Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Landed a 12 hour ban for telling Ben Shapiro to "go die." Got 6 hours, 40 minutes left. I can't even LIKE things, what the hell is the purpose of that?!?

Expect extreme rhetorical tiger violence around 20:10 CST. If there's a way to tell Ben Shapiro to go die without saying it out loud, he's gonna hear it tonight. 😼​

This. Sounds. Awesome.

Hey, @anthracite, any interest in learning German? I already speak a tiny bit. I wonder if they need artists and researchers...

@Leucrotta In the immortal words of Reverend Stang, I'm Up For Any Program at this point...

Penumbra's been MIA for three days. :( I think he's moved on.

I feel guilty, but less guilty than when Umbra went missing, 'cause Penny left all on his own. The cats (except maybe Arthur and Shemp) have made it quite clear that they appreciate our Our Cats Who Live Here offer but politely decline.

Still, I already miss the little dude and was not done doting on him. I really hope he shows back up. There's absolutely no way we can take care of seven frickin' cats as if they were Our Cats forever (in cat lifespan terms), but... I was really hoping everybody would just kinda stick around.

If anything bad happened to him, I never ever ever wanna know. I am gonna comfort myself with how much he was already taking after his prodigal hero brother Umbra, who turned out to have suffered mildly, for all of 8 hours, before hitting the semiferal jackpot...

Vaya con Bast, little amigo. Please visit real soon, 'cause I WILL fret over you.

Witches, you know what to do.

Tigers don't even get any mana points -- we'd be way too overpowered if we could spellcast AND teethmurder AND look this fabulous all the time. But I still fully intend to make a sigil out of "PENCE EQUALS PETRI DISH," put it out before the cosmos, and see if I get any bites. XD

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/04/president-pelosi-pence-shrugs-off-covid-risk-426219

@anthracite Artist's rendering:

*hug*

Nothing panics an Italian like not being able to get a hold of Mama.

Nothing restores an Italian's mood like finally getting called back and talking for 45 minutes about ethnic food for no particular reason. (African, in this case.)

I realize I am so much luckier than so many of my friends to have even one parent who's my friend, and another who loves me enough to be benevolently indifferent to my bullshit. :) (Fully accepting Peg after my mom outed her has got my stepdad into Tier S for the rest of his hopefully long adorable redneck goober life. <3 )

I dunno what the fuck I'm gonna do when they're gone.

@hystericempress @Aradia *blinkblink* That is a REALLY smart answer.

@Aradia I'm going to play the David Macaulay gambit and say "a grand hotel/resort"...

@spacewastrel@yiff.life It... um... you weren't missing much, trust me. :) But that's always true, isn't it? Like, there are some films and TV shows I just refuse to watch, because I have such a vivid idea in my head of what they are, and they're more inspiring than the reality could ever be. I've learned over the years that most of the people I envy are like that, too -- anything that has to take place in reality is inevitably gonna disappoint a little. :) But yeah, it was all worth it but I've been left -- especially after Transliminal exploded -- feeling like it was a world I got to look at but never actually touch. Like it was always JUST past the next wall. I dunno, maybe that's the nature of it?

fuck everyone replying to that tweet except for that "I bet this kind of meal is making budgets work now in a lot of houses" guy tbh

@spacewastrel@yiff.life *sigh* yeah. that all sounds so distant now, doesn't it. *hug* not surprisingly rik and i both loved that place

https://twitter.com/tullymox/status/1312548345169080320

slagging on "white people food" for being overprocessed and cheap is blatant liberal shithead classism

you know who else loved spam, ritz crackers, and canned vegetables where you have to "wash the tin flavor and drain the high-sodium water?"

survivors of the korean war. i transcribed a whole interview about it once. fuck. you. elitist. snob.

@Phorm Oh yeah, they're also so good for IBS/food symptoms. I really wanna give you a lot of reassurance re: that, 'cause mine was nearly debilitating when I was like 20-25 yrs old and these days it's just a minor nuisance. Watching my dairy intake and avoiding FODMAP vegetables seems to do a lot of the trick for me, though these days it's improve to the point where I can get away with *some* of almost anything

@Oneironott hint: HEAD LIES <3

@Oneironott beeeen there *HUG*

@Phorm @anthracite Oh, I'm so glad! I was thinking of mentioning that strategy again but don't like to get evangelistic or naggy about it! It's just been such a huge help for me to have the EVIDENCE of likely okayness right in front of me...

@Phorm @anthracite I really wonder if you and I aren't the same OCDish neurotype or haven't at least got some similar brainmeat damage, 'cause that "understand logically things are fine and have turned out so many many times in the past, but can't shut off the alarms" thing sounds SO FAMILIAR to me. *hug*

@Oneironott But you're so damn GOOD, otter. ._.

@Phorm *touches up at headbubble and whimpers -- would say 'no this is perfect,' but with WHAT?!?*