Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@woozle Smacked that one SmartLawyer guy for ya, Terran comrade. 😽 Did I miss an actual rebuttal to your point, or was that "What's insane is that this happens daily with him. Whenever he doesn't pull a lid or take a vacation" supposed to *be* the point that was so condescendingly obvious?

@anthracite @mawr Either of you want a reference, I know some highly placed people* in the cat industry. 🐯❤️

*yes it's just Shadow

@Leucrotta i'm sorry i can't pretend these are not fine options nor that i do not envy you a bit (not that NOLA doesn't have very good burger options, my bike's just in the shop and they're out of range for now ;_;)

@Owlor What?! That's one of those where you just shake your head sadly and say "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." What sort of narcissitic projection could get someone believing people were spending years practicing ambidexterity just to impress them?! I already thought it sounded self-absorbed when people said that about people with dyed hair... and that's not even an affectation you'd have to *practice*. ​

Wanted to share this around. It's flavored like Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, David Lynch's Rabbits, Partycoffin's Welcome Home, and The Caretaker's Everywhere at the End of Time. Somber and pretty, deserves much more attention than it's getting.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgW7lLUjcHAh6_Q5oZvyq6vzl00FxbmRF (CW: themes of memory loss, grief, and everything else implied by "and The Caretaker."🙀)

@Soreth @KinkyTurtle

When I was
A young city
I saw a city
Take a young city
To see a marching city

#urbansprawl

"We have invented something far beyond the comprehension of your puny Earth minds: behold the MFA thesis novel!"

@arthurwyatt @anthracite I dunno, if there's one useful thing Trek taught me, it's that aliens who insult my intelligence are not worth my time. Where I come from, we ATE such condescending species and so far we have regretted nothing.

Life. Loss. Oil. Pan. Tasty. Bones. Pot. Stock. Poo. Repeat until extinct. 🐯​ #TigerLogic #FuckYourKardashevLevel

@varve "There's a Mr. Hangul holding on Line Two..." 😼

@arthurwyatt So there's this story by Charlie Stross... 🙀 🙀 🙀

https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781625791870/9781625791870___2.htm

My thanks to all of you who helped resolve my MST3K crisis last night. :)

@Leucrotta Wasn't you, hun! I mean, it wasn't anybody, in the sense that it's a general community mood I'm uptight about. I'm not subtweeting anybody anyhow, I swear to Bast. It really is about me, and the crushing sensation of just... not being as young and fierce and idealistic as I used to be. I just feel like I'm taking the coward's way out by substituting politeness for honesty, and I had to say *something* about it or lose it completely, yanno? <3

I had a big old impassioned speech planned regarding an ideological matter, and I was just about ready to start banging it out, and then I realized I just don't have any more fight left in me.

So I'll just slink back up the mountain and sulk and overeat. But honestly? It's fine. One of two things will happen: there'll be a younger, fiercer, better version of me to fill in the gap, or the world will end specifically because I fucked off and went back to shitposting about 90s comedies. I suspect it'll be the first one.

I really am okay. Frankly? I'm *braced* for the future. I'm downright stoic. I just feel so fucking old.

All right.

This has been bothering me for like 30 years.

So, at about 24 minutes into Master Ninja II, during the first host segment... what the poopie is Crow saying after "like it was written in blood?!?!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SZrvOCYXP8&t=1442s

Every time I've seen it referenced online, they wrote "The van dies!" but that makes absolutely no sense to me--even though that's exactly what I hear, too.

But lately I've been starting to wonder: could it be "the Van-DAL!" Like, that would be perfectly cromulent, since it's an actual pun on "vandal." And I mean, the phonology isn't perfect, but early MST3K left in a lot of flubbed lines. So it definitely seems possible that Trace was just having an off day and didn't quite pronounce it right.

Help. This threatens to become my own personal That's Where I'm A Viking.🙀

@Leucrotta Malkavian would explain a *lot*.

@Leucrotta DYSCHOCULA: severely impacts your ability to drain the blood out of... chocolate? Or something?

@Oneironott I can ask around -- what kind of pain where? I have a friend who took a nasty fall a couple years ago and still has chronic pain, they might have some concrete advice...