Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Ergh. Quickie vent because I'm catching up on a million things that got interrupted today...

We got contacted out of the blue by the cat charity that helped us spay/neuter our kids. There is an elderly woman who apparently has fed the semiferals in an abandoned house down our street for 10+ years and had a fall.

We are taking over for her until she recovers "which shouldn't be long" except every time we talk to her there's a new medical woe.

And she's NUTS. Long-winded and oblivious in the way that only lonely old Catholic ladies are. (I'm from Italian Catholics, I'm allowed to say that. I've lived it. So. Many. Times.)

And every time I talk to her, the instructions for feeding these cats get more and more specific and onerous. And include another hint that just maybe the neighbors are actively hostile towards her. And we get to jump straight into that hostility.

I am not looking forward to any of this.

OK, that's not true. There's a really cute tortie living there and I look forward to meeting him. :) But there are a hundred other things about this arrangement that are stressing the shit out of me, because I DISTINCTLY detect the presence of an needy emotional vampire. Like, Colin Robinson grade. >____<

@Aradia It's also on Hulu, I believe! I have heard it's pretty good.

@001zlnv you can imagine what infinity train did to me too

@001zlnv I have not! Anime?

@Austin_Dern Oh I would be very entertained by that! n.n

@typhlosion It's so true! We are said to be as big as all outdoors. *preen*

@001zlnv I mean, these are all very yes. If we were playing the Raggedy Ann and Andy Drinking Game[1], I'd have had to do five shots just now.

[1] "Watch a piece of media. If you see one of your kinks represented, drink. It DEFINITELY counts even if the instance on screen is unattractive or undesirable."

And presumably increment myself appropriately...

...

*sigh*

*drink*

Six.

@typhlosion (ah, i was slightly misquoting the Gospel of St. Hobbes anyhow...)

@typhlosion Humph. It sounds so much better in the original Tigrish. :) (My Japanese is pretty rusty but I don't think the algorithm did a very good job. :) )

https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=ja&text=Tigers%20are%20great%0AThe%20epitome%0AOf%20good%20looks%20and%20grace%0AAnd%20quiet%20dignity%0A&op=translate

@typhlosion 虎。

ok a little more research shows that there are two main sites that mention "arithmophilia." Every other source seems to copy from one of them. Both are... pretty neat, actually, but are clearly just etymological wankery.

in fact, one outright admits these are purely hypothetical and were all cribbed from a list of phobias.

https://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/philias.html

the other was written as clickbait for a "sex education" website

https://sexducates.com/list-of-paraphilias/

one truly is the loneliest number. harry nilsson, you were a genius. ;_;

genuinely a little sad to see that there's virtually zero usage of "arithmophilia" to refer to an actual kink/paraphilia (i found one google result and it was a tongue-in-cheek list of kinks an artist would do; there were several hundred entries and they were clearly copied from somewhere else)

i can't be the only one, i can't

i wasn't joking

https://twitter.com/zebratron2084/status/1424820818677227524

"numbers on body" is actually core kink for me

i could probably occupy a therapist for three or four months with why because damned if i know and i feel like i should, there's definitely something deep to unearth there :)

Always loved this video (RIP Run Wrake), but only recently noticed how deep the leftist imagery in it runs. Too many old men wielding sharp objects for me to think it's all coincidence...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6kZornX_i-Q

Favorite part starts at 2:45.

Also 3:05 to 3:15. Look at that key around the poor thing's neck. There's no way that's not intended as a metaphor. I love that sequence. It's heartbreaking. It's never felt truer.

#OnceAndForAll #OnceAndForAll

I just spent two hours getting paid to disprove the existence of a single-family home that was bulldozed in Iwakura Nagatani-cho, Kyoto, and I absolutely killed it, and I feel like Philip Fuckin' Marlowe.

Or maybe Barbara Fuckin' Gordon. n.n;

@chimerror Three (Artemus, Shemp, Peebles) down, three (Shadow, Sugarfoot, Ceejay) to go!

And of course, the tigress gets plenty of petting from @anthracite because she's awesome. Big cat is still cat, right? 🐯​

@001zlnv waugh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin_Spice_Spam

@001zlnv I... what.

@Phorm @troodon @monsterblue @001zlnv @JulieSqveakaroo @zx3 @sig

Hi, folks! I haven't forgotten about the game but the weekend ended up being unexpectedly low-energy and stressful and I never got anywhere near creative mode.

I think I might take a few weeks to figure out exactly where I want to go with this and make some basic campaign plans.

As warned, there's a serious chance this will not ever get past my ADD barrier, in which case I just wanted to tell you I've been really really enjoying reading your character designs and you at least have my gratitude for participating in my writing exercise.

But I really want this to happen in some way or another and I will try to push through the brainfog and see if we can make this a thing... <3