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2023-12-07

What's yours?

 Under a cloudy sky, a strange scene unfolds. From background to foreground: a person holds onto the string of a kite, but the kite is on the ground and the person is flying in the sky. A human shape covered in foliage wears a bowler hat and steps into a large puddle or small pond. A bird contentedly holds a slice of pizza in its beak. Bottom caption: Even a day like today is bearable when you carry an exhilarating secret.

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2023-12-06

Welcome

This one has a lot of words at the top: "You think that must be a rejection. Do you feel disappointment? Relief? / But the next morning, you find this on your doorstep. Is it a seed? An egg? A spore? There are no instructions, so you trust it doesn't need any. / You hold it and say to yourself, 'Welcome to the Uncanny Growth.'" The illustration is of a hand holding the aforementioned seed or egg or spore, which is larger than the palm of the hand and has an approximate teardrop shape with ridges, chambers, and a rough or perhaps even serrated texture. Its surface is black and purple.

I know it's too many words, but can we just take a moment to appreciate that this is the closest I have ever come to drawing a cromulent human hand?

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2023-12-05

Application submitted

 

A dense profusion of foliage on thick vines occupies the top and left three quarters of the frame. The bottom right shows a sort of passage into the tangle. One of the branches of the vine has extended and curled at the end. Captions: "You ask to join the Uncanny Growth. It nods a tendril. A voice rustles: 'Thank you for your interest. We'll be in touch."

"Anticlimax doesn't really count as a joke," I tell myself. But I never listen.

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2023-12-04

Join

 

A dense profusion of foliage on thick vines occupies the top and left three quarters of the frame. The bottom right shows a sort of passage into the tangle with superimposed text reading "Join the uncanny growth? Y/N"

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2023-12-03

You've been warned

 

Top caption: Keep your socks dry. Image: two stick figures hide behind rocks, fearful, as a small hovering body of water floats above the ground and drips menacingly. Bottom caption: Levitating puddle is on the hunt.

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2023-12-02

Profundity

A person approaches a puddle from which a second person's head emerges. The first says, "Wow, deep puddle!" The second replies, "No, I'm a disembodied head in a shallow puddle." The first says, "Oh. Sorry?"

 

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2023-12-01

Wallowing

 

A person approaches another person who is in a fetal position lying in a small puddle. "Hey...why are you wallowing in that puddle?" The wallowing person replies sadly, "All the good puddles were too crowded."

It's probably a metaphor or something.

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