Carrie Fisher’s Great Twitter Moments

Carrie Fisher was witty and funny even in 140 characters. (Photo: Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic)
Carrie Fisher was witty, even in 140 characters. (Photo: Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic)

As the world mourns the death of actress and author Carrie Fisher, we look back at how she took to Twitter to take a stand and just generally be hilarious in her own unique way.

The Postcards from the Edge and Princess Diarist author was known for a Twitter style that played with emojis (sometimes completely comprised of emojis), capitalizations, and spacing. During the press tour for Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015, Fisher, who had been fetishized and sexualized since that gold bikini scene in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, was very candid about shutting down anyone who sought to body-shame her. To all those who were comparing her 2015 body to her 1970s one, she had this to say: “Please stop debating about whetherOR not [eye emoji] aged well.unfortunately it hurts all3 of my feelings.My BODY hasnt aged as well as I have.Blow us [okay emoji].”

She went on to make clear where she placed her looks on her priority list, writing, “My body is my brain bag, it hauls me around to those places & in front of faces where theres something to say or see.” She also got her beloved dog, Gary, in on the action. “Youth&BeautyR/NOT ACCOMPLISHMENTS,theyre theTEMPORARY happy/BiProducts/of Time&/or DNA/Dont Hold yourBreath4either/ifUmust holdAir/takeGarys.”

Known for publicly discussing her mental health struggles, Fisher even had fun making reference to her issues. “I didn’t LOSE my mind, I just changed it so many times it appeared unrecognisable & thus difficult to FIND…Reports of mind loss unfounded,” she joked. She was clear that she didn’t care what anyone thought of her anymore. “I’m not trying to make sense yet. Im saving that for later. So for those of you who lack the patience to wait for my sense, use yours.Cheers.”

And to the joy of fans everywhere, any reference made to that gold slave Princess Leia bikini was always dripping with sarcasm and what many saw as disdain. “–somewhere I’ll forever be 24…& Enslaved& PISSED!” she wrote next to this photo of that image.

Fisher’s emoji-laden tweets were almost challenges to her fans. She’d often playfully weigh in on whether they got the translation right, as with this exchange between Fisher and fan Ken Marranzino.

That would be a no for Marranzino.

They were so confusing that even her friend and co-star Mark Hamill got in on the action of calling them out, writing earlier this year, “Looking forward to @carrieffisher‘s new book-Hopefully it will include much-needed Emoji-to-English translator #Huh?”

Well, it turns out there’s an entire Twitter account dedicated to translating those amazing feats of pictography. Today the young Englishwoman behind that account, Charlotte Hammond, wrote her own tribute to Fisher, saying, “To me, Carrie Fisher was someone who defied social norms and said f*** you to people who didn’t like it. That’s someone I want to become. I’m trying not to be sad about her death, but thankful for her existence.”