Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

The playback speed feature on Youtube is the best gift the Internet ever gave to ADD cases like me. Media geared to normal people's clockspeed feels just about right at around 1.5×...

I've also discovered that most of my music collection works surprisingly well at 2×, though the hard bebop is getting a little hazardous at that speed. :D

*ears perk out of the tall blue Martian steppe-grass, followed by a Cheshire-grinning saber-fanged stripeyface*

*stares at you awkwardly for a moment, a little surprised you spotted her, and sinks back into the grass*

*rustlerustlerustle*

#TheEpitome
#OfGoodLooksAndGrace
#AndQuietDignity

@hummingrain Ikr? It's such a pity we can't ship 'em to NOLA, but the cost-benefit ratio just ain't good enough. (I mean, I'm taking the *artist* with me, and paint is fairly cheap... ;) )

@anthracite Heh, you left that just as I was posting the pics myself!

Photo of aforementioned shelves. Note also cameo by my little buddy Measle in the lower right!

@Leucrotta Rik, Vyv, Mike, and Neil, right?

(I might have them confused with somebody else...)

My character has basically degenerated into Pam Poovey fanfic.

I can not bring myself to feel regret about this.

The rest of the experience is a bit disappointing, but I'm still glad to know this place can exist. It'll be formative for some goofy kid, the same way Steve Jackson's Illuminati University and the FurNet's Past and Future Inn were my first experience in "Rad! Adults can still play Let's Pretend and have imaginary friends!"

It's weird to think that I helped provide that for a few people, myself. (Even if most of the credit still belongs to @acetone_kitten...) It seems like a decade ago-- maybe because it was more like 15 years ago. JFC.

Hey, kids, do you have things you'd like to be on a horizontal surface but not on the floor?

Have you always wanted somebody else's character staring semi-benevolently down at you as you go about your daily routine?

Well, you're in luck! We have two bookshelves with ORIGINAL ART by (and of) @anthracite on the sides!

And they're probably free, if that's the way you really want to live your life, cheapskate. (I'm kidding, they're just free.)

Reply if interested. You'll have to pick them up from the University District, Seattle.

@mawr That was a memorable day for Peg and me too!

Holy shit, apparently my stepbrother managed to wake up, acquire a phone, operate it, and hold a reasonably coherent (if a bit time-disoriented) conversation with his wife. WHILE STILL UNDER SEDATION.

Yeah, whatever other bad things are in store for him, I think his brain's OK. :D

Black Market Bob apparently shares my opinion about problematic media...

In my personal headcanon, Edgelord is basically what happened to Brainchild from the Tick cartoon after the reboot. They're both gadgeteers, they're both young, they're both completely stereotypical of why kids their age suck... O:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I8G5XQI9_w

Excerpt from my mom's last e-mail. That's my stepbrother all right. 😼​❤️​

(Recovery's still going well.)

@Balina (Exactly! Er... you might not want to say "heart" around her, though. 😅​)

@001zlnv MEOW MEOW MEOW

@Balina I'm still tryin' to pick a good native era and genre for her, but I think she's a LITTLE young, given she was just created today, for RCGs...

"Remember, the new place has really high ceilings. We can STACK CATS TO THE HEAVENS!"

Thanks for all the advice! The two options I liked most were lammergeier and deer (thanks, @Doephin!)... and then I remembered I was already intrigued by perytons and their glorious fake-ass origin story*, so I split the difference and went with one of those.

* https://offbeat.fandom.com/wiki/Peryton

I think I'm calling her "Eusebeia" (ef-SEV-ia, Gk.: "piety"). It's got etymological roots in "fear of the gods" and "flight from danger." I like that in this context: a monster who has to eat (and otherwise deal in) human entrails for nutritional, cultural, and devotional reasons, and is very devout and unashamed of those practices, but REALLY tries to do her dirty work as gently and humanely as possible.

Hence the necromancy... so she can get "humanely sourced" organs when possible... check on her prey after the deed... make sure they get where they're going okay... and maybe arrange new corporeal digs for them if they had important living-person business to finish.

I think this might be a good headfriend for me. I'm trying to come to terms with the last two years, and the fact that I am a difficult person, with some ugly neurological burdens I can't always snap myself out of. This is someone who's pretty much permanently saddled with an unpleasant nature. She can't stop it and will no longer apologize for it-- but she's going to show the world just how good a monster can be, ravenous or not, if she sincerely keeps working at it.

She's just... gonna snap and eat someone if you don't feed her a dwarf heart every couple of days. *awkward cough* She'll try her best to make sure it's someone who was being a jerk.

Granted, that kind of friendship's not for everybody... but if you happen to know where to get a pile of spare dwarf hearts, hell, she's a pretty good friend and ally. (What's up with that shadow, though!?!)

@Leucrotta Thanks! The shrike suggestion was what led me to the species I think I'm going for: lammergeier. The shrike was a great suggestion too, though, exactly the right combination of adorable and "you do WHAT to your prey oh my shit." Cute little Vlad the Impalers*, I approve. :)

*"Vlads the Impaler?"