Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@anthracite @nautilee "Approximately one tiger!"

Gosh, it's funny. For some reason none of the Chinese consulates are picking up their phones.

And all I wanted to do was wish them a happy anniversary. I guess I'll keep trying.

#六四事件

🎵​Oh start your day
🎵The Martian way
🎵And chew on an incel's face

Stupid foodtube tried to cite a map as evidence about the Vile Muslim World, without actually checking if the study it was sourced from supported him.

There's nothing left but a thick smear. A nice cup of incel blood smeared on your maw first thing in the morning is even better than coffee. Just... don't take it internally. 🐯​👍​

@LeDiva I love her name so much. I wonder how weird it would be to write someone fanmail and say "I love your middle initial?" <3 (Though I have a fine excuse, since her book on the origins of Chinese cuisine is also pretty rad...)

@Momentrabbit But oh my gods, do I sympathize with the pain. Everything from the Taps logs to my old Dreamwidth's "friends" list to my *cough* "tax documents" folders that are mysteriously full of JPEGs... Fraught, fraught, fraught. The best I can do is compost all the shit and death and regret and hope something grows out of it.

(And ummm that I don't hurt Noa and Kirt with it so bad in the process that our paltry few readers abandon the whole comic in rage... Sorry again, kids, but Steven and Twilight are both full of shit. :p )

@Momentrabbit *hugs tight*

OK, but counterpoint... there's a little black pointy sculpture on my desk that brings me joy and happiness every single time I see Her.

If that ain't hope, I dunno what is, babe. And you brought that to me.

I really need to get a proper phone so I can send you a snapshot of Antler Mom in all her quiet patient glory, surrounded by her Elite Defense Squad: Amethyst, Rastacorn, Nuclear Throne Robot, and Miss Rajah The Bestest Disney Princess...

As for the art? For art. For you. *nuzzles* That's how I got on the Parallax train. I just stopped giving a fuck if it was "for" anything. Honest to gods, that bullshit really works.

Oh, here's the source article...

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

Tip of the antennae to @dodec for bringing up the subject!

Hmm. Typical fucking engineer. Thousands of lines of code, no problem, but can't handle a perfectly simple name like "Scherpenhuizen." One day at my job would break these weak babies. 😼​😽​

#LiberalArtsPride
(read: #TinyPackcheckPride)
#NumeronymsAreCoolThough

@dodec Reminds me semi-fondly of a space kitsune character of Anthracite's whose real name was "Four Moving, One Seen," which was abbreviated to 4M1S and pronounced "Amis"... (Semi-fondly because some vixens are just far, far, far too much vixen for the space they take up. ;) )

@Leucrotta Oh yeah, they were pretty decent!

Oh, and the Word of the Day is definitely this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manqué

You know you're in the emotional dumps when you feel like %!#$#% Wikipedia is calling you out. 😿​

Oh, wait. I would've been dead in 30 years anyhow _anyhow_. Good luck, millennial suckers. :D

Nah, honestly, if I weren't in the mood to just indulge the pessimism, I'd make a big rallying Jeff Winger Speech about how humanity took all of eight years to master nuclear fission once we decided that's what we wanted. So once the sociopolitical dimensions of this are conquered...

Well, anyhow, that logical path's reserved for somebody who hasn't already decided they're happy if a few select mammal and bird species survive, and would actually kinda rather see humanity get knocked down to ~1700 AD populations anyhow...

Listen, humanity's not gonna go extinct. Our "civilization" is. What, you think life in the resulting Mad Max environs is gonna be any more difficult than being, say, an Inuit or a San Khoisan? You have no idea how little a human being can get by on... because you're a citizen of the 21st-century developed world. You don't have to like it— I sure don't— but something will survive. And maybe it'll prove humanity doesn't deserve total extinction after all.

Anyhow. Rambling. Need to work. Not sure I care. It all seems so futile now.</paranoid_android> :)

Heh, neat. My bout of suicidal ideation, self-loathing, and painful nostalgia has been completely replaced by running around flailing over the sheer amount of work I have to do.

Work is good. I like work. I should probably be really concerned that next to Peggy, Parallax, and the constant risk of being washed into the Gulf, it's the most exciting thing in my life right now.

Oops, there it goes again. Lookit all those friends I COULD have still had if I weren't such a mouthy dago asshole. Lookit that pile of flaming rubble that used to be a kink and/or social life. Look at all that art I've accumulated that's too painful to look at now.

Oh, well, sounds like we're all gonna be dead in 30 years anyhow, and I just can't find it in my heart not to root for the other team here, whoever the fuck they are. Palmetto bugs, if my current environs are any indication. =>_<=

I mean, sorry, after everything that's gone down in the last 150 years, you really can't expect a tiger manqué to see human extinction as anything but a good laugh. Turnabout is fair play, motherfuckers.

@Leucrotta Where'd ya go?</sushi_voyeur>

@LeDiva

...

BOYS AND GIRLS

ACTION! ACTION!

BOYS AND GIRLS

ACTION! ACTION!

NA NA NA NA-HEEEEEE

NA NA NA NA-HEEEEEE

@LexYeen@snouts.online @LeDiva I'm so happy I'm not the only person who remembers this song. Best Police song that wasn't by the Police, maybe even just best Police song...

If the Target Test is anything like the Ikea Test, I think Peg and I just won it, though it was rrrrrreal dicey for a while. >_>;

Still, I think two ferocious predators driving and shopping together for five hours, both underfed, and NOBODY dying is at least par...

@anthracite Yeah, but see also Commandeur Jerry Lewis. :p

NTM Commandeur Roger Corman, Chevalier David Copperfield, and Chevalier Peter Molyneux...

The French will knight anything. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Ordre_des_Arts_et_des_Lettres#Commandeur

Now that I'm finally off of daily cannabis, settling into New Orleans life, getting back into my full work routine, cutting back on social media, simplifying my life by having nobody's emotions to worry about except Peg's, and getting used to 92° days, my real personality is finally getting to emerge again.

No, this is bad. The real me sucks. 😿​

good morning from mars 🐯​

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/bvu3yc/a_rare_sound_from_these_majestic_animals_first/