Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Great General Champawat
Great Admiral Richard Parker*
Great Engineer Tippu Sahib
Great Merchant Sasha ​🎄​🎁​
Great Prophet Hobbes
Great Scientist Tony**
Great Writer Baihu
Great Artist Montecore
Great Musician Daniel

*i was so proud of this one 😺​
**hey nutrition is a real science 😾​

@Phorm You know that classic adventure movie moment where the protagonist knocks on the door of the Grizzled Old Retired Company Man's door and says "Open up, motherfucker, I need you!"

And the GORCM cracks the door and says, "You evil bastard, I left the game. I told you I never wanted to see your ugly face again." And then the protagonist says, "<Name> is in trouble." And then GORCM opens up the door and beams, "<Name?> Fuck, you should've said. There's gas in the truck. Let's roll," and he's already got his bandolier and rifle on?

Yeah, You're our <Name>, Phorm. *HUG*

@xinjinmeng The Fincher one? I've been RIGHT on the verge of breaking down and seeing it for years-- the issue is that I know the big spoiler and I've been afraid that'll make it less fun. But if it's good, I'd be willing to give it a shot anyhow...

@Phorm She's not a bad little vixen.

All she needs is a little love.

*decorates you with ribbons and tinsel and stars and colored lights*

Love you lots, sweetheart. You're not alone in spirit.

@JulieSqveakaroo ohhhh shit -- most of the whole STATE?!?!

Hey.

Um.

I just wanted to do one good deed this year.

So I'm awarding my victory in the 2022 Little Drummer Boy Challenge to @Soreth. I will be listening to David Bowie's version now, as a symbolic gesture of transfer.

Merry Christmas, Ms. Dragon. <3

*throws up hands* Fuck it. Tim and Eric. We're doing Tim and Eric. I am literally so twisted up inside right now that it's the only media I can digest. It's a zero-poignance emergency diet, like one of those scrub-root poverty foods that poisons you just a little but at least you won't die.

@001zlnv @anthracite oh my god you're right, cuteness was NOT a side benefit i expected from this book <3

@DifficultToTame PiZzA... bUt NoT lIkE yOu KnoW iT... nOt LiKe YoU kNoW iT...

Started watching Secret Window because I'm bored and it was there. Saw the dog and thought "Huh, they're giving that dog a lot of attention. Dammit, are they setting up a Sacrificial Pet?"

Checked on DoesTheDogDie.com. Was right. Closed the browser.

I'm not one of those people who's super-sensitive about these things -- at least, not unless I'm actively anxious about the cats for whatever reason.

But FUCK do I hate emotional manipulation, and I can usally tell when a film is about to do lazy shit for a cheap tearjerk. No thanks.

Good riddance, Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 46% anyway. Can someone recommend a GOOD thriller in a similar vein, that DOESN'T sacrifice a pet-- or FFS, an otherwise totally plot-superfluous woman, LOOKING AT YOU HERE DAVID FINCHER YA SHITBIRD-- so they don't have to bother establishing any real tension?

trying to put myself back together by watching numberphile videos

math is comforting to me

at least some things are both beautiful and eternal

@Leucrotta *FORCES self not to make a certain Eric Cartman reference*

@001zlnv i mean it couldn't hurt, sounds better than my FIFTH playthru of the 10-hr strong bad email compilation

Welp, mom finally dropped the Poignance Bomb I was braced for. We talked about what happens if my stepdad doesn't make it through the year, which is not at all impossible.

Rough conversation. We talked about how many of his friends he's lost in the last few years, including my mom's brother, his own brother, his own dad, and his son/my brother Matt, who was an amazing kid and we all miss the shit out of. ;___;

And it hurt a lot, honestly, because... it's like... how do you tell your mom "YES OK BUT I KNEW THIS ALREADY BECAUSE I HAVE CHRONIC ANXIETY AND DEATH TRAUMA LEFT OVER FROM DAD SO UM I KINDA PONDER THESE THINGS 5-6 TIMES ON A NORMAL DAY."

It's funny, mom was back to full good humor 20 seconds after we finished talking, and that just makes me feel worse, because... god, it reminds me she just has to live immersed in this every day. And I feel powerless and horrible, all reminded that EVERY story on this miserable planet ends with a tragedy and I'm gonna lose EVERYONE someday.

I could use... anything. Anything. I'm reeling. I dunno. Anything you can offer.

"i want you to find the son of a bitch who ran this beautiful, soft young man through the douchifier and bring me his head"

@anthracite oh god i'm sorry

mostly about seeing the matrix but also the other thing i guess

(srsly, mine always recuperated after like 5-10 minutes tops-- but i know yours has been having weird battery issues to start with? gl hun, hope it's ok!)

@Austin_Dern (sadly this image is not accurate because i am the only tiger for 15 miles* -- as recently noted, my parents are a bear and a moose, and i left my adopted son Poori back in NOLA :) )

*by the grace of the Noah's Lost Ark sanctuary in Berlin Center :)

@Austin_Dern the empress* is pleased with your subtoot

"i'm whatever the disappointed equivalent of impressed is"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs-jXgNHW7Y

miss you pretty dragon lady <3