on the bright side, the number of gen ai prompts that can't be fulfilled right now is probably saving a fair amount of energy from being burned and water from being wasted. a real "nature is healing" sigh of relief heard near data centers around the world

"that's ok, i'll just go to this different website for now instead" i say out loud repeatedly as i apply more clown makeup

sites being walled off is somehow more frustrating than an aws outage where sites themselves are fully offline — instead the site is there, it's just blocked by an extremely annoying unresolvable error message from cloudflare.

the internet we've built is good and functional 🙃

In one sense, when you read or perform these rituals, it's pretty clear that it's very, very easy to mess some of it up, by accident or misread. By using a rose instead of a lily because the passage uses an obscure reference. There's the sense that you're probably getting it a bit Wrong

I sort of focused on presenting a lot of symbols with ambiguous purpose or meaning, forcing you to make some assumptions or maybe investigate the open question through play. In part this was influence by reading/doing weird Abramelin rituals in the woods and the particular way they worldbuild

timelapse of my drawing process on the cover from sketch to final inks in procreate

me crying as i chamfer the battlement over the barbican from a worms eye view:
“my back and neck are in so much pain; why do i keep doing this to myself?”

me when it’s done:
“fuck yeah, looks great. my aching spine is totally unrelated to the effort it took to do it. no lessons to be learned here!”

i simply need to train on king kai's planet to gain that kind of power

one-punching people through walls who try to enthusiastically show me generative ai images feels like it could really help dampen enthusiasm around a technology devoid and diminishing of humanity 🤔

It's about redemption, purgatory, and reconciling the past.

The full release would not be possible without @alamhigo.bsky.social my trusty editor, @jnb.art who did the fantastic cover, @neonrot.bsky.social whose sickass layout redefined this game, and funding from @tabletopartsfund.org!