Take that, nightmares!

So I've been having dreams every night for the past month that have been ranging from mildly unpleasant to horrible nightmares. I had a particularly vivid one last night and the visuals were so strong I drew a few key scenes out(secretly using it to practice my photoshop painting skillz). If I'm going to dream every night, I might as well mine them for ideas. Here they are:


Once upon a time, a small detachment of mounted soldiers decided to get a message across to a neighboring country. most of the group stayed behind while two went ahead to scout territory.


I arrived on the scene just as the group of soldiers were turning around to go home. "What's going on? Why are you turning back?" I asked. "We don't work on thursdays" one of the soldiers replied.


I caught up with the two men at the shore of a dark bay with a land bridge that at one time crossed into the next kingdom. However, the ocean had taken its toll. (not pictured) about halfway across, the bridge turned to mud, and the two men and their horses had become stuck. By the time I got there both horses and one of the men had drowned.


When I finally made it to the remaining man, he was pretty stuck but we managed to get him out. as we were doing it, this freaky fish man kept circling us, looking like he was about to eat us. I tried to kick out but the water slowed me down, so I planned to keep my arms out of the water and hit it from above if it came too close. It apparently realized what I was doing, decided it was too much work for a snack and left us alone. I told the man to run for the cliffs, and safety.


Halfway up the cliff, I noticed that the man had been left behind me somewhere, adn the waters were now teeming with mermaids. They were very VERY dangerous, and I had a bad feeling they had taken the man. So I ran back to try and see where he had fallen in, adn this white mermaid reared out of the water to try to eat me alive.


I jumped in the water, despite the abnormally large albino mermaids, found the man, and dragged him back to the shore, using a reverse siren song(mostly just a bunch of half singing half yelling at mermaids) to fight off the mermaids.

and they all lived happily ever after...maybe.

I.Am.Your.Grandmamama.

First off, I got a late start to my day because I stayed up too late reading Dune and being a neeeeeeerd. drawing comics and things. Today I went to farmers market and got some new loverly plants! Some fancy basil(it's purple!) and some mint (it smells good!) and I replanted some older plants that looked very unhappy in their old pots. So now I have a whole little spot in my room for happy non-succulent plants. hopefully I don't kill them. I am also working on Tip Top(I know, I always say I'm working on shit and never have anything to show for it. it's because I'm afraid of my scanner(It requires sacrificial goats. very messy) anyways, I'm actually almost done scripting, character designs are mostly done, and I have two full days with nothing planned ahead of me. I AM GOING TO DRAW LIKE A MAD WOMAN.

Now for the real business:

this has been floating around the internets like internet herpes, and I'm doing my part to keep spreading it. It also keeps being described as nightmare inducing, but the tune is REALLY catchy. I mean, I wish it was longer. Anyways, I've already caught myself at work socking apples singing "I am your grandma ma ma! I am your grandma!" Not creepy, i swear.

Edit: oops, forgot to post this last night. oh well, not much has changed.

Sounds from Space!

I am both fascinated and terrified with outer space. Here is what Saturn sounds like. Or rather, electromagnetic waves converted into an audio file. You can hear more of these by checking out the Coilhouse article on the subject.

Space is creepy, and I love it. I also have this sneaking suspicion I'm bound for an existential moment.

Rhymes with...Stranger than Kindness

Today has been a weird day. Got a parking ticket for being dumb(really, I have no one to blame but myself...) Woke up from a really weird dream about trains. I spent my morning reading the Avian Gospels which I finished. As ifI wasn't already in a gloomy state of mind, that book certainly pushed me over the edge. When I finally managed to drag myself out of bed, feed myself and get dressed, it was somewhere around 2:30. This is unusual for me. So I headed off to the print studio and spent several hours drawing creepy, detailed, fungus trees. I'll be sure to post photos of that particular adventure later. So here I am, killing some time before going to karaoke posting two of the creepiest music videos I could get my hands on.

First off is We Are the World with Fight Song. I found it a while ago, but it still is intriguing and I watch it several times before I have to put it away so I can get something else done.


Next up we have Fever Ray, with a cover of Nick Cave's "Stranger Than Kindess" which in itself is a bad ass cover, but then pair that with a creepy music video(because really, nothing else would do) and you have so much awesome the world might explode. No really, I about peed myself when I saw this.