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@001zlnv That does sound like a laugh, got a source?

@001zlnv This one? :O https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104683/

@hystericempress (Oops, sorry, you addressed that already! I was indeed in the back, timeline-wise. :D )

@hystericempress I confess I still recoil from most products that are full of MSG, but mostly due to "YIKES, that's a lot of sodium." It's also an irrational revulsion that's kept me from eating a lot of crappy processed food over the years... But yeah, the research is damn solid-looking and the racist component of CRS is especially infuriating.

All right, people, demipeople, and miscellaneous thoughtforms.

You have one week to entertain me...

...or I'm gonna start running improv games lifted from Comedy Bang!Bang! here.

I swear I'll fuckin' do it. I've memorized the rules to Would You Rather. (There are TWO.) I have honed my Fortunately Unfortunately skills to a razor's edge.

Y'all, I'm so bored. Save me from these freakin' cats and this weird moonstruck swamp dragon. :D <3

@Soreth "Rose is a rose is a rose." That's the original.

*confident nod*

Well, there's no further resolution coming in the Saving Cats From Winter Storm plotline until tomorrow, it's just warm enough that nobody needs saving *right now*, and our dealer's not due until 5.

Time for a timeskip. Cut to commercial. *naps* In the meantime maybe you can pretend it's Wandavision and come up with fan theories for how every single fucking object in my bedroom is clearly an Infinity Stone. :D

@Soreth "Good."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb9jQN5hdLY

If I ever call you "very good and clever" in those exact words, you have probably committed an absolutely woeful act of "well, actually" literal-mindedness, are in a lot of trouble, and should abandon the thread immediately before I figure out exactly how good-naturedly I want to torment you for it. :)

@001zlnv The Dirty 88 are a whole colony that lives in an apartment garage a block away. They are apparently NOTORIOUS among the local trap/rescue community as one of the big stray-breeding red zones in town. We have speculated that our own babies might even be descended from The 88.

(The nickname comes from "Get Fluffy," a cat-perspective martial arts epic in the vein of Kill Bill that we'll probably never get around to, based on the whole saga of Shadow And The Cone Of Shame from last year. It's derived from O-Ren Ishii's "Crazy 88" of course. They were basically planned as a mini-boss battle before the protagonist confronts Fluffy herself, a polydactyl with the secret of 8-Claw Exploding Pounce Style. :) )

The above tweet reads as a little self-congratulatory now and I realized I skipped a major part of the context: I kinda needed to remind myself that I panicked like 10 times worse -- y'all saw it in realtime -- over those kittens, every day for three months. So taking a moment to meditate on that was really therapeutic. Everything turned out VERY okay with Liv and Snowy, S+ best ending, so... yeah. I should really try to convince my brain to let me relax a little.

@chimerror i mean, it's true as a general rule :)

@chimerror *makes popcorn and asks for directions like the shameless voyeur they are* :D

Someone on Twitter was asking for kitten pics so I went through my directory and ran across a bunch of snapshots of Snowy and Liv... and reminded myself we SAVED. THE. FUCK. OUT. OF. those precious kittens. We've saved like five cats from the brink of death. One night of 28 degree weather is not going to stop us from saving more. We have materials, we have plans, we just have to convince ONE shy kitty to snuggle up in the shelter we make and the rest can just come visit. We've got this. We're gonna get GOOD at this. Everything's going to be OK.

In fact, I get a certain amount of volunteer time off from work, and I've been REAL tempted -- once it warms up and COVID stuff improves a little -- to start working for one of the Trap-Neuter-Rescue agencies and REALLY up my cat-saving game.

You hear that, Dirty 88? I hear you all mewling down at that parking garage. You're saying "SNIP ME, PLEASE SNIP ME." And you will be snipped. And every cat on earth will be a tiny bit happier for it.

(Plan B is "buy the cheapest fleece blankets we can find at Goodwill and shove them through the holes the cats use to get into the abandoned basement next door." The Petco cashier said just curling up there wouldn't be enough by itself, but with something to curl up IN they'd probably be all right...)

OK, just got back from Petco armed with:

* a bundle of wood shavings for insulation
* a big fluffy pet bed
* treats
* food
* more treats
* litter
* a bunch of solid advice from an employee who's taking care of four semi-strays of her own

Plan A is to put our big old dog crate on the porch, fill it with insulation and the kitty bed, cover it with a warm blanket and a trash bag for waterproofing, and hope to Bast that Ceejay will accept it as outdoor shelter for the upcoming night of 28 degrees.

For the other five, Plan A is still All-Night Cat Party. I am NOT looking forward to chaperoning 5-6 kitties in a tiny cluttered apartment, but I'm looking forward to it a lot more than leaving the kids out in subfreezing weather.

@Cerulean And honestly? The main reason I let you be scarce is that you seem to prefer to be scarce and I never know the right way to approach unless there's a clear excuse, 'cause I have social anxiety too. I always enjoy interacting with you. <3

@spacewastrel@yiff.life Yeah, I hope I've at least shown that's not what I was doing! ^_^; I really think it's important to look at these works as a whole, enjoy what's good and isolate what's bad. And if it's a *really* problematic creator who you really don't want to have your money... hell, just steal it. O:)

@Leucrotta Nothin' wrong with surfin in itself, just with people insinuating it somehow rescues Mike Judge from being the next Joss Whedon, or somehow proves he's not One Of Those Big Hollywood Phonies.

Although Keanu has also been namechecked as one of those Nice Guy Celebrities who's forced to shoulder WAY more moral weight than even a genuinely decent guy should ever have to...

(Though to be fair, the number of stories of Keanu's generosity and humility are uncountable, and I've never heard anything bad about him whatsoever that wasn't, well, valid criticism of his pre-Matrix acting skills...)

current mood: inordinately proud of the line "What an infinitesimally mild delight, to discover that you still draw breath!"

i love backhanded compliments, they appeal to the cattiest of my cat nature ^____^;