Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Oh my god, Artie just SCHOOLED Sugarfoot. They were both on different "floors" of a box we set up with an amusing little trap door system and our little supervillain figured out how to exploit this to her tactical advantage to bap Sugarfoot repeatedly without (immediate) repercussions.

However, in true cartoon villain style, Artie did NOT figure out an adequate means of escape first and is now being chased back into the cat room. XD XD XD

@typhlosion There's a lot of it about. *hug*

Tell ya what. If you REALLY wanna feel better, I can post some pics of MY household.

It... it ain't pretty. Even before the cats invaded, it wasn't pretty.

I just deliberately and joyfully used Gamergate/Trump style denial-and-deflection tactics to "win" an argument with a COVID denier (read: "Deliberately frustrate their ability to have a real discussion").

The whole shebang. Dishonest Debate Tactics 101. Links to half-hour Youtube videos of ambiguous content. Delaying tactics for assertions I KNEW I could not substantiate. "Just asking questions" when pinned.

And I can't even pretend I'm not proud of myself. This is some powerful mojo. I will try to use it only for good, i.e., only against people I think are kinda evil, and only when a civil, rational debate is clearly not being offered.

I can't pretend it's not super fun. I can totally see why they do it. It's MADDENING to the other side, like fistfighting a Stay-Puft marshmallow man.

OK, after seeing a long and impassioned "Woke" defense of some objectively pretty godawful people (you don't need details, trust me it wouldn't make anybody happier)...

AND watching someone here on Masto have a big self-indulging Doomsaying session over a political thing that the facts do NOT support being doomful...

I definitely have severe Internet poisoning.

If you see me again before tomorrow and it's not just me stopping in to burble about our cats, make me leave. -__-

It won't make me hate humanity and its culture any less, but at least I won't have to be immersed in it for a while.

@mawr I was puzzling why you used the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria flag emoji... and then I looked them up. Holy crap. I want to believe too. Shit, I want to send them money and presents.

(And that's not just because I was in love with a mooncat for 15 years...)

@Austin_Dern God, you're making me miss the Mystic Krewe of the Silver Ball's pinball church down here. Another post-COVID pleasure on the waiting list... We gotta at LEAST get you photos of the interior.

"International Colouring Contest" by Stereolab is a love song

Just bid farewell to Peg and Artie with "Bye, scaly sweetheart! Bye, fuzzy sweetheart!"

My life is so blessed. It'll all come crashing down someday one way or the other, especially 'cause cats only live a decade or two, but... in the meantime, it's more than I really expected or deserved.

I wouldn't say these cats saved my life, but they certainly staff the emotional maintenance bureau that the dragon founded. <3

@Austin_Dern @typhlosion Haha, true, but it's SUCH a fundamental part of my formative family vacation memories...

@001zlnv OK, Cosmic Hero Kermit is TOTALLY on point, you sold me...

@xinjinmeng Apparently Joanna Russ compared Emphyrio to a Bertold Brecht play and I think now I have to find a copy...

@001zlnv As for Kermit, that's gotta be a hard no simply because Fallout Equestria is bad enough and I am NOT fucking ready for Fallout Muppets. :p

@001zlnv As for Legion, FUUUUUCK I thought you meant David Haller and after watching the series I was like NO NO NO NO NO, WATCH THE REST. :)

@001zlnv Yeah, the tachikoma are definitely in. ^___^ I boycotted the whole fucking rest of Stand Alone Complex when they were gonna lobotomize the tachikoma, and I should really go back and watch the rest now that I've heard they apparently end up fine. ^_____^

@Austin_Dern Heh, I was real tempted to include either Ford or Arthur...

@Austin_Dern McCoy is a great choice.

Random quiz inspired by a Twitter thread:

You've been chosen to draft a Secret Wars-style superteam of seven of humanity's greatest fictional friends, to save us for all time from The Great Moral Darkness. They must be chosen for their utter goodness and capacity to foment love and redemption.

My recruits:
Danny the Street (Doom Patrol)
Vir Cotto (Babylon 5)
Aunt Beast (A Wrinkle In Time)
The Log Lady (Twin Peaks)
Dᴇᴀᴛʜ (Discworld)
Bokonon (Cat's Cradle)
St. Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)

Yours?

this is @chimerror's fault

there go my plans to eat people and break stuff today

at least my account name finally matches up with my species again *color-cycles his pixels Williams-ishly*

@chimerror fine, you're on

we know the secrets of the horse swamp. we can live there quite happily for some time, so if you ever feel like prancing, please pay us a visit.