Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@woozle This freakin kid is amazing.

https://twitter.com/ewintang/status/1349197768074514432

@anthracite Another fine example, somehow, of why I love you.

Oh, and we saw the kittens' new dad yesterday! He just seems like such a good, warm-hearted guy, and we had another great converation about local history and politics.

The kittens weren't interested in coming out to visit but they're apparently still doing great! Only thing to note is that they've been nicknamed "Wilykit and Wilykat," which is HILARIOUS since even after all the trouble to give Olive a unisex name after mis-sexing them... they're still named after a catgirl. Their dad didn't even know they used to be Olivia, never mentioned it. XD XD XD

Yanno, I should really go back to being a raccoon for a while. Could be pretty therapeutic, embodying someone with an innate sense of "It's amazing that we've even got THIS, isn't this trash great?"

Someone who is intensely aware life is just one disease after another, there's nothing you can do about it, and just being alive and uneviscerated is pretty good, plus everything is a potential toy.

I shifted into zebra for three reasons: (1) needing a figurehead for a libido revival I was hoping would be MUCH larger (2) embarrassment over username dissonance (3) just really needed to put some space between me and felinity after all the kitten trauma.

And I just ain't feelin' it. No point in playing the drunk pretty horny wastrel when the bars are closed, I've got no sex drive, can't afford anything to dress up in, and don't feel pretty in the slightest.

But a just-fat-enough just-happy-enough scavenger feels pretty much right. Time to hunt for those old Kirsch icons-- or maybe create a new self who *doesn't* constantly get mistaken for a red panda.

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(Oh, that truncated bit was going to be about having to run interference between our worst, touchiest annotators and our nitpickiest, rudest reviewer. -__- )

Can't shut the cat anxiety off. It's always running. Someday maybe I'll have known them long enough and gone long enough without a disaster that I can stop constantly fretting.

They seem pretty happy today, though-- the closest thing to Cat Drama is that Peebles DESPERATELY wants back inside for a ninth(!) playtime. Oh, and I took her feather away. Neosporin was involved in the aftermath. She's still a good kitty. :)

Otherwise, yeah, the general malaise is still wearing deeply at me. Most of my friends seem bummed for one reason or another, the apparent consensus is that the country's stuck in a holding pattern before it gets worse again, and I'm just... stuck every day, trying to find some aspect of my culture I'm not low-grade allergic to.

Everything is boring. Except work, which has been a little too interesting, with a string of really bad, delicate, difficult evaluations to write. I'm currently stuck running a lot of interference between the

And seeing my whole stimulus, assuming we ever get one, getting eaten up by taxes has been demoralizing. Though here too I am SO MUCH LUCKIER than everybody else. I didn't need it, it was just a Royal Road back to having some savings and getting to buy some nice stuff for once. I get to do it the honest way now, I guess. *shrug*

New Orleans is still very pretty and Peggy is still very patient so as long as they and the cats stay intact, I guess things are okay. I can't stop thinking about what will happen someday when they're not. I should probably be in therapy, but there's just no fucking way I'm going to have the energy to set that up until we're back to something like normal.

@Austin_Dern So "Williams Street"/[a d o l e s c e n t s w i m] basically?

@balinares No but I've definitely made a note to go look! Got a link handy hun? Thanks a lot!

Huh. Well, that's an interesting surprise.

https://www.comicon.com/2021/03/02/webcomic-weekly-parallax-a-tale-of-two-perspectives/

Pretty good review all in all, especially given that the pacing and clarity the reviewer mentions are a Known Issue.

Guess that clinches it, no matter how cynical I'd gotten over it, Parallax has potential. We just gotta figure out how the hell to fix and somehow find the time and focus to actually *do* it.

@JulieSqveakaroo Thank you, sweetie, it helps a lot to hear from Those Who Cat. <3

@Phorm @001zlnv but if you enter "452" it opens straight into thomas dolby's living room

@Leucrotta OH SHIT, I'd forgotten about the awakened labor droid subplot AND the personality-merging plots. :D

@Leucrotta Oh, here's the premiere miniseries! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNjsPwR8Apo

@Leucrotta Probably also really early example of a solid story arc in an adventure cartoon, no earlier one really comes to mind

@Leucrotta Chung designs for a futuristic version of the old comic hero. Number one best portrayal of real genre cyberpunk on Sat morning tv. Sincere ecofable elements (and some unfortunate white savoir stuff they couldnt quite scrub off the original property). Really REALLY good lead villain too, with remarkably realistic personal and political motives that actually MAKE SENSE. Criminally underrated.

@Leucrotta Just outta curiosity, did you ever get to see any Phantom 2040?

Peebles started panting after a strenuous play session, which is apparently not that abnormal but of course the first source I found online decided to scream IMMINENT CAT DOOM in contradiction to every single other source.

She also has a warm nose, which is apparently not a real sign of illness? And Sugarfoot was making hacky noises last night and there was a little bit of kitty barf on the porch this morning. (I won't go into the details but it evidently wasn't the "bad kind.") Also, our elderly neighbor has a tendency to leave out filthy crusted-up bowls and cans of wet food for them which is REALLY starting to annoy me.

I love these guys but lately what it's really been is an inroad for all my old hypochondria to sneak right back in the door. I had learned to deal with my own little health twitches, but worrying about THESE little dudes gets right past all my defenses.

It's gonna be like this for years before I learn to relax, isn't it.

@fineursine I've heard Peruvian-Chinese is kinda its own genre, though, isn't it? The whole Chifa thing? I've been dying to try that, too.

@fineursine Oh, I didn't say GOOD wonton soup is listless. I just said BASIC wonton soup is listless. :)

Remember, I grew up in OHIO, so I've had some very bland Chinese food in my life. :) But I also lived in Boston for a while, so I've also had some very, very, very good Chinese food.

I've never had wonton soup to write home about, but I have definitely had good comforting wonton soup. I'm also kind of a chili-head and tend not to chase after something non-spicy when there's a spicy option!

Manchow chicken is a lot like that, I'll share a recipe if I find one that hits the same notes as the one I ordered!

ouch, that's a big mood

if you know the show, you know why this is completely agonizing, well done D: