Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@JulieSqveakaroo Oh god, this reminds me of EVERY attempt Rik and I made to socialize with the local BDSM culture that wasn't through friends—except for the open tolerance of fascists, yikes!

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Shadow is a cat. She is also a chocolate bun.

Shemp is also a cat.

That is all.

@LeDiva Keep shoppin' it, kitteh. :D

Exhausted from traveling and a bit dim from the effect of all the changing pressures on my sinuses, so I don't really have much in the way of opinions about New Year's, but here's some random love and affection and some shiny tinsel I scavenged from Ohio—feel free to create your own holiday benediction out of it. ​❤️​

Just a good-natured reminder that if you back linguistic precision over linguistic convention, you're always gonna lose. You can't fight usage. Even the linguists won't have your back. If everybody else calls it a duck, it's a duck, no matter if it quacks.

@zx3 feelin called out <3

YOU HAVE RECEIVED A NEW QUEST

"Ain't Got Time For This Shit":

Block 500 furries on Twitter.

REWARDS/PENALTIES:
+50 Sanity[1]
+30 Focus
+20 Toaster Repair[2]
+10 Emotional Age
-10 Kink
-20 Woke
-20 Youthful Enthusiasm
-30 Comic Marketing
* begins "All Good Things" event countdown
* locks all "Giving A Fuck" dialogue options
* locks "Second Childhood" branch of tech tree
* confers +40% resistance to all Drama, Millennial, and Hater attacks
* unlocks "Macrame Or Something" skill
* unlocks "Leave Twitter (Again)" quest[3]

[1] if you are the Postfurry class, usual 40 pt SAN cap still applies
[2] it's a long complicated story
[3] yes, i've played a lot of disco elysium this week, how come?

this is also a #moodsnapshot but mostly just because i'm having some soup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO8ar2YO99g

#SOUP!

#moodsnapshot, though I can't quite explain why. Just the right intersection of joy and poignance and the sense of passing time, I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZm85q6zt6s

They say that you're a seraphic mother
Though you say it isn't so
But if you rise off the ground and hover
I'll know, my angel, I'll know

'Cause my wife
Has a thousand eyes
And her thousand eyes are all for me
Her dad is Proginoskes

So remember when you shake
Those wings on your thighs
You, my wife, have a thousand eyes

@Soreth @hystericempress @mmsword KINKY.

@Soreth @hystericempress @mmsword You mean Mertons? Yeah, not too many of those left these days...

@hystericempress @Soreth @mmsword

Crop Rotation?!?

...

I floop the pig.

"brb, taking a poop so big it's going to be wiki-notable"

(guide to above in-jokes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_abbreviations )

@001zlnv @JulieSqveakaroo OK, that settles it. Next time I come home to Alliance, I'm bringing this outfit and I'm wearing it there. (Attn: @anthracite, you in? You can dress like my saucy wench!)

@Leucrotta I mean, it's not ALL like that out here—it would be absurd to expect to run into that in, say, Columbus or Cleveland. But my hometown is... pretty much _that_ Ohio, yeah. *shakes head in shame*

I would also like to thank the 180-Gs for this comforting carol of holiday joy in this trying time. (Especially since, now that I look around, the holiday decorations in this cafe are a _bit_ "CHRIST THE CONQUERING LORD" centric...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyfsGaWyz0U&t=214s

I would just like to thank my mother once again for giving me these awesome new wireless headphones, whose noise-canceling features are doing a great job of shutting out the mildly homophobic banter of the baristas in my hometown's only independent cafe. *sigh*

(It wasn't anything too virulent, just some muttering about guys getting earrings—some "if it were my son" bullshit and snark about "you'd better be a pirate." Still. I am debating whether I want to come back here, and I'm sure as hell not busing our table for this shithead. :p )

Late-night thought:

While I'm actually not particularly fond of Randall Munroe's work in general, these three links, in order, beautifully sum up how I feel about woo, magic, and so forth.

https://xkcd.com/240/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/240:_Dream_Girl

https://blog.xkcd.com/2007/10/01/the-meetup/

Or in the words of stage magician Jeff "Magnus" McBride, "All magic is 100% bullshit—and it works 100% of the time."

@hystericempress God I'm fucking proud of you sis.

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