#dril is all knowing

[jcrchie]

my favourite dril tweets, a non-comprehensive list

#dril #ignored the most popular ones bc we all know those

[deeplyridiculouslyinlove]

Two books in, I can’t help feeling like people who are upset that Rand isn’t getting enough screen time in the show just have some sort of wish fulfillment with book!Rand. He’s a totally fine “chosen one” character, but in typical chosen one fashion he’s trope-y enough to be one of the less interesting characters in the books so far imo. But you know, every girl is in love with him for some unclear reason, people give him respect when he’s quiet and then even more when he gets bossy, being petulant makes people like him *more,* and nothing he has to do actually takes that much effort or challenge (and his mistakes don’t ever backfire). There’s a certain type of person, and especially a certain type of young boy, for whom I feel like that would REALLY resonate.

#in particular #I REALLY like that the show seems to have toned down the screen time given to some of the romances #(and turned up the right ones ;)) #but like why in the world does min like rand in the books #they have barely spoken it’s so weird #and in what world would min and elayne and egwene be talking together about who is going to get him like he’s a weird prize #such a strange dynamic that feels like male wish fulfillment itself tbh #it’s not even clear why nynaeve and lan like each other #(in the books) #they basically don’t talk at all! #but now he’s torn between her and moiraine?! who he literally has pledged his life to?? #like no one spends any time getting to know each other #but the show I think builds that out better than the books so it’s a little less random #and if it means they (fingers crossed) cut the min-rand angle entirely I will definitely not complain #wot book spoilers #dril reads wot #wheel of time

[magistralucis]

Still can't get over Djoseras's character arc. Heroically tragic, morally invalidated - structurally genius, since we rediscover him at the same speed Oltyx does, layer by layer as he peels his deceptions away. There is something deeply unhinged about the way Djoseras saw life while he himself was alive, in a way the standard necron contempt towards organics can't match.

He's merciless. He's loving. He's a rival, he's a mentor, he's untrustworthy. He's the best brother Oltyx could have had. He's a mirror for princes. Most of what he says is wrong, because he does not know better, or a lie, because his princehood is an unwilling burden and has become a fundamental dishonesty. He's a terrible DJ. His best friend was his enemy. Spiritually he has joined his brother in exile, setting himself apart in the landscape closest to Sedh their crownworld has to offer. His malice is almost entirely in Oltyx's imagination. He wasn't thinking about how wrong he was about everything 'since [he and Oltyx] spoke in the desert'. He's actually been thinking about it since Oltyx got exiled, spending hundreds of years carving apologies upon his own soldiers. They're even less capable of protesting whatever he brings upon them than they would have as necrontyr. They're not the people he destroyed, and not the people who can grant him forgiveness. If they could throw aside their hierachies and see one another person-to-person, they wouldn't owe him a damn thing, and he knows that and it kills him which is just as well because Oltyx killed him too.

His best-lived self belonged entirely to Oltyx. And Oltyx forgot about him, twisted the memories into something he was not, and he locked Djoseras away where neither he nor his elder brother could reach until it was too late. (Though the moral teachings kept leaking out, like pus from a wound.) Djoseras was already dead from the moment we saw him in the desert. In a way, he too is a 'twice-dead king', except he never wished to be a king and so he just keeps dying and dying until there's nothing more of him left to die. But they're necrons. They're all dead. They don't change, they never come back, only Oltyx can come back and not in a form commonly acknowledged as necron. Djoseras would've had a hard time without being as inflexible as he was, but that was the path he chose and broke like iron he did. There are not enough tears in the world

#warhammer 40k #the twice dead king #oltyx #djoseras #necrons #essay #i find the moral dimensions of djoseras really interesting #it becomes increasingly evident through ruin that he's a character who belongs in a different genre of book altogether #he's a homeric hero in a homeric inspired world. like hektor breaker of horses. djoseras breaker of immortals. #you know that scene where hektor's son cries in fear at seeing his battle-helmet? that's djoseras and oltyx in the dril-yard #but alas the twice dead king is not a homeric epic but rather a deconstruction and djoseras's morals eventually have little place in it #yet i like that his nobility is never diminished. i like that he is still a moral core for oltyx to the very end and oltyx's final strength #and i even like that he is still high-minded and snobbish to the very end because it sells me to his iron will. changed but not enough. #but still recognizably djoseras. there are not many among necrons who have the privilege of dying as themselves after all

[essektheylyss]

guess who wrote one single scene for the first time in months? this bitch.

guess what that scene primarily consisted of? wizard spell mechanics.

guess what the scene prior to this one primarily consisted of? also wizard spell mechanics.

guess what the scene I'm scheduling myself to write tomorrow consists of? to no one's surprise, it's ALSO wizard spell mechanics!

