We that Kind of Orc

Moved on over to JacksOtherEye. Keeping this place as an archive for myself. My art is all under: # Jade Draws

[injuries-in-dust]

"I am awake now! I am very awake!"

[dduane]

This leavening ingredient is also called "hartshorn", because in previous centuries, the only way to get it was by subjecting antlers to high heat. (More about that here.) In German it's still called Hirschhornsalz.

The reason this stuff is judged to be seriously superior for some baking is that—unlike baking powder and baking soda—in the finished product you can't taste that any leavening product has been used. The heat of the baking process drives off the ammonia (and you betcha, you'll smell it then!). But the final baked product will be light and beautifully risen, and will taste of nothing but the non-leavening ingredients. It's frankly kinda magical.

(More about the chemistry of leavening agents, and some discussion of the comparisons among them, is here.)

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

tiktoks with vine energy pt. 11

[sangiin21]

The dots. I've connected them

[jeannettearroyo]

my little illustration I got to make for @joshuamartian’s clone high short. You’ll have to scrub to find it :)

[zooophagous]

I didn't ask if it made sense to keep going. I said I'm going to kick your twisted evil ass.

[bitchydragondoodle]

i dunno what fandom this is from but it also gives me reasonable hope to keep fighting for a better future and i like it :)

[zooophagous]

That would be the "Ancient Egyptian Mythology" fandom

[evilwizard]

okay im gonna hypnotize you with my ruby amulet now DONT BE WEIRD ABOUT IT. im doing this to make you betray the king. IT IS NOT A SEX THING

[violet-hady]

I think the fact that you immediately thought about clarifying it’s not a sex thing kinda makes it sound like it is a sex thing.

[evilwizard]

FOOL. i would be using my sex amulet for that

[quark-art]

had to draw this

[omishu]

I haven't read it yet, but I think this is what @pangur-and-grim's new book Apparently Sir Cameron Needs to Die is about

[self-loving-vampire]

It turns out that actually standing by "men and women are not inherently very different" is a reliable way to bother absolutely everyone. Left or right, cis or trans, feminist or misogynist, all cling to the binary for dear life.

[next-time-you-invite-pam]

When ✨it✨ finally happens, how do you want to find out?

Dancing crabs

Destiel meme

The Onion headline

Actual news / I'm bald

From a friend / family member

A random excited stranger on the street

Other / specify in the tags or replies

Voting ended onAug 26, 2025

[pixelcurious]

[wethatkindoforc]

Nothing like getting summoned back to my old blog by a tumblr email telling me one of my posts has been marked as explicit, so I log back in just to see that it's a 13+ year old post of my WoW character's dicks.

I can't argue it, tumblr. You got me.

[wethatkindoforc]

Yeah sure I bugger off for months and then I come back just to post this. The poor man’s Tumblr Sexyman. 

Have no fear! Schmendrick is with you. <3

[wethatkindoforc]

You know, I’ve been reading up a lot on Garrosh in the build up to fighting him as a raid boss. We’re talking a laawwwwwt of reading over a tuuuuuhhhn of perspectives on the fellow, and up until this point, I’ve been able to squint my eyes and ride along as Garrosh has pitched himself into the sudden villain that we all love and hate. 

In the grand scheme of things, I haven’t been playing World of Warcraft very long. I’ll be celebrating two years of it come September, in fact. My first introduction to Garrosh came within my first 20 minutes of gameplay, where I sat on Mudmask and watched as Vol'jin crabbed at him for being violent and then threw in a death threat. 

“Okay,” I decided. “I’m a troll and Vol'jin’s my leader and I guess if this guy doesn’t like the new Warchief  then I probably don’t like him either.” Except Chris and I would talk about Garrosh now and then, and a lot of the time it would be stuff like “You know, the guy isn’t THAT bad, I mean, I see where he’s coming from.” and “Just because he’s not Thrall doesn’t make him a bad Warchief." 

And then MoP happened. And then Garrosh brought the hammer down on my people and I was all "Dammit! Garrosh, what the fuck?” But it’s not like Vol'jin didn’t necessarily deserve the assassination attempt - I mean the guy pretty much told Garrosh that he was going to kill him so I can see that. And I can… sorta see the mentality that the Horde needed possession of that damn bell on the grounds that we didn’t want the Alliance to have it. And, as a troll, who am I to care about how he’s treating the blood elves? A pox on them anyways. Destroying Pandaria? Oook…aay. Ignoring the fact that the bell was making orcs go crazy and just continuing to use it anyway? Well… Theramore? UMMM. Aaaand so on. 

BUT WHO AM I, in the grand scheme of things to challenge what’s going on here? There’s so much lore I’ve yet to learn about. Shit, I’m only just beginning to learn to not suck at being a feral druid. I’ve gotten through all of this by just accepting the Garrosh storyline is just a shitty thing that is happening and there’s nothing I can do about it. 

And yet, I’m reading all these wonderfully written articles about why Garrosh shouldn’t die, and how if he doesn’t own up to his actions that it negates friggin all of his character development over the years. I have honestly NEVER been one to get upset at the writing faults of the Blizzard staff, nor have I ever felt disappointed with my game play experience. So much of my enjoyment of the game comes from the individual journey I’ve taken as Mudmask, anyways, that I spent my first year playing and having virtually NO idea why I was doing half the things I was doing (lore wise). 

