Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

This image and its caption are AGONIZING for me.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/39407852/

For a long time I was living in a situation -- I won't bother saying with whom -- where something like this, some *active* assistance with my gender and self-image stuff -- was constantly being promised, and every specific request I made was totally ignored.

In retrospect I suspect it's because my idea of what I wanted didn't match the very conventional full-transition path they had planned out for me.

But really, this is all I ever wanted. A little help with hair, clothes, and makeup and a little fucking emotional support.

@spacewastrel@yiff.life EMINENTLY valid opinion. It has some very good traits and some absolute deal-breakers.

also i have a splitting headache and the cats are actually being quiet so i'm taking a long fucking nap

guess i'm catching up on my day job over the weekend...

Today the amount of time I thought I was looking directly at a deceased human was non-zero.

Yeah.

We saw someone passed out on the sidewalk on our way home from the cafe. Their eyes were wide open and we couldn't see them breathe at first.

We called 911 and a few neighbors were gathered around to keep an eye out. By the time the ambulance got there, he was talking and moving a little, so we're greatly relieved.

Best of luck, guy who probably at #306. Poor dude had a pair of glasses and a smart phone nearby, and a jacket tucked under his head, so he probably knew something was going wrong.

@spacewastrel@yiff.life To be fair, there was a "Doofus Rick" reference in Rick and Morty that came rrrrrreal close to crossing the line imho, but there was also a full portrayal of an arguably mentally disabled character (by fucked-up Rick standards) happening there...

That's not *quite* why I don't watch the damn show anymore, but it's... adjacent to the reasons.

@JulieSqveakaroo "I already told you, I don't want to be called that any more! I MADE A MISTAKE!"

(naturally it should go without saying that if you *actively* mock or shame anyone for *actually* having continence issues, you're a far, far bigger piece of shit than anyone complaining about "Diaper Dan" on Twitter and I don't wanna know *you* either, but I don't think that could ever apply to anyone I know here... and I'm willing to double and triple down that THIS ISNT WHAT THAT FUCKING HASHTAG IS ABOUT)

@spacewastrel@yiff.life For the longest time I believed that Rik and I were the ONLY tourists the PdP had ever had. XD Are you perhaps the third, then? :)

oh this goes decatuple if your Objectively Correct Woke Moral Proclamation revolves around a space, hyphen, or word order

and that is not to say that those differences *can't* matter -- it's that maybe just maybe the connotations you apply to those things aren't universal or objective after all, and just maybe not everybody's gotten the memo yet that This Is How We're Doing It Now.

or maybe they have a valid reason why it's ok in that context, because THAT'S HOW WORDS WORK -- above all this comes down to the fact I cut my philosophical teeth on post-structuralist philosophy.

word are not magical sigils of power that pull energy exclusively from, say, The Primordial Plane of Ableism -- they are contingent and contextual and slippery by their very nature.

my personal experience tells me that trying to treat words like they're very cut-and-dried little units of Perfect Meaning is not only inaccurate, it's fucking dangerous, probably responsible for a solid plurality of Bad Human Ideas.

i've said it before: having a idealized world where there's zero possibility for linguistic "harm" due to an unpleasant connotation is like having a world where everything is perfectly sterilized of all microbes. you're just gonna give everybody an allergy, you absolute fucking doofus.

is doofus canceled yet? can i still say doofus?

i seem to be in "how many followers can i lose today" mode over on birdsite and i regret absolutely fucking nothing

getting real tired of random Woke People issuing linguistic proclamations to the rest of the world. criticize, yes. debate, yes. appeal to our humanity, yes. absolutely. things like ableism and queerphobia really do exist and language really can be very damaging.

but tell us What All We Now Must Never Do And Say because you (all one of you) got together one morning with a burr up your ass and decided to proclaim your Objective Moral Revelation to the world, honestly i'm just gonna either block you or eat you depending on my mood

awww dammit twitter won't let you report your own tweets XD

my favorite ex just told me they are off to "go play legos" with their current partner-or-whatever and the sheer nerd wholesomeness of this entire interaction even being possible warms my heart

"It's... it's like the Place du Portage in Ottawa ate Cthulhu and shat itself."

I should really put some more effort into "building" and getting to know my new persona for handing Cat Stress and related issues.

I've finally got a hazy identity starting to form for her. Her name is "Brill" -- as in the type of fish, a weak pun on the fact she was inspired by encountering a beautiful sweet dog named "Oyster" -- and like Oyster, she's an Aussie shepherd.

Personality so far is somewhere between Applejack, Buffy Summers, and Shreve (that saint of a rancher who raised the late, much missed Charlie the Coyote of dailycoyote.net).

She's slightly punky, brusque, and ruthless in the nicest damn "OK honey that's nice but you still gotta get up and do it" way. She's already been in my head, though not quite in the control booth, a couple of times during recent Cat Issues -- she was especially helpful while we were rounding the kids up for Snippage.

I look forward to knowing her. Maybe I'll be in a position to introduce her someday. She'd probably enjoy getting to run around in someone's RPG world and boss people around for their own good. Arf arf arf arf arf arf arf get the fuck back in that pen stupid sheep. XD

@mxsparks They are the latter for certain. I am not so sure about the former. XD They're... they're about as good as 7-week-old kittens can really be expected to be, and while I'm VERY concerned about their mama apparently going into heat today, she has also been REALLY helpful and just a real good Cat Mom through the whole process. <3

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If any of y'all with a Birdsite account could go vote in this poll, I'd be really gratified.

https://twitter.com/CatAndAHalf/status/1332381201559064576

I'll be perfectly honest: if your choice is somehow actually "Leninism," not only would I prefer you keep it to yourself, but you might want to sidle away from me slowly because we're probably gonna end up enemies someday. I took too many history courses in school to be with you on this one. :(

You know. Like this absolute fedora-brained dimfuck. Feel free to take a shot at him, I think I've already got him pinned.

https://twitter.com/contrarianski/status/1332365588828655622

every time i inform a conservative "contrarian" that einstein was a socialist, i grow a new stripe

someday i will be all stripe and that megastripe will rise up and devour the corporate state

so help me out here -- link this EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. you see someone trying to conflate Scandinavian-style social democracy with Bolshevism

https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/