#in terms of comedic effect

[lipstickontheglass1985]

star trek tng s5e5 disaster would be such a beautiful name for a babygirl btw

#HUGE fan of putting those guys in situations and this ep has truly delivered on that front #everyones so beautifully out of their depth. picard cant do anything cause hes stuck in a turbolift with 3 random kids #worf delivers keiko's baby (featuring the lifechanging line 'u may now give birth'). data is decapitated. #beverly and geordi start a plasma fire in the cargo bay and almost get vacuumed out of the ship while putting it out. #the only people with access to the bridge are deanna chief obrien ensign ro (who had just joined the enterprise crew like 2 eps before) #and another ensign who gets like 1.5 lines in total for some reason. deanna is technically in charge #but somehow has no idea how the ship works despite being a senior officer. idk that felt so weird tbh she must have had required training #plus shes surrounded by this stuff all the time and shes really quite smart like i cant believe she wouldnt have at least some idea #of whats going on. like ro literally knows way more than her so at least it doesnt stand out so much as an 'haha woman dumb' thing #however i do admit that the part where they had to spell out to her that the ship is gonna explode if they dont do anything did deliver #in terms of comedic effect #these tags r way too long and im sure no ones reading em anymore anyways but yeah. tng s5e5 what an episode ! loved it so much <33 #thots

[dorkfruit]

quick lil crownpash...i gues

based on this pic

corona getting punched in the face is therapeutic to me .

#my art #the locked tomb #tlt #nona the ninth #ntn #coronabeth tridentarius #our lady of the passion #tlt pash #crownpash #the corona panel probably needs to be flipped to make more sense in terms of where she would get hit and where the pose is but like #who care its all made up anyway #/ tw violence #i guess idk #pash has a rat tail hair cut bc shes greasy and i like to think for comedic effect the end of it will be on fire sometimes #like when cartoon people explode

[djsherriff]

Ignoring the age gap issues, I generally don’t think Finn and Simon would have a good romantic relationship but it’d be interesting if there was an attempt

#adventure time fanart #fionna and cake #adventure time #artists on tumblr #I know there’s a ship tag already buts it’s mostly p/ro shippers atm and I’m waiting for whatever term gets more popular #I’m not an an/ti shipper I just think people who engage in that scene need to touch grass #Suggestive #EDIT : removed the ship tag because apparently people are thinking this is hate art? On account of my opinions on ship discourse? #THIS IS SHIP ART THATS WHY IT WAS IN THE F/NN X S/MON TAG ORIGINALLY #I LIKE THIS SHIP i just also think Finn is a flawed human being and a possible relationship between these two would have conflict #I just choose the more comedic approach of Finn being awkwardly off putting in his flirt attempts for comedic effect

[preggomancer]

wip :) (he/she)

#ketel is my only masc OC who would call himself mom/mama and related terms #by which i mean he calls himself mommy for comedic effect constantly #oh my god he absolutely has a shirt that says your daughter calls me mommy too #anyway. #OH MY GOD I FORGOT HER TAIL #good thing i didnt finish yet lol

[alectoperdita]

what if shizuka started to trust kaiba and confided in him about something she’s afraid to tell jou? a boy is harassing her. she’s been getting weird, anonymous messages, but she thinks whoever will get tired of it and stop. what does kaiba think? “i agree. and you’re right: this will only worry your brother. talk to me if things don’t improve.” jounouchi finds out because he chases some freak away from her apartment, which means kaiba has to do something before his pet does.

The guy ends up getting shaken down by a bunch of thugs from lower in the Aoryu-kai and basically warned away from Shizuka. It would probably be too weird and reveal too much if Kaiba was personally involved in solving the problem, but he can give the orders directly to have it resolved mediated through Isono, who then takes it down the chain. If Shizuka's stalker is actually a classmate or similar peer, it might end up giving her a bit of a "reputation." Maybe former stalker blabs about his experiences to other guys or just plain old starts a rumor that she has some unsavory connections. (This would probably only be validated if Jou ever showed up in the vicinity.)

But either way, you don't skeeve on Shizuka, bad things will happen to you.