If Garrosh’s madness turns out to be at the hands of the Sha, if he dies without acknowledging his actions, if his sudden change in characters goes unexplained or has a cop-out of an explanation - I am legitimately going to feel disappointed over this. Like, I’m gonna get BUMMED. Oh, I’ve gotten bummed from playing before, but it was always caused by another player being a dick, or by me sucking at being a kitty. It’s never been because of something the game has done. 

What’s going to happen has already been written. I may not like what that turnout is, and no doubt I won’t be the only one. I’m just… worried, I guess, because whenever anyone rips on World of Warcraft I sorta… kinda… ignore those opinions because I. Friggin’. Love this game. But I don’t think I can ignore them if Garrosh’s take down isn’t handled with the respect it needs. …And that sucks. …Because it makes me a fantastically huge nerd. And I feel like my fears are going to come all sorts of true. 

I suppose we’ll see. In the mean time - Vol'jin for Warchief, mon. 

[wethatkindoforc]

The last thing I expected when I logged back in here was to see notifications on a really stupid text post I made about Garrosh Hellscream. 

But clicking on THAT post, led me to THIS post. And hoooooooooboy. Boy did this one age poorly. 

So, okay, it’s been *checks watch*  almost ten years. And yes. Yes it hurt me very much to type that.  As it turns out, Jade did have a capacity for how much he was willing to put up with WoW’s lore fuckery. In fact, it was the direction of the lore that did me in, which absolutely included:  - The direction Garrosh went in - "a sudden changes in characters that had a cop-out for an explanation” - And then. You know. Vol’jin. 

Not that anyone ever asked for an explanation re: how I got so disenchanted with WoW, it’s just that past a certain point I got really tired of feeling like there was an overall lack of thoughtful intent when it came to the path the story was taking. One of my biggest moments in feeling this was when I got to the end of the War Crimes book - which was a story that was building and building towards Garrosh taking accountability for his actions, only to have him, at the last minute, go “actually you know what, nevermind, screw all y’all” just so the devs could drag us on a rehash upon rehash of Grom/The Burning Legion/so on so on, you were all there, you played the expansions. 

And I did play WoD, and I tried to get through LEG - I made the best of the experience that I could, but then considering they did absolutely *nothing* with Vol’jin as warchief, only to uselessly murder him one expansion later just so they could get Sylvannas in the seat was just....

It’s been 84 years and I still have this small part of me that wants to flip a table about it. 

I quit WoW shortly after that. 

Ever since it’s felt a bit like a breakup. When I hear there’s drama about the lore/community, of course I look at it. When a friend wants to tell me what’s been going on, of course I wanna hear about it. But I feel distant from all of it in a way that 2013 Jade never would have believed.  I did go back, once, last summer, because of some vestigial worry that my account might get flushed. I played for about a month, and honestly? It wasn’t a bad time. I loved seeing Muds again, I figured out what he’d be up to (he has a son now, wrap your head around that), getting to give him a proper blind eye was fucking nice. (I also, apparently, logged myself off at the Half Hill Inn just so I’d be hit the the kazoo music when I returned. PastJade was fucking on top of that.)

But it was very much still the same game, and I think I’m at a stage where I have to reconcile that both I and Muds have grown beyond it, and it’s okay. More than anything I’m just... both amused and humbled by the shift in perspective from me then, vs. me now. 

I’ve gotten hard and crusty, it’s something I gotta work on, lest I too fall to the follies of poor character development. 

[wethatkindoforc]

Yeah so sorry I’ve basically stopped posting on my tumblr all together it’s just because I hate it here and also I’m not that sorry.

The post that this is referencing is my One(1) tumblr claim to fame. It features my now departed cat, Abraham, and it is THE post that is going to continue to haunt my notifications every damn day of my life until such a time that I delete this blog (which I’ve come frighteningly close to, several times since January, all because of shit like this). 

Don’t do this, by the way. Abraham was an amazing creature and a very meaningful part of my life, and without trying to joke or be dramatic, losing him was the most pain I’ve ever felt. I am conflicted ALL THE TIME about how this image gets passed around because on one hand - WOW! that’s amazing that so many people have seen him, and it’s even better that so many people have expressed joy from these images. 

But on the other hand oh my goodness there are some days where the hurt still hurts too much. And logging into tumblr to be met with the constant flow of notifications about him can sometimes overwhelm me and then you know what I do? I log off. 

This fucking tag set though. This fucking tag set. If you understand why I’m mad that my cat is fueling someone’s fictional scenario then cool, we’re cool. But if you don’t understand - you can fuck right off. This person can fuck right off. I mean it. 

I mean it. 

[kemendin]

Never did post this on its own, so I’m fixing that! Really excellent commission of my Maormer/Dunmer lad Dhamari, arted by the incredible @legionattack13

[ember-sand]

memes i made of arshadi (redguard werewolf) and a friend's bosmer assassin

they have a mother-child relationship!!! kind of!!! it's not the greatest and they're both a little awkward but they try very hard.

[ember-sand]

kestrel and arshadi, enjoying a moment of rest.

kestrel is a backwoods bosmer, and a forest steward/protector of sorts before a mourning war changed the course of their life. arshadi is a redguard mercenary who is out of touch with their roots, travelling where money takes them when they're not navigating the ins and out of alik'r nobility.

they both solve problems that arise in 2nd era tamriel, but for different reasons. and they like each other a little bit, during the few times they happen to meet each other

both of them use they/them pronouns

[jonnywaistcoat]

Which is sexier, a werewolf or a vampire?

Depends if you find it sexier to submit to the will of charismatic evil or to be overwhelmed by animalistic power. And that's not a decision I can make for you.

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