Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Today's mood:

basking in the utter gobsmacked shellshock of how normal my life still seems compared to so many other people

it's that guilty feeling of watching the guy next to you in the trench get a bullet in the shoulder and knowing he's STILL one of the lucky ones, 'cause it wasn't through his face...

...compounded by that awful knowledge that the general responsible for this is an inept privileged cretin, just sitting in his office, playing with a map covered in toy soldiers

We just can't seem to kick that onion powder. (hat tip: @Leucrotta)

Of course, I'm not like the other raccoons. Add "gelatin" and "polythene" to the front of that list, though, and...

@Austin_Dern [🐯​] *deposits the remains of a whole nilgai antelope at your feet, horns and all*

[​] *sighs* I'll get the floor wax. Sorry, Austin.

@Leucrotta @mmsword I smile every time I see someone mention "sheep-stealing," because I am literally and factually descended from a gang of Scottish rustlers and I am so inordinately proud of that fact. ^____^

@mmsword @Leucrotta Hmm. Appropos to my post the other day about missing outlaws... Now I want to play John Dillinger. Or Bonnie Parker. Or hell, at this point in history, even the SLA feel like protagonists...

My cardboard stepdaughter is very wise.

current anger level:

making hector salamanca (figure A) look like bob ross (figure B)

waugh

@001zlnv Of course, no problem!

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@anthracite Hmm, or maybe it doesn't...? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoshamanism#Power_animals

@anthracite Closest I can find is familiars, which I kinda like but implies a whole different sort of relationship...

I miss outlaws. Like, bandit queens and bank robbers and highwaymen and such, especially the sort with an explicitly revolutionary bent. I don't know exactly what happened, but our society sure as hell did SOMETHING to clamp them right out of existence (electronic cash transfer and universal surveillance sure haven't helped) and I wish we had a way to bring them back. Because there are sure as fuck some people who need to be robbed.

@hystericempress Actually, let me redact that. Now that I've seen the exact logic behind it -- preventing a "must have" card from coming into existence, and banning early to save people from busting their asses to acquire one -- the mental image of the MTG multiverse being overrun by goddamn otters made the whole bout of confusion TOTALLY worthwhile. :D

Freakin' otters. :>

@hystericempress (*finds it* *understands* *isn't any happier* ;) <3 )

@hystericempress I can't make heads or tails out of what's going on with the "Companion" part of that card, nor the exact reasons this is so broken, and you know... I'm good, sis.

@Leucrotta I'm glad I'm not the only one who was really irked by people's approach to these stories. Thanks, hun, that was a SUPER vindicating and reassuring post. <3

Asking someone to stop using a convenient, universally understood term because it's "appropriation" and incorrectly applied -- and replace it with a term appropriated from ANOTHER culture and incorrectly applied AND nobody has ever heard of it -- is just about the most White Leftist goddamn thing I've ever heard.

I'm not saying "patronus," fuck you. I'm also definitely not saying "fylgja," because NOBODY BUT YOU knows what the fuck that is.

But I'm not saying "spirit animal" either, even though it seems absolutely daft to complain about the ENGLISH (mis)translation of a concept that's ALREADY totally removed from the First Nations languages that coined it, because my friends will mess themselves over it.

But it seems goddamn silly, since both "spirit" and "animal" are pre-existing western concepts, concepts that perfectly describe that concept without requiring ANY genetic fallacies about when, where, and how the phrase was coined. And it was OUR own cultural shoehorning that applied that incredibly non-specific phrase to Native American traditions in the first place. (If you used these peoples' actual, original terms for "spirit animal" to describe your fursona or whatever, then yeah, I would accuse you of appropriation...)

Instead, I'm gonna SHOW you my inner animal nature by chewing directly on your skull if I ever hear you nitpicking this kind of shit. You'll know whether I like you or not by whether you walk away with a missing head and/or a fatal disease. <3

@Leucrotta for some reason i can absolutely not seem to dissuade my brain that this is a homestarrunner.com line, and needs to be read in a suitable internal voice -- possibly King of Town

@LexYeen@snouts.online I've been referring to today as March 32nd all day. :)

@Leucrotta Weirdly, seeing a bottle of Bonache is making me all weepy-nostalgic for Seattle. There _were_ some real good times there.

Oh, shit, I hope the guy who runs Morsel is doing okay.