Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Phorm Hahaha, it's ok hun, I PROMISE none of y'all did anything wrong—just distancing myself because the last thing i need today is a frolic in a semiotic labyrinth. Mostly I just wanna stay away from the folks in that Twitter thread, right or wrong—and if they're right, I REALLY wanna keep my distance from Hog Patient Zero. Y'all are cool. 😽😽😽​

ok running away for real now, love y'all 😽​

if you find me in a week scrawling kitty-emoji gematria on the wall of a nola alleyway and lecturing a pack of stray kittens about the 144-digit true name of Bast it ain't my fault 🙀​

@LexYeen@snouts.online It's not unlike snorting the blue flowers from A Scanner Darkly, or huffing the soul of St. Janos Hypercleats out of a thermos.

Tigers have a lot of body mass and damn near impenetrable brains. =^___^=

@LexYeen@snouts.online The secret is you start off by finding a web kook and just eating their fingers one at a time until you build up an immunity. You have to work your way up gradually to, like, Flat Earther hearts and anti-vaxxer livers, or the toxins can be deadly. =^_____^=

If you want to imagine the future, picture the human race somehow getting its brain caught in one of those novelty finger traps and not being able to get it out, forever.

I just ate Simpsons-Viking-Debate-grade brain poison by accident, through no fault of my friends, and I think I'm gonna bail on the Internet for a bit. There's a whole fucking city out here that presents no more deadly memetic labyrinths than, "Huh, I wonder what that pretty crow is thinking?" Gonna go talk to her instead. 😽​

@001zlnv I'm tempted right now, hun, I'm real tempted. :> Apparently that meme may-or-may-not lead back to a milkshake duck.

I honestly can no longer tell if it's Well-Meaning Leftist Pareidolia, or if someone is genuinely playing us in 5th-Dimensional Axis And Allies as Germany.

I'm... I'm gonna go drink a lot of cheap Uranian ethyl alcohol, eat a lot of good wholesome Martian fish, listening to some nice brain-emptying Saturnian radio, and pretend Terra just ain't a real thing. *sigh*

I rarely say it—in part because I have some genuine clinical-grade compulsive issues, that make me fear if I say it out loud some force will come along and ruin it— but yeah, I'm in a good mood tonight and things are going OK.

Still plenty of things to fret about: future, friends, stepbrother, health, expenses... But this is kinda working. I've reconnected with a couple of friends I was concerned had lost interest in me, and confirmed that we were all just kinda busy and preoccupied. Work is still great and I'm busy but feeling valued. And I'm living somewhere that's going to be hospitable year-round (give or take the occasional drowning attempt).

There's still that pervading, Stoical sense of DOOM COULD YET COME TO US AT ANY TIME. But I kinda feel like as long as I keep the cruise control on and nothing falls into the road from above... this is a pretty decent road. I'm at least reassured that I took the right path—or more like, the right crazy dragonlady picked me up and flew me 10' above it—and if we don't crash, something good could still be at the end of it.

Shh. Don't tell anyone. 😽​

@hystericempress Damn right you are. <3

@hystericempress Yupper, you pretty much got it.

@hystericempress SPOILER: you're pretty much on the right track, since all 5 examples have the same issue...

@001zlnv You're SUPER close, functionally correct. All 5 are European microstates, basically too small to even have an airport.

Today's trivia question:

There are five sovereign states in the world that have no airport within their borders. Can you name all five without looking them up?

ANSWER/HINT (via rot13.com):

Naqbeen, Yvrpugrafgrva, Zbanpb, Fna Znevab, Ingvpna Pvgl

@anthracite Yeah, I was reading about this whole mess the other day, in the vicinity of this Wiki article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_revolts_in_the_United_States#Louisiana

@Aradia Madam, I assure you, there is no such place!

https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/44623/oh-my-god-we-have-fallen-map-or-new-zealand-amazin

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@anthracite "Muse finally lost her shit; called back to studio to clean up scattered supplies and put out trashcan fires."

@anthracite #AnthraciteMadLibs 😼​❤️​♠️​

@Phorm These are all VERY fair and salient points, and I hope nobody has pressured you to wear one. Those are all points of basic consideration that anyone handing out pronoun ribbons—excellent and progressive of an idea though they are in some-but-not-all circumstances—should really take into account.

Proud of you for speaking up about your concern, geniefox. *hug*

However, I'm afraid Julie is right about the rubbergear. Close your eyes and think of Goodyear... *zzzzzzip* Your new pronoun is "tigertoy."

@hystericempress I'm so glad to hear that. <3 I got to check in on his protege, the good Dr. Marid, when I visited Ohio, and he asked after him. =^__^=

And yeah, Lance Reddick is about right, if I recall our many late-night strategic briefings. 😽​

#MartianSolidarity
#MédecinsSansSquelettes

@hystericempress I love the title <3

Speaking of "am lion," how IS Comrade Omolara doing these days?