Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Phorm Well-played, geniefox. I had to look Mr. Spirograph there up. Touché. *hug*

@Phorm I love ya, fox, but...

Fuck, trollbots and propagandists make me see red. I don't have much on my ethical scorecard, but dammit, intellectual integrity is something I've fought for tooth and claw since I was old enough to read.

Well, at least, old enough to read the Illuminatus! Trilogy. So, around eleven. XD

I have been having a lot of fun exposing these people and their tactics. It's been the best thing about going back to Birdsite, honestly. But it's not enough.

What the fuck are we going to do, folks? Traditionally most of my friends have been of the "don't feed the trolls" mentality, but that's clearly not stopping them from reproducing.

You know what I really want to do? Up our cultural production quotas. Dramatically. Get real fucking weird real fucking fast. You Neptunian types and identity hackers are on the right track. It might be time to fight fringe culture with fringe culture.

There are no limits now. I don't see any further reason to be nice. Our culture SCARES people like Vladimir Putin and Mitch McConnell. It's something they can't understand and can't control. And I want to weaponize that into something so radically, existentially queer it makes their hearts explode.

So where do we go from here? How do we gaslight the gaslighters? What can we crapflood the QAnons with that's so bizarre even they won't have a dismissal tactic for it?

@Balinares It's far, far better than anything based on a Filmation property has any right to be. :) It's not without flaws, but it's a VERY solid science-fantasy adventure with worldbuilding and character development on par with Faust-era MLP. Also, Catra in a tuxedo is the hottest single entity to have ever existed in any universe.

#HeyAdora

Honestly? I really hope Catradora does NOT happen. I really frown on cartoons teaching people friendship is magic and all you have to do is put your heart in the right place and everyone will be friends. That's not how it works.

I love Catra. Catra is right about many things. Catra has also completely lost her shit. Even if she regains her shit*, she probably won't ever be a healthy partner for Adora.

They can be friends--and it's probably better that they PART as friends for a few years while Catra gets her footing and attends some School For Bad Kitties, somewhere ELSE, with NEW friends. I'd love to see Catra go back to the Crimson Wasteland with Scorpia, where her fury can have *valid* targets and do some good, and wreck shop together for a couple years.

(*For you Disco Elysium fans, this will of course require a Fecal Retrieval Algorithm.)

Weirdly, though, the Entrapdak ship doesn't rub me the same way. I guess it's kinda for the same reasons ultimately Peg and I get along where Kristy and I couldn't. Peg just isn't fazed at all by my own Catra side. Speaking as a junior at the New Orleans School For Bad Kitties myself... Entrapta would probably be a good, calm influence on Hordak; the same could probably NOT be said for Adora and Catra.

Scorpia, though? Maybe. I think I might actually be rooting for Scorpatra. Or whatever the kids are calling it.

I don't know about any of you, but my plans for the evening are basically run around screaming "OH MY GOD SHE-RA SEASON FIVE PREMIERES TOMORROW MORNING" for the next eight hours then stay up all night binging it the moment it hits Netflix.

@arilin Hey, if you need any tips on that, Peg and I have been doing more or less 5–8 with our respective arts since the epidemic started! *stircrazy forced smile*

^____________^

OK, to hell with sober rational avenues of protest. Let's all pick one Republican senator, and get as many people as possible to call their office on the same day and tell them, verbatim, "Go cram a scorpion up your nose."

Will it change the world? No.

Will it waste a bit of their time as they try to figure out why this *specifically* is happening to them? Possibly.

Will it give me a moment of passing amusement in this third-rate Groundhog Day ripoff? Almost certainly.

@hummingrain GOD DAMMIT. DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT.

See, I have this "gift" for making puns that I DON'T KNOW I'M MAKING. I can't seem to ever do it on purpose, but...

cc: @emanate, who will vouch for this

@hummingrain I'm sorry, I consider you a dear friend, but my revolutionary underdog sentiments oblige me to root for the potatoes. Technically, um, you *are* the oppressor in this situation... 😽​

@001zlnv [🐯​] Aren't we, though? *naps*

[🐯​] *feels called out*

*starts Pilates in the morning[1]*

https://www.instagram.com/bu2ma_ins/?igshid=1io1nhey7fwbe

[1]actually just eats an entire ham for breakfast and curls back up with dragon in bed

@Austin_Dern *high five*

ONE damn thing I've gotten right about being an adult...

@Austin_Dern Haha, fuckin' Random. I'm insatiably curious whatever happened to that colossal bleephead. I ain't even mad, it seems pretty obvious my team won that one. XD

(I did the math. ~61,300 calories. For reference, the ballpark LD50 I found for sucrose is 21,000 calories.)

GOZER THE GOZERIAN: "Choose and perish."

ME: . o O 💭​(https://www.lindtusa.com/milk-and-orange-lindor-truffles-800-pc-case-859715cs--1)

GOZER THE GOZERIAN: The choice is made! The traveler has come.

https://twitter.com/Pandamoanimum/status/1252344307639447552

just trust me

[🐯​]: As always, tigers are the sole exception to the above. You should educate yourself about tigers and learn all that you can about their winning smiles, boundless good natures, incomparable beauty, warm soft bellies, and indisputable majesty. I recommend that you start with the Gospel According To Saint Hobbes: https://calvinandhobbes.fandom.com/wiki/G.R.O.S.S.#Password Do not educate yourself with anything that says bad things about tigers. You should also learn as many ways as possible to prepare tuna and salmon, and be prepared to do so at anytime.

Using the phrase "educate yourself" in any context is a good way to make me dislike you. I won't mute you. I won't fail to balance it against any good traits you have. But I will be intensely suspicious of you for a while, because as far as I'm concerned, it translates precisely to "Why can't you just make sense and _agree_ with me? Are you seriously going to make me have to make my argument _myself_?!?"

Nobody who uses that phrase is EVER happy when someone does go study an issue... and just comes back with a more sophisticated argument for why they disagree. :p

This isn't a subtoot or anything. Nobody here has committed that offense recently. But it came up on birdsite, and it reminded me how instantly it can sour me on someone's opinion, even if I agree with it.

Good day today, spent mostly in the park chatting on the phone with my endearingly obnoxious mom, while sprawling a few feet away from Peg.

The general serenity of the day was marred only by an encounter with poor Shemp, who through no fault of his own is still enduring a long and difficult bout of being a cat. My heart goes out to him and his loving partner, Jingly Man On Stick, in this difficult time. :'(

#HALP
#AM_CAT
#WAT_DO
#HOW2KAT??
#WHO_AM_SHOMP
#FLOP