Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@troodon *looks directly at timeline, presuming it's the Can(n)a-da/bis boost.

Thanks for the warning! Intriguingly, I'm probably exempt, since the only local dispensary I use that takes credit cards actually does it through a bitcoin transfer(!!).

@troodon yus? <3 (if it's in reply to an lrb situation i have those turned off <3 )

@anthracite Now available in food!

@001zlnv I'm working on that one. :)

@troodon Must be pretending he's a tiger or something! How pathetic! O:)

@001zlnv Well, according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, §101, the definition of piracy explicitly only includes acts committed upon the "high seas," which per the Convention on the High Seas only refers to non-territorial oceanic waters.

I mean, you asked. O:)

#FriendlyNeighborhoodPedant

Had a dream that I was visiting a friend, and Keet was at the kitchen table scowling at me silently when I left. I told her off good and hard. I felt a lot better after I did so, though maybe I would have felt better still if I'd told her both that *and* I'm sorry.

I dunno. I'm very conflicted about how cathartic that was, but better is better and, you know, dreams are dreams. I'm gonna take it and move on and try to have a reasonably cheerful day.

@LeDiva you're not the hero i needed but you are certainly the hero i deserved <3

@CeruleanK What shoulders? x_x

@CeruleanK We should really get together soon. *hug* I might be out your way this Sunday & I'd at least love to get to say hi.

Sorry I've been so focused on the move to NOLA and talking like everything here is just over. I can't claim I'm in good shape these days, and I've been half-afraid you might find that whatever you wanted me around for just plain no longer exists after all the damage we've all taken. Still, I hope I didn't make you feel like I didn't want to see you. :|

meanwhile at the next cafe table a gang of four Well To Do University Types is discussing african politics and repeatedly referring to ethnic groups as "tribes"

this is not necessarily Not OK but the voice of my junior year african studies prof (for whom this was a very sore point of inaccuracy) is in the back of my head weeping and i have to keep petting him and going "there there" because i know whipping out my Frantz Fanon on em would be futile

i didn't realize multiple irises/pupils in one eye was a thing, let alone a thing that i liked

https://www.deviantart.com/kandlin/art/Killer-Quartz-764656458

@001zlnv 200 years from now the cyborgs will celebrate your work for its visionary refusal to be "visible"-spectrum-centric

and i can still look at all this shit with a sense of humor -- if i ever lose that, not that i am likely to, maybe i *will* ask you to send me to that nice tiger farm upstate

but i inherited it from my dad just like my general tendency towards sardonic temperamental assholery, and if that ain't going away, the other one isn't likely to either, right

@001zlnv welcome to the avant garde

and meanwhile, i may have lost my community, my spiritual life, my connection to "postfurry" whatever the fuck that was, and my sisters, but i still have a lot of good friends and a cute funny clever dragon who abuses me in precisely the ways i have requested

and i beat another couple of gungeon quests and unlocked the grey mauser so i got that goin for me which is nice

also our 4 main protagonists are so beautifully fucked now and i think it's good for a basically rotten individual like me to have someone to torment on a regular basis (aside from the usual highly consensual maulings i exchange with peggy)

sorry liv
sorry k
sorry noa
sorry kirt

but you were all brought into your world to suffer just like the rest of us -- at least *i* promise you all a happy ending someday, for some deeply surrealist space-behemoth-riding value of happy

meanwhile parallax is stalled out, but in a good way i think -- peg read a robin d. laws book on plotting. the guy's basically my hero, and we've been frantically attempting to repair the weak spots he revealed in our script

it's good. it sucks but it's good. i think it's the biggest challenge to my fragile elfin attention span i've ever taken on for a creative project, but for the first time in ages i feel like i'm developing a real, concrete technical skill

finally hit that magical spot of "i still hate myself and everything i've become but i've got work to do"

@mmsword I think Sunday's open, depends on how well I can grapple with Day Job this week!