#in probably related news i also had the thought today looking at some assignments like #'oh right i think most people don't get taught how to write a literature review in undergrad' #truly do not know why i ever try writing anything else. this is why all of my protagonists are fantasy academics. #need one of those dril budget tweet memes #'please help my plots are dying' #that's not true actually this book is just VERY magic mechanics heavy. it's actually very plot relevant. #i even wrote in some foreshadowing tonight. look at me fucking go. #megs is writing #okay I've eaten some ice cream and now I'm going the fuck to sleep. anyway.

[generallemarc]

Bro wtf is Firefox

Because I'm extremely adhd I have about 70 tabs open in Chrome. Chrome has never once had a problem with that-any freezes have been from either my computer itself beginning to chug from something or from a specific webpage, never the browser itself. It's not that fast, it crashes at least once a week with no warning, and it sometimes just deletes my bookmarks randomly, but by God can it handle tabs. And apparently this is a big deal, because I've had to restart my computer twice now after attempting to re-open all my tabs in Firefox. I did the trick of putting them all into a bookmark folder, importing my data then clicking the option to open all bookmarks in that folder, except that doing that tanks my laptop. If Chrome is so shitty and Firefox is so much better, how is it that this isn't a problem at all for Chrome but makes Firefox explode?

#for anyone thinking of using the dril budget meme don't bother #i do in fact have to have all these tabs open because if I don't I will forget them forever and they'll disappear into my bookmarks #and i also won't remember that i've forgotten anything which makes it way harder to find them again #but if you know of any medication for memory that people who don't have alzheimer's/dementia can use i will gladly take recommendations

[nimue-hidden-lake]

My Mood Today

In short: Nothing changed. Move along now.

#Nimue's Beloved #Lollipop Love #Sweet Words #Hit The Jackpot #All while I blast someone and drag them with me. #“I can make them worse” I said and it is what I do best! #Anyway hi. I will write more soon. You know the dril. #f/o community #fictional other community #self ship community #selfship community #yumeposting #f/o meme

[zorcskhakis]

bc of you I read every dril tweet in the bakura voice and honestly. it works.

GOD RIGHT????

like you cannot look at these and tell me they don't all read like shit he would post online

#bakura having a twitter account where he posts like dril is an essential aspect of roommates au now #i don't know if he has loads of followers or none at all tho lskdflsdkjf

[tytanyx]

So of course the poster child for all the anti-Japanese racism in games media back in the day happened to be an unapologetic zionist.

#adam sessler been a dick for years and now we know the cause of it all #thanks dril for making him delete his account

[cooloffkidkilowatt]

i never posted this here, I made some fanart of truthpoint starring dril & derek of twitter fame. I highly recommend watching it if you're ok with a lot of technical difficulties

#truthpoint #uhh #dril #adult swim #??? #you know #that thing everyone talks about all the time that exists #cartoon #my art #artists on tumblr #fan art

[btc-official]

i just know in the mystery flesh pit universe that dril 'buddy they wont even let me fuck it' tweet got beaten to death within two months by a thousand people all posting the same joke

[badwaves]

what does ford know anyway. all he's got is an honorary PhD from that two-bit anti-torture college

(dialogue is of course from this classic dril tweet, which will live in my brain forever)

#gravity falls #bill cipher #ford pines #stanford pines #my hands are too shaky to draw consistent straight lines which is why bill's true evil was losing his squash and stretch between seasons

[deeplyridiculouslyinlove]

If the WOT books are teaching me anything about myself, it’s that I *despise* a Fated Romance storyline. The nonconsensual vibes in the female characters’ POV chapters are just really not it for me.

I can’t decide if I want this to pay off in some way later so that it has to be part of the story and I just have to live with it, or if it being that important to the final story will make it worse…

#I’m hopeful that this will not translate well to screen so the show will tone it down if they do it at all #I don’t know how central it has to be to the resolution of the story that they have to include it #praying if they do it can only be one person and I don’t have to suffer through it multiple times #because getting this from multiple perspectives now is causing me excessive agitation #all just my opinions obviously! #I’m sure some fans love it and I’m not trying to yuck anyone’s yum #just processing these books as I read them on god’s green internet lol #wheel of time #wot book spoilers #dril reads wot

[talenlee]

Hanamusa, Explained

There is a nonzero chance if you follow me on tumblr, you’ve seen the term ‘Hanamusa’ attached to something I shared. It’s probably also some super cute art of Delia Ketchum and Jessie Teamrocket, and you may wonder what is going on and also, why is there so much good art of this.

