Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@packbat you might wanna ask @anthracite about that one, she had a somewhat nonstandard nms experience and pretty strong opinions about whether the updates really fixed it - certainly they destroyed the experience _she_ wanted from it...

@Phorm and yet i am SO HOT for this, esp with the hair and color scheme...

@Phorm that is valid and perfectly funny

i mean i am 45 ffs, i AM auntie nelda or at least auntie tiger

@anthracite that is the sort of outfit you build yr home office AROUND i think

style goals

I wonder if this would help any with my tension headaches... O:)

(There is also a valid perspective, presumably the author's, in which this is very sweet and supportive, and I see what they're getting at, of course.

It doesn't HAVE to be analyzed in such cynical terms, It's just what came to mind for me -- when I saw it, my first thought was just "Um, aren't most trees DEAD by the time they're decorated like that and having 'their day?!'")

This cartoon would fit my worldview much better if in the last panel, the conifer's trunk were severed and it had little X-ed out eyes.

I mean, isn't that basically what we did to, just to name one example, Robin Williams? Scorned him and made fun of his inadequacies until he was sacrified, and then he was revered once he was safely dead and thus Perfect Forever?

And all the other artists who nobody showed the faintest appreciation for until they were dead and only existed as a safe, still abstraction...

The fucking pine tree is fine. It was fine before. Its day already came every winter of every year because it was already perfect for its environment. Your fruit is neat and all, Mx. Deciduous, but don't push your friends into being something they don't need, for someone else's approval.

This image and its caption are AGONIZING for me.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/39407852/

For a long time I was living in a situation -- I won't bother saying with whom -- where something like this, some *active* assistance with my gender and self-image stuff -- was constantly being promised, and every specific request I made was totally ignored.

In retrospect I suspect it's because my idea of what I wanted didn't match the very conventional full-transition path they had planned out for me.

But really, this is all I ever wanted. A little help with hair, clothes, and makeup and a little fucking emotional support.

@spacewastrel@yiff.life EMINENTLY valid opinion. It has some very good traits and some absolute deal-breakers.

also i have a splitting headache and the cats are actually being quiet so i'm taking a long fucking nap

guess i'm catching up on my day job over the weekend...

Today the amount of time I thought I was looking directly at a deceased human was non-zero.

Yeah.

We saw someone passed out on the sidewalk on our way home from the cafe. Their eyes were wide open and we couldn't see them breathe at first.

We called 911 and a few neighbors were gathered around to keep an eye out. By the time the ambulance got there, he was talking and moving a little, so we're greatly relieved.

Best of luck, guy who probably at #306. Poor dude had a pair of glasses and a smart phone nearby, and a jacket tucked under his head, so he probably knew something was going wrong.

@spacewastrel@yiff.life To be fair, there was a "Doofus Rick" reference in Rick and Morty that came rrrrrreal close to crossing the line imho, but there was also a full portrayal of an arguably mentally disabled character (by fucked-up Rick standards) happening there...

That's not *quite* why I don't watch the damn show anymore, but it's... adjacent to the reasons.

@JulieSqveakaroo "I already told you, I don't want to be called that any more! I MADE A MISTAKE!"

(naturally it should go without saying that if you *actively* mock or shame anyone for *actually* having continence issues, you're a far, far bigger piece of shit than anyone complaining about "Diaper Dan" on Twitter and I don't wanna know *you* either, but I don't think that could ever apply to anyone I know here... and I'm willing to double and triple down that THIS ISNT WHAT THAT FUCKING HASHTAG IS ABOUT)

@spacewastrel@yiff.life For the longest time I believed that Rik and I were the ONLY tourists the PdP had ever had. XD Are you perhaps the third, then? :)

oh this goes decatuple if your Objectively Correct Woke Moral Proclamation revolves around a space, hyphen, or word order

and that is not to say that those differences *can't* matter -- it's that maybe just maybe the connotations you apply to those things aren't universal or objective after all, and just maybe not everybody's gotten the memo yet that This Is How We're Doing It Now.

or maybe they have a valid reason why it's ok in that context, because THAT'S HOW WORDS WORK -- above all this comes down to the fact I cut my philosophical teeth on post-structuralist philosophy.

word are not magical sigils of power that pull energy exclusively from, say, The Primordial Plane of Ableism -- they are contingent and contextual and slippery by their very nature.

my personal experience tells me that trying to treat words like they're very cut-and-dried little units of Perfect Meaning is not only inaccurate, it's fucking dangerous, probably responsible for a solid plurality of Bad Human Ideas.

i've said it before: having a idealized world where there's zero possibility for linguistic "harm" due to an unpleasant connotation is like having a world where everything is perfectly sterilized of all microbes. you're just gonna give everybody an allergy, you absolute fucking doofus.

is doofus canceled yet? can i still say doofus?

i seem to be in "how many followers can i lose today" mode over on birdsite and i regret absolutely fucking nothing

getting real tired of random Woke People issuing linguistic proclamations to the rest of the world. criticize, yes. debate, yes. appeal to our humanity, yes. absolutely. things like ableism and queerphobia really do exist and language really can be very damaging.

but tell us What All We Now Must Never Do And Say because you (all one of you) got together one morning with a burr up your ass and decided to proclaim your Objective Moral Revelation to the world, honestly i'm just gonna either block you or eat you depending on my mood

awww dammit twitter won't let you report your own tweets XD

my favorite ex just told me they are off to "go play legos" with their current partner-or-whatever and the sheer nerd wholesomeness of this entire interaction even being possible warms my heart