Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@001zlnv @Austin_Dern And that's pretty much how the scene on Tapestries went too. Fascinatingly weird ideas; absolutely zero idea of how to play with another person in the room. I basically got kinky stories told at me at great speed and force, and they were utterly oblivious to any interest, emotional engagement, ideas, or preference of mine whatsoever. They were *nice* enough, I guess, and being turned into an inflatable life raft was kind of interesting, but... Yeah. It really felt like there was a significant chunk of what I would consider "person-ness" missing from Dragonfly's brain and I can't even be mad at them.

@001zlnv @Austin_Dern I sparred with them a LOT. They had some really really nasty political ideas -- literally "why can't we let the poor just die off" at one point -- to the point where I can kinda forgive them because it really really seemed like a direct consequence of a genuine personality/emotional/behavioral disorder.

It always warms my heart to be reminded of this nasty-spirited, kink-shaming comic and how completely and utterly its creators lost the furry culture wars. 😽​

https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Skunk_(comic)

@mmsword @hystericempress The part that currently fascinates me is the last listing on their set menus: "白熊." "Polar bear." (Lit: "white bear") Any clue what the hell that could be? Given it's listed last I'm thinking dessert, but I can't track down any specific evidence...

@joshua That is some five star professional catting right there.

@hystericempress @mmsword

Thinking of you.

http://www.ozizo.jp/zenzo/

Run it through Google Translate. It's a tonkatsu restaurant that basically does extremely high-grade kurobuta Pig Donuts.

@Phorm @xinjinmeng @anthracite Coming from a former lavavixen... yeah. Yeah. *hug*

That was basically Kincaid's original origin story. "There's not a damn thing here left worth saving. Start me over from scratch and get me off this fucking planet."

@hystericempress (And of course... that sbemail is ALSO 13 years old...)

@hystericempress

@hystericempress 23/24. Fuuuuuuuck you for bringing this to my attention, LITTLE sis. ​ 🖕​❤️​

:D

@hystericempress NYANCAT is Greymuzzle? I'm... I'm... I'mma just crumble into a pile o' dust now.

@Austin_Dern @001zlnv Oh, I certainly had my opinions about Dragonfly and I think they were pretty public, but the fact I actually lowered myself to scening with someone with such icky politics was a Deep Dark Secret...

@001zlnv @Austin_Dern Man, Dragonfly was a truly COLOSSAL nutcase... -_-

Someday remind me to tell you about the one time I tried to scene with them.

SHEMPING (Special Move):

Class: Cat
Subclass: Shemp

This is Shemp's special catting move. Because Shemp is a cat. You. You are Shemp. The cat. You are a cat. Shemp the cat. That is your name.

No, that's the jingly man. You are Shemp the Cat. This is a thing you can do. It is called Shemping. It is exactly like catting except it is better because you are Shemp. No, that's the jingly man.

After you Shemp, Shemp -- that's you -- gains 12 Shomp stacks. Those are good. Those mean Shemp (you) are best cat. When those wear off, you (Shemp) gain 5 stacks of the "WAT DO?" status. It's just like being Confused except you are Shemp.

No, that's still the jingly man. You can reduce your (Shemp's) WAT DO? stacks by using the Flompf attack. It is a dodge attack that does 0 damage. Yes, just like that. *sigh*

#OverpoweredSecretCharacter
#PlzDoNotNerfMyPrettyBoy
#WATDO

@Phorm @xinjinmeng Aren't you cheering for a singularity these days, Phorm (as frequently am I)? Have you tried just filming geniefox tits in a fisheye lens? I can't imagine our reality's simulation algorithm is capable of rendering those kind of curves without crashing...

@xinjinmeng @anthracite Have you considered making the best out of a bad situation and doing some mad skateboarding/jumping in place tricks?

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

Aaaand the person trying to cancel Peggy over a trivial mistake has just doubled and tripled down, and totally rejected any good faith in her explanation of what really happened.

I can't do this anymore. I can't pretend this is okay. I can't pretend I'm not watching my side of the political spectrum turn toxic and abusive.

We are gonna be the new Trumps. We have learned NOTHING about the importance of compassion from them. We are just like them: we take the narrative we find most cozy and empowering, and fuck reality, and fuck the cardboard standees masquerading as people who are in the way.

People, PLEASE start standing up when you see this stuff. Lazy generalizations about people's morality based on their demographics. Good old fashioned prejudice masquerading as social justice. Narcissists using our political tools as cudgels. Black-and-white thinking. Offense about "harm" that takes place purely in someone's own symbolic world. Gatekeeping. Puritanism disguised as concern for non-existent victims.

Please, please start calling it out. I'm begging you.

@Momentrabbit Also, if you very reasonably skip the rant (which isn't so bad but boy is it a lot of words), check Telegram: the really salient thing about today is that I'm basically fine ATM---and the zoo's reopening so I can go visit my buddy Liam. 🐯​🐯​🐯​ Everything else will take care of itself, so looking at the three-page tiger dropping is totally optional. <3

@Momentrabbit And again, that's nothing but a genuine plea. When I say "I really don't know what else to do"... I mean, I'll take advice here. Or donations for a six-week Denver soma holiday as soon as it's safe to travel. It's making me hurt, too. Even Peg is helplessly obsessing over the slights she's taken this week from the Social Justice Slashers, and that's really not like her. I... I'm all out of coping mechanisms here. ;____;

@Momentrabbit
[FRIENDLY ANNOUNCER: The following is not a complaint. It is an attempt at gaining commiseration. Remain Indoors, Keep Calm And Carry On, and above all, Don't Panic!]

For the record, total time between me sending that and running into another incident of Social Justice Abuse: three minutes.

I was really trying to be a nicer calmer person. It was working. Peg was doing me so much good. NOLA was doing me so much good. But I am really at the end of my rope here. I feel trapped from both sides, and it's really hard not to let the despair turn into rage as I watch people fuck each other over again and again.

Yesterday, it was a dragon.style user who canceled Peg because her mild complaint about misusing a hashtag was Clearly An Act Of Virulent Racism And Don't You Know Who I Am. Today's it's leftists cheering for someone (granted, someone genuinely terrible) being doxxed and harassed and a friend getting canceled for "appropriation" in heartfelt personal fiction... by someone they just caught performing a ludicrous act of actual appropriation.

I am SCARED SHITLESS that the exact same thing will inevitably happen to Parallax and kill my baby NO MATTER WHAT WE DO. I ALREADY have one Social Justice Chainsaw Maniac explicitly gunning for me, with the explicit threat of ruining my comic. My crime? Criticizing him after he committed a very likely sexual assault. His tools? Leftist self-righteousness. This causes me existential pain and dread that is far beyond my capacity to deal with, and it comes out as outrage. Is that totally out of line?

It's either give up on social media and endure the harm of even FURTHER isolation, let the pressure build until I go REALLY nuts, or make some attempt tp talk about this with the only emotional tools I have. I... I really don't know what else to do. ;__;