Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Yanno... the last year has been really disenchanting and disillusioning in a lot of ways. I've lost sight of-- or interest in-- so many of the things that attracted me to the postfurry thing in the first place.

But being a plural? The absolute core fantasy-proneness thing, the one that's caused me to chase all this stuff since I was five? The delight that other "adults" actually still have active imaginative lives? Having my own little troupe of fuzzycute Commedia Dell'Arte characters, to play out all my neurosis for me as mostly-harmless furry psychodrama?

That's still pretty rad. And still having people to share it with, at all, is something I'd come to take for granted. In this increasingly colonized, whitewashed, managed world, it's a piece of pure unmanageable chaos, a thorn in the side of people who want you to see yourself as the name on your W-4 and little else. It's a little miracle: the person next to you on the bus might be an Actual Virtual Unicorn.

Thanks for being here for it. Thanks for still accepting me even though I'm a royal pain in the ass when my brain falls out of alignment. Thanks for believing in Rezy and the rest of Team Kincaid in here.

Up Mars! :fist_paw_o1:​ (Oh, and your own smaller, less bitey worlds are nice too I guess. 😽​)

We have a small housecat sitting in on our morning web seminar with Mumbai. They have made numerous salient and incisive comments into their companion's mike. I have already exploited my authority as Senior Researcher to insist they pet that cat immediately. <3

@chandra Who the hell wouldn't?! When I finally get around to sending Noelle to visit HOC, should I send her with a tub of something goopy and shiny, and a few brushes? *evil grin*

poopsatchels >__________<

@LeDiva

*leaves gift-wrapped chocolate and/or latex dipped mice* 🎂​😽​💯​

@LexYeen@snouts.online I still have one, but it's been fallow for ages. I peek in at the notifications every now and then and marvel at how many people from my hometown still think I want to talk to them. >_>

In keeping with the previous toot... I had this horrible urge to deliberately put something culturally inflammatory into Parallax, in cynical (and possibly borderline necromantic) hopes of conjuring up some unethical free PR.

And then it dawned on me, whoopsie, I still live in a world where female protagonists, princes in frilly dresses, and flouncy plantbois holding hands ARE culturally inflammatory. For that matter, so is the notion that you should check the facts and understand your opponent instead of casually dehumanizing them.

Heh. *wrings hands like Mr. Burns*

Excellent.

At this point, I really only have one remaining bucket list item: find a point of mainstream American cultural sensitivity, identify its weaknesses, and hammer on it until it breaks in the loudest, messiest, and most annoying possible fashion.

You ever been playing a board game and suddenly you find yourself in such a terrible board position, there's nothing left to do but play Lord Of Chaos with your remaining cards and just see what interesting broken shit you can pull off when you're no longer concerned about winning?

Yeah, it's that. >___< I'm not playing to "win" my life anymore. I don't think I'll ever get a real victory condition out of this world. The damage to my kink life, my ability to bond with other people, my faith in my culture, and everything else is just too much to recover from.

This game we're playing is not too good about comebacks and longshots. But damn, can I spam a lot of Counterspells before those fuckers take me out, and I hope they're fucking screaming in frustration by the time my dwindling mana pool is finally exhausted. >____<

I'll take "Films You Were Supposed To Watch With Your Estranged Sister And Never Got Around To" for 500 buckets of tears, Alex?

@anthracite You at !Tealuxe, then? <3

@LeDiva "I know! Earrings!"

"Nope... a belly button and a watch."

@anthracite Prometheus wouldn't hurt, either. Maybe he'll swipe some code for ya.

Nice guy! Keep an eye on your purse.

@Thaminga Bydysawd hymennydd: defnyddiwch gyfieithiad peiriant i gyfathrebu â'ch ffrindiau mewn ieithoedd nad yw'r naill na'r llall ohonoch yn siarad!

Rough day... but it's hard to be _that_ down on yourself on the day you finally master the Thai vowel system. :D

@chara@toot.cat Trump's Russia connections.

am watching a bunch of reddit leftists go Full QAnon overanalyzing pelosi's choice of "or" instead of "and" in a particular sentence and it's breaking my heart to see this much naivete on my own fucking side

Moo(d) snapshot.

Damned if we know where she got it.

Damned if she knows how to use it.

Damned if we know how she's getting back to shore.

Saddest cow. But at least she looks like Patti Smith.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwVSSzcuOls

@Aradia *boff* <3

no, seriously, destroy all humans

come on

i dare ya