Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

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@monsterblue Never mind that, I've never tried this "fuckening" you speak of...

(Of course, Mike's is a character voice, not an authorial voice. So it's entirely fair to interpret that denialism as "1408 was blatantly reflecting my own emotions back at me, and as a Hard-Drinking Masculine Stephen King Protagonist, my own feelings are the most alien and incomprehensible thing in the universe..."

(Er, that should be "sapient and responsible" up there. 1408 was pretty irresponsible. :) )

So, one of my favorite horror critics on Youtube revisted 1408: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9LWCTtqxZ0

And he reminded me of an obsession I have with this story, specifically "Why the fuck didn't anyone ever try to TALK to this obviously sapient, responsible, and above all, EMOTIONAL entity?!?"

So I wound up on the Wiki page for the original King story, and found this summary that I think is both very telling and utterly gobsmacking:

Mike Enslin concludes, "There are no ghosts in 1408, because ghosts were once merely humans, while the entity he encountered was horrifically inhuman."

WHAT.

The story supports that, too. The direct quote is, "It was never human... Ghost... at least ghosts were once human. The thing in the wall, though... that thing..."

This makes zero sense to me. The entity in 1408 spoke to Mike. It understood his emotions well enough to exploit them. It understood cause and effect. It understood irony. Hell, one could argue it was _therapeutic_ for him, at least in the adaptations where he survives!

There is nothing at all "inhuman" about 1408 except for its power. It's so obvious, at least to me, that there was a MIND there. And yet everybody from critics to KIng himself insists it was fundamentally inhuman.

Because it was cruel and vindictive?! That sure sounds human to me.

@chimerror

(*my 🦄​sona swoons at the very thought and goes to look for her girlfriend/mistress*)

Why can't my ear fungus be like THIS?

https://hypnohub.net/pool/show/4337

@CorvusRobotica That sounds like a great vacation!

@balinares sadly this is paradoxical because this city's most outrageous cake is Brennan's Black and Gold King Cake, which is only available from... what, @anthracite, Epiphany to Mardi Gras? So it will never be available for my birthday! And the second most outrageous cake is its glittery pink sister on the right, here: https://www.brennansneworleans.com/press-releases/we-three-king-cakes/

But I will find you the third most outrageous cake. My mobility is still a bit limited, but my cake-hunting skills are as sharp as ever, and I've figured out it lives either here or here:

https://www.bittersweetconfections.com/

http://bakery.bar/

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@Phorm Don't you dare question my ability to pick the finest most worthwhile messes. <3

it's my birthday, tomorrow's a major patriot holiday, i've discovered there are at 40 different versions of the Ieva Polkka (aka "leekspin"), and I'm going to leave every single one of them on Marjorie Taylor Greene's answering machine by the end of the weekend.

@KinkyTurtle Oh charmed I'm sure!

I love sincerely complimenting my opponents in the middle of a Twitter brawl. Confuses the shit out of them.

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” -- probably not Oscar Wilde

Oh, that's right, I'm vaccinated! Soon as I get over this ear thing and regenerate my cash reserves, I can rent a car and go make fun of Texas in person!

I've been waiting for this for a long time. I owe Texas a LOT of mockery, on behalf of all my friends who had to flee it.

Fascitas!

https://boingboing.net/2021/07/02/fascism-and-fajitas-have-the-same-etymological-roots.html

Some of those guys have excellent marbling. Say what you want about Brett Kavanaugh. He's got what we Martians call "grillin' thighs." I'll bet they'd go great on a gordita with some charro beans and cotija. 🐯​

https://boingboing.net/2021/07/02/fascism-and-fajitas-have-the-same-etymological-roots.html

@xinjinmeng I should have explicitly specified that food pics were at LEAST as good as cute animal pics, although admittedly there is considerable overlap there. 🐯​

@JulieSqveakaroo Crime Bear and Bunny! Together they... um... unfight crime!

@001zlnv 10/10 <3

@monsterblue Oh, now THAT'S the good stuff. <3 <3 <3

@Phorm Hey, little dude! <3 <3 <3 Thank you, fox. That's perfect.