Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

This seems like a fine time to exercise Mastodon's "security through obscurity" properties and point out that Jeff Bezos is, in my opinion, one exceptionally shootable human being.

It comes to my attention that the search results for "Tina Belcher Horse TF" are negligible. Shame on you. Can't a girl have nice things?! Once my Xmas money comes in, I might have to pay one of you art-witch types to fix this.

#uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #greaterthananyforceintheuniverse

Sweet Antler Mother have mercy, I managed to dig up the original discussion where we drew up the wixxx* flags for Puzzlebox**.

I still giggle every time I see "no elves" and "elf-fucker." I wonder how many people thought I was serious about the MUCK-wide "no elves" policy? I was always sad there weren't more contraband elves there. :D

* (perverse equivalent of the "whatis" command from FurryMUCK et al; basically an index of kinks)

** (first attempt at a postfurry RP server)

I guess the first question is... SM:AC had "Build," "Explore," "Develop," and "Conquer."

What are the basic categories of our technology? Maybe Organic, Inorganic, Psycholinguistic (incl. aesthetics gender "techs"), and "Glow"?

(Could see "Glow" equivalent to "Dust" in the Endless series, or "Mana" in trad fantasy, covering both actual lightshows and "meta" powers most settings would call "magic"... Inspired by Thaminga's go, Glow could probably include "celestial"/"infernal" stuff too.)

After recent conversation with @Thaminga, I have the urge to attempt to draw up some kind of Civ-style tech tree for postfurries. Either from our actual microfandom's history, or some specific universe, maybe the 12F/13R world.

It'd probably be a hell of a lot like the SM:AC tech tree, albeit for a society that has better things to do with N-space compression than build missiles. >:D

(The point of the above is that being the Good Guys is not a fixed status. The board of this bizarre sociocultural strategy game moves constantly underneath our feet.

If there's one thing I learned from Buddhism, it's that things like Enlightenment, Virtue, and Social Justice are as relative and unfixed points as everything else in this cosmos-- and if you believe it has ever become inherent and final within you, you are either a bodhisattva or simply misinformed.)

The question we should all be asking ourselves is...

...what will the Wakeful Transgressive Youth of 2050 hate us for?

The Red Queen's Race of social progress will not suddenly stop once the current generation of old grey men is gone. I can imagine any number of issues, from bodily autonomy to neurotypology, that will keep us fighting amongst ourselves for centuries.

Age and progress will get you too. So. What's going to make the kids of 2050 shake their heads at you and curse?

Regardless, if they turn up to port the next morning-- or, if they chose the "combat" option, the morning after payment is settled with the clonebank-- they're bodyprinted a uniform, assigned a serial number, and sent on an expedition. "AWOL" is not a concept.

The message is clear: Mars will suffer neither fear nor ignorance. This, insists Coach Rezeya St. Hobbes, is how the Legendaries became the number one recreational warfare team in the Solar League.

The successful candidate will simply pick up the revolver and, finding themselves unopposed, leave the room and go home. In the 150 years since its terraforming, there has never been a single primed bullet cartridge on Mars. The candidate may keep the revolver, a prop quickprinted at minimal expense, as a souvenir.

Those who wish to engage in combat with their officer instead are welcome to try.

...

The secret initiation ceremony for the Martian Empressor's Legendary Hospitallers is as follows:

The candidate is brought before their training officer and seated at a table. The officer sits across from them and places two objects on the table: a rotten steak and an antique Terran revolver. They instruct the candidate, "If you do not eat this steak to prove your loyalty to the Empressor, worthless beast, I will shoot you."

...

https://awoo.space/media/AF1VnZr7isBCSZAJOJg

(Came across this image from the film The ABCs of Death during a deep TV Tropes crawl, and had to at least attempt to put it to some propaganda use. The actual sequence is kind of insane and I'm not sure if I'm relieved or disappointed that the Furry Raiders crowd hasn't found it and made a depressing wank fantasy out of it.)

Passing this essay on, because I don't have the mental resources to process it right now, but it sounds like something someone in our community should have a go at. :)

https://www.academia.edu/10912960/2015_Becoming-Animal_Is_a_Trap_for_Humans_Deleuze_and_Guattari_in_Madagascar

Okay, I'm drunk, stoned, and a little brazen.

Not quite brazen enough for "Ask Me Anything," but...

Okay, how about this:

1) What, in your most blunt opinion, is my character class?
2a-b) What are my primary stat and dump stat?
3) What prestige class will I be if I ever become Epic?

(You need not assume any particular game, world, system, genre, era, canon, species, etc)

Today I followed the latest drawing tutorial from @strongbadactual@twitter.com. O:)

(She's holding a Quasar bar, Peg's usual from Trader Joe's.)

#badart

https://awoo.space/media/x9wVKU3BrHfLEvbxDXQ

I love that when I get really stoned, if Peggy's tits and cock aren't immediately at hand, my first impulse is to dive straight into Wikipedia for six hours.

It's been a good day.

Real good. According to a last-minute announcement, today begins an 17-day weekend for me. Fully paid. Basically, here.com decided to give all its US workers a two-week holiday, and they actually included us part-timers! I don't have to work again until the 1st.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhuman #logophilia #logofetish #xenofetish #postfurry #strangewarp

(I had a bunch of disclaimers and exceptions to add to that, but I accidentally reloaded my browser and I don't feel like retyping them. ^__^ )

This, but for the primitivism, is the only kind of revolution I have the faintest interest in.

#moodsnapshot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78656nwE8pY

(My feelings about the 1960's counterculture and how much it failed us by misidentifying scientists and engineers as the Bad Guys are... complicated and the sort of thing never to bring up near me at a cocktail party. Suffice it to say I still haven't completely given up on being chromed and/or laminated, and you need an industrial base for that, flowerbabies.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzOh9cTbX60

#shortdurationpersonalsavior