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2023/08/08

August 8, 2023
A yellow blobby creature, spherical with four conical tentacles at the bottom. The creature has no facial features except for two googly eyes roughly affixed to the front of it where a face would be. The creature is set against a blue background with no features, and appears to be suspended in either space or liquid.

2023/08/07

August 7, 2023
A yellow shield on a red background. The shield has a minimalist illustration of a creature with two bandy legs, no arms, a single batlike wing, and a head that consists of a single eye. A coat of arms designed for a demon might look something like this.

2023/08/06

August 6, 2023
A bright red, two-legged creature set against a dark background, with a somewhat amorphous body outline. The creature has two clearly defined legs and head, and a wrinkle near its waist that looks almost like it's a costume someone is wearing. Sprouting off the back of it are some odd, bristly, protrusions that look more like what you would find on a fish. Planted on the creature's head, where a face would be, is a single, googly eyeball like that sold in a crafts store.

2023/08/05

August 5, 2023
A purple, two-legged creature, with no arms, no face, and two horns on its head. Sprouting from its back are three more horns. Its skin looks shiny and iridescent. On its chest is a large "warning" icon: an exclamation point set in a triangle.

2023/08/04

August 4, 2023
A bowl that looks a little like a flying saucer, with the top open. Coming out of it is a wild, vine-like, very furry plant with a large bell-shaped flower at the end of it. Sprouting from the plant are leaves that look like feathers, and a small white bud.

2023/08/03

August 3, 2023
A face in profile. The face is basically a head with two legs; there's no body to speak of. The face has odd, precise contours framing the open mouth and eye, as though it's carved from wood. The eye is a rectangular hole with rounded edges. In other circumstances, it might suggest a mask, but in this case, there is another, smaller figure—also viewed in profile—visible through the eyehole. That, and the shape of the eye, gives the sense of someone viewed through a vehicle's window, like the head is a vehicle and someone is driving it.

2023/08/02

August 2, 2023
A humanoid head in profile, wearing a miner's helmet. The head looks as if it is carved from wood or metal: craggy, angular, with harsh lines and overlapping shapes. The expression is somber. The light on the helmet is illuminated, casting a beam forwards. The figure's eye is illuminated, glowing white like the helmet light.

2023/08/01

August 1, 2023
A large, furry, two-legged creature. The creature has no arms. Where the creature's face would be is an open window with a person staring out of it. The person is wearing a suit with a tie. Protruding from the rear of the creature's head, sort of like a horn, is a chimney: one of those pipe chimneys with a little roof over it.

2023/07/31

July 31, 2023
A giant, tree-covered mountain peak in the shape of a head. The head has a sober, intense expression, and is staring across the valley in front of it at a small figure standing in the foreground. Above are a few wisps of clouds.

2023/07/30

July 30, 2023
A chaotic surface that suggests a partially melted wall with an arched doorway in it. Standing in the doorway, staring out, is someone whose face is darkened by shadows. The person looks like they are wearing a robe, and has a shaved head and two intense, staring eyes.

2023/07/29

July 29, 2023
A figure stands on a mountain. Hovering over the mountain is a white, abstract, rectangular shape. It has various folds and contours, but it's not cloth. It's the size of a building; about three times taller than the figure staring at it. The lower edge of it is faded, as if obscured by fog. In the top right corner is a circular indentation whose purpose is unclear: could be a knob, a bolt, even an eye. The sky is otherwise clear except for a few wispy clouds.

2023/07/28

July 28, 2023
A tall, rocky cliff with sparse trees on top. Behind it, faded as though it's in the far background, is a mountain. In the sky, approaching, is a helicopter. Further down the cliff stands a figure, as if it is waiting for the helicopter. The figure appears to be wearing a robe and is holding a staff in its hand.

2023/07/27

July 27, 2023

2023/07/26

July 26, 2023
A two-legged creature with a giant eye, jagged teeth, and no visible arms. Two-thirds of the creature is taken up by its head. Parts of the creature are blurry, as if out of focus or obscured by fog.

2023/07/25

July 25, 2023
A figure stands up close to a blank wall, apparently facing it. The figure's feet are fused into the floor, almost like tree trunks rooted to the ground. The figure's right arm is upraised. The figure seems to be casting a shadow on the wall, but the shadow doesn't match the figure: it is huge, almost swallowing the figure, shapeless except for horns.

