#that joke doesn't even make sense

[coldbycrossfade]

MAN THAT REALLY COLORS THIS RESPONSE IN THIS CONVERSATION SO DIFFERENTLY FOR ME

#bg3 #like here my silly ass that doesn't know shit was thinking 'wow i'm actually surprised he's pretty chill with this' #JOKES ON ME I'M BOOBOO THE FOOL #IT'S P R O B A B L Y MORE LIKELY THAT HE JUST ASSUMES IT WON'T LAST AND HE HAS NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT #WOW............DAMN............GOT ME #CAUGHT ME SLIPPIN CAUSE I AM A LORE NOVICE HERE.................................... #like SURE you could ASSUME that astarion would be flippant about having multiple partners like why wouldn't the flirty one be that way righ #but no no no there's much to think about here i'm unpacking the fucking layers i can feel my mind peeling like an onion #woag mama #i'm not articulate today b/c brain fog but i hope that made any sense #and hey maybe I'M even making assumptions but calling it a 'harmless affair' just.....that hits different #astarion

[leupagus]

Ted Lasso, the character, is one of the only representations of 'sometimes getting better with your mental health issues means that you are less visibly happy, and that is okay, because you are not required to be happy in order to be loved' out there and I am really discouraged that so much of the audience is angry at that.

#ted lasso #the guy we meet in season one is so so so much sadder and is suffering so much more #than the guy we say goodbye to in season three #but the guy in season three doesn't crack as many jokes and doesn't grin and laugh at every opportunity #I really didn't expect the fandom to interpret that as 'he's even worse off than before!' #when the fact is that when you're able to have an inherent sense of self-worth rather than relying on Doing Everything Right #that you become less manic about making sure everyone likes you all the time #which is what ted did for the first two seasons #I dunno I just wish there was more room for this kind of character #and... for this kind of person #believe mothereffers #theodore lasso

[godlyicarus]

mike in season 2 when will so much as stares off into space for a second: are u okay??? will are u okay??? will?

mike in season 4 when will's literally sobbing next to him: 😶😶😶😴😴😴🤭

#stranger things #stranger things spoilers #haven't even watched it yet but saw gifs of this scene and i can't believe its not a joke #just doesn't make sense characterisation thrown out the window #byler

[entamewitchlulu]

my favorite genre unironically is "this is objectively stupid but we are taking it all deadly seriously:

Examples: yugioh, symphogear, kingdom hearts

#enough stuff that doesn't take itself seriously and makes jokes at its own expense all the time #more taking yourself super seriously even when you are making no fucking sense #lulu talks

[styona]

I genuinely do not get how Terzo can be 4'9 or whatever if Tobias is evidently taller than that. I mean it's literally the same person. HUH???

#ghost band #the band ghost #ghost #ghost the band #tobias forge #terzo #terzo my beloved #I mean I get it's some kind of a joke or whatever but even THEN it doesn't make sense #wut? #I cannot estimate a person's height to save my life and even I can tell something's not right #it just doesn't add up in any shape or form

[meirimerens]

I've only now noticed Eva Yan's scars on your drawings of her, is there any story or headcanon behind them?

keeping it real babygirl [gender neutral] the story is that this woman canonically kills herself, canonically contemplates suicide, quite explicitly mentioning the method she intents on using to you (with implications that she has, at the very least, thought about it/thought it through before), and lives with broken mirrors so she cannot (/doesn't have to) see her face like i just think She Is Mentally Unwell. like as a long-term, enduring, persistent thing, She Is Mentally Unwell and the plague is just worsening her condition, while it didn't cause it. the storey/headcanon is that she is mentally ill, openly and canonically has self-destructive tendencies, so. the scars are here because she lives with a lil something something in her mind which drives her to plenty of destructive acts in ways big and small. ywkim

#like when i jokingly and lovingly called her a ''mentally ill bisexuelle''. i wasn't joking. ykwim #man i've given eva those for a long ass while i can't even rember when i started. i give some to peter too for the same reasons #(except he doesn't succeed in killing himself. but he does try.) but like. he has long sleeves & pants when i post him on here so. elusive #suicide / #self-harm / #what's that diagram showing how the closest you are to dankovsky the more suicidal you are. as someone who's been there #i can reclaim chuckling about it #ring ring (answers) #anonymous #& even if she doesn't die in my mind [bc she doesn't in every route] well. she still has those. she lives through them; and then with them #and lives on. you know. real recovereds will get this etc you get the jist #this is equal part story and headcanon on that one but there's also this pattern that eva throws her whole body into destruction. ykwim. #the way she kills herself is fullbody; entire physical body out of a window; it's not like how she first mentions it to dankovsky #it's a complete and utter destruction [which is not destruction *to her*; because; well we see how it ends] #it's also easy to see how her constant seeking of companionship; her sudden infatuations for a stranger and her offerings of companionship #can also be read as her ''throwing her whole body'' into it [here; into something that; maybe; can ''fill a void'' left by her spiritual #emptiness. so in the spirit of ''putting her whole body'' into destruction/into trying to fill an intangible void left by emptiness and fel #well. scars and the act make sense to me at least. because there is that attempt to exteriorize an inner suffering with acts like those

[kebriones]

A clarification on Athenian Laws concerning male homosexuality.

