Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Owlor Heh. If you hang around me long enough, you'll probably get sick of hearing me use the phrase "semantic naivete." But that is a great example of the sort of behavior I'm referring to with it.

That part of the SU crowd drove me nuts. Screaming pareidolia and apophenia not just with their "fan theories" (like the "reference to the Diamonds" in Gravity Falls they were SURE was crossover evidence, when... um... what they had ACTUALLY seen was a NFPA 704 fire diamond on an extinguisher at the Mystery Shack), but with "suspicious" political references.

Sigh. It reminds me of the time people were determined that the "30-50 feral hogs within 3-5 minutes" thing was a fascist dog whistle, because 30+50+3+5=88=HH=Heil Hitler.

And it was like, I get it, I had some really smart friends go in for it, and I have seen 4channers go that deep in attempts to sneak alt-right memes in. "Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean..." and all. It's the same logic as people seeing "666" in the old Proctor-Gamble logo. Just because someone can tease meaning out of something doesn't mean it was actually MEANT.

But god, some of the stretches people were going through to make Rebecca seem like a pedophile (for X-rated Zim fanart when SHE was underage!) or a racist (imo valid criticism of Black-coded character tropes taken ad absurdum)... JFC.

The main fallacy, I think, is seeing intentionality where there isn't any-- that notion that every creative work is One Person's Masterful Vision and NOTHING in a show or book happens by accident. Add in a shallow grasp of how signs and symbols work in practice, and... yeah. You get people coming to some really awful conclusions. >_<

oh my god julia

she's even voiced by one of my favorite voice actresses, maria bamford

maria's been super nice to me on twitter a couple of times and is just a great, humble, brilliant woman who's had some REAL ROUGH TIMES due to psych illness (BAD bipolar, like "getting imaginary instructions from the pope" bipolar) and has been a real inspiration in how she's bounced back

haha, i should have recognized her after her very first vocal fry as Psycho Julia XD

naturally the hypnohub.net dregs are just fetishizing her one mind-control scene

but i'm just plain rooting for her

my Mad Raccoon kirsch is thinking of sending her an only-mildly-poisoned cookie bouquet, an only mildly booby-trapped complimentary toaster, and a month's supply of tinfoil as a welcome gift <3 <3 <3

@porsupah Huh. Reading up on this is reinforcing my long-standing suspicion that I had years of a post-viral condition after catching a cytomegalovirus from a college roommate.

And it weirdly gives me a sort of hope, too-- maybe if enough "normal" people show clear signs of a post-viral syndrome, they'll start TAKING THEM SERIOUSLY and ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR THEM, not to mention actually developing some treatments for them.

Too late for me; would love to see no one else ever have to suffer.

@001zlnv yeah the bird guy

hey big j still love ya man, let's do lunch after i'm dead

don't bring your dad

or the creepy guy lol jk

@Soreth That would NOT surprise me at all. Ohio doesn't have a ton of Scandinavians, but we don't have none, and we do get a lot of linguistic influence come down from the north eh... :>

@Phorm Thanks for that, I've been on a huge Aussie comedy tear lately!

@001zlnv you betcha

@Soreth Yeah, no, it is a trope! :D But I do feel ya -- I have a few oddities in my/my family's vocabulary that do NOT match the regional maps or stereotypes at all... (Like why did I already feel so comfortable with "y'all" long before I headed south?)

https://twitter.com/midwestern_ope/status/1119243533154648066?lang=en

@Soreth I have no idea. :D I have just vaguely heard they are regional and I believe I've heard them associated with Midwest/Great Lakes?

Now you've got me questioning my memory, time for a quick infodive. :>

gawd i love being an ex-christian who knows the bible far better than the "religious" conservatives i pick fights with on twitter XD

I suspect you can grasp a big important chunk of my personality, and maybe what's specifically Midwestern about it, if I tell you one fact:

Both the expressions "Yeah, no" and "No, yeah" make *perfect* sense to me.

just say what you're really thinking you adorable balls of cognitive bias

@Oneironott I looked it up on Wiki like two seconds before you replied, but this looks like a really fun show! :D

@Oneironott Serious question, not familiar with SCI at all: why does the title card have the taxonomy of the hedgehog on it? :D

12 hrs twitter jail for "small penis"

i hate birdsite

@JulieSqveakaroo No, Shemp has a whole different catchphrase! Shemp know what do. *nod*

@Phorm That's like 22 minutes out of every 44-minute episode. :D

@Phorm Kitkat is a real cat, too! BEAUTIFUL, enormous, friendly old bastard. Tragically, I am "no longer allowed" to see him, between that Crazy Cat Lady from a few months ago (who I DESPERATELY HOPE is still feeding them somehow, not that it's that hard for a stray to survive down here) and the Asshole Cat-Hating Neighbor who demanded we stop feeding that crowd. I really hope you're OK out there, Kitkat, you old softie. I am always tempted to Sneak Over The Border and slip y'all a little treat.