2023/07/24

July 24, 2023
A strange, mask-like object. It has an arrangement of details that suggest a face, but a weird and mechanical one: a perfectly round eye in the top right, a semicircular indentation in the middle left, a nose that looks more like a metal spike or machine part. The right side of the face has several carved, curving indentations, like a wooden mask. There are a few tendrils of something hanging off the bottom of the mask, suggesting attempts at facial hair.

2023/07/23

July 23, 2023
A faceless white figure sits in front of a glowing computer terminal. The terminal sits on a desk, which is inset into a vast, bulky structure that dominates most of the drawing, and appears to be made of flimsy cardboard or metal. The structure is a huge, featureless thing that, if it was more detailed, might be furniture or a machine. As it is, it's not clear at all what this thing is. It looms over both the computer and the person sitting in front of it, serving no obvious purpose. On the wall next to the person hangs an analog clock.

2023/07/22

July 22, 2023
A large, furry, headless figure holds up a large mask on a stick. The mask is a big-nosed, bearded face with its mouth slightly open. Sitting on top of the figure, where its head would normally be, is a person sitting in a chair. The mask is positioned directly in front of the seated person, obscuring it totally from view if you were approaching the headless figure, er, head-on. The seated person is holding an umbrella with two horns on top. The overall effect is of a large, horned, furry monster, with most of its head replaced by a person sitting in a chair.

2023/07/21

July 21, 2023
A portrait of a furry creature from the chest up. The creature stands like a person, but is not a person. The creature has a long neck, a round black eye like a rodent, and a sharp snout. The creature's mouth is slightly open, as though it is in the middle of speaking. It is wearing what looks like a naval coat over a T-shirt, with a shield-like patch where a badge would be. The patch has an anchor design on it. The creature is wearing a sailor's cap.

2023/07/20

July 20, 2023
A rectangular building wide enough for only one window; imagine if a closet was an entire building. The building has an arched window with a heavy stone border around it. The window is open: no bars, sash, or glass. in the window sits a person playing a string instrument that looks a little like a guitar. The person has an oddly intense expression and bulging eyes. Grass is growing from the sides of the building: not like growing from between stones or bricks, but giving the impression that the sides of the building are made of grass. On the roof of the building is a large sign, as wide across as the building itself. The sign has "café" on it in large, professionally painted serif lettering. On top of the sign sits a small bird.

2023/07/19

July 19, 2023
A scene through a tall, grimy window with venetian blinds at the top. The window looks out onto two tenement buildings, either next door or across the street. It's night, but not a dark night so much as a dull, cloudy, light-polluted night. The buildings are mostly dark, with no street lights or external illumination visible. There is no moon or stars. A few of the windows in the buildings are dimly lit, suggesting television screens or reading lamps inside. No figures can be seen behind the windows.

2023/07/18

July 18, 2023
A grassy hill. At the top of the hill is a metal tower with a loudspeaker at the top. At the base of the tower is a small earthwork platform with a microphone on it, perhaps the microphone that controls the loudspeaker. No one is standing at the microphone. A path leads through the grass to the microphone platform. There are signs of fog on the ground. In the background looms a huge figure, blurry with fog, as tall as the tower itself. It is slightly stooped, head tilted down, looking at the microphone platform. Its facial features are hard to discern, but something about them is unsettlingly skeletal.

2023/07/17

July 17, 2023
Someone who is either shirtless or wearing a skin-tight outfit, viewed from the waist up, their back to the viewer. The person has a shiny domed helmet with a black visor that looks like some sort of heads-up display or augmented-reality headpiece. There is a headphone visible in one ear. On their lower back are striations that imply cables. Under one arm is a small boxy device with a screen and buttons on it.

