Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Brill basically showed up to keep me sane while we were dealing with the Kittenpocalypse. :) She was based on Oyster, an ABSOLUTELY FUCKING GORGEOUS sweetie of an Aussie Shepherd I met at the local craft beer shop.

Her backstory is slowly evolving, but so far I'm pretty sure she's from some kind of Buffyverse-like hellworld, and is probably the result of some Slayer type magically merging with her beloved guard dog. She's a shaggy punk with a maternal streak and a foul mouth, and I love her so much.

I desperately needed someone who could do CALM AND COLLECTED in the midst of a crisis. Tigers, zebras, raccoons... ain't that. =n.n;=

Trying to put a positive spin on this earache: it's the easiest tolerance break I've had in ages.

Every time I look over at the bong, the voice of my Inner Fretful Australian Shepherd (remind me to tell you critters about my new headfriend Brill sometime! she's awesome!) just puts her virtual paw on my shoulder and wuffs, "Nope. Sorry. Hard no."

When this is finally over, I am gonna have SO MUCH WEED on hand. Brace yourselves. I might be insufferably weird even by my standards for a few days. XD

Peebles, I apologize for all the times I've taken your feather away when you weren't done playing with it.

They just suspended the right-wing troll I was making fun of on Birdsite, and now I know exactly how it must feel.

@LexYeen Great song! I wonder what it's about?

@eredien Aww! ^__^; And FWIW, my ear bacteria seem to be dying in heaps so our mutual unfondness of them is being rewarded, thanks to 2x daily Augmentin. :) I'm doing a lot better already!

@Austin_Dern Color me absolutely not astonished. :) Although if you were the personality model for pinball pros, I'd just think they were all charmingly eccentric, which also seems very plausible... <3

@Austin_Dern There aren't enough Willy Wonka memes on this planet...

Maybe it's the earache talking, but I've been lying here inert all day, reading depressing news and depressing stories from people I care about, and pondering just how many layers upon layers of ugly, corrupt, ignorant social institutions we'd have to destroy in order to have a decent world to live in.

Even if we fix America, despite all the best efforts of the right wing to prevent it, the other two superpowers seem to be doubling down on abusive gaslighting totalitarianism. All I can say is if there's anyone out there looking to radicalize middle-aged queers... you've picked the right time.

i am spending trans day of visiblilty cringing and hiding in bed with an earache and yeah that's pretty much how my gender plays out vis a vis real trans people so it feels pretty appropriate

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

bad thing is i am on my way to the clinic for an earache and i think this is that last straw thats put me into full panic "things are falling apart" mode, between that and the power going out in Pegs studio last night

good news is our neighbor who adopted the kittens was out on his porch and i got to see my babies again! 😻😻😻 they looked real healthy and happy and had no interest in the outdoor life, everything i hoped for for them!

source material:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5QErPDNcj4

Warm *MROW*
Kittycat *PRRR*
Warm *MROW*
Kittycat *PRRR*

Hear the jingly bell
On Miss Tortoise Shell
Hear the jingly bell
On Miss Tortoise Shell

Warm *MROW*
Kittycat *PRRR*
Warm *MROW*
Kittycat *PRRR*

Warm kittycat
Sheds on your whitest clothes
I bet she'll bite your finger
If you try to boop her nose

Warm *MROW*
Kittycat *PRRR*
Join *MROW*
The cat scratch set

Here's one to make the grammar prescriptivists in your life sweat blood and bile:

What's the correct possessive of "Gorillaz?"

I am gonna say it's Gorillaz' and there isn't a single person on earth who can stop me.

@KinkyTurtle Compare "I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad" from Gorillaz' Clint Eastwood...

@KinkyTurtle I think intentional ambiguity is a huge recurring theme in Talking Heads lyrics in general-- e.g. I've never quite figured out whether No Compassion is meant to be ironic, and I know music critics have HOTLY debated the topic-- so I suspect both connected and unconnected are valid interpretations by design. It just seems like the sort of thing Unca David would do.

@KinkyTurtle

...find a card deck
Find myself a card deck to win with!

#NeverLeaveAComradeHanging

@KinkyTurtle Well, I've been having a tremendous amount of fun with the RPG deckbuilder Griftlands, but I've maxxed out what I can do with my current skills and I'm now familiar with all the (excellent!) storyline content-- so the game was already getting a bit less fun.

So I look at the strategy guides, and apparently the optimal strategy for success at high levels is... you have to (1) murder everybody who doesn't like you, and (2) spend all your money on improving diplomatic relations with each and every other NPC in the game whose "social boons" work with your character build.

The first is unpleasant for such a good-natured game, and works against the deck archetypes I like. The second is just tedious and time-consuming and basically requires playing the game with the wiki open.

It doesn't necessarily ruin the game for me, but... I kinda wish there were some intermediate strategy guides. I need advice that's more like "here are some good cards; here are some bad cards; here are some good combos; here are some mechanics you may have neglected."

I feel like when I look for advice on a game, what I usually find is more like "OK, here is the One True Way to win this game at Prestige Level 99. If you just learn to do few simple homogeneous third-order non-linear partial differential equations in your head, you can do infinite combos that do a quadrillion damage to the boss before combat even starts, but you shall never see daylight nor know the love of a mortal again."

I really should have arranged to make "Postvixen" a hereditary title. Spread the blame around a little. :D

@KinkyTurtle And it only took like TEN YEARS of knowing you to finally figure out what it referred to. :D And I always just figured KT was a hereditary title, like the Prince of Wales or Dread Pirate Roberts or Cher. <3

BAD THING: Nursing day seven of an earache.

GOOD THING: It's probably a clogged eustachian tube and not an infection. Also, I just armed myself to the teeth with decongestants and nasal sprays.

GOOD THING: I have spent the last 5 minutes tormenting Anthracite with "yiffy" filks of "In The Year 2525." ("o/` In the year Fuck-Hundred-And-Twelve... they'll have sex... with anything but elves... o/`")

BAD THING: I have been barred from re-entering Anthracite's studio for the next half-hour. :D :D :D :D