Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Oops. Heh. It's been confirmed in our Louisiana parish and the Ohio county adjacent to my parents.

I'm not afraid. All of us are lucky: we have the resources to lay in plenty of supplies, and no particular obligations that would force us to spend much time in crowds.

I'm still far, far more concerned about the short-sighted stupidity of my fellow person-like-things.

@001zlnv @Austin_Dern Nope, but "contagious appearance" is pretty good too, you gotta admit...

@jimpjorps Somebody was going to link you to this sooner or later so it's not really my fault. O:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw7Gryt-rcc

@mawr @lorxusfavor @kelseyhusky Cripes. That is some, like, anime final episode battle stuff. Magical huskybot girl triumphs over all!

@Austin_Dern Exhibit C:

@Austin_Dern Exhibit B:

@Austin_Dern Exhibit A:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Miraculous:_Tales_of_Ladybug_%26_Cat_Noir_episodes

@Austin_Dern Basically the same thing with superheroes. It's very... French.

I'M FAAAAAAAAKE

I'M A PLASTIC REPLICA

NO REAL RACCOONS IN HERE

I HAD TO SPEND SIX DAYS IN AUTOCAD TO PRINT MYSELF A CIRCULATORY SYSTEM JUST SO I COULD GIVE YOU RABIES

STOP LUMPING ME IN WITH THE MEAT PEOPLE

NATURE IS STUPID AND BORING

IT IS THE FUTURE

EVERYTHING IS A SHINY

I PRINT MY OWN TRASH AND EAT IT

@Austin_Dern Now I wonder if you've seen any Miraculous Ladybug...

@Austin_Dern So... a series of three-minute shorts, wherein a team of spies crudely edited to NOT be wearing skintight rubber jumpsuits receives an assignment... resolves the problem offscreen... and then cuts back immediately to the debriefing.

Sounds great.

@xinjinmeng That would be "yikes."

The soundtrack for Manos: The Hands of Fate is actually pretty good.

This weekend was a big parade of depression. Granted, I missed my pills a couple of times, which couldn't possibly have helped. Also, I spent most of it trying to write, or to paraphrase Douglas Adams, "staring at a blank screen until my forehead bleeds."

Oddly chipper this morning, despite the 40 hour week awaiting me, or maybe because of it. It ain't creative, but it's well-defined and I get lots of praise for it from my inexplicably nice boss. This is still a HUGE novelty to me, after a lifetime of jobs I could only tread water at.

Life is not good but it's OK and I got this neat dragon.

@chimerror original furry sin

you should never have wished for hands

the secrets of the can opener were never meant for us sister

@Leucrotta Huh. Peg and I were talking about the 80s indie comics boom and, quote "Turtles Money" the other day and now you've got me thinking about it in that context. Interesting...

2nd biggest fear right now:

COVID-19 is contained due to good local and medical response, and never turns into a major issue. Like Y2K all over again, we beat something that WOULD have been a disaster if we hadn't dealt with it...

And Trump takes it as vindication that it was never really a threat in the first place, even if we really were in serious danger and just RESOLVED it without his bumbling "help."

And he uses it all to vindicate his conspiracy theories about Fake News and easily rides to victory in 2024 as America is, completely counterfactually, convinced he was right all along.

Or even worse: leftists are put in the posiiton of having to silent cheer for COVID-19 fatalities just to keep Trump from pulling the aforementioned shit, and we get caught at it, and they spin it into evidence that We Are Evil Plague-Bringers And Must Be Destroyed, maybe even use it to back rumors that we were spreading it on purpose Just To Hurt Poor Little Persecuted Donnie.

I don't think these are necessarily rational fears. I think there's a fair chance that we'll get through COVID-19 fine AND Trump will offer plenty of convincing evidence that he was never prepared to deal with a real public safety issue.

Just... be prepared to pivot on this one if this does turn out to, plague gods willing, fizzle.

@hystericempress It's a deal! :D

@JulieSqveakaroo Beeeen there! I started keeping a health journal for little frets like that, and it's done wonders being able to look back at all the times I did not die from eating pink turkey and all the "tumors" that turned out to be zits. n.n;