Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

My excellent mood was *just* starting to flag when I read this story: Denver is apparently just about to vote on decriminalizing psychedelic mushrooms. :O

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiENtBfn6ov0KmFRLUKfHMAeoqFAgEKgsIACoFCAowgGAwADCElosG?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

@Aradia *puts SO MANY DICE FROM HER WILLPOWER POOL into not cracking a vixen joke because you deserve love and sympathy instead* :>

(Fuck those guys. <3 )

@Phorm We could have a whole <s>subliminal</s> programming block! Djinn, Lose, or Draw... Hermetic Seal or No Hermetic Seal... Djinn It To Win It... The 25,000 TF Pyramid...

@Phorm

God damn it, @anthracite, do YOU remember the bottle joke that made me think of Ms. Geniefox yesterday? I can't recall for the life of me...

@Balina 😈​🥚​❤️​👍​

@Austin_Dern We shed SO MANY COPIES of Rudy Rucker's Master of Space and Time, for which I almost exclusively blame @acetone_kitten ❤️​♠️​❤️​♠️​

So if I vaguely pondered transition for over a decade and then gave up (and am reasonably happy about it) because it's more of a commitment than I really want... does that make me a *rotten* egg? 😺​

"Here's a thing I believe about people my age: We are the children of Hogwarts, and more than anything, we just want to be sorted." -- Robin Sloan

Everyone in the Radical Identity communities should listen to this spoken word piece. There's a lot to ponder here, and it always gets me emotional.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39sKagyCNS0

I wonder if I, too, might have made a similar mistake. *grooms paw anxiously*

Naaaaah. *roars and stretches* 🐯​

(Bonus Talking Heads original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIMrhANwRy0 )

@anthracite Say hi to my four quiet cousins, eh? <3

Yeah. Bye, PNW. Hi, NOLA.

Maybe this place will ultimately just drown me. But I'll drown free.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z84rtbVbIEQ

#AngeliqueKidjo #RemainInLight

@anthracite Yeah, it's definitely sounding like this place has seen better days...

Watching Dead To Me was a big mistake. Pretty good series. Way too close to home.

#NeverWereThereSuchDevotedSisters

@anthracite Ooh me me, Miz Dragon! Check yer Telegram! <3

Huh. I basically found the Tlon, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius fanfic wiki. It's an open-form wiki where people can make up their own fictional micronations and culture, and some of the entries are SURREAL.

(For instance, I found it by searching for the wholly fictional horror film "La Fin Absolue Du Monde," which is a documentary about murdering a *real* angel on screen, from the John Carpenter film "Cigarette Burns." :O Which is EXTREMELY good if you can tolerate some disturbing imagery, BTW.)

https://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Neat. I have too many other projects right now, but... neat. I'm glad it's there.

Last related Silicon Dawn boost is basically my attitude towards the last two years of drama now that I'm 2600 miles away from it. :D

"Oh, huh! Lookit that smoldering fire in the distance! Boy, sure glad I'm not there!"

Oh, and one other thing: the dragoness is AMAZING. <3 She's been absolutely wonderful through the whole experience, even in moments of huge stress and worry, and I can't tell you how grateful I am that it's her and me for as long as we can make it last. <3

Been in weed "withdrawal" for a week; haven't felt a thing except for feverishly vivid REM sleep, which I was really looking forward to anyhow.

Read a bunch of spoilers for old psychological thrillers before bed last night; dreamt accordingly. Didn't really mean to, but I have to admit I still enjoyed it. WILD story about being stalked through an Seattle Center-inspired shopping arcade by a teenaged otherkin I met in a hospital _and_ an assassin (played by Denzel?!) who was trying to kill her.

Still waiting on beds and stuff. We have a friend of a friend in the area who's got to clear out her late parents' house, so we have a lot of freebies being very kindly provided, but it's been a bitch arranging the logistics-- and tbh, after the Amtrak experience, I'm still a tad scared of all the things that could go wrong.

Having a really good chicken salad sandwich at Monkey Monkey Café. Not much else to report, really, except that the weather on the way up was objectively perfect and all you Seattle-ites should be sick with envy. >:D