Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Not sure if it's a #moodsnapshot, but I'd forgotten how goddamn cute this song is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX7BmWEJ5Dc

Hey, @acetone_kitten -- ignore the song and watch this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJpfK7l404I

Oh, forgive me: the above link is CW: Absolutely Everything A Medieval Person Could Possibly Think Is Funny.

Roll THAT concept around in your noggin for a second before you click. O_o;

I actually need to sit down and read some or all of Gargantua and Pantagruel. This is a much more charming list than I had anticipated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_works_in_Gargantua_and_Pantagruel

I just spend like five minutes making sure a baby spider didn't crawl inside my laptop and get itself in Bad Trouble. I got the little thing onto a toothpick, transferred it to a piece of paper, and set it down near my precious 3D statue of the Jackalope Mother. She's got a lot of cobwebbing in her antlers already, so I'm sure she can at least get her a meal and a safe place for the night. I feel a bit better about the world for some reason. Good luck, tiny spinner.

Meanwhile it's hard not to feel like Ptonomy's fate is a bit like a fridging and I'd kinda really really like for him to get out of the Fridgeframe by the end of the season at worst. Give the poor fucker at least a CHANCE to matter, okay?! He's so damn quiet, and RL experience tells me that means he's going to be the most interesting one when he finally goddamn talks. -_-

And honestly? It was also pretty cathartic seeing that Amy really could simultaneously be kind of an oppressive, patronizing shit to David AND be scared of him over things he really couldn't control AND genuinely love him and make heartbreaking sacrifices for him. David's suppressed resentment of her was valid, but she still deserved better than she got, and I understand that urge to still fight like hell for someone whose *genuine* last resort was to betray you.

Legion S02E06 was really difficult, and really cathartic, given the last year. Getting to see just how dysfunctional and dangerous David once was -- and could have been again, if he'd botched his self-care even WORSE -- and still getting to think of him as a basically good and valid and okay person afterwards. That was a story I really needed to see, and a reminder that a world where I am interesting *and* happy *and* never at all broken just might not exist.

In the same spirit, today's #moodsnapshot is just a whole bunch of Kraftwerk. Sterile emotionless technocratic modernism sounds intensely cozy today, especially if they still have good coffee and pastry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBjhHq6qp-k

New party game for 2020, where you go around in a circle naming various literary "dystopias" and the other players all vote on whether they'd rather live there or here. The more defectors you get to the society you named, the more points.

Losers have to join the winner's revolutionary cell and help bring about the winning society. Any player who consistently voted for Trump's America is send to Round 2, which bears an amazing resemblance to Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

Or we could just put everyone from /r/TumblrInAction on an African island...

make a reality show where they explain what they learn once put in a position of disempowerment, promising all a safe return to America once they demonstrate their new wisdom...

let 'em learn harsh lessons in communication & tolerance as they're forced to work together & collaborate with dark-skinned people from other islands with all the power & resources...

Then bomb the island. 😺​

There's some piece of shit on Reddit spewing ethnonationalism bullshit about black IQs. Showing him Cosma Shalizi's debunking of the Bell Curve isn't working because of all the big words, so I'm thinking what I'd like to do is sedate him and then have him wake up in a roomful of black physicists in a cocktail jacket with a nice drink in his hand, and let him see how the whole "human intelligence" thing really shakes out for his no-punctuation-usin all-lowercase punk ass.

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

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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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🐯​🖕​:cowboy:​
🐯​🖕​🌎​

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