Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Yeah. We don't worry about this petty shit in the Glorious Martian Future. I'll probably go back to being an Empress tomorrow, and I will be precisely the same obnoxious cat I was before. If you have a problem with me, have a problem with the cat, or the claws, or the teeth-- not the goddamn pronoun.

I realize I am railing against precisely nobody to whom I will ever have to actually speak. Y'all are absolutely good and have been just fine today. <3 I just... yeah, I have to do this, including the growling and hissing and parading around in what we 25th c. folk laughably recall you rubes thinking of as "male" social regalia.

(It doesn't matter, you piss off a Martian of any gender, you're canonically gonna get a big tiger wang in your face as they swagger up and roar down at your tiny crunchy little body. We've all basically got everything here, barbaric Terran scum. <3 )

@001zlnv Good idea but for PR reasons I find it really helps to have a Monster Manual entry to point to, just as you're about to devour someone, so they know precisely how frightened they should be. =^__^=

@LeDiva All felines have a strong pro-feline agenda! We're PERFECT! *picks up tiny kitty for a tiny hi-5* 🐯​

Nah, I think I would have ended up here regardless of your sterling example!

@001zlnv Honestly? Your timing is remarkable, 'cause I swear I was pondering being the first Martian Manticore just a couple days ago. =^____^=

I redacted my earlier toot with a callout by name. I did it purely because a friend of mine got some trouble for RTing it, and I really am not in the personal mood today for a drama.

And I mean, okay, I really _don't_ want someone dogpiled, even if I find their beliefs pungently unpleasant, though... FFS, people, it does leave me with a very sour feeling that you're allowed to do callouts and I'm not because, once again, my beliefs and I Just Aren't Gay Marxist Enough.​

I want to say for the record that I think that kind of kneejerk misandry is utterly revolting, determining who is and who is not privileged to speak to you because of a matter of birth is utterly revolting, and I don't regret swatting at her one bit.

Never, ever, ever bring me into the social presence of that individual or there will be a very unpleasant and noisy scene.

And if you feel like having an intellectual go at me over her right to ban cismales whole sale being anything but bigotry... well, I'm up for some sport, but do be reminded that tigers are pointy on 5/6 ends and do not wear safety gear in tournament Discourse play.

@LeDiva NEVER. Well, you might be partially responsible for me being a cat. <3 <3 <3

@LexYeen@snouts.online Aww, thanks! *hugs* Sorry if I've come off a bit Centrist Cat Yells At The Hippies On Her Lawn today. I promise I still lean slightly to the left of Eugene Debs, I just really worry where we're all headed sometimes, yanno...? There's nobody on earth who's immune to mob behaviors, and it scares the shit out of me when "my side" won't accept criticism...

Rule of thumb: if the list of blocked demographics in your Mastodon bio would exclude the person you FUCKING QUOTED IN IT, you're probably just too semantically naïve to get by in this world.

@Soreth @Aradia @emanate

Soreth... let me level with you here. For real.

My opinion of you is 100/100. (Of all three of you, really.) I know you. When _you_ say something like that, I know what you mean. Because you have, like, an eight-year record of showing compassion and calm in terrible situations. *hug*

I should probably extend that same faith and credit to everybody else, even the nth-generation folks that I don't even know yet, but... man, for someone like me who considered themselves a centrist just five years ago... that was a lot. Seeing the crowd turn that adamant against the dissenters was a lot.

But I already kinda figured what you meant, because you are the gentlest damn dragon I have ever met. (Granted, my main example of draconity has had her teeth in my shoulder within the LAST THIRTY SECONDS. :D <3 )

By the way? THIS is why I don't feel at ease in this group anymore. Because you KNOW this kind of prejudice really exists, and it can co-exist with all the "we love you and you're fine" in the world.

Y'all deny it and tell me I'm loved and "valid" (I'm so tired of that hollow-ass term), but I feel every. fucking. day. of. my. life. that things would have been very, very different if I (for instance) caved into certain ex-roommates constant pressure to transition and embrace my "real self" or whatever.

This *is* my real self. Boy body, tigerbitch brain. I'm done. I'm fine. I'm finished. "I'm not lost." I'm not Noelle. I'm not Kincaid. Those personas are, respectively, on long-term vacation and dead. If there is a Martian Tiger v2.0, they will only be MORE OF WHAT I ALREADY AM. That includes the boy parts.

So if any of you were just putting up with me until I "find myself," total up my points and cash me out.

If your bio says "no cismales," leave immediately, because for many intents and purposes I am one.

I just had to tell someone who faved me that, um, sorry, honey, I'm CONTAMINATED WITH BOY GERMS and technically heterosexual (because if you deny Peg's womanhood, I WILL hurt you).

NTM, if you're really that prone to kneejerk-banning someone purely over a demographic they were essentially born into, we won't get along well because I'll probably be inclined to think you're a piece of shit. <3

Well, that's interesting. The whole notion of "The Tragedy of the Commons" was basically just anti-communalist propaganda from an _incredibly_ ugly Social Darwinist...

Apparently, the "commons" were doing just FINE until guess who came along and ruined them... that's right, greedy investors! ^___________________^

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/07/scientific-fraud.html

@emanate

> And the suck of it is, I /founded/ it.

*laughs in bitter ironic sympathy for about 20 minutes*

Yeah, I might have had some similar experiences. ;) <3 *hug*

Honestly, though, I only walked away from the poltical fooferaw on Telegram today with a grudge against one person.

And that was not for pol so much as laying into a friend of mine just for trying to be gentle. It was someone I didn't really know prior to this, and now don't really plan to ever speak with, so it's just fine.

As for the rest of you wacky queer leftist funsters... just don't become Leninists or anything? Or Auntie Rez will disown you, probably after quoting full chapters of and/or smacking you on the noggin repeatedly with my copy of Behind the Urals, mmmkay? >_<

I'm still feeling pretty grumpy about some local stuff, but here's some candles being smashed by a hydraulic press because I still love you anyhow.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/ay6jt1/hydraulic_press_vs_candles/

@kelseyhusky FWIW I like you and Mawr a whole bunch? n.n;;

Cut to 7019 AD, where a well-intentioned team of alien anthropologists can come up with no better explanation for our era than "a four-year ritual performance of the ancient Human passion play, 'The Emperor's New Clothes.'"

The poor spacefaring rubes walk away marveling at our commitment to the dramatic arts and the cautionary fable, to the point where we're willing to destroy our own infrastructure, and visitors are willing to be committed to months of confinement, just to maintain the farce.

They will never suspect for a moment that a society of sapient beings would actually do this to itself for no good reason whatsoever.

@Leucrotta Not really! I've always kinda liked izakaya stuff a little better than sushi...

PEGGY, AFTER PREVIOUS EXCHANGE: "Come on, you gotta get your hands up! Get ready for some throws! It's what we're all here for! It's fun!"

ME, AFTER BEING BEANED IN THE HEAD *TWICE* BY THESE FUCKING SWAMP MANIACS HURLING THINGS INTO THE CROWD:

PEGGY, A NATIVE: "It's Mardi Gras! You've got to try to catch some throws from the parade floats! Get you some beads and stuff! Get into the spirit!"

ME, A MIDWESTERNER: