Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@monsterblue I would love to see it! They're really rewarding, mine's like six years old now!

Hey, am I totally misremembering or was there some bit of comics lore about the Equestrians have a long traditional of musical magic? I seem to remember something about, like, Starswirl inventing rock and roll or something similarly silly/charming?

Whatever it was, I walked away with the impression it actually did a pretty good job of justifying Vinyl having turntables in a society that's barely got trains. But I have a history of wishful thinking about these things tinting my memory...

i like to link to this thing every now and then

https://www.evernote.com/l/Ahj14VCozwRCmKPf3jNAGoweu4XXvAVxioo/

it's basically the rawest glimpse you'll ever get into my interests.

it's... um... not conventionally interesting in the slightest :D

some mild potentially offensive content but shouldn't be anything too bad

(commonplace books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book)

(my first inspiration for having one: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2901612-hodgepodge)

@dodec I would love to see this turn into an actual fic, definitely!

@001zlnv The latter. Full rubber lining. Under a FURSUIT.

Yeah. Very safe and comfortable and definitely what we really do.

Zero research.

@001zlnv yyyyyup

fuckin' geniuses had people walking around in LATEX-lined fursuits and not dying left and right of heatstroke

did. not. do. their. homework.

is it just me, or is this just a really badly written sentence? "bio-active drug containing a virus" scrapes up real close to "not even wrong" in my book

you know, not like those totally biologically inactive drugs-- i'd hate for people to turn into zombies over a placebo

shit, now i wanna see a horror movie where a placebo turns people into zombies

i know i'm behind the curve on this but i love how they explain every goddamn minor technical detail TO THEIR FELLOW LEO PROFESSIONALS because they have NIL respect for the audience

i knew they did it. i had no idea just how low they'd stoop.

like i let myself forget that there are series that are this lazily written and have this little respect for their audiences but are still popular

and the copaganda is even more blatant and shameless than i'd expected, we are expected to cheer for the worst damn bullying and thank the protags for it

this is everything i could have ever wanted in a hatewatch and more

csi is just really really bad y'all

@zx3 I would be SO HONORED :D

https://twitter.com/HellbirdIV

tell me my assessment is incorrect in any way

don't worry, it's not a memetic hazard -- there's not enough there to be a memetic anything

https://twitter.com/zebratron2084/status/1398027600879099907

he took a swipe at my friend ellu, ffs.

he had to die by charivari.

@zx3 you've heard the optigan cover, right?

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

Has anybody else gotten a rash a few days after their vaccination that _wasn't_ "COVID Arm?"

I'm getting a massive outbreak of hives over the left side of my upper belly. I'm not too worried about it, it's just... weird. And I can't find any reports of anyone else getting it from the virus.

To be fair, it's hot and humid as hell in NOLA today and it could just be "natural causes."

@zx3 Those are both FINE examples. I have really fond memories of seeing The Star Hustler late at night, and shared love of Raymond Scott is kind of a mild Thing between Peg and me.

The other is another PBS instructional TV host: the late Bob Kupa'a Smith, host of the language arts and etymology show Wordsmith.

I first discovered him as a kid, of course. Wordsmith was the number one factor that inspired my love of words, linguistics, and classical etymology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordsmith_(TV_series)

https://web.archive.org/web/20130111024741/http://www.ait.net:80/technos/e-zine/interviews/bob_smith.php

And then I ran into him again as an adult, while he was still alive, after stumbling across his Facebook. Sadly, it's no longer around. But he had evolved into EVERYTHING you wanted your childhood heroes to be.

In his late 80s or so, he was taking computer science courses, had dyes his hair blue, and had taken up food criticism as a hobby. He was everything I wanted to be but lacked the energy and, above all I think, the *hope*. He was teaching kids and being the "groovy old guy" up to his last moments and I am so lovingly envious.

Hope you're on a nice celestial beach, Kupunakāne, where every grain of sand is a word cell and every word is kind and honest.

And wow, it turns out MOST OF THE SERIES is up on an archive. That was a nice, unexpected gift: https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/catalog?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_field=all_fields&q=wordsmith

First is this gentleman, Dr. Julius Sumner Miller, physicist and TV educator.

I actually have no idea at all how famous he is. Apparently he was actually pretty well-known in Australia, yet he was also a staple on NE Ohio instructional TV in the 70s/80s.

What I love about this guy is his unfiltered self-effacing HONESTY, of a sort you never see on TV (or even Youtube, mostly) anymore.

His shows were barely edited. If he fucked up an experiment... well, he fucked it up. He'd apologize to the viewers, explain concisely and frankly what he thought went wrong, grumble a bit about the majesty and unpredictability of nature, and then apparently to correct it. And sometimes THAT one would go wrong.

Also, he worked as a butler, met Einstein, created a word game, and fought ferociously against ignorance, anti-intellectualism, misspellings, and other fundamental human evils.

Just go and read his Wiki entry, it gets pretty entertaining. First is this gentleman, Dr. Julius Sumner Miller, physicist and TV educator.

I actually have no idea at all how famous he is. Apparently he was actually pretty well-known in Australia, yet he was also a staple on NE Ohio instructional TV in the 70s/80s.

What I love about this guy is his unfiltered self-effacing HONESTY, of a sort you never see on TV (or even Youtube, mostly) anymore.

His shows were barely edited. If he fucked up an experiment... well, he fucked it up. He'd apologize to the viewers, explain concisely and frankly what he thought went wrong, grumble a bit about the majesty and unpredictability of nature, and then apparently to correct it. And sometimes THAT one would go wrong.

Also, he worked as a butler, met Einstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s9psf01ldo

Dr. M at work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s9psf01ldo

So. Tell me about a low-level celebrity who influenced your life for the better or whom you just really admire. The more obscure the better.

@zx3 Those are... some head friends right there. She says, as she cohabits with tigers and stuff.