Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Oneironott Peg looked SO GLEEFUL when she started tuning the colors to deliberately bleed and vibrate. XD

RUN COWARDS RUN 🐯 🐯 🐯 🐯 🐯

Just waiting on the tail weaponry.

#BackFromTheBodyShop
#LevelUp

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@spacewastrel@snouts.online Fuck. Them. With. Graham's. Number. >____<

Oh, honey, that sounds fuckin' traumatic, I am so sorry.

@Phorm @Djinnanigans@dragon.style Geniefox, YOU CAN NOT IMAGINE HOW MUCH SEEING YOU SAY THAT BROUGHT A SMILE TO MY FACE. *hugs tight* If there's ever anything I can do to help keep it that way, you know which tree to knock on...

@Djinnanigans@dragon.com "Snugglebunnies?"

No? Oh. Well, I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. =(>)_(<)=

Forget it, Djinn. It's Discordtown. *gently claps your shoulder*

@xinjinmeng @Phorm It's on the schedule for today! Relief is coming!

@mawr @trashyfins@chomp.life @JulieSqveakaroo @Momentrabbit I mean, back in the day, Rik and I played out an entire Alpha Centauri campaign like that. "These mountains are immense! Clearly the work of terraforming!"

Ornery. Just wanna spend today picking at people's roof tiles, smearing things around their attics, raiding their kitchens, and stealing things through their cat doors, tbh.

I mean, metaphorically speaking. Whatever the cultural-politics equivalent is of the above. Very prone to eating snarkbait today.

@mawr CAAAAARL, WHY ARE YOU ON THAT MAWR'S FEEEEEET?

Getting huge trans energy off of this video. Apparently the untranslated lyrics STRONGLY imply the "Princess" here is DMAB, and the comments are heavily weighted towards "IDGAF, still cute, would still smush."

We're probably gonna win this battle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-gbAi5UIg0&feature=youtu.be

===== KITTY ALERT =====

Eeyup. One of the cats has definitely mastered the leap from the side fence to our windowsill.

Fortunately, it's Sugarfoot—a very well-behaved young lady, and the one we like best. We're probably gonna cave in and get a guest bed and litterbox soon. There is no more pretending She Does Not Live Here.

@hystericempress *high five* Damn straight, sis. I'm mostly playing these days to the inside straight of "What if Parallax actually finds an audience and we get to do this for real?" That'd make this whole saga feel like a real big win—and the thought HAS crossed my mind that there are a lot worse things than a nice, quiet, contemplative exile... I wouldn't be the first person to do their life's best work in one.

Still. In the immortal words of St. Marjorie: "It's an ending. That's enough." :)

I wouldn't go back. And if I can't find another damn portal to the Otherworld in NEW ORLEANS of all the damn places, I wasn't cut out to be there in the first place.

And I am, as soon as we get some mundane paperwork in order, about to marry a dragonwitch. And we are followed everywhere by black cats. That's... a lot to walk away from this whole disaster with.

I'll be OK. Beats rabies. ❤️

I guess the best way to sum up my mood lately is... last 20 pages of an obnoxiously allegorical kids' fantasy. The kind where the kid ends up back in reality and it's a big parable about Growing The Fuck Up, and isn't it lovely that you had this experience, and you'll treasure it forever, but now it's time to go work in a bank and listen to your mum. :p

It's still a happy-ending kind of disenchantment. I'm not, like, being tormented by the fairies anymore. But still: disenchantment.

@JulieSqveakaroo Don't worry, hun, the dragoness has a major Morale+ power-up in store for me. Big Cat Lady Energy is coming as soon as she gets another burst of drawing inspiration. Procure safety glasses and prepare to guard your eyeballs. ^_____^

#moodsnapshot
#wordsofwisdom
#asabovesobelow

Despite that little ray of sunshine just now... I'm actually doing pretty good in general, FWIW.

NOLA finally made up its mind to be sunny again today, the social opportunities are rolling in, Peg has been mischievous and "endearittating" in ways that EXACTLY fit my relationship goals, and while they make my throat all scratchy, my life is full of kitties.

And I'm dreaming less and less of my estranged sisters, and more and more about delightful monsters. Maybe I'll become one!

@LeDiva (And FWIW, we're still using you as the #1 inspiration for the kitty hero of Parallax-α. That's not necessarily _entirely_ a compliment, but it's a definite sign of success at Catting. ❤️)