Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@JulieSqveakaroo @dodec Yeah, I was deliberately being coy b/c I was on mobile and was too lazy to key in a cw. :)

Basically, I can see that most of these indicate words of the listed length, with two I's in them. But I can't figure out the other three words, nor whether the deal is that they're supposed to have too few, too many, or zero I's in them to indicate a "nay" vote.

Also, I'm a tad worried about the fact that some of these may have multiple potentially valid answers? This kind of word puzzles can be tricky because there's always the possibility some smartass with a REALLY good thesaurus will come up with a right wrong answer. :)

An exercise for the attentive student:

Who rules and who drools?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingJerks/comments/eqzo9l/cats_are_evil/​

It's "wintry" today in NOLA (55° and sunny). These have been my favorite days of my first winter down here, because I get to laugh at BOTH you poor folks freezin up north AND the locals who don't share my cold tolerance (like say Ms. Tropical Dragonflower). 😽

@JulieSqveakaroo @dodec Yeah, I got the basic schtick and 5/8 words but am still not sure about how to get a final count out of them, or whether the remaining three should have any constraints on them.

@001zlnv (Sparks, can I marry people?)

"Atom Bomb" by Fluke came up on my playlist at random, and while I know the lyrics by heart, for a moment I misheard "baby's got purple hair" as "baby's got bubble hair."

And while I have left the whole postfurry kink thing (and according to my body, my libido) rather far behind me... I've still got a lot of thinking to do. OOOO:)

Don't get your hopes up that this means I'll finally have an otter incarnation. I will not ott. I will never ott... (I don't even know how to ott!)</sir_nose_d'voidoffunk>

@mmsword I'm sure you've probably seen the blog whose author was trying to determine the kosher status of every single Pokemon, in fact I'd give even odds you were my original source for it...

@frameacloud I got Dax Rae, which is already uncomfortably close to the names of like THREE genderqueer folks I'm happily estranged from. Still, a positive experience and it's obviously spot-on. :)

@mawr Good luck, Mawr!

nobody: ...

me: I want a T-shirt with Peridot in the Grandpa Simpson newspaper pose with the headline "OLD GEM YELLS AT CLOD"

In other TV news, I'm so excited for this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYdCiTXMJ60&feature=emb_logo

I... I have this sinking feeling that Catra isn't to be getting that redemption arc.

It's good knowing that my eyes aren't rotting any further than they already are. ^___^ Clean bill of retinal health, huge relief.

*longing sigh*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYhdBM9DF5w

(7 second video, absurdly SFW)

@mmsword Also, I need to come up with a suitably snarky term for a (former?) conversation venue that's settled into the state you've described. Something-something-entropy-something.

Hmm, for that matter, have you ever happened across a kids' book called "How To Be A Perfect Person in Just Three Days?" (Spoiler: being a "perfect person" involves sitting a dark auditorium, sipping weak tea slowly, and doing absolutely NOTHING ELSE.)

@mmsword Eeee-yup. I ran away, as quietly and politely as possible, when I saw that one of the postfurry-like discord channels I'd been invited to had a page-long list of forbidden/CW-mandatory topics that included "mentions of broken glass." It was like they just went Second Roman Triumvirate on every single thought that made every single one of them unhappy.

No shit. This is a real, verbatim example. And people are welcome to it, but... can you even BEGIN to imagine me being able to behave myself, let alone enjoy myself, in an environ like that?!

Heh. Ever read Out On Blue Six?

@mmsword Not just critiquing it, but comparing it to, direct quote, "GETTING KNIFED IN THE FACE."

https://twitter.com/puck1008/status/1217216637830455302

I just fucking can't break bread with these people anymore.

semiotic immunity is like real-world immunity: if you put yourself in a sterile bubble and insist on wiping everything down three times with disinfectant, you're just going to give yourself allergies and be at least as sick as you would've gotten just eating the goddamn sandwich that touched the floor

i'm not saying slurs and such don't matter—i'm must saying maybe the value of a satire that subverts and recontextualizes them outweighs the tenth of a second of pain caused by something that makes you feel bad, and maybe just maybe looking past the bad surface association to the actual context is a skill that grownups, even those who have been hurt in the past, should have, because not everything that looks hostile really is. and while trauma should absolutely be accommodated, and anyone who has to GET THE FUCK AWAY from a bad stimulus should never ever be shamed for it, it is literally not possible to pad society so thoroughly that nobody will ever be exposed to anything that ever reminds them of something upsetting, unless you really truly want and need to give our entire culture the texture and flavor of weak lukewarm tea.

so yeah, if you didn't like the attack helicopter story, you should absolutely criticize the fuck out of it, because that's how culture improves itself, but if you scream for it to be removed from the cultural stream without even getting past the GODDAMN TITLE and the possibility that it is ironic, i just can't accommodate your needs anymore, because we have a lot of work left to do on this culture's semiotics, and nobody ever promised you it wouldn't get messy