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@mmsword @kelseyhusky I still CAN NOT WAIT to give that SOB his snarky Parallax cameo-- he bashed Peggy as One Of Those Crazy Otherkin Trannies on a forum years ago-- based on a post he totally f-ing misread-- and pulled the "gosh, I can't recall" when we politely confronted him as hurt, disappointed fans.

Can not see TenNapel suffer enough bad PR as far as I'm concerned. -_-

@Oneironott Um. Do you know anything about NOLA, hun? I'm pretty sure the local otters are STREETS ahead of you on the fish and kelp thing. :3 <3

(ffs am tiger, been here <24 h, already a bit sick of fish >_>; )

i regret only that peg and i did not rent a van with huge speakers and drive around our entire last day in seattle blasting innocent pedestrians what's new pussycat at 0.25x speed because when else in life are you going to have such a horrible thing wiped so quickly from your karmic record

@Oneironott We're probably gonna be going to the Audubon Zoo in the next couple weeks. Any messages for the local deep-cover Neptunian agents?

Our new home is a shotgun house, which means it's just five rooms in a single column. This is absolutely surreal for me, because my brain's only architectural precedent for this is "endless corridor" gags in black comedies and whatnot...

@LexYeen@snouts.online Nah, I'm legally required to caucus with the wildcats for weight-class reasons. Our offices are at the Audubon Zoo, though I think I can also report to the four stone lions in City Park. *nod*

@001zlnv That's brilliant. I'll start talking to the folks in the Cat Lab and start doing the calibration tests in the morning...

Okay, I'm gonna have to cancel the KITTY ALERTS... because we've seen no less than nine cats today, and I don't want to subject you to a constant new normal of KITTY ALERT. Just know that I begin my new life surrounded by KITTY and I think everything might just be OK.

=== KITTY ALERT KITTY ALERT ===

Our neighbor has a gorgeous black cat and four kittens.

I think we just might be okay here.

Ok, this one is kinda good.

So we put some last-minute items out curbside yesterday, including all the books and magazines I didn't quite feel right making some charity volunteer sort through. (Read: smut.)

One of the items left out was an issue of the sadly defunct German latex-fashion magazine Marquis. Marquis was a pretty major influence on my concept of fetish fashion. So you know it must get pretty weird, but elegantly so.

Still. When we left this morning, Peg noticed that the Marquis had been taken. And then she noticed that it had also been left on a stoop less than a block away.

I would give damn near anything for a complete written log of the Marquis recipient's thoughts as he (a) decided to pick it up (b) flipped through it on the way down the street (c) decided to leave it there.

I feel like somehow I have gotten a sterling endorsement of my fashion sense today. O:)

Huh. I only just learned today that Ian Jones-Quartey and Rebecca Sugar are an item, and have been for like eight years.

Given neither of us is ever going to take the other's last name, I wonder if some people will get the same surprise about me and Anthracite someday? :D

Aww, I'd forgotten about these guys! If Anthracite and I had kids in the hypercosm, they'd probably end up something like this.

(And real nearsighted. With bad sinuses. And godawful senses of humor.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatzelwurm

I should do my little part to repopularize these critters. Maybe let one of the ship avatars in Parallax be a real fancy, frilly levitating one with some Cheshire influence? (cc: @anthracite)

@dodec *tries to ship them with obscure cereal mascot Big Mixx and thereby breed a draco-chicken-eagle-wolf-lion-moose-goat-pig-another-lion-snake*

Pretty sure Lily mains Blanka. :O

i really wish you could pet the space turtle ;_;

Wow. The stereotypical Japanese character on the Channel 4 series Flowers is really offensive... until you realize _that's the creator_ playing that role.

Even then, I was ready to get my Angry White Liberal hackles raised, because said creator is named "Will Sharpe"... and I made the logical but totally wrong assumption about his ethnicity. William *Tomomori Fukuda* Sharpe's ethnicity, as it turns out.

I read a little further into it and apparently it's partly a subversion, and partly a wink at the fact it's his deliberate attempt to introduce Japanese comedy tropes to a British audience.

Hmm. I'm only halfway through episode 2, and I'll keep you posted if this turns out to be any good.

@Balina i have this "no brain amoebas i don't know personally" rule

So Gungeon's new update has a "Rainbow Run" mode, which permits you only one item per level but it's an S-class super-item, you choose it from a set of eight, and the stat that usually keeps you from getting multiples of S-class items is suspended.

This includes the Clone item. If you die with the Clone, you immediately restart on Level 1... with all your items and buffs intact, except for the Clone. You can't take a second Clone while you have the first one... but if you pick up a Clone during your Clone run, congratulations, you get a _third_ run if you die.

Well, some guy on Reddit posted evidence he had a SIX Clone run. He just kept getting lucky drops. By the end of the game, he was essentially packing a Death Star in each hand. But he didn't even get to do anything useful during the final boss fight. His companions-- specifically, a tiny space turtle and its Lawful Good baby mimic duplicate-- killed the Lich in approximately five seconds per stage.

Did I mention I love this game and its utter, Gurran-Lagann-level lack of respect for earthly power curves? I would be delighted by any recommendations for 2-D action games with the same kind of absurdist combo potential. n.n

Oh my god, I think Seattle just issued me its formal apology for everything that happened here, in the form of a cup of ramen from the stand in the U District farmer's market. Best thing I've eaten in Seattle that wasn't cooked by @mmsword

If you're anywhere nearby, it's the Ramen and Tacos stand. Thai Curry broth. So fucking good.