Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

I really gotta stop this cycle of "get up early, read Internet, see news, lose morale, remember warm dragon awaits, go back to bed, wake up at 1."

Just a little market research:

What drove you crazy when you watched Saturday morning cartoons as a kid? Was there anything cartoons did that you found especially patronizing, or disappointing, or off-putting back then? Is there anything you'd wish they'd do, that they never did? Were there any cliches that you noticed even back then?

As exile/penance/cloister/tiger jail/draconic captivity goes, this really ain't so bad. Of all the many reasons I still feel guilty about the path that led me here, increasing among them is the distinct possibility that I've gone and failed upwards again.

Emotionally turbulent day, made more turbulent by vestigial social media notices and a lot less turbulent by realizing, to my genuine astonishment, I like most of what I've written in the last few weeks and it barely needed any tweaking.

Christ, I might actually end up with something faintly resembling a career in comics. This lunatic fucking dragon might actually be able to draw the things this lunatic fucking tiger writes, and make them appealing to read.

We have returned to Alert Level: Michael Stipe. Repeat, Michael Stipe. Return to your regular stations. Tiger sadness contained, repeat, contained.

Tiger sadness watch will remain in effect until 4:20 am. Please continue monitoring Radio Mars for news, bulletins, updates, gazelle recipes, and deep cuts from Love Tractor (alert level 5.5 - 7.5).

10 FLAMING LIPS
9 RADIOHEAD
8 VELVET UNDERGROUND
7 MODEST MOUSE <---- CURRENT ALERT LEVEL
6 PINK FLOYD
5 THE CURE
4 CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
3 R.E.M.
2 DR. OCTAGON
1 STEREOLAB
0 KATRINA AND THE WAVES

raaaaaaaaaaaaawr

RRRRRRaooowwrrrrrrr

GRRRRRRAAAWWrrrWRRRR!!

*hunches up irritably, gives nearest non-animate non-plushie physical object a perfunctory half-rending, picks up in mouth and tosses across room, then pounces it and bops it down the hall*

MEEEEHHRRRRRRRAAARRROOOOOOOARRRRRR

*several minutes of just frighteningly loud tiger... breathing*

RRYYYYOOOWWWOOOWWWOWWWWRRRRAAAAAOOOOORRRR!

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The Martian Tiger urges are strong with me today, and I can not hide my shame: I would claw, rend, and tear my way past every single one of you without hesitation right now if it were to get me at a decent bowl of biang biang noodles.

Lucky for you little morsels that there's a very good Xi'an Chinese dive right up the road. So my carnal desires can be achieved, without bloodshed, for $12.99.

#rawr

foodcrime; self-applied ethnic slur

I love Polari. I love the word "zhuzh." I love its etymology. I want to love Romani, though I know it has no reason to love my white ass back. And I love the IPA spelling "ʒʊʒ" most of all., 'cause it looks how I feel most of the time. ʒʊʒ

(Relevant links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zhoosh#English )

Thanks, Roseanne: you did your job precisely as expected, you bigoted piece of shit. I knew you couldn't hold it inside for long.

propur spelin vvv emportint 2 gaem dezine

#trashpandahospital

*pokes listlessly at Parallax*

*pokes irritably at uspol feeds*

*pokes anxiously at social circles*

Oh, god, is this one of those days where I do my day job just because it's the least depressing option?

OTOH, just as I was hitting my nadir of trust in humanity, I found out Peg had taken out the bathroom trash just before I was about to do it, instantly restoring my faith in the power of civic order. <3

(Okay, "hate" is a strong word... I just completely abhor the typical leftist's intellectual habits, the same way I abhor mine, except I like to delude myself I can at least get past the "received-fact regurgitation" and "win argument by using jargon that assumes my worldview" phases occasionally. >_< And I admire the hell out of a leftist who can actually question our side's conventional wisdom, which includes any/all of us... on a good day. ;p )

This is your daily reminder that I hate most leftists. I just like their values much better than I like conservative ones, and I hate most right-wingers a lot _more_. If you seriously expect me to believe the typical leftist has any unusual ability to put aside confirmation bias, do independent research, think for themselves, or learn about "tolerance" in any way besides checking the latest whitelist, you've got some serious disappointments coming.

current #moodsnapshot:

that scene from the shining where wendy finds jack's typewriter except instead of "all work and no play makes jack a dull boy" it just says "butts" over and over again and instead of shelly duvall its peggy and instead of being scared in the least she just sighs indulgently and facepalms then lovingly tucks the reams and reams of paper with just "butts" on them back into place

#writingishard

Oh, gods, forgive me...

I think I've got a name for the <s>patient</s> payshunt discard pile in Trash Panda Hospital:

"The Nice Farm Upstate." *shudder*

Note to self: add a special malady called "stuft": it's got a really high diagnosis target (because gosh those plush frens are so realistic these days), but if you actually beat it, all the other diseases on that patient disappear because plushies can't get sick. "Phew. Sokay, dis fren not spose ta breev!" =^__^=

Tentative list of maladies (excuse me: "maludeez") for Trash Panda Hospital:

wirms
jondis
floo
bochalizm
kat skrach fevr
da-fish-in-see
lerinjhydis
raybeez
weerd spotz
tetnuss
tiks an fleez
komin kold
wartz
tripanosomethin
meinj
pleg o_o;
rabit fevr
skaybeez
samonela
step-toe-cokis
arseinik
striq9
saianaide
raissin
poyzin aivee
katnip
beladawna
pawloniyum
spaider byt
hyumin kandee
brok lejg
brok awrm
brok u... all u
sprayn
splintr in pawb

Also, thank you for being surprisingly restrained when I asked your opinion about $ESTRANGED_ACQUAINTANCES. I'm with you, kiddo: "healthy, happy, and far away."