Gracious Anthracite @anthracite@dragon.style

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Me: I’m hungry, I should do some dinner. Maybe a couple slices of pizza at Pagliacci?
*checks their hours*
Me: damn, I just BARELY missed it. Wish I’d decided to go out a little earlier.

Five minutes later, a pizza delivery guy knocks on my door. He was looking for another apartment. And I bet I could have totally claimed it if I had not been reflexively honest.

The inner Magician wants to be all THERE IS NO COINCIDENCE ITS MAGIC but she kinda can’t keep a straight face while saying this.

ever so slowly I turn these concept drawings into something I can draw with a few quick shapes and lines... https://dragon.style/media/X0DvBHb_jNJD6AAW_d0

I had cause to make an Aphrodite Pro font sampler just now. https://dragon.style/media/FsOC6RTdC28z8ZSd8nM

I want seventeen naps so bad

Now that’s an interesting ethical question brought up by one chapter of Revenant Gun: if you cause your very old, very postmortal acquaintance to be embodied in an underage body, then have sex with them, is it child abuse? Does it matter if consent was properly negotiated? Because it sure felt dubious in this particular scene.

Amazon why are you telling me you failed to deliver a package to me in Everett when you have it on record as going to Seattle, wtf

Why do I buy any physical stuff off of Amazon any more anyway

Admittedly the GenXers who WERE trying to work their way up the Democratic Ladder are probably neck-deep in the same neoliberal corporate whoredom that the Boomer Dems are, so they may not be a great loss - but I still feel kinda wistful and angry realizing how much of my generation has been kept out of power.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/28/politics/joe-crowley-nancy-pelosi-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/index.html

Interesting little piece on how the new folks displacing Democratic boomer politicians are largely Millenials, not Xers. Yep. We GenXers were born in the shadow of the Baby Boomers, and they held onto the reins of power much longer than anyone else had before; they wouldn't retire, they wouldn't die, they just wouldn't get out of the fucking way.

I wonder if the Millenials will repeat that when they come into power? Maybe once they get America's medical system fixed they'll manage to overshadow *two* generations, not just one. I'll probably be dead before we find out, unless I get extremely lucky.

the dream of the centipede ritual http://egypt.urnash.com/blog/2018/06/29/the-dream-of-the-centipede-ritual/

Lately I've been noticing that I say "radical" a lot. I should mix it up and add "excellent" and "non-henious" to the mix.

I really really want to write a smartass answer to https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8upn12/has_there_ever_been_an_attempt_to_save_jesus/ about the popularity of the Crucifixion as a destination for time travellers, and the constant efforts of the Time Police to repair the myriad attempts people make to intervene, but I know it will be deleted within minutes.

In the interest of me not being a total mope sack today, here's what I did get done: I started working on synthesizing concept art by myself and @sigilgoat@twitter.com into a final spaceship design for Parallax. If I can scrape up a couple more spoons today I'll start teaching Illustrator how to do half the work of drawing this crazy thing.

https://dragon.style/media/j2nOcQtG2DkeyAYq6MQ

Today's a grey, overcast day and my whole body just wants to shut down and hibernate. This is just ludicrous.

I don't think I took my vitamin D this morning so I guess that's part of it? I really loved the week of sunny weather and now here I am with my body having shifted to assuming there's sun forever but it's suddenly winter for a week by the standards I grew up in. I need to figure out how to start the ball rolling on this move south I keep talking about. I feel like I'm spending half my life wanting to hibernate because of the lack of sun, even when I take out the giant sun lamp and eat fistfuls of vitamin D.

I keep on feeling like all the main characters of the books I’m reading are the bad guys. I need to read more stuff starring people who aren’t generals of a horrible regime or useless rich assholes.

Time to look for some socialist SF/F. Maybe start by re-reading Mieville’s Iron Council.

So I ordered some laundry hampers from Bed Bath And Beyond and they just sent me the shipping email. But instead of giving me a tracking link to the actual shipping company they sent me a link to bedbathandbeyond.narvar.com and I had to spend a whole FIVE MINUTES poking around this stupid “customer loyalty increasing” site to find the actual FedEx number to put into my tracking app.

(Oh no I spent five minutes sitting at a bus stop being puzzled by this, mercy me the world is ending.)

For years, there used to be a Jimmy the Idiot Boy doll hanging up outside the animation section of @scarecrowvideo@twitter.com. Today I noticed that it’s gone, probably because what was an open secret in the animation industry about John is now quite resoundingly public.

I’m glad. No more micro-flashbacks to working at Spumco when I go browse their anime collection.
https://dragon.style/media/CRqvVMZbC1_TjadANXY

Damn, Memento is an amazingly meticulously constructed film. Very much a noir tragedy.

Huh. Went to yoga for the first time in a while, and my balance was *super* together. Maybe riding my bike around again woke up some extra balance routines I'd put in storage?

I finally got rid of the pile of clean but unfolded laundry that’s been sitting there for the last six months. Maybe I’ll manage to keep it away for a while.

https://dragon.style/media/RqqeDLygKZT1rnek7-Y https://dragon.style/media/2DwUnikA_xOlg0IgCP4

Today, like yesterday, seems to be vanishing into a hole called “laundry”. I had to take a load that my apartment buildung’s dryer would not handle and go to the Serious Laundromat.

And now here I am going back out to get a couple laundry hampers so I can start sorting my clothes when I take them off, instead of having to dump the whole damn thing out and sort before I can run a load.