2024 in pictures
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august

september

october

november

december

that is everything which happened last year, thankfully.

will 2025 be better? I set the bar low in 2024 to guarantee it. In fact it may be lower than I expect since the video stops hard at 1 minute whenever i try to test to make sure it uploaded properly and that i didn’t accidentally break something right before the final save.
I will probably be having that stupid music echoing in my mind for the next few days. the dopey sound effects help a bit but I only added those in the last few hours and almost certainly in excess.

janiaury 2 updorf:
the video is done-ish but the higher bit rate or whatsit picture is taking substantially longer to render which means I can’t check it and notice stuff wrong with it as quickly and then try again and notice more stuff wrong with it. indeed much of today and yesterday was spent dealing with capturing moving bits of “watch out for dopes” in Open Broadcasting Software, and it still looks bad. I may need to revert to recording gzdoom at 1024×768; (I tried 1280×720 for this) and rendering at 1280×720 (this time was 1920×1280) until some point that will not occur when I have a more powerful computer since I am not interested in windows post-7 and having a non-portable computer is not an option under my general circumstances. fiddle deep feep. for everything else I do it is plenty capable enough.
obviously i don’t need the final render size until it is the FINAL render but part of my personal broken process is continually thinking I am done when i am not. It doesn’t work if I KNOW i am not done.
and at this point it doesn’t reduce the render time much, if at all, since I have used larger input files that in the past due to my expectation of exporting larger, so they still struggle to get squeezed through the mixer.
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january 1 2025: ah noip i definitely did not finish, but it turned out to only be about 87% my fault
if I work on something for too long, the task becomes somewhat abstract and i forget what my goal is. in this case it is, or SHOULD be, to show what i already made, not to show anything new. but since i put new stuff in it previous years, i thought if I can’t put something equally interesting in here it should at least be equally new, and then i have spent too long on that even though it isn’t impressive, just new.
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december 31 2024 updeh: my year end video definitely will not be ready before the year handover, and far too much of the contents are garbage, but it would be culturally inaccurate otherwise.
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a rather annoying picture featuring characters that I historically have not exhibat here but also have decreasingly put effort into distancing myself from, considering their regular, if hurried appearances in my last few year-end “art” videos and being directly visible in a recent pathetic snake comic strip based on an absurd event that might have featured different heap leaps of logic than it did if I had still cared about hiding them.
As I have mentioned in the past, and which is still true: my “normal” characters are agendered, not male; gender doesn’t necessarily exist where they come from, and neither does christmas, so my winter-themed images lack specific allusions to it. People assume those beasts are male since they have been conditioned to see male as default in the absence of any specific labels, and I do not take enough actions to distance those creatures from normal expectations. And i surely do not help that perception with this mob of heavily stereotyped figures. However I have created the problem of pictures of them existing and this one is almost socially acceptable despite that and I have nothing else new since I have set to assembling my year-end video (which will, as before, featured hurried glimpses of these leg-emphasizers) so there is little sense in not using it. Likewise, my previous areligious winter gathering pictures are presumed to be christmas themed, but that is not a problem I invented. Or if it is, I do not remember it. It may even be the case that I have received money for pictures featuring half of these characters, which isn’t necessarily true of individual drawings of my once regularly-appearing weirdos. And it would be more if I included similar “characters” here that only got drawn once. Which doesn’t mean it is right, but does prove that I can get away with it. The me of 2006 would be ashamed, but the me of 2006 also could not drive a car and assumed it would be famous by ten years before now doing what it was then doing, and was just as likely to be told it was sexually attracted to something that it wasn’t and unworthy of life on account of that by sociopaths sometimes not even over the internet.

page 4-1 of this. fewer panels than on previous pages, which seemed necessary to have the fewer, consequently larger panels that are here make any sense due to how many characters I found it necessary to cram into them. They may not make MUCH sense but I have options for dealing with that once I figure out how at a later point without having to disrupt the layouts of subsequent pages as was usually the case with altering earlier sections in the four row format.

