#they must cease

[todayontumblr]

Monday May 8.

so bad, but so good: dad jokes.

You ever heard the phrase, it's so bad, it's good? Well, the theory goes there is a particular point at which the bad quality of a given subject (e.g.: a film, a song, a fashion trend from a particular decade) reaches a point of such specificity and intensity, that it moves beyond this point and is reborn as something not bad, in fact, but good. It is hard to explain, and this metamorphosis from something so poorly constructed it becomes something inexplicably brilliant is perhaps only quantifiable by an as-yet-undiscovered science. Films are an ideal example of the bad/good paradox: just take Battlefield Earth (2000), starring John Travolta, who has made quite a name in a range of such films. Then, just three years later, writer, director, producer, and actor Tommy Wiseau released The Room (2003), perhaps the most notorious yet celebrated example of the genre. There is another such example of so bad, so good phenomenon in popular culture: the #dad joke.

Indeed the real beauty of the dad joke is something altogether profound. Its joy stems not from its wry intellect, or capacity to surprise, but from its wholehearted embrace of the naff, the lame, of everything that is joyfully, carelessly bad. The dad joke is the antithesis of trying, a liberating acceptance of its own narrow limits, and of its own wince-inducing quality. The dad joke does not try; it simply is.

Get your week off with the start it needs and deserves with this nourishing selection of #dad jokes.

#today on tumblr #dad jokes #puns #humour #uh oh #please #just stop #the jokes #they must cease

[robotpussy]

good morning, good afternoon and good night. death to Israel, death to the monarchy and death to every landlord ever

#that whole family dropping like flies (the royals) #nobody should ever have monopoly over whether ppl can have a house and they are the reason why #houselessness is rising at a rapid rate rn #that state must cease to exist this year im not joking

[silverfox66]

Not just putin's war.

#Ukraine #russia #war #russian invasion #russian war crimes #russia must cease to exist

[babycharmander]

people will write the most aphobic or amatonormative essays on creativity or media in general and other folks will link it around like it's the most Beautiful and True thing that has Ever been Written and it's just something like

"more children's media needs to show characters having sex"

or "art is only good if it involves fetishes and is written by intensely sexual people because liking sex is normal and not being interested in sex is not and makes your writing Extremely Boring and Bad"

or "media that shows muscular or thin people is so sad because it will make other people want to be muscular or thin and then that will lower their libido and they will not be able to enjoy sex which is more important than health"

like are people... actually reading what these essays are saying or

#negative nonsense #sorry some weirdo linked to one of these essays in response to a post a friend of mine made #and it never ceases to amaze me how people think the world must revolve around sex #to the point where only Good Art/Media/Writing/Whatever involves sex #and if it does not involve sex it is Not Good #like my bros my dudes please goodness gracious sakes alive #understand that some people exist........ who are not interested in sex #and they're not unhealthy or anything they just!!! are not interested!!! #and they don't want to include it in their works!!! #and that works don't have to include sex or fetishes to be good!!! #like I get that you're combating sex negativity but don't like stomp on sex repulsed or asexual people in doing so??? #(I am asexual for the record please do not come at me for stereotyping ace people as not liking sex) #(I am ace and sex repulsed please let me exist and stop trying to tell me I am a bad writer/artist for who I am)

[thatsbelievable]

#tonight’s mood #emotions #moods #affirmations #E.M. Hasty #Must cease at once

[shesmore-shoebill]

and as the follow up to this, sometimes courtmangela is 2 fbi agents with The bikini girl, bobbing up and down in a recently acquired hot tub. and a clipboard. and a flashlight.

#INCREDIBLE energy off this bit #smosh #amanda lehan canto #angela giarratana #courtney miller #courtmangela #why does this dynamic work SO well for the three of them #tntl #keith leak jr #flawless comedy. no notes. #'you might be wondering. why the clipboard in the hot tub. its so i can keep track of who i need to cease and desist.' #'they never called you by your name? it must have made you feel small.'

[never-was-has-been]

#free palestine #Arrest and Jail the Zionists! #cease fire in gaza #cease fire now #stop the genocide #stop the war #Biden must STOP funding Israel's genocide of Gaza

[soldier-poet-king]

Anyway yeah finished daniil's route in pathologic and man is it Floor Time

#the duality of fran #pathologic #daniil dankovsky #IM HAVING. SO MANY THOUGHTS. ABT THIS STRANGE TERRIBLE FRUSTRATING BRILLIANT LITTLE GAME #and the nature of storytelling in general. the metaphysics behind the act of creating fiction. #the interplay of fate and choice when there is a a set narrative but also a player character #the theomachism. but is it? given the nature of choice? #he came to defeat death and he must choose between the divine and the mundane #and the only way to stop being a doll. to become real. is to choose differently #refuse to take the step fated for yourself #but neither can you cease to choose at all #it is. the sidestep. the chosing the town of the polyhedron #the good doctor rather than the great thanatist #he has lost everything. he is a broken humiliated man. and we still choose to play with him. like. FUCK #genuinely started crying abt it.

[aimportantdragoncollector]

So Gentry, how's Anyone doing?

In the next of Anyone, All for One and All Might announce to the world that they've started dating. You heard it here first.

