#attempted satire

[power-chords]

Comic by Eli Valley, January 10, 2024.

#imperative to bring back what the nazis attempted and almost succeeded in eradicating: unsparing jewish satire of goyim naches #eli valley

[disco-cola]

im crying the way some content creators/influencers and celebs are now all of a sudden after seven months of nothing posting and sharing donation links for palestine bc they are scared they will end up on the block list too HAS ME WEAK like don’t even try YOU BEEN CAUGHT

#also that hayleebaylee »apology« video was insanity like I knew her videos from before and thought she was ok but THIS ☠️ #the gaslighting and attempt to make it seem like she’s just like one of us peasants while living in a 17k$/month manhattan penthouse #THE AUDACITY idk if you’ve seen it but it’s almost like satire also the dirty sweatshirt lmaooo #also the fact she didn’t even take accountability and deflected by saying I am not informed enough #girl it’s been 7 months when it comes to gaza and years of inflation like ppl are working full time yet can’t afford to live GOOD MORNING #blockout2024

[contemplatingoutlander]

And of course Trump’s treason was perfect. It was the best treason ever. Many, many world leaders were amazed at how huge his treason was. They said it was magnificent. The biggest, best, most perfect treason in U.S. history!

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Sources for images (before manipulations/edits): 01, 02

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#gop #us politics #trump #coup attempt #top secret documents #sedition #treason #benedict arnold #my manips #satire

[princessbucky]

“Ur so s-sugoi Stevie-chan!! 🥺🥺”

#marvel #mcu #marvel mcu #steve rogers #bucky barnes #james bucky buchanan barnes #james buchanan barnes #winter soldier #captain america #stucky #steve rogers x bucky barnes #satire #this is a joke #my poor attempt at a joke #joke

[vickyvicarious]

Mrs Westenra's tut-tuting days ago about Seward watching over Lucy because "she is better now, she can stop the antibiotics" feels like foreshadowing now, or at least that this isn't an uncharacteristic action from her.

Definitely!

On 6 September she gets worried about Lucy and consults Jack, who then is able to bring in van Helsing. But by the very next day, she already seemed less alarmed than expected and prompted Jack's musing about Nature creating a self-protective instinct towards protecting her from deadly shocks by not allowing them to reach her. And so he "laid down a rule that she should not be present with Lucy or think of her illness more than was absolutely required. She assented readily, so readily that I saw again the hand of Nature fighting for life." That's the day of Lucy's first transfusion, and we see already Mrs. Westenra denying how bad the situation is, and then consenting to keep her distance. The day after that, she thinks staying up with Lucy is unnecessary since she's doing better. And then we don't hear from her again till today.

I think part of it might be related to prejudice against van Helsing. Jack presents the 'stay up with Lucy' plan as recommended by vH. The maids try to intercede with Jack to say it's not needed for vH to stay up with Lucy. And Mrs. Westenra takes away the flowers which were his treatment plan. Perhaps there's an element of distrust towards this stranger of a foreign doctor.

However, I think even without considering any kind of xenophobic angle, Mrs. Westenra does tend towards self-superiority and denial. She gets anxious over something (Lucy's sleepwalking in Whitby, Lucy's health in London), deputizes someone else to take over (Mina in Whitby, Jack in London) and then doesn't seem to worry about it so much any more. At the least, she doesn't talk about her worries. It's almost as though she offloads them onto someone else, and then once she's gotten that out, she can switch to laughing them off as silly and unnecessary in the first place. After all, Lucy seems so much better, and she's not heard of anything getting worse. It must be fine, they must be overreacting and making unnecessary fuss, is all.

It's also possible that now, as her own illness is getting worse (in London Jack says stuff about her going off to lay down and such, while in Whitby she still seemed to be spending her days engaged in a fair bit of socializing based on Mina's comments), she's got some degree of brain fog going on. It might be harder for her to keep track of things. Also a factor could be her regretting/resenting the agreement to keep out of Lucy's health and not visit her. She agreed easily because she wants to avoid scary/negative thoughts (even on an unconscious level), but she also resents it a little bit because 'I'm her mother, I know how to take care of her. And anyway, she seems better now!' kind of thoughts. Once she gets an idea in her head she tends to trust it more than even the experts she is consulting for advice, convinced she knows what she is doing. But she doesn't, and she's making things worse.

