#AND THEN AND THEN AND THEN!! I deliver the punchline!

[silverselfshippingchaos]

I GOT MY COPY OF F.F16

#MUAHAHAHAHAHA DELUXE EDITION HERE I COME #I'M GONNA KISS V.IVIAN N.INETALES SO MUCH #(i do not have the console yet) #AHDKAHDKWB IM SO EXCITED #i havent opened it yet but it's sitting in my lap rn and ajshajdhwjeh #ash rambles 💚 #SUPER EXCITING!!!! #ive been the biggest f.f16 hype person for months LMAO #okay that aside. i made a really funny joke the other day but the guy i told it too didnt laugh so ill say it here #okay so im walking around with a guy. this dude and i go way back. he was in highschool orchestra and i was in choir. #he listens to symphonies and we were talking about that. but in the distance someone is blasting some cupcakke songs. so i have this huge #smirk on my face and talkinf about how shes a real good lyricist and a rap artist ive been listening to a lot. the guy laughs and goes #'is she? idk man i dont really listen to that much hiphop. you know what im into' #okay it's been like two days od this sitting in my drafts. ive opened the game now. lemme continue my story. #okay so then i look at him and i laugh #and i go 'really? i thought it was your favorite!' #AND THEN #AND THEN AND THEN AND THEN!! I deliver the punchline! #i say 'bars am i right?' #BAHAHAHAHAHA! #i crack myself up! #anyways. yeah. i got f.f16.. it's so beautiful... i hung the map up on my wall #when i get that ps5 im gonna kiss v.ivian so much-

[fortunatelyfresco]

observations so far.

the numbers don't add up to 100% because sometimes the straight man is henry or chief vick, or somebody else, or nobody.

#psych #if this is not color blind friendly i apologize and there is an image description #delivered in the same order as the intended beats and punchline

[dubiousculturalartifact]

'blah blah aziraphale and crowley are so obviously subtextually queer that we don't NEED them to actually kiss or express their love or define their relationship as romantic or QPP or anything else that would actually make it queer representation.' I mean. I guess? if you want?

but let's be real: by y’all’s standards in the way you talk about Good Omens, BBC Sherlock is a bastion of gay representation bcs they made some gay jokes and there was yearning. Like: have more respect for yourselves than that. Please. Call me crazy but I just feel like we’ve simply evolved as a society past the time when ‘they looked at each other really hard’ is all queer people should hope for in terms of representation Let's go big or go the fuck home, we’re in a post-Our Flag Means Death world now, babey

#good omens #this is a shit post but also it isn't #like even if they were ace/aro you need to SAY THAT #actually say it #and like #call me controversial but i simply think that you're not allowed to be a straight person in 2023 with a bunch of jokes about how hilarious #it is that these characters are mistaken for queer #like how wacky and completely improbable hahah! #if you're not gonna deliver on that shit #'queer people existing' is just a terrible punchline thanks

[dizzybizz]

i need a compilation of all of julia's jokes that start with "hey- y'know-"

#convinced it is what would fix me 🤧🤧🤧 #drawfee #what sss is it where she starts a joke during the intro and then proceeds to laugh for like five minutes straight til she's crying and then #delivering the actual punchline #gaaahhhh #edit: OK I FOUND ITTTTT 3RD ELDEN RING EP DO URSELF A FAVOR AND WATCH THAT BIT OMG

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

John: rose better not have her smug face when i revive.

Rose, smugly: I told you.

#submission #homestuck #incorrect homestuck quotes #john egbert #rose lalonde #mod terezi #i love when a punchline delivers itself

[bestcadaverinthejujutsumorgue]

we should have gotten a scene of todo bending his powerful head over a desk and tutoring yuji. their calloused hands affectionately brushing over pencils, etc. in the process accidentally catching ryomen sukuna, greatest of demons, king on the blood throne, he-who-eats-his-enemies-hearts up to date on the last fun and funky 1000 years of japanese history.

#jujutsu kaisen #sukuna ryomen #todo drawing little diagrams for yuji about the economy of the 1500s and yuji is listening (he’s a good boy) #but sukuna is Locked In #surprisingly invested he does not care about these little ants political games but he loves 1. gossip and 2. slaughter #and history delivers #he was wondering why these little bitches weren’t in Kyoto anymore #plus it means Kenjaku won’t be able to pull as much condescending bs on him later #unfortunately todo’s teaching does assume knowledge of basic facts any teen would know #like who oda nobunaga is and what went down with the heike #so sukuna is getting the most fractured contextless discussions #like walking into a 400 level college class in a subject you don’t know #except the subject is History For Teenage Boys and you’re just a very dead demon #I think the punchline is that one day yuji is writing an essay on population shifts in the Tokugawa or whtv #and a voice just goes ‘8 BILLION?’ and he considers quitting school and becoming a monk #*sukuna voice* yes kenjaku I know about these Americans and their world wars. according to a high school textbook I read.

