i haven’t heard of this series, but i’ve bookmarked it. thanks!
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Sheffield was one of my favorites, who died too soon alas.
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Now that’s my kind of apocalypse. Volcanoes are so cool! (Unless they cover the country with a foot of ash…)
Edit typo.
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Speaking of, here is The Apocalypso, by National Health.
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IT BEGINS…
i for one hail our cephalopod overlords.
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What if we don’t know their genders?
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hmm, a fair point. i honestly was only thinking of the term in a non-gender, “these things rule us” sort of way anyway.
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Given that the term “overlady” doesn’t exist, I’d argue it’s possible to be a female overlord and that, despite its gendered origins, the term is now gender neutral.
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I’ll buy that. Though I mourn our language’s lack of edgeladies.
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Though presumably not our lack of crimeladies…?
ETA: It just struck me how “slumlady” would actually be an inversion of the term, rather than the female equivalent of a slumlord. Odd but not particularly surprising, I guess…
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It’s not what you prefer, it’s what they prefer that matters. As the the likely intelligent successor to humans’ domination of the planet, you do NOT want to peese them off!
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The octopuden aren’t waiting!
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In case you haven’t already heard, some on the far right are convinced that “antifa” are plotting a violent coup and/or anti-white genocide tomorrow, and they need to get out there to stop this. They are wrong. They-- armed right-wingers-- may end up shooting someone. This worries me.
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I think about this fact way too much. Like could we develop octopus life extension technology to see what kinds of amazing things they could do in their 20s & 30s?
Or are they just like me, “smart” in the sense they can learn things quickly, but forget it all just as quickly, doomed to a progression of hobbies given up before true mastery is achieved…
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Now that is a science fiction novel waiting to be written.
A 30 year old octopus may be indeed be amazingly (or frighteningly) smart, but I think they probably have a version of “smart” that is completely different from ours.
I also have the progression of hobbies problem, but in my case, I tend to substitute perfectionism for mastery. Thus I spend months on something trying to get it just right. Like an illustration I’ve been working on for 10 months . . . 
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