Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Austin_Dern this pretty much exactly captures why i got so excited by the postfurry concept back in the day... yes, PLEASE, take my weird idea even further and run with it!

@hystericempress Right? I've kinda always thought of imagination as a cheap-as-free kinda resource, you know?</coach_z>

And I mean, if you spot a "closed" species that has features you really like... how freakin' difficult is it, really, to come up with a new one that's got those features but is just different enough to be original?

It just makes my free-culture hackles raise, yanno? I'm not proud of much these days, but I ACTIVELY encouraged people to "rip off" Puzzlebox and I'm glad...

just once in my fucking life i wish a professional would promise to call someone on a given day and then actually call. that person. on that same fucking day.

oh look it's the "every moment i spent at transliminal song"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugUFu8XUjgA

I feel stupid, I feel useless, I feel insane
I feel toothless, man you're ruthless
I go to Loving Hut, I get my hair cut, I feel the same
I feel putrid, I'm getting used to it these days
You say "It's only in your head
They're probably thinking the same thing"
I'm bleeding, you're leaving, I feel strange
You been distant, you seem different than yesterday
We're gonna tell everyone it's okay

@dodec @anthracite I thought they were a damn sight better than the Ohio winters I grew up with, but she's from the tropics and now that we're in NOLA, I'm forced to admit... yeah, this is better. It's nice to be able to go out in December with short sleeves.

@dodec I mean, I left partly over The Usual Furry Housemate Drama, but mostly because @anthracite rightly noted just how much Seattle winters suck. :)

I am so glad that my primate host organism has me around. The poor thing is stuck with a rigid skull and fragile nosebones and a low-plasticity brain and stuff.

We end up doing a LOT less damage if we just sit here and imagine _me_ headdesking for 3–4 solid minutes. The worst that happens is some imaginary desk has a big gelatinous splotch on it. Usually, the tigress just comes around and licks that up anyhow.

NOT.💥 THAT.💥 I'VE.💥 HAD.💥 TO.💥 DO.💥 ANY.💥 OF.💥 THAT.💥 TODAY.💥

#moodsnapshot #thegreatfilter

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

This means my worst sources of immediate anxiety today are kittygenic allergic conjunctivitis (THANKS A LOT SHADOW) and the fact I can't log into our new timeclock system at work. Not too bad, really. I think I'm gonna get the hell out of the apartment and head to one of the further-flung cafes to get some work done.

Meanwhile, @anthracite cough is stable or even faintly better and she is (AHEM) calling the doctor for an appointment today. I have threatened her with No Cookies if she forgets. And my stepdad is apparently getting a stent or three instead of a coronary bypass, so I think that's going better than expected?

Huh. For the first time in over a week, my dreams were actually more stressful than my waking life.

They weren't that bad, either. Mostly just my aunt giving me an impossibly nitpicky vocabulary test based on a bewildering 18th century pataphysical science book, and a bunch of giant bugs following my around in an Amtrak station where I had taken up residence. They were even friendly. I recall a 10' long beetle that behaved like a friendly puppy.

@frameacloud You know, it makes me realize that while my 4–12 Headfriends are all individually named, I've never come up with a group name for us. I should do something about that, maybe. Or not, on basic Taoist principles, since we've never really needed one before...

@001zlnv @anthracite Much more importantly, they have a kitty hangin' around.

He's mah buddy. He just hasn't accepted this fact yet. *stalks*

Regarding previous thread...

Amy. Amy is also Right. What a sweet kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FickQdRT54 (CW: cute cartoon animal planning extreme cartoon violence against non-cartoon autocrats 😻 )

Oh, shit, and how could I forget St. Montecore? Rezy would eat me whole!

@Leucrotta Unicorn from She-Ra. In the remake he's gone... just a bit pony-Marxist. :)

Huh. Apparently Ivo Shandor was right TWICE. Yanno, I'm gonna leave that in. He was so right.

For those of you keeping score at home...

(Contributions welcome.)

Z84's COMMONPLACE BOOK:
https://www.evernote.com/l/Ahj14VCozwRCmKPf3jNAGoweu4XXvAVxioo

@Leucrotta Oh, that's right, I gotta add Swiftwind to my list of People Who Were Right. Thanks for the reminder! 🦄

anyhow in summary i would give my entire illudium reserve right now for some rubber, some psychedelics, a helmet and antenna, and somebody to boss me around for a few hours

but if there's one thing ghost dog taught me, it's that resisting the spirit of the age is futile, and that is just not on the table anymore—my job is to ship pretty telepathic fungal-hippie enbies and corrupt the NEXT generation...

🤷