Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@balinares Christ.

Yeah.

Yeah. *hug*

I'm really glad I toughed it out and unapologetically got an education in "what are you going to do with THAT?!?"

@Austin_Dern (although I've known some very nippy scratchy "Safety" Cats in my time, so maybe not all that safe... 🔫​🐇​)

@Austin_Dern This further reinforces my impression that bunnies are basically just Safety Cats. :D

That's two consecutive days now that I've gotten an eyelash caught under my eyelid and successfully flushed it out within 10 minutes.

I feel like this might be the Big Adulting Success I'd desperately been needing. 😅​

It just dawned on me that a good chunk of what's wrong with MST3K Seasons 11+ could be fixed with one simple change:

Replace Rebecca Hanson with Leslie Hall, the absolute goddess who sang "Tight Pants/Body Rolls."

GPC needs to be FABULOUS, gosh dang it.

I feel like Rebecca Hanson doesn't sing showtunes on a regular basis. If she's not going to babble about Richard Basehart dummies, GPC needs to at least be the kind of gal who'd break out into showtunes.

It's great that they've taken away her mental blocks. But now she needs to be played by someone passionate -- someone you could believe might, at any given moment and despite her massive intellect, accidentally eat her microphone.

Hanson's GPC is just too damn sane.

@monsterblue

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@001zlnv Haha, you're only the 2nd person to draw her with the Psycho Colors Peg gave her. :D

I honestly meant Unicode so I can use it on Twitter but this is AWESOME. :D

Martian Day of Just Bring Me A Transphobe, Any Goddamn Excuse Whatsoever, and Steak Sauce.

Psycho jungle cats from space got your backs, friends.🐯

I really, really, REALLY want a tinfoil hat emoji.

@zx3 happy manufacture <3

quiet you jerks artie is trying to nap <3

tbh i never quite forgave the internet for dragging the term "sapiosexual"

i can see how it would come off as pretentious but i was good friends with one of the people who had a pretty solid claim to coining the term

he was a nice guy --

by which i actually mean a decent person --

so screw all y'all</strongbad>

@JulieSqveakaroo @xinjinmeng o/` in the heart of America...

Been stressing myself out pretty bad over the impending confrontation with the landlord next door, the one who owns the building Artie likes to sneak up into.

But I did some refresher research and confirmed: yes, our buddies have some legal rights. Louisiana and Orleans Parish law both draw a clear distinction between unsocialized "feral" cats and socialized "community" cats -- and we are EXPLICITLY allowed to feed and care for the latter!

And if he calls animal control, they will shrug and say they can't do a thing except neuter and release them.

The one potential hitch, and I'm almost happy about it -- as their caretakers, we are legally liable for any damage the cats do. But you know, I'm kinda fine with this. They've never caused the faintest harm to our place. The worst I suspect they've done over there is poop. :P

Still worried on general principles of having to talk to a disapproving adult who thinks having property makes him an authority figure, even if he's COMPLETELY IGNORANT of the actual laws. >_< But this is a much better position to fight from, especially if I can get their original caretaker to vouch that, yes, these are Someone's Beloved Kitties.

The ONE good thing in all this... at least it turned out that I neither blew out my eardrums from trying to clear my eustachian tubes, nor did I accidentally overdose on my ear drops, both of which I'd been afraid of. Nope, I adulted just fine-- my infection is just good old fashioned cruel fate and genetic misfortune.

Meh, sorry I've been quiet lately.

Got my yearly nightmarish ear infection. It happens every year after my first cold/flu, it's a different cause every time, and it's usually a 3-4 stage transforming boss. Hopefully, this is one is a routine inner ear bacterial infection and this course of antibiotics will knock it out. Past experience does not leave me hopeful.

My ACTUAL boss has been characteristically understanding, but I've been running through sick days catastrophically fast. I really need to get back in gear QUICK.

Meanwhile, the landlord for the abandoned house next door, the one whose attic Artie loves getting stuck in, finally showed his face the other day. He was getting some insurance adjusters to look at the building.

I decided to grasp the nettle with him about the cats and did NOT get a warm reception. In fact, he launched right into the standard "You know, if you feed the feral cats..." lecture without waiting to let me tell him HOW these guys wound up in our care in the first place.

I sat there defeated for about five minutes, then I got a second wind and confronted him again, attempting the good old Kindly Brontosaurus technique. (https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/08/the-kindly-brontosaurus-the-amazing-prehistoric-posture-that-will-get-you-whatever-you-want.html)

He softened a bit and said we'll work it out when I next see him. On one hand, I guess that feels like a victory? On the other... there's just so much that could go wrong for us and the cats. D: But hey, at least he didn't immediately want to have us arrested for bumbling around inside "his" house, rescuing cats.

I'm just stuck once again with an unresolved, scary, open Cat Problem and I really, really, really did not need that kind of ongoing threat to my anxiety level on top of the ear stuff.

I am maintaining, but just barely. One more crisis and somebody just might get mauled. If it's some asshole with no sympathy for abandoned cats, so be it. 🐯​

@eredien @Leucrotta Nah, been too distracted with health and cat crisis. :)

@Phorm good nuff <3

@Phorm YOU HAVE TO DRAW THE LITTLE TIGER WITH A CROWN, IT'S IMPORTANT

also sadly you do have to add the asterisk but that's not me that's the lousy treaty with the solar concilience until i get some... things worked out

@Phorm "You have a friend on Mars." 👑​​🐯​