[warriorfujoshi]

had a dream that contained elements of my childhood trauma, whatever. then I had another dream which was much more normal. I think my dream-self heaved a sigh of relief (though I’m never in control of these things). In the dream I had been given a new roommate. he was of nerdy kind, a science student, a sort of genius. He told me he worked at a gas station minimum wage filling cars with a new kind of eco-fuel he’d invented. he was very down to earth. we got to chatting a bit, though I was somewhat intimidated by his achievements. until we reached the end of our conversation and we realised he’d never shared with me his name. he said, verbatim, “I transitioned to male one year ago. My name is Kim now.” As I was processing the fact that he just came out to me so very nonchalantly, he continued. “Kim Popping. But please, you can call me K-Pop.” And then I woke up

#if I had been sentient in my dream I probably would have looked at him being an Asian guy with glasses who named himself Kim and went oh #you are gay gay homosexual gay? (d.e. fan) #but no this dream was so set on its course to deliver its sick little punchline #like a rollercoaster hurtling towards a hole in the tracks #anyways. #my dreams

[thornheartless]

Actually I am getting bored of being the "haha, funny, pathetic, short twink." If anyone needs me I'll be listening to Shinedown and Three Days Grace while working out.

#this is a joke but also not because i currently feel like the whole world is some sick joke and my life is part of the punchline #and whilst i do not particularly care about being someone with a lot of visible muscle #that's a nice bonus from doing something for the sake of my mental and physical health #snarling bitterly at 'have you tried exercise?' advice because exercise helps me but the way it's often delivered is backhanded and rude #oooooh look at me taking steps to try and improve my life #wrestling my brain because it feels ridiculous #shut up brain i am trying to make things better #thorn talks

[cartoontees]

i like kurtis conner but the funny thing is the less "produced" his content is, the more i like it. i think his podcast is hilarious, and his youtube videos are pretty good too, but i thought his comedy special was barely funny at all i hate to say. i can't tell if his type of comedy really tends to be better the more natural and spontaneous it is, or if that's just my personal preference.

#its sad but i remember watching his comedy special and thinking 'damn... this was supposed to be his biggest thing ever #but its easily the most unfunny thing ive ever seen from him' #not to say it was bad its just that i like all his other stuff so much more. he usually gets a chuckle out of me so ig it just didnt compare #to be brutally honest i think watching a kurtis conner comedy show is like watching a sitcom without the laugh track. its awkward... #he needs those goofy sound effects that he usually edits into his videos. they help deliver an absurd punchline with his deadpan delivery #not a kc hate post just a kc observation post #tee.post

[yeonban]

Funniest man ever btw

#muse: dan heng. #He's a natural at this. I can't think of anyone else who delivers punchlines w that straight of a face and thinks nothing of them

[u3pxx]

OC QUESTION ! Deidre. 2. How easy is it for your character to laugh?

oh OH i think deidre is the kind of person to like roll his eyes and do that little laugh exhale thing you do when you find things mildly amusing/funny but actual genuine laughter? actually pretty difficult to do! (it is just kind of hard to get a big reaction out of them in general so)

but when they laugh? like laugh laugh? dorkiest laugh you'll ever hear. wheezing, snorting, all that stuff!

#im actually thinking what would make dei laugh and i think shed like absurdist stuff or just jokes that dont work at all. like you fail to #set up the punchline and stuff and theyd find that funnier as opposed to if you delivered the joke normally ASKSKKS #sunnysideanswers #deidre minuendo #den's ocs tag #den's gavinners tag

[withoutawar]

love and loyalty are complicated. sometimes you can have one and not the other. love without loyalty can quickly turn toxic. loyalty without love though can be confusing in that you might not think that love is lacking because the loyalty kinda covers it up. but like everything in the world, loyalty depends on priority and loyalties can break when priorities change and then there's not much holding the relationship together because the love you thought it was founded on is actually kinda --- not there, or weaker than you thought it was and now you don't have loyalty to hold it together either.

#i promise this is relevant to this blog #but idk if i'm ready to deliver the punchline and some of yall aren't ready to hear it #ooc. #but iykyk #if you don't THEN UR NOT READY

[pawterpillart]

im a punner, a clown, a funny man, a comedian, a jester even.

#alex rambles #go on #reply to that ask dear mutual #so i can deliver my punchline

[rodismancave]

#mesing around with a friend. dont tell her i did know what sodomy was i just needed her to ask so i could deliver the punchline #i think it fits this blog. rodimus would say this. #ooc / misty forest

[communistkenobi]

I was listening to Behind The Police (podcast about the history of American policing) recently and at one point the hosts were discussing the tendency of white supremacist/fascist violence to have this element of absurdity to it - ie, people dressing up in white KKK robes and calling themselves wizards while attacking black people - and the point of this is to deny their victims the decency of “straightforward” experiences of violence. To later recount that a group of wizards attacked you makes you to sound absurd to whoever you’re talking to, and it becomes more difficult to make sense of. it’s all “just a joke bro.” your discomfort and fear and confusion and pain is the punchline. and modern right wing discourse is so laughably deranged as to be a joke in itself (perhaps best epitomised by the now-memetic phrase “the fluoride in the water is making the frickin’ frogs gay”), but this is of course deliberate. the rhetoric of “satanic pedophiles are sacrificing children in the basement of a pizza restaurant” or whatever is employed because it distracts from the real message they’re trying to deliver (ie, antisemitism). it isn’t just a denial of reality but a very particular form of cruelty that makes it more difficult for the victims of right wing violence to be taken seriously, to make sense of what’s happened to them.