(because this particular small thing is often misunderstood, due to inability to accurately translate specific ancient greek terms into english, or lack of comprehension of context.)

In classical athens, there was a very specific set of laws, concerning ONLY male athenian citizens (so slaves, women and metics were not subject to it). These laws said that a male athenian citizen who engages in intercourse with another man IN EXCHANGE FOR PAYMENT, was not allowed to do certain things, such as hold positions of power or speak in the assembly. There were also potential penalties (not described in detail) for the person hiring an athenian citizen for this purpose. Again, this is often misunderstood, so I have to repeat, this was only when it was done in exchange for some sort of payment/recompense. The word used for these men is of the same root as εταιρα, which was the female counterpart. It is often mistranslated, there's a whole thing I could go on explaining about the different types of prostitution terms, but basically there was a distinction between prostitute and courtesan/escort/whatever you'd call them in english. Also, this law did not forbid this, and it was not a prosecutable offense by itself. The offense was if one such man disobeyed the limitations set by the law, and it's unclear to me what the deal was with the person who paid.

SO yeh. Next time someone says there were laws against homosexuality in classical athens, here's a helpful article of a guy explaining this much better than me, and goes into more detail about all the weird intricacies of the legal system, as well as the laws set in place to protect boys from grown men:

and here's our original source about these laws:

#tagamemnon #ancient greece #this isn't my field of expertise so if i've misunderstood anything let me know #but this is why I recommend going as close to the original sources as possible #always #because it would've been easy for someone to mistranslate this one term #and someone who doesn't know the context of the entire text #might read that and think all bottoms lost their rights in classical athens or something #which would make no sense because alcibiades was publicly called a bottom in plays which would mean that ppl knew it #(or the joke wouldn't work i think) #but he held the highest possible position for a short while after his recall to athens #also to anyone who says these relationships were only for adult men and teen boys #pausanias and agathon were lover-beloved when they were both grown adults #agathon is around thirty in the symposium #and they even left athens together at the end of their lives #ANYWAYS UR WELCOME HAVE A NICE DAY

[thestarsarecool]

This just in: Yoko genuinely believes that John had a vision about a man on a flaming pie who told him the name of the Beatles.

“[John] wrote a piece called ‘On The Dubious Origins Of Beatles’, and the basic line that we all laughed at was something like “I had a vision and a man came unto me on a flaming pie and said ‘You shall be Beatles with an ‘a’, and so it was.” We took this to be Goon humour and a sort of Biblical joking – “and God said unto thee ‘come forth’, and he came fifth”. That’s very much the humour that was going around Liverpool at the time.

Now, it turned out that we couldn’t have this in the Anthology because Yoko believes that John did have a vision. I’m very friendly with Yoko now so I don’t want this to look like a snide thing, but it genuinely intrigues me that she thinks this. And the way I tried to put it to her was, you can say, “I had a vision” and people will go “OK”. You could say, “A man came unto me”. “OK, it’s starting to sound a little biblical, but it’s all right, still.” “On a flaming…”. “Yes, this is OK, it’s even more biblical”. Now, if you’d have gone to the word “chariot”, we would be all right. Or if you’d gone to the word “phoenix” we would be all right. But the word “pie” is a dead giveaway. “A man came to me on a flaming pie?” I know, in my mind, that John didn’t have a vision about this, but the way Yoko puts it is, “If it’s OK for Paul to dream ‘Yesterday’ then it’s OK for John to have a vision.” So these are the kind of things that cropped up. It’s only a difference of opinion so it doesn’t matter vastly. We’ve tried to make our point, she’s made her point and we’ve arrived somewhere in the middle.”

