Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

(Full disclosure: the original sign, which said "Children Are Playing In This Area" was first painted over and then Photoshopped. http://www.maniacworld.com/people-are-eating-children.jpg

But that's no fun.)

Lycan Park just ain't the same since they put up the signs. :(

Current morale assessment (as measured in kittens):

-150.00 kittens

Tag yourself.

I'm 2, 4, 5, 8 and 10. Apparently. -_-

#moodsnapshot
#plotting
#tastemyrabies
#soooon
#loveme
#lovemydistemper

Per https://twitter.com/sushifur/status/1005300989451227139:

PROS:
* rawr
* doubles as couch
* so freaking warm
* eats your enemies' heads
* looks super-sweet with thighboots and a raygun

CONS:
* rawr
* irascible
* native culture has not really progressed beyond dad jokes
* expensive lunch date
* may eat your head

oh god i feel so much better

making a concentrated effort to annoy anthracite was a really good idea =^___^=

mood snapshot

dammit circa-1998 groening what the hell is this shit

Anyone else having issues with giving a fuck about anything today?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKqBONiU7Ss #moodsnapshot #cvb #uspol

Previous toot notwithstanding, I could really use a family right now.

Dawn Jr., on our prospects with Parallax:

"That Tower in position eight? Just ignore that, it's not important. Walk away from your crumbling social circle, hide in a cave with my Dragon Mom, and don't come out until you have a minor comics institution together, you beautiful cliffdiving Fool."

Well. See ya.

Openly giggling like a supervillain over Parallax plotting, and the genius of my serpentine fiancee, for the second time today. ^___^

Snatch : Get Carter (1971)
pear cider : gin, neat

I like cider, but now that I've had it, I think I prefer gin.

(And some gods are like really cool aunties who will sit and have tea with you at the Adult Table and frankly dish Hot Divine Gossip and not lay that "come back in 100,000 years when you don't have dicks and boobs and things" Star Trek bullshit on you just because your species still fights and poops. >:D )

That, of course, is totally intentional, and one of the big thematic goals of Parallax is to put the boot into Special Elf People mythology repeatedly and mercilessly. All gods can scream. ^_____^

Oh, and of course, likewise Vampire: The Masquerade. If you don't have the Gift Of The Special People Thing, you are profoundly unlikely to have any meaningful effect on reality, and you are going to be constantly reminded of it by your culture. Fuck that noise.

Note that the "Blue" narrative in Parallax is basically the story of a Young Adult Novel Heroine who was handed the McGuffin by Special Elf People... and finds out in the first 8 pages it don't work so good. ^__^

(To make a more valuable and serious contribution here: I think what puts me off about HP is the innate elitism of its premise. 'Cause that's EXACTLY what puts me off about Doctor Who. You can't achieve Time Lord status. You have to be part of the Special Elf People race. I hate Special Elf People races. I like my weird supernormal genre fiction to be as democratic as possible. If I don't have ANY chance of growing up to punch gods in your world... hard pass. :) )

christ i fucking hate harry potter :)

you are neither bad nor wrong if you love harry potter and i still treasure you

i suspect there is a lot of really good stuff to be mined from any well-written and evocative fantasy series no matter how reflexively its premises may put some others off

and if it's any consolation if i actually read any of it it might evolve to something like, say, the deep love-hate i have of doctor who

but christ i fucking hate harry potter <3

(to "watching the detectives")

black scales, not one with a flaw
pearly white fangs inside her maw
red hair draped over serpent neck
her 13 hit dice are scary as heck

i'm sleeping with a dragon
it's not hard
to curl up with with a dragon
when she rawrs
rawrs
rawrs