Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Balinares You really know my weak spots, old friend. :D <3

And I have an instant pot with a steamer basket so these are actually kinda plausible things to make at home!

Which is especially comforting since New Orleans's Chinese food scene is surprisingly awful... :(

Oh, and I finally finished Disco Elysium off last night.

I would have made a good detective. Not the kind that requires, like, observational skills and stuff, of course.

The Dale Cooper/Doc Sportello kind. The Elliot Gould as Phil Marlowe kind. The kind with a high Inland Empire skill.

The kind of brave loser who just gets knocked around from one brush with a surreal, corrupt world to the next, and then sees something he's not supposed to. And in the end, he doesn't win so much as... not lose.

Because the real mystery was "Who made all this make so little sense?" And the real culprit, the one nobody but him will ever believe did it, is "Nobody. Nobody at all."

At least, that's sure how I'm feeling today.

@spacewastrel@snouts.online Thank you, that really does mean a lot to me.

You know what the grand irony is?

My self-hatred today is based on the assumption that nobody in the fandom wants to see me, because everyone associates me with being a Fountain Of Hate from the Livejournal days.

And my frustration with the world is based on seeing everyone become a Fountain Of Hate over politics on Twitter and Masto.

What can I say. I was ahead of my time. *shrug*

@kobi_lacroix@snouts.online I think Bob Smith is one of those guys that there's just gonna be no replacement for. He was kickin' along at age 95 or so and then his Facebook account just... stops, and I am so braced for bad news. He was apparently even MORE awesome after he retired—he was just quieter about it. Amazing guy.

Heh. I wouldn't QUITE say disregard previous distress calls, but I did find one of my Happy Places—the one I was in all too briefly in the 80s, when I was sick at home and watching someone else's educational TV...

Ladies, gentlemen, and enbies, I give you the inimitable Robert Kupa'a Smith, wordhacker extraordinaire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOV8h_0yUNs&list=PLWiaTQ91EE2EtcrrjGb4j3U5RoTlToKcE&index=291&t=0s

@anthracite Not technically animated but definitely a cartoon. Extra points for INCREDIBLY brazen Devo appropriation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvyqxXkz0LM&list=PLWiaTQ91EE2EtcrrjGb4j3U5RoTlToKcE&index=292&t=37s

Also, while I'm mooning over stuff...

I really like Peg's friends down here, the few I've gotten to meet so far. We get along well and have plenty to talk about.

But it's just not the same as having a social circle that's predominantly queer furries. No hugs, no species board, no shared daydreams, no gushy emotional displays. They're "normal" and a bit proud of it—even the guy who puts on a wig and dark glasses and pretends to be a mad scientist once a month.

I think Peg's really enjoying the break. To be honest, I *am* enjoying the break from radical queer politics just a bit, but... the constrained emotional sphere is getting to me.

In particular, I've been dwelling on past mistakes and how they've presumably affected the fact I don't hear so much from people anymore. So anything you can do to relieve me of these Pariah Feels would be especially valuable right now.

Today has turned into a bit of a clusterfuck and I'm feeling very trapped and down on myself. I could stand to hear something encouraging right now.

It doesn't even have to be about me, just something to make me feel like I haven't necessarily locked myself into a dismal Bad End scenario, and it's not just gonna be a big grey smear of stunted emotions from here on in.

I would also accept cash. (KIDDING! :D In my current condition, I'd probably just go up to Brocato's bakery and convert it directly to bodyfat anyhow.)

@mmsword Happy birthday! Looks like you had a hell of a dinner!

@Austin_Dern @001zlnv I mean, the more the better, really. That's how these things work.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ConservationOfNinjutsu

(But real solace is pointy and goes rawr. <3 )

"Real darkness has love for a face." -- Dolores Dei, Disco Elysium

@anthracite It's always just five years away, isn't it. Has been since, what, around 1966? 1929? 1848? Earlier? :|

I had a dream that I brought an insanely rare and elaborate card game made for 50+ people to a festival. After I spent hours sorting the cards, someone who already knew all the rules and was much more aggressive than me volunteered to run the game—and they picked the players at random from the crowd, and didn't include me.

Nope, not metaphorical for anything at all. I'm fine I tell you, fine.

@Balinares The link said "Your browser is deprecated, please upgrade," and I thought, "That's a hell of a good title." So disappointed. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8H5f25NlUQ

#moodsnapshot #optimism #uspol #getbitey #primitiveandwild #rem

@Leucrotta As you can imagine, Rik LOVED it... (I _think_ that's the place they used to drag me through when we lived up there.)

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