Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@packbat Yeah, as someone who usually starts by turning off screenshake, particles, and EVERY OTHER THING...

Would it make sense if I were to say "I hate this but love that it exists?" Like, as long as people use it in their own bedrooms and not where decent folk can see it... ;>

Now she's lecturing her presumable-genetic-contributor about "small lightning." I don't know what this is yet, but I promise, I will keep you posted.

OK, now it's "Meow, meow, I'm a cow," inexplicably accompanied by stretching her arms out like airplane wings and zooming around the cafe. That must be one hell of a modified cow.

Hey, @anthracite? I think I found our voice actress for Atber... :>

Another round of "beep beep I'm a sheep," along with a warning of "I'm only halfway done!" to her Zen master of an adult.

She has changed her mind, though, and launched into a very high-speed discourse about the monkeyness of monkeys.

I'll level with you. If I ever spawned, with my neurological "special features," the resulting cubthing would probably be JUST LIKE HER. <3

@troodon Happy birthday dear former kitten... o/` <3

I am very pleased that the Bridge Too Far for her parent/guardian/abductor was her coming over to peek at my laptop screen. He was very gentle in telling her that's rude, and she's actually listened to him!

I'm being a very good kitty and resisting the urge to start watching Videodrome in HD. >:D

UPDATE: She's now running through her sixth consecutive chorus of "beep beep i'm a sheep." I feel a powerful sense of... an emotion I can only call "endearritation."

The kid next to me is WAY the fuck too old to be allowed to be going "BA BA BA BA BA BA BA" at that volume. She's like ten for fuck's sake.

However, she had the decency to segue directly into a series of rapid fire knock-knock anti-jokes*, so I still like her. :D

* e.g.: "Knock-knock." "Who's there?" "Nobody, it's just a joke." Shit, I might even have to steal that one for dragon-bothering purposes. >:D

@Phorm Sorry! I love California and most Californians, but there is a tendency for the one-star crowd on any given review— especially Mexican restaurants— to be Californian vacationers and transplants who are livid because they Don't Do It Like They Did It At Home.

It's a prejudice I'll cop to, but it's a very narrow spectrum one. Generalizing very broadly again, I like almost everything else about California culture!

@hummingrain I should provoke more loud "fights" with Peg like that.

"HEY! GOD DAMN IT DON'T YOU KNOW YOU'RE AWESOME? WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING, BEING SO BEAUTIFUL AND TALENTED AT NINE IN THE FUCKING MORNING!?!"

@hummingrain Sorry to make light of it! I know that can be a very unsettling experience. *hug*

@hummingrain I'm a Martian online and an Italian in real life— so if there's a wrong time of day for yellin' that's news to me! n.n;

I'll bet Peggy dreams every night of a day she isn't woken up with "RAWR RAWR RAWR RAWR RAWR RAWR RAWR."

IMPORTANT PSA:

Have you blown a lion lately?

https://codepen.io/Yakudoo/pen/YXxmYR

#BestKitty
#GetYourMindOutOfTheGutter

@eredien *blush* Thank you! Perhaps again someday...

I'm really enjoying that our closest café is named "Monkey Monkey," such that I can tell Peg, "Hey, I'm heading out to some number of monkeys... probably two."

#dork

@LexYeen@snouts.online Drowning in a hurricane is starting to sound better and better all the time, y'all. :>

Seriously, good luck up there and thank you for the health PSAs. I caught a nasty case of bronchitis from that shit last year and I'm grateful people are reminding each other to take it seriously.

Reading the comments on /r/conspiracy this morning (I know, fuck me, right) has inspired me to write a proverb:

"Removing the blinders from a horse doesn't give you a philosopher-horse. It just gives you a more confused, less focused horse."

"Free thought" means nothing if you have no idea how to use it.

@LeDiva It did, and they are. <3 The one on the other side wasn't bad either, but c'est la guerre...

Ever run into a recipe that's such a bad idea, and so easy once you know it, that you feel it's not "made" so much as "weaponized?"

Yeah. Turns out Kenji Lopez-Alt's 3-ingredient macaroni and cheese works like a charm. A fatty, deadly, artery-clogging charm.

This is not really all that surprising. Kenji is the Lupin III of foodcrime. He never fails.

I give you dangerous knowledge:

https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2017/01/3-ingredient-stovetop-mac-and-cheese-recipe.html

(FTR, I used fontina cheese—beautiful salty stuff— and threw in some spinach, garlic powder, and red pepper. But I think you could use damn near anything. For next time I'm thinking kimchi, gochujang, ground peanuts, and anchovies. I know, I know, that tiger's not right.)

=== HIGH LEVEL KITTEN ALERT ===

Oh my Bast, Sugarfoot let me pet her for the first time. ​😻😻😻😻😻