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A meme from a couple of weeks ago that I'm just getting to:

1. Stop talking about politics for a moment or two.
2. Post a reasonably-sized picture in your LJ, NOT under a cut tag, of something pleasant, such as an adorable kitten, or a fluffy white cloud, or a bottle of booze. Something that has NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS.
3. Include these instructions, and share the love.

Well, it's not a kitten or a cloud, but it is something that popped into my head that would be nice to see in sort of the way that whale watching must be ...

... but only from a considerable distance. (An experienced rider might have wam fuzzy feelings about Shai Hulud closer up, but I'm betting that those feelings would be of the "eustress" sort, not the relaxing kind. So, a safe distance, please.)

(And yeah, I know the books were all about the politics, but I don't think a sandworm itself is inherently political despite its economic importance to Arrakis. And besides, it's not Earth politics. :-P )

It's just the image that sprang into my head when I first saw the meme, and it took me a while to get around to trying to draw it (a few days ago ... then I had to get around to uploading it and writing this). It'll probably take me several more tries before I get a version I'm really happy with even in a cartoony sense. But I learned a little more about GIMP anyhow.

FWIW, I have not yet seen the movie, and it's been long enough since I last read the book that I won't be surprised to discover I've gotten some significant detail wrong.