February's orchestration exercise, "Icy Fjords", is now complete. Inspired by the prompt and images below, it evokes icy waters, swirling mists, melancholy isolation, and majestic towering heights (or so I hope). Lasts 4:20. #Orchestration2026 https://t.co/PTJZhkVNBw

It's in G minor (occasionally tends to G dorian) and the scoring is purposefully limited to strings, woodwinds, and piano (no brass, percussion, or harp). The mockup leaves quite a bit to be desired, but I'm relearning how to do everything while also using Linux & on a deadline.

February's orchestration exercise, "Icy Fjords", is now complete. Inspired by the prompt and images below, it evokes icy waters, swirling mists, melancholy isolation, and majestic towering heights (or so I hope). Lasts 4:20. #Orchestration2026 https://t.co/PTJZhkVNBw

Grok's prompt for February: Icy Coastal Fjords. Here's the description, and some of the generated images I used as inspiration. I almost finished the composition yesterday, but there's still a few things I'll need to touch up before I consider it finished.

I missed January, so I'll have to come back to it at the end. Also, I'm just an amateur, and these are explicitly meant as practice pieces.

We'll see how long this actually lasts (esp. in the busy Fall) but the goal is to have 30-45 minutes of music after a year. Originally I'd thought of trying for an hour, w\ each piece ~5 minutes. But that's actually pretty long, so realistically it'll probably be shorter.

Occasionally I dabble in music composition & orchestration. To gain practice, at the start of Feb. I challenged myself to create one short piece a month for a year, so I had grok come up with 12 evocative landscape descriptions, then I generated images to use as visual prompts.

"So... they voted about the unicorn... and a hush fell, and [they] counted, and it was seen to have been established by vote that there had been no unicorn."

"And Alveric learned that, on such a quest as his, it was not the sanest but the maddest that should be given authority."

While Jeffro was making his grand comeback on @DunderMoose last night and being told ApxN wasn't very useful, @MythicMLand was hosting a book club on Dunsany's King of Elflands Daughter, discussing how its sense of enchantment is crucial to the game:

Please join us tomorrow night 9:30 PM CST for our livestream discussion of “King of Elfland’s Daughter?” https://t.co/OJr2C0l8tN

I asked @Grok Imagine to make a trailer for the most insane, pulpy, incredible 1980s sword-and-sorcery movie that should’ve existed but never did. Grok did not disappoint. Here is SWORDBOW.

"But why?"

"But why?"

lol, wut?

Felt like someone was shaking my chair trying to get my attention but there's no one else in the house. I'm near STL airport.

I had grok generate some VTT portraits for my solo ACKS campaign, though I had to make multiple attempts and stitch together the best 2 results in GIMP. Chadonius (Fighter), Radnor (Berserk Fighter), Jelyssa (Thief), Marzipan (Elven Illusionist), and Edelweiss (Halfling Scout)

From this angle, you can clearly see that Apophis was just peacefully dropping off his son, Klorel, at a Somalian Learing Center.

No lies detected.

That super flu that's been going around this winter.