Hanamusa as a term derives from the Japanese names of the characters – Hanako and Musashi. If you’re into shipping name structures, Hana-Musa implies that Hanako is the seme and Musashi the uke, but I don’t think that holds for all use cases of the type of terminology. It’s a ship. It’s an AU ship, as in an ‘alternate universe’ ship, where the two characters are presented in a context outside of the normal context of the anime presentation of them.

The Hanamusa ship as I understand it is set at some point after Jessie and James stop chasing Ash around, and Jessie settles down into a relationship with Delia. There’s tension about her history with Ash and the confusion about finding Your Personal Villain dating your mom, but mostly it’s about showing a sweet domestic life between two characters you know very well in a format I kind of see as like, Comedy-Sabot Romantic 4koma. Like, Hanamusa content is funny (and it is VERY funny) but it doesn’t need to be funny, because the main thing it’s about is showing these two characters and their relationship as they do cute things together.

It’s why people watch shows like K-On basically.

As for where this idea comes from, (EDIT: Slightly wonky wording here, I should have phrased 'this current fandom push' - I don't have any reason to believe Mai INVENTED the ship, just that when you go looking you'll wind up at her work) it seems to have its genesis with the work of one Kiana Mai, who developed this ship some time ago. Kiana Mai is also an extremely skilled artist, and one of those skills seems to be focus, creating these extremely clean-line excellently structured scene vignettes with no unnecessary content in them but also no need to rocket along. It’s amazing, engaging work that uses every part of the small format amazingly well. Which makes sense because one of the things Kiana Mai does is storyboarding work for Disney animated TV shows, a task at which I am sure she no doubt excels.

What I think is the most interesting aspect of Hanamusa, to me specifically, is that it manages to combine three things I don’t actually care about, in a way that doesn’t interfere with something I have unexpectedly strong opinions on. I do not watch Pokemon, and I have not shed a tear for Team Rocket and Ash Ketchum wandering into the sunset. That is a show that is not for or about my interests and that is okay. Indeed, imagining that it should be about what interests me is baffling. I think if I stopped watching a show twenty years ago, I have lost all right to act like I’m entitled to expect it remain the way it was all the way back then.

But I do have opinions on Jessie and James’ character voice. Not their voice acting – I mean, I know for a fact they’ve had to change over time and no voice actor should be obligated to kick it in the same role for what could be their entire career. I mean the way they talk about things and the words they use and kind of emphasis they put on words when they talk. About the way they voice their ideas, or the way they express who they are in the way they talk to one another, that stuff. It’s about affordances and persona, about the kind of people you project being by what words you choose to use and the affect when using them.

It’s why when, if a picture of a character is underneath it, you can read some dril posts as being ‘appropriately’ voiced by a character, even if it’s describing a candle situation that Francis Crozier did not have opinions on.

Jessie has a voice.

Jessie, in my head, is someone capable of moments of tenderness and friendship that is normally overwhelmed by an incredible confidence in ability she does not have and mere reality will never be given permission to infringe on it. Jessie is unassailably unstoppably sure of herself, thoughtlessly stupid in a way that doesn’t mean she is stupid, but which exists in a context of someone who has relentlessly pursued excellence in her job which is also the equivalent of being a late night 7/11 manager. She is the Girlboss that is Gaslighting herself into thinking she has something to Gatekeep.

Delia Ketchum by comparison is a very nice piece of wallpaper. Every appearance of her in my mind is someone Very Nice who is Very Patient and Very Supportive and has managed to keep literally all emotionally challenging conversations from happening around Ash, which can be perhaps easier when you remember that he, too, is an idiot. I don’t know how Delia Ketchum talks, but I do know that there are ways that Delia Ketchum does not talk.

This is interesting! It’s interesting because it presents a character where I am very sure I know what she does do when she does it, and a character about whom I can only be sure wouldn’t do some things. It creates a character space, and it creates expectations of affect and performance within that space. Ash and other characters show up as well, but because they get to interact with this already-defined space, you get treated to this really lovely kind of resonance. Would Ash call Jessie ‘dad’? Maybe, to bug her. He was good at being a twerp. Wasn’t he? I mean I remember it that way, he seems to work out that way, but… how would I know?

I know more of this AU where Jessie is studying to be a Pokemon Doctor and Ash wears glasses than I do of the source material any more. And if you’re wondering ‘hey, do Jessie and Delia ever meet in the source material?’ Like, yeah, for a few seconds. What, the point is creating something new.

If you want to check out Hanamusa stuff and read the comics, I recommend going and clicking on the hashtag on tumblr.

