Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Meanwhile, Parallax is going slow and I'm in another low-hope phase for it. I think it's pretty good, in terms of individual panels and script beats, but I'm still worried people are going to read it and go "Um, what the hell just happened?!" Like, in a bad way—there is a _good_ way that could happen.

Got some neat stuff planned for Chapter 2, even if I can't figure out how to make the Vek-10 ("the science monks") half as weird and interesting as the Mixolyne ("the space dryads").

Last chapter, I _almost_ hit that magical point where all my characters were telling me what they wanted to do. (Heh, I also had access to weed at the time. :p ) But all Baron K wants to do this time is sulk in his quarters and practice passive-aggressive ikebana at everybody.

Meh. Fell into and out of a big self-hatey and snappish depression this past week. Ended up sulking at Peg pretty fiercely on Sunday, which she handled with consummate serpentine grace and patience.

Doing well enough to handle the daily routine, but still feeling like the magic's gone away for good. I've lost that one foot in an imaginative world, and lost my capacity for sudden joy.

I miss cannabis, which was always my Royal Road to that place, but I think there's more to it than that. It's just hard to find the stimuli these days. There's a certain level of creative chaos that's no longer present in my quiet little life.

Food's really good, though.

In the meantime, I've been... fighty again. Like, online and politically. I really hoped going back to Birdsite would put me back in touch with my kink life, but mostly it just puts me in touch with obnoxious right-wingers looking for a good sarcastic pranging.

I don't like that side of myself, it's not who I really *wanted* to be and I really don't know if it's doing any good—not even when my research and logic are _exquisite_—but I can't pretend I'm not enjoying it anyhow.

Meanwhile, I'm slowly learning how to play Europa Universalis 4. In the immortal words of Grandmother Sengir: "It helps to the pass the time until I die."

@spacewastrel@snouts.online I googled frantically for ways to force a landlord to do humane non-lethal pest control, but... the results were not helpful. :(

@JulieSqveakaroo it's... it's different when you and your friends aren't made of rubber

@spacewastrel@snouts.online Oh fuck that guy.

@spacewastrel@snouts.online Oh, shit. Thinking of you, hun, good luck.

OK, actually, this guy totally won me over with one line: "I honestly don't mind if you fuck up... as long as you have a recovery plan." That's a pretty good boss, honestly.

Still ~10% sure about the head fridge. >;D

Nothing complements the chill atmosphere of a studyroom like a high-pressure job interview.

I'm about 90% sure this guy is hiring for Dorsia. I'm about 20% sure his refrigerator is full of human heads.

Relevant video clip: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ulx9rf/upright-citizens-brigade-bradwick-s-family-restaurant

Untitled Goose Wargame

https://i.imgur.com/W4UM4hu.mp4

@Leucrotta This does actually kinda feel CVB-adjacent somehow, maybe closer to David Lowery's other band Cracker which is a little less folky and a little harder...

Watched Infinity Train with Peg and was quite impressed. Basically, imagine Adventure Time crossed with the horror film The Cube, only (unlike Adventure Time) concise, and (unlike Cube) actually good. A little heavy handed on the coming-of-age allegory and a little light on the exposition, but the ultra-loose continuity worked for me and left me a little less worried about similar traits of Parallax. Definitely looking forward to Season 2.

Also, @mawr should note there's a Corgi King in it.

@mmsword Oh, fuck. Speedy recovery from all of the above, hun.

So I smarted off to notorious TERF/mediocre sitcom producer Graham Linehan a week ago, challenging his knowledge about the actual genetics of gender.

I unexpectedly received a reply today, from both him and a toadie of his, challenging me to a debate. It went exactly as expected: I kept asking them to start talking genetics and they kept calling me names.

But something interesting happened. Graham made a remark like "oh, you're one of those furries," the first person in ages to do so. And I had a moment of that old reflexive fear—what if he retweets me to his huge audience and tries to make me into a laughing stock?

And then it dawned on me: it would be PERFECT. Yes, world's most famous and closely scrutinzed TERF, retweet me to an audience that consist largely of transpeople waiting to see what bigoted thing you'll say next! Drive them to my Twitter userinfo, to see the link to my queer comic!

I decided not to push it, because frankly they were just too annoying to be worth the trouble, the comic's not quite ready IMHO, and I'm not in the mood for the attention right now. But it's good to know that when the time comes... easy PR is there for the plucking. 🤣​

@Aradia Yikes, hope everybody's okay!

*raises paw* Already happened.

You're a fucking dick.

(no further context, it just seems like an asshole move to "recommend" someone's breakup tweet)

@hummingrain And one more in a string of "love interests" that Adventure Time got COMPLETELY RIGHT as human beings, women whose lives didn't need to revolve around the hero... Her touch-and-go relationship with Finn is a thing of absolute spiky perfection.

@hystericempress That... that actually feels really good to know. =(❤️​).(❤️)=

"5."

https://hazlitt.net/feature/year-5