#replies #anonymous #series: Lure #i do feel kinda bad as this and other stuff makes Shizuka seem painfully naive/oblivious #she probably isn't #but also the comedy of it #part of the struggle with including the siblings more yes even Mokuba who technically lives with them #is it can detract from the weird “i'm your entire world deal with it” vibe Kaiba has with Jou in this AU #other ideas in “Lure!Kaiba pretends to be 'normal' to comedic effect” include Kaiba advertising he owns a dog #as a way of establishing a shared interest with his classmates and a safe conversation topic that renders him likable #except said dog is actually Jou and he just filters all the stuff into very PG terms but he's really just talking about Jou all the time #now things get complicated because he doesn't really have pictures or videos to share of said dog (nothing SFW hurhurhur) #and maybe this is how they end up with an actual dog (that Jou gets stuck taking care of) #because Kaiba is too deep into his ruse of “normal well-adjusted university student”

[fostersffff]

The public domain rules because the dude running the Dracula Daily substack is going to sell a book where all he did* was rearrange things to be in chronological order.

#*there’s obviously more involved in it in terms of design but for comedic effect roll with me here #Dracula #Dracula Daily

[purpleelephantsocks]

Merlin Ep 1: So here's Merlin, he's a sweet lil bean with no impulse control and sass that could burn an ice cube. And here's Arthur, he's just a bit of an ass tbh

Merlin Ep 2: Arthur has been placed under immense pressure from a young age to be what his father and the kingdom expect. Any perception of weakness was not to be tolerated. He is ready to die for his duty, and even as a petulant youth is a better person that his father. This is shown by him giving credence to the word of a servant and admitting his wrongdoings.

...Also he's a bit of an ass

#bbc merlin #my thoughts #this is a huge oversimplification for comedic effect #just going from'Arthur is being a dick' to 'wait don't hate him. have you seen his father?his circumstances?the pressure he is under? #I'm not saying the boy never had a chance #but he wasn't exactly given any favors in terms of role models #bbc arthur

[cisgayzuko]

cis zuko isn't just a headcanon* he's like a sister to me

#*not a headcanon unless u define that term rly broadly. it's my understanding of the character based on textual evidence #but hc seemed like the best way to put it #for comedic effect #anyway. i see someone say that he's cis and im so so normal about it haha

[unfsys]

occasionally I'll interrupt myself mid sentence to say "real"

like

yeah

I'm talking to myself

I'm not gonna lie wth

I am not so real for saying that I'm just being honest with you, me.

#everyone's best friend is themselves #and everyone interrupts themselves constantly #this is normal #(i am gaslighting you) #not really I'm using that term improperly for comedic effect #shitpost

[forbiddennhoney]

atp when i see useless d!scourse i just want to scream like an unhinged teenage girl in a horror movie combined with a d3mag0rgon because its so absolutely horrifying and annoying all at once

#those words are literally censored partially for comedic effect and partially so this doesnt show in searches for those terms

[sunderwight]

I actually love it in fics when Shen Yuan looks a lot like Shen Qingqiu, because of the sheer comedic effect of contrasting that with Shen Yuan in his own head going "hmm nah this face is totally different" and sticking to that.

Possible explanations for this include:

Shen Yuan is very faceblind, so he thinks he looks different from Shen Qingqiu because everything around his face is different.

Shen Yuan did notice a suspiciously strong resemblance to the original scum villain, but his subconscious immediately decided that it did not like ANY of the possible explanations for that and so he instead fixated on the minor differences until he convinced himself that they were major ones. This happened almost instantaneously.

Shen Yuan's dislike of the original Shen Qingqiu was so strong he downgraded his looks and distanced himself from acknowledging anything positive about him, including any shared resemblance, because he was determined not to accidentally approve of the hated scum villain.

Transmigration is so jarring that Shen Yuan legitimately only noticed what was different about his "new" body, because anything similar was ignored as normal.

The mirrors in PIDW world suck. Shen Yuan assumes Shen Qingqiu looks significantly different because the fuzzy reflection has a stronger jawline. The plant body doesn't, which is why he decides it actually does look more like his old body and then tries to glue a beard over it.

Shen Yuan is so inclined to fixate on the details of other men's looks that he has no ability to assess his own. This is also part of his labyrinth of subconscious defense mechanisms against identifying uncomfortable truths about himself. Can't acknowledge what's going on with you if you turn your own sense of self into a big blind spot!