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

#Anime #Media

#Anime #Media

[maxknightley]

hey man listen, im sure you just didnt know because hes just a funny haha tweets guy but dril is literally an outspoken nazi on twitter and has made mulitple tweets with nazi dogwhistles and literally responded to someone going "its not a joke, i fucking hate jews". like theres screenshots and posts and stuff about it out there and im sure you could dig through his twit. none of my posts about this ever get picked up because no one wants to admit the internet funnyman is a bad guy but hes like. a literal actual nazi. take that as you will

disclaimer for my followers: do not start shit with this person. I swear to fucking god. be cool.

not to be rude but I looked this up:

on twitter's website, where I found nothing;

on twitter's mobile app, where I also found nothing;

on DuckDuckGo, where I found nothing except the "(((keebler elves)))" tweet, which I think you could reasonably argue was in poor taste but hardly seems like a sincere endorsement of fascist beliefs;

and on Google, where I again found nothing except the "(((keebler elves)))" tweet and people talking about the keebler elves tweet

so, like, with all due respect I think you're either misremembering something / conflating him with someone else, or someone is fucking with you. I'm genuinely not sure what else this could be referring to, other than his recent slew of tweets mocking the nation-state of Israel, which - speaking as an antizionist Jew - I think are good and funny

the main reason I'm posting a response to this ask at all is because I get asks like this a lot. like, every couple months at this point. but usually they're not about dril, who 1. barely uses this website and barely ever has, and 2. has bigger things to worry about! usually they're about Some Trans Woman who I may never have even fucking heard of. I've gotten asks calling latina trans women "white" and accusing them of being turbo-racist because they Disagreed With Someone One Time. I've gotten asks trying to convince me that a woman I've never spoken to is a sexual predator based on literally zero evidence of any kind. and it gets fucking tiresome. okay? it's really, really fucking tiresome

so I figure I'll post this one because it's illustrative, and because it won't stir up shit around someone who might actually get hurt by it. please stop doing this. please stop sending me completely unsupported asks about how such-and-such is a terrible person.

at the bare fucking minimum send me actual concrete Posts that I can look at, because then I can actually judge for myself whether it's something worth getting upset about. otherwise there's basically a 10% chance I look into it, find nothing tangible, and shrug, and a 90% chance it goes straight into the trash.

[ashenmind]

Touhou's Most Awful Mother Award LIVE!

(Now closed)

Hello and welcome to PearRank's first ever Most Awful Mother Award, which seeks to find Touhou's worst possible mother. Inspired by the 10th anniversary of the famous dril tweet, I wanted an actual ranking. This also happens to be my 1000th post on this site.

In order to find this out, I have set up a custom website where you can decide on the motherly qualities of each contestant. Playing is simple; follow the link, then vote as much or as little as you like. If you don't know a character well enough to decide, press the "i don't recognize this character" and you'll never have to vote on them again. If you press that button by mistake, you can press the "Reset Matches and Characters Marked Unfamiliar" button. Your vote data will not be reset.

Only you decide what you're looking for in a mother. You are voting for your preferred mother. The losers will give us our answer.

Each vote consists of 2 contestants, making things easier. It is only by collecting lots of these easy votes that we can draw big conclusions. You can vote up until I close the poll, which will probably be in a few days, depending on interest. If you finish all 6555 matches, I'll probably feel bad for you, but be very thankful!

If you run into any errors, let me know! Everything should work, but ya' never know. Good luck and happy voting!

#touhou #pearrank

[papasmoke]

once again you got your little groupies patting on the ass and saying “no it’s ok you’re sooo right all the time dw” also the reading comprehension of you and your followers is piss fucking poor. You know exactly what you’re doing. We call ppl that associate w antisemetirs, antisemites. It’s not even abt dril anymore. It’s abt you being perfectly willing to ignore antisemetic dogwhistles if you like the guy doing it. The fact that you have provided any argument as to why it’s NOT antisemetic is also just. Yeah you know you’re wrong. Amd btw, I hope you get institionalizsed too, so you can realize how fucking awful it is and how ableist it is to say that to someone. Institutions are systems of oppression to disabled ppl, ESPECIALLY ppl w cluster b disorders. I should have to spell out and spoon feed why saying that to someone fucking sucks. There’s a difference between being mean for no reason and in defense of some shitty twitter guy than being mean bc someone just essentially told you “hey actually this isn’t antisemetic bc I say so and I like it. I hope you get placed in an i station and traumatized for the rest of your life lol.” But you won’t publish this, will you. God forbid you admit hey, “I did something shitty”.

You told me to kill myself because i screenshotted a sentence from the third ask you sent me where you assumed me not immediately publishing the second ask you sent me like i'm noam chompsky replying to every email meant that i was scared to admit defeat at the hands of your infallible logic and was looking to hide my secret rampant antisemitism. You come off like an indignant PTA mom and your spamming my inbox at 1am made me lose all interest in talking to you. Grow up you self-righteous colossal pussy.