Dr Fang Podiatrist?
That would make sense!
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Well, I do know of a vampire who calls herself a doctor but doesnāt haves much of an idea of what a doctor is or doesā¦ and finding her non-NSFW strips is kind of difficultā¦ but you might try searching for Navaan from Oglaf.
And now Iām off to bed, but first, some AI slop:
AI slop: Ishtanchuk Fazmarai and her cousin Indahmawar Fazmarai, aged 11 and 7 on the day Ish got a set of golden earrings for her birthday; here posing at the back garden of the family estate guest house.
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Here you can see how much share was lost of the original area of the biomes, tropical dry forest is the most affected, tropical wet forests not so much, defending themselves with enough inhospitality for humans.
They feed on blood!
Least affected is taiga and tundra, its too cold out there.
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Fang will like those.
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Time to go to sleepā¦ night night lovelies!
Also: good only for the day
Photograph: Milk sellers in Brussels, Belgium, captured between 1890 and 1900. Dog-drawn carts were common in trades that didnāt require moving heavy loads.
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I should stop overthinking stuff. But now Iām off to bed so maybe tomorrow I KISSā¦ night night people!
Also: another time, another place
Photograph: Mexican girl at home, Crystal City, Texas, 1939 by Russell Lee
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Time to go to sleepā¦ night night people!
Also: I checked it and itās not AI
Photograph: Rodeo parade in Tucson, Arizona, Feb. 23rd 1940, by Charles Weever Cushman
Looks like a nice paradeā¦
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Thereās no āƱā in Arizona, although the ethimology is uncertain, it might come from āsmall creekā (the name the local natives gave to a zone where a silver mining camp was built) or even weirder from Basque for āgood oakā after a ranch built by a Basque migrant who stumbled upon a silver mine in his lands. There is a fake ethimology that claims it would come from āĆ”rida+zonaā (arid+zone) but there is no evidence, unlike California which was named after a fictional island of riches on the west that was a kingdom of black amazons under a Queen Calafia.
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Itās a reference to What We Do In the Shadows.
Superb series, highly recommend it.
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Oh, so itās the way he talksā¦ now isnāt this a coincidence? Iāve been working on what started as a little tongue-in-cheek joke about vampires and what they do or donāt look like, and the thing moved from a quick test to a full fledged prompt about a strigoaicÄ with a familiar in towā¦ plus many iterationsā¦ and eventually Iām settling with how this:
Your random strigoaica with a traditional ie shirt from the Sibiu area against a background of a random Romanian stave church.
ā¦evolved into this, one week laterā¦:
She looks about 40, with typical transilvanian face and body from centuries past (shorter than current average, with a well defined waist), wearing natural looking make up to conceal her unhealthy face complexion (not the hands, wink, wink). Sheās carrying an old handbag where she keeps one of her burial tokens. Her familiar here is a Indian sailor, in this world and time theyāre the more likely to vanish without a trace at any random port without inconveniencing their master with a lack of travel papers. This undead tags along a big and scary dude to protect his master without forcing her to go full predator on a random aggressor, or shapeshift and flee as a variety of animals (owls, dogs and cats are favorites) with the annoyance of becoming humanoid again but without her clothes. And her name would be something as exotic as Maria or Ana, because of peasant originalityā¦
Eventually, I had to stop myself because nowadays any version of a strigoi mort would be way too conspicuous and so that led into a search for more survivable Transilvanian mythology monsters, which led into a rabbit hole because the perfect match is a creature whose properties change from town to town which is good for character design but bad for brand recognition: what is a moroi after all? A shadow? A ghost? Something that sits on peopleās chests while they sleepā¦?
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Thatās rather backwards. If you canāt see yourself in a mirror youāll have a hard time applying makeup to your face, but applying it to your hands would be trivial. I guess the vampire meta should be to only select women to be your familiar, so youāll have someone able to help you put the makeup on.
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Well, that would depend on what meta you follow. Romanian folklore establishes a relation between mirrors and souls but not strigoi, when someone dies mirrors in the house must be covered so their soul isnāt trapped within the mirror, also anyone gazing into a uncovered mirror in a house with a recent deceased risks being next to dieā¦ but as for strigoi vs mirrors, the ācanāt see themselvesā is a modern invention, like turning into bats or burning under sunlight. In tradition, the strigoi mort are alive at night but become ordinary unanimated dead at dawn, which is why they must return to their grave or hide from sight, lest they be caught and attacked or killed.
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Time to go to sleepā¦ night night people!
Also: hot stuff in a cold warā¦
Photograph: British model Christine Keeler in 1963, by Lewis Morley.
Christine Keeler, aged 19, had simultaneous affairs with the Soviet naval attache in London, Yevgeny Ivanov, and the British secretary of state for war, John Profumo. Although no information was leaked, the MI5 nearly had a heart attack (or as close to having a heart attack as heartless spies can have) and Profumo had no better idea than lie and deny the facts in Parliament. The subsequent scandal of what was known as the Profumo affair eventually brought down the Conservative government in the 1964 election.
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@ISD_Drew I promise to slow down on both trolling and disapproving of Highsec Ganking.
Thank you for being here when we need you.
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https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/2092905458365534512
They all still need some work honestly.
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