An orc walks down the street

A diary for a trans male urban orc, plushies, goblin aesthetics, latinoamericano cottagecore, fibromyalgia, queer & chronic. Also Vampire Chronicles and other things that got me in the hype train.Diário de um orc urbano trans. Pelúcias, estética goblin e goblincore, cottagecore latino americano, fibromialgia. Queer & crônico. Muitas bosta que antes estariam no Twitter. 

[theurbanorc]

ALL MY SIDE BLOGS OR "WHY THE FUCK THIS DUMPSTER FIRE IS LIKING OR FOLLOWING ME

The urban orc is my main chaotic unorganized wtf blog.

For plushies e toys (100% safe)

@the-orc-toy-box

For spirituality @incense-or-cigarette-smoke

For sexy and queer things

@feed-me-milk-and-honey

For Fibromyalgia and chronic illness stuff

@nomorespellslots

[isa-ah]

am i insane or should masks be mandated for hospitals as a permanent installation. a forever institution. always. covid is an irrelevant factor when hospitals are always full of both very sick and very immunocompromised people..?

[thewaitingplace-andasecondchance]

This made me think of the intro to medicine class I co-taught last summer. We had a surgical nurse as a guest speaker and she brought up a good point about innovation in healthcare. Not too long ago, surgeons operated without gloves.

Today this is not only seen as unimaginably gross, but also known to be unsafe and the addition of gloves was somewhat slow but now used as standard procedure and not really given second thought.

I feel the same is bound to happen with masks. Transmission of illnesses is a big problem in healthcare environments full of already vulnerable populations, and masks are proven to mitigate it. I hope we soon get to a point where it is standard procedure and no one thinks twice.

[spooniestrong]

Unfortunately, far too many people - even in healthcare - resent masking. America especially. As soon as mandates disappeared, medical professionals who saw the worst of COVID threw them away like they were the problem rather than protection.

The narrative of COVID as something we "just have to live with" is strong, and being pushed by both sides politically. COVID was a stressful strain on everything, and far too many people want to forget about it and pretend it's the past. It's an absolute mass delusion. And virtually no one outside of the chronically ill cares. Because we don't matter; not to average people or to medical professionals.

The sick and the elderly are sacrificed continuously for the benefit of the rest of society. COVID just exposed this further. And increased the number of dead on a daily basis.

The irony? Or maybe karma of it all? Everyone out there just getting COVID again and again is literally making themselves the next disabled person who'll eventually be sacrificed for normalcy. Long COVID and long term disability from COVID are real, and they're coming for everyone who threw away their masks and went "back to normal".

[prokopetz]

I feel like the legal institution of adoption is unreasonably limited by restricting it to parent-child relationships. If me and some random asshole want to legally be second cousins, I think we should just be able to do that.

[theurbanorc]

I totally will officially became a family with my non-blood brother and cousins.

[afloweroutofstone]

[retroactivebakeries]

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[lovethistoomuch]

I've been on a bit ob a Russell Crowe movie binge in the past few weeks and since he is almost sixty now, many of the movies I've watched were consequently older movies. and when I watched them, it struck me again, how much hollywood has changed in the last few decades when it comes to depicting men.

take Gladiator for example from the year 2000. Russell Crowe plays basically an action hero in it. he is a big, muscly dude, who is very strong and uses that strength to defeat his enemies. and this is what he looks like:

looks like a strong man, right?

in the same year, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine looked like this in the first X-men movie:

in 2013 the same character played by the same actor looked like this:

it's a bit much, isn't it? I mean, he looks so skinny.

and if we go even further back: look at what the womanizer character Face from the A-team looked like in the 80s show vs the 2010 movie reboot:

maybe the difference isn't that big but it really startled me when I watched that movie for the first time. in my mind there was no reason why Face should be particularly muscular since he is the charming one not the one known for being particularly strong.

if we go even further back, look at the charmin womanizer character Hawkeye in M*A*S*H from the 70's.

I know he's a doctor and there is no reason for him to be ripped but I got the feeling if they did the show now, he would be.

I don't know what my point really is I'm just saying I got a bit nostalgic when watching these men. I cannot be the only one who'd rather see more of this:

than this:

also, as a sidenote: Russell Crowe gained a lot of weight for the nice guys and he is a fucking powerhouse in that film, like, when he punches someone, you really feel it because of the weight that is behind it and the shere mass of his body.

