Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@001zlnv Yeah aleatoric stuff would work absolutely brilliant with this too, that's a good idea!

@Soreth @Phorm @mmsword

Wait. No. You willam-on having-cut be-upon-whence with 250 grams of thiotimoline? Is that right?

Sorry, I'd look it up in Streetmentioner's Handbook, but my copy willam on-to-be have-since-publishing, unsince about another 270 years to the right.

(What can I say, I arrived from 30th-century Mars on the equivalent of your Earth Megabus. We took a weird route. It gotting on-were complicated. -__- )

@Soreth @Phorm @mmsword Darling, YOU"RE cut with 250 grams of thiotimoline.

@Phorm @Soreth @mmsword "Hello, Madrigal? Do y'all still do home deliveries?"

@xinjinmeng I KNEW it. 💛💛💛​​​

God damn it, I have a PC I NEED to play in a supers campaign and zero prospect. And it's one that I wouldn't dare spring on a newbie GM because it's admittedly REALLY EXTRA.

It's a Batman-style detective who is stuck in his own chronic multiversal mini-Crisis.

Every single session he's replaced by another version from another era and style. Different costume, same basic secret identity, historically scaled a la Wandavision.

One session, he's the Wacky Golden Age Kid-Friendly TV version of himself and he can't stop getting the team into pie fights.

The next, he's the grim AMC Prestige Drama version and he's in debt to the mob-- which he also secretly, amnesiacally runs. He's Very Complicated.

The next, he's written by someone with an axe to grind and gets to have a One More Day experience[1].

He retains his memories. He knows this is happening. He knows he's different day to day, but he feels exactly the same. He can't remember what year he was born, and he's pretty sure he remembers at least twice as many birthdays as the his age on his ID.

And it all fucks his shit up something fierce. There's one thing they all have in common: the later in the timeline the character is from-- for any meta-level of "timeline"-- the darker and sadder he is.

The GM chooses the multiverse/genre/writer/era/theme for each session and I totally remake the character to suit it. I get no choice in the selection whatsoever.

[1] notoriously awful and contentious Spider-Man arc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_One_More_Day

@Soreth Huh. @mmsword? @Phorm? Can you make anything good out of a housefly and some crystals?

@Austin_Dern This is probably how @anthracite feels about living with me most of the time.

(I might never have mentioned this, even to her, but I'm a quarter plush on my grandfather's side. Direct descendant of St. Hobbes! 🐯​)

or maybe i just miss acid

a magical realist novel that's nothing but a reincarnated housefly's recollections of the time she landed on a piece of John Lennon's blotter acid and tripped balls amongst the Beatles for days (i.e. most of the rest of her life)

most of the book would have absolutely nothing to do with the Beatles nor with being a fly and would mostly be rambling digressions about theosophy, crystalline topology, group theory, Damien Hirst, and the history of stage magic

it was really good acid you see

Mom called, stepdad has a "slight chance" of heading home tonight. It's a bummer because obviously it means they only think they have a slight chance of fixing it, but I guess the fact they're even *contemplating* releasing him is probably a sign he's not at death's door or anything...

*shrug*

@xinjinmeng I really wish CW had picked that pilot up. April Winchell was just amazing as Roux, really committed. Though I do feel like Elaine Stritch was somewhat miscast as XJM. Had been hoping for Jessica Walter. 😽​

(This reminds me of a hypothetical question I've been meaning to ask: do the Gang of Four have their own huánglóng? ​)

@Soreth Ooh, yeah, those hypnograms REALLY belong on a frantic uspol debate thread or a TERFer tantrum, don't they.

The Bambi Terminator T-1000 Rides Again! *takes phaser rifle down from the mantelpiece* :D

Sigh. Stepdad back in hospital again. This time it's severe hyponatremia (sodium deficiency). Could very easily be heart stuff, could also be medication side effects.

It's my mom's birthday, too. God damn it. Larry's not at death's door or anything as far as I know, but mom does sound genuinely concerned this time-- and so damn tired.

And I have a bad feeling about this one. Granted, I've ALWAYS got a bad feeling when one of my family members is sick-- or missing for more than 20 minutes, or slightly unhappy.

But I've seen a lot of old folks in my life start the final stretch this way, with one little "oh, I'm sure it'll be fine" issue that just cascades and they're never healthy-- or sometimes even out of the hospital-- ever again.

I mean, I've mourned Larry like... four, five times now? He may end up making it to 90. But between the colon cancer (gone, apparently, thankfully), the COPD, and this, he's definitely out of warranty.

Welp. Hurricane season is almost over and I'm about due for another tragic disruption of my life. Just please make at through Xmas at the very least, dude. Love you, you old Hank-Hill-talkin' goober. I really wish I'd stopped smoking BTW>

@mawr Do those headpats have to be for transwomen or do cats count? I just want to know if I have hundreds, or thousands, of these headpats stocked up in my account...

I wasted a whole lot of time on countertrolling crusades vs Something Awful goons in the 00's, and the death of Lowtax has really got me reflecting on that period of my life. Speciflcally, on how I was right about everything and should be much more arrogant in the future. 😘​

@JulieSqveakaroo @LexYeen @zx3 It's from the "Jungle" episode of Mighty Boosh, S1E5!

@JulieSqveakaroo @LexYeen @zx3

ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC FOOTAGE:

https://youtu.be/6KJVjBuSrZ0?t=22

@JulieSqveakaroo They were absolutely loathsome. Corporate financier type, one mole short of a Monty Burns, one business card short of a Patrick Bateman.

@JulieSqveakaroo @LexYeen @zx3 And then they'll eat two wolves... and then they'll eat two wolves... and so on and so on and so on!

Wait. No. That was shampoo. Never mind, ignore me.