The next page will probably also be like this one, as I initially set them up as a single four row page, but after that i have no idea about the shape of to any degree, including the future of the pointy pog-lookalike whose origin is in my terrible old 1995 comic strip. i needed something to incapacitate the gnomes here but did not decide what until i drew it, as the “plan” only concerned the aftermath of them being incapacitated, not the incapacitator.

the first frame (of the new page, not the grey mess above here that I cannot attempt to explain) also made me consider that i showed a bunch of “gardening robots” an entire numeration ago but never bothered to draw in any garden.
I was gladdish to see that apparently i did bother to add in some mild shrubbery at whichever page this is but i have no recollection of intending that as the “garden.” Brubaglid, the landlord or custodian or angry parking lot person of otherwise non-specific role could simply have a screwy concept of what a garden is but the presence of numerous robots should at least suggest some task for which they are used, however poorly.
i also never drew the robots again. i intended to have a scene where they had a meeting and complained to each other about their circumstances but i either never wrote it down and forgot it or wrote it somewhere that i never found again.
I drew them in here, THEN remembered that they would still be broken so I removed them, THEN i saw that one of them escaped mostly intact, so that one I unremoved. But it ends up being so small here that its nature is unclear.
Anyway brubaglid may go around to other properties than this one and may have more robots than the ones elpse damaged, so so so so sudio i hate that song. I heard that at the supermarket once in 2022 and it is about 95% studio production. A towering heap of 80s noises and reverb effects loudly fighting each other trying to cover up a terrible song. I was offended by what utter dreck and a waste it was. Phil Collins contributes almost nothing to it. Any name brand dorko singer could take his place there. And the album cover is literally just Phil Collins’ face. Not even his whole head. It should be producer Hugh Padgham’s fingers and a bunch of dials on the cover. And the SINGLE cover is literally the same picture of a face again with different text and with the face colored blue, as would eventually occur to any mass of body parts that you severed from the circulatory system. Friggidee diddledee feep.

ADDITIONALLY I have crammed in some vegetation here and augmented at least what was on the linked old page. i can’t do anything about the pages in books that have already been printed though knowing me i will probably attempt to update them to some degree regardless, even though the shape of the building also changed and maybe the less i try to retroactively bring into coheesion, the more what I don’t bother with is excusable.

The important thing is that I got this out before the year changed. I don’t have time to think about why that is important. Now I have ten days to make a dumb video that hopefully amounts to more than the absence of what I didn’t do this year, and will still take longer than that even if it amounts to less.

Chen Gong, I would feel a lot safer if you stopped shouting at me

chen gong was fairly reasonable for most of existence but once he touched that pile of scrolls he lost his mind

yes, maybe you should TALK to them instead of what you are presently doing! or even better ask someone else to do it.

Pang De was also fairly reasonable for most of existence but then lost his own mind after considering he is perpetually living and reliving mostly the same role in the bloodiest civil war in history for the entertainment of others

why is this fried chicken bag commanding me to love “those” points? They only exist to confound the fact that

it now costs more money to buy ten pieces of chicken and five biscuits than it did to buy fourteen pieces of chicken with five biscuits a few years ago before points were introduced. And this is the COUPON; the regular menu price is worse. And consider that biscuits are essentially just a glob of dough with salt that they tossed in a microwave for 20 seconds and probably only cost them two cents to make. That is the nature of inflation; prices go up and never down. I accept that it happens but I ought to have a choice about whether i LOVE it.

