Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Artie spotted in attic, noisily displeased but intact.

Plan A is get her tomorrow.

@spottyfox Yeah, but you KNOW what subculture they're going to belong to... ;O

(After the way the Juggalos have come out tough against fascism lately, though, I'm... I'm fine with it honestly.)

@spacewastrel@yiff.life Thank you, seriously, the reassurances from Experienced Pet Friends are VERY helpful and everyone is morally off the hook if the worst *does* happen somehow. Artie... knew what this meant. *hug*

I might have gone a TAD too far with this one but it makes me laugh and I really need that today.

Perked up somewhat after Artie spotted this morning, by which I mean, I at least stopped physically shaking and feeling queasy.

Dealer has been summoned for an emergency delivery tomorrow. :)

But yeah, Artie was pokin' her head out as we took off for cafe, and her mews were like knives through my heart. I have ZERO resistance to her being sad. ;___;

Puttin' all my faith in Bast, Peg, and all your reassurances that she'll be OK up there. To the best of our knowledge (and contrary to my panicky helicopter-parent imaginings) there's nothing particularly dangerous in that attic, as long as we FEED AND WATER her within a day or so, and she's not *quite* dumb enough to attempt an escape leap she can't handle.

God, this fucking sucks. :O Peg was quite opposed to having Artie as an indoor cat again when/if we rescue her, but has been SUPER SUPER GOOD about accepting I will be A WRECK any day she's stuck up there, and letting me negotiate to just figure out what specifically about an Indoor Artie drives her nuts.

(We might be hitting up Cat Folk for some training advice if all goes well with the rescue. If not... well... you'll always be my hero, Artie, you stupid stupid adventure cat.)

artie confirmed alive, poked head out attic and mewed, still stuck ofc

rescue tomorrow prolly, and if she doesn't show herself when summoned i guess we just leave water and a LITTLE food and let her ponder her cat crimes in solitary a little longer

god i hate all this, i wanna get her out of that building then burn it right down

Ugh.

(life, not y'all <3 )

Also the faves and universal lack of yelling "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU" over us leaving Artie a day or two is very reassuring, thank you. That's kinda why I mentioned it, people have pushed back when we were giving up too soon on the cats in the past (e.g. The Kitten Incidents) and I rely on y'all as my moral compass. <3

Doing mentally and physically better since we confirmed Artie is alive and intact up in the neighbor's attic, at least stopped serial-retching (which I do when I'm nervous, esophageal defect), but boy would it be nice to be able to keep any food down.

Artie is alive, at least. Peggy's 98% sure she saw her poking her head out the attic window in the dark, and we heard mewing that was very similar to Artie's "WHEE LOOK AT ME"/"HELP GET ME DOWN" mews. 🙄​

Rescue attempt #1 will be made tomorrow, or at least we'll check in and consider smuggling her some food and water up there. Peg is determined to leave her there a bit to make sure she gets her lesson finally-- I'm worried about another sudden vanishing and that one being permanent, but aside from that anxiety I'm afraid she's... probaly right?

I feel terrible leaving a buddy stranded up there, but aside from my own possibly irrational terror she'll just poof, I don't think she's in any imminent *danger* up there, the attic does not seem *that* dangerously decrepit. Still feel awful about it, some part of me kinda wants to rush in and play rescue tiger immediately, but... yeah, I'm not even sure she WANTS to come down yet?

Artie was not only last spotted back up in attic but is currently AWOL, Cox cable might suspend our Internet permanently over a three-second misclick on a torrent client, I had to cancel therapy due to Panicked Cat Search, and so much for that good day I was having.

No replies necessary, wouldn't be able to process them TBH and nothing will help until things turn out OK or I know for sure they haven't and can try to deal.

playing a very dangerous game with twitter support in order to prove a point

https://twitter.com/zebratron2084/status/1490862805226041346

oh and also because it's fun to get away with publicly inciting people to shoot matt walsh

but no seriously talk radio IS a really good movie

especially the end

@LexYeen Uh... I found their Twitter and it took a really long time to find them starting to show their true colors about immigration and such, but... yeah, they're not outright fascist, but they're not the good guys. I see articles arguing for green policies and secular humanism, but a promising-at-first article about how Denmark gets social democracy "right" spends a suspicious length of time talking up immigration control and talking down Marxism. I get the impression they're trying to be Reasonable Conservatives or Sensible Neoliberals at best. Not ready to nuke them, but definitely don't see anything there worth reading.

@Phorm YES. I have not taken nearly enough time lately to honor and revere St. Sylvia the So-Done-With-Your-Shit. <3

@zx3 i read the plot summary on wikipedia and now i'm mad thx a lot ;)

@Austin_Dern I still get misty-eyed missing Archimedes Plutonium from sci.physics now and then. :|

@LexYeen *presses a button on the arm of her throne; Joe Rogan's head explodes*

Yes.

@LexYeen @001zlnv I haven't had this much fun since the Napster/Kazaa days, when I shared a copy of "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" that I retitled as a fictional Rahowa* track, "Lassen Sie den Käufer Aufpassen." ("Let the Buyer Beware.") The angry IMs from butthurt fash were top-notch.

*super nasty white-power punk band

@LexYeen @001zlnv To be fair, I have been recycling so much of my old material today, from "lol you stole all your memes from leftist-created media" to "hey, did you know that a shaved chimp is actually white-skinned and wrinkly, kinda like your Uncle Dad?" ^_____^;;