Rather Drawn

The Illustrations and Musings of Thomas RG

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Americans feeling victimized because the world is making sweeping comments about the villainous character of their entire culture.

The English;

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I did battle with a nightmare.

People have long misused the term nightmare, you have good and bad dreams at night (and dreams that are neither good nor bad) but a true Nightmare is something else, the online culture of today call them 'paralysis demons' but a nightmare or night hag refers to an entity that weighs you down, preventing you from moving during a lucid or waking dream, it is often accompanied by an overwhelming sense of dread and fear or the unnerving sense that something isn't quite right in the world, they can be formless horrors or invoke visions of something unspeakable, a half seen terror or unwelcome visitor.

Normally one is unable to move during a true nightmare, the entity disappears once we are able to break the paralysis and escape the waking dream.

One such night my hag came to visit, maybe her heart wasn't in it, maybe it had been my fitful lucid sleep, but her hold broke too soon, and I like madman drunk on some ephemeral courage pounced on my seemingly weakened tormentor, a mistake, at once it seemed I was trying to grapple not with a creature but with a hurricane, intangible yet ferocious, roaring winds howled in my ears and as I wrestled with the nightmare my vision was bombarded with violent colours as though the northern lights themselves were pouring into my eyes to scourge my mind...

I awoke, properly this time, bemused and thoughtful... did I break some rule? A dreaming taboo perhaps, the hag has not returned since, I never know when she will appear again, perhaps I will be caught off guard as usual, perhaps we will do battle again... perhaps that battle is already over, who won I fear to guess.

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Lipstick looks dead good on Victoria.

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Trying to draw something May/fae adjacent but allergies/head cold murdering me.

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Chip away, chip away.

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A nightmare.

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Armageddon is back baby! And we all know who's fault that really is.

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Happy 30th Anniversary

@capcomunity

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I'm not a gun nerd and I don't really enjoy drawing them that much, but there was a time when I could draw this damned STARS pistol in my sleep.

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It's Resident Evils 30th Anniversary today!

This is very much still a WIP but the energy I wanted is there.

Keep surviving RE fans, here's to another 30 years!

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the fact that generative A.I. has created a completely new fundamental doubt in reality (checking to see if an artwork we see is manmade or not) and doubt in the instinct of enjoying art is unforgivable. its sickeningly tragic, and i mean it. NOTHING is worth this price and i hope that everyone will one day realize this.

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Forest Friend