I also guarantee you the re-election of trump isn’t going to make points or anything else any more lovable.

some things are destined to be hated

12-7-2024 i have made this dice matter far too complicated. maybe i should just post the graphics!
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12-6-2024 i am doing something with dice that I thought would be ready within the fifth of december but that did not occur
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a commission drawing for division71 (from reddit of all places) in which a roommate (who might be called magikdragon) stays behind and abruptly transforms and eats a bunch of snacks, and then becomes transfixed on a fishtank.
I do not totally understand but it was within my capabilities to draw. I was also asked to treat it as four separate compositions, hence the file size is much larger than usual and the detail level possibly looking especially mushy when scaled down

I absentmindedly titled it “snackin’ dragon” and am not sure if I named it after the worrisome arcade game “Snacks ‘n Jaxson” or the totally horrid unlicensed nes game “Tagin’ Dragon” but neither way is it good. Also the internet is so full of people with no value to their lives who deliberately seek out and record themselves playing the worst video games, sometimes not even poorly, that there are plenty of pictures available of both and thus I do not need to put any here, mercifully. I need only say what is necessary to get through this.

life is complicated enough!

no sir, I do NOT

11-29-2024 oh flops I forgot to update this two days ago
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a questionable flying beast has a new slime it would like you to try

a long time ago I completely disregarded and forgot about this ugly monster sprite in dragon quest 5.

more recently I noticed the 3d version from the playstation 2 remake, and tried to draw one, and then the picture went screwy so i added some slimes to distract from that, but then they went screwy as well. And then this week I needed a website entry but was too mentally drained to prepare one, and so instead tried to force out a completish version of this drawing and pass the mental drainage on to someone else.

i wonder why these slimes are always professing their lack of badness, and I now must consider if it is because of the profound horridity of dope slimes.

you should have thought of that before you were blue and perpetually smiling! about 17 years before, by my reckoning.

it must be said that despite all that went wrong with Tecmo Secret of the Stars, at least its slimes own their badditude and don’t try to emotionally manipulate me with their facial expressions, even if they aren’t sure what color they are.

While this dragon quest 6 remake slime APPEARS to confess to being not good, it STILL has a BIG SMILE, as if it THINKS it is good, and EXPECTS me to reassure it! I shan’t! It also self-narrates its own sound effects. Verily this slime is awful.

In which a gang of weirdos annoy a perpetually morose person by smiling

I recently learned not only that Pierre Gilhodes had gotten made a Goblins part 5, he had a kick-starter for Goblins 6 and it bothered me that I never made an elaborate piece about this series despite taking inspiration in one way or another from its strange attitudes and art work for just about 30 years. I remember that I memorized the pixels on fingus (the one riding a bubble) and replicated it on school macintosh computers back before they had internet or microsoft paint would save files that apple computers would read. I stopped after realizing people didn’t recognize the character and thought I was drawing little monkeys but I have had this garbage deep in my mind for a long time and it needs to be released, that is the point. Similarly inappropriately big smiles have found their way into many of my drawings.
There is probably more context to be supplied but right now I want to prioritize getting this posted so I have website piece at the top which doesn’t mention trumpDRAP well maybe next week.

good gawrd he is literally putting sycophants from tv and the internet into his government. I didn’t think he would. He really is going to be worse than last time. Kids being obnoxious on social media and stupid forums aren’t all that important.
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i have heard that birds are jerks

this might be my least popular upload in years. presumably in part due to it not communicating my opinion on its message well, or even the
message at all, and also that i posted it during one of the most discomforting election days that I can remember. I almost didn’t want people to see it since I was so dissatisfied with the result, but then I also disliked when fewer people than seemingly average reacted to it.
Maybe its meaning would be more clear if i drew the birds like the three stoogers, since there were actually four, but I don’t actually like the stooges and i don’t believe they are known for assaulting women.
maybe the message itself: all organized religion has this at its core has baked-in lack of appeal. I kept making pieces like this since I was annoyed by the support (not enough to matter, only enough to be noticed) I had from racist, misogynist creeps who assumed I shared their viewpoints since I complain about some of the same stupid garbage as, presumably, whatever higher-tier idiot they take orders from.

it took this one (same person, different icon) until last week to realize I’m not being ironic or dog-whistling when I reject his anonymous insincere klanny memester values.

I wondered who this person was and I saw it using a particular ugly horrid arbitrarily racist “reaction” picture, like 30 times in a short period against different people in petty arguments, and I really didn’t want it, or anyone similar to it, thinking I was on whatever they think their “side” is but I didn’t want to directly engage with it either.

