Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Or, restated: "You know, Rez, no matter what happens, you're gonna end up the exact same kind of dead in ~40 years regardless. It's not like there are better and worse kinds of dead. Might as well jump straight into the muck and fight some monsters for laughs."

ME: "Dawn, the world is really fucked up right now. How the hell do I persist through this?"

DAWN: "Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.…"

1 QUERENT: Tower
2 CONDITION: 5 of Pentacles
3 PAST: 9 of Cups
4 PRESENT: Lovers
5 FUTURE: Maya
6 WORLD: Ace of Pentacles
7 SELF: 4 of Cups
8 OTHERS: 6 of Cups
9 FEELS: Chevalier of Swords
10 THEME: King of Cups
10 THEME:

I'd like to coin the term "gavel cram": the reaction of any reasonable judge to one of Trump's scammy electoral fraud cases.

@JulieSqveakaroo What the pfarge did you jast forchin' say about me, you armless little barch? I'll have yas know I gradjitated top of my class in the Norvy Sorrls! I've been invorved in norminous sorcret raids on Al... Al... wait a minute, there... this one's gonna hurt...

AL-QGHJAIEAIDAEEEERRRT!

@Leucrotta Olive and Snowy have tiny snoots. <3

@JulieSqveakaroo @anthracite You know. The Power Pins. Best known for their hit single "86 Lines About 43 Women."

i assembled some kitty pics for a thread elsewhere. might as well show you the clan!

https://imgur.com/a/2QeKHuZ

@Leucrotta i'm on board! *waves ticket*

headpreg

@Phorm Now you've got me thinking about pasta with Saturnian Hypnosquid ink...

@troodon here, this should clear it up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McvYu2e2zkw

i am prone to panic at the faintest sign of a crisis, and that has been making kitten-rearing a bit of a trial

so for my own sanity i have basically set a ground rule for myself:

any *single* mew or cry from the cats, with no followup, can be safely interpreted as just "hello yes i am a cat am i currently eligible for any prizes please"

and thus ignored

liv, snowy, if i had anything left that you haven't already knocked off my bookshelves, i'd be giving it to you

current mood:

i want to wave a handgun in a Trump voter's face while rambling angrily at him about how i read on facebook that bullets are fake and don't really kill people and they can stop overreacting because even if i did accidentally pull the trigger -- which never really happens -- they'd probably be fine and after all more people die of the flu each year than from being shot five times in the groin so facts not feels and would you please get over yourself

let's see how they like it

i just ran into the biggest classist piece of shit stereotypical STEM ex-mil dickbag on reddit

and i just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone here with a science or engineering career for being so queer and sensitive and emotionally intelligent and respectful towards those of us in the liberal arts

i.e., the exact opposite of this dipshit walking fedora

@Leucrotta If it's any consolation, I have developed almost PRECISELY the same aversion to yoga for the exact same reasons. It's like it's the #1 go to for people who want to give you ph/mh advice but don't actually want to listen to your problems in any detail at all.

the church of the subgenius got a lot of things wrong but damn if they weren't dead right about the "conspiracy of the normals" -- the theory that the "conspiracy" is just the result of all the stifling, visionless decisions made by neophobes who won't do introspection or self-criticism

i tried to tell y'all this back in the LJ days but people just called me an elitist and assured me that the typical, oh say, Republican voter was surely a very deep and sensitive human being with a rich inner mental life and vast wells of compassion we only haven't tapped because we're so different.

i was _completely_ wrong about the idea that this quality correlates with social class, hobbies, or even is necessarily limited to one part of the political spectrum. and i also failed to take into account that this mentality was something clearly THRUST upon most of these people by interested sociopolitical forces.

still. i still believe there is something very different between people who cultivate a rich intellectual and emotional life -- yes, including some of the shit that we do with identity and narrative, that was the whole point -- and those who don't, and the latter is the biggest active threat to humanity, even if they themselves comprise the bulk of it.

it's 2020 and i just can't bring myself to repent of this idea.

@Balina god, the nostalgia sting was awful here, too. <3 the internet was just so much... cozier then *sigh*