#dracula daily #anonymous #replies #mrs. westenra #she reminds me of mrs. bennet #she gets anxious but her mood can easily switch back to pleasant. she shows her love in overbearing ways that actively make her daughter's #life harder. she is convinced she's right and dismisses reasonable concerns or attempts to get her to change her behavior #and such. but her health is genuinely bad. she's of a better social standing. and of course #she's in a horror novel and not played for comedic satire

[voxpeople]

Red Bull F1 Team Address Allegations By No Longer Hiring Women

Women will no longer be employed by Red Bull Formula One team, and all current female employees will have their contracts terminated immediately, in an effort by the organization to prevent further allegations of 'inappropriate behaviour' following those made against team boss Christian Horner.

Announcing the decision a spokesperson for Red Bull Racing said: "If there are no women employed by the Red Bull Formula One team, this will ensure there will be no further accusations of inappropriateness being made against anyone."

#joke #satire #attempt at humor #humour #parody #topical humour #this is a joke #red bull racing #red bull f1 #formula 1 #formula one #christian horner #geri horner #me too #max verstappen #red bull team #red bull formula 1 #red bull

[shapesintheklouds]

Frazzled: Falling from the Sky

I'm experimenting with a new comic style and idea so I'm super excited to share the results :D Would love some honest feedback and page 3 is edited because I forgot some words rip lol

#comics #artists on tumblr #traditional art #wizards #witches #the devil #satire #humour #Frazzled #comic art #original comic #webcomic #attempt at humor lol #oc #oc characters #original characters

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

The Guardian: "These women aren't be recognised for their talents, so let's all make sure they reward the nice man for saying something about it."

#barbie #the guardian #if this was an attempt at satire it really did not land #greta gerwig #margot robbie #ryan gosling #they are nominated for other categories y'know #why not push for gerwig to get best screenplay or robbie for best picture as a producer

[hecksupremechips]

Ralsei deltarune is literally so sketchy but also have we considered. That’s hes cute your honor have we considered this

#deltarune #decided im gonna replay deltarune and then maybe attempt to do evil bastard shit in undertale #cuz i am just so hyped up after replaying the pacifist route and want to do more but hm #just dont think im mentally prepared to kill these bitches yet #and ive literally forgotten everything that happens in ch1 of deltarune #im halfway through the first chapter and damn lol ralsei really is just so fucking sketchy #like he tells kris that their choices matter of course and he’ll support whatever they decide #but obviously kris cant actually make any decisions of their own and ralsei is like following the hero script to a T #and he gets upset with susie for constantly defying the narrative #i dont think id say ralsei is like the mastermind of this strange universe where you cant make choices #but he is suspiciously conformist like hes very eager to uphold a narrative and its like hes on a completely different planet #also you know theres the fact that hes like an alternate asriel or some shit #i dont trust him but despite this. he is very cute i do wanna kiss his nose #like hes such a satirized version of the pacifist that it feels fake as shit but i still love him #like. we go through the acid tunnel of love. DOES THIS MEAN NOTHING TO YOU #he could kill everyone and i wouldnt be surprised in the slightest and also im squishing his face

[disneybuddy]

Hey, everybody, guess what?!

Disney just announced that they're doing a new Muppets movie! A theatrical one, too!

No word yet as to what the plot will be, but we DO know that there'll be lots of meta humor - after all, it worked SOOOOOOOOO WELL in the Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers movie!

It's also been revealed that the film won't use puppetry at all. Instead, the Muppets will be CGI. But it'll be really good CGI that mimics puppetry - again, just like the Swedish Chef parody in the Chip and Dale movie. You won't be able to tell the difference!

