Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

I mean just look at this perfect creature. She may be wanted in twelve countries but they can't have her, she's mine. <3

Yes, the pic is right-side up. She was just... like that at the moment.

Yay! Lady Artemis has been returned to the care of the Royal Court after a delightful night of purring and cuddling, and the Royal Paw shows some signs of improvement. Her Young Majesty was greeted warmly by Lord Ceejay and Prince Shempington and is now slightly moist. The paparazzi have since been scattered.

Seriously, I think we gave that beautiful sweet kitty a Peak Experience by letting her come snuggle in bed with us and I hope it distracted her from her, hopefully minor, injury!

@LexYeen We probably do, but it's so hard to convince myself sometimes. Thank you for backing me up with a little common sense. <3

Yeah, we looked Her Young Majesty over pretty well and found no trace of blood, swelling, or damage. Objectively her prognosis is probably pretty good but I am a Fret Monster when it comes to those cats. :)

Poor thing probably twisted it skiing in Courchevel behind our backs again. Mission, schmission -- she knows she's not supposed to do that.

Aww, Artie may have sprained her paw. She's limping a bit.

Shemp did this a couple months ago and totally freaked me out, but ended up fine after a day or two. She doesn't cry out when we examine the paw, so I'm suspecting something fairly minor?

We're gonna give her a day or two and keep an eye on it. In the meantime we're tempted to let her spend the night so we at least know what *kind* of trouble she's getting into.

@hystericempress being a weird furry in a social space is like having a psychoanalysis ray that you can't figure out how to shut off

or being an anthropomorphic rorschach blot

people just kinda come up and reveal their major personal damage to you

@hystericempress my personal favorite was the time a rando came up and fact-checked my hieracosphinx Chryssie for being a girl, because that was against AD&D canon, which of course applied normatively to TapestriesMUCK :p

Actually, make it four. Janice Moss. She didn't hurt anybody. :( Grant me four total good cops. That's all I ask.

Although on a side note, I just restarted watching Twin Peaks and... Dale has a surprising number of Ordinary Hardass Cop moments in the first 3 episodes! It almost feels like a bait and switch after seeing him go on to dabble in Tibetan mysticism and soul transmigration and stuff. O_o

Still. I would trust that loon to the ends of the earth. I wouldn't even say that about Fox Mulder, who you notice did NOT get on my canonical list of Three Good Cops.

Oh, and I'd trust the sheriff from No Country For Old Men... but only because he had the damn sense to STOP BEING A COP.

There's more to life than a little money, ya know. Don'tcha know that? And here I am. And it's a beautiful day.

And I wonder if just maybe I'm doing something right for having chosen love and following this weird dragon to this weird doomed fae swamptown, and if maybe Officer Gunderson* might smile on me for it.

(*one of the Three Canonical Good Cops, alongside Dale Cooper and Frank Columbo, not counting Marge's earthly avatar Molly Solverson)

@001zlnv Haha, I was JUST watching my coworkers bitch about WebEx. Did they screw up an update or something?

the thing is i love her but i know she'd do it

@anthracite Like the one you're married to? *laugh* But see adjacent rant: it's like the musical equivalent of Naked Lunch. Between the fact the creator is such a COMPROMISED ASSHOLE and the fact it JUST RESISTS ALL REASONABLE ATTEMPTS TO PERCEIVE IT LET ALONE LIKE IT, it can never possibly be canon. It's like the extreme comedy I like, too: if you can endure it, great, but Jesus, don't inflict it on anybody else unless you're deliberately trying to annoy them for fun.

<3 <3<

@Phorm I mean, I would defend the poignance and essential quality of "Orange Claw Hammer" in a debate. It is a hill I would be tempted to die on.

But I've also read enough about Van Vliet to be absolutely, completely, positively on board with the idea that he was a self-absorbed, narcissistic, abusive, self-indulgent piece of shit with a very questionable WIS score to back up all that musical whatever-it-was.

Same with Zappa, and it leaves me ashamed sometimes to admire his work so much, even though I have to filter so much adolescent, misogynistic, appropriative bullshit out of it AND shoulder the knowledge all those perfect chords and warped time signature trickery were the product of willfully induced human suffering. -______-

I have a hunch that (a) these two facts are not going to go well together (b) we're never gonna hear a goddamn thing about it in Western news:

[1] Australian special forces unlawfully killed 39 Afghani civilians.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/australian-special-forces-killed-39-afghan-civilians-unlawfully-inquiry-finds-11605780498

[2] The number 39 is a widely reviled and insulting cultural trope in Afghanistan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_39

I mean, I only knew about this because, well, I'm me. I have a lot of spare time on my hands and a lifelong borderline-mystic obsession with numbers. And I'm sure it's a coincidence. But this is a BIG DEAL in Afghanistan and it's weird not seeing anyone else be shocked at seeing that big ol' 39 popping up in this potentially disastrous context...

@Leucrotta you know i've got a soft spot for salukis <3

@anthracite thanks for showing the people how we live XD

we really need to scrub the whole house down once the kittens are adopted...

@anthracite Heh. The line "As long as you can log in to your PayPal account, your crypto will always be at your fingertips" in their promotional material probably wasn't *meant* to sound like a threat, but...

@anthracite Ah, that was it: YOU DON'T GET THE PRIVATE KEYS. Paypal kindly holds on to them for you so you don't have to worry your pretty little consumer head about it.

@anthracite Yeah, I saw an article about this. ABSOLUTELY DO NOT USE. There are a whole bunch of weird restrictions on it which you do NOT want Paypal, of all people, to be able to wield.

@chimerror Wow, that is some good energy. Not just one of the best icons I've ever seen... but inspiration for living.