Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Phorm That is a good point. It's not so much that the HRverse never crosses over with anything else, though, but that it never turns malignant and will never trap them inside that snowglobe. But now that you mention it, I wonder if the awesome burnination power of Mighty Trogdor might not also be a factor...

Or could it be? Could this all be the gift of the S Is For Sucks Dragon? What a twist ending!

Headcanon: Homestar Runner's world is almost completely[1] immune to the Tommy Westphall Virus[2].

The exact source of this protective effect is unknown, but is suspected to be a combination of factors including: (a) high continuity (b) low canon consistency (c) well-mediated contact with our reality via the Lappy et al (d) a 30-year waiting period for most "RL" media references (e) some unknown property of Strong Sad's "Blue Ones"[3] and (f) Garbledina[4].

[1] Free Country did test positive during a routine TWV exam[5] in 2003, but did not develop any symptoms except for Shark-Tooth Bubs.

[2] named for Tommy Westphall, a disabled child from a TV series that turned out to be taking place entirely as his dying dream; the "virus" brings every other fictional universe his show crosses over with into the same collapsing reality bubble -- yes, our reality is theoretically inside of it!

[3] if you don't know, you probably shouldn't ask 😱​

[4] GRAW MAD! GRAAAAW MAD! DARRRRRRRRGH!

[5] Also headcanon: these TWV examinations are administered free of charge as a charitable service by Mr. Peabody. Yes, that Mr. Peabody-- or at least, one of his 12 regenerations![6]

[6] You do NOT want to fuck with the War Peabody. (Whispered rumor has it that the one on television was the War Peabody.)

@Phorm Thought so. Was tempted to @ you. <3

@001zlnv I mean, Rezy and Valis are both From Space. They can get up on any given morning, log into an app (open source, of course-- we killed all the VC fuckers centuries ago), and put their stripes wherever they damn well please.

Well, those are some style goals right there.

https://imgur.com/gallery/twCRAWx#kWPA6Wk

And just as I'm thinking of reviving Kincaid the lavavixen...

@xinjinmeng Who's your favorite in the "achieve sapience and take over for the goddamn idiot humans" derby? ​​​​🦑​🐐​🐘​🐀​

@balinares They don't pull those out for any ordinary mortal, just for someone extraordinary like a dragon, or an exceptionally nice person (or both). <3

today's reading from the gospel according to st. hobbes

Fuck it, i'm granting Matt Berry and all his characters full Martian citizenship. i can't think of a single one that wouldn't fit right in with the Imperial* court.🐯​

OK, well, except for the one from the IT Crowd. He is barred. And Matt from Snuff Box. But his Uncle Charles is straight in. And Dr. Lucien Sanchez. And the Butt Witch.

Huh. Uncle Charles from Snuff Box would make an AMAZING Martian Tiger. I should get to work on that.

@xinjinmeng (And yes, but WHAT OF THE MYANMAR AFFAIR?!?!)

@xinjinmeng Fantastico!

@zx3 <3 <3 <3

@zx3 I wish you'd asked sooner. I would have put a roast on. <3

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

@JulieSqveakaroo @Phorm

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*slow clap*

*rises to feet*

*standing ovation*

@JulieSqveakaroo @Phorm Pints o' cream! Pork cylinders! Potato grids! Artificial bacon! Large macs!

@Phorm "That's right, Phorm! Isn't science fun? And now, if we just hook this bottle of liquid nitrogen up to *your* bottle, we see a very interesting phenomenon occur! You see, the chocolate ghosts can't see and hear like we can! But they can sense cold, which is how they feed! Isn't that interesting, Phorm? Phorm...? Phorm? You OK in there, Phorm? Would you like some sprinkles?"

@JulieSqveakaroo @Phorm mission accomplished 🦅​

@Phorm Like, say, a Klondike Bar or a (cough) Inuit Pie? Brace yourself for wonderment, my dear: That is a chocolate ghost! It seeks out ice cream and "possesses" it, if you will, as a benign host until its earthly business is completed.

@monsterblue Not directly! I was thinking more of an embryonic form of chocolate, like a "ripple" in ice cream*, and a pupal form like, say, those crispy little chocolate (or pseudo-chocolate) flecks you often find in , say, mint chocolate chip instead of actual chips.

* as opposed to, say, a tesseract in ice cream, which is very expensive and usually not seen outside of Vermont

the life stages of chocolate are as follows:

the ripple
the flake
the minichip
the chip
the chunk
the chonk
the chungus

beyond "chungus," metric suffixes are recommended, as in the Kilochungus that dominated the landscape of Hershey, PA from the date of the Great Cacao Event of 1903 until its melting and containment by the EPA in 1987