Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Heh. Turns out our next-door neighbor was a stoner all along. Got to take the last couple hits off her joint and she might even talk to "her guy" for us.

It feels nice to have a body that doesn't feel like a wet paper sack again. Take that, nerve-eating nanoweasels!

@mawr No images! They're literally just a can of beans, a sock, and a spoon from an old novel. :) And I'm not sure I can even recommend the novel, cause I'm not quite sure the author's gender perspective is gonna fly these days--which is a shame, since the rest of the book is BEAUTIFUL. It's... the most Seattle thing I've ever read next to Tom Robbins's _other_ books.

@kistaro I'm ALMOST tempted to link to the old Smart Pipe "infomercial" from [adult swim], since it's definitely relevent to the (um) Internet of Shit, but it's got one too many cw's to fly in this place, I think... >__>;;

@mawr I'm SO tempted to ask for Can of Beans, Dirty Sock, and Spoon so I can make Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All references. n.n;;

@SangriaSnake (Oh, the stinger of this whole story... he kinda HATED being a professor and was totally open about the fact he intended to get back into construction as soon as he could. :> )

@SangriaSnake I got broken of that attitude good and hard my first year of college. I had a Creative Writing prof who had been working as "unskilled labor" for Reasons but had an MA.

He was quite proud and happy about his old day jobs but needed more money, so he got some carpentry training... and then found out he was now OVERqualified for all the available jobs.

So he said fuck it, went back into academia, pulled some strings he had from his long-running sci-fi newsletter, and became an Assistant Professor. *shrug*

Any prejudices I might've had against "unskilled" work were totally demolished by that experience. He was a bit "beardy" in retrospect, but he was a good professor and a very sharp guy. After meeting him, it was REAL hard to stereotype people for their jobs.

@LexYeen@snouts.online Hmm. Is it definitely wax? I can not speak to the accuracy of this, but one of my doctors warned me not to use straight hydrogen peroxide because it starts its action immediately instead of getting down towards the blockage. If you can get carbamide peroxide (your basic OTC drugstore earwax formula), that might be more effective?

Failing that, if you get so desperate that it's either this or start sticking a screwdriver in (DON'T) maybe squirt the hydrogen peroxide in with a syringe? The only time in my life that my ears have been totally clear was when another doctor just took some kind of blue powder—which I think was just another peroxide formula–and flooded my ear with it that way. Be CAREFUL though, if you resort to that, and I'm not sure I recommend it—note she did it fairly SLOWLY so as not to put too much pressure on the drum.

@Leucrotta <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Dear god, have you ever read the Torg RPG's Nippon Tech supplement? THEY. PRINTED. THE. KANA. ON. THE. COVER. BACKWARDS.

Oh, look. Howard Bloom is dead.

Neat.

@anthracite I wondered!

@kistaro I celebrate this holiday by spending a full 24 hours being totally fucking ashamed to be Italian. I wish I could, like, take an Lokono out to dinner or something. >__<

@anthracite DAMN YOU, TOADFISH! *shakes fist*

Man, its gonna take some serious effort to maintain my natural healthy depression this morning, after walking outside to 70° in mid-October and an ambush by a random licky border collie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=918Zv9u-e_U (SFW)

@Leucrotta "Aw, cool!"

@Leucrotta "What's the court?"

@kistaro fwiw it was an mst3k, so it's almost certainly up on Youtube—episode 812.

@Balinares Basically, in the early minutes I'd gotten up my hopes that they were going to acknowledge that even the best-tended and most magical friendships can fade or break up. And that it's a real thing and it's part of life and it's okay. And that felt so... comforting in the wake of things with Kristy and Jessie and everything that happened in Seattle, I kinda went all-in on that theme and the relief it could have brought.

And instead, I got "FRIENDSHIP IS PERFECT AND ETERNAL AND IF YOU ARE A GOOD PERSON IT WILL NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER DECAY, YOU JUST HAVE TO WANT IT BAD ENOUGH."

And it's good that we still have stuff that's that optimistic out there, it's a lesson I've had to relearn from Steven Universe—which I was also Unhello with for a while, but am back in after the beauty of the Season 6 trailer. But... damn, that turnaround hurt, and was exactly the lesson I did NOT need to see at that particular time, place, and mood.

I wanna see just ONE kids' show (besides Adventure Time, which admittedly did a great job) that admits you can't save everything and everyone. And is willing to tell me that _I_ can have failed to save my friendships, and that this doesn't mean I'm one of the bad guys or that _my_ magic up and died, in direct contradiction to everything in the Book Of Twilight.

*weary sigh*

Still gonna miss the show a bit, but... yeah. It's on an emotional track I can no longer ride. I feel like someone tore up my ticket.

and how "wild horses" by the rolling stones is playing over the cafe PA

fuck you, discord, that's not funny

@Balinares Aired this morning over here, all three final episodes. I only watched the last one, hoping that the bit in the blurb about Twilight "in the future" would imply we'd get to glimpse the technological future of Equestria in some real detail. Instead... I got the exact opposite of the friendship "lesson" I thought they were setting up and it kinda crushed my mood. Talk to me AFTER you've seen it if you still watch—I don't wanna spoil anything for anyone.