Rotten Dragon (Patreon)

[edited the pictures to not be the final full-res jpegs. I'd thought patreon automatically resized! It was a big post.]

(more images below)

Rotten Dragon is a small project I've had going for the past few years (not as much lately), but it's kind of a "back pocket" project, where I don't mind dumping lots of random effort into a thing, since I know I can fold it into a future project at any time.

It's a fake takeout franchise- kinda a transdimensional megacorp that serves suitably transdimensional food- that I've hidden in a bunch of different projects. At one point we built a practical location for Dynamo, and I thought it'd be fun to build a website (in kinda 90s html style), and that transitioned into an instagram account.  

We hid a QR code in the scene, so if anyone ever scanned it they'd find this whole bizarre long-running social media presence, because we thought it'd be weird. We confused a few people, it was great.

But yeah, the first appearance is in the first episode of Dynamo from back in 2011 or so, sitting in the RV, and since then it's made random appearances in different projects.

Nobody's ever expressed ire at me appropriating a Chinese-style dragon, and I feel they'd be in their rights to be. I was more riffing on the prevalence of Asian takeout in cyberpunk (I could watch Harrison Ford order noodles all day), or Firefly (famously half the universe is Asian, they curse in Mandarin, but no actual Asian main characters in the entire show), and also because this wasn't really on the radar of Ian-of-a-decade-ago.

The instagram post descriptions are also kinda fun- mostly written in a daze at 4am right before bed. 

Below is the page I'd print on transparent label paper and stick on takeout boxes, if anyone wants to use it for anything! (also the Rotten Dragon vending machine is available over in this post. I can't remember if there are any takeout boxes in it. Probably?)