Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

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@Leucrotta Did Moebius ever write any outright cyberpunk stuff? I thought he mostly just did fantasy, but I haven't actually sat and read much of his stuff that wasn't, like, Heavy Metal style "warrior ladies on pterodactyls and crinkly old monks" stuff. If he did do anything outright cyberpunky—and not just sci-fantasy tinged—I wanna read the fuck outta that...

cc'ing @anthracite on this for obvious reasons

@anthracite Yeah, that's why, when I was about to claim we got there first, I redacted that line at the last minute. 'Cause Jim and Brian kinda got there WAY ahead of us. But they didn't write a frickin' non-binary transhuman space epic, now, did they!? :D I'm comforted that we're not their imitators, we're just their kids. ^__^

"About ten minutes into Blade Runner, I reeled out of the theater in complete despair over its visual brilliance and its similarity to the 'look' of Neuromancer, my [then] largely unwritten first novel. Not only had I been beaten to the semiotic punch, but this damned movie looked better than the images in my head!" -- William Gibson

God, this all makes me feel so much better about Lore from Dark Crystal and its *unnerving* resemblance to the Temple Guardian (aka the Slamhound, aka Space Doggo) from Parallax...

There's just enough eerie similarity between Dark Crystal and the Mixolyne half of Parallax to make me nervous and kind of giddy. Hey, maybe it means florid, overgrown epic fantasy is *in* this year...

And if people accuse us of ripping them off, well, we kept all the receipts. We didn't necessarily get there first, but we got there on our own. :)

@Balinares And the 2019 Euphemism of the Year Award goes to... 😂​

@mmsword The universe has asked for your omakase. Do not disappoint. <3 >:D

Today's brain weather:

Cloudy, with an high of 99 IQ. 50% chance of resignation. Self-hatred watch is in effect, as we anticipate a cold-hearted front moving up from the South.

Stay indoors, folks. I know I am.

@Thaminga Dammit, now you've got me reimagining this song as a lesbian furry lycanthropic romance...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlHg82HEv4

("Mon amour est parti avec le loup
Dans les grottes de Rock-Amadour...")

@001zlnv Relevant media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcGKNlIO2mI

@Austin_Dern Bastardry isn't by far my only association with raccooning! It's just something that I'm always aware of as a part of it, a way of channeling my own ornery streak into productive things, since I don't seem to be able to get rid of it...

It's the _relentlessness_ that's the key trait here—cultivating the ability to get my ADD-laden brain to actually pick at those rooftiles, fiddle with that lock, or throw pinecones at that stupid dog down the street, until something actually gets accomplished. =(n).(n)=

It's also about slogging through with an imperfect and chronically screwed-up body, accepting that I'm gonna feel sick almost every day and that's kinda just something to accept and move on... *froth* :)

I really like your take on it, too! That is also kind of part of it for me. Dealing with my outsider issues, dealing with my alienation from modern urban society, dealing with the fact I feel like a displaced cultural scrounger these days...

I don't suppose anyone out there has a supply of unrefined Illudium Q-36?

I'll settle for anything from Q-32 to Q-40, honestly. Earth is just really getting on my nerves today and... I dunno, I'm just in a modulatey mood I guess. ​

@joshua I unironically love the flat cap, dude. :D

@mawr Inbreeding? O:)

(But in Jack and Toast's case, the cutest and best inbreeding! Corgis are the best of both worlds, brave little dogs that act big! And I get the impression that except for some minor hereditable eye problems, corgis have pretty hale and healthy genetics for purebreds...)

@Thaminga @mawr We can probably at least make 42°C!

#DONTPANIC

@mawr *bites lip and gives you the most reluctant fave ever*

Well played, mawr.

I'm finding a pleasant level of continuity between Tiger and Raccoon. The transition ain't quite happening in what I laughingly call "RL," because it's just such a cozy habit to RAWR at @anthracite and lovingly maul her head (and get mauled right back <3), but here online, it's been pretty easy.

Basically, Tiger and Raccoon are on the same sliding scale of It's Fun To Hurt People And Break Stuff That Deserve It. It's just more about "breaking stuff" and less about "hurting people."

Kirsch is more appropriate to the chill environment of Masto, the same way Reddit's snarky arrogance makes for such a target-rich Happy Hunting Ground for Rezy.

Why go through all the trouble of devouring the unjust—an honor they don't deserve—when you can just tear up their society and curl up in a cozy hole inside its rafters? If they give you any trouble, one little nip will do the trick, 'cause they can't live with the infectious things that you take for granted...

Raccoons are cute little bastards too. We're just more subtle about it. Majesty is an unnecessary burden, and who needs all that attention? It's more fun to pick at your enemies' symbolic worlds quietly, in the dark. =(^).(^)=

@Phorm Also, that's a good solution/warning! I think the wish-bearer giving something nice and then cruelly taking it away _themselves_ would violate the "cynical asshole" proviso (and I'd have to retain a wish lawyer!).

BUT... all they'd have to do is calculatedly give us something nice that humans have a long history of enjoying and then corrupting and then ruining, (Skekses-style, if you're watching DC:AOR). And the genie could give it to us with all good wishes that we wouldn't fuck it up this time, even genuinely hope that we won't... and just leave it up to us, thus totally abiding by the wording of the wish.

So... they could give us just about anything really. Look at what they did to that nice Jewish carpenter kid with the long hair. >__<

@Phorm See, this is why I'd only accept wishes from you or your protegés...<3

@xinjinmeng Oh, actually... what you really want to do is find all of Weird Al's old "ALTV" specials from MTV. They degrade in quality quickly from the 4th or 5th one on, but... Al turns out, unsurprisingly, to be one of the best VJs who ever lived. It's not all novelty music, but he unearths some truly wonderful VHS-era obscurities right on the border between comedic and dead serious. Lots of weird experimental videos by almost-famous artists.

@xinjinmeng See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y-p2l0mDJY