Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

holy shit

my shitty hometown somehow got itself an authentic and well-reviewed taqueria

i know, i know, authenticity is an overvalued neo-colonialist concept. but this is near akron ohio mind you

i would have been reasonable happy just to see they don't serve their tacos on wonder bread

they even have esquites and piña loca. huh. and there's a new thai place one town over. maybe my mom wasn't kidding about that local renaissance.

oh yeah and there's that new coffee shop that had the creepy right-wing christian guy working behind the counter and thus i don't have to feel guilty about torrenting latex bdsm porn through their wifi connection

so that'll be nice

leaving for a week in ohio at around 5 am tomorrow

first time i've seen my parents since the pandemic started -- not even wild about going now, but at least they're resolutely vaxxed and pro-mask

i'm actually kinda looking forward to it -- apparently my shitty home town is going through a mild renaissance because the local college got full university accreditation

which basically translates to "now there's donuts and a gyro place" but i will take whatever the hell i can get

The SOLFAX stuff got a great reaction, thanks everybody! So I've been in the mood to post some more notes about the 12Fold Universe. Hope these are interesting.

This week: the nanotech system, left behind by the Terrans before their collapse and exile, but cryptographically locked up tight as a "protective" measure for their uplift races.

This and psionics are the closest things to magic in the 12Fold universe, and sometimes they come VERY close-- particularly in the hands of Mercurian mystics, who have modeled most of their nanite decryption keys after various Terran occult traditions.

The known codes and the means of deriving them are co-curated by Mercurian academics and Lunarian civic agencies. The Plutonian shiftcults are violating dozens of interplanetary treaties by using them in their "therapeutic" equinization treatments.

Martians just tend to scoff at the whole concept and there's little or no social or govermental* interest in nanotech, just the occasional eccentric hobbyist. Uranians will put damn near any substance in the universe into their veins but, surprisingly, not this one.

The Venusian ecology is already overrun with nanotech thanks to Terran pollution. They don't have a problem with nanotech, but they consider it one more force of Venusian nature and have granted it the same natural rights as all other life. It is to be negotiated with and not merely "unlocked" and "programmed."

Jovians would LOVE to have access to it but Luna and Mercury have had enough of their neo-libertarian shit and scrupulously keep codes out of their hands. The resulting espionage occasionally threatens to boil over into a cold war. The Neptunians have never met a shiny silver ball of goo they didn't like, but don't really tend to covet nanotech for any practical purpose.

And of course, the Saturnians are innately telepathic and genetically self-reprogramming and feel roughly the same way about nanotechnology that we do about 8-track cassettes and rotary phones: charming and occasionally to be worn ironically.

*all Martians are anarchomonarchists and any claims to title or authority should be regarded with the utmost skepticism except among the most remarkable and respected** of Martian citizens

**i.e., "not Rezeya Montecore-St. Hobbes"

Found this link while looking for something in ancient Gmail.

https://electrickeet.com/Solfax/

Don't share it. It belongs to my estranged adopted sister/exhousemate and I feel like a creeper just being on her server.

But yeah. It's faux-teletext titles she made from (most) my writing for a holiday movie marathon that never happened. The graphic design is all Keet's and it's SO PERFECT.

Honestly, this is some of the best writing I've ever done, especially for the "12Fold" universe which was the basis of one of the three main postfurry RP forums.

It would mean a lot to me if you'd look through it, there's some neat glimpses of what we were up to in those days and I'd hate to have it all be _totally_ lost.

...

Fuck, I miss her.

I forgot to mention the most charming thing about this whole mess:

She pronounces "meme" as "may-may." This whole thing is so twisted and so pure and I feel so much like I've walked into some kind of movie.

"Never trust an honest man." -- Harry Anderson

i think i may have just fixed our air conditioner via percussive maintenance

#aaaaaaaayyy

1) "Monongahelium"
Phish.

2) "Pretzel Wagon"
Laika and the Cosmonauts.

3) "I Wanna Be Sinatra's Bitch"
The Dead Milkmen.

4) "Fibonacci's Dairy" [sic]
Jonathan Coulton, DaVinci's Notebook, or someone similarly dreadful. (I kid! I kid! I just OD'ed on that style while dating a 2nd-gen filker. :> )

5) "Four Fried Chickens and a Coke" (but it CAN'T be the Blues Brothers)
Ween.

