be the moon.

2023/12/08

December 8, 2023
A tall, jagged, rocky promontory, of the sort you'd find in a desert. There are blurry suggestions of similar formations in the background. The red sun blazes high in the sky. This looks like high noon on some remote desert, perhaps even on a different planet. The drawing is composed primarily of four colors: a yellow sky, a red sun, and the black rock that's blazing red on the side towards the sun and a deep blue on the side facing away from it.

2023/12/07

December 7, 2023
A person wearing a sharp blue suit and tie stands, arms akimbo, controlling a small marionette-figure in each hand. The person's head is a giant rage emoji, styled to look like the one used by Facebook: a scowling icon with the top part flushed red-orange, flames appearing to leap from the top. The background is white, and the marionettes and the ground they stand on is a dark navy blue.

2023/12/06

December 6, 2023
A person stands on a grassy hillside, silhouetted in the dull afternoon light. Buried in the ground below the person is a huge red speech balloon with some strange alien writing in it. The tail of the balloon points to the figure's mouth, snaking out of the ground like a red sprout from a giant red seed. It looks as though the person is consigning a vast, weird secret into the earth. The sky is yellowish green; the hillside, drawn like a cutaway, is gray-black; the intricate writing inside the balloon is yellow.

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