Dæmon S.@catodon.rocks

17 days ago

Collage between two pictures: my digital drawing approximation of my computer desk setup to the left, and a photo of my real computer desk to the right.

The drawing and the photo purposefully have both convergences and divergences.

Both settings feature a dark-reddish desk with a black laptop sitting on an ergonomic stand, an incense sticker holder with a figurine of Egyptian Goddess Bastet (a black cat with golden almond-shaped eyes, a golden necklet, Ankh necklace, golden ring-shaped piercing at her left ear, sitting next to a smaller golden pyramid while the Eye of Horus/Ra is seen at the very foundation of the platform she's sitting) to the right side of the laptop.

Both settings feature a black-and-red wireless set of keyboard and mouse, with the mouse sitting on a mousepad themed with the Mr. Robot's "fsociety" hacktivist group's Venetian mask.
My drawing lacks the external monitor and the keys for both computer keyboards (with the laptop keyboard in my drawing reading "I won't draw a keyboard" because drawing computer keyboards is boring).
My drawing depicts a dark-gray wall while my actual bedroom has white wall.
My drawing has a burning incense stick while I'm not burning any actual incense sticks at the moment.
My drawing depicts a customized Ouija board, which I do not have (yet), whose letters are arranged in QWERTY sequence, the "GOOD-BYE" is replaced by "BUH-BYE" (nod to the car plate of the Cadillac drove by the Grim Reaper from Supernatural TV Series), and the illustrations at the bottom corners of the Ouija board are a raven with purple eyes (Lucifer/Samael) at the Left-Sun side and a horned owl with orange eyes (Lilith) at the Right-Moon side. Both avians are also next to Hebrew letters: the raven is next to an Aleph and the owl is next to a Taw (both a nod to biblical "Alpha and Omega"/Hermetic "Principle of Polarity" as well as to the fact that the Hebrew letter "Taw" is often a suffix for feminine nouns).

My actual laptop was sleeping when I took the photo while the laptop from my drawing contains a heavily-pun-loaded nerdy screen.

In the drawing, the "Hell" (pun on "Dell", although my actual laptop is Acer) laptop is running a Desktop Environment.

The DE wallpaper cartoonishly features Beastie the BSD mascott, Tux the Linux mascott and Gnu the GNU mascott in a hellish environment. Beastie is trampling Tux while poking his beak with the golden trident, saying "Don't panic, kernel" while looking down at Tux with sarcastic look; Tux, fallen to the ground with his belly up, looks at Bestie with grumpy expression while saying "U failed to boot... U use sneakers" (a nerdy pun that references the fact that Beastie uses sneakers instead of boots; Beastie is literally trampling on Tux with one of the sneakers); Gnu, subtly smiling sadistically while standing in three caprine paws and having his front left paw touching his own goatee in "amused thinking" expression, says the three-line "Libre and / Open / Laughter" (forming the acrostic "LOL" while also nodding at the "libre and open" jargon from GNU Foundation).

The entire wallpaper aligns with the overlying UI with further symbolic items.

The top bar shows "66°C" followed by a Crescent Moon icon (ambigious on whether it's telling the current CPU temperature or the weather), followed by "42GiB" followed by a RAM module icon (being above the Beastie's speech, both the 42 and the "Don't Panic" nod to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), followed by "66.6%" followed by a green icon of a 2/3-filled battery struck by a lightning bolt symbol (meaning it's being charged), followed by a yellow bell icon struck by a red slash (meaning notifications are muted), followed by a current time of "3:00AM" (witching hour).

The left side has a column of desktop icons: a fox with a resigned fake-smiling face expression stares at the earlier mascott trio while saying "Lol?" and embracing an Earth globe from which a thick smoke is raising (nods to Mozilla Firefox icon, the fox holding a Planet Earth, with additional nods to climate change; also a subtle nod to the gnostic meme wherein a cartoonish Yaldabaoth amusedly watches a burning Earth; the smoke also doubles as if the fox were smoking/stoned), followed by a large white cursor pointer precisely positioned at the tip of Beastie's tail (making the cursor pointer to double as the arrow tip typical of cartoonish demon depictions), followed by a generic Console/Terminal Emulator icon, followed by a generic wrench icon (Settings). At the left bottom corner, a trash bin icon, very similar to that of Windows 95 "recycle bin" icon, contains a blue-red/yellow-green 2x2 blocky face (classic Windows logo) stuck at the recycle bin opening with a frowny pain/dead expession.

At the very center of the screen, a popup window entitled "Thunderowl" (both a pun on Thunderbird and a reference to the fact that Lilith is originally the Sumerian Goddess of the Storms) contains a mail envolope icon followed by the heading "1 NEW MAIL" and a bold-text "LILITH" followed by a pinkish crescent moon, and a button at the bottom of the window that reads "Open".

The laptop from the drawing has also three lit green LEDs: the one next to the webcam (indicating the webcam is being accessed, thus someone is watching) and two immediately below the "Hell" brand, shaped like angry eyes.

If every detail described above weren't dense enough, believe it or not, the drawing is incomplete.

"Rate my setup".

I recommend reading the alt-text to understand the subtleties of my drawing.

Also I reminder to myself: I should build myself an Ouija board like the one I made in the drawing.

#arsritualistemplii #digitaldrawing #occultart #geekart #surreal

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