Arilin Thorferra @arilin@meow.social

In Santa Clara the minimum wage is $15.40, and a Quarter Pounder costs more than a BMW and Elon Musk flaunts his unimaginable wealth by ordering Doritos Taco Locos Supreme. SUPREME

Hares are bigger and also petulant

Okay, I think my brain is full for the day and it's time to take a break from writing. I do feel that this was a productive day, even if I'm ending the day with less words on this piece than I started—now I think they're all *usable* words.

I think I've written at least 3000 words for the next Moira episode and have only kept a bit over 1300—and it's all conversation. And it probably won't even read as being super important, although it sets up a lot. (I hope.)

Okay, so I have pretty much derailed my train of thought tonight by thinking about busty giant skunks (maybe with unusual coloration; possibly but not necessarily demonic). I will make notes so she will come back for…something.

I can't recall the last time I've had a giant skunk. Now I admit I'm picturing:

Saida: Mmmmf!
Skunk: Aw, I've thought about crushing people under my chest, but never have.
Saida: (gasp) good…
Skunk: (grins wickedly) First time for everything, though!
Saida: MMMMMF!

I wonder whether Saida should meet her end in a couple non-vorish fashions. Paws are obvious, although this thought stems from me watching a sketch of a cute skunk girl with a massive chest being drawn right now…

Thinking about Saida's reaction to being on a train being swallowed whole: instead of screaming futilely along with everyone else, she might be looking around thinking, "Welp, doomed again, but this is a fascinating new one."

Oh good, I've been writing the next Moira episode in an inconsistent tense.

Okay, the first two episodes of “WandaVision” are just…surprisingly High Concept Weird for a Marvel TV series. They are *so damn straight-faced* about being forgotten sitcoms from years gone by!

Someone from HR just said "we still have some opportunities for assimilation" in a very cheerful voice, and I'm not sure what she actually meant but now I'm imagining Aster the flower-coyote saying that just as cheerfully to a group of the imminently doomed

I'm on a "reunion" Zoom with current and former employees of the company I'm at (which is turning into a different company), and it's remarkable how many people who left over the past year or two left to…do nothing. Not laid off, just "I'm gonna take an indefinite break."

I've noticed that in every single photograph, no matter what the context is and how enthusiastic and smiley-smiley everyone else gets, my expression is always "yes, I am certainly here and that is definitely a camera"

Realizing this is the first year in two decades I’m not really going to FC (and the first in close to a decade I’m not on staff). 😿

Commission idea: Red Savina the dragon-coyote and her dragon-vixen girlfriend, romantically snuggling in the smouldering remains of downtown

Finished with the theoretically final draft of Saida & Autumn, although I should really give it a final read-through like a real novel. Which it is, which still kind of astounds me in some ways.

Followup: still a great movie. This clip, a set piece for the song “Running with the Wolves”, is one of the most beautiful, inventive pieces of animation I’ve seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJFnUGSwXF8

Finally getting to watch “Wolfwalkers” on my big TV (yes, macro joke, ha ha) and good sound system. This could be a movie I buy on Blu-Ray once it’s available. It’s really amazing.

Soon I will be back in California, where I will need to self-isolate for 10 days with martinis

Fun fact: like members of the great cat family, Rha paw pads feel like velvet. So, when you imagine Saida picking you up and rubbing you gently between her palm pads, purring more loudly as you get flustered, you know what it'd feel like now!