#pope tweets

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[postsfordan]

[localcryptid95]

Didn’t know what to draw then I saw a sonic blog and was possessed by my 13 year old self

[nvyah]

Spoiler❗

i knew it...i mean we knew it....

we all shipped them from the beginning itself but was still confused about their relation..their chemistry was something they don't even understand and we all felt it..

i literally screamed when they confessed and were so happy that our ship became real..#jiara finally!!!

[crunkmouse]

[wutheringheightsfilm]

how are yall on here thinking the catholic church somehow supports lgbt rights. how did that come up in any sort of conversation because why am i seeing a post going around explaining how the vatican doesn't like gay people when it's like ? yeah ? obviously ? where the fuck have you been for the past like thousand years ?

[reluctantjoe]

if rex pope was real he would become the latest netflix heartthrob and people would swoon over him watching my sex life's a bitch

[randomnameless]

You forgot the most important but, Bradley who rants about how God isn’t real in his final fight gets distracted by the Sun, a Symbol of God InUniverse that was the entire basis of Fathers plan during the Eclipse as well. So in the end a symbol of God help bring him low. Even having his Wrath ideology rejected and dying content. As for Idore, it sadly reminds me that IRL American Conservatives are starting to say stuff like Jesus beliefs “don’t work” cause ”Love they neighbor” is WOKE.

Yeah I remember that scene!

But to be fair, the point I wanted to make to the other anon (?) was how Bradley was an ass for, well, barging in, slaughtering people and mocking their beliefs.

So even if the Ishvalan God never intervened in Bradley's demise, it's just, imo, common courtesy and decency to respect each other's beliefs and faith, and even if you don't share that faith, you're not supposed to ridicule other people for believing in something you don't?

TS, but in general with those famous JRPGS where Church sekritly BaD (I confess I haven't played many of them??), you have the feeling that some people barge in a place, reveal to the world their "religion/faith" never existed to begin with, and then it's over. The "faithful" are just supposed to accept they were lied to for years, and no worries, the playable cast will look after them and they will eventually sing kumbaya together.

I really liked TS, both because the FE16 discourse is slaughtered when a game finally delivers and doesn't pull its punches because of tea needing to be sold, but also, Hyzante - and by proxy, as usual with the Square games, religion - is a black hole and an effing black spot on an otherwise good game.

[maretriarch]

have you ever gotten mad at someone on the internet

[hunterinabrowncoat]

Jfc I'm so tired of twitter

[extrastrengthvirgin]

sometimes your flop tweet just wasn’t put into the world at the right time. sometimes you say it three years later and it makes your dad laugh

[respectissexy]

If you are not on Twitter but are interested in what's going on with Elon Musk's Twitter, never fear, I am back as your Twitter Correspondent.

So, on Thursday, 4/20, Elon removed all the "legacy verified" blue checks. That means that if you are, say, Taylor Swift or the Pope, and you have a blue checkmark because you have proven you identity and want to avoid being impersonated, that check mark went away unless you paid the $8 to subscribe to Twitter Blue.

The assumption was clearly that, despite all their blustering, when push came to shove the power users would nut up and pay for it, if only to avoid their fans being scammed using their likeness.

That didn't happen. As of 4/21, only weirdo Elon stans had blue checks. Those stans immediately got mad, because they had intended to purchase access to an exclusive club, and all the cool kids left as soon as they arrived.

To make matters worse for Elon, several influential shitposters began posting about #BlockTheBlue, a movement to block all paid Twitter bluechecks, and some even released scripts that would automatically block all bluecheck accounts for you.

However, some people retained their blue checks who swore they hadn't paid for them -- in particular, Stephen King and LeBron James, who had tweeted that they would refuse to pay.

Elon admitted that he had paid for these users' blue checks out of his own pocket. Is he trolling? Is it a weird simp move? Hard to say.

Now, as of 4/22, a whole mess of famous people have bluechecks who aren't paying for them. This seems to be a move to confound the automated Block The Blue scripts. Lil Nas X is tweeting angrily about how he doesn't want his blue check. People are speculating that a new policy has been silently rolled out to automatically assign a blue check to every user with over 1 million followers. Several people have pointed out that this amounts to false endorsement, i.e. implying falsely that a notable person uses or endorses your product without their permission, which is a crime. Blue checks have been posthumously assigned to Anthony Bourdain and Terry Pratchett, whose estates my money is on to be the ones to actually sue.

dril, famous shitposter and Block The Blue promoter, keeps being assigned a blue check as an apparent punishment for crossing Elon, but you can lose your blue check by changing your display name. (It seems really wild to tie the blue check to the display name and not use the username, but it became necessary after the era where all those legacy verified folks unleashed their inner Jaboukie and changed their display names to Elon Musk. As recently as last month a legacy verified user with 100k followers got banned for impersonating JK Rowling apologizing to trans people.) So dril just keeps changing his display name every time they bluecheck him. Elon and dril have been engaged in this game of cat and mouse all day. The "Elon bans dril and we all throw trash at him like New Yorkers defending spiderman" meme will probably come to fruition today or tomorrow.