— Paul McCartney, Club Sandwich Interview, November 1st, 1995

#my quotes #this is both genuinely hilarious #and a little worrying #the mental image of paul trying to explain to yoko that john was telling a joke #and yoko just straight up refusing to understand #it's so funny #I feel like paul would lose his mind #and I kind of love that even though the story was left out of anthology he made sure it was never forgotten #by making it his album title #petty king #but also?? #yoko genuinely not being able to tell that john was joking concerns me #like girl that was your HUSBAND #did she just not get his sense of humor? #or is she just willfully reimagining him to fit with her artistic vision #also the line about yesterday is so nuts #you get the sense that she thinks paul is just making that up #or she just doesn't have any respect for his ability #or she is just being ridiculously petty #or she just genuinely believes that john had visions #but paul saying #it genuinely intrigues me that she thinks this #is so funny #paul mccartney #yoko ono #john lennon #the beatles #beatles #flaming pie

[dawningfairytale]

teen beach movie is amazing because the movie within the movie is based on west side story which is a retelling of romeo and juliet but the overall narrative is based on a midsummer night's dream and it works in traversing a shakespearean tragedy and a comedy For Kids!!

#teen beach movie #tbm #this is art fight me #do. do people die at the end of wet side story. #bc i can believe brady enjoying a light-hearted musical romp #but i can believe him loving a light-hearted musical romp with a murder twist at the end even more #and i know they have a peppy musical number as shown in tb2 #BUT THEY COULD BE GHOSTS IT COULD BE A CAST THING #the finale of wet side story does not exist in the narrative because it references 'surf crazy' which they may be aware of via hivemind #but not through their lived experiences #that joke doesn't make sense in universe UNLESS the wet side gang know about it #wet side story

[lorephobic]

idk how to even like. put this pain into words and i would normally vent about this shit on twitter, but the person its about follows me on there so like. anybody have skills for coping with the crushing realization that the person u love most in this world and have built ur life around sees ur current situation together as a temporary hurdle that's preventing them from their truest and happiest self which. is separate from u entirely? anyone know how to deal with this?

#live with my best friend in the whole entire world who. honest to god makes me the happiest person alive. #like im always waxing poetic about her in the tags on posts about platonic love #and i talk about her like she put the stars in the skies because for real it feels like she did for me #she is. the most important person in my life #and every day i feel grateful just to come home and sit with her #like honest to god i cannot imagine a future that is better than this #if i have a bad day i get to come home and my best friend in the world will make me laugh #what more could i ever ask for #but tonight we talked and she made it abundantly clear that. even if i do everything right #even if i'm the perfect roommate and the best friend i can be #in just over a year #when she's making enough money for it #she plans on moving into a place of her own #which like. makes sense for her. of course we were going to get to this point. #but i just. don't know what i'm going to do. #and it kills me that we're on different pages because for some reason i thought this was a long term thing #i thought we were going to move into a house together #i was just telling my coworker this week that we need to move into our forever home soon which was partially a joke #but also. even if i was making a million dollars a year. #i would still want to be here. with her. #or somewhere else. with her. #like it's so hard to imagine a future without her. it breaks my heart and scares the shit out of me. #and i know i can't afford it here. and i can't move in with strangers. and i'm working my dream job but i'm scared that i'm going to have t #give it all up and move back east because. i can't do this alone. and she's all i have. and all i ever wanted. #and she's leaving. #she doesn't want to be with me. #sry this is so fucking. ugh. idk. i just don't know what to do. #for real might just drop everything and move to chicago if it comes down to it ksdkfljdfs #its what sufjan would have wanted #fucked up terrible no good week

[melonisopod]

Kinda lukewarm take but most Scathach fans don't even care about Scathach as a character they will just jack off to any purple-haired red-eyed woman in a sexy outfit. And I know this because how else would Skadi get that popular?

#it sounds pretentious to say 'you don't care about her personality' i know #but seriously fate added lore to her story #and then didn't really do anything with it beyond window dressing for her to be OP #which is fine and i don't actually mind this #but then she doesn't really live up to the lore when it clashes too badly with her having to pose sexily. does that make sense? #she's a god-slaying immortal who defies death itself but also is kind of terrible dealing with people #and chaldea kind of forces her to just interact normally with others #she is attached to cu chulainn because he's the only one left from her past who isn't dead #i mean he IS dead. but even a semblance of him is better than nothing right? #she flip-flops between suicidal and thrill-seeking or sometimes both at once #because she is severely depressed. she doesn't get joy out of killing or fighting anymore #she's also an atrocious teacher who doesn't care if her methods kill her students #and that's *lightly* touched on in grail front but only as an offhand joke at the very start

[stoportotouch]

i am the only person on earth who understands repo! the genetic opera

#ollie considers #this is a joke or at least me being facetious #(one of my favourite words) #but also the reason the story doesn't make sense is that it's just a random assortment of operatic tropes #from genres which don't necessarily make sense together #even though it's Fun #i.e. 'and it's my job to steal and rob graves' is incoherent bc it's in the vein of Bad Translations that try to preserve original meaning #nathan keeps shilo locked up because he's rigoletto and she's gilda #rotti meets shilo in a church because -- again -- she's gilda and he's (kind of) the duke

