Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Austin_Dern ok i am clearly outgunned here *scoots* :D

It's fascinating and infuriating. This whole morning? Totally unfocused and twitchy. Could not attach my brain to work at all, and EVERYTHING poor Peg did (talking, opening doors, breathing-- you know, totally unreasonable stuff) was distracting me. And not coincidentally... my boss had just dropped a FIFTH project on me. My brain just couldn't organize itself and it spun like a broken magnetic drive.

And then I dropped my boss a polite note asking if he could arrange everything by priority. Bless his heart, he gave me *precise* marching orders so I no longer had to make any decisions nor worry I was missing something. And my brain's been like a Research Laser Of Doom ever since.

golly gee i wonder if i could have add or somethin >_<

#factorysecondspacetigers

🐯​

Oh shit. I think my last related reply just accidentally invented gender vectors.

Normies, y'all are FUCKED. ​

@Austin_Dern Now be good, or I'll let Kirsch start linking you to {her(2,1);his(1,4)} favorite polytope nomenclature and notation pages... ​

#RingtailToys

@Aradia Oh, this place sounds enviable! https://seattle.eater.com/2019/4/9/18302055/north-seattle-jewish-deli-standard-bakery-zylberschteins-open

So glad y'all have a decent NY-style deli out there again!

@LexYeen@snouts.online "That's, like, my thing, man!" *beams* *sics library-dragon persona on the fuckers*

#EatMySemioticsGun

@Oneironott Have you done the sensory deprivation float tank thing yet? I think Seattle Float is still in business!

@anthracite @Phorm *ponders the consequences of a Kalinda-Phorm alliance, grabs Noelle, and HIDES* 🙀​

@Austin_Dern *grins evilly*

Why no, I have no experience nor interest in this subject whatsoever.

*brandishes thermos and cracks it open just a bit, spilling the aroma of the following link*

http://www.kurumi.com/roads/3di/index.html

(I was actually just about to ask what you thought, as a fellow roadgeek, of the I-238 and how it fucks up our Interstate numbering scheme... or the I-99 and that corrupt piece of shit Bud Shuster. ;p )

@Austin_Dern You know how Bruce Wayne keeps a thermos full of kryptonite around, just in case Superman acts up...?

Well, now I know what to do in the event of a coati uprising (in the unlikely event I'm not sending covert aid and unlocking dumpsters for y'all instead).

@sporks@snouts.online As far as I can tell from the photos of Maru, advanced/applied lounging. :) Plus putting up with absurdly ornate costumes!

So I was reading up on the history of Tama, the legendary (and since her passing, literally divine!) stationmaster of Kishi Station, Kinokawa.

And I learned she's had two successors: Nitama and Yontama. Well, Nitama basically means "Tama 2," and Yontama means "Tama 4."

Tama FOUR!? Obviously, I had a moment of worry. What happened to Tama 3?!?

Well, that would be Santama, aka Sun-tama-tama. She was sent to another station in Naka-ku, Okayama for her training. But when it came time to send her back to Kinokawa, the Pubic Relations executive who had been raising her sent them a curt letter saying:

"I will not let go of this child. She will stay with me in Okayama."

Yeah, okay, that's fine. What a relief. 😺​

@JulieSqveakaroo Yeah, um... yanno how Klingons don't like to talk about why some of them don't have forehead ridges...?

We're... not with that guy. We don't talk to him except at the reunions. 🙀​

@LexYeen@snouts.online Y'all were blocking our view of Mercury. *shrug* 🐯​

@anthracite Admittedly, after what, 2+ yrs now of Parallax design, we are both getting kinda Advanced at the plot-guessing stuff... Still, yeah, the color palette was generally too drab for me, the characters didn't really reach me, and it just felt like a lot of the "you like CONTENT, right?" fanbaity stuff that turned me off of FF1-∞. Granted, I only saw the tiny amount that you played, but you've run through so many games that were love at first sight for me...

@LexYeen@snouts.online Okay fine but i really wish you'd given me an extra 24 h notice so i could hit the seafood mkt and play along w/wheel of fish @ home 😿​

for years it was smooth sailing
with the waters calm
then the ship starts failing
i was headed for a storm

before i could even fear it
or think of what to say
i'm standing in the shadows
of the rising waves

i took a cold hard pounding
blow after blow
tragic as a shipwreck
i was going down slow

i guess love doesn't last
let's climb up on the raft
never make it on our own
i don't want to drown alone

the waves rise up and crash
there's always a raft
let's climb up on the raft
and have ourselves a laugh

who cares when we'll run ashore
we're not drowning anymore
it's not like you knew the last time
or the time before

somewhere below the waves
sway ropes that broke and frayed
still tied to our anchors
right where they were laid

now if this stays afloat
then i'll call it a boat
i'm not desperate but i guess
that i could use some hope

well, love never lasts
but it always leaves a raft
so let's climb up on the raft
and have ourselves a laugh

if we run ashore
i'll just like you all the more
i'd rather be shipwrecked together
than on the ocean floor

love never lasts
let's climb up on the raft
we'll never make it on our own
i don't want to drown alone

when waves come up and crash
then there's always a raft
i know we're both raw and wet
but it's as good as it gets

i'm so glad that you're here
hold on to me, my dear
just forget the past
'cause now we're on the raft

--liam lynch, "get on the raft"

@frameacloud Some late Pratchett, maybe? I was never a fan before, but I finally picked up Going Postal and loved it. Or some of Charlie Stross's punnier stories from the Toast anthology? I'd have more, but I've been on a steady horror diet since I left Seattle. :)

@Phorm Funny, Peg just waltzed in and said EXACTLY the same thing. You know, a leash would fit real nice 'round that Element of Generosity...