Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Phorm doctor sez i'm only allowed to have warm jenkins until my rubdominal scrimmage pops back in ;_;

@DrSagan eeeeyup. akron-canton area. good luck up there!

i spend the whole fucking afternoon carefully treating my cultural malaise with megadoses of strong bad email and what the fuck happens

my parents come along and remind me they LOVE the big bang theory and kick it all off all over again

guess i have to move onto stronger stuff-- god, what IS the diametric opposite of big bang theory? young ones, probably?

fuck, i wish it were legal in ohio to get sblounskched. i need to get good and sblounskched.

@zx3

IN-WORLD: "Jellicle," as far as I can tell from what little canon there is, is more of a clan name than an actual species or power or nature. It seems to refer to the specific clan of stray London(?) cats led by Old Deuteronomy.

OUT-WORLD: It's a contraction of "dear little cats," as contrasted with "pollicle ('poor little') dogs," from TS Eliot's early poetry and letters to his young relatives.

COMEDY: "So, you know what a 'jellied eel' is, right? Well, jellied creatures were very popular in Victorian London, and it turns out that if you try to jelly a cat and FAIL..."

BONUS: ACTUAL REAL* PICTURE OF LORD SIR ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER

@zx3 do you want the comedy option, the in world option, or the historical/literary option?

haha, turns out EVERYBODY got an 11-day weekend at HERE Technologies this year, even though we only technically had TWO holiday days scheduled

just 'cause the ceo felt like it apparently

i fuckin' love europeans <3 <3 <3

One of these days I really need to break down and do some research into famous tigers, so I can put together a Martian festival calendar. :)

being a tigress was a real good idea

just in general

this definitely feels more than anything like a me

and it's a good warning for those who can't handle a whole lot of someone ^____^;

@Phorm sweet st hobs hav i

that thing just wont go down

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@DifficultToTame It's just... it would be OK if my stepdad weren't in a really bad health phase. It just makes my stepsister's callousness all the more infuriating.

See follow-up toot: my mom's sense of humor is intact. That's all I really needed to be OK. *hug* But thank you, seriously. <3 I do have kind of an overactive sense of duty to my family.

Mostly because, as my mom and I were discussing earlier, except for my stepsister and her staggeringly bad choice of partners, my family has been REALLY loving and supportive and low-drama and we're extremely lucky...

I mean, mom outed Peg to my stepdad as trans last year -- with noble intentions -- and he, despite being a lifelong mild conservative and a little iffy on LGBTQ stuff, said NOT ONE WORD about it that was not 100% kind and welcoming. And mom has rolled sympathetically with EVERYTHING, from realizing I would never be a conventional male, to telling her all about The Empress* Of Mars this morning. That's the sorta thing you just gotta pay back with interest. ^_^;

eet bad humins an brake ther stuf

so komand marz empris*

plz

@chimerror H E L L O T E

had a big ol' italian-style mutal bitch session with mom, about damn near every topic on earth, from the general suckiness of the DNC to the staggering selfish idiocy of my
stepsister to the enduring golden-girl awesomeness of my niece

mom is still full of piss and vinegar and her sterling sense of humor is untarnished. she's gonna be ok i think. at least until the next shoe drops. *shrug*

meanwhile my throat is getting scratchy and i'm very nervous... could easily be the fact my parents smoke and the household reeks, or lingering vaxx effects, or just the usual sinus fuckery, but... yeah. would NOT appreciate the irony of being the one to bring omicron home.

God dammit my niece tested positive. And she's the SMART one who actually got vaccinated and did everything right. Now she's in tears because she 'ruined Christmas" and mom is a mess because there's nobody to eat all the food she cooked.

They'll be fine. They'll do Christmas in a few weeks. I just... I kinda... this is why I hate Christmas, you know? It's just a bunch of opportunities for tragedy as people get their hopes up to unrealistic levels.

Just... dispense with this useless pseudo-Christian residue and VISIT YOUR FAMILY AND HAVE A GOOD TIME AND TELL THEM YOU LOVE THEM. Assuming you even like them-- otherwise DON'T.

I hate this. I absolutely hate it. Christmas has almost completely transmuted into "my yearly chance to see how poignant and tragic my family is as it circles the mortality drain."

Mom needs me. Otherwise, I'd be on the next plane.

"Rationalist" is one of those words that it's really helpful to see in a Twitter bio, because they're always for guys you'd never have realized are rational just by reading their actual tweets.

"show me in 50 characters or less that creativity does not define you"

yeah, at this point i'm definitely here to see my mom off, protect peg, and see the cats thru as long and as good of a life as we can offer them

the moment i am free of that, hopefully not anytime soon, i am going either need to be restrained or combat trained, your choice >_<

because it's gonna be real hard to convince me not to just Take A Few Bastards With Me

seriously, it's bad, and it really is everything

passing reference to Vampire The Masquerade: nauseous loathing of the gothsnob elitism inherent in the slang terms like "lick"

passing reference to HexLatex drones: nauseous loathing of the sameness and perfunctory Joiner nature of it all

trying to watch old 80s cartoons: nauseous loathing because i can't forget all the executive meddling that went on and how it permanently scarred our culture going all the way back to the fucking Hays Code

twitter: violent nausea at twitter

trying to look at pictures of cats: heartsick terror because cats are sick and unhappy sometimes

talking theology with an old and near Actual Feed The Poor And Love People Type Christian friend: nauseous loathing at being reminded of the furry anglican priest wannabe piece of shit who he used to argue with and all the damage he did, fuck you scott

madison cawthorne ranting about a definition of "communism" that only exists in his head and would also apply to Ming the Merciless and Adolf Hitler: i just want to see him die

earth: can we just agree on a doom and get this shit over with? my whole family is dying off and peg and i are doomed anyhow

sometimes it feels like there are precisely one (1) dragon, six (6) cats, and one (1) elderly dago lady between me and going postal