Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Huh.

Billy Ocean wasn't very good, was he? I mean, he wasn't very bad, either, FWIW.

I mean, apologies if I'm stepping on anybody''s favorite artist here. But to be fair, I've never encountered anyone in my entire life you was, you know, *excited* to hear Billy Ocean.

@Phorm @anthracite I'll bet in some alternate universe (or the Library of Babel), there's a Philip K Dickian conspiracy novel based on the premise that Obama himself is phishing people in their dreams, for Reasons Of Great Mystickqxal And Secret Import, and it is a *corker*.

I... I may be a bit cranky today. ​

@Phorm @anthracite Also a lot of "Uh... what the hell am I doing in high school? I graduated. I can just... leave whenever the fuck I want. I wonder if my car is still in the parking lot where I left it." (It never is.)

Though I did have one the other night where we were in a shopping mall/high school on lockdown because one of the English teachers had a gun... and Peg kept drawing attention to us by trying on BIZARRE SEXY SHINY costumes from the mall & walking around in them...

@Phorm @anthracite Honestly, mine have been pretty boring lately too. Fun boring by my standards, like "Oh, look, there's a Boston subway station I've never been to before because it doesn't exist" or "Huh, I missed my plane and have a 22 hour layover in Londontokyo, guess I'm looking for a place to eat" or "why are there twelve bongs in my closet in my parents' home, I can't even get away with using them here."

@anthracite @Phorm Er, be warned that you might end up dreaming of the following:

* chasing zero-g antelopes
* napping (memetic hazard warning: recursion)
* chasing some stupid monk off a cliff and having to watch him eat a strawberry
* sitting =behind a door waiting for some dipshit to solve a logic puzzle
* shovels, so many shovels [ask any tiger, we love those things]
* 8' tall stripey fuzzy warrior women in cyberrave gear
* geniefoxes with empty spherical plastic heads
* legal weed (sigh)

@Austin_Dern Phase One complete. ​

@anthracite @Phorm Haha, hand those over to ME. My dreams have been too quiet lately and I think my Inner Tigress is about ready to visc some spectral motherfucker...

@Phorm @anthracite Oh, darling. *hugs tight* The cosmos owes you a lot more of those, but I'm so happy you got one.

@anthracite @Phorm I've mostly just been wishing I were on fire, and able to easily set other people on fire without harm to myself. Preferably, at a range of up to 1,086 miles.

Why 1,086 in particular? Oh... no reason!

https://goo.gl/maps/naX1cvaDqXqcujVk9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JZlP_Ltzyc

It's Pride Month, but honestly...

(a) you critters are the only segment of the queer community I've ever felt remotely welcomed by

(b) I've never fit into any neat LGBT+ category

(c) Right now "in RL" I guess I'm pretty much just some cishet guy who happens to be engaged to a woman with a Y chromosome (I'm sure this shocks you all utterly), which doesn't really even qualify me as queer, certainly not by the standards of most Earnest Young Millennial And Zoomer Activists

So I don't really have much to say. Rawr, rawr, I'm a tigress. Chirr, chirr, I'm a raccoon. Most of my OCs are female for reasons I don't even really bother examining anymore. And one of my facemasks has glittery rainbow zebra stripes on it, I guess. *shrug*

I don't do much else queer anymore except for rally for queerer people and draw a comic that... should probably be much queerer, honestly, given what people are getting away with in the mainstream.

Let me know when it's Sloth, Gluttony, or Envy Month. I *know* I'm qualified for those. I'll leave this one to shinier, more colorful people than me.

Well, FWIW, I've now heard from the whitest of white America -- i.e., my Ohioan parents, who hate both Biden and Trump about equally.

Mom did the expected "listen, once you're burning down your own community it's not a protest" dance, but she did actually listen patiently to my counterarguments. And (kinda expected from a Kent State massacre survivor), she's more pissed off at the police than she is about the protests. If her reaction is any indication, yeah, the Midwest ain't necessarily buying the right's line about what's happening.

Apparently the protests are MUCH BIGGER in NE Ohio than I'd expected. Cleveland, Akron, and Canton were virtually shut down. They're also apparently missing my niece and her boyfriend's apartment in Columbus by all of a few blocks. Yikes. There was even a protest in my shithole hometown, but to my pride and astonishment, it was totally peaceful...

@hystericempress *studies it for a few minutes. nods thoughtfully, scratches some preliminaries into some tree bark, and starts hoarding binder clips, threepenny nails, tire scraps, and wads of bubblegum* Thank you! I'll let you know how it goes! ​

Keep yellin'. <3

@Leucrotta A little better, now. You have pleased my inner tigress with all your noble yellin'. <3

@hystericempress I WANNA PILOT A 40' CRAYFISH MADE OF DISCARDED OFFICE SUPPLIES ​

@Balina I got a 12-hour ban and ragequit. I'm just done with watching Trump get away with things I cant'.