Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@chimerror haha, the moment i saw your previous tweet my first thought was "wow, first nancy and now this"

i love new nancy

@hystericempress Good answers, thanks sis! If you don't mind another round of questions... Can you give me an example of a game that *really* failed horribly at this? I think I'm starting to imagine what you mean but I'd love to see an exaggeratedly bad example to really clarify, also because i'm stoned and bored :)

@hystericempress This is a really interesting distinction, though. Do you mind taking a moment to detail what separates the two? Is it, like, the arbitrariness of a badly written tragedy, the sense that the universe is just too absurdly cruel to take seriously and it keeps you from commtting to characters and their fates? 'Cause I do get that a lot, and it does really keep me from bonding with a work...

(She says as she watches a Pinter play tho'...)

"qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq"

--shadow 🐾​❤️​

#catliketyping

@JulieSqveakaroo They spent a LOT of their naptimes with all three curled up in there, especially on the nights when it was a bit tough to heat the house. It was a big relief that they had that to snuggle up in and yeah, I think it's been pretty well claimed as theirs. I think it made their last couple weeks here *dramatically* cozier. :)

@JulieSqveakaroo And I suspect the kittens should handle it pretty well, too. Kim (our neighbor) seemed very confident that he knew how to deal with kitten habits and was prepped for it. We also dropped them off with favorite toys, familiar food, and a few things that smell like them and mama both.

I hope it's OK that we gave away the cat bed you sent -- Liv and Snow adore it and I couldn't imagine not letting them keep it. It was the #1 comfort I could think of for them, full of warm memories of snuggling mom. Thank you so much for it, it really gave them a lot of comfort in their last weeks here and will hopefully do so down the street for many more years to come. <3

@JulieSqveakaroo I'm still really glad she got the closure, but so far any feline existential crisis has been postponed for nap and scritch. :) Yeah, I think she was good and ready.

@Austin_Dern Thank you! Yeah, I'm proud and honored that Bast chose us to help the little guys get a good start in life. Sugarfoot's been a pretty good mama and done so much of the work for us, though!

Went well. Neighbor sure seems like he couldn't be nicer, and he had Opinions about whether they should be indoor or outdoor cats which shows a very promising concern. He is definitely an experienced cat owner, was already ready with a litterbox and cat tree and whatnot, and was fine with arranging visits and such. I feel real good about this.

Still kinda feel like I betrayed Sugarfoot. At least she tagged along to observe the handoff, so she probably has some idea what happened. She's gonna be weird for a few days, I am sure.

Gearing up to take the kittens to our neighbor's place. Mixed feelings, as you can imagine, but god is this easier than shipping them halfway across the city to be with a total stranger.

@KinkyTurtle Aujourd'hui, Scooby Doo rencontre la star invitée spéciale Julia Kristeva.

@zx3 I mean, this is BY FAR the optimal result we're getting. Going off to a total stranger's house via an adoption charity would have been like sending them to another dimension. This is more like sending them to the local Y for Kitten Space Camp*. :)

*i.e., a space camp for kittens, not a camp for the exploration of kittenspace, although now that I think of it, it is probably also that

(Oh, by "leave for good" I mean tomorrow afternoon, assuming their new parent is going to be around! The hand-off is not tonight. I get to say a more extended goodbye tomorrow.)

@KinkyTurtle "Et j'aurais pu m'en tirer aussi, sans ces ados curieux et leur chien!"

The kids are demolishing their graduation dinner: one piece of grilled tuna and one of grilled salmon. (A whole filet of each would have been far too much, so Auntie Rez lovingly assisted them. 🐯❤️​)​ They have no clue they're about to leave home and Mama for good.

Well, "for good" except that their new home is 300 feet away and if they get lonely we can easily arrange for a visit... ^______^

The most important thing that I've learned in the last three months:

You can not push a cat.

FUN FACTS: "Ivo," Track #1 from the legendary Cocteau Twins album Treasure, was named for Ivo Shandor, head of 4Chan Records.

While numerous English lyric sheets for the song exist, they are all incorrect, as the album is sung in a mixture of languages, primarily Coptic, Kobold, and COBOL.

So beloved is this song by the goth-rock community, Robert Smith swallowed a small gelatin capsule filled with a pulverized 45 of "Ivo" while preparing for his 1988 wedding to Siouxie Sioux-Smith (OBE).

Oh yeah! Forgot to mention we finally got a hold of our neighbor down the block and he confirmed that, yes, he is definitely interested in adopting Snowshoe and Olive!

We are gonna text him in the next couple days and try to arrange a meeting, maybe see if Mama's in the mood to tag along and introduce herself.

He seems like an ideal candidate. He's got a really cozy-looking home, he's retired, he seems to be doing well for himself, he's got experience with cats, and I just got a really "sweet, good-humored guy" read off of him. And I think he's a NOLA native, which means he'll know what to do for them in a storm.

This is basically our equivalent of getting our kids into Harvard -- this is our #1 choice and could make this whole transition SO MUCH EASIER AND LESS PAINFUL.

@xinjinmeng You've run the self-care checklist, right? Including the step where weird tigers hug you over the Internet?