Wolve

Thinking of doing a short Space Story based interactive webcomic, MS Paint Adventures style.

brush face idiot

Watched Redline for the 10th time. Still better every time.

I've not heard of that one, I'll have to look into it!

If I was a mouse I would dream of candied chestnuts.

I'm reading Redwall, and I've read the Game of Thrones books too. Long descriptions of food are a big deal in fantasy, it looks like. As integral to the world building as sci-fi babble is to Star Trek.

I'm moving my creative muse from space adventures to mouse adventures. I'm reading Redwall, and building myself up to run Humblewood.

God just dropped a new patch. Hangovers weren't punishing enough, so they're all permanent now. Be careful out there.

Charlie Brown is the quintessential character of all time, still

Yes

The Cat and the Mice There was once a house that was overrun with mice. A cat heard of this and said to herself, 'That's the place for me.' And off she went and took up her quarters in the house and caught the mice one by one and ate them. At last the mice could stand it no longer, and they determined to take to their holes and stay there. 'That's awkward,' said the cat to herself. 'The only thing to do is to coax them out by a trick.' So she considered awhile, and then climbed up the wall and let herself hang down by her hind legs from a peg and pretended to be dead. By and by a mouse peeped out and saw the cat hanging there. 'Aha!' it cried. 'You're very clever, madam, no doubt; but you may turn yourself into a bag of meal hanging there, if you like, yet you won't catch us coming anywhere near you.' If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

Another cat based fable I genuinely enjoy. Cats are always scheming.

The Cat and the Birds A cat heard that the birds in an aviary were ailing. So he got himself up as a doctor, and, taking with him a set of the instruments proper to his profession, presented himself at the door, and enquired after the health of the birds. 'We shall do very well,' they replied, without letting him in, 'when we've seen the last of you.' A villain may disguise himself, but he will not deceive the wise.

another great Arthur Rackham illustration for Aesop's Fables

The Flea and the Man A flea bit a man, and bit him again, and again, till he could stand it no longer, but made a thorough search for it, and at last succeeded in catching it. Holding it between his finger and thumb, he said or rather shouted, so angry was he 'Who are you, pray, you wretched little creature, that you make so free with my person?' The flea, terrified, whimpered in a weak little voice, 'Oh, sir! Pray let me go. Don't kill me! I am such a little thing that I can't do you much harm.' But the man laughed and said, 'I am going to kill you now, at once. Whatever is bad has got to be destroyed, no matter how slight the harm it does.' Do not waste your pity on a scamp.

My favourite stories in Aesop's Fables are the hilariously pitiless ones.

That signature is giving no secrets away

The illustrations in this book are credited as "Arthur Rackham and others" so let's say it was a Rackham.

The Swollen Fox A hungry fox found in a hollow tree a quantity of bread and meat which some shepherds had placed there against their return. Delighted with his find he slipped in through the narrow aperture and greedily devoured it all. But when he tried to get out again he found himself so swollen after his big meal that he could not squeeze through the hole, and fell to whining and groaning over his misfortune. Another fox, happening to pass that way, came and asked him what the matter was; and, on learning the state of the case, said, 'Well, my friend, I see nothing for it but for you stay where you are till you shrink to your former size. You'll get out then easily enough.'

The fables don't stand up to a furry reading

The Ass, the Cock and the Lion An ass and a cock were in a cattle pen together. Presently a lion, who had been starving for days, came along and was just about to fall upon the ass and make a meal of him when the cock, rising to his full height and flapping his wings vigorously, uttered ...

a tremendous crow. Now if there is one thing that frightens a lion, it is the crowing of a cock; and this one had no sooner heard the noise than he fled. The ass was mightily elated at this, and thought that if the lion couldn't face a cock, he would be still less likely to stand up to an ass; so he ran out and pursued him. But when the two had got well out of sight and hearing of the cock, the lion suddenly turned upon the ass and ate him up. False confidence often leads to disaster.

The Ass, the Cock and the Lion

"Yeah, and what?" and we all dab in prayer

good illustration from this edition I own

The Fables have a Bible's worth of flexible parables that utilise the essential symbolism of animals. It's the bible for Furries. I will one day hold Mass at a furcon near you.

Aesop's Fable, The Dogs and the Fox: "Some dogs once found a lion's skin, and were worrying it with their teeth. Just then a fox came by and said, 'You think yourselves very brave, no doubt; but if that were a live lion, you'd find his claws a good deal sharper than your teeth.'" I don't know what this one means

A lot of Aesop's Fables as told in this book could be answered with "so?"

I feel the room's atmosphere pretty well in this, very nice

Reading Redwall and learning Humblewood. Watched War of the Worlds 1953, and dreamily imagining woodland critters fighting tooth and nail against the Martians as a tabletop campaign.

Reading about spider technology has been getting me through my daily bike commute for the last month and a half. I don't know what I'll do without it. Maybe another Redwall book next.

reading Children of Time

This is Stimcore

You're incredibly good at drawing huggable creatures

Want to paint like this Bob Ross style, a new hare for every day

Feeling this one today (good)