6) "The 1-Dimensional Man"
Broadcast. (RIP Trish Keenan)

7) "Pottylab"
Foetus.

8) "Rich Corinthian Leather"
Foetus.

9) "I Loved Your Blue Jeans, Nefertiti"
Primus.

10) "♡.14359265358979323846" [sic]
Foetus. Just kidding. Kahimi Karie or maybe Hyperkinako.

11) "Evil-Handed Dinah"
Nick Cave.

12) "Kangaroo Kazoo #2"
Gong.

What real bands recorded each of the following fake songs?

1) "Monongahelium"

2) "Pretzel Wagon"

3) "I Wanna Be Sinatra's Bitch"

4) "Fibonacci's Dairy" [sic]

5) "Four Fried Chickens and a Coke" (but it CAN'T be the Blues Brothers)

6) "The 1-Dimensional Man"

7) "Pottylab"

8) "Rich Corinthian Leather"

9) "I Loved Your Blue Jeans, Nefertiti"

10) "♡.14359265358979323846" [sic]

11) "Evil-Handed Dinah"

12) "Kangaroo Kazoo #2"

if our dealer flakes out on us again there is gonna be hipster doofus spread across the pavement in midcity

j/k i love the little shit but god i'm screaming for a couple hours back in Squidspace

🎵​It is such a good day to meh
It is such a good day for meh
It is such a good day to
Scoobidoo-doobidoo
Scoobidoo-doobidoo
Scoobidoo-doobidoo
Meh🎵

(closed-captioned for the lounge-impaired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7rh7KffXyw)

Haha I was right. Everything went bughouse immediately after I posted this. :)

Had a sudden spat with a friend that I think was resolved amiably-- that was totally fine, honestly, it happens and they had a valid frustration...

...and then I sat back down and discovered someone was trying to hack my Twitter account. >____<

I think I got it all sorted. And now I am full of adrenaline, caffeine, and righteous anti-phisher rage. Time to work.

It's 10:30, all the last-minute morning chores that have popped up are resolved, no Crazy Cat Lady is calling me to specify how I should feed her buddies within a millimeter's precision, and there was only one issue in my work in-box, an easily resolved one that actually made me feel smart and competent and happy.

I am relatively calm, unstressed, and mentally uncluttered. At... 10:30 am. There is nothing really stopping me from packing up my laptop, walking out to a cafe in the NOLA sun, and having a quiet and productive work day. Our Guy is even supposed to come by tonight and drop off a 1/2 of a good PNW sativa.

I don't trust any of this. It's too good to be true. I smell conspiracy. *gets on her haunches and watches the horizon warily*

*quietly skips past Love Tractor's "We All Loved Each Other So Much" on her mp3 player and stares at a bulging emotional vault for a few minutes to make sure it stays CLOSED*

Sigh. This will surely heal some day.

I'm starting to feel like the whole theme of the last couple years was "all your favorite gods from Bast to Antler Mom have gotten together and decided they are GOING to teach you tact and patience even if it kills you."

aarrrrrghh so the hulu ad algorithm picks THIS FUCKING WEEK to decide i'm a good target for 10 consecutive ads for cat food

fuuuuuuuuck you 😾😾😾😾😾😾😾😾😾😾😾😾😾😾😾😾😾😾😾😾

She kept her "thank you" text, in response to me letting her know her babies have been fed, down to five characters. I am so proud of her. :)

I mean, FFS, she's 79 but she also says she's got a PhD in Psych and has run three successful businesses so she'd BETTER be capable of learning. :)

But yeah, last night and this morning's feeds went pretty smoothly and she's backed off a bit on the huge ramblings lists of instructions.

And we chatted more about Peebles and her inestimable charms. Huntress/diplomat is a FASCINATING dual class but Peebs seems to have mastered it.. ^___^

listening to Herb Alpert's "Zorba the Greek" of all the damn things, feeling curiously and probably unwarrantedly optimistic about everything

i am sure that mood will pass tomorrow upon contact with the enemy :)

and yeah, the canid urges passed. brill must have fucked off for a snack or a chewtoy or something. what can i say, nothing has EVER fit me better than tiger, and i suspect nothing ever will