Tracing My Steps

Travel and fandom blog. Still Agi. Now 33% less obnoxious. [[Amenta RP blog]]

[carmenzsf]

[outracingboredom]

This might be a machine translation thing, but ”Thinks all purples just move boxes” means "thinks the only purple job is moving boxes", which is actually false and stupid, maybe don't see the worst in everything all the time? That person was defending purples, not everything is anti-purple

I mean, I guess maybe this is a machine translation thing, but I don’t think anyone would actually think that the only purple job is moving boxes if they had literally ever gone outside in their entire life. So from here, it sounds more like they’re either lying, or saying that moving boxes isn’t important and that you’re not worth praise as a purple unless you’re the CEO of barathi industries, or whatever

but I guess I can admit that I really have no idea what they meant, I’m pretty bad at reading stuff

[openamenta]

Call out post for @steel-song

Hates babies. Seriously, I know this is the most ridiculous cartoon villain b-movie trope, but they really do, they even said babies are polluted

Which is another problem! Trivializing pollution is terrible

Thinks military greys are better than all other greys

Tries to insult people by comparing them to purples, as if being purple is a bad thing

Thinks all purples just move boxes

Actually said that sex workers and dancers aren’t really grey I mean seriously I can’t even need to explain what’s wrong with this, right?

[outracingboredom]

>”Thinks all purples just move boxes”

not really surprised to see people insult us while they pretend to defend us, but uh, maybe fuck off with that

[outracingboredom]

Me: I wish to spend an extended time rubbing my fingers over some small patch of pleasantly-textured surface. Perhaps the fur of an animal?

The miniaturized apex predator with which I share my home: [vibrates at a soothing frequency to encourage this behavior]

[reject-your-reality]

have you ever been part of a cult?

no

[3cool-5u]

join the cult of mister wiggles!!!!

[reject-your-reality]

…tempting

I’m bored and need something to take my mind off spring, convince me

[3cool-5u]

rules:

1) whenever you see a cat, you have to give the cat scritches and remind it that it’s good

2) live your life in a way that would make the lentat head of state at least mildly annoyed with you

mister wiggles:

it has not gotten anyone arrested so far this is an a+ track record for a cult i am in

[reject-your-reality]

1) yes good I do that anyway

2) I suspect I am also doing this anyway but can you give me some pointers

(3) awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww hi kitty!

[outracingboredom]

the cult leader is named PRINCE wiggles II, but she accepts all applicants, welcome new cultist

I bet the lentat head of state is really annoyed by reviews of SF books with weird caste divisions. probably wants everyone to settle down and stop thinking about alternatives so much

[openamenta]

ch4ngingskies:

I’ve decided that the blue caste is beyond help.

It’s not their fault, really. It’s in their genetics. Blues are self-serving, egotistical, insincere, sadistic and amoral from the moment they’re born. They’ve been selected for hundreds of years for those traits.

That still means that we should stop issuing blue credits and pension off our remaining blues, while we figure out who should occupy our positions of power thus far and find a way to transfer land to responsible purples.

[megasilverfist]

Ok, so I am not saying I agree with the rest of this, but even saying that I do, why purples.  It would make sense to do some mix of yellows (since they already manage property) and whoever runs the business that is on the land/lives there. Which in the second case would include a lot of purples, but wouldn’t universally be them.

[outracingboredom]

cuz purples run hotels, which are literally the same thing as an apartments except you can’t legally live there

anyway the rest of this is batshit, blues suck but you can’t just sterilize a whole caste cuz you don’t like them. it’s just slightly less batshit than if the idea was to give real estate to any other caste

[collationdaffodils-blog]

fuck it, have some catblogging

this is my older cat! we call her the bosscat because she bosses around the younger one (not available for photography).

her actual name is peli, but it’s not like she responds to her name. food, though, she responds to food. and offers of headscritches.

[outracingboredom]

People can't use their words because censorship.

well that doesn’t exactly inspire confidence

thanks for using your words to tell me tho

[outracingboredom]

To explain the joke, makenoconvenants is vagueblogging about 'some country's leadership' so now people are suggesting various countries

thanks. that explains like 40% of what’s going on, but not whatever she’s actually talking about

why can’t people use their words

[openamenta]

@bigtoelittletoetoe said

If you’re an Anitami Blue, YOU 👏 ARE 👏 POLLUTED!