and it feels like the same thing is happening now with transphobia - rhetoric that insists on “protecting children” from trans people while the US is actively loosening their child labour laws (x) (x). this isn’t a case of mere “hypocrisy,” this is rhetorically deliberate. the rank absurdity and insincerity of their words is meant to deny you the ability to think clearly, to distract you, to make you sound like a crazy person, to enrage you, all the while they get to carry on as if they aren’t saying or doing any of these things

#racism tw #antisemitism tw #transphobia tw #book club

[aziraphale-rights]

So, what is the deal with the world’s most conspicuously uneaten Eccles cakes? (A meta)

Well, I wouldn’t say it’s bad writing, not even the on-purpose-as-a-secret-message kind. I agree there is a visual ‘loose thread’ here that the creators wanted us to notice, but I don’t think the meaning has anything to do with Metatron or the eventual plan for S3. I think the eccles cakes are all about what’s going on in this episode with Crowley and Aziraphale, and they’re unsettling in exactly the way they’re meant to be, even if we might not register the full implications consciously on first watch.

On the most straightforward level, this shot is the punchline to a joke set up by Aziraphale and Nina in the coffee shop. Crowley orders six shots of espresso, bound to get him all worked up and stressy. Aziraphale, who desperately wants Crowley to be thinking clearly when he learns about the Gabriel situation, says to Nina: ‘What do you sell that calms people down?’ And she replies: ‘Eccles cakes.’ From this moment on the cakes are a visual symbol of what Aziraphale needs from Crowley right now.

That’s why they get so much screentime as we cross the road and go into the shop. Aziraphale won't leave those eccles cakes behind because he’s still hoping that Crowley will respond to the request they represent: Please stay calm, please be patient and listen to me with empathy.

But Crowley never does respond, and as he storms out we get that close-focus shot of the abandoned plate to make sure the subtext hits home. The cakes are framed sitting in front of the horse statue, brilliantly dressed up in Crowley's sunglasses, to remind us that they were brought there for him and he's dismissing them. (Crowley is the frantic horse who can't be managed!)

There’s another level to it, though, which doesn’t fully become clear until episode 6. The episode 1 meeting in Nina’s café is the first time that Aziraphale and Crowley share a scene in the present-day in S2, which means that the last time we saw them together was when they were dining at the Ritz. As viewers, we quickly recognise the visual language of their partnership: a table for two, a drink, a dessert. It feels familiar. But the food gets delivered and then nobody eats it. On that level, it is a set-up without a pay-off and it really niggles as you watch. S1 closed out their relationship with a happy toast after a resplendent dinner; S2 opens it with a snack that gets ignored. The dynamics of who offers food to whom are also off, atypical. It’s a sign of how things are going to go later on, hinting at the fact their dynamic is dysfunctional right now, even though it might seem OK on the surface.

Which brings me, finally, on to the other thing I’ve wanted to point out…

The punchline is that Crowley doesn’t eat the eccles cakes, but the really subconsciously disconcerting thing is that Aziraphale doesn’t. That he seemingly never planned to, and never orders anything for himself. In fact, we don’t see Aziraphale eat anything substantial in any of the present-day scenes in S2. The only things he consumes onscreen are sherry, tea, and a travel sweet. (Oh, and Manipulation Coffee, which is definitely a callback to Crowley’s disastrous sextuple-espresso.) We see him with food, yes, but primarily he wants to give it to other people.

For me this little detail of S2 – not something you even fully notice until you think about it – is a very telling understated cue in terms of Aziraphale’s post-Heaven state of mind. It's about what amuseoffyre puts so well in another meta: 'the whole series looks like he’s having so much fun doing silly human things, but there’s this brittleness to it.' At first glance, we see Aziraphale interacting with food and assume he is now living the happy Earthly life we wanted for him, but on closer inspection he's not engaging much in the pleasure of eating for his own sake. He gets a quick sweet pick-me-up on his way somewhere else in the Bentley - all alone - and that's it. He's too anxious, too busy, he doesn't have time. Crowley doesn't have time to invite him for lunch.

I find it fascinating that Gabriel gets a squillion cups of cocoa in this season, waxing all lyrical about them, and Aziraphale gets none. Aziraphale's mug becomes Jim's mug, even. And he mostly makes the tea to show Muriel how to blend in. In short, S2 Aziraphale is terribly preoccupied with looking after/managing others, and not taking the time to look after himself. Like the Maggie and Nina match-making, all that kindly treat-offering is displacement, displacement, displacement.

No wonder it all goes wrong.

#SORRY for image quality #good omens spoilers #good omens meta #good omens #takes by me