Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Summary of the "Getting Paid" panel:

Q: "Don't you have a moral obligation not to do the work of totalitarian governments like Turkey by deplatforming their journa..."

A: "Ha, ha, it's a crazy world, isn't it!"

Q: "Okay, but what are you going to do about people skimming content and then doing a credit chargeba...?"

A: "Focus on the positives! You 'creatives' are awesome!"

(con't)

Submitted w/o comment, except to notice that I also saw a sign lying around for moderator use that read "1 Minutes" [sic].

(It's also nice that it's essentially the story of a Wacky Arrested Adolescent Bro who learns to grow the fuck up, listen to women, be sensitive, and put other people's needs ahead of his own, while still remaining fundamentally masculine and wacky...)

Chelsea is my medium-duration personal savior. It's weird how many of the the 9-9 crew are vocally The Good Guys in real life. (On top of this, Stephanie Diaz is openly bi and a vocal supporter of queer causes, and Terry Crews has come out pretty bravely about his history as a male sexual assault victim.)

This is just part of why <s>Tolerant Liberal Cop Fantasy</s> Brooklyn Nine-Nine is one of my favorite shows on network TV.

Okay, I have some negative associations with <s>the Equestrian menace</s> MLP these days (*flitter* *hiss*), but... this comic is just freakin' adorable.

https://imgur.com/a/g8uPv

SPOILER: I love that Flutters appends "please" to her command lines. ^__^

This is a FANTASTIC idea. http://womenshistoryscotland.org/tag/mary-maloney/ (A suffragette followed #@#$!# Churchill around and rang a bell every time he tried to speak.)

You know... it's 100 years later. We have far better options for creating loud nuisances on the sly. Is there any way we could start, I don't know, implanting really loud, really small Bluetooth speakers in every venue Trump is likely to show up in, and just have them go "WAAAAAAAAAAUGH" whenever the bastard opens his mouth?

Aww, Peg missed the one panel she was actually looking forward to, the ONE that was actually run by somebody in our medium.

Meanwhile, I've looked at all today's panels and decided they're Just Not For Me. So I'm contentedly ensconced by their power outlet tower, working on Chapters 2 of Px.

It's gonna get weird, folks. We finally hit on a common theme for the next installments: biological infiltration. Pod people, represent... 🌀_🌀

I don't know who this weird ambitious extrovert person in my shower is, but she's talking up a storm about asking other comic artists how to get Patreon to notice us, and it's kinda sexy as hell. Shit, if we hurry, I might actually have a comics career before the apocalypse.

#moodsnapshot #iasip

https://youtu.be/hSQ_b1EXmjw?t=9

"I'm NOT a centrist, dammit, just because I like eating one liberal and one conservative at every meal. Y'all just pair well."

We bailed early. This was probably a real good idea. If my misanthropy meter gets much higher than it was, it tends to trigger my Kaiju Tiger Battle-Snark limit break. -_-

We can't have nice things, y'all. It's encoded in the human neurolinguistic structure. Our attachment to lazy-ass intellectual shorthands ruins everything we do.

Wrap your affairs up fast, fellow monkeys. And I don't know, maybe buy some good assembly puzzles for your local raccoons.

Just learned Prince Lír from the Rankin-Bass Last Unicorn was Jeff "The Dude" Bridges.

Mind. Blown.

Horn. Shattered.

Get. The. <s>Changeling.</s> Pony. Glue.

Okay, I think I'm back to liking Laurie Penny again. This is a very important sentiment.

(For the record, yes, I can be a right Evil Schoolmarm against people who are doubling down on something ignorant... but I'll go well out of my way to thank and encourage someone who checks the facts and went "whoops, heh, no, I blew it...")

Listening to the people on this panel, which has turned very political and "bubbly," is doing nothing to change my current view of the human race as six billion fingers stick in six billion novelty finger traps.

Can we please stop trying to solve our political and interpersonal problems by just substituting different demographic variables into the same goddamn prejudice formulae?

Laurie Penny is on stage at a panel about dealing with criticism, saying (paraphrase) "the last thing a creative person needs is to develop a 'thick skin'" and I'm wondering where the hell people like her were when people were giving me the exact opposite advice on Livejournal 13 years ago. -_-

I wanted to start a standing ovation, because "just ignore them and pretend it doesn't hurt" is COMPLETELY SHITTY ADVICE and, frankly, you should feel terrible if you've ever dispensed it.

At least y'all can rest assured that if there's nothing but people like him waiting for me in the center, I won't be leaving the Queer Leftist Lounge any time soon.

Sure, I might be hiding on the roof waiting for the UFOs to come rescue me from the whole lot of you. But I certainly won't be leaving for these @ComfortablySmug-grade ninnies who think "being rational" means wielding a big spiked baseball bat with the word "RATIONAL" written on it. >_<

(You know, what the hell. Barf along with Aunt Rezy, and give him a cheek slap for me: https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug )

I saw somebody on Twitter refer to himself as "#altcenter." 🙄​

Mostly I'm just pleased there's finally an English synonym for "Backpfeifengesicht."

(https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Backpfeifengesicht)

https://goo.gl/maps/WXQb87JvCGx

*oops, apparently there is no such thing as cartography humor, sorry about that!

I'm braced for Wes Warhammer from the Doom Factory to pop up at any moment, put his hand on my shoulder, and say, "You're the boss, applesauce." And then photograph me obsessively for five minutes. And then promise me Internet stardom. And then walk away and never acknowledge me again.