Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

ARTIE UPDATE: Artie has clearly chosen a life of crime over her friends. She's in the attic, accounted for and apparently safe.

Peg's insisting we leave her up there for the day, and it's boosting my anxiety over the whole thing pretty fierce, but I guess if it were that unsafe Artie wouldn't be so determined to get up there?!?

And she was quiet up there all night, which scared the shit outta me when she was unaccounted for, but is probably a good sign it's reasonably cozy up there even if she can't get down.

She's missed two feedings now, which I also feel bad about, but she missed FOUR last time, and... well... she's a pudge. She shouldn't be in any danger food or water wise, though I might insist we bring her a little water bowl later.

And I guess she's right, Artie really needs to get some Negative Behavioral Reinforcement about that place, and other than converting her to Full Time House Cat-- which Peg is NOT ready for and I've got mixed feelings about-- I'm out of ideas.

@001zlnv @anthracite I am still SERIOUSLY considering collar + GoPro.

@001zlnv @anthracite We wish we fucking knew. And of course, since it's not our property, options for investigating are kinda limited.

@spottyfox Oh hey there! :D

welp, whatever else i can say about this week, my relationship with shadow has not been harmed *sigh*

apologies for the stringy hair, it's been a low-energy day

@Leucrotta Have you ever seen the episode of Malcolm in the Middle where Dewey finds a cotton candy machine, accidentally traps himself in the garage, and then has to eat his way out? :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw94-hvjsAQ

well i guess i must be a better person than i was five years ago beacuse my stress level finally redzoned and i didn't scream or break things or get angry, my digestion just collapsed and i decided to give up on everything and take a long nap

dammit ladder just arrive

dammit artie just stay on the fucking ground

dammit work just don't lay me off

dammit world just don't catch fire

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Man, am I having a rough time keeping it together today. Absolutely HAVE to get back into a full work schedule today, and my current task is basically timed and monitored.

Meanwhile, got stuck on hold for another HOUR with Home Depot.

And then found out my company is doing a round of layoffs. I THINK I should be OK, but should know for sure by end of week. I think what my team does is pretty core to the company and I think I'm one of the last people on it they'd sack, but...

Still distracting, still pushing my stress a little closer to the red line where I just stop functioning for the day. Especially because there's no resolution with Artie, just more holding pattern as we wait for a ladder and a nice day to observe her.

My biggest fear right now is we'll break down to convert Artie into an indoor cat (at least until we have another solution) and the realty company will either refuse us a pet leave or make it punitively expensive. And then I might just have to murder the owner of the building.

@Leucrotta 6060842!

Today is one of those that's got so many *little* things off, I might as well have a big thing off.

Artie's still around. We have no idea what to do with her yet. We're just in a holding pattern until it warms up and we get the 10' ladder we ordered.

The ladder was supposed to be delivered Friday. We called to reschedule and they said "an attempt was made" with no further detail... but we were home, with someone up front, all day long. >_<

So I have to stay home all day and wait out a TWELVE HOUR LONG delivery window. And my dealer's coming by sometime today, but we have no idea when that's happening either.

I have no idea how the hell I'm gonna focus through that AND a somewhat restless housecat who's still settling in. I guess if the ladder doesn't get here today, it's fine-- we're not releasing Artie until the cold snap is over anyhow. But damn, would I like to get this all sorted. >__<

@porsupah You've probably seen both of these but I had to share on the off chance someone wanted the originals handy. <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWRCJhsz5t4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJcSF7R1ki8

@porsupah Aka "Chick Habit." I love this song. I love Yé-yé in general. <3 <3 <3

You know the April March version, right?

@xinjinmeng @Phorm YEAH NO YOU GET IT <3

Love,

Peaches

i've had a very strange week and i think it's fair to want to eat something with a large amount of gravy on it

i'm in new orleans ffs you'd think if there were anywhere i could get some gravy-adjacent services at 10 pm on a friday it would be here

@Austin_Dern No, yeah, there we go... 🦄​🐞​​ Fifteen seconds in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Xu3Qf5EPw

@Austin_Dern *desperately wishes they could find and link to that GIF of Queen Chrysalis turning her head 180 degrees with a HUGE CREEPY SMILE* ^___________^

FUN FACT: For those of you familiar with Fluorocrash, Parallax, 12Fold, Puzzlebox, and/or No Pizza on Luna...

Surprise. All my creative worlds are set in the same multiversal continuity.

It actually starts with "Charismatic Metafauna," the working title for that biohorror RPG that got sidetracked by Hurricane Ida last year. (I didn't forget!) Humans in the 2050s or so are starting to dabble with psionics and finding the best route is by mining the Terran metagenome for REALLY WEIRD THINGS.

No Pizza on Luna is the next era. The Terrans have seeded the solar system with sapient animal races and basically already fucked up their relationship with them, but they haven't QUITE perfected the memetic WMDs that get them walled off and Unhappened from Solar culture. The runaway social control AIs that rule Terra are the ancestors of the "Sociostats" in Fluorocrash.

12Fold is set a century or two later, after Terra's been good and isolated and the Solar Milieu is pretty much doing their own thing without them. The reality wibbles created by the Stupid Stupid Terrans are just starting to be seriously studied and tamed into something like "magic" or "psi" by the braver/stupider cultures like the "mad" Mercurian raccoons. (Like, if you know Kirschbaer, that's her world!)

I should get back to my day job, but I'll sum up. The distant descendants of the 12(ish) Solarian civilizations are the godlike Jzenh from my Fluorocrash RPG.

And Twin, the starlady from Parallax, is a Jzenh. We're almost full circle. The Vek-0/Vexalynes are descendants of Terrans, freed from their retcon prison by Mercurians too curious for their own good. They blew a ginormous hole in spacetime, transcending and/or destroying themselves in the process, and a reality-altering force called the Melt poured in. Twin was one of them but got stuck in a spacetime glitch during the blast. Vast swaths of the universe are now under radically different rules of causality; Olivia, K, Noa, and Kirt live in one of the SANER parts, with just a little psi and hermetic magic.

And yeah, Puzzlebox is of course what happens after the Melt totally supplants the rest of the universe, and what you get is basically the Supercontext from Grant Morrison's Invisibles. Nothing is True. Everything Is Permitted. You Can Always Just Go Home. Reality has become a purely literary endeavor.

Neat, huh?</joel_robinson>

@Austin_Dern @001zlnv OH MY GOD, Austin hun do you mind if I crib that concept for my No Pizza On Luna comic? It would fit that world PERFECTLY as a religious doctrine and an excuse for people to take the social-control algorithms' side...

Today's distraction: getting back in touch with my faith in the IPU.

http://www.palmyria.co.uk/humour/ipu.htm

https://religions.wiki/index.php/Invisible_Pink_Unicornp

And missing the SHIT out of Web 1.0.