Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@LexYeen@snouts.online Drowning in a hurricane is starting to sound better and better all the time, y'all. :>

Seriously, good luck up there and thank you for the health PSAs. I caught a nasty case of bronchitis from that shit last year and I'm grateful people are reminding each other to take it seriously.

Reading the comments on /r/conspiracy this morning (I know, fuck me, right) has inspired me to write a proverb:

"Removing the blinders from a horse doesn't give you a philosopher-horse. It just gives you a more confused, less focused horse."

"Free thought" means nothing if you have no idea how to use it.

@LeDiva It did, and they are. <3 The one on the other side wasn't bad either, but c'est la guerre...

Ever run into a recipe that's such a bad idea, and so easy once you know it, that you feel it's not "made" so much as "weaponized?"

Yeah. Turns out Kenji Lopez-Alt's 3-ingredient macaroni and cheese works like a charm. A fatty, deadly, artery-clogging charm.

This is not really all that surprising. Kenji is the Lupin III of foodcrime. He never fails.

I give you dangerous knowledge:

https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2017/01/3-ingredient-stovetop-mac-and-cheese-recipe.html

(FTR, I used fontina cheese—beautiful salty stuff— and threw in some spinach, garlic powder, and red pepper. But I think you could use damn near anything. For next time I'm thinking kimchi, gochujang, ground peanuts, and anchovies. I know, I know, that tiger's not right.)

=== HIGH LEVEL KITTEN ALERT ===

Oh my Bast, Sugarfoot let me pet her for the first time. ​😻😻😻😻😻

@anthracite VITAL UPDATE FOR YOUR FOLLOWERS:

Tigress (not me, the kitten) chased a bug (unsuccessfully). =^__^=

@Leucrotta @anthracite i still feel like somewhere off in the aether archy and mehitabel are silently judging me

granted the little shit had shown no discernible literary talents, a total philistine

OK, now HERE'S a superhero in need of an immediate reboot...

Attn: @acetone_kitten probably

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trashman_(comics)

@anthracite I mean, I *was* playing nose trumpet.

Holy shit. I'd forgotten about this pic. Yeah, that's me. For one brief and literally shining moment, I got to look like that.

Maybe the Bad Old Days were better than I remembered.

In other news, Peggy dragged me to one of the most famous Italian bakeries and gelaterias in the country, and all I had was a double espresso because I didn't want to go off my diet.

WHAT KIND OF GROTESQUE UNFELINE MONSTER HAVE I BECOME

(oh rite, one that lives only 15 mins walk from one of the most famous italian bakeries in the country and can do this any time she wants 😼​ )

@001zlnv @Austin_Dern You're not cleared for further details of this particular operation... but we have both of course. ​

@hummingrain Actually, due to the kindness of a certain benefactor whom I don't want to embarrass... I will be getting a REALLY NICE phone soon. (You know who you are. <3 ) So I can make an effort to bombard you with Tiny Lizard Pics in the near future. ^____^

@hummingrain Yo. *raises paw* :D Not a day goes by that I don't see five or ten adorable tiny lizards darting into the bushes, and if you go to the sculpture garden at City Park you can see DOZENS AND DOZENS at a time.

Oh shit, I think we've vaguely plotted out the whole thing now. Five dual-chapters, maybe six. If they're the same size as the first... and we freakin' live that long... something like 480 pages in total.

And it's shaping up to be SO THEMATICALLY TIGHT. A story not just about culture war and intersubjectivity, but how authorities subvert their best and brightest... and how sometimes the best way to deal with a bad society or a bad friendship is to just LEAVE and do your own these. A perfect antidote to all the Care Bears, Love Heals All, Why Can't You Just Go Be Nice To Your Angry Narcissist Grandma bullshit that's plagued the New Sincerity toons.

Jesus Christ. Even if we don't ever make it all the way... what a way to spend my declining years. :D

@Austin_Dern I still have 90% of my MUCK logs. *cackles maniacally* Oh, there's a vault fulla hurt. I've known that feeling so well, I'm so sorry. *hugs a lot*

@Austin_Dern *gets Kirschi to pinpoint it with the Secret Laser Raccoon Satellites* ​👍​

@Austin_Dern Given I turfed about 50 MB of music by an estranged mutual acquaintance off my archive drives today, and cried for about ten minutes in the aftermath... yeah. Yeah, I feel ya, cousin. *hug*

Robyn Hitchcock (one of my favorite musicians) has written so many songs about gender feels. And he's 66 years old, and has never really acted on any of those song lyrics. So I think my new nickname for him is "The Century Egg." 😼​

Anyhow, this song is my #bigmood for the day. Totally no bitter lavavixen nostalgia wrapped up in this at all, why do you ask? ​

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emqQnQ6UNm8

@anthracite "Just keepin' it clown loose, baby..." *honk*