Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@anthracite Aww, now I feel REALLY bad about batting you away this morning. <3 <3 <3

@Aradia Sympathies!

Once upon a time, my poor mom grabbed a tin of cinnamon powder when she meant to grab chili powder. The resulting chili mac was... memorably unpleasant. :)

This kid has really good mlem technique. I feel like I learned a lot from this video. It's good to see some new ideas in tongue work.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/a738zn/being_a_kitten_is_tough/

I found this textfile on my desktop.

I don't remember writing it.

I think it might have been written sometime between the day I bought that bottle of tequila and the day I emptied that bottle of tequila. Some amount of kelp may have also been involved in its production.

For the record, @anthracite immediately insisted on performing a dramatic reading of the entire document. :D

@emanate @mawr @SangriaSnake Oooh, thank you, you helped me figure out how I would foil it. Include SO much information that you know EXACTLY what good and bad would come out of every single action. "Well, you COULD be living in an Italian villa rolling in money... but this adorable kitten would never find a home. It's up to you, me."

I keep getting these little glimpses that there are a lot more of "us" out there than I thought, for many different definitions of "us," and it makes me happy. (My god, some of us might even not live in Seattle! ;p )

"Friends, they might think it's an organization..."</arlo_guthrie>

@coyohti Wonky cats are the best cats! ^__^

@mawr @SangriaSnake If I were a god (or a GM, same basic job), that would just sound like a challenge to me. >:D

@LeDiva I'm not surprised. Do you KNOW how expensive draconic divorce lawyers are?!?!

God, this feels good. After three weeks of constant dealing with petty bureaucracy... the only thing left on my to-do list is "fly home to Ohio."

Dragons, warn any friends you have in the Oklahoma area -- especially if they're green. The humans are acting up again...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChoosingBeggars/comments/a6zh4a/fantasy_beggar/

@Leucrotta INTO THE FISHYVERSE

Had a nice day out with @anthracite, actually. Saw Spiderverse, had cake. But I haven't been able to shake this weird depressive, nostalgic funk since we got home.

You know, I'm just going to blame bad neurochemistry. Probably did way overdo the carbohydrates today. If there's a real problem, soon I'll have two weeks in Ohio to contemplate it, I guess.

A lot of stuff just still feels super-weird to me after all this past year's losses. Phantom friendship syndrome, or something. At least it'll make it that much easier to leave, which was going to have to happen anyhow.

I'm okay. I don't trust this bad mood. Things are fine. I'm just a little heartachey and I miss a lot of people and I still worry a little bit every day that I've failed or annoyed everybody. But I'm doing better than I was.

@Oneironott Isn't it nice being COMPLETELY off most people's cultural radar? :D

@Leucrotta Really! I had blown off Mortal Engines because, yeah, the premise seemed so outrageous-- the sort of thing you'd expect to work far better in a novel than a film. I might have to go see that too, now! Loved Spider-Verse, though. Felt like it kinda gave us the thumbs-up for a lot of crazy stuff we wanted to do with Parallax but were too timid...

@Leucrotta It was far better than it had any right to be, though, wasn't it! Peg and I were quite impressed.

feeling cute might delete later

https://i.imgur.com/ImbXeHZ.mp4

@chimerror *plays 90-second PSA narrated by Jack Webb warning you about the dangers of hobby linguistics*

"So, as the Zalgrotians of Irkon-7 say... K'chal harb drabanath! 'Stay informed!'"

Morrissey's legendary cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit," recorded via astral possession in 1991:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0MzeMfcGxA&feature=youtu.be

(Fun fact: for six weeks after this incident, Kurt Cobain could _only_ eat meat, and his tears were jet black.)