Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Artie spotted in attic, noisily displeased but intact.

Plan A is get her tomorrow.

I might have gone a TAD too far with this one but it makes me laugh and I really need that today.

Perked up somewhat after Artie spotted this morning, by which I mean, I at least stopped physically shaking and feeling queasy.

Dealer has been summoned for an emergency delivery tomorrow. :)

But yeah, Artie was pokin' her head out as we took off for cafe, and her mews were like knives through my heart. I have ZERO resistance to her being sad. ;___;

Puttin' all my faith in Bast, Peg, and all your reassurances that she'll be OK up there. To the best of our knowledge (and contrary to my panicky helicopter-parent imaginings) there's nothing particularly dangerous in that attic, as long as we FEED AND WATER her within a day or so, and she's not *quite* dumb enough to attempt an escape leap she can't handle.

God, this fucking sucks. :O Peg was quite opposed to having Artie as an indoor cat again when/if we rescue her, but has been SUPER SUPER GOOD about accepting I will be A WRECK any day she's stuck up there, and letting me negotiate to just figure out what specifically about an Indoor Artie drives her nuts.

(We might be hitting up Cat Folk for some training advice if all goes well with the rescue. If not... well... you'll always be my hero, Artie, you stupid stupid adventure cat.)

artie confirmed alive, poked head out attic and mewed, still stuck ofc

rescue tomorrow prolly, and if she doesn't show herself when summoned i guess we just leave water and a LITTLE food and let her ponder her cat crimes in solitary a little longer

god i hate all this, i wanna get her out of that building then burn it right down

Ugh.

(life, not y'all <3 )

Also the faves and universal lack of yelling "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU" over us leaving Artie a day or two is very reassuring, thank you. That's kinda why I mentioned it, people have pushed back when we were giving up too soon on the cats in the past (e.g. The Kitten Incidents) and I rely on y'all as my moral compass. <3

Doing mentally and physically better since we confirmed Artie is alive and intact up in the neighbor's attic, at least stopped serial-retching (which I do when I'm nervous, esophageal defect), but boy would it be nice to be able to keep any food down.

Artie is alive, at least. Peggy's 98% sure she saw her poking her head out the attic window in the dark, and we heard mewing that was very similar to Artie's "WHEE LOOK AT ME"/"HELP GET ME DOWN" mews. 🙄​

Rescue attempt #1 will be made tomorrow, or at least we'll check in and consider smuggling her some food and water up there. Peg is determined to leave her there a bit to make sure she gets her lesson finally-- I'm worried about another sudden vanishing and that one being permanent, but aside from that anxiety I'm afraid she's... probaly right?

I feel terrible leaving a buddy stranded up there, but aside from my own possibly irrational terror she'll just poof, I don't think she's in any imminent *danger* up there, the attic does not seem *that* dangerously decrepit. Still feel awful about it, some part of me kinda wants to rush in and play rescue tiger immediately, but... yeah, I'm not even sure she WANTS to come down yet?

Artie was not only last spotted back up in attic but is currently AWOL, Cox cable might suspend our Internet permanently over a three-second misclick on a torrent client, I had to cancel therapy due to Panicked Cat Search, and so much for that good day I was having.

No replies necessary, wouldn't be able to process them TBH and nothing will help until things turn out OK or I know for sure they haven't and can try to deal.

playing a very dangerous game with twitter support in order to prove a point

https://twitter.com/zebratron2084/status/1490862805226041346

oh and also because it's fun to get away with publicly inciting people to shoot matt walsh

but no seriously talk radio IS a really good movie

especially the end

If we have a motto, it's whatever Latin/High Martian is for "Don't Let Bad People Get Comfortable."

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just feelin obsolete tbh

Meh. Everything's okay, Artie is here indoors with us, day job's gone back into an easy phase, things could be a lot worse.

But I'm in rough shape. It's been quiet here and Peg's been distracted by Dragonstyle maintenance so I've been kinda emotionally bottled up.

Had a little much news exposure and am a little fucked up over the state of the world. Feeling pretty dim prospects about us winning our next few cultural battles.

Still worried about Artie. Ruminating like crazy on all kinds of worst-case scenarios where we lose Artie or our neighbor turns out to be an asshole and calls the cops on us next time we have to retrieve her or something.

Meanwhile, I'm seeing on twitter that furries have gotten themselves wrapped up in 2-3 different culture war battles with conservatives. I'm down for it, but we did not need to have one more goddamn thing we love threatened. (Apparently we're finally the Concerned Parent moral panic du jour?)

I don't know. I'm tired and lonely and feeling horribly removed from everything I am right now. I just feel like a big drudge. I feel like we keep losing battles to protect beautiful things, and I keep losing faith in some of those beautiful things too. I could really use some hope or a good distraction or something.

AHEM YEAR OF TIGER STARTS NOW

HOPE YOU'VE BEEN PLANNING

WHAT YOU GOT FOR ME

artie was SAINTLY overnight and was released at 6 am on her own recognizance

she was present for 9 am check-in and was petted and praised lavishly

stayed on the fuckin ground tonight 😽​

we have brought her in for the night and rewarded her with a wet food and lots of petting