Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Sig NO! MUST BE ONE WORD! WORD ME! WORD NOW! 🐯​🐯​​​

(no, that's wonderful to hear, thank you so much 😽​ i had missed you so much when we were out of touch, so glad we found each other again <3 )

(i mean, don't get me wrong, between the top layer and bottom layer are some parts of me that really like the idea of rending some motherfucker into bloody scraps -- i am a CAT ffs -- but it's all sandwiched between parts that would be very sad to have to actually really do it)

(which is why outright psychological torture sounds like such a lovely alternative for trump apologists.)

(am cat. sorry not sorry. also are you gonna eat all of that thing you're eating)

You know what I'd really like for Christmas? A Russian psyops 101 textbook.

I am absolutely dead fucking serious. Anybody know where I can get my hands on one in translation?

I am not a violent person, deep down, but damn am I up to harm some Trumpist motherfuckers' "souls."

and yeah, to follow through on the laika bit, i thought about it and for some reason an assassin armed with a _discreet_ implement of death doesn't trigger the same reaction. i don't think i'd react the same to, say, a femme fatale noir fluttershy poisoning someone, or rainbow dash shoving a trenchcoated octavia off a bridge in downtown Bridleslava at 2 am

and i guess i did have one paramilitary character, but he didn't go much of anywhere, and he was an otter modeled after Subcomandante Marcos of the Chiapas Rebellion so i mean shame on those who would think ill of it... Arjuna was really more the "get shot at on the barricades and not care" type than the "shoot at" type anyhow.

whether arjuna was, like the good subcomandante claims in RL about him, just a hologram all along remains to be determined. it sure would explain how his plushie version ends up in such weird places.

@Phorm I know EXACTLY who you're talking about, and yeah, that's the one. Seems like a nice enough guy and, hey, I put up with Rik's military fetish for 15 years (though to be fair, Rik "likes" military imagery the same way I "like" Elder Gods, body horror, and parasitic wasps: morbid awe). But yeah, feels like it's indulging something that the Mane Six and their personalities were intentionally written to NOT represent...

@Phorm i mean given i am currently trying to revive rot13 as a way of sneaking sedition under twitter's radar <3

your kink is still ok but personally i am so weary of seeing anthro my little ponies with firearms

honestly i just feel a little weary any time i see any armed furry

this is not meant to be normative in the least; i have friends with absolutely delightful ex-mil characters and i'm not even that anti-gun in rl

it's a purely hindbrain-level aesthetic reaction and not a moral or objective judgment at all

but come to think of it, i don't think i've ever played a single soldier character, ever, that i can recall

(rez makes a big display of being a conquering empress but really a martian invasion is more just like "your goofy cousin shows up with a ton of sushi, occupies your house for four days, drinks all your booze and eats all your catnip, and goes home." the main volume of martian military doctrine is "the tiger who came to tea.")

(oh and noelle likes to dress up in rainbow pastel camouflage and run around with a paint gun making things pretty against their will, but i don't think that really counts either)

(okay and maybe laika [REDACTED] four mi-6 agents [REDACTED] bratislava [REDACTED] piano wire but come on who hasn't done a little wetwork here and there)

(ok maybe i don't have any room to judge but it's still fucking weird and dissonant seeing rarity with an mp5)

*drowns in mewling, hopping, bapping, ricocheting kittens*

"Oh, yeah. That's the stuff."

OK, it's been a weird week and I could use a little ego scritching (or affectionate teasing) from someone who's not Peggy. (She's so good at it, but's like eating red beans and beignets for every single meal, yanno? ⚜️​❤️​)

So let's do that meme I've been seeing on Birdsite: describe me in one word. You are not obliged to be excessively nice nor brutally honest.

@Austin_Dern I could almost see going for some Rosemary Toast Crunch, but it would probably have to be under some shrimp and gravy.

"The art of manipulating cats to do what you want without physical intervention, or to use the Sanskrit term, catyagraha..."

@Austin_Dern "Fenugreek Toast Crunch!?! Who would even buy that?!"

Everybody's home and back in the kittenarium, apparently none the worse for wear. There was a little bit of stress pooping and they're still a little skittish, but they're enjoying some wet food and their room is quiet except for the usual curious kitten squeaks.

I'm so relieved. Meanwhile, Shadow is next to me being a clingy little love​panther. 😻 I told her "I think I know what that means... and you're welcome. You've all been (mostly) a joy to have around."

the kids are apparently fine after their snippage and should be home in an hour or so!

@JulieSqveakaroo *dons Mr. Flibble puppet and aims hex vision in the direction of your coworkers*

shit, is it too late to change one of my answers to john mulaney?

i'm a big fan of his work but more importantly he really looks like a man who wouldn't know how to follow through on a punch

i mean i respect that, that's me, but i also like my nasal cartilage

@arilin Seriously. I am blown away that people are still using Fuzzball in 2020. This is, what, thirty year old technology? I was only briefly on f-list but I can't imagine it's aged much better...

@arilin That's exactly how I feel peeking in on Tapestries these days. *nod* It's like some kind of Final Age came upon us, and the mana cost of RP just became too much for anyone to pay. I never seriously thought I'd see textplay go out of style.

it's kind of comforting to hear testimonials that david cronenberg is a really nice guy and very canadian

i can't help thinking body horror has got to be a really therapeutic career sometimes