Shen Qingqiu did look different from Shen Yuan when Shen Yuan first transmigrated in, but gradually over time his features have been physically shifting to resemble Shen Yuan's more and more. The system makes sure no one notices by just as gradually convincing them that Shen Qingqiu has always looked this way. It would be spooky, if anyone involved could actually perceive the change.

Shen Yuan and Shen Qingqiu look different in terms of technical features, but they make a lot of the same facial expressions and have a lot of the same mannerisms, so unless they're just standing still and not doing anything they strongly "resemble" one another.

For some reason Shen Yuan is actually seeing a different face from the one everyone else is seeing.

Everyone in PIDW world looks kind of similar because there are only so many ways to interpret Shang Qinghua's recycled flowery descriptions that all essentially gave 90% of the population the same handful of conventionally attractive features, and Shen Yuan doesn't notice his resemblance to Shen Qingqiu because it's not that much greater than his resemblance to anyone else.

#svsss #scum villain's self saving system #scum villain #so many possibilities #and all of them are either hilarious or creepy or very sad

[spacedace]

Found this old snippet and don't really remember of the context for it outside of being a joking exploration of how weird the Fenton/Phantom family tree would seem to outsiders (not even getting into how relationships might be classified differently between the human side & the ghost side)

Anyway gonna drop it here as a prompt lol

Mind the quick reference to dismemberment, there's no gore or detailed description and no one is actually hurt, it's more there for comedic effect, but still wanted to give the heads up on it 👍

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Nomad motioned to the towering, vaguely vampire-looking buff dude with literal flaming hair what the fuck, “Dan, this is everyone. Everyone this is Dan. He’s my…” Nomad trailed off and blinked, a look of confused befuddlement on her face as she let the sentence hang for too long.

“Huh…” She said considering, looking up at vampire-dude, Dan apparently, with a confused furrow on her brow. “You know this is the first time I’ve ever had to try and explain our relationship to each other and I’m drawing a blank and what exactly to call you. Uncle? Dad? Brother? Like, I think you could technically be considered all three.”

What the fuck did that mean??? Kon snapped his attention over to meet Tim’s masked gaze, the look of wild confusion Kon was sure was on his own face mirrored there. Around the meeting room confused and worried looks were being shared by the rest of the League. Which like, yeah, what in the Habsburgs was happening here for all of those terms to be applicable?

“Well, you’re Danny’s Mirror, so if you consider him your dad then it stands to reason I’m also your father.” Dan said, hand coming up to his - literally flaming, how did that work? - goatee thoughtfully.

“Yeah but like, I call Danny dad just to piss Vlad off.” Nomad countered, toying with her severed arm with her still attached hand. Kon didn’t think he’d ever get over how casual she was about being literally disarmed and just…not caring. “And I definitely don’t see you as a dad. Uncle?”

The giant of a ghost shook his head with a frown, “Implies that Danny and I are brothers, which could work but gives our relationship kind of a weird vibe. I feel more like his father than anything.”

“Gramps, then?”

“No.”

Nomad laughed, “Fair, wouldn’t want to take the title of Grampa away from CW. Besides we’re both half Vlad, so I think brother works best here.” She frowned, looking thoughtful, “Maybe half brother?”

Dan considered, “Half-brother could work. Though it gives Vlad more credit than he deserves.”

“Oh come on, can you imagine the look on his face if we went in together on suing him for child support?” Nomad asked, fanged grin wicked. Dan’s face lit up at the idea, and Kon felt like they were rapidly heading towards the two ghosts running off to go and go torment whoever this Vlad guy was rather then them help deal with the current demonic problem at hand.

“Can you please explain what any of that means?” Kon asked, more a squeak than anything else. He was starting to get a headache.

#dpxdc #dp x dc #dc x dp #dani phantom #danielle phantom #elle phantom #elle's hero name is Nomad in this one because why not lol #dan phantom #kon el kent #kon kent #connor kent #tim drake #justice league #Elle & Dan just having a very weird concerning conversation about how to define how they're related to each other #& accidentally invoking imagery of European royal families terrible marriage practices #If Bruce wasn't on the verge of trying to adopt the sassy ghost girl *before* all this he absolutely is now #Kon thought his family dynamics were fucking weird but now he's just grateful he doesn't need to use a chart to explain it #what do you *mean* you're older sister could also qualify as your grandma & your older brother is kinda your dad?? #And who the FUCK is Vlad and why does it seam like he's somehow responsible for all this? #even the demon they pulled Dan in to help with has stopped what he was doing in vague horror and concern for what's going on here

