Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@monsterblue Thank you! I don't know if it's actually true since we felt every day like we had no CLUE what we were doing, but they lived and seemed happy and knew where to poop -- and their new Human Friend seems SUPER NICE -- so I guess we did okay. Glad it's over, honestly but I'm gonna miss the little guys. n.n

Holy fuck, Forrest MacNeil's dad in Review is Wojo from Barney Miller. I would have never recognized him.

We just got this from Liv and Snowy's new Human Friend. Yeah, I think they're gonna be just fine. :D

eat a football for jesus

@anthracite Ugh, don't, peppermint can also be toxic to cats. :( :( :(

With Liv and Snowy promoted to the Big Leagues, Sugarfoot is now only in a six-way tie for Best Kitty. Competition is heating up, folks, and rumor has it that Shemp is planning a day-long nap AND eating some kibble in a chancy bid to pull ahead...

@Sig I have to say: those kids turned out to be litterbox PRODIGIES. They had a little trouble with accuracy and burying stuff, but they passed Poop 101 pretty early on for kittens...

@Sig I'm so freaking relieved, honestly. It really felt like we were raising those kittens by the seats of our pants some days. I remember how DESPERATELY worried I was that they'd choke on a random bit of trash or fall six inches and hurt themselves or something... but nope, they just bumbled around for three weeks and suddenly they were cats. :) I'm so grateful to Sugarfoot and the kids for mostly raising themselves...

Just sat here looking at that recent pic of Sugar, Snow, and Liv standing on an LGBT flag and had this weird wave of satisfaction at how we're all living our lives.

I didn't have nearly the impact on furry fandom, let alone the world, that I hoped I would. But I was and still am a footsoldier in the war to keep our culture weird, humane, and otherworldly and I'm just so proud of how well it's all worked.

Now that there's a glimmer of hope we're gonna win the political struggle, maybe I'm finally able to appreciate the cultural struggle, and all the beautifully strange things we've all made in this ugly ugly world.

I spend my day with coyotes and genies and balloon people and robots. I could not be happier about this, especially given I could have very easily wound up an accountant or something -- some poor bastard with one name and one identity, Mark Zuckerberg's perfect consumer done.

But nope, I'm a giant fucking cat from Mars and it's a good day to roar extra loud.

Sugarfoot is adjusting relatively well to the kittens having moved on. She's patroled the apartment a couple of times and made a few sad mews, but has taken consolatory pettings relatively well and is about to have a snooze on the arm of the couch. I keep telling her she did a great job as mama and should be nothing but proud -- 'cause she did and she should.

Apparently these plays are deliberately loaded with internal inconsistencies and irreconcilable statements and you have to carefully compare dialogue from scene to scene to catch it all. I think I am in love.

@chimerror Visually it's very sharp, though, I like it!

I'm watching an old BBC adaptation of Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party." It's my first Pinter play, and though I was already familiar with him and what he meant, it's really stark now that like 90% of my favorite comedy is descended directly from this "comedy of menace." I love dystopias and paranoid conspiracies and existential breakdowns and whatnot. Wham City stole their whole shtick from this guy -- hell, so did David Lynch -- and I wish I knew who else does so I can give them my money.

@hystericempress I thought it was admirably bold of them to have that ultra-abrupt and fraught ending. I can see how some people could be very fulfilled by a game like this. Personally, I... it just gave me Seattle-climate flashbacks. No thanks. ;)

@hystericempress I'm all of 30 seconds into a playthrough and I'm already getting terminal Lonely Death of Got-No-Legs Boy vibes out of it...

@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. :)