Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

That horrifying moment when you look at the achievement list and reallze JUST HOW MUCH THERE IS TO UNLOCK. *scream*

(What the hell are gold stickers?!)

Also, just curious, how long did it take the rest of you to figure out you can still score a hand with a disabled card, it just doesn't contribute its value? Probably not nearly as long as it took me. :)

holy fuck

behold the rotation viii

it's like the kobold to a standard cabinet's dragon

i am gonna marry this machine someday 🙀

Well, that was interesting. Nice to have it confirmed that the social embarrassment circuit and the self-annihiliation circuit are still wired together. (Trivial incident, nobody's fault but mine, just... hit some sensitive old buttons.)

Also nice to know that net length of self-destruction desire has gotten down to roughly 10-15 seconds, because I'm 48 years old, I KNOW you people know I'm a hot mess by now, and what's the worst that one more minor fuck-up's gonna do to me? :D

God. Getting older is AWESOME. This would have been a three-day festival of self-loathing, with special guests and disdainful rock music about me, just 10 years ago.

basically imagine this little champion only metallic pink, deceptively plump, seemingly faceless until the MAAAAAW opens up, chaotic neutral, and just generally real real crummy :D

if enough points remain, miracle will also have the approximate constitution of special agent jack bauer the gas-drinking cat from it's always sunny in philadelphia

basically if you were to ask your mom for oy the billybumbler from the dark tower series, miracle the sorta-libbit would be "the crappy store-brand billybumbler your mom insists we have at home" 😼

she's just awful, worst baby <3 <3 <3

Consequent to all this, a friend found me a PDF of the War Against The Chtorr GURPS supplement and I'm midway through my first character: a mutated libbit (basically a fuzzy pink alien pig normally bred for docility).

Her name is "Miracle" or "Miri" and her mom-thing caught a dose of Terran phytochemicals somewhere in the Amazon Basin that somehow resulted in her daughter-thing being:

* just short of protosapient, INT 7 in GURPS terms
* pointier, biteyer, and scratchier than any libbit was ever meant to be
* possessed of the approximate disposition of a selectively affectionate possum-badger-cat-pig-raccoon, only filthier and smellier
* fond of humans and earth mammals (especially cats) yet absolutely vicious towards all Chtorr lifeforms
* faintly aware of the notions of "yours," "mine now," "not nailed down," "deception," "the power of friendship," and "oops i'm sorry was that YOUR finger, i should look cute now"

In short, Miri is the Best Worst Trash Animal Ever and Terra's last best mangiest hope for a peaceful (if slightly foamy, we should keep an eye on that) future. She will risk her life to save yours and then bite your finger off five minutes later.

I'll never get to play her in anything, but she is my
scruggly little alien mindbaby and I love her. 'Cause really, Miri is just my stinky cat buddy Sugarfoot as a mutant libbit. <3

Huh. Evidently today is Weird Badtouchy Invasive Alien Ecosystem Month for me. I just realized my recent media diet's included:

* Slither
* Shivers
* both Body Snatchers films
* an audiobook of Gerrold's War Against The Chtorr
* Annihilation
* Scavenger's Reign
* I Was A Teenage Exocolonist

Maybe it's time for me to make a quasi-malevolent "Entire Hostile Biosystem" sona. It sure suits my feelings about humanity lately, to wit, "Nothing a good non-consensual mass TF wouldn't fix."

Guess Kincaid (aka my rotten old lavavixen kink-villain) is still bloopin' around in the back of my head somewhere. 🤷

Well, that's odd. This is a screenshot from Marge Be Not Proud. Look at how on the left-hand side the digits are clearly hand-drawn but on the right they look like they're printed or maybe some Letraset sort of thing. And stocking #4 has six digits, in both scripts, while the others only have five! I wonder what could have possibly happened in production?!

checking in for holiday well-wishes 😽

sorry i've been scarce, miss y'all!

Anybody else watching Fargo Season 5 out there?

We tigers got some real nice pull quotes in E5 but I *really* wish they'd dial back the writing on Jon Hamm's MAGA sheriff a bit.

Don't get me wrong, I'm loving the fact there's a mainstream TV villain who is an absolutely unapologetic Trumpie caricature. But this is a really frustrating trope for me.

I spent so much time debating conservatives in the interest of dumb centrist "fairness," back in the Livejournal days. I have a pretty good idea how they think.

Roy Tillman is FAR too willing to say the quiet parts out loud to convince me he's a real MAGA character. He's too honest about his motives, both with himself and others.

A MAGA sheriff doesn't walk straight up to, say, a feminist CEO and say "Well, I think women should be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen." He tests the water. He whips out one of the Standard Lines about how he loves American women and their independent spirit. He probably prods to see if maybe trans people make her as nervous as they make him. He seals the deal and saves the *open* misogyny for the strip clubs.

Because the modern right is all about fending off the constant reminders that their values are out of touch. Sheriff Roy's just not *paradoxical* enough in his thinking. He's not paranoid enough. They got the facade of strength absolutely right; they forgot the persecution complex.

How the hell can you have a convincing MAGA character without a persecution complex a mile wide and a habit of blaming others for their crimes?

Oh here we go. I feel like a fool for not going straight to East Africa first.

Looks like the best claimant is Waaqa, sky god of the Oromo people. https://procaffeination.com/who-is-the-god-of-coffee-procaffeination-lists-the-top-contenders/

And here, it's Double Deities Thursday so have a bonus Mayan cocoa god free of charge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ek_Chuaj

Which god(s) would be in charge of caffeine and caffeination?

Asking for a friend.

I'm thinking Hermes or Dionysius maybe? Or maybe Nyx... 🤔

i received only a supermarket fruit pie

clearly she cares nothing about my wellbeing

please contact tiger protective services

(actually hubig's pies are pretty good so i just might pull thru after all😺 )

RIP, he was such a great inspiration 😿

(wait who died? ok no that's fantastic)

Not much to say lately but this song is a fuckin treasure and I wanted to share it.

(If you've seen Poker Face, and you really should, you might recognize it from "Time of the Monkey.")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlOT_gSRE48

After years and years and years of wanting a tattoo but never quite feeling any particular design, I think I've finally got it.

I want a tattoo of a tiny tigress emoji with a crown, and next to it I want the number "436" in elegant numerals-- because that's the number of humans the Queen of Champawat ate before that demon J*m C*rb*tt shot her down. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champawat_Tiger)

It would be a reminder for the coming years: never stop being fierce in the face of our oppressors 🐯

"Life across the region was paralysed, with men often refusing to leave their huts for work after hearing the tiger's roars from the forest." (Wikipedia)

That's how I want MAGAs to feel about our vengeance, if they ever so much as raise a finger against us.

After those "vermin" comments outta TFG the other day, this tiger is down from the proverbial mountain and absolutely itching for prey.

And now here it is: your moment of Zen.

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

(h/t Phorm 😽)