Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@LexYeen This is why I went ace. We're like F-117 stealth queers. Totally invisible.

@anthracite

Jesus, Peg, normally I'd say there are no stupid questions, but...

HINT: 🦊​

I leave the rest as an exercise for the clever student.

@hi_cial @anthracite Luckily this is New Orleans so basically nobody here gives a shit, in the best possible way, especially here in artsy Mid-City. ^___^ This is probably a very low-key place to transition as such things go!

Kincaid is stirring. As I put it recently to a dear friend, she's strapped down to the laboratory bed, the ceiling is wide open, the storm is brewing... all we need is a bolt of lightning.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. The Celexa has wrecked the libido which used to be Kincaid's main psychic fuel. I still have a lot of lingering guilt around D/s stuff after the Seattle blowup. I'm not sure I'm ready _prepared_ to take on a ringleader persona again.

But there she is. I can't pretend that ain't her bubbling up through the cracks and out of the plumbing in crazy dayglo colors. And I think we might in fact still need her. So many people are DOING the things Kincaid was about and, expired lavavixen warranty be damned, I want me and my friends back in.

@Phorm

[SUSIE:] Hey. HEY. You okay there stupid?

[NOELLE:] (half-asleep) Huh, wuzzat? Yeah, m'okay... Kritdzs maymee cas' Eggnog (Self) x 3 s'all. Yanno, yer bootiful. Haffy Crimmizz. *shoulder-slumps amid a poof of red and green glittermotes that leave Susie with a little Santa cap* @_@

@Phorm Currently my brain is trying to wrangle a fixfic scenario to route around the damage: before Kris can get anywhere near the Thorn Ring, someone dressed like an elf sells him the Wreath Ring-- which turns her into the Christmas goddess she always wanted to be. It still trances her, but all she can do is give her "enemies" mugs of steaming cocoa, build snowmen, and rain tinsel down on people. Kris becomes a Lvl 2 Loving Hypnodom and Miss Holiday is very confused but just can't stop smiling.

The twist of this Nabokov story gives me similar fascinated-squick vibes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vane_Sisters

(Cynical thought: I need to figure out a way to stick these emotions in a bottle and uncork them when it's time to write Chapter Two of Parallax. I already had a hoofer who needed some top-flight traumatizing for plot reasons. :| And Kirt and Noa's story is gonna come distressingly close to the same themes as Noelle@Deltarune's as they get drawn into Mixolyne psi politics...)

Current mood: haunted by Noelle Holiday's plot line in Deltarune: Chapter 2.

I'm not even an Undertale fan, but the just-revealed "Snowgrave" genocide route hits home pretty hard.

Spoilers: basically the painfully kind and meek reindeer character is manipulated into becoming a murderous, psychologically abused, tranced-out ice mage by your PC and a series of cursed rings.

It's so closely kink-adjacent for me. The idea of a hypnotized, empowered minion as a conduit for someone's will is HOT. But god, not in that form and not poor Noelle.

So much of my hypnosis/mind control kink comes from a deep, deep separation anxiety I had when I was a preteen. I'd have nightmare after nightmare about various Forces possessing my friends and family and making them emotionally unavailable.

But honestly? Like so many of my nightmares, they were kinda fun-scary. And like with so many scary ideas, they got transmuted into kink. And there's still that edge of horror to them.

And seeing Noelle suffer-- especially 'cause my oldest and dearest headfriend is ALSO a Neutral Good pokey hoofer named Noelle-- is gumming up my emotional works today in a fascinatingly complicated way. I can't look away from it.

@aearo @anthracite Yeah, but she had the two *clever* ones in sight, that's the important thing!

Of the remaining four, Shemp is very low mana for a cat, Ceejay refuses to set foot in the house by any means astral or otherwise, Peebles is a tortie and thus NOT a subtle girl*,**, and Sugarfoot is... um...

OK, three cats MAXIMUM.

#F117StealthKitty

* MRAP.
** MRAP!

@Austin_Dern Mine just reads "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat." Inherited it from my grandfather. Wanna see? =^____^=

#TheTagIsATrap
#KindOfStupidThatWay

@Austin_Dern @001zlnv Wawas will be the next-to-last bastion of civilization to fall. And when Waffle House goes, all is lost.

@Leucrotta "Hey, Sam'u'll'o'th'ogh."

"Oh. Hey, Ralph."

"How's the Elder game?"

"Same old. How's the PI scene?"

"Meh. Took out one of your minions yesterday, sorry about that."

"It's OK, Ralph."

"Thanks, Sam, you're a peach."

"OK. Have a good one. Watch your corners on the way out. *dodecatuple guns gesture* MY HOUNDS GONNA GETCHA!"

"Haha, I'll be sure and get my wards up, Sam." "Huh. What a decent Ur-guy."

@PennyPennyPenny I mean, nobody has yet been able make a compelling case to me that they're not just two different manifestations of the same cosmic energy to start with

of COURSE lazy and perfect is attracted to lazy and perfect, look at my wife and me-- i haven't been ignited in years

@001zlnv @anthracite Dammit, kobold, you reminded me there is cake. I don't have any cake. Maybe I can get @anthracite to bring me some cake.

@001zlnv @anthracite @tiden@blimps.xyz Nutria.🐯​

i adore my mother but man this is just peak boomer :)

Currently what is keeping my sanity afloat is the discovery that there are collections of MST3K on Youtube that are just all the host segments by season. ::>

e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlrPtf05gP0

+ Crazy Cat Lady: Unknown, presume resolved. Haven't heard a thing.

+ Foot Injury: Looks like it's almost healed!

+ Cable: Back on.

+ Ears: No ache, no itch. Got an ENT follow-up coming.

+ Cats: Seem OK. Haven't seen Shemp or Sugarfoot in a day or so, but it's been rainy. Peebles is very very very definitely here. *loving sigh*

- Wiring issue: some kind of AC backfeed on our cable line, possibly a fire hazard? Have talked to multiple people including a friend with electrician experience and am reassured house isn't going to randomly incinerate or anything.

- Peggy's License: Denied an "F" at Louisana DMV, am kinda furious over it. Sounds like there is a good hope she can qualify for a doctor's note but the information online is really ambiguous.

- Laptop: definitely starting to have issues with the case, no new cracks, case is now loose enough that the trackpad buttons can be triggered by accident *sigh*