But the film's biggest selling point is its star-studded voice cast. After all, movies NEED to have celebrities voicing the characters in order to be successful. Just look at how successful Strange World was. And Delgo. Yeah, that was a huge success, wasn't it? And yes, it's been confirmed that none of the celebrities will be making any sort of effort to actually sound like the characters. Nobody would be able to take the characters seriously if they had their usual voices for a full movie, right?

The cast is as follows...

Seth MacFarlane as Kermit the Frog

Melissa McCarthy as Miss Piggy

Chris Pratt as Fozzie Bear

Danny Pudi as Scooter

Tracy Morgan as Rowlf the Dog

John Mulaney as Rizzo the Rat

Diego Luna as Pepe the King Prawn

John Oliver as Sam the Eagle

Seth Rogen as Sweetums

Flula Borg as the Swedish Chef

Eric Andre as Dr. Teeth

Kevin Hart as Floyd

Maya Rudolph as Janice

Ken Jeong as Zoot

Chris Rock as Animal

Johnny Galecki as Dr. Bunsen Honeydew

Idris Elba as Beaker

Ed O'Neil as Statler

Lewis Black as Waldorf

Adam Devine as Robin the Frog

Snoop Dogg as Bobo the Bear

Nick Kroll as Beauregard

Awkwafina as Camilla the Chicken

Various YouTube/TikTok celebrities as the various monsters, chickens, penguins, and rats

Oh yeah, and Dave Goelz is reprising his role as Gonzo... which I'm sure means that they care about the integrity of these characters as opposed to them only keeping him on board so we don't get mad that they replaced all the other puppeteers.

Surely this will be a wonderful, very successful movie and not a stunt-casting-ridden, painfully unfunny abomination that flies in the face of everything that the Muppets stand for!

#this is obviously a joke post #they're not actually doing a muppet movie with CGI muppets voiced by celebrities #not to my knowledge at least #this was just a clumsy attempt at satire

[aconflagrationofmyown]

i take it the colonel isn’t gonna be a fan of gigi especially if shes breaking what he would deem to be appropriate or right for elvis to do in public. i despise that man so much

Right, no I think he wouldn’t. But to be honest, initially I reckon he thinks she’s another Ten Day Wonder as do the majority of Elvis’ entourage, probs including Vernon. So she’s not really too much of a bother -it’s just when she lasts and lasts -and starts to swell- that everyone realizes this one might be a staple. Better yet, THE staple one.

…Also, didn’t you read the history articles about how while Elvis and Gigi were on the road touring in late autumn of ‘77, the colonel was found dead while relaxing in a hotel hot tub? Terribly dangerous contraptions for those individuals with health concerns like diabetes and hypertension. It was all very *sad* and unexpected and poor Elvis has to cancel the remainder of the tour and take a sabbatical of grief spent inside Gigi’s snug little snatch 😌

#if you can’t tell I’m attempting satire at the very end there #elvis fanfiction #regarding gigi

[fefairys]

like. there has got to be terfs pretending to be transmasc in the anons of trans women sometimes right like thats got to be whats happening. like when people would make blogs pretending to be ace so they could say awful things and make asexuals look bad, thats. GOT to be whats happening sometimes with transmascs to causse infighting between transmascs and transfems

#its really scary out here man #or like. someones attempt at satire goes awry #because it was on anon. #and used tone tags as satire. but it is impossible to tell when that is the case oh my GOD STOP USING TONE TAGS AS SATIRE PLEASE #i mean that may not be the case it could be real. but i HAVE seen tone tags used satirically/sarcastically before and its like come on.

[year-of-the-rabid-dog]

Who the fuck is TX2 and why did I find a video where he suicide baits in response to a teenager who criticized his music?

