Krishna With Shepherds And Shepherdesses In The Water, Illustration To The Bhagavata Purana [ Rajasthan,

A classic

Atl!

Glad they still are making music

Conspiracy theorists really don't understand the difference between media with genuine occult themes, and media that simply has occult aesthetic. Media with occult aesthetic is all over the place; media with actual occult themes is much less common. Most works that look occult are just using occult (or pseudo-occult!) aesthetic to tell a completely mundane narrative about coming of age or accepting responsibility or something.

From my other blog

The process of making these is:

Collect comics and beer labels, put the beer label on a piece of paper. (Peel it off while can is full)

Find comics and beer labels with similar themes or colors. This takes a while and involves comic book shopping.

Cut out comics into fun shapes.

To put it together I drink a ton of beer with my wife and sister listen to classic rock and do blow. It makes it a fun process and seems to dial in the art itself. Outlaw country!!!

Dope

O California, dark, shaken, broken hills, bright fog reaching over the beaches, madrone and digger pine and valley oak, I’m your dryhearted daughter. I listened when the earthquake spoke and learned what the quail teaches. The stony bed the rain of winter fills waited all year for the water.

- Ursula K. Le Guin, ‘Incredible Good Fortune’

pondgames

pinch a piece off your sweet oblivion. roadless venture, way of which leaves me stupefied, on the brink of accepting predestination as a means to exist in stasis with placeholder ordained as wisdom's possessor, despite how misguided such tradition may be.

Currently working on this collage. Bay area/Oakland themed. Working on adding some comics but keeping it “mapy” looking.

I loved seeing these in San Francisco and Berkeley. I have seen them elsewhere but not in such great numbers

little free libraries

For some reason, my ADHD brain decided to hyperfixate on Gorochu recently, and what a missed opportunity it was. Since Pichu basically robbed it of its potential place in Pikachu's evolutionary line, there's no realistic way for Gorochu to be reintroduced into the franchise without coming up with some brand new unnecessary game mechanic or something.

But then I started thinking "What if Gorochu was a brand new Pokémon altogether?" And I don't mean like another Pikaclone. This is Gorochu we're talking about, it deserves something better. I'm thinking a Mythical/Legendary Pokémon with a clear connection to Pikachu akin to Diancie and Carbink.

The lore would go something like this:

"Gorochu, the Thunder Mouse Pokémon. Legend has it Gorochu was once an ordinary Pikachu that was transformed after being struck by lightning from Arceus. Everywhere Gorochu goes, terrible thunderstorms follow as it drums its tail against the ground to psych itself up for battle. As the most powerful Electric-Type in the world, not even Thundurus, Zapdos, or Zekrom can stand up to its might."

I think it's a pretty cool concept even if it probably will never come to pass. At the very least I'd settle for a Convergent Pokémon. (Sigh) But a man can dream.