Cabinet Derg @Motodrachen@awoo.space

This car has a personality like a Butler who used to be a Gang Member or SAS operative.

Charming. Solid. Dependable. Courteous. Polite.

Ask them to bust skulls and show up Mustang Bruhs on the highway, and they will Gladly Oblige.

Because just as most V8 engines are ready for another gear and the show's over, the 32 Valve V8 is just getting the party started.

This engine showed up in the Cobra Mustang and the Merc Marauder. This is just their transgender cousin who still works out.

Picture a Car.

No, Bigger.

Bigger than that.

Look, it's a Crown Vic type thing.

And it's got an engine they had to hop up on Spiro and Estrogen so they could cram it in transverse and not rip the transmission apart completely.

And then they stuffed it full of heated leather couches and sound dampening and a 5.1 surround system with CD changer and Tape Deck.

It's your Grandmother's Car. It smells like armor all and leather conditioner and Marlboro Golds.

@budgiebin@snouts.online Deep Satisfaction. Knowing that I'm turning the clock back faster than it's advancing.

Also I wanna gush a bit because after almost a Year, I'm getting close to having a fully functional car again.

There's a kind of satisfaction that comes from rebuilding a car from a rusted out husk into a Brand New Old Thing. Today meant that I've got brand new brakes and suspension in the Rear, not just the Front.

And besides a coolant system service I don't have the tools for, I've done all this work myself, with the help of my dragon housemate.

I dunno how to describe that feeling.

@budgiebin@snouts.online It's 40k for Hippies

I'm in a weird place where Kerithe will chat up a big fat ragular dude neighbor about his truck while unloading groceries in a blue skirt and floral print button-up, and say how she's been spending all day crawling up the asshole of the car she's unloading.

His eyes flash down to our hands and forearms, still covered in black car dirt.

She smiles back, sixty pounds of grocery bags in her hands and heads up the steps to our apartment.

@marxupial@snouts.online Look, my mom told me I was a Kwizatch-Haderach when I was 13 and it kindasorta ended up being True, I'm WELL AWARE of dune's story, meta-story, symbols, history, basis on Earth culture, and over-arching message about transhumanism.

Some kids grow up with the Lord's Prayer, I knew The Spice Must Flow from an equally early age.

@marxupial@snouts.online I like to think of it as: Socialism works really well when there's a constant existential threat from all sides, resources are limited and to survive is to be hyper-competent and versed in Many things.

The Fremen work well as a (Marxist) Socialized society because any Anti-social people get Shanked and their Religion stresses Eco-Social thinking, not just their Culture.

If I was gonna turn Furries into a serious existential threat to Other groups, I'd use the Fremen model.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQQwhnCVkXY&feature=youtu.be

This explains almost everything.

@FreyaManibrandr The worst part is we didn't make her up, just poked around a bunch to figure out what the hell she Was.

Uh. We mightakindasorta summoned an apocalypse child.

@FreyaManibrandr Keri: Yaori... Throw River Tam, a Goodra, and The First Buddha into a Blender and you've got the basics of what Yaori is.

She's also got pretty heavy supernatural Backing. We think her Home Office as it were is the Great God Quetzal.

Of course we'd get a rainbow blood god's Littlest Angel.

@budgiebin@snouts.online No, but You Can.

@budgiebin@snouts.online Yaori: the next big Furry Thing is gonna be Earthworm Jim Style

@budgiebin@snouts.online I was gonna say I'm irritated she used Prophecy for a Bet, but then again I think I'm the one who called bullshit in the first place.

@clipclopboom@snouts.online Tohri: Funny I used to be conversational in french...

@clipclopboom@snouts.online It took me twenty tries to remember how to pronounce that correctly