#i have never heard of this artist until a few days ago when one of the metal subreddits cross-posted a tiktok he did promoting a new release #and holy shit his music sounds like hot ass #also idrc how much of his persona is just a bit or him being satirical; he seems like a very unappealing and insecure guy to be around #the excessive tiktoks responding to criticisms or attempting self-aware humor is obnoxious #cw suicide mention

[falinscloaca]

anyways PMMM sucks in that pernicious way that has a lotta good stuff and ideas TO it not to mention the non-(human)-character-design art direction rules (...kinda), and i've even softened on the emotional content (though not in combination with any gain of good faith in its creatorship at all), but then its just like... Oh Yeah It Also Exists To Sell Merchandise Of Girls That Are Like 13 To People Of Various Ages Who Find Them "Cute". And Its Side-Manga Spinoff Shit Was Just Like Absolute Dogshit About It At Least For A While. Like In A Bubble It'd Be Preposterous For The Spinoff To A Grand Cosmic Tragedy(ish) Melodrama About The Horrors Of Growing Up To Be, Like, "Ecchi", But Taking A Look At A Solid Chunk Of The Posters And Things Is Like 'Oh OK Its Just Like That'

#and like. for better or worse it feels like it blew the lid open for other grimdark fantasy stuff in anime and like. boy fucking howdy #every god damn thing i've heard about made in abyss sure makes it sound like if someone took the weaknesses of PMMM and JUICED them #at this point i think the fault of PMMM is less 'it didn't get magical girls' and more that its built on just the FAULTIEST foundations for #something with the type of message its actually attempting to have #also like its a complete utena ripoff that actually ends up WHITEWASHING the things that make utena edgy #in favor of pre-MCU hollywood superhero Serious Realism if that makes ANY sense #it wouldn't HAVE to 'get' magical girls to tell a serious story that doesn't sexualize kids or capitalize on infantile femininity #HELL. THERES 'TRUE' MAGICAL GIRL SHOWS THAT VERGE ON THAT! LMAO! #like yeah as a SATIRE it doesn't work but i think viewing it as satire rather than a story built on the skeleton of a genre generally not #viewed as appropriate for that isn't great grounds for criticism

[voxpeople]

Warner Bros. Announce 'Wonka' Sequel and Spin-Offs

Following the success of their holiday release, Warner Bros. Discovery have confirmed a sequel to Wonka is in the works.

Timothee Chalamet is set to reprise the title role in the follow-up, which will reportedly see an older Willy Wonka allowing children on a rare visit to his secretive chocolate factory.

A number of spin-off series focusing on each of the Oompa-Loompas is also said to be starting production soon, with the announcement of its cancellation to follow.

#joke #attempt at humor #humour #satire #parody #topical humour #wonka #wonka 2023 #willy wonka #wonka movie #timothée chalamet #timothee chamalet #hugh grant #hugh grant&039;s oompa loompa sings and flies in new &039;wonka&039; trailer #oompa loompa #warner bros #warner bros discovery

[caesarsaladinn]

Why waste time with philosophy when the Book of Ceremonies of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos is available?

that book is perhaps the exact opposite of philosophy. it’s one hundred percent practice with next to no theoretical justification for why they’re greeting dignitaries in this order or wearing that cloak to that imperial function.

there is some interesting administrative stuff, though—I remember a passages about the protocol for acquiring, distributing, branding, and retiring army horses so they couldn’t be easily stolen. also, there are lots of fashion details, particularly in that appendix about the appointment of the proedros. that position was invented around the time the book was written and afaict had only one holder (Basil Lekapenos) up to that point, so I imagine it’s pretty accurate to what he actually wore. my unsubstantiated hunch is that he had a hand in writing it—he was very involved with the government at that point, and may have been nursing his ego after being replaced as chamberlain (though he was reinstated by the time of its writing). and by god did he have an ego.

I would really like someone to go through and sketch the various courtly outfits and accessories. I found a book that explains the articles of clothing that weren’t otherwise translated (i.e. what a skaramangion might be), but I don’t have the skill.

overall it makes me kind of sympathetic to the use of “byzantine” to refer to complicated and arbitrary systems. it’s trivializing to be sure, but they did have some damn complicated, arbitrary, lengthy, expensive protocols for anything the government wanted to do. it makes their survival far more impressive imo.

#is that uh. is that long enough for you #I am literally doing what I was attempting (and failing) to satirize in that earlier post rn