Azerune

For the next several months, I will be making 100 unique monstrous, weird, or otherwise nonexistent creatures, naming them, and writing at least something about them. This is just a creativity exercise to challenge myself - to see what I can design, and come up with, on a short notice. Feel free to join me in trying this as well - I don't expect it to be necessarily the easiest after a while. Rules: 1. As these will be drawn digitally, they must all have at least some color. 2. There can be multiple things per submission. 3. No two can look the same, though they can look similar. 4. There can not be more than three days between submissio

Ever since I first heard this artist, I wasn't impressed. It was just another song on the radio, but this time that didn't even bother with a pretext of coherency. Which, while honest, was annoying enough to warrant it being shut off. Now, she's everywhere, with lyrics that not only don't make sense but are unintelligible. I understand more from listening to songs in German or Japanese, or Spanish to an extent, than anything she 'sings'. She's also not that talented at singing, pushing herself as a novelty and a 'sensation' rather than someone with skill, or alternatively someone with strong messages through words.  Additionally, her outfits

I read books a lot, growing up; I didn't watch much television, and generally my mother banned my playing video games. (Until high school, I had a computer and a gameboy color - later a GBA I bought myself). The two genres I read the most would be fantasy and science fiction - most notably, science fiction written in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. They'd twine tales, some of which , most of which, would never come to pass, but some of which I see eerily echoed in the world around me now. Asimov's prediction that calculators would take over every function, becoming too integral a part of our lives to where we cannot live without them... While he was