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INKTOBER 2024 Day #17: JOURNAL. “I’ve kept journals on and off over the course of my life. I think I still have them, though there’s plenty of cringey and embarrassing stuff in there that should probably get destroyed before I die and my loved ones uncover them. Maybe I should just go through and

INKTOBER 2024 Day #16: GRUNGY. “I will happily label myself a ‘metal head’ as far as my favorite musical genre is concerned but having been in high school and college in the 90s, a fair amount of ‘grunge music’ makes up the ‘soundtrack to my life’. I probably incorrectly lump the grunge bands that

INKTOBER 2024 Day #15: GUIDEBOOK. “’Don’t Panic!’ Those are the words written on ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ in the fictional comedy science fiction series ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’. That sentence is confusing, but it’s accurate. I read the collection of novels in my mid-twenties and immediately enjoyed it (it has

INKTOBER 2024 Day #14: ROAM. “Is wireless roaming still a thing these days? Is that even the right terminology? Technology isn’t my thing. It’s magic when it works properly and it’s fuel for my hammer when it doesn’t. I just remember those ‘can you hear me now’ cellphone service commercials from…whenever that was. I

INKTOBER 2024 Day #13: HORIZON. “For those lacking in astronomical knowledge, which truthfully includes me most of the time, this is an ‘event horizon’. Sort of. I think. It’s the theoretical boundary around a black hole beyond which no light or radiation can escape. I’ve seen artist depictions of a black hole/event horizon/singularity that

INKTOBER 2024 Day #12: REMOTE. “Are there remote-control squids? There should be. I never really got into remote-control stuff much when I was younger (probably because there were no squids), but I do remember having a pretty awesome RC tank at one point. I think I accidentally drove it down the stairs once. My

INKTOBER 2024 Day #11: SNACKS. “I used to love those little fruit snack packets. I don’t know that I could stomach them now, especially now that I know to read nutritional labels, but eating them is associated with some really fond childhood memories. I somehow hit the lottery with growing up in an amazing,

INKTOBER 2024 Day #10: NOMADIC. “When in doubt, go ‘Star Wars’. This is another prompt that I had a completely different idea to start with. I was going to have PMD dressed in traditional Mongolian garb stepping out of a yurt. I’ve always wanted to set a yurt up somewhere, maybe turn it into

INKTOBER 2024 Day #9: SUN. “Alright, this is another multi-layered one! It’s PMD as SUN Wukong, and he’s complaining about the bright sun. Okay, so that’s only two layers, but two is more than one. I’ve drawn PMD as Sun Wukong before, it’s kind of a perfect match in my mind, but I really

INKTOBER 2024 Day #7: PASSPORT. “I’ve always thought traveling would be fun, though daunting to plan and actually do. I do have a passport, but I’ve only left the country twice in my entire life, once to Costa Rica for our honeymoon, and once to Canada for a long weekend family trip. There are

INKTOBER 2024 Day #6: TREK. “I do believe this is the first ‘Star Trek’ reference I’ve made, but I’m also not a huge Trekkie. As I’ve mentioned over and over again, ‘Star Wars’ is my thing, always has been. I do like science fiction, but I tend to gravitate towards the fantastical elements of