[mourningmaybells]

i legitimately want to throw up after seeing that. or perhaps i have food poisoning from that sour-tasting dessert from awhile ago. we shall see

[in-sufficientdata]

Big developments in the Jesus fandom

Unfortunately two BNFs comparing their meta analysis of canon tends to end badly

Fandom forecast: Stormy weather ahead as strong fronts move in from the east and the west, leading to the possibility of chilly relations and renewed hostility. Take cover in a safe place and hunker down until the storm passes

(Oh god I just found out even remembering fandom forecast makes me a tumblr old - it appears to have long been deleted. I'm talking like I can't find anything newer than 2013)

Also, if you have no idea why I'm wording it this way, see:

[ninyard]

Keeping these all in one place for my own sake but if you felt like catching up on my in-universe tweets/memes/texts here’s them all so far:

- my og in-universe memes post

(exy fans + twitter)

- the Kathy Ferdinand show

- you’re telling me an AARON killed this man?

- Neil’s New Look

- the night of the riots + Baltimore

- Nathaniel Wesninski Reveal

- kevin day has never been skiing

- usc vs foxes lineup

- jean is signing with USC live reaction

- championship finals pt 1 / pt 2 / pt 2.5 / pt 3

- riko, gone but not forgotten </3

- the trial pt 1

- the olympics pt 1

fox tweets pt 1 / pt 2 / pt 2.5 / pt 3 / the q&a / drunk tweets

twt user andrewminyard

(the aus)

- the andreil outing / pt 2 / andrew’s outtakes

- jean moreau’s freshman year

- the kevallison au

- marissa’s party pt 1

- neil josten: pr nightmare

(asks)

- boomer jean moreau / pt 2 / pt 3 / pt 4 / jeandrew / pt 2 / jean's rule

- kevin goes skiing / prove it kev / kevin the ally

- kandreil rescues / be gay do crime / the fork

- agent browning calling / lil butch / trauma dump / the wiki

- robin text

(texts)

- the car wash / new starters

- from andrew to renee / serial killer ask / pope text / andrew's pro team

- from kevin to andrew / from nicky to andrew

(deleted scenes)

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[monsterfactoryfanfic]

30 Sickos, 3.5 Stars, and Pervert Writers

As I gear up to publish Detente for the Ravenous, I've been thinking a lot about these tweets. I know that my writing is solid, but it's not groundbreaking. My designs are fun, but they're not revolutionary. My prose is simple, my plots well-trodden. The fights and monsters kick ass, but god help me my romance is milquetoast at best. It's not what I'm interested in. I'm interested in the 30 years war and Catholic kaiju.

We like to quantify things, online. When I'm shopping for games, I sort by "most popular" and "highest rated." I don't want my time to be wasted, I don't want to spend my money sub-optimally. It's easier to connect to folks over a movie that 3 million people watched as opposed to a podcast listened to by a few hundred. I am not criticizing the impulse. Life is too short, and none of us have enough money.

But as a creator, whatever that means, I think I have to get comfortable with my shortcomings, and be honest about what I actually care about. I am not interested in writing a novel that appeals to all people. I am interested in writing a novel where they assassinate Pope Kissinger. That doesn't mean I won't ever try to improve my romance, or make my character arcs less predictable. But if I am gonna write another book, I have to write it for me, not for my imagined literary agent or Big 5 editor.

There's this great manifesto on itchio by “Average Urotsukidōji Enjoyer," called "Good Writers are Perverts." It touches on this sentiment that I've been stewing on, and I think this passage crystalizes what I'm trying to do with my own work.

I know my best work is the work of the pervert, the ex catholic who grew up on Naruto, the military history dork who trained for years to save lives instead of taking them. That is the stuff that makes me want to create, the hope that I can take all my stupid interests and life experiences and twist them into something at least partially interesting, to hit that 3.5 star rating that isn't all things to all people, but is at least one really good thing to a few people. If a handful of young folks get ahold of my work and it changes their lives in a small way forever, then I'll be happy.

I hope that as art becomes less profitable, as financial incentives only encourage the bland and inoffensive, the tried and true instead of niche and experimental, more artists double down, go deep instead of wide. I'm not afraid to fail, I'm afraid of trying so hard to be loved that I stop giving a shit about the craft