[femboykaz]

I love you SoC artists and writers who don't feel the need to make Kaz "ugly" in their work

I love you SoC artists and writers who let Kaz be seen as attractive by characters other than just his close friends in their work

I love you SoC fans who don't just brush off and dismiss the idea of Kaz being considered Hot with regard to his physical appearance

I love you people who let the visibly disabled character be seen as attractive and desirable (without fetishizing or objectifying or having it be "in spite of xyz" or "attractive.... for someone who's xyz")

#and no I'm not talking about the 'terrible haircut' jokes #let disabled characters (and ya know. actual real existing disabled people) #Be considered attractive without also making their disability be a Thing(tm) in relation to that #Especially when the author herself (Who based Kaz's disability on her own In case anyone needs reminding) #Made a point of mentioning him being desired by more characters than just The One Who Loves Him #To be clear I'm not criticizing people who go #'oh he's probably malnourished and doesn't eat enough #/he never sleeps #/he's been in a permanent state of stress and Survival More since he was a little kid #and these things can have a visible physical effect' #(I meant survival mode* not survival more. in case that's not clear) #and choose to portray those physical effects when it Makes Sense #(Although if you're attributing labels like 'ugly' to them could you... maybe reconsider that? Please? #And keep in mind that there are very real people who have those traits (whether it's even remotely in their control or not) #and may very well see you talking about them that way? Etc etc) #Anyway! #I'm just tired of seeing the idea of him being physically attractive get dismissed and even #In a (disappointing but not surprising) number of cases *criticized*

[journey-to-the-attic]

Feel like I remember there being something about Levi and Ik calling each other 'bestie' as an inside joke. Think. Nightbringer Ik slips up and calls Levi 'bestie'. She doesn't notice the mistake but Levi for some reason immediately feels the need to burst into tears

levi doesn't know how to handle the fuzzies, so he tries to rationalise it by assuming that it's just a human thing. the next time he sees ik he's like "hey there um. uh. b. bestie"

only for ik to look at him like O_O because she doesn't remember slipping up like that, so from her perspective levi's just brought up an inside joke from thousands of years in the future

they keep the joke though :) they are besties across all of time and space

#all the funny hijinks aside... ouhhhhh just the whole thing of ik forgetting that their inside jokes don't exist here in the past #sometimes she catches herself before making them sometimes she doesn't #and the others just go with it because even though that made no sense to them #it felt familiar for some reason #ik gets nightbrought #answering asks #anon asks #to bring it back to the funny though (and also bringing in the fnaf saga) #luke brings up michael and ik automatically goes 'MICHAEL DON'T LEAVE ME HERE MICHAEL' and for some reason satan joins in #even though he's never heard those words before

[mustangs-flames]

Ah yes , htb Alt!Cesar : the ultimate autistic trans cat that has caught rabies , commited atrocities and got adopted by Dave

Not alt!Cesar getting peer reviewed in my inbox again... /vlh

#hail true body au #mustang answers! #htb alt!cesar #i do really love when people talk about how they connected with specific characters and why #there was an anon a while back who really connected with thatcher and his need to be useful to the point it's damaging #and someone else who connected with alt!cesar not understanding humour and jokes straight away too #it's just... really nice you know? #like. it makes it feel real that people are reading what i'm writing #if that even makes any sense?? lmao #doesn't happen often but when it does i treasure it so very much #it's nice to hear what characters mean to people <3

[mmmthornton]

Stan when any of his guy friends don't pay attention to him for five minutes: uwu i'm just a sad wittle boy 😢

Stan when his girlfriend wants his attention or any kind of communication whatsoever: um okay 😒 needy b*tch

#south park spoilers #stan marsh: the new randy! #south park #i don't want to seem like i automatically HATE it when a south park character is an asshole or a misogynist #because that is ...the only explanation its just blatant misogyny he doesn't like her as a person he doesn't even like her as a girlfriend #he just wants her to be there when HE wants her #and thats fine in a comedy! you can do that!.....if you make jokes~ #if i want to watch a guy be a jerk to women for thirty minutes i can go literally anywhere i don't need to go to a comedy show for that #like i'm HERE because the egg-shaped construction paper babies are terrible and it makes sense when they're written as like kids too #instead of just the mouthpiece of a bitter old man who hates his wife probably #because when you don't make jokes about it or even care about the story you're writing...that's just what it is #it doesn't seem like the person writing it is even having a good time exploring this side to Stan or any of the characters #so whats the point? why am I here? i don't want to watch your rough draft of your woman-hating agenda #its just not good but its not even not-good in an interesting way its in a boring old man way #which is the REAL crime in entertainment