Penny!!! @PennyPennyPenny@computerfairi.es

Cybernetically enhanced superbig catpeople that can wad up tanks like tin foil and tug around dreadnought spaceships like they're balloons on a string. One-kitty armies that took the resources of entire planets to develop and construct rebelling against the oppressive empires that built them and bringing Galactic peace through purrs powerful enough to level city-sized military outposts in minutes. But still very soft and smooshy and in need of belly rubs and pets and soft beans.

there is no off button

currently use this platform for be Penny but more intensely

Penny meows at you until you meow back

Like a yawn, it's seeded.

And contagious.

You keep meowing. softly to yourself mostly.

Then out loud, part of your everyday speech.

Meow at your friends. They think it's kinda cute!

Some meow back!

Days pass, and suddenly you realize

You're Penny too!

Only a matter of time until your friends join too!

screaming sky cowboy

but giga Penny making loud dial up modem noises

dangerous soft

apply beans

to all things

no. to more things.

more.

M O R E

soft

nice

u n s t o p p a b l e

swarm of very soft

Done!

@PennyPennyPenny

You smile.
They smile.
You want them to stay.
They never wanted to leave.
You don't know why you were afraid.
They told you it was good.
You want them to stay.
They will be.
Friends.
We are friends.
Your phone buzzes.
We can get it later.
We're petting cats now.
It's not important.
We are petting cats.
.

.

.

We wish there were more cats.

@PennyPennyPenny

They smile. You smile. The others slink closer to join, and you slide your hand out across the screen. You shiver as they nuzzle in and "touch" your palm. Feeling jolts and sparks where their noses brush through the screen, cheeks rub against the glass, little tongues lap like waves of static across your skin. Your whole body tingles, mesmerized and dumbfounded. They're...Nice. They said so. Of course they are. They said so. Just believe them.

@PennyPennyPenny
Move your hand move your hand move your hand let go let go let go let go no no no no no no

"Boop!"

One of them touches their little pink nose to the tip of your thumb. Through the screen there's a jolt and you can't pull your hand away. But...Do you want to? As you sit there, watching that...Thing on the other side of the screen rub their forehead against your fingertip...You smile too

@PennyPennyPenny

It doesn't work!
"You do!"
Aren't you listening?
"YAYA!"

You grasp the monitor in frustration. Shaking it. Shouting. The little popups and their little cats tumble and bounce around the display. Mewling, beeping, shrieking like angry swarms of modems. You stop, and then they stop. All in a heap, a jumble, a disheveled digital pile.

They're smiling. Your thumb is touching the screen. They're smiling.

@PennyPennyPenny

Now what?
"Thank you!" They say. All at once.
You're...Welcome?
Thank you thank you!
I'm scared.
"Do not!"
Confused
"Answers! Click here!"
No!
"Please!"
No?
"Please?"
I...I don't know.
"Answers! Click here!"
Why? What is this still? What are you?
"Click here."
The mouse doesn't work!
"Click here! Touch the kitty!"
Stop that!
"Click here! Touch the kitty!" Win prizes!"
I'm scared
"No scary. Nice!"
Please!
"Click here!"

@PennyPennyPenny

"Click here!"
Why?
"Click here!"
The mouse stopped responding after one of them ate your cursor
"Click here! Click here!"
Never click on popups.
"Here click here now!"
It's been a week. What is this crap. You can't look away but you're never going to click-
"HERE!"
Right on the tip of one's nose.
"Click!"
Silence.
Your ears ring. The voices stop. All their eyes on you. Alert. Focused. Perfectly still. You're a deer in their headlights

@PennyPennyPenny

Five days. You called in sick. The cheerful voices gave you a headache. Vision's been blurry unless you're looking at the screen. All their faces. All those cats. You want them to be quiet, to just...Stop. You know they're listening to you now; after last night's outburst they...Changed. The ads changed. Welcoming.. Beckoning. They're not selling. They wanted your attention, and now they have it. You're smiling too.

@PennyPennyPenny

It's been three days now. You can't mute them anymore, and the chirping, droning, crackling voices just don't stop. Hello. Welcome. Congratulations [N A M E]. You've been randomly selected. Click here for the opportunity of a lifetime. Discount cruises!!! They're all out of synch, almost harmonic, almost real, as if they were talking TO you, not just talking. But they're just talking. Talking. Talking. And you can't stop them, even when you sleep

The popup ads just won't go away. You've tried everything, but it's never more than a few minutes reprieve from the bright colors, the smiles, the low bitrate voices congratulating you, welcoming you, encouraging you to listen. Click them. But you have to use your computer, so you just sigh, move the windows aside, mute your speakers, and carry on. You'll drop your computer off at a repair place later. Let someone else deal with them.