Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Leucrotta Yeah, I'm totally open to the likelihood that such people require more of a Sweetums approach.

I did a quick thought experiment with the set of Fred Rogers's techniques for communication, while pondering the pointless (but fun) head-butting argument I just had about climate change. Hmm. Yeah, I think there's some value here.

I'm wondering if this summary of Fred Rogers's speech habits for addressing preschoolers might not also be applicable to certain adults... (*coughcoworkerscough*)

@Austin_Dern I'm working so hard to not make a Poochie joke. >:D

@Balina Twin head bayonets AND built-in hard-toed boots? Cripes, the Martian Ministry of Recreational Warfare might have some contract work for you... How fast could you get to Phobos?

@Balina Maybe they fell in love and TF-merged, and the kid's too young to know about such things. ^____^

Parallax is gonna be great. People are gonna love it. People loved the Silicon Dawn and Rita, they're gonna love Parallax even more. Chapter One is good enough. Nobody writes TF banter like you.

Parallax is gonna be great. People are gonna love it. People loved the Silicon Dawn and Rita, they're gonna love Parallax even more. Chapter One is good enough. Nobody writes TF banter like you.

Parallax is gonna be great. People are gonna love it. People loved the Silicon Dawn and Rita, they're gonna love Parallax even more. Chapter One is good enough. Nobody writes TF banter like you.

(repeat until believed *pitiful rawr* )

@Aradia This toot is strangely apropos this morning, given there's a tropical depression brewing that's headed for the Gulf.

It has been a pleasure knowing you all. If I am washed into the sea, bite a Senator in my memory... and curse Peg's name for dragging me to this accursed swamp. ;)

(We'll be fine. IT'S AN ADVENTURE.)

Someone on Reddit posted an open directory that was full of BDSM manuals.

I made the mistake of browsing a few, not taking into account just how far out of alignment with my aesthetics—and gender politics—mainstream BDSM tends to be. My kink life has been dead in the water lately and I was hoping to get a little inspiration.

Well, that backfired good and hard. I think I've disabled my hypnosis fetish for at LEAST the next three months. The idea of a good brainwashing could not appeal less right now, though I could use a few gallons of brainbleach and a funnel.

*sigh*

I so deeply resent the fact I MISS Tapestries. And the alleged Good Days in Seattle, where this stuff was merely strung out in front of me, just out of reach, Tantalus-style, instead of simply miles and miles out of sight. >_<

Young perverts, enjoy what you've got when you've got it, because when it's gone, it's GONE. I literally can no longer imagine a process by which I would recover it.

@Austin_Dern @OldBrushNewPaper (Although now that I peek through the memory vault... Noelle *did* actually manage to snuff it a couple of times, mostly by volunteering herself to take the hit for me in times of great ego damage. It's just like her really, I did NOT approve, and I would never had let her do it if she didn't reincarnate. >_< )

@Austin_Dern @OldBrushNewPaper Huh. Now I feel like such a wuss. O:) All mine got pretty well-treated. Granted, part of that might be because most of them were "born" AFTER I entered adolescence, was supposed to be done with that stuff, and had already developed my first glimmers of empathy...

I mean, how the frick do you kill a friendly pink unicorn? ;__;

@OldBrushNewPaper I figure they're just gonna be a really good fiction author someday. Took me years to learn to love tormenting characters! 😼

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@hummingrain I mean, it's the South... :p

@hummingrain Yeah, while there's that little "constant threat of flood and crime" thing to worry about, NOLA rents have been a GAME CHANGER for us. I never thought I'd have this much space to myself during my entire adult life, 3 br shotgun for like $925/mo.

Nothin' interesting, honestly, I'm just joining in a colossal 20-person beatdown of a global warming denialist who all but called us "sheeple," then basically speedran the entire Wikipedia list of rhetorical fallacies.

I just wanted to let you all know I am having a wonderful day and making lots of rhetorically violent new friends. They are all now, like many of you, honorary Martians. ^___^ God, it feels good to have some slow, stupid prey. 🐯​🐯​🐯​🐯​🐯​

@Balina woRkinG aS iNteNDeD

@OldBrushNewPaper Oh, the "shi shi shi shi" poem! Yeah, that's one of my favorites.