Mastodawn

"A Dry Martini. One. In a deep champagne goblet. Three measures of Gordons, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel."
- Ian Fleming, "Casino Royale"

I love James Bond, and the original Fleming novels are such fun and dark little noir espionage tales. Bond is a real bastard in those books, and he's fascinating.

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“I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

I'm a huge fan of private eye stories, and my all-time favorite is Raymond Chandler's perpetually put-upon detective, Phillip Marlowe.

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"Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it."
- Agatha Christie "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"

Oh Hercule Poirot, what a little weirdo. He's always such a jolly little man, even when he's about to explain why someone is a murderer. And, no, this whole series isn't just going to be fat mustachioed men.

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"“I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.”

I realized I have really fallen off drawing, so I decided to give myself a bit of a challenge. I'm going to draw characters from some of my favorite novels. I'm starting off with my favorite book of all time, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, with his incredibly unlikeable protagonist, Ignatius Reilly.

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I recently played a one-shot with my D&D crew, and got to play my usual one-shot character, Zuko the Burly! He's a moronic dwarf monk who fights like a bare-knuckle boxer, has an intelligence of 6, and is just the friendliest doofus in the world.

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