Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

I mean, FFS, I could probably find an instance of Theresa May using "42" in a speech. Does that mean she's a closet Hitchhiker's fan? 🙄​

I just saw someone try to argue that a passing Trump reference to "88" of something in a speech was _surely_ a reference to "88" as a white nationalist shorthand for "Heil Hitler."

Dammit people. We have hundreds upon hundreds of solid, legitimate, sane things to accuse Trump of that don't boil down to webkook apophenia. Do we HAVE to dabble in numerology? Does it SOUND like Trump to couch his racism in codes and riddles and not just blurt it out?

We've gotta be better than this.😾​

"If you're not good, I'm going to log into every one of your social media accounts overnight and change your name to Lucille Ballsac."

@LeDiva I didn't up to this point, but it's very good to know. <3 <3 <3

Well, that was an emotional roller coaster. Skimmed an article about the World Wildlife Fund's most recent call to action. Read a Reddit post full of DOOOOOOOOMFUL comments. Reread the actual article in detail and realized most of the DOOOOOOOOOOM didn't even reflect what the article said, and was roughly 1500% more hysterical and panicky. And thus kinda promptly went back to cheering for humans to perish and everything else to survive, because we're JUST SO DUMB.

@LeDiva We were just talking about how delighted I'd be if we could get you to play Olivia someday in a Parallax audio drama. You did largely inspire my portrayal of her, you know. <3

I haven't been this physically, mentally, or socially exhausted in a long time and I'm really pretty happy about it. As much as I've griped about the cynical corporate-think of the con panels, the social side of it was pretty great, and we finally ran into a bunch of fellow comics people. I think it was worth it! Even the frustrating stuff got Peg and me brainstorming, and I think we got a lot of useful ideas out of it!

@001zlnv Hmm. There was a Pythonic "wauugh" that was my model for this, but I don't have the resources at hand to be more specific. I think it was for "being hit over the head" lessons or something, which seems to be pretty appropriate for being made to live during the Trump Era?

Ever have one of those evenings where everything is technically *fine*, but so many frustrating little *potential* issues crop up at once, you have to take like an hour to patiently go over the warning panel with your inner Chief Of Maintenance and figure out which blinkenlights should still be on and which shouldn't?

I THINK I've resolved everything, from finding out (AFTER I gave the waiter our debit card) I get paid NEXT week, to finding out it's time to renew my insurance...

Never trust a self-styled creative person who uses the word "impactful" without irony.

@troodon There are articles for the Mexican ones, too! Oh boy! ;D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarabe_Tapatío

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cucaracha

@mona@cybre.space *spins bowtie fan and flaps novelty dickey* Wocka wocka!

I keep forgetting to mention this, and something in a random browse reminded me:

BBC Three's Fleabag is really good, as is Phoebe-Bridge's other series, Killing Eve. Both require a pretty high tolerance for social awkwardness comedy (but NOT necessarily cringe comedy), but are actually both pretty sincere and rewarding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_riff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Streets_of_Cairo,_or_the_Poor_Little_Country_Maid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantella_Napoletana

@chandra The ONLY part of that I'd quibble is "bros." The teams that we were allowed to see, at least, were pretty diverse and there were a lot of women on the panels, and there was a lot of good lip service to diversity. But...

Huh. We chatted with a comics creator who's been mixing graphic art with an occasional song on Youtube to draw people in.

That's way outside our skillset, but... you know, we know some actors and we know some people who can do audio production. And we have a lot of background material and side stories we won't have time to explore in the comics.

I wonder if any of y'all would be interested in listening to -- or helping with -- Parallax audio dramas, maybe w/some basic animatics?

@LeDiva Give us a couple years of going at Patreon and I might even actually have something in there besides my ID card and a doodle of Noelle! ^______^

@LeDiva Who's a good kitteh! *scritch*

@Leucrotta You know every one of the little buggers is gonna get up and scamper off the moment the coast is clear... <3

@LeDiva *HUGS*