[vampirictranssexual]

Okay, serious discussion about s5e7 of wwdits. I have a lot of mixed feelings about it. The creatures fell into the uncanny valley, why did they choose the donut lady as a plot for nadja when it could've been with the guide, etc. HOWEVER, what I do appreciate about this episode is the meta commentary on how Nandor's culture is simultaneously erased in history classes and then mocked by museums. His culture, his writings, his garments.. almost everything about his history is completely misrepresented by the museum and all of his artifacts were stolen. He literally sees a pair of his underwear on display! He is looked at as an object, a relic of the past. The museum portays him as being unintelligent and frowns upon his writings. And that's based on their narrow understanding of him, Al Q, and his culture. The historians do not know Nandor of course, but they view him through a lense that chooses to only see him and his culture as unintelligent, subhuman even- because why else would someone write something like this? Or wear something like this? Or use weapons like this? It reminds me of those TV shows that theorize the pyramids were made by aliens. Because how else could the Egyptians have been capable of creating the pyramids? Surely they can't be intelligent enough! *eye roll*

Idk someone could probably use better words to communicate what I'm trying to say here, but I wanted to bring it to the table anyway. Oh, also Colin becomes the center of attention by acting like the stereotypical white professor who is more focused on feeding their ego than actually educating his pupils. And this ends up in Nandor being pushed out of the conversation. A literal metaphor for how whiteness obscures and diminishes other cultures and immigrant communities. Of course Colin did that just to feed off of the students. Because then he ends up replacing the museum display with a more accurate representation of Nandor (albeit for comedic effect). And then by taking back his horsie necklace. But.. everyone listened to Colin! And ignored Nandor! Lots to think about in terms of erasure, white washing, forced assimilation, how museums profit off of stolen artifacts and skewing history, etc.

Nandor is an immigrant to Staten island and he was forced to assimilate. Imagine how he must feel when he sees all these stolen artifacts in the museum, and plaques that inaccurately portray his culture and history. And people gawking at the clothes and weapons he proudly wore/still wears. This is a reality for many native and immigrant communities here in America and abroad. Being forced to view your culture, your way of life through the lense of the oppressor.

#maybe im being too meta but i appreciate the writers for pointing out how museums/professors/institutions profit off stolen artifacts #and profit off of minimizing/erasing other cultures in a way that benefits whiteness #ultimately colin was an ally to nandor by fixing the museum so that it accurately portrayed Nandor #and by taking back his stolen horsie necklace. big win for the colin/nandor arc #wwdits #wwdits spoilers #what we do in the shadows #its a funny show! i know. just. let me sit with my thoughts lol

[quasi-normalcy]

If I could reboot Voyager, here are some of the changes I'd make.

Much more serialization. Still mostly episodic, of course, but things that happen in one episode would have lasting repercussions. If the ship gets damaged, well it's going to stay damaged, or they're going to have to figure out how to effect repairs. Maybe have seasonal "big bads", like Buffy.

Play up the initial conflict with the Maquis for the first few seasons, and give the Maquis actual ideological objections to the Federation (a la Eddington on Deep Space Nine), rather than just making them generically rough and tumble. There would be a whole arc where some of the Maquis talk some of the lower-ranking Starfleet officers around to their side on the grounds that Janeway effectively has a dictatorship over them for their entire lives and she's too hidebound and is squandering opportunities to get onside with possible local allies. There'll be an actual mutiny (or at least an attempted mutiny) in the first few seasons, but it will fail because Chakotay (we'll come to him in a minute) opposes it; but the ship will settle into a much more egalitarian social structure nonetheless

Seska will remain on the ship after being unmasked as a Cardassian spy, claiming asylum under the terms of the Federation-Cardassian treaty that created the De-Militarized Zone. Her presence will be a major source of the friction between the Maquis and Starfleet crews, because it turns out that her espionage actually got some of their comrades killed back in the Alpha Quadrant

Give nuance to the Kazon; play up the generational trauma inherent to their backstory, and maybe make Culluh an ambitious but sympathetic empire-builder, rather than just a violent thug

Present the Kazon as more of an actual culture with their own arts and accomplishments, rather than just as Space Gangbangers.

