Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Artie on ground for dinner.

COVID test negative, though there are very high odds I screwed up the test. I always do -- there's a reason I didn't become a scientist.

Fun day! Caught COVID, developed a massive (related?) lip sore out of nowhere, went frantic over a missing Artie, and ended up mapping out the whole of our exneighbor's (now completely abandoned) house (while sick!). At least rescuing Doofus Cat gets a lot easier now...

She's currently on the ground with us. Yeah, the board our neighbor kindly put up before he moved out did nothing. But he left enough doors unlocked that we now have full reign of the place, at least until the landlord cares this place exists again.

So we haven't finished the quest, we just got a new quest. It's harder in some ways, but we have more time to do it in -- and rescuing Artie from the attic is just a matter of climbing up some stairs and snatching her up.

@anthracite Weren't you just sayin' something about how you never give me any free art? :D

@JulieSqveakaroo And Peebs has spent the last two hours contentedly napping, so I think it's pretty safe to conclude she didn't get any Hyper Juice at all thankfully!

@chimerror And I'm chuffed because Diego Garcia was a HUGE running joke for me in high school, for the aforementioned reasons. :D

@chimerror Fuckin' RIGHT? I only knew the damn place existed at all because of a strat game I played in 1991... NOT cool, worldle.

Welp.

The Artie Situation might be resolved for good. There is now a large white board blocking access to the broken attic window. There's just enough of a gap at the top to concern me, but it would explain why Artie's been on the GROUND for three days! ^___^

On the other hand... yeah. Got a scratchy throat, severely runny nose, and a weird inflamed feeling all over. Three days after the largest public gathering in NOLA in two years.

Oh, well. I'm triple-boosted. I didn't really have any big plans that required being outdoors for a while. And it could still just be the result of Bong Misadventures. I'll stay at home a couple days just to make sure.

Also, Peebs may have had a sip or two of caffeine from my tea. I THINK I grabbed her in time, though, and it looks like a few sips won't hurt most healthy adult cats, so... *sigh* Whatever. She's inside with us and I'll keep an eye on her.

1) Poobers [3]
2) Shempley Shemp Shemperton [4]
3) Shadowbutt [2]
4) Foobow [5]
5) Sugarbutt [6]
6) Fartemis [1]

Congratulations, Peeblet!

@Leucrotta Yeeees...? Sorry I haven't given you more feedback on them!

@eredien @Leucrotta It's Jim Jarmusch's take on a crime drama. Forrest Whitaker is an eccentric hitman who believes himself to be a modern-day samurai. The best parts of the film have NOTHING to do with guns, crime, assassinations, or the Mafia...

i am a godling <3

'Cause you know it, Bast, you sweet cosmic thing. I have gone all-in on Team Cat and Artie was GONNA get rescued one way or the other. Thank you for possibly arranging it so that we might not have do any major demolition or commit any felonies. :>

Oh my god.

I dare not speak too soon. I dare not hope.

But we have FINALLY got a hold of our neighbor and might have an actual solution to the Cat Stuck In Attic saga.

Not two hours after I buy a cat mask for Mardi Gras. Praise Bast! #bestkitty

@zx3 Haha, I meant to type giraffe noises, talk about a freudian slip! *BLUSH*

@zx3 "Hey, Zed! How do you know that thing about zebra noises?"😏

@xinjinmeng @Leucrotta Thanks, that's really helpful!

this is the closest i will ever come to knowing godhood

Did I mention Worldle ain't shit? *grooms massive forepaw*

https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/

@JulieSqveakaroo Peg and I were talking yesterday about another interesting factor that nobody talks about: the huge growth of corporate power between Cold War I and now.

My own employers have been pumping out FRANTIC dispatches to our Russian and Ukranian employees reminding them we're All One Big Family.

Paperclip maximizers have a big incentive to NOT LET THE SPECIES THAT MAKES THEIR PAPERCLIPS get destroyed. There are a lot of very powerful transnational entities that would really, really like to see this NOT end in (most unprofitable) omnicide.

Of course, we're also a planet full of deranged primates, so... This could all quite easily go Dr Strangelove. 🤷‍♀️​ But I do kinda wonder if that's not a little added layer of protection, that everyone's already got their hands in someone else's pockets and... killing everybody would wreck a real good scam.