Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

I mean, things are okay. Life is okay. I just headed off another minor health scare, Peg and I had a great weekend, there's no immediate reason to think Parallax's future can't be bright, we still have an awful lot of fun bantering, I'm watching my diet and losing weight so obviously I've got no small commitment to life (given I'd much rather be eating ice cream by the pint)...

Feeling old and moody and maybe a little hollow today. I think it might have been triggered by a discussion of "late bloomers" on Reddit.

Those always get to me, and the more "inspirational" they try to be, the more they feel like they're damning me with faint praise. "Oh, don't worry! We found eight whole people who succeeded past age 40!"

It just reinforces the notion that this is rare, and the successes are some kind of wild exception to the reality you're useless once you hit 40.

TIL that the legendary Pony Express only operated for about 18 months. O_o

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_Express

(Actually, I was reluctantly dragged out to the Pride parade by @anthracite, ended up having a wonderful time, and have been feeling a little less unwelcome on this planet.

And the Solstice party put a lot of ongoing fears to rest about my ability to be in a community in general. So all in all, _my_ life is pretty cozy at the moment.

But I'm also about ready to find a Kiwi Farms troll and make installation art out of their stacked, mauled, alphabetically-sorted innards. 🐯​)

Rawrr. =>_<=

#EatTheTerrans
#EatThemAllOverTheirFace
#AndTheirHead

Okay, if your creative work contains the phrase "question everything" in any place or context, as in "John will have an adventure that causes him to question everything!", delete all files and start over again.

If you are a film executive, take a good hard look in a mirror, think about what you've done, and go learn a goddamn trade.

"Question everything" is a hollow, lazy, overused phrase that says nothing but "I have zero commitment to putting actual content here."

Did... did George Will seriously just quit the GOP and urge the country to vote out as many Republicans as possible? Did he seriously just call Paul Ryan "one of Trump's poodles?"

Man, I still hate the son of a bitch, but this is a real interesting change in the political weather. He's always been in the Never Trump crowd, but... holy shit.

I look forward to Trump's inevitable hissy fit. George Will is a complete asshole and a scarily intelligent one and will not react quietly.

Does anyone have access to a nanomaterials laboratory? I need to build a violin.

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-staffers-are-complain-that-they-cant-date-in-dc-2018-6?utm_source=reddit.com

Positive feedback is slowly starting to roll in. Peg's tarot fans are showing up and liking what they see, just like we'd hoped. My god. Maybe this is really happening.

https://www.metafilter.com/174851/Parallax-space-opera-for-the-New-Sincerity

http://egypt.urnash.com/parallax/

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a tigress spinning around restlessly and going WAAAAAAUGH - forever."

#bored #boredom #youareboring #earthissoboring #boring #boring #boring #work #play #food #breathing #allboring #soboring #procrastination

In other news, humans are self-centered fucking idiots who take centuries to correct their ruthless Cartesian bullshit, even when the solution should be fucking obvious, because we have zero fucking ability whatsoever to look outside our own experiences. In short, yes of fucking course dogs have an inner life, you knuckle-dragging primate fuckwits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_consciousness#Dogs

I have a new Short-Duration Personal Savior:

http://www.newsweek.com/unfiltered-hot-dog-water-allegedly-helps-weight-loss-sells-38-each-festival-988609

Every single person who purchased this product got exactly what they asked for. At this point in my life, I have zero faith that they're going to learn anything at all from this, but its still soothing to read.

I distinctly remember the late Charles Krauthammer advocating for the jailing of Iraq War critics on treason charges, circa 2003.

So good riddance to you, asshole. People have already forgotten many of the shitty things you've done and said. I hope the rest of you gets crammed down the Memory Hole and incinerated as soon as humanly possible.

RAAAAWRRRR

*snarl* *pounce* GRRRRRWWWRRRR

*tear* *re-pounce* *re-tear* *rend*
HRRRROWWRRWRRRORRRRRWW

*rattles cage bars* *chews* *grabs something in jaws and whips it against the floor several times* RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

SNRRRROAWWWW. RRRYOOORWWWRR. HRRRRRAWRRRFGGGRRAWWR.

*rips thing until it is no longer a thing*

Rowr.

Oh: 🐯​. Sorry.

Been responding to the cognitive whiplash of US politics by further cultivating a good healthy indifference to social pressure.

If people aren't going to offer a good reason I should take all their weird taboos and arbitrary obligations seriously, I'm just not going to. Not unless there's an immediate threat if I don't.

Nobody's in charge. There is no credible moral authority. My life's half over, at best, anyhow. I just don't care what happens if I "fail" by their standards.

Nothing special, just Peg and I are having a very esoteric conversation about how to pull off a storytelling trick, and I am just having such a good time right now. :D

(In case you're curious, we were talking about some ways to hint at things that were at risk of coming off as very contrived, and how to do it without having to say them outright. Trying to steal something good from the burning impressionistic rubble of FX's Legion, I guess...)

uspol; snark; babylon 5 spoilers; prophecy

I think I just mastered the art of making egg rolls.

It was so much easier than I expected.

I'm scared too.

People put CHEESECAKE in these goddamn things apparently.

I could put cheesecake in these goddamn things apparently.

#BrattyWasRight
#CattyWasRight
#MagnetoWasRight
#BenderWasRight
#BillCypherWasRight
#MontecoreWasRight
#ShereKhanWasRight
#ThanosWasRight
#DavrosWasRight
#MordenWasRight
#ColossusTheForbinProjectWasRight
#SkynetWasRight
#IAMWasRight
#CavilWasRight
#JeffreyGoinesWasRight
#PrinceNuadaWasRight
#AquamanWasBrieflyRight
#GozerWasRight
#GalactusWasRight
#FuckEvenRitaRepulsaWasRight
#JörmungandrWillBeRight
#CthulhuIsStillRight
#SoVeryHyped

#BrattyWasRight
#CattyWasRight
#SoHyped