Two waves of despair will rock the ship for several episodes. The first when they've been stranded for a few months and the reality of their situation hits them; the second when they get in touch with the AQ and find out that the Maquis have been exterminated.

Pick an actual indigenous nation for "Chakotay" to belong to and hire actual consultants from that nation for the writing staff. It will presumably be necessary to rename the character accordingly.

Really flesh out the minor characters on the crew: Carey, Ayala, Tal Celes, Suder, Vorik, Jonas, that cosmology grad student on the lower decks who didn't want to be on the ship in the first place. All of them will make the ship feel more like an actual place with the same nine characters doing everything; and when one of them dies, it will hurt.

Relatedly, all of the people who die in the first episode will have names and friendships with the crew, and their deaths will actually mean something.

Explore the comedic and dramatic potential of Starfleet crewmen having to be roomies with Maquis terrorists. I'm thinking some initial "Odd Couple" shenanigans, growing into friendship, with a sort of hurt-comfort romance emerging after they find out that all of the Maquis back in the AQ are dead.

Give Neelix more of a dangerous streak. The first episode made him out to be a shifty conman and the first season established that he had serious PTSD. I want to see more of that Neelix.

Have it take a full season just to de-Borg Seven of Nine. Her character progress is reflected in how many of her implants she has.

Have Seven of Nine push back more on the narrow canons of "humanity" that she's expected to perform; and have it go both ways; maybe instead of it just treating it like a joke when she proposes, for example, that someone try Borg regeneration, they actually take her up on this, and Janeway is accordingly horrified. You could get a neat plot about bodily autonomy out of this.

Establish that the Borg hivemind has developed a sort of "neurosis" around humanity and Voyager, stemming from the fact that they required Voyager's help to defeat Species 8472. This is the Queen motivation for wanting Seven of Nine back in "Dark Frontier"

Kes still ascends, but she hangs around somewhat longer. And she's doing and trying lots of things, rather than just hanging around sickbay most of the time.

Have Seven spend more time with Tuvok; maybe adopt Vulcan philosophy

There are no holodecks for the first few seasons because they need to conserve power. When they finally get them up and running, it's a big frigging deal. Before that, there's a whole plot where someone (Tom Paris) uses the emergency medical holoprojectors to make Sickbay into a holodeck, much to the Doctor's consternation. Janeway, however, allows it for a few hours a day as a means of building crew morale.

They build alliances and trade networks in the Delta Quadrant, and eventually realise that this is home for them now

#star trek voyager

[yvtro]

my headcanon is that besides the obvious personality parallels between bruce and jason (a bleeding heart, sacrificial tendencies, the utmost devotion to gotham) jay is also very similar to bruce in terms of mannerisms and some ways in which he approaches the cases etc. like. despite it being often underwritten for the sake of sensationalist plotlines and comedic effect, jay is not a type to randomly enter the situation and blow things up. i imagine (what is supported by some canon) he has backup plans spanning through all the letters of the alphabet. he gets on cases that require months of undercover work and systematic dismantling of criminal organisations. on a lighter note, i also think his habitual gestures are similar to bruce’s and he doesn’t even notice. they could be standing next to each other, both in the same position, using the same body language. they probably make the same face when they’re disappointed or confused. don’t tell him that though, he will be annoyed.

#wretched mirrors #jason todd #jay hc #batfamily #dc comics

[jewvian]

I don't know how much of episode 5 of sword af was improvised, like in terms of Delores and Koda and their history, cuz there had to be some discussions with Damien prior to the session in order to create such an elaborated lore.

But like it didn't matter cuz it caught me off guard anyways, and I was not expecting the raw emotions from Amanda and Chanse. The level of acting from such comedic actors fucking floored me. Wow. Like I got chills all over, it was insane.

Also the sound department?? The editors??? Whoever decided to put the sound effects for each story??? Y'all need a raise.

#smosh #sword af #damien haas #amanda lehan canto #chanse mccrary #delores paradise #koda amakiir #text #lol lots of tags here 😂 #anyways it'll take me some time to recover from this entire new lore #i had no idea i'll get a massive mental slap today lmao #amanda's face will haunt me for days #and chanse's eyes with that raw fear in them? i'm fucking done #what an episode we had!!! #truly amazing to witness such storytelling