titanic

A lot has been said already about the current state of twinking, but I believe this picture sums it all up. I could go even further in that analogy and say that we’re the third class people on it that didn’t get a lifeboat, while those first class BoA leveling “twinks” did.
But while most of the third class people did die, some survived – even though they spent countless hours in the freezing water. And that’s exactly who we are, because if you’re still reading this, you haven’t given up. I salute you for that.

Pre-3.2 twinking is dead. Gone are the days of battleground pops in every battlegroup – no matter which bracket you played in. That doesn’t mean twinking itself is dead, though. It’s still there in all of its former glory, but it has taken a pure form. The “twinks” that played to oneshot lowbies are gone. They’re the cancer we had to get rid of, and 3.2 did that for us. I can’t believe I actually called them twinks, because that’s quite an insult towards real twinks like you and me. Patch 3.2 was our chemotherapy – It killed some of our good cells, but it got rid of the cancer that was getting the better of us.

I was in toprated arena teams during TBC, and I was in a top 10 PvE guild during Vanilla, but none of that can compete with fun I had playing my twinks. It simply has a magical appeal to me, and I hope some of you feel the same way. I could level to 80 and become the 99999999th player with full ulduar gear. I could do rated arena again and ride Ghostcrawler’s Get Wotlk’d rollercoaster every new season. I could kill my social life and join a top PvE guild. I could join a Warsong Gulch full of random honorfarming players I don’t know, while hoping that this time half the team ain’t afk. Fuck that shit, I’ll play my twink – thank you very much.

I’ll know who I’m playing with, and against. I’ll badmouth some of them on the official forums, while I praise others. I’ll protect someone fishing for his hat, and I’ll kill the level 80 whores that want the AGM achievement. I’ll help a fellow twink out, without expecting anything in return. That’s the very essence of twinking. You don’t have to do heroics, you don’t have to grind honor, and you don’t have to grind arena points. Everyone’s there because they want to be there, even though it offers no tangible reward. But we know why we do it, and that’s something few outsiders will ever understand.

I’m getting a bit carried away here, sorry about that. My point is, if there’s a will, there’s a way. Don’t limit yourself. If your battlegroup and its respective bracket isn’t getting wsg pops, then do something about it. Transfer to another battlegroup. If you smoke, smoke a bit less and save your $25/€20 that way. If you have a girlfriend, make something yourself instead of buying her an expensive necklace they probably won’t wear because it doesn’t fit most of their outfits. Sell a  kidney, prostitute yourself, or tell your friends you forgot your wallet next time you go out. And if you really don’t want to spend money, reroll. Meet new people, make new friends, make a death knight. It really isn’t that hard. You don’t need a main, you don’t need BoA’s. It’s all in your head. Why don’t you try out a new bracket in a battlegroup that’s getting frequent pops? Again, don’t limit yourself. Take a chance, you might like what you find.

We can’t get stuck in our old mindset. Other brackets, other battlegroups, other twinksites: they’re not your enemy. Embrace them. The PWN Depot is a perfect example of the old MINE IS BETTER mindset. Twink Info has always reached out to Comicus, but he literally gave us the finger. He never gave us a chance, and because of that the PWN Depot is dead now:

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Don’t make the same mistake. Give it a shot. Don’t wait for a miracle to happen, because it won’t.

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