Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

#moodsnapshot

I hesitate to even use the word "fans" at this point, so...

I see the Pokemon consumers are trying to unseat the Game of Thrones consumers from their Most Entitled Franchise Consumer status.

Man, I *must* be turning 45 in a couple weeks, because I read these stories about the National Dex and all I want to do is shake my cane and yell, "Dammit, kids, I told you to GO OUTSIDE!"

@Cerulean Yyyyyup. DeviantArt syndrome. :) That awful conflux of "ultra-specific kink," "painful literal-mindedness," and "utter lack of independent imagination."

I sympathize and am SO AFRAID of what I'm walking into by attempting a space opera that's deliberately full of time gaps and 100% deliberate continuity errors...

I'm HOPING it'll serve as Baby's First Book Of Unreliable Narrative for some of these people, but I think I'm too cynical by now to actually believe it.

@Leucrotta No, no it really isn't :D Paul's Boutique definitely deserves a Most Improved medal. :>

(oh shit, that's right, he's the night in the woods guy—no wonder this is a fraught issue for him, YOU POOR BASTARD, what they must have put you through...)

QUOTE OF THE FUCKING CENTURY

OH MY GOD. This is my favorite Birdsite thread of the last several years, and captures so many of the elements of modern fandom's literal-mindedness that I can't stand.

I'm very proud of the extent to which Parallax is being written explicitly to frustrate the sort of foolish consistency that Scott's describing here.

https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/946391315146788864

This was my response to the All Scripture Baptist Church, whose pastor (who is also, terrifyingly, a Tennessee police detective) recently posted a sermon calling for the execution of homosexuals.

Somewhere, 15-year-old liberal Christian me is very proud of 45-year-old me. I had to dig REAL deep to find him, encourage him it was safe to come out, and let him speak.

He wasn't a bad guy at all, really: his extreme qualms about queerfolk being treated like fair game for hatred was one of the things that drove him first towards liberal Christianity, then to outright heresy, then eventually to... um... worshipping an imaginary jackalope lady.

Sorry about that, kid, I guess we didn't turn out QUITE like you'd hoped, but as you can see, I'm still on a good path and still know my Scripture a hell of a lot better than the people you ran screaming from 30 years ago. :)

@mawr YES <3

I love Kurt Vonnegut, but his quote about art having all the political effect of "custard pie dropped from a stepladder" has always infuriated me... because HIS ART is half the fucking reason I put any effort into developing a leftist ethical system...

It also totally blows my mind when I look at political/satirical media from the 60s–80s and it's ALL THE SAME. It's so comforting to be reminded that they felt just the same way that we do, that the world is breaking and there are devils in charge, and that everything... kinda worked out okay and kinda didn't, and while the stakes may be higher today, otherwise it's all pretty much biz as usual.

"It has something you don't have, Max: it has a philosophy, and that's what makes it dangerous." -- Masha, _Videodrome_

Debbie Harry, however, is still a remarkably good actress for a LIVING GODDESS, and the only reason it's not agonizing to watch her suffer is that... um... her character seems to love about 70-80% of it.

Gosh, it's so much easier to watch Videodrome now that I kinda *want* to see James Woods suffer large. 😺​

The "69" = "NICE!" meme is tired and needs to either be subverted or put out of its misery.

I think I'm gonna just start calling out "NICE" for other two-digit numbers just to annoy people. 😽​

Cribbed from Reddit for @hummingrain, @troodon, and @anthracite, among others...

@Austin_Dern @claude This is something I could see the Euro boardgame crowd doing, honestly...

I really should cw this as porn. I mean, it's just a bunch of posters from a typography competition, but... yeah, it's porn.

#letterporn

https://www.metafilter.com/181427/Typographical-Posters-Post-Typography

@Austin_Dern I'm pretty sure "reading Indian menus" is part of the standard 1st grade curriculum in Martian schools. It's just a vital skill when you're gonna grow up to be 8'3" and ALWAYS A BIT PECKISH. 🐯​

@Austin_Dern That's some good stuff, and I think you just inspired my next Instant Pot experiment (b/c if I keep making butter chicken I WILL DIE)

Aww, look who turned up as Peg was unpacking! She's no Mr. Flibble, but I'll bet I can still teach her some hex vision!

#WENK
#AuntMitziFriesThemAlive
#WhoWouldClearUpTheMess?
#GameOverBoys
#SpaceCorpsDirective699
#WARKWARKWARKWARK *flap*

Here, fellow gender warriors. Have a rhetorical howitzer: an article about the biological evidence for non-binary gender from an Actual Fucking Neuroscientist. Use it widely and indiscriminately. 😽​

#ThisMachineKillsPepes

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/stop-using-phony-science-to-justify-transphobia/