Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Phorm I do actually have an insight about this from my own checkered life that I think you might find helpful. Ironically, I also don't have the time *today*. But I really want to talk to you soon. <3

@001zlnv I DID actually fall off one and hit my head when I was 4-5. Let to a lifelong fear of heights and climbing but didn't do to seem hany arm.

Hey, who's got six paws, another new managerial-level responsibility at work, a performance bonus coming in May, and a $25 per paycheck bonus for home office expenses?!? THIS MANTICORE! ​​​

@001zlnv Tried. Failed. Fell off jungle gym and woke up here. ;>

@Leucrotta And he's petting his poodle Frunobulax
And staining sheet music with black
Singing G-Spot Tornado
On the phone to potatoes
While Dinah Moe's humming out back

(That's a quote from In The Mouth of Madness. Good film. Feels relevant. Wish it didn't. Wish I didn't feel so much like a Light That Failed today. Wish I didn't know deep down in my heart that if Sutter Cane showed up at my doorstep, I'd probably invite him right in, because any magic is better than none.)

"Trent stood at the edge of the rip, stared into the illimitable gulf of the unknown, the stygian world yawning blackly beyond. Trent's eyes refuse to close. He did not shriek, but the hideous unholy abominations shrieked for him as in the same second he saw them spill and tumble upward out of an enormous carrion black pit, choked with the gleaming white bones of countless unhallowed centuries. Trent began to back away from the rip as the army of unspeakable figures twilit by the glow from the bottomless pit came pouring at him toward our world."

I can't, Trent.

I read it to the end.

Thanks for the softball, Worldle, but I'm still mad about Nauru yesterday.

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i can not fucking wait until i hear the fuck back from my therapist

i know she's swamped rt now, she's the nicest person, was SO PATIENT when one of my appointments took place DURING an Artie rescue, but...

god i need to talk to someone who isn't peg and hasn't heard all my shit a million times before and isn't mired in it with me

Current mental location: somewhere on the road between "scaring myself shitless over the studies that even mild COVID causes brain damage, because I'm not 100% sure I did the home test right and I've ALREADY probably got some dain bramage from a post-viral syndrome I got when I was 19" and "absolutely livid at the Reddit hoi polloi for not reading the goddamned article-- which says it's equivalent to about a year of extra brain aging and mostly affects the goddamn olfactory system-- and screaming OH MY GOD IT'S GONNA BE IDIOCRACY NOW"

i hate hate hate hate hate brains

this is why i was a transhumanist -- i was never some dipshit libertarian who thought Moore's Law was gonna make us wise somehow -- i just absolutely fucking want us all off this shitty broken platform, made out of wet fat and engineered for self-delusion-- as soon as possible

@anthracite Have done!

You know, I think my whole Deal with Artie -- other than the fact she's an adorable and mostly-friendly kitty-- is that she reminds me so much of me.

I know she's not really stupid. She's... she's obsessed with chasing something she doesn't quite understand. And man, if that isn't me too, little sister. 🐯​❤️​

I've joked that Artie is Peg and my moms' revenge for having to raise us. We'll never be cursed with the obnoxious "gifted" (read: "just smart enough to be a problem") children we deserve. So the Fates found a way and gave us a very "gifted" cat...

It dawned on me today that if cats have any kind of culturally native magical system, it probably revolves heavily around poo.

@JulieSqveakaroo Yeah, that is also very likely. I just know I brushed the outside of the test strip faintly with my finger because I twitched just as I was finishing up. Still, I am triple-vaxxed, so yeah, it's also very plausible that it's something else AND I fucked the test up. :)

Artie on ground for dinner.

COVID test negative, though there are very high odds I screwed up the test. I always do -- there's a reason I didn't become a scientist.

Fun day! Caught COVID, developed a massive (related?) lip sore out of nowhere, went frantic over a missing Artie, and ended up mapping out the whole of our exneighbor's (now completely abandoned) house (while sick!). At least rescuing Doofus Cat gets a lot easier now...

She's currently on the ground with us. Yeah, the board our neighbor kindly put up before he moved out did nothing. But he left enough doors unlocked that we now have full reign of the place, at least until the landlord cares this place exists again.

So we haven't finished the quest, we just got a new quest. It's harder in some ways, but we have more time to do it in -- and rescuing Artie from the attic is just a matter of climbing up some stairs and snatching her up.

@anthracite Weren't you just sayin' something about how you never give me any free art? :D

@JulieSqveakaroo And Peebs has spent the last two hours contentedly napping, so I think it's pretty safe to conclude she didn't get any Hyper Juice at all thankfully!

@chimerror And I'm chuffed because Diego Garcia was a HUGE running joke for me in high school, for the aforementioned reasons. :D