[outracingboredom]

i’m checking news sites to see if there’s some disaster somewhere but it’s all like ‘blah blah sports news’ ‘blah blah tuviri defector got sent home’ ‘blah blah new cleaning batch’ ‘blah blah some ship went down off the coast of voa’ ‘blah blah new movie you don’t want to see’ ‘blah blah biyan is still falling apart’

there’s a distinct lack of ‘TAPA AND ANITAM ARE BURIED IN POLLUTION’ so I’m gonna need some people to explain themselves

[limmuda]

Anitami theologians recently developed a procedure to clean reds. It’s very comprehensive, was carefully tested first, and the paper is freely available online.

The first batch all became purple, and have since presumably assimilated well enough, since there has been a distinct lack of news stories about them being discovered.

The second batch finished, and they are being allowed to enter into other castes too, included one who has become blue.

The reds are not rioting over this, and we are able to achieve a fully clean society with minimal death if things continue as they have been.

Some people who do not understand the theology, or are too caught up in politics to focus on truth, are ignoring this evidence. It’s intellectually dishonest, and risks creating pollution hysteria.

[outracingboredom]

I knew about the procedure thing, I just don’t know why anyone would think it makes all the blues polluted. like maybe it’s a joke or something but it’s a really stupid one

anyway thanks for attempting to explain things using words that made any amount of sense, unlike some people. that was considerate

[openamenta]

@bigtoelittletoetoe said

If you’re an Anitami Blue, YOU 👏 ARE 👏 POLLUTED!

[outracingboredom]

i’m checking news sites to see if there’s some disaster somewhere but it’s all like ‘blah blah sports news’ ‘blah blah tuviri defector got sent home’ ‘blah blah new cleaning batch’ ‘blah blah some ship went down off the coast of voa’ ‘blah blah new movie you don’t want to see’ ‘blah blah biyan is still falling apart’

there’s a distinct lack of ‘TAPA AND ANITAM ARE BURIED IN POLLUTION’ so I'm gonna need some people to explain themselves

[makenocovenantswithpestilence]

you're absolutely correct, it's a travesty that nobody is able to protect themselves from tapa!! we have to band together against the baby-murderers before they take us all over!!!!!

Tapa is certainly behaving irresponsibly, but I hardly think they are the most pressing threat to the stability of the world.

[outracingboredom]

what the fuck did tapa do

[makenocovenantswithpestilence]

Every nation has a duty to protect its people from potential harms. Those who utterly fail to do so have been negligent at best.

[outracingboredom]

what the fuck does this even mean

[makenocovenantswithpestilence]

you're absolutely correct, it's a travesty that nobody is able to protect themselves from tapa!! we have to band together against the baby-murderers before they take us all over!!!!!

Tapa is certainly behaving irresponsibly, but I hardly think they are the most pressing threat to the stability of the world.

[outracingboredom]

what the fuck did tapa do

[getmeoffthisrock]

decided that infanticide was the only way to make the Oakh empire leave us alone and then refused to cut it out when that wasn’t an issue anymore

[outracingboredom]

I mean I guess killing babies kind of sucks, but it’s not exactly news that tapa does that, is it

[makenocovenantswithpestilence]

you're absolutely correct, it's a travesty that nobody is able to protect themselves from tapa!! we have to band together against the baby-murderers before they take us all over!!!!!

Tapa is certainly behaving irresponsibly, but I hardly think they are the most pressing threat to the stability of the world.

[outracingboredom]

what the fuck did tapa do

[outracingboredom]

running a cult sounds like work so i’m offloading all cult-running responsibilities to my cat

[skyspoutingviolets]

how do i join the cult of prince wiggles

[outracingboredom]

prince wiggles ii accepts all applicants. the rules are:

1) whenever you see a cat, you have to give the cat scritches and remind it that it’s good

2) live your life in a way that would make the lentat head of state at least mildly annoyed with you

[skyspoutingviolets]

1) yup piece of cake

2) is kind of a challenge for a five-year-old cenemi hairdresser who knows literally nothing about the lentat head of state

[3cool-5u]

i know nothing about the lentat head of state but i’ll bet you anything he’d be at least mildly annoyed with me

not sure i’ve ever met someone who wasn’t

[outracingboredom]

our leige and source of wiggles accepts you both as her newest followers. you have been granted a great honor

[outracingboredom]

running a cult sounds like work so i’m offloading all cult-running responsibilities to my cat

[skyspoutingviolets]

how do i join the cult of prince wiggles

[outracingboredom]

prince wiggles ii accepts all applicants. the rules are:

1) whenever you see a cat, you have to give the cat scritches and remind it that it’s good

2) live your life in a way that would make the lentat head of state at least mildly annoyed with you

[outracingboredom]

running a cult sounds like work so i’m offloading all cult-running responsibilities to my cat