Hauntings from the Sprawl

Creations and musings, random ramblings and inane posts served to you by the resident tekkno creature. Things that you might find here in no particular order: my own art, art in general, gaming, technology, cyberpunk, sci-fi, random ramblings, sometimes news related stuff, potatoes, ... Supposedly an adult, whatever that means.

[free-my-mindd]

[theoutcastrogue]

A creature’s reach should exceed its grasp.

Leslie Fish - Lucifer

Let me teach you to wonder and worry Permit me to tell you how to wage war A creature's reach should exceed its grasp Or what's a heaven for?

I'll show you the way to take thought for tomorrow To struggle for dreams and to hunger for more A creature's sight should outrun its might Or what are the heavens for?

Taste of the fruit of the tree that is knowledge Of good and of evil and all the world's lore A creature's thought must exceed what it's taught Or who is heaven for?

So come here and learn to become as the gods are For I've got a wonderful secret to tell: A creature's reach should exceed its grasp What else is heaven? Or hell?

[antlered-vixen]

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

[hacash]

lord of the rings is a fun place to fandom because there's so many options to obsess over no matter what your interests are, but because of that it's also a humbling reminder that different people like different things and that's ok.

like, for me the heart and soul of lotr is the hobbits, and it always bemuses me to see how underrated they can be in fics or fandom like?? you have these funky little fuckers who are really brave and kind and loyal but also have oddball forms of government and eat and party a lot and get into scrapes and have all these hobbit pals and there's all sorts of shipping options and they have interesting nuanced social politics and second breakfast and pipeweed and they give presents on their birthday instead of the other way around so they're always getting presents and they're hilariously weird about their family trees and they led full-scale guerrilla warfare against these bastards who invaded their homeland but also all they want to do is chill and have nice gardens and probably judge vegetable growing competitions and have pretty dances

and instead people are getting super invested in basic-bad-boy-bitch sauron? huh. fair enough. the world is indeed a rich tapestry.

[hacash]

oh god this is how gandalf speaks to saruman isn't it

[oh-kays-stuff]

hear me out friends..... roller derby au shep. publish post.

[spicyvampire]

The way all the 2020s have done so far have been making me categorically against every new generation of tech that comes out is insane. Like I'm from a technological boom generation, saw the first portable phones, nokias & blackberries & flipphones etc, and the first smartphones, and the first ipods & ipads & tablets in general while still having cassettes & DVD & MP3 players around so I know how all of it work, I had computer classes in high school, I did the transition between home desktop computers to laptops and back to gaming computers. But then they started to put internet in your printer & microwave, everything has ads & AI now and every update is worst than the last. I literally loved technology and they ruined it

[newgroundstier]

bwaa 🎺

[afloweroutofstone]

God Bless Our Dead Marines - Silver Mt. Zion

There's fresh meat in the club tonight God bless our dead Marines Someone had an accident Above the burning trees While somewhere distant, peacefully Our vulgar princes sleep Dead kids don't get photographed God bless our dead Marines

[afloweroutofstone]

[bontxt-deactivated20151125]

how do draw good

fill 14 sketch book

bad stuff is good stuff bc you made stuff

do you like sparkle???? draw sparkle

draw what make your heart do the smiley emote

member to drink lotsa agua or else bad time

d ont stress friend all is well

your art is hot like potato crisps

don’t let anyone piss on your good mood amigo

if they do

eat

them

[consultingcriminal-deactivated2]

this fucking post

i finally found it

in the name of the Lord

[myjetpack]

My latest Guardian Books cartoon

[jackfuckingtwist]

one of my raid buddies last night said theyre worried about gw3 because “anet isnt an established company” and i really need gw2 players to stop drinking the doomer juice. if developing 2 successful mmorpgs over the last 20 years and claiming the spot of one of the most popular games of the genre isnt being an established company, then i honestly dont know what is. yall have gotta stop comparing us to wow player counts we’re literally never going to beat blizzard and that has got to stop being everybody’s marker of success.

[cheese24k]

This guy plays the tune of Jason Mraz - “I’m Yours” using two Nokia Phone

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

this is so fucking relaxing

[4ngelbride]

IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR TWO FUCKING YEARS

[sailor-artemis]

When you’re too broke to afford a Launchpad

[catholic-femboys]

I keep trying to explain warframe stuff to my technically-baby tenno but I keep forgetting that this game is nonsensical so every plot point or piece of trivia sounds like I pulled it straight out of my ass

[kosmanal]

made this for my boyfriend's birthday

[bearlyfunctioning]

Comic #355 : Chronic pain is isolating - Website links here ~ Here's a comic for the spoonies, the suffering and the lonesome. Let's take ibuprofen together 🐻💊 That's right it's a double length comic! I had a lot to say that wouldn't fit in 4 panels 🥲

[fiollaigean]

how to cover letter:

polite greeting (it's me, boy)

introduction (i'm the ps5)

establish credentials (speaking to you inside your brain)

establish purpose (leave the girl, we don't need her)

describe what you can bring to the organization (cowboy times in space)

[orteil42]

90% of google search ai summaries feel like this guy leaning uncomfortably over your shoulder and pointing at stuff on your screen reading out the exact same text you're already looking at

[catchymemes]

[makahitaki]

[aquilacalvitium]