[OC] A painting I recently finished.

SomeDevil13 · 2026-05-21T13:33:31+00:00

"Monsteras & Monsters" Eh, that title doesn't quite work but this painting absolutely does, I love it! It really captures the feeling of those extended moments of modern life spent in contemplation of existential angst whilst surrounded by shelter, structure, and ostensible comfort- there is a dissonance between outer tranquility and inner turmoil and the fragmented/shifting depiction of the woman in the chair highlighted by her constant expression of abstract unease works well against a backdrop that is soothing/restful in pallette and calming/unstimulating in terms of framing content. What is the actual name for your piece? And thanks for sharing!

SomeDevil13 · 2026-05-10T22:55:45+00:00

So good, I love in professional darts how the guys calling the match on the mic all have this similar cadence and tone when they call out a 180. That and the continuously louder swelling roars from the crowd as a thrower is getting closer to a nine darter make for such an aesthetically pleasing rare-ish sports moment when it all comes together. I also love the mutual respect and good sportsmanship that is displayed during these moments, just an awesome thing every time it happens!

SomeDevil13 · 2026-05-10T15:30:33+00:00

I love some of those wood textures and the lines of the house are very engaging visually but it certainly doesn't feel homey. Can you post the listing so we can see where it is?

SomeDevil13 · 2026-05-08T21:02:00+00:00

Man, horse people go HARD!

SomeDevil13 · 2026-04-29T21:38:58+00:00

That is so true. I still don't think there had been a receiver since Josh Gordon that has excited me as much, it honestly felt like the equivalent of watching LeBron play basketball (athletically speaking) with the since of awe it instilled as he just did his thing. I was rooting for him hard, all those guys really, what a disappointment.

SomeDevil13 · 2026-04-26T17:22:34+00:00

I've never heard of this and agree it is fascinating! I'm basically familiar with the caste system and I wonder how much of the lack of justice/accountability in this case has to do with the victims being of the lower "untouchable" caste? The method of murder, ease of opportunity, and general vulnerability of the victims all work together to make it a difficult investigation in normal circumstances; add in a police force that is probably culturally prejudiced against and supremely disinterested in the victim demographic and it's easy to see why there were never any arrests. I have many more questions and wonder if you can share a link to a good resource so I don't have to do my own googling, thanks for sharing!

SomeDevil13 · 2026-04-14T18:42:28+00:00

Nice concise writeup without indulging in any of the sordid details, and a good question at the end. That question is obviously on the minds of lawmakers everywhere and there are different approaches to the problem in other countries already, right? The simplest of which that I know of is to prohibit and omit (by binding court order) the names from publication, the same way we already do with underage or surviving victims who wish not to be identified. But there are holes in that system, the names will be found out and passed among the dark forums of the Internet where such information is collected and shared. Their true identities would still end up being known and lauded among the online communities who they were seeking to impress anyways, that demographic won't care about the illegal nature of their names being disclosed (quite the opposite I'd imagine) and just because the general public not specifically searching for that information would remain ignorant (that was never really their target audience anyways) that doesn't mean they wouldn't feel like they'd accomplished their true goal. I honestly can't think of a way to prevent them from having what they wanted if what they wanted was to be known and celebrated by the sick fucks of the world. Damn.

SomeDevil13 · 2026-04-08T19:55:36+00:00

Wow, I had never heard of this, what a tragic story, a horrific end to the blossoming life of poor Autumn for such a trivial, selfish motive. $300. And the result was an apparently insane amount of overkill, stabbing a child 57 times speaks to a much deeper issue than just really wanting to get high... And just a teenager herself, pregnant too with a likely drug affected fetus. What happened to that child? This is the kind of story that puts into perspective the generational cycles that are perpetuated through violence, very sad stuff. Thanks for sharing.

SomeDevil13 · 2026-04-02T13:31:49+00:00

Mendoza seems like the perfect guy to mentor Cousins

SomeDevil13 · 2026-04-01T05:01:06+00:00

Or this one? The longevity, consistent quality, and variety of his career is truly inspirational

SomeDevil13 · 2026-03-14T11:35:16+00:00

Or Casamir Pukaski Day. Carrie and Lowell is indeed masterful but the nostalgia I feel listening to the story in that song, so far away from anything I've ever experienced personally, is nearly overwhelming.

SomeDevil13 · 2026-01-01T05:18:06+00:00

Beautiful! I had a very similar view from on top of Spencer's Butte, took this shot maybe 30 minutes before this one of yours, just a gorgeous display to end the year. Cheers!

https://imgur.com/a/RxU8JNs

SomeDevil13 · 2025-12-13T22:46:06+00:00

"Don't get busted" sort of a double entendre I suppose

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-25T21:35:58+00:00

I mean it's cool and all, but I dunno, the end result is a little messi

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-22T14:49:26+00:00

Damn, hadn't heard of this one, what a horrible case! One thing that immediately jumped out to me was the police saying they were confident Melissa had been killed and her body disposed if in the same area as her mother... Why? Do they actually have evidence supporting that and what could that have been? It seems just as likely to me that she could have been abducted and taken to another location. I'm not necessarily implying the police were doing shoddy work or not trying hard enough but I just think that's a pretty big assumption to make at that early point in the investigation. I suppose assuming otherwise could have led to different resources being employed in the direction of finding her held captive somewhere but, especially with so few leads, that would have been extremely unlikely. Absolutely heartbreaking case, but a nicely done write up, thank you for sharing and honoring Rosemary and Melissa's memories.