(even if this may look different, he's about to break Ryan Gosling's character's arm. I couldn't find a gif of him punching someone but I swear it looks painfull as hell.)

so, in short: can we get big, heavy action guys back? cause I'm tired of seeing these skinny, despite being muscular dudes who look dehydrated as hell and on steroids.

and can we stop making characters ripped just for the sake of it? cause I'd rather cuddle with a guy looking like Hawkeye than one looking like Face from the new A-team movie.

[stele3]

(They absolutely are dehydrated as hell and on steroids.)

[messywitch-deactivated20251018]

are user boxes still a thing? no idea. but i made user boxes as my contribution to the community. they're matchy, too!! you're free to use them- just say Aterios made it.

i'm open to making these under request, just send me an ask with the deity you'd like a box for!! please be nice, too.

gods in this post: Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Hestia, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Athena, Hermes & Dionysus.

[ekingston]

sometimes i say things on twitter and then make a little graph about it

[queerworldhistory]

[guooey]

MAKE AN iNATURALIST ACCOUNT RIGHT NOW!! LEARN ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL WORLD AROUND YOU!!!!!!

[buddyblanc]

co-signed.

[theurbanorc]

YES, DO IT NOW

[moonsidesong]

don't panic buy games because of the eshop shutdown!!!! the memes are not lying It is genuinely very easy to hack your 3ds!!! please do it!!!!

3ds.hacks.guide

(don't follow video guides they are very often outdated and it's easier to make mistakes that way. this guide is very detailed with step by step instructions and they even have a support server in the event you have any trouble! i understand it might seem intimidating but risks of bricking or banning are very minimal at this point you will be glad you did it)

[moonsidesong]

also you might have heard around you need a certain eshop app to homebrew, this was Once true but is now FALSE as the current method does NOT require any existing app.

so if you don't have time right now, don't worry! you will still be able to after the eshop shutdown. there is not a time limit for being able to hack your 3ds.

[transfaggoth]

[yazmmy]

WATERSHIP DOWN (1978) dir. Martin Rosen, John Hubley

[spiderweb-bf]

I don't think I could be trusted with shapeshifting powers bc I would just turn into a bear and attack things with my claws at any minor inconvenience. it would be my go-to solution for everything

[theurbanorc]

YES.

Please, gimme the powers

[synthient]

absolutely fascinated by this raw pixels on an emulator vs how the game was actually supposed to look on old tvs twitter

[ask-maxie-boy]

People say that old games dont look as good as they remember

Its because they legitimately dont.

[crtter]

The “fuzz” from CRT monitors was something that was definitely accounted for and taken advantage of back in the day when it came to video games! While this effect is noticeable in 3D games, it’s MUCH more visible when it comes to 2D sprites:

Just look how much more depth these simple sprites of Princess Peach and Bowser from Super Mario RPG seem to have when seen through the “dots” of a CRT TV screen!

[bogleech]

I somehow did not know this!?!?!?

[triplebackflip]

One of the clearest examples of this is using the effect for transparent waterfalls in the MegaDrive Sonic games

[hive-heart]

My absolutely favourite example of this is with Dracula's eyes in Castlevania

[crtpixels]

Damn uhhhhhh this one really did some numbers huh lol

[commodorez]

[mosmeisje-deactivated20251215]

commission for @rpgtoons :)

[theurbanorc]

Apparently, abandoning tumblr for a few months worked to clean up the heaviest of the botsnin my notifications?

[jewishjon]

If this was originally posted on tumblr it would have become the big new trend within hours

[Image description: a tweet from Twitter user @ow_riki reading: ‘Had a dream that the new Twitter fad was to post a picture of a giant isopod photoshopped into historical events and going “Eugene! Not again!!”.’ It has 2,794 likes, 68 quote tweets and 797 retweets. End ID]

[charzone]

eugene you scoundrel!!!

[image ID: the ides of march painting with a giant isopod edited in at the front. end ID]

[jewishjon]

It’s happening…. Eugene has arrived….

[gorgug]

Here’s an easy to use Eugene for all your meme making needs, friends

[Image ID: An image of a giant isopod on a transparent background. End ID.]

[moniquill]

Poor Eugene takes so much blame; here he is mourning the death of of his teacher, Socrates. Eugene is a learned crustacean.

[regallibellbright]

[ID: The Death of Socrates, painted by Jacques-Louis David, with a giant isopod edited under the bed mourning with the rest of Socrates’s students. End ID]

[theurbanorc]

I love Eugene and will protecc he