Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

Although I cheated and the snake was a couple of weeks ago.

when suddenly from out of the west came the entire Oglala nation [slur replaced] and let me tell you baby, they was open for business!

actually, the white folks wouldn't let us travel in their circle, so we made our own.

"ZHINIS! Ndaga, ndaga, sei nisht meshugge.

"LOS IHN GEH'N! Take a walk, haagoneeh."

Cod with potatoes and olives, eggplant dip (basically baba ganouj).

The cod turns out to need salt - I think because I used just cod from the store, not the special salt cod - but once salted it's great.

baba ganouj is great but that's a crapton of effort.

following up the Boot to the Head sketch with the Mortal Kombat theme tune. #BootToTheHead #Excellent #FinishHim

there's Klingons on the starboard bow
starboard bow
starboard bow
there's Klingons on the starboard bow
SCRAPE 'EM OFF, JIM!

oh no

I've moved on to listening to ALL the songs I can find from that Doctor Demento album.

I listened to that thing how many times while studying biochem?

This might explain my not particularly good grades in biochem.

yay

I paid for car insurance for the next six months

oh boy I'm so glad I'm a host to these fucking nematodes.

Addendum; although it’s easier for me to reject childhood thoughts that I’m punished because I’m completely worthless and evil, it’s harder to deal with places where the (far more realistic) message is I’m considered unequal and made uncomfortable because someone else is profoundly selfish.

I am reminded today that I hate particularly deeply, and have this bad tendency to leap from very similar societal messages to my childhood to “this is my childhood exactly.”

“Cocktails for Two” on speakers at the used bookstore. Would be gently nostalgic EXCEPT the Spike Jones version was on the Dr Demento album I listened to several hundred times in college, and consequently I’m remembering every hiccup/cough/noise and I can barely hold it together.

It is taking me half of forever to realize that life isn’t a meritocracy, that you *need* some lucky breaks on top of whatever hard work and practiced skill you can bring to living, innately related to how some of the most successful folks out there are total shit but who got the right lucky breaks. As nice as it is to be mostly blameless for not being a spectacular success, it goes hand-in-hand with a moral arc of the universe which doesn’t, in fact, necessarily bend towards justice.

Subtweet; if you’re going to fight the dread forces of the supernatural, you’re gonna need a great ass.

So Matt Gaetz’ thing earlier this week is layered name calling - getting a degree w/o getting hitched, cat ownership, not good enough to date. It’s the sorta insult that would come from the top minds of your 10th grade. You don’t want to be like THAT do you?

Course the catch is misogyny means women have effed up no matter what they actually do, so only the most indoctrinated would be cool with his rhetoric, but that’s his audience, not us “everyone else.”

I was thinking about this, maybe I’m the last one to think of it, but the quasi cultural association of cats as female makes cat ownership a stand in for lesbianism. “There’s gotta be something wrong with her if she doesn’t want to screw ME.” (Because i dare not for a moment believe there’s any reason other’n others’ personal flaws why they wouldn’t screw me.)

Two paths diverged on a steep hill, and I?
I took the one less traveled by.
And now I’m panting and gonna sit here on this rock for a while .

okay, first there were the Eldar, lithe and graceful. But as they held awesome play parties, their gear grew more extravagant until they awakened Slaanesh from the void. Now the Eldar are isolated to ships with big fins, wearing hats with big fins and lots of glossy jewels.

The immortal Emperor led humanity back to the stars, but his warmaster tried prevent an imperial cult. In a tragic twist, putting EVEN MORE horns, skulls and gunk on their armor led to the Imperium sticking more and more maltese crosses, skulls and big tomes all over everything.

What I'm saying here is that the story of Warhammer 40000 is about adding more and more fiddly details to paint. Will the Tau retain their relatively clean design aesthetic or, in time, will they too have little sensor fins and drone attachments to everything?

oh hey; this also explains some of the utter horror at things a lot of left-leaning types take for granted

Like you can't just say, oh hey I was born with a penis and testes, but I'm pretty sure I'm a girl (or sometimes I'm more of a girl, sometimes I'm more of a boy) and hey this doesn't really change your world at all - I gotta back that up. A Mr. Rogers type of worldview, where you're valid simply because you're around, is utterly antithetical to this. The idea that someone might study rainforest ecology or Chinese literature because it's cool and fun is utterly horrifying. The idea that you might make non-realistic art because that makes you happy rather than it's OBJECTIVELY GOOD ART, is utterly horrific.

Am I making any sense in explaining this?

Okay this might be everywhere, a universal human cognitive bias, but I tend to associate it with us southerners, because this was very much how I grew up. I can talk about how I broke out of this later.

Anyway, we perceive being accused of error as a deeply personal attack. We have to double down; what we believe has to be objectively good, what we oppose has to be objectively bad. We want what we want, like everyone else, but we have to back it up (and double down).

The worldview ties into how if someone's bad then they can be harmed so say, you don't go to jail or have an abortion because you made a mistake at some point, you're straight up A BAD PERSON. The only way you can turn it around is by doing something officially recognizable as good, like coming to Jesus or joining the military.

I feel like this ties into the faith vs works nature of Christianity, too you don't need to *act* any particular way, but you do need to really lean into your religion. It has to be the greatest good, otherwise you wouldn't be practicing it, would you?

Because all of this is really rooted in being right at all costs there just doesn't have to be any consistency. The consistency is that you're right, because you're good.

This embraces a lot of dogmatism - would fighting the ACW for States' Rights or only two genders determined by external genitals be something you were taught, if it had been wrong?

Like, say, the officially good party supports Trump and he's prosperous as well as saying the right things, so he's gotta be the good guy, right, despite being theoretically everything a (actual or perceived) working class southerner HATES. It's just great that the Supreme Court, packed by judges whose only qualifications were being right wingers, isn't consistent about investigating Clarence Thomas vs THE HORRIBLE LEAK. The Constitution is good, example gun ownership and so clearly the Republicans support the Constitution which is practically holy writ, they say so right?

Etc etc, you see where I'm goin' with this?

started #drawing a random idea to warm up for whatever won the poll, and then got way too caught up in it. Elf archer rescues her druid comrade from some sort of big grunty dude, a tanarukk or something.

a leitmotif so reminiscent of The Godfather I'm obliged to respectfully intone "da occasion of y'daughtuh's weddin'"