Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

(otoh peg just got another rambling barely comprehensible voicemail from Crazy Cat Lady, and it sounds like she may have found someone to take over at least half the feeding days from us...)

(captioned for the Utena impaired: this is a snippped from "Virtual Star Hasseigaku," one of the Utena themes. The song is deeply philosophical, very Buddhist and Western-esoteric, and a bit nihilistic.

The lyrics in the previous toot translate as "A single organic engine, a single perpetual motion device: Ah, it is empty motion
Yes, it is empty motion, motion."

This is how I'm CONSOLING myself today. 100 years from now nobody's going to know or care any of this happened, if there's even anyone left to know or care.

Hitotsu no yuuki teki na kikan
Hitotsu no eikyuu undou souchi

Aa kudou nari
Sora, kudou nari

So I don't really have much energy left, but this is so crazy and I need to vent about it a little.

We got roped into feeding a houseful of feral cats down the street. The woman we're taking over for is an ancient Catholic lady and she is CERTIFIABLE, just the stereotypical nutty rambling old lady in every way.

And every fucking day we hear from her with another bit of the full story, 13 years worth of drama with the neighbors over feeding these cats, all of which was conveniently omitted when she first called asking for help.

And every time she calls, she has a more specific instruction for How Her Babies Must Be Fed.

And I have been conditioned over a lifetime to have no resistance at all to sweet but insane old Catholic ladies.

And this is getting to be a lot. A lot, lot, lot. We have the sense to bail the moment it does start to lead to any actual conflict, but... the guy on the corner has apparently been a vindictive bastard about these cats in the past and some paranoid part of me is TERRIFIED he'll take it out on OUR cats if we get too wrapped up in this.

Which would mean swift death for him in the middle of the night, of course.

I really, really, really wish this whole burden had been dropped on somebody else. But dammit, it's a good opportunity to learn some adulting, crisis-management, and boundary-setting skills, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna let a bunch of cats starve.

Bast give me strength, and if this really does come to some kind of massive neighborhood cat drama, please also raise me some bail money and a good lawyer.

Theoretically this is only for a month. And nothing bad has really happened so far. But man, this has all been a colossal anxiety trigger I did not need.

There was an Amish restaurant in my hometown that was owned and operated by Romanians and I miss the shit out of it.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Thank you. I have had a lot of free-floating anxiety lately and basically can't figure out how to turn any of my inner alarms off, even long after the problem's been resolved.

I just really needed to do that. I need to find a good place in realspace NOLA (to whatever extent such a thing exists in this fucked-up fae freaktown ;) ) to have an ACTUAL good scream.

Maybe I'll take my large wood stick buddy Stick down to the park tomorrow and hit sturdy things with him and yell a lot while Peg assures passers by "don't worry, they're harmless."

@spacewastrel@yiff.life That's a good sentiment and I should follow it more often. Thanks for being around hun. <3

The more of those little daggers* next to your karma total on Reddit, the closer you are to winning.

(*marker for a "controversial" comment, which I seem to attract O:) )

@zx3 i know you're SUPPOSED to squeeze their heads and suck out the juices, but i'm...

wait, that's crawfish anyhow, isn't it.

i've made some terrible mistakes recently.

@zx3 what i'm saying is i promise only to eat trump voters, and that probably won't last long either because i KNOW i'm violently allergic to them, at least to what they got between their ears >______<

@zx3 also i like most of our neighbors, i'd pay NOT to eat the cats or the dragoness, and i've long since come to see you all here as emergency rations at WORST friends at best. ;) <3

@zx3 It's OK, there is so much cow and bird in this town still left uneaten. :) (And actually, tiger jokes aside, I have veered slightly towards eating vegetarian since moving to NOLA, maybe 40% of the time, so I'll be OK. ^___^ It's been more due to the difficulty of hauling meat from the grocery in 90 degree weather on foot, than any grand moral issues, but I'm coming to realize I kinda like it?)

@Phorm That is actually really comforting and I'll do more research into it! I definitely intend to seek an <s>immune lawyer</s> allergist about it.

I'm OK. It's tragicomical that the Empress of Mars can no longer conquer shellfish, but it's not like I contracted something truly horrible like a dragon allergy. n.n;

yup

dammit

i think i'm turning allergic to shellfish

this is an intolerable biological slight against the Empress* but we will soldier on with the grace and bravery you have come to except* from feline royalty*

*disputed

@Austin_Dern Look here, brother... Who you jivin' with that cosmic debris?

@JulieSqveakaroo *helpfully pantomimes how to set her converter to Ch 2/3, otherwise you just get staticky 70s cartoons...*

this, but it's my head

*poink*

oops, sorry, your head

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@Verdigris Meggyleves? How are you on cherries? https://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Hungarian-Chilled-Cherry-Soup/

hey listen

if this all goes to hell really fast

this has all been really fun and it's been a pleasure knowing you all <3

@mawr Ugh, I'm sorry. That shit damn near gave me chronic bronchitis when I was still living up there and I can't imagine it's any better. Y'all breathe careful hun. <3