#i miss you twitter

[deathcap420]

Twitter is down on desktop, my large breasted wife attempted to comfort me by reading me all the tweets I printed out and pasted over our wedding album pictures but it's just not the same...her breasts are so fucking big...

[triona-tribblescore]

I WANNA DRAAWW!! RAHHHGG!! Absolutely swamped with college work, im so tired TT (hence whatever tf this is lmao)

[frenchvanillawhale]

since i have moved my diary social media to tumblr from twitter, here are some of my tweets that tell you who i am from the past year

7/6/23: “why did danny drew and kurtis have to drop a collab as soon as i purchased dropout to watch the rest of tuc s2 😭”

7/5/23: “watching old college humor sketches and seeing patrick the smosh writer and brennan lee mulligan in the same sketch is equal parts exciting and unsettling”

6/22/23: “can the next big smosh announcement be that they are bringing back summer games even if they simply do it in their studio”

6/11/23: “is angela from smosh gay and/or available? hit me up pretty princess 😎🤩🏳️‍🌈🫡”

6/4/23: if you identify with cynthia from rise of the pink ladies PLEASE HIT ME UP

6/3/23: “it is gay month. i am gay. i love ally beardsley.”

5/30/23: “i blame smosh’s legacy: betrayal series for my newfound obsession with d&d”

5/27/23: “pov i begin to cry after seeing courtney miller’s instagram post and realizing how sexy she is”

5/24/23: “every character in fantasy high is so me”

5/23/23: “new parasocial relationship just dropped. and it’s an embarrassing one”

5/10/23: “9/10 times when i need a youtube video smosh is there with a new one for me and THAT is why i love them”

5/5/23: “does everyone think their dad could go viral for being a silly internet dad or is it just me?”

4/3/23: “arasha 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭”

4/2/23: “[insert]-coded is my new favorite internet lingo”

4/1/23: “just saw the new dungeons and dragons movie, and as a person who has no ties to it at all, it was pretty good i had an enjoyable time watching it”

3/25/23: “i want everyone to know that i do understand that every single celebrity and influencer i adore is like just some guy but i do indeed still love them <3 unless they do something weird and cringe </3”

3/24/23: “anyways i miss fandoms even though they were really toxic :/ missing that sense of community”

3/24/23: “if i’m gonna be destructive might as well make it productive”

3/18/23: “my obsessive personality and pent up emotions are gonna make me do something real destructive soon i just know it”

2/23/23: “is it even being toxic if it’s been a year and the only one who’s still thinking about it is me”

2/16/23: “gonna need some good old d+p content later to lift me out of my funk”

1/9/23: “jarvis on smosh 🤩🥰🫡👍🥹😁🥵🤝”

[favoure]

"do the opposite of what people tell you to do"

[grimfantas]

10 years in the future for Nanako-chan

[he4db4ng3r]

i need more content of them beign stupid

[shadowblade8192]

[cerealbishh]

"Good job, Aerith!" "It was nothing compared to you!" // "I'm so glad you're all okay!" "Right back atcha."

[astearisms]

may you find peace 🌾

[anghraine]

It's interesting (if often frustrating) to see the renewed Orc Discourse after the last few episodes of ROP. I've seen arguments that orcs have to be personifications of evil rather than people as such or else the ethics of our heroes' approach to them becomes much more fraught. Tolkien's work, as written, seems an odd choice to me for not wrangling with difficult questions, and of course, more diehard fans are going to immediately bring up Shagrat and Gorbag.

If you haven't read LOTR recently, Shagrat and Gorbag are two orcs who briefly have a conversation about how they're being screwed over by Sauron but have no other real options, about their opinions of mistakes that have been made, that they think Sauron himself has made one, but it's not safe to discuss because Sauron has spies in their own ranks. They reminisce about better times when they had more freedom and fantasize about a future when they can go elsewhere and set up a small-scale banditry operation rather than being involved in this huge-scale war. Eventually, however, they end up turning on each other.

Basically any time that someone brings up the "humanity" of this conversation, someone else will point out that they're still bad people. They're not at all guilty about what they're part of. They just resent the dangers to themselves, the pressure from above, failures of competence, the surveillance they're under, and their lack of realistic alternative options. The dream of another life mentioned in the conversation is still one of preying on innocent people, just on a much smaller and more immediate scale, etc.

I think this misses the reason it keeps getting brought up, though. The point is not that Shagrat and Gorbag are good people. The point is that they are people.

There's something very normal and recognizable about their resentment of their superiors, their fears of reprisal and betrayal that ultimately are realized, their dislike of this kind of industrial war machine that erases their individual work and contributions, the tinge of wistfulness in their hope of escape into a different kind of life. Their dialect is deliberately "common"—and there's a lot more to say about that and the fact that it's another commoner, Sam, who outwits them—but one of the main effects is to make them sound familiar and ordinary. And it's interesting that one of the points they specifically raise is that they're not going to get better treatment from "the good guys" so they can't defect, either.

This is self-interested, yes, but it's not the self-interest of some mystical being or spirit or whatnot, but of people.

Tolkien's later remarks tend to back this up. He said that female orcs do exist, but are rarely seen in the story because the characters only interact with the all-male warrior class of orcs. Whatever female orcs "do," it isn't going to war. Maybe they do a lot of the agricultural work that is apparently happening in distant parts of Mordor, maybe they are chiefly responsible for young orcs, maybe both and/or something else, we don't know. But we know they're out there and we know that they reproduce sexually and we know that they're not part of the orcish warrior class.

Regardless of all the problems with this, the idea that orcs have a gender-restricted warrior class at all and we're just not seeing any of their other classes because of where the story is set doesn't sound like automatons of evil. It sounds like an actual culture of people that we only see along the fringes.

And this whole matter of "but if they're people, we have to think about ethics, so they can't be people" is a weird circular argument that cannot account for what's in LOTR or for much of what Tolkien said afterwards. Yes, he struggled with The Problem of Orcs and how to reconcile it with his world building and his ethical system, but "maybe they're not people" is ultimately not a workable solution as far as LOTR goes and can't even account for much of the later evolution of his ideas, including explicit statements in his letters.

And in the end, the real response that comes to mind to that circular argument is "maybe you should think about ethics more."

[nephilimbrute]

sailor/siren pearlina... with more pearlina AUs to come...

[dadailybocch]

Is this joke still a thing or am I late to the party like I usually am? 😅

[mythicmarbles]

Darling can I be your favorite

[tianhai03]

didnt have the time to do a full finished drawing, but i tried to keep up with my tradition for redrawing the same good bro day drawing ive done for 3 years already :')

(last year's, which also has links to prev years as well)

[skyplayssplatoon3]

All QR Codes So Far! (Nov 2023)

[Source: @gamepedia_spla on Twitter]

[vellichorom]

that guy, you know the one. chunky cheesus