^{pardon me, you aren’t a white supremacist, you just believe people who don’t have light-colored skin are intrinsically inferior to you}
And that was months before a deranged child-leg-fixating sex-cyber-stalker whom I want even less to engage with used the exact same insult against me, even. I can however change what topics I prioritize among the numerous undrawn comic strips I already have little scripts for.

of course I have complained about Stephen Colbert trying to reinvent himself as an unmistakable democrat party and perceived like-aligned media shill, even changing his signature glasses to underline that he is boring and “network” now, especially after idiots who took the act seriously threatened to cost him money while he was still on cable, but “thankfully” I do this for free. Although unfortunately I also do this for free so no pro-shill sponsors are encouraging me in any direction.

how can you be shocked? trump got elected before. T won with a wider margin, the first time he actually got more votes than his competitor, but you also have both people who won’t vote for a woman AND people who won’t vote for a non-white person contributing along with the usual reasons any 0-integrity criminal slimemound gets elected to office. Unfortunately,

that is America so how can we? Don’t disregard that even when T lost clean he did it with over 74 million votes. This year the democrat party forced Joe Biden to quit the presidential race over media nitpicking his ability to look good on camera, replaced him with a candidate people hardly know anything about and who comes across as insincere, while continuing to ignore the most prominent genocide of the day, against an established career dirty trickster that for whatever reason a massive quantity of the populace seemingly tolerates the tricks of, some even enjoying it, and most importantly urinates standing up, even if directly into a diaper at this point. They went with the crook they trust to be utterly untrustworthy at the expense of someone else in their favor.

And I can find humor in how extremely stupid this is without making telling people that they are stupid in the nastiest, least constructive ways possible my foremost passion in life

I am not sure how I avoided putting this picture anywhere since I used one of its counterparts ten years ago and I generally think this one is funnier.

the musicien de rock detester may not have a choice about being in such close proximity, but the television detester is deliberately standing right in front of the television. He could turn the thing off! Unless this drawing is more literal than I assumed, and this person has no arms or body and cannot move. In which event he should aim his detestment at whoever placed him there.

trump does not directly affect me much. The anti-science, anti-feminism, anti-empathy sentiment that he depended on for victory and that has frustratingly affected some people to whom I was once close was not created by him. He is an exploiter, not a creator. But in 2016 he still seemed unusual and likely to at least gut some of hypocrisy in government that didn’t directly benefit him, and by 2020 it was clear that in practice he isn’t much different from standard crooked wearers-of-suits. His regressive policies are their regressive policies. He is impervious to shame, publicly bragging about deeds that other politicians would resign to keep from going public, but he also knows that as hard as he wanted to be respected in New York, where he had his biggest, most audacious campaign event, he still didn’t win and still lost business licenses. He knows and dislikes that he is seen as a redneck president.
This friggin guy lives in essentially luxury hotels for his entire life, treats his employees like pets or worse, chums it up with literally the wealthiest person in human history, and is somehow regarded like a champion of the downtrodden, when just about nobody is more symbolically associated with trodding-down. Some people believe, without any evidence, because trump has also trained them to be anti-evidence, that he will reduce food prices. The people inflating the prices for pure profit all donated to his campaign! (probably) During my brief brush with election coverage last night I inadvertently saw some goofus in an enormous plantation house that almost certainly was built and furnished with slavery money, with a bust of Ronald Reagan behind him (similar to the television detester, except bronze) being interviewed, swelling with swill about how Trump takes down “the elites.” The only elites he took down was Rudolph Giuliani! If Hillary Clinton hadn’t run against him in 2016, Donny and Bill would probably be best buddy old pals like they were back in the Epstein days. I am not optimistic but I think there is a pretty good chance big D will slip on a banana peel down the steps of the capital building or detach his arms during a golf swing which might at least be interesting to read about.