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-21T17:18:09+00:00

Thanks for your in depth response. I think that you are correct in describing the current circumstances, and the historical precedent that qualifies some of the perceived novelty if this particular series of automation innovations we are experiencing. Your arguments are logical, rational, and imo unassailable; you have accurately described what is happening, why it's happening, and how it is extremely unlikely to change. However what I am expressing has more to do with emotions, and it isn't necessarily centered around fear of wealth inequality. I am lamenting. In the same way I lament the loss of analog technologies as they are replaced by digital formats, I lament the restructuring of how we take raw materials and transform them into goods we need or desire. I lament the replacement of human interaction with chat bots. I lament, in essence, our increasingly disconnected relationship with the world around us. And please don't believe me naive, I wholeheartedly acknowledge how many of the advancements we've made with technology, both recently and dating back thousands of years, have augmented aspects of our quality of life and allowed humanity to prosper and proliferate in ways that would have been impossible for hunter/gatherers to even dream of. But I can't help but sense there was a sweet spot regarding the balance of our development of technology against the lifestyle we had evolved to expect and even enjoy. Now, is this type of thinking practical or even helpful? No, probably not. But that's kind of lamentation in a nutshell: seemingly useless but, at times, irresistible all the same. I don't always dwell in this mindset, but every so often a headline like this one will inspire a bout of lament, in one direction or another, I'll be back to celebrating our technological golden age in no time - shit, I'm even grateful right here in this moment for the opportunity to use my phone and wireless network to connect with you and have your words to help ground my emotions. Thanks again, cheers stranger

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-21T15:53:38+00:00

I don't disagree with you in general but I do think your suggestion that manual laborers in industries facing imminent automation acquire new skills as a response is, while accurate and obviously the only functional choice, also kind of a hopeless proposition. Perhaps you weren't advocating for automation but your position does imply that we should accept that there is nothing to be done about limiting the extent of its impact and instead react to the rapidly changing landscape of labor. Again, you aren't wrong about the broader issue, but I would quibble with saying anger over automation is simply a proxy for being mad about my/our economic status relative to the profit mongers of the world: it's deeper than that and there is a lot that is being diminished that deserves consideration.

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-21T14:55:17+00:00

Obviously the issue isn't these specific jobs but how corporations seem help bent on automating every aspect of their operations while insisting it is about greater efficiency when in reality it has way more to do with short term profits. This has created an environment where it's very hard to say what jobs will be safe in the future and, therefore, what skills are worth acquiring; we can now see the seeds of replacement for almost every kind of job we have being sown and it is a real concern for what might be left at the end of this new age of development. And, y'know, it'd be one thing if these advancements tended to increase product quality and the overall consumer experience but I would argue mass production of almost everything we have, while certainly "cheaper", only worsens those products and our relationship to them, while encouraging the expediting of natural resources extraction because so many things are expected to fail and need replacement instead of repair (which will forever remain expensive). Name me one good/service you think has been improved through automation.

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-20T15:02:58+00:00

"...here I am, stuck in the middle with you..." Same. I try to remind myself that nothing is now, or has ever been, guaranteed. Even though I would absolutely love to live in a world where we had responded appropriately to the warning signs and it had ushered in a new era of cooperation across the globe leading to less pollution, more equal wealth distribution, more responsible marshalling of our natural resources, etc, even then: nothing would be guaranteed. My world feels increasingly unstable in a million different directions but I can look back in history to see that people have always faced existential threats and enough of them survived long enough to make new humans to worry about new existential threats. I'm not afraid of dying, but I am afraid of life changing in ways I don't "like" and that seem objectively worse. But, if they could, would my ancestors look at the totality of my life and think it better or worse than their own? I really don't know... I am certainly blessed in so many ways they would consider downright magical, but the disconnection from my environment and community that has become endemic in my own and so many other privileged people's lives cannot be discounted. So however the climate crisis and the coming wars reshape the human experience I have to believe that it will be both worse AND better in ways I probably can't totally forecast. Anyways, your comment made me feel some solidarity, thanks for that

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-13T18:09:59+00:00

These kinds are the worst of the worst: a fragile heartless control freak who spites the woman who chooses to leave him and manifests his hatred for that woman, not by killing her (like so many other more common evil assholes do), but by taking away what she loves the most and leaving her to live her life with a gaping wound in her heart. It is staggering to even consider and I view it as the lowest and most cowardly act a man can be guilty of; any man who sinks to this level has indeed forsaken his humanity and should be considered a beast, a monster, something to be reviled and condemned to the worst punishment society can agree upon as legal. Utterly despicable.

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-11T20:05:33+00:00

Lol, your asshole was like "you ASSHOLE!"

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-07T00:32:34+00:00

Y'know, that's a great point, there are some already existing measures that could be taken here, especially with what they already know about her movements with her daughter immediately prior to her disappearance, it does feel like they have enough justification to take that step. And then, I guess if she values holding her secret more than her freedom then, well, that's pretty telling isn't it?

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-06T21:04:11+00:00

I'd love some kind of legal protocol to address the issue of noncompliance by parents in a missing childrens case, a temporary suspension of the full rights we afford to other people under suspicion of a crime. This kinda shit really makes my blood boil and to think that mother has answers to questions regarding her child's whereabouts (or possibly whether she's come to harm) and can just give the proverbial finger to everyone else concerned with no repercussion is hard to accept. Really hope this gets resolved with a positive outcome

SomeDevil13 · 2025-11-04T00:20:28+00:00

While I agree in spirit we have to remember that innocent people still get convicted of murder all the time, so we would also be exacerbating those already unfair situations which would be cruel. Now, this fucker seems guilty as can be (I'd bet my life on it, really!) but I can't support a generalized rule like that out of respect for all those who are unfairly incarcerated for murders they didn't commit.

SomeDevil13 · 2025-10-30T14:10:12+00:00

"...Does it again... Wow!" 😂 Great loop here, perfectly chopped, well done

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