A couple of hours early but I've got a little bit of celebrating to do.

A miniature I know I haven't run across before because why would a rabbit need a cockatrice to ride on? I guess the novelty got me. Sometime I should commission a cockatrice riding something else.


Antique carved from wood up for grabs. I'm not positive about the ID on this one but I think I can see it. Must have been pretty when the paint was new.


A classic engraving: Basilisk or Amphysian Cockatrice, tail nowed (Tail is knotted, and it's got a face!) I have a coffee cup with that on it.


A new place to check out if I ever do get to Europe: The Cockatrice B&B. It's unclear where, exactly, the source of the name might be as they state it's an old pub. But who doesn't love a good pub?


At least Basilisk, the new album (his second solo album) from J. Robbins refers to basilisks in the second track, Exquisite Corpse. You can listen to it there after reading about the artist; though the single is on YouTube, too.



Thanks to  Rockfang for finding this video!

Footage from a game, nice cycled animation when idle.


And a speedpaint:

Sort of based on raptor artwork.


Unknown anime:

Some sort of battle stage simulation gone wrong!


Youtube was sort of a treasure trove this month; lots of videos uploaded dealing with petrification in anime and other shows. There was also a channel that I suspect is completely AI/Bot driven and automated, "Mindful Wake", which uploaded at least two videos jam packed with different (appropriated and uncredited) artwork. Is this going to be a thing going forward? Essentially a slide show about some topic with a ChatGPT-generated narration? And I thought those YouTube channels that just had a computer narrating Reddit stories was lazy. I did not link the Mindful Wake videos because I don't want to steer any traffic that way (but you could probably find them on your own if you're curious).