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Peg has just set a precedent that Mighty Boosh is on the table for good-natured late-night relationship warfare.

Foolish girl. She does not even begin to grasp the power of the crimp.

Me, 7:54 pm: my heart withers and with each passing moment i find less and less to love, all i have left are empty habits and empty gestures and ultimately nothing really matters

Me, 7:55 pm: i would fight and die for the two lesbian ponies smooching in this picture

"Fraggle Rock: The Quickening... oops, I mean, Dark Crystal: The Age of Resistance."

@JulieSqveakaroo I think that song was indeed about 80% of the inspiration for that joke, honestly. *blush*

@Momentrabbit TMJ is one of the fucking worst. Practically lost a college semester's worth of focus to it. I'm so sorry. >___<

That, my friends, is the day that Rezy dons her sackcloth, runs for the hills of Queer France, starts scrawling pictures of Queer Baphomet* on walls, and goes full Queer Cathar.

*Charles Nelson Reilly

Memo to self: write a queer leftist parody of St Augustine's "De Haeresibus." ("On Heresies.") It's basically a hilarious-if-it-weren't-tragic, absurdly nitpicky, guide to everything that's wrong with every version of Christianity but his.

You know how in the old Paranoia RPG, they had those two different factions of "First Church of Christ Computer Programmer" that hated and condemned each other, even though the only difference between them was whether they did the sign of the cross clockwise or counterclockwise?

Yeah, exactly.

And that's where I worry we're headed some days. Like I'll wake up and just see a list of 300+ Insufficiently Woke Things Rezy Must Not Do, written by a bunch of college Instagrammarians with the approximate philosophical depth of Bertrand Russell's nosehair.

If I had to pick the single most useful word I was taught in college, it would be one from my Heresy and Dissidence in the Middle Ages class:

"Normative."

More on that on another day, and why "normative" is a pretty good way to describe 90%+ of the things I don't like in modern "woke" culture, when I'm feeling healthier & smarter.

Big mood.

Peg and I had our first borderline-argument in ages, triggered by last-day-of-stomach-bug grump and mounting frustration at all the things I gave up to join her in NOLA.

It was so... civil. And productive. It was damn near the best argument I've ever had, and it really showed how far we've both come in the last 14+(!) years. Lots of give and take. She's one of the few partners—or housemates—I've ever had who would let me come out of an argument feeling *less* guilty than when it started.

This situation is far from ideal for me, and maybe Peg and I aren't the *most* emotionally compatible people who have ever paired off. But I have to admit, this is still a pretty good deal.

In summary: emotionally phlegmatic lizard ladies, 4.9/5. Definitely recommended.

@hystericempress Yeah, I just looked it up and that sounds like what I'm seeing. It's "not over" in the vaguest possible way, sounds like they might not even be allowed to talk details yet?

@hystericempress I thought it wasn't actually over-over yet, though? I'm honestly not sure, the article I read wasn't _quite_ as clear on the subject as I was hoping...

Three days of a stomach bug have inspired me to write a filk of the "Great Space Coaster" theme song entitled "The Great Waste Coaster."

I love you so I'm not going to share it.

Today I learned that the Navajo word for "dental plaque" translates as "tooth shit."

Y'all just think about that as you go to bed tonight. *evil cackle*

Someone at CBS just finished their Master's thesis in missing the goddamn point.

Case study number #77177 in why I don't like corporate center-liberals. They are the political equivalent of the teacher who hauls you AND your bully in for suspension because you had the nerve to punch back. Because "they don't care who started it." Because they'd rather have it quiet than fair.

https://www.thewrap.com/black-author-walter-mosley-quits-star-trek-discovery-after-cbs-hr-called-him-on-using-n-word-in-writers-room/

Threw myself off a cliff, metaphorically speaking, and forgot I essentially married a toon—for whom turning into a trampoline at a moment's notice is no problem. 😻​

Less recovered from the stomach bug than I was hoping for, more recovered than I was braced for. I've had some of these be absolutely brutal week-long affairs, and I'm just relieved it's on its way out.

The rest of today's been a bit of a trial, too, from very confusing social interactions and laptop shenanigans, to having to make up a day of work over the weekend and being barraged with dreams that reminded me how much I've lost socially in the last five years.

Objectively, there are a lot of reasons that being down here with Peg, in a place of our own and really only responsible for each other, is really good for me.

Subconsciously, after 20 years of living in communal homes, some part of my brain keeps whimpering, "B–but where did all the people go?!" (And not incidentally, "Where's all the weed?!" *smirk* But that's probably been fairly good for me in the long term too.)

I really, really look forwards to a normal week—especially since this is the ninth or tenth consecutive week I've wished for one. Did Barry tear something open on some other dimensional plane? 'Cause I've been having nothing but weird, uneasy living since then. Maybe it would explain why it turned out so pitiful on this plane. :p

@chimerror I love Nichols and May! ^___^

Whopping stomach flu. Quiet for a while. Relieved it's not murderous like my last one.

@xinjinmeng Oh, and you'll probably like this one of Ed's too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt4QFnxsT0Q I love the lighting work.