2023/07/16

July 16, 2023
An overcast night, with no stars and only a hazy moon in the sky. Below is a house; more specifically, the cross-section of a small house. By "small", it appears that the house has only three rooms: a cramped little attic, a living room area, and below, a basement. The interiors of all three rooms are visible, like an open dollhouse. The attic is very dark and mostly empty, except for some boxes, dimly illuminated by the light coming in from a skylight. The living room is empty, except for a glowing television and a person standing in front of it, slightly hunched, hypnotized by the light from the screen. There is no light in the living room other than that which comes from the television screen. There is one indiscernible picture hung on the wall, and no other furnishings. But it's the basement that's most startling. The basement is totally empty, except for an enormous red blob with tufted fur, horns, and no facial features to speak of. The blob has one outstretched, clawed hand, reaching through a hole it has evidently punched in the basement wall. It appears to be digging a tunnel under the small porch of the house. If one is going to harbor monsters, one needs to bury them deep and remain alert.

2023/07/15

July 15, 2023
The stump of a tree rises from fog. This is a relatively tall stump, maybe a quarter or third the height of the original tree. On top of the stump sits a large, roundish bird with an owl-like face, hunched into its wings. Sticking out from one side of the stump is a small clawlike hand, holding a large blue egg. Above is a hazy sun.

2023/07/14

July 14, 2023
A glass bottle: not perfectly cylindrical, but with flattish front and rear faces and rounded sides. There is a cork in the neck of the bottle. The front face of the bottle has a label on it, slightly frayed and worn. The label has nothing on it except for a high voltage symbol—a lightning-bolt-shaped arrow—contained in a double border.

2023/07/13

July 13, 2023
A small, cratered asteroid hangs in space. It's roughly spherical, although heavily lopsided and pockmarked. Sticking out of the top of it is a large, billboard-like sign with the word "closed" on it. The sign is about as wide across as the asteroid; this is either a very big sign or a very small asteroid. Behind the asteroid stretches the vast, starry expanse of deep space.

2023/07/12

July 12, 2023
A crude white face on a black background. The face has two cavernous eyes, a frowning mouth, and no nose. It is roughly scribbled in crayon, as though drawn by a toddler. Above the face is a more carefully drawn wide-brimmed hat, floating in space. Below the face is a shirt, also more realistically drawn. The shirt is upright, as though someone is standing in it, but empty, as though the person is invisible. The overall effect is that of an invisible figure wearing a hat, a shirt, and a disproportionately large, misshapen face drawn by an upset child.

2023/07/11

July 11, 2023
A mailbox post rises up from a ground covered by thick fog. Placed on the arm of the post where the mailbox would be is a small house-shaped box that does indeed resemble a mailbox. The door on the front is closed. There are suggestions that it is no ordinary mailbox, however, like the glowing, circular window on the side, and the large bell hanging over the door of the mailbox. Below the mailbox, nearly engulfed by the fog, stands a small figure. The size of the figure compared to the mailbox post suggesting that this post is as tall as a multi-story building. The figure is reaching up and grasping a string that dangles from the bell, as though ringing the bell to alert whoever's living inside the mailbox that they have a visitor.

2023/07/10

July 10, 2023
A scene in a dark room. A tall, thin person stands by a grimy window, looking out at the tenement building next door. It's night, one of those dull gray city nights that's never really that dark. The windows in the building next door are illuminated with the blue glow of television screens. The light from outside illuminates the inner frame of the window, and the Venetian blinds at the top of the window. The person by the window is seen in profile. The person is smoking a cigarette and has short, crew-cut hair and a leather jacket.

2023/07/09

July 9, 2023
A smartphone rises up from a layer of dense fog. The base of the phone and the ground can't be seen; just an amorphous carpet of clouds. The screen of the phone is very blurry, as though obscured by a layer of vapor. The screen shows glowing colored squares, arranged haphazardly, not in the usual grid of app icons. Silhouettes are visible in the squares, like people looking out of windows. Above the phone, a blurry moon is in the sky. The moonlight reflects off the top of the phone.

2023/07/08

July 8, 2023
A roughly cut rocky slab with a large arched window in it stands among grass. It's a puppet theater, in which a production is taking place: two round faces on sticks interact. The two faces resemble Facebook's "angry" and "haha" emoji. The angry face is looking up at the laughing face. The angry face has a beard; the laughing face, placed above it, has spiky hair. Above the two figures hang items intended as scenery: a cloud and a lightning bolt, both suspended from the top of the window by threads. There's a wispy suggestion of clouds in the top left of the sky. Perched on top of the right side of the theater is a black bird that looks a little like a crow. Below the window, on the front of the theater, is carved a mask, one side of which is frowning, and one side of which is smiling.

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