Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Soreth I mean, if Chapter 2-3 ever actually happens, it's gonna be a corker. The plan is basically "1950s alien invasion and conversion, but totally stripped of the Cold War paranoia and replaced with 'um... what if they're still perfectly nice guys and this was a big misunderstanding and the Pod People are still Actual Fucking Characters we care about?'"

and i do have one huge favor to ask: i need to get my ass in gear on the parallax edits, but my morale in utterly in the crapper

if you've ever cared in the faintest about our little queer space babies, this would be a really really good time to let me know <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHsip5xOenQ

DAE kinda feel like both history and Whatever It Was We Postfurries Were Doing kinda crashed to a halt sometime around 2015 and we've all been living in some kind of phantom dimension with zero psychic energy since then?

A little intrigued by Masto again now that there's a new influx of people. But mostly just having another bout of severe cultural allergy.

I feel like I am about to barf up a hairball full of little chewed up soggy bits of timeline-algorithm code, snide right-wing memes, and Zoomer debates over whether Jorts should be canceled for their shocking and clearly racist indifference to the plight of Myanmar.

I don't like anybody right now, on a fundamental level. If it's any consolation, even ARTIE is kinda pissing me off right now. (All she's done all day is staaaaaare at me. =O.O= ) And I have a little post-it note on my cruel tiger heart that has all your names and says "FRENDS - DO NOT EET."

But I'll still be in my den. And you really, really, really should not enter it unless you have either Armor Rating 10+ or at least 50 kg (110 lbs) of cooked unseasoned beef, preferably with the head still on.

If I could ask for anything, it would be for someone to come open me back up, give me a glimpse of the Good Old Days where I had decent outlets for the softer, subbier, more mystical part of myself. All that feels gone, gone, gone, and what's left just feels like (an admittedly very comfortable and easy) holding pattern.

But I'd actually be willing to take on a little pain and risk right now to have any of that back, to be able to walk back onto Tapestries or Livejournal circa 2002 and be the weirdest, kinkiest, most sociable and luminous me.

Tomorrow. I'll look for it again tomorrow. For now... I think I'm just gonna hunch over in a nice dank cave and STARE at you all for a few hours. I'm starting to get what Artie was on about. =O_O=

Telling someone who's chosen to remain on Twitter just to drag Elon and watch the fireworks is precisely as stupid as telling Mohammed Atta "well, buddy, you're really just propping up American capitalism" because he stopped at the 7-11 for a coffee on the way to the WTC.

I'm pretty confident the morale damage I was doing over there, however minimal, still outweighs the $0.0004 Elon made off my engagements.

@Phorm And it's a LOT easier to pull the "GET IN THE CAR, LOSER" stunt on shy friend on a MUCK than it is on... whatever the hell Birdsite is.

@LexYeen Leave yourself a note to cure it this time!

@matoakit In pure tiger terms, the slowness of the prey came to be exceeded by the vileness of the taste they left in my mouth. That's what I get for hunting on toxic waste sites.

@matoakit And I mean, I LOVE a little toxicity and hate, it's like the Fire Swamp to my evil jungle cat disposition, but even I started to find the joy of trolling that arrested adolescent emerald-heir twerp was outstripped by the misery of talking to his fans.

@LexYeen Aw, hon, I know that gets awful for you. *hug*

I'm down. I mean, I wasn't exactly *happy* when I was doing most of my social interaction via the MUCKs, but I was a hell of a lot happier than I am on social media now...

T*****r reminded me how much I actually kinda *like* this place especially when I considered the alternatives. I think it's time to make use of it more often.

How y'all been? It got to the point where even clowning on El*n was not gratifying enough to make it worth putting up with the people who think Everything There Is Just Fine and we're whining over nothing.

@LexYeen This is about the closest to the old BBS scene that I could ask for. I'm glad it's here and gladder still that it seems to be weathering the influx of people pretty well.

@woozle HI there! My wife is starting some motion towards getting newbie-professionals like them started with Masto culture, she thought you might be interested in the Masto admin thread she links to here!

https://dragon.style/@anthracite/109320342681094794

@Phorm Another of our brave volunteer corps of slutty, kinky vixens-- ready to apply the protective layer of sleaze that keeps furry fandom safe from normal goddamn people. <3

@JulieSqveakaroo @anthracite @Phorm OK, that definitely checks out...

@JulieSqveakaroo @anthracite @Phorm also wait what

@JulieSqveakaroo @anthracite @Phorm DON'T YOU EVER COMPARE THAT ORANGE MONSTER TO THE BIG GUY EVER AGAIN

( *wink* <3 )

@Phorm I think this is not an impossible outcome. I think backfiring horribly and spelling the end of Big Social Media is also very possible.

For what it's worth, I've been reading up frantically on what the Professional Worriers are saying about the prospect of violence in the US.

And I almost wish I *did* know something that would justify giving you a dismissive headpat and telling you everything's going to be fine. But I am at least getting the impression that experts don't think it's gonna go down like the "first" Civil War nor like Berlin 1932 -- more like isolated shenanigans from militias.

Which is still bad and scary and heartbreaking 'cause I don't see any way through it. I just keep trying to remind myself that I had myself *dead convinced* in October 2001 that random acts of terrorism were going to become part of daily life and that just... kinda didn't happen.

This is different. This is a real threat closer to home. I am genuinely very scared that we're about to go through the Stupid Lyin' Bigot Version of Rome's transition from Republic to Empire.

My honest prediction right now is that it's gonna be more like Brazil -- the movie, not the country -- than Red Dawn or something. A little incident now and then, thoughts and prayers and then back to normal. One more fucking thing for anxiety-prone people like you and me to fixate on and suffer, just because some asshole can't accept he lost an election.

It's funny. Most of us don't really even have a model for what this stuff would look like when it happens. When I was in college we read a book about the Russian Revolution and I remember being absolutely flabbergasted that the operas ran all through the violence and upheaval. I honestly thought living through a revolution was all violence, all the time.

I think it's gonna be a lot like COVID: another huge fucking drag on a society already stretched to its limits. I think we're all gonna lose a little bit more from it, but we can get through it.

This is a HARSH comfort, but remember: even the Actual Dang Third Reich only lasted twelve crummy years. Granted, they necessitated the whole "free" (heh) world coming to stop them, and the Trump cult is weirdly lacking in that kind of international ambition -- unless you count trying to buy Greenland. *sigh* 🙄​

I don't think it'll be the end. We're gonna see some of the Big History I have been braced for all my life because I KNEW it had to be coming, no generation is that lucky... And I will be here trying to help preserve a safe niche for genie foxes even if I have to don the Lady Humongous mask myself and come get you with an armored jeep. <3