A Kamala Harris presidency wasn’t going to improve my life, nor anyone in Gaza’s either (I voted for Jill Stein again, since in Connecticut it doesn’t make a difference), but I could have had marginally more optimism about who might not get hurt by it. I understand why they believe it. Trump says he will hurt people. He never drained “the swamp” and he never got mexico to pay for “the wall,” so he probably will continue not doing what he said he will do, but he hurts people spontaneously in the present. You can’t trust his promises, but you can’t know what he will do instead.

Tintin-related commission for relaxingdragon.bsky.social in which Rascar Capac, he-who-unleashes-the-fire-of-heaven, gives a brief demonstration of his abilities to a pair of bewildered onlookers.

initially one of my recurring fools was requested to be in the chair, and subsequently this purple one was suggested, and seems to be handling the situation with more decorum than most of them might.

in fact just over ten years ago I drew this same character in a similar scene also borrowed from a tintin book. I may have done a better job then! however, I appear also to have drawn an awful creature known as “nemitz” into the background which utterly disqualifies it. Maybe that is why I seemingly never mentioned it here. But sometimes that’s just how things are! The world is a treacherous place!

Especially da worlda tin tin. an’ me! wuf!

I received a FOURTH bit of mail for pennsylvania after posting this but it essentially remixed the previous one, with the ballot request, so it isn’t worth showing a picture of but it reminds me that this america pac has lost loads of money by paying employees who don’t care and thus are doing their “job” as shoddily and quickly as possible. The article is about that affecting “swing states” but even in the states that don’t really matter they are doing it and doing it unwell.
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this feels somewhat redundant given my last horde of snake comic strips, and maybe it isn’t fair either since idiotic political sentiment is largely manufactured at or near the top and directed downward with the intent of setting common folk against each other instead of recognizing what their actual problems are. However I also encounter more of this than ever before, dumber and more aggressive than ever before, and do not know what productive I really can do about it, hence perpetual gripage. This is the last such thing I have, however. for now.
Although I encountered that WPWW “white pride world wide” symbol on a school bus back when I was tennish years old, the kid who wrote it probably still believes in that and no longer considers it such a fringe viewpoint that it needs to be secretly scribbled in places where hardly anyone will see it.

this is on the same street where my home is. Not in Texas or Florida, but Connecticut. I do not know if “you can’t fix stupid” is official campaign signage or something that the erector purchased, but either way it is screwed up and the fact that I cannot tell if this isn’t official signage, because Trump’s official platform is abuse, and that APPEALS to or fails to alarm a significant portion of the populace, is even more screwed up.

the message is a bit more coherent from this angle, but just as likely to do any good.

I cannot fathom somebody scanning this on purpose.

That was two weeks ago, as I am writing this. More recently, on October 14,

I have had difficulty believing Rob Bresnahan will put Pennsylvania workers first

when this message is being directed at Connecticut [or current] residents

less than a week later, october 20:

there has been some unorthodox campaigning this season but reverse psychology is a new one to me. i alone have the power to keep trump from being elected merely by not voting.

This is printed on the reverse side, with stuff to fill out between them. Perhaps not terribly surprising the Trump mail also believes unregistered Pennsylvania voters are hiding out under pseudonyms at my home in Connecticut.

This is sent from “america pac” which Elon Frippindrippin Musk paid for, but the other one is from “congressional leadership fund” so the information placing Clinton Connecticut inside Pennsylvania was wrong prior to that particular wealthy creepadoodle’s gang getting involved.

October 24, yet more Pennsylvania mail. All this fuss about democrats conspiring to commit voter fraud, but I have never had them asking me to vote for them from out of state.

On DAY ONE Rob Bresnahan is going to drive 31 hours (33 if he goes the scenic route) to Mexico- officially it will be day two by the time he gets there but regardless he will personally duct tape The Border shut. Assuming he doesn’t mean Canada, or even New Jersey; no border was specified

for a bit of variety, my sister, also in Connecticut, has been urged to vote for Chad “Yes my name is really” Bobo in Tennessee.

and goop gorpity don’t ever say The Media only covers embarrassing stories about republicans. Maybe they don’t even think this is embarrassing.

