Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Orrery used to say something like "We will have always been here."

https://genius.com/Rebecca-sugar-time-adventure-lyrics

Damn you, Ms. Sugar.

#weepage

@Phorm You have no clue what a big grin it brought me to see you change your screen name.

Because, of course, you longer have sensory organs nor the neural equipment necessary to meaningfully comprehend things besides wish-granting and belly-dancing. <3

important pet care tip from my Reddit self (cw: higher math)

@001zlnv Probably Anthy... I mean @anthracite... I mean Peggy!

(that should be "reading quietly.")

https://genius.com/Langhorne-slim-life-is-confusing-lyrics

#bigmood

@Austin_Dern Oh, honey. *hugs tight*

@Balinares (Or in retrospect, if I may be brutally frank... like a CCG player who had a "Sisters' Wrath" curse in front of them, draining all their energy, and only just managed to banish it, or at least turn it face-down. If that makes any sense.)

(I mean. It works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8H66Hyjqjo )

Though it did dawn on me the other morning, while sitting down with Peg and comparing NOLA vs Seattle rents, that there is a VERY large chance I will find myself living in a shotgun shack, in another part of the world, in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife, behind the wheel of a large automobile...

*bauhaus cafe plays an indie country cover of Talking Heads' Road To Nowhere*

"MOOD DEMON! COME NOT IN THAT FORM! COME NOT IN THAT FORM! IN THE NAME OF HOLY HANSEN, GANE AND SADIER, I BANISH THEE BACK TO THE SEATTLE CLOUDS!"

#FeelingOKThisMorning

@Balinares "Very" might be an exaggeration, but I am feeling a bit like a CCG player who FINALLY drew something they can put on the table. :D

The hand I hold feels more like "a strategically fascinating opportunity to say 'what the hell' and attempt an interesting long-shot" than "a secure and responsible path to a win," but... I mean... you know me, I'm honestly not so sure I care about the difference anymore. I'm really more interested in the looks on my opponent's faces. :D

Though to be perfectly honest, my _realistic_ gender self-image today is "basically Fred Melamed." :p

Also been pondering the hell out of that Bonobos #EvolveTheDefinition commercial. I haven't seen such a sequence of "yes, you are me" images... well, ever in my life, really.

I'm still really thinking I'm not conventionally trans. These days I feel like I'm somewhere between "enby," "ffs yes I'm a guy but please don't make me do that performative masculinity bullshit because I will fucking CLAW you, child" and "dago Paul Lynde." O:) But still eager to rock a red plastic skirt and boots.

Had a nice little thought last night. I'd been kind of rueing some of my missed opportunities for Sexy Postfurry Adventures, spinning the usual dumb J Alfred Prufrock kind of loser myth around myself.

But while watching the "Loners" in The Lobster sit readily quietly in the forest last night, it dawned on me: I got exactly what I wanted. I don't even know what to do with extrovert adventures. I'm getting intellectual adventures aplenty thanks to Peg, Noa, Kirt, Liv, and K. I'm quite sated!

Still enjoying some of the emotional surplus from finding out my Unfortunate Interpersonal Estrangement is not half as dire as I'd thought. Hope is still at the months-to-years range, by which point Peg might well have already dragged me to NOLA, but... I'll take what I can get. Still fairly chipper.

And overcaffeinated. And ornery. I've been eerily productive, liable to finish up my workweek two whole days early. Wanna get back to work on Parallax. Also wanna find some Proud Boys to maul.

The Lobster 2: An Animated Musical

(I'm also very impressed with my collaborator's skills as a director. @anthracite pulled a huge amount of emotional nuance out of a simple change in panel order, transforming an exchange between the protagonist couple from a trite sitcom "awww" moment into a demure and poignant act of reassurance. We sounded so much like grown-ups making entertainment for actual real people, it was awesome. ;) )

Had a super-friendly but super-meticulous back and forth with Peggy about Parallax panel and dialogue order that would make the Orson Welles "frozen peas" tape sound jazzy and carefree by comparison.

I AM HAVING SUCH A GOOD TIME 😺​

@Phorm I said pine cones! Pine cones! Gonna be successful! Gonna be phenomenally successful! Sell 'em at the corner store! Sell 'em at the five and dime!