Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Leucrotta Me too until only recently! I'd just always assumed Chtorr was your basic Evil And Safely Shootable Bug Monster Empire for space marines to pick on. It's more like an entire invading ecosystem, DEEPLY nightmarish but right up my alley. 😱

Consequent to all this, a friend found me a PDF of the War Against The Chtorr GURPS supplement and I'm midway through my first character: a mutated libbit (basically a fuzzy pink alien pig normally bred for docility).

Her name is "Miracle" or "Miri" and her mom-thing caught a dose of Terran phytochemicals somewhere in the Amazon Basin that somehow resulted in her daughter-thing being:

* just short of protosapient, INT 7 in GURPS terms
* pointier, biteyer, and scratchier than any libbit was ever meant to be
* possessed of the approximate disposition of a selectively affectionate possum-badger-cat-pig-raccoon, only filthier and smellier
* fond of humans and earth mammals (especially cats) yet absolutely vicious towards all Chtorr lifeforms
* faintly aware of the notions of "yours," "mine now," "not nailed down," "deception," "the power of friendship," and "oops i'm sorry was that YOUR finger, i should look cute now"

In short, Miri is the Best Worst Trash Animal Ever and Terra's last best mangiest hope for a peaceful (if slightly foamy, we should keep an eye on that) future. She will risk her life to save yours and then bite your finger off five minutes later.

I'll never get to play her in anything, but she is my
scruggly little alien mindbaby and I love her. 'Cause really, Miri is just my stinky cat buddy Sugarfoot as a mutant libbit. <3

Huh. Evidently today is Weird Badtouchy Invasive Alien Ecosystem Month for me. I just realized my recent media diet's included:

* Slither
* Shivers
* both Body Snatchers films
* an audiobook of Gerrold's War Against The Chtorr
* Annihilation
* Scavenger's Reign
* I Was A Teenage Exocolonist

Maybe it's time for me to make a quasi-malevolent "Entire Hostile Biosystem" sona. It sure suits my feelings about humanity lately, to wit, "Nothing a good non-consensual mass TF wouldn't fix."

Guess Kincaid (aka my rotten old lavavixen kink-villain) is still bloopin' around in the back of my head somewhere. 🤷

@chimerror QUIT YOUR JOB FOR "BOB"!

@Orb2069 @anthracite I'd really really appreciate it if you rephrased that, hun, for reasons that I think Gracious Anthracite would be all too happy to explain.

I'm... I'm gonna go take four or five consecutive cold showers in the meantime. And then wrap my head in tinfoil and hide. ​

( Valis happens to also, not entirely coincidentally, be the name of my hypno-perv zebra boi sona.😁 )

@typhlosion Ooh, you caught a feline TF? Congratulations! 😼

@Leucrotta Yeah, Google decided that was no longer fiscally supportable. 🤷

(In other words, I know how ya feel. *hug* I've been ruminating a lot lately on how much less all this does for me anymore.)

@Phorm If it had been a Ken Keeler episode I think that would have been my lead theory.

Nobody can crack a dirty math joke like Ken (glaven)!🤓

Well, that's odd. This is a screenshot from Marge Be Not Proud. Look at how on the left-hand side the digits are clearly hand-drawn but on the right they look like they're printed or maybe some Letraset sort of thing. And stocking #4 has six digits, in both scripts, while the others only have five! I wonder what could have possibly happened in production?!

@xinjinmeng Is that what that says?! I spent far longer trying to decipher that font than I am really pleased with.

@spottyfox BOILIN' HOT TEXAS STYLE!

@spottyfox Please tell me they have more than two dishes. 🙀

@arthurwyatt sir are you aware that this is a cat?

@Phorm Voice digitizers? If they worked for Laura Les they can work for us. :D

@spottyfox phonx

@anthracite nope nope thats my brain too 🤷

@anthracite this is another fine example of why i love you and, more importantly, Enmerkar loves you

@woozle @Harena (I speak the Homestar dialect fluently, BTW)

@woozle @Harena John and John with a crane. Hello radio at Tanagra. Mr. DJ scratches your back. There go I but for my face. *solemn nod*

@anthracite but MOAR SHELV CATZ THIS TIEM 😾