I don’t understand the significance of being a “music fan.” I think there are very few people who outwardly HATE music, just in general. Obama just happens to be a name-dropping and hob-nobbing fan. This is the same kind of garbage that preceded the 2016 election. All the socially correct celebrities palled around together and talked about shattering the “glass ceiling” with the first woman president and then an old rapist white guy got elected instead. wealthy leftwing hubris right before an election puts off undecided voters. I don’t understand why wealthy rightwing hubris the other 90% of the time appeals to them but I don’t know how somebody can possibly be “undecided” about Trump in 2024 either and that is just the bag of doughnuts we have been dealt. I suppose the idea is to reach the thoroughly decided but apathetic potential voters, but that’s still depressing, that the election depends on fickle idiots either way. Is it because of the fickle idiot candidates or the reason we get them?

I prefer Harris to Trump, but it doesn’t fill me with euphoria to think about –neither of them is going to stand up to Benny Netanyahu– or an urge to smugly toss out “better luck next time, righties” sort of statements. I want the entire abusive oafy system of attitudes to lose this election, and I had that sentiment even before a few kiwisharecroppers had a bone to pick with me.

Of course if casual voters think their “side” has already lost then they won’t bother, but if they think it’s a done deal months before and all the celebrity television pushes this story they also won’t vote, but those who RESENT that will, which is why Hillary Clinton didn’t win.

Barack Obama also had that sort of mega media push but he went against Mitten Romney and party-poisoned John McCain, who were still running conventional campaigns which hadn’t figured out how to tap into the nihilistic mutant memester demographic. Sarah Palin had a Trumpesque snark to clue ratio but fundamentally didn’t want poor people and immigrants to die hard enough. She was too busy making sure animals were dead.

a number of these headlines specifically name stephen colbert, which isn’t anything new but it still bothers me since I remember a time when I thought he was the most progressive, anti-complacency figure on television. But that was a “character,” I suppose. the “real” one easily drifts into pandery smirky shill mode, which is exactly how terrible right wing comedians operate, and it reinforces the concept of “both sides” and “they’re just as bad!” like elections are a game that it doesn’t matter who wins. Even in a contest of low standards vs no standards the outcome very much matters. And that was from July!

in october he met and product placed with Harris on television and I was too numb to even bother taking a proper screenshot of the news headline for some reason telling me that this occurred. I have momentarily regained sensation in my indignation but not I am annoyed that the guardian’s built in search box just forwards to fricken google which I have a largely unrelated gripe pile about. I have plenty of resentment but perhaps not the time and energy to finish both of these, but at least the president we almost sort of get a choice about. Nobody has to vote for google for it to be in charge of our wrongs and our rights.

a commission drawing for Draco Nihil. the task was to recreate something like an unused box art design for the video game “doom 64” with characters that are more reminiscent of mortimewde stapleton meepmire, nemitz, elpse and a dope. this has no relation or compatibility with my gzdoom matter.

i can say i understand why that box art was unused, but not why somebody would want to pay for such a substitute to be produced. nonetheless someone did and now it is your problem
i am far from an expert on the matter but i suspect the original artist invented many of the muscles whose details i have attempted to replicate here

thinking about this brought me back to the “40 worst rob liefeld drawings” page which i apparently have looked at before since I recognize more of them than I should, but last time I wasn’t aware of elon musk and was fascinated this time to see how many liefeld characters seem to have his same tight squinty botoxy face

gosh i didn’t even KNOW he actually had botox. i just thought: this looks like someone who has something wrong with his face that is probably his own fault because he has enough money to buy luxembourg. How does anyone have sympathy enough for this scumheap to interview him about being disliked for doing shallow things to try and make people dislike him less?

elon musk is a lot like rob liefeld himself in that both were talked about around me for years without me having any reason to know or care who they were but they eventually became my problem anyway. I suppose I should be glad to share that problem with more people than dopes and eight squared.