Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

"Crinklefist the Diaper Barbarian"

@Phorm This could have been a character from MTV's The State so easily, and they're basically my favorite sketch troupe of all time. This is exactly my kind of comedy. :D

@Sig wow, its always nice to hear my queasy feeling about somebody is SPOT ON. now i know who i'm stalking thru the reeds as soon as im out of twitter jail. being blocked by her is a trophy i much desire.

@Phorm tell me who, i love this stuff. reminds me of Oh Hello whose characters always emPhasize the wrong syllAble.

i just think little unwritten rules like this are fascinating. hidden structures in the human brain and our language and all.

@KinkyTurtle Ah, found it, am fixing original.

@KinkyTurtle Feh, I can't find the actual article. It was a Reddit snapshot of a news article about why people say "tick tock" instead of "tock tick" and also went into the innate structure of adjective ordering.

@KinkyTurtle D'OH! Let me see if I can fix that one...

I have now threatened to get a spray bottle full of fish sauce and use it on @anthracite if she sings one more goddamn line about "Poo Chungus" at me.

I will fucking do it. Mars does not negotiate with terrorists.🐯​

Other big one, Alexandra Erin, i.e., The Smug Lady With The Big Orange Hat Who Calls Her Followers "Babies."

Can't fucking stand her. She reminds me of the neo-pagans at my alma mater who obviously just needed a substitute for Catholicism in their lives and just could not live without a prudish moral system to be Objectively Right For Sure about all the time.

Jeff Tiedrich (big birdsite leftist guy, if you're not familiar) is kind of an idiot.

I really do honestly feel there is a core of leftists who'd gladly put MIrror Trump (i.e., a guy who's just as crazy as Trump but is Our Guy and therefore fine) in power and be very proud of themselves for doing it. And would probably whine about "bothsidesism" when you pointed out all the obvious problems with Our Guy. And Jeff is near the top of the list.

He's currently getting pilloried on Reddit for taking a completely incorrect jab at Trump about the Secretary of the Treasury being responsible for international sanctions, and I just want to cuff the SOB on the ear. We do not have time for people like him and their bullshit right now. It's bad enough we've still got Michael Moore.

If you're the kind of leftist who can't do 20 seconds of fact checking, and would rather just jerk your knee anyhow, maybe the best thing for you is to go join the other side and help fuck them up even further. -__-

dealer seems to have stiffed us with no reply AGAIN

he's always come through eventually in the past, and he is working a delivery job these days, but...

of all the fucking weeks to have to get through sober -__-

The election itself?

You know? I'm kinda going into it OK. I wish I'd had enough savings to put the big consolation prize/murphy's law bet on Tr*mp that I was planning.

But I think I like the odds I'm seeing. I'm less and less convinced that the "Shy Trump Voter" effect is gonna save his ugly ass. It's still gonna be a mess, but I see a lot of good signs that (a) Biden really IS ahead (b) Trump's advisors are running scared (c) Trump doesn't have the political currency left to pull any major shenanigans besides whining and delay tactics.

I still really really hope our dealer comes through tonight. -_-

Heh. I looked at my to-do list. It would be empty... if not for the cats. With the cats, it's got like ten things on it.

Kinda broke down today. Shemp's eye was the last straw for my brain, I think. It's not actually that scary and I know that rationally. I think we still have like $400 left in donation money, and... I mean, it's probably just Kitty Pinkeye. We have a day of hassle, get him some drops, and he'll be fine.

But still. All I've been able to do is sleep. There's a pit at the bottom of my stomach and the unfocused anxiety is awful -- even though mama and the kittens are GREAT and I really think Shemp will be OK.

We even got the kittenproofing for the doors today, so wrangling them will be much easier. And I wrote up a note for the local Reddit asking if anyone can take Peebles and Artie, which will dramatically reduce our expenses -- and our worries that they'll strike out on their own one night.

This has just been rough. I suspect all this time playing Aunt Tiger is making me stronger and better able to deal with crisis, but...

There was enough to worry about already. Maybe THAT'S the blessing, though? No matter what goes down tomorrow, I gotta keep my shit together for the kids.

@mawr Honestly? No, but I'd been bracing myself for these days for a long time. Between dating an extreme political cynic for 15 years and... well, just having been a history major... I always kinda suspected we were living in an anomaly and Big History was gonna get us sooner or later.

It still blows. -__-

i think i've earned the right after all that stress to channel my inner Linda Belcher

alright! mommy's gonna day drink, who's with me?

also sugarfoot got out today, which actually ended up going relatively well -- she darted back so fast when i shook the treat bag, i accidentally closed the door on her because i hadn't even noticed her

maybe i've been overprotective and i can finally let the poor gal outside for brief periods between nursings...

@KinkyTurtle Huh, I never knew about that and the whole Hemingway connection!

aaaand shemp's got an eye infection *sigh*

there might be another call for donations soon

yeah, louise is gonna end up one of us...

(it's a "dragon with a girl tattoo" costume)

i love that she's still wearing her bunny ears underneath