Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

I mean, FFS, I could probably find an instance of Theresa May using "42" in a speech. Does that mean she's a closet Hitchhiker's fan? 🙄​

I just saw someone try to argue that a passing Trump reference to "88" of something in a speech was _surely_ a reference to "88" as a white nationalist shorthand for "Heil Hitler."

Dammit people. We have hundreds upon hundreds of solid, legitimate, sane things to accuse Trump of that don't boil down to webkook apophenia. Do we HAVE to dabble in numerology? Does it SOUND like Trump to couch his racism in codes and riddles and not just blurt it out?

We've gotta be better than this.😾​

"If you're not good, I'm going to log into every one of your social media accounts overnight and change your name to Lucille Ballsac."

Well, that was an emotional roller coaster. Skimmed an article about the World Wildlife Fund's most recent call to action. Read a Reddit post full of DOOOOOOOOMFUL comments. Reread the actual article in detail and realized most of the DOOOOOOOOOOM didn't even reflect what the article said, and was roughly 1500% more hysterical and panicky. And thus kinda promptly went back to cheering for humans to perish and everything else to survive, because we're JUST SO DUMB.

I haven't been this physically, mentally, or socially exhausted in a long time and I'm really pretty happy about it. As much as I've griped about the cynical corporate-think of the con panels, the social side of it was pretty great, and we finally ran into a bunch of fellow comics people. I think it was worth it! Even the frustrating stuff got Peg and me brainstorming, and I think we got a lot of useful ideas out of it!

Ever have one of those evenings where everything is technically *fine*, but so many frustrating little *potential* issues crop up at once, you have to take like an hour to patiently go over the warning panel with your inner Chief Of Maintenance and figure out which blinkenlights should still be on and which shouldn't?

I THINK I've resolved everything, from finding out (AFTER I gave the waiter our debit card) I get paid NEXT week, to finding out it's time to renew my insurance...

Never trust a self-styled creative person who uses the word "impactful" without irony.

I keep forgetting to mention this, and something in a random browse reminded me:

BBC Three's Fleabag is really good, as is Phoebe-Bridge's other series, Killing Eve. Both require a pretty high tolerance for social awkwardness comedy (but NOT necessarily cringe comedy), but are actually both pretty sincere and rewarding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_riff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Streets_of_Cairo,_or_the_Poor_Little_Country_Maid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantella_Napoletana

Huh. We chatted with a comics creator who's been mixing graphic art with an occasional song on Youtube to draw people in.

That's way outside our skillset, but... you know, we know some actors and we know some people who can do audio production. And we have a lot of background material and side stories we won't have time to explore in the comics.

I wonder if any of y'all would be interested in listening to -- or helping with -- Parallax audio dramas, maybe w/some basic animatics?

Great job, guys. I feel so confident about you people handling the subtle details of our financial affairs.

Those who can't do, monetize.

(*this is just a Mr. Show reference; there was no actual pepper involved)

(cont'd)

Q: "Hey, I got accidentally tagged as adult, and that took only one day, it took me over a month to get it deal with, and you STILL haven't told me how it happened. You know, it really disrupted my income during a difficult peri..."

A: "Pobody's nerfect!"

Yeah, I'm done with this bullshit expo.

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.