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hometoursandotherstuff · 11 months
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existennialmemes · 8 months
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A Culturally Updated Dante's Inferno:
Level 1 (Limbo): Unbaptized infants and virtuous pagans sit in a mall food court. The food isn't great, but there's some cool people there
Level 2 (Lust): Sinners are perpetually 15 and unpopular, in a high school cafeteria, on Valentine's day
Level 3 (Gluttony): Sinners are compulsively ordering Amazon packages, unable to stop even as each new package is stacked on top of them, until they are completely crushed beneath them over and over
Level 4 (Greed): Sinners are US CEOS price gouging the cost of living, but every commodity they raise the cost of disappears from their life, until they can't survive and then it starts over again
Level 5 (Wrath): Sinners are customer service reps for a children's party location, perpetually trying to calm down Karen Parents, who only become more belligerent as they try to placate them
Level 6 (Heresy): Sinners are trapped in a perpetual Twitter flame war with Ben Shapiro, whose followers insist he's winning no matter how clearly and consistently they demonstrate his failures
Level 7 (Violence): Sinners are playing Call of Duty with 12 year olds, but as the game characters, not the players
Level 8 (Fraud): Sinners are trying to survive being lost in the woods, but their survival gear are knock offs from Wish
Level 9 (Treachery): Sinners are a minimum wage employee in a retail store during black Friday in 2008
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xray-vex · 11 months
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Any time there is drama in The Fandom, it's a good idea for everyone to brush up on the classics
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egophiliac · 1 year
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they're baaaaaack
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cursedzucchini · 1 year
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You know what? Fuck it
DC x DP prompt #3
I think at least lmao.
Anyway! Jason starts making videos on YouTube for one reason or another (is really stressed, no one listens to his rants Abt books who cares). His content is mostly bad books he read or really really really long rants Abt pride and prejudice. Like 3 hours on one tiny detail he noticed on his 214th read through.
He's kinda popular, mostly bc his terrible books videos. He talks Abt the ones that made him the most mad, which coincidentally are mostly romance and supernatural. Like he's one of the well known figures in the supernatural romance critique group (whcih is pretty small, but well). (Also he doesn't show his face on camera, bc secret identity and stuff, it's just his voice over a video of something mundane, like the sky or a room in which is a fly or something)
And now this can go two ways, that i can think of (w dead on main in mind at least)
1) one day Jason finds a book which is supernatural romance and is actually good. It has a kidna cliche system for the supernatural stuff, but with a refreshing twist. The characters have depts and flaws, yet are still very likable. The plot is actually interesting and overall the story's theme is death, not belonging anywhere and overall stuff that is very close to Jason's heart. The story doesn't shy away from violence and it is suprisingly accurate.
(I'm.gonna reblog this w pretty long idea of what this book could be Abt, bc i don't wanna annoy ppl lol)
Anyway Jason kinda falls in love w it, and it becomes famous for being the first novel Jason rated positively or something.
Meanwhile Danny, who was told by jazz writing is good way to get his feeling out, and just wanted to make a quick buck, is really fucking confused how tf did his book become so popular and who tf is this nerd who rates books for a living.
(basically big fan Jason and suspicious/awkward Danny lmao)
2) there is a famous series on Jason profile. It's the worst fucking series he ever read and it's just fucking awful. All the characters are fucking terrible, always going on and on about one thing, the romance sucks in a way that isnt even funny. Jason would love to believe some wrote this as a joke, if it wasn't for the absolute cringefest this was, and it wasn't a whole ass series!! Like who writes 12 books for a joke?
Danny ducking Fenton that's who. Dude was so ducking annoyed at his rogues, he threatened them w writing a terrible romance novels abt them. The ghosts, knowing his terrible grade in literature backed off for a moment, before someone crossed the line. And write Danny did. It was the worst thing he had ever written, the love interest was perfect caricature yet still faithfully go the original. And Danny, because fuck them he lost sommuch sleep over that one prank, decided to publish it. (The book was pretty thin so it didn't take that much time writing it). Unfortunately it became immensely popular in the infinite realm. So the ghosts started crossing lines on purpose. Before Danny figured it out, he had already published his fifth book and was writing another three. After some bargaining, getting a book written Abt them as a piece of shit love interest became a reward.
