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Speaking the Stranger and being pissed off... did anyone else kinda want to knee the Anonymous letter guy in this week's edition in the groin? The one sputtering about how it's Just Plain Mean to subject a whole category of people to any criticism whatsoever, and how any of us could have exactly what every tech bros has if only we applied ourselves? And apparently accidentally forgot that women and queer people exist and ALREADY have KNOWN problems getting into tech that he just blew off completely?

Oh, well. You're the ones who are going to have to deal with him and his Bad Haircut Bros, not me. ;p

​After yesterday's shameful failure of temper control, I decided to take positive pre-emptive action.

Taking a hint from an episode of the Mighty Boosh, I tore a corner off this week's Stranger and had Peg draw an cute tiger and dragon snoozing on it.

Then I asked her to put it in her pocket, and wave it in front of me every time I start to redline.

Today's actually been great so far, so it hasn't been necessary except as a fun running gag (and I mean, they are fucking adorable, aren't they?) but it's comforting to know it's there. :)

Fig. 1:

https://inhabitat.com/zero-energy-bio-refrigerator-cools-your-food-with-future-gel/

Listen, postfurries. If you can't figure out something perverse to do with the above link, all my efforts were COMPLETELY in vain. :)

@Aradia I hope the full enormity that you may have indirectly parented the New Hotness in furry fandom is not lost on you. <3 <3 <3

@kobi_lacroix Ghostbusters. :)

"Pon de Floor" x 0.25 speed = "Liquid Sky"

i will never be the same again

@kobi_lacroix Ok, what's the current recreational status of dogs and cats, and what dessert item would you compare the current level of occult energies to? You've got me worried here...

We got another kitty visit. ^____^

Best part: I got to pet the little dude for about 20 minutes... and no hives or sneezing whatsoever. I think I just might be over my cat allergies.

@LeDiva oh HELL yes

@LeDiva And now I REALLY want to grab a commission of Catra and/or Ponycatra sittin' & fittin'. Or a Catra version of Just Lion Things/Maru + Boxes.

@LeDiva o/` Whoa-oa here she comes, she's a _________... o/`

@LeDiva (I mean, I'd totally bail on the changelings to be a ponycat, though. Catra needs a more appropriate pony name, though, like String Chaser, or Crepuscular Malice, or something...)

@LeDiva

@Soreth Oh, yeah, haven't you been reading the news!? First round of Neptunians got their H-1B's. *nod*

#MartiansStillPersonaNonGrata
#ForBitings #EarthBitings #OfHumans
#WeKindaHadItComing

I just wanna serenade all the locals with "Don't You Forget About Me" by Simple Minds.

@LexYeen@snouts.online Hot Dog Water died for your sins. *nod*

Since it kinda implicitly came up in another thread, I think I'm gonna link to this.

http://art.yale.edu/file_columns/0000/0066/borges.pdf

"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges. This is my SINGLE favorite short story of all time and a massive, massive influence on whatever I've done that passes for creative work. It's also only 17 pages FFS. :D

I think over half of my favorite authors owe at least something to this tale.

And he (indirectly) gave my dragon headfriend Enmerkar crash space in the Library of Babel for, like, 200 years. So we feel like we kinda owe the guy some PR.

@frameacloud That is some Jorge Luis Borges-grade taxonomy right there. :D

So, in order to understand this story, you have to know a few basic facts about Enter The Gungeon:

1) There is a character named The Hunter. She is cool lady and doesn't afraid.

2) Hunter has an adorable pet corgiloaf, Junior II, who digs up items for her. I like to call him "Digdug" or "Diggy." Everybody loves Junior II. People who don't love him are wrong and bad.

3) Hunter also has an unlockable B-skin: a wolf kigu. It's awful cute.

4) The latest update added a new character: "The Paradox." It is a random PC skin covered in weird glitchy blue radiation, with a random loadout taken from all PC starting inventories. It is heavily implied that it was born from your PCs fucking around with spacetime too much. It is also intimately connected somehow with the vile Lich who rules the Gungeon.

5) Enter the Gungeon has an unusually rich gameworld, including many subthemes of weird pseudo-elemental effects. One of these subthemes is Love-based weaponry, such as Cupid's Bow and the Shotgun Fulla Love.

6) I am currently playing as a Paradox with the Hunter-B wolf kigu. Since her loadout is randomized, she lacks the "Tennis Ball" item which grants her Junior II as a companion.

And running around on Level 2 without Diggy, the horrifying notion briefly crossed my mind: what if Paradox Hunter is some kind of mirror-universe Lich-Hunter amalgam who... my god... skinned and wore him? ;____;

The thought was too much to bear, and then the real truth finally struck me:

My Paradox B-Skin Hunter _is_ Diggy. More specifically, they're an amalgam of Hunter and Diggy. Fused into a single being, fueled by pure Love magic. They are the perfect gungeoneer... at least until Ocelot the shopkeeper's cat becomes playable.