Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Phorm Darlin, seriously, I would *adore* being handed a few more places where I could find ya. <3 But I also get it if you're laying low, this is a good era for that. *hug* I wil definitely ping you if I see any action on the MUCK! <3

@Phorm Yeah, sorry I haven't gotten back to you about hanging out there. Saturday night get-togethers have still been getting scheduled, I guess, but I haven't seen a crowd yet and didn't wanna tag you in until I saw one. *hug* I have been watching and will continue to do so, because I would REALLY love to get something going. Life's just been... distracting lately. (Wait until you see our squatter neighbor's new "cultural monument" 🙃 )

@JulieSqveakaroo @anthracite Cool, have you ever seen Scud, the Disposable Assassin? He worked on that too!

#schrabbing #schrabber #schrabbed

@anthracite do you know what schrabbing is, dear?

also, what should we do about that test post?

I miss Schrabbing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/schrabbing/comments/ayfjqu/the_first_schrab/

@Phorm @001zlnv

Πиво!🍻​

@Austin_Dern Well, fancy meeting you here. <3

@eredien I think we've done this dance before. :D <3 Mine's July 3rd, actually! Peg does celebrate her "dragon birthday" in late November though, maybe that's what you had down!

It's also VERY VERY VERY possible I lied about my birthday on social media, I do that very often... 🤔

How been? <3

@001zlnv finally somebody whose ideas make sense

@Phorm Your place is right here with us. 🐯 💢 ❤️

@catoxis The most important takeaway from Infinity Train is Samantha The Cat. Learn from Sam. Be like Sam. Sam is the true way. 😺

@Soreth @anthracite no YOUR mom's a fancy horse who never leaves her sylvan glen! 😭

my (RL) mom's more like a bear, really... 🤔

@Phorm Oh, and basically my great-granddad's sister married a really sketchy, shady guy that he didn't trust. He nicknamed him "La Donnola," or "The Weasel."

Well, his sister got pragnant and La Donnola didn't have a real job, so they begged Great-Grandpa Nick to let them stay with him and his wife. He did NOT LIKE THIS, because he hated his brother-in-law, but he couldn't turn his sister down so he put up with him.... until one night when Nick came home late and heard something reverberating in the basement.

The fucking weasel was holed up down there with four of his friends, complete strangers to Nick, and a shortwave radio. They were speaking to somebody in Italian. In the late thirties. About something they felt they needed to do at 4 am in a basement.

Yeah.

Great-Grandpa Nick grabbed his shotgun and waved all of them outside except for La Donnola, who he punched in the snoot and told him he'd kill him if he ever saw him again.

I REALLY regret never getting to meet Great-Grandpa Nick. :D

@Phorm What's the story with your stepfamily...?

@StormyDragon @KinkyTurtle @anthracite Well, there's the sort of blur that stops at the backs of your eyes, and there's the sort of blur that goes all the way to your cerebellum... *shudder*

I don't like sedatives.

@ellyponey I should leave some of my daily round of obnoxious comments in Dale's voice. That's a good idea, thank you. 😈

I know that's the first and foremost question on a lot of your minds. 😺

Seriously, though, I am not afraid. Louisana is a shithole culturally speaking, but New Orleans is a precious little toilet diamond by comparison. LGBT support is absolutely bedrock down here and the locals do NOT like being told what to do.

If worse comes to worse, Peg and I will have a thousand attics to hide in. We also have heavily armed ex-gangbanger neighbors we've done favors for in the past. 😼

We will live quite comfortably here in the <s>Fire</s> Jazz Swamp regardless of the turmoil in the civilized lands. The last five years down here have been basic training for living in a collapsing society, I'm pushing 50 and have lived a great life, and I am FUCKING READY. We're the last people anyone has to worry about.

Calling up MAGA legislators and hassling their switchboard operators is free, easy, and pretty much risk-free as long as you don't say anything that can be construed as a physical threat.

It will also have approximately the same impact on American fascism as a spitball, but trust me, you'll feel better. There is NO sensation in 2024 that's half as gratifying as hearing some creepy Young Republican intern stammer as they struggle to come up wtih an answer to "So I can't help noting the blatant factual error in your boss's tweet and as a Christian conservative swing voter in Michigan, I'm VERY upset over this..."

Put on your best Ned Flanders and ruin some junior armband-enthusiast's whole day. I have been doing it for SIX YEARS with no legal consequences. Just watch your mouth and (For maximum effectiveness) DON'T BREAK CHARACTER.

@Phorm also god dammit fox i just plain miss you 😿

@Phorm Does it give you any hope to be reminded that I used to BE one of those people? *hug* And believe me, I take ZERO offense at your post even if I used to resemble those people-- because I was wrong, wrong, wrong about so many things and it's so obvious in retrospect.

The only other reassurance (at least for now: a more direct solution may be coming?) I can give is that YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO FEELS THIS WAY, DEAR. <3 <3 <3 I have been absolutely reeling from al this and mostly hiding out from social media. I have barely even been "out hunting" lately, which is NOT like me.

We are in a dark age. But a lot of us miss the golden age, and I think the enthuiasm and frustration about it are going to reach a critical mass eventually, because even some of the "normies" are starting to recognize how constrained and awful the online world feels.

But no, you're not wrong at all, and not bad to feel this way about those people. We are coming up very quickly on a huge reckoning with the something very ugly about modern society, and history will NOT be any kinder to your hand-wringing acquaintances than it's been to the people who "didn't think Hitler seemed like such a bad guy."

Have I told you the story of La Donnola, honey? Because I am just ITCHING to repeat it... (TL;DR: great-grandpa got to punch a Mussolini sympathizer in his own home 😻 )