And while yeah, he had to say his writing was terrible and the books sucked, some small part of him was kinda proud y'know? Like a mother of her twelve ugly as fuck toddlers.
So when he saw some nerd on the internet not only shit talk his book, but also get money of it?
Danny decided to haunt him (just like his books did him, now that everyone knew Abt them thanks to this guy)
(enemies (sorta it's not that serious tho) to lovers ala terrible writer Danny who hates his books and kinda famous YouTuber hasn't who also hates Danny's books)
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Fuck this is way too long wtf. Anyway imma reblog this w 1) book idea. Might add whatever i think the twelve books could be Abt. Pls if u want to add anything to this pls do!!
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candycornstudios · 1 year
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Shut The Fuck Up Terf 2: Electric Boogaloo
the unofficial sequel to the Lily meme that TERFs were seething over at the British parliament
Commissions are open btw!!! :3 recently got laid off last Wednesday and would appreciate the help 🥺
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youarenotthewalrus · 7 months
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Reading The Song of Roland and y'know it's nice to read an Ancient, Respected Classic that's just. Trash. A jingoistic action movie. The 11th century equivalent of 300, a historical war depicted in a wildly inaccurate and propagandistic way as an excuse for buff macho warriors to face off against poorly-researched stereotypes of foreign enemies and then kill them in spectacularly violent and improbable ways. You want depth? Nuance? Timeless themes that still speak to the common human experience nearly a thousand years later? Fuck you. You'll take Charlemagne's nephew cutting a Saracen in half with his sword and you'll like it.
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rad-roche · 5 months
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i think part of what makes the fallout setting so compelling to me is that, personally, the very, very broad strokes of the world aren't interesting to me, but the closer you zoom in on it the more fascinating it becomes. i think it serves as a really compelling foundation for genre fiction because it has so much to pull from. the regressive politics and pop/pulp culture of an exaggerated hyper 50s and the atomic age, and the desolation, black comedy and wry optimism of the post apoc. i wrote a hardboiled noir, but that's only because i like it the best. for fan projects not beholden to hundreds of millions of dollars being thrown around, i think it has strong enough bones to support almost anything you throw at it. spaghetti western, creature horror stuff, crime dramas, because it was built on all these things in the first place. in my ideal world, i'd love to see an honest to god hollywood golden age wasteland musical played completely straight
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the-forest-library · 8 days
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Stumbled upon this in a used bookstore
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liliox-ciel · 1 month
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That one "Don't Starve Shipwrecked" illustration but Skin Prophet and the other two abnos(????)
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karinmisono · 2 months
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thats literally what he said. okay.
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existennialmemes · 6 months
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madame-helen · 7 days
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kiisaes · 1 year
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mob road 🚶🚶🚶
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yukipri · 3 months
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The Prime Override - Chapter 65 is up!
Seventeen - The Present: Holocall, Part II - The Republic
Here's the next chapter!
As you may have noticed, I made a lil chapter header banner for myself to use to announce updates for this fic on my socials. I'm too lazy to go back and make them for all my past chapters, but I'll be using these for all the Book 2 chapters moving forward! I hope it makes these posts a lil easier to spot!
(and yeah, I'm reusing my filigree clone & Mando helmets yet again, but hey I worked hard on those, might as well use them? And yup, the symbol behind the logo is the Vode symbol in this AU! This might be the first time I've posted anything with it publicly??)
Anyway, onwards!
This Chapter: Bail updates Obi-Wan on his friends. And some unfortunate news regarding the direction the Republic will be taking.
Warnings: The Republic being a very transparent parody of the U.S., as George Lucas likely intended.
“War is like a drug, an addiction,” Organa murmurs. “Once they have felt the power of being able to beat those who oppose them into submission…it’s difficult to convince them that that power is not necessary.”
> > Read Ch 65 on AO3
Want to read ahead? Early access chapters up to chapter 67 are up on my Patreon rn, with 68 coming in a few more days!
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