#cease and desist case #goofy says I'm gentry so it must be true #you won't escape I'm dragging you into this fight with me

[sneakystorms]

Maybe I should've seen it coming with the weight placed on the concept of "desire" but i really wasn't expecting dungeon meshi to turn into a full on buddhist lecture

#s #dungeon meshi #not that I'm complaining! I'm into it #but yeah the lion's explanation of how desires only lead to momentary and unsustainable happiness.. #marcille being tormented by her desires... #and the way senshi's early 'it's better to do it yourself' attitude is now echoed in how instantaneous fulfilment of marcilles desires #brings her no joy #senshi being the most zen of all the characters #dunmeshi really said 'the well of your desire is literally infinite and by trying to fill it up you condemn yourself to endless torment' #and i clapped #dungeon meshi spoilers #i guess #ah!!! and the lion's eyes are a symbol of infinity.... infinite desire... #i thought it was a keyhole at first haha #hmm now that i think abt it more. part of the fundamental lore of dunmeshi is 'things that are consumed cease to exist' #with eating monsters and with eating desires. so a boundary is being drawn between temporarily fulfilling a desire (the desire comes back #and the cycle continues) and consuming a desire (the desire is gone). the former is more positive #and plays into the circle of life/finding nirvana in repeatedly fulfilling your desires thing that senshi esp has going on #the latter is portrayed negatively as it seeks to 'once and for all' fulfill something that is by its nature infinite #true fulfillment lies in accepting the neverending struggle of temporarily satisfying one's desires... one must imagine sisyphus happy..... #im literally extrapolating multiple philosophy lectures from this manga i love it #in that way you could see the lion's struggle (to satisfy an infinite desire (for others' desires)) as worthwhile! #coming back AGAIN after like ten more pages of the lion's backstory #all the trouble he caused stemmed in some way from his attempts - actually from his ABILITY - to fulfill every desire presented to him #the story seems to imply it would've been better if ppl had been allowed to struggle to fulfil their desires instead of having them granted

[umbracirrus]

Okay - so I have set myself an aim to at least have a portrait drawn for each of my Elder Scrolls OCs. I have started drawing them over this weekend, and am going to gradually get them neatened out, coloured, etc....

These are the ones which I have started so far! Aelia, Drissa, Florian, Elyse, and Thea.

I have a long list of the rest to work on before I can so much as start on colours or anything though!! At least five more Dragonborn characters (Siriane, Iduna, Aevra, Ivetta, and Maewynne), and six straight up OCs (Elyse's parents Ingja and Edwyn, and the Whiterun Guard Foursome Ingrida, Barknir, Sorik and Fjora-)

I'll give more details about these five under the cut though, because I can😊

Aelia

Imperial Hero of Kvatch who ends up mantling Sheogorath after the Oblivion Crisis is ended. She finds herself in the Shivering Isles after driving herself away from everyone through her grief, including her own child, which had her acting volatile and hostile towards those who wanted to help her. She does, however, have a sweet spot for flowers and butterflies, and always felt calmer around them.

Drissa

Known as a Hero of Kvatch alongside Florian, though is less visible in the spotlight than he is and that suited her just fine, because the spotlight had already shunned her. She doesn't join the Blades, and instead tries to find her place in the world, find a place where she belongs. She thought that she had already done that, when she earned herself the title of Grand Champion of the Arena through defeating the Grey Prince, but after getting framed for murder she finds herself with nothing once more. But don't worry - once she gets her revenge, a shrouded hand reaches out with an offer she couldn't possibly refuse. A family of her own.

She's blunt and prefers to respond to things with her hammer, but once someone breaks through the tough exterior, she's a bit more open. But only a bit. She doesn't know when she'll lose everything again, after all.

Florian Livius

Hero of Kvatch alongside Drissa, and is the more visible of the pair - quite ironic, given that he starts out as a thief in the Thieves Guild. Not a good one, mind you, as he had doyens sighing at the mere mention of his name with how often they had to clear bounties on his head, but on the days where he wasn't caught, he could bring in a fair amount of coin and that was the only thing stopping him from being kicked out.

After getting arrested and placed in the same cell as Drissa, then being a witness to the Emperor's final request and final moments, he had a moment where his mind faltered because for once, somebody actually believed in him - even if that somebody had just been killed before his eyes. The Emperor trusted him to get that task done. And after meeting Martin, and watching how he took the changes in stride... Florian made his mind up there and then that he would change his ways and be a better person because of Martin. For him, even.

He cut his ties with the Thieves Guild, and threw himself headfirst into his new responsibilities as a Blade, and to his amazement, realised that his reputation had flipped just like a coin - where once he was a criminal, he was now a hero. He strives to help others realise that they can do the same.

Elyse Verne

Dragonborn who takes pride in her mixed Breton and Nord heritage, so much so that she decides to venture north from where she spent her teenage and young adult years in Chorrol to Skyrim, to see the land that her mother, Ingja, would speak so fondly of. Obviously, she gets caught up at the border ambush, and sets forth the events which lead to her discovering that she is Dragonborn.

Rather than taking the advice of the Jarl of Whiterun and visiting the Greybeards, she instead tries to find her own way of understanding what she was by going to the place where her parents met - Winterhold. She spends six months doing her research at the college whilst avoiding her uncle in the city, unaware that she had very much caught the eye of the Thalmor through her very specific research topics. After six months and a lot of drama unfolding in Winterhold, she finally takes Balgruuf's advice... and almost exactly a year later, she defeats Alduin in Sovngarde. During this time, she made herself a home in Whiterun, and found that if there was anyone to put her trust in, it was the people of Whiterun hold and its Jarl.

Little over a year and a half after that, during which she defeats Miraak, Elyse finds herself slowly being dragged into the civil war taking place in Skyrim, but not with regard to the fighting, instead because of all the politics and her status. That worries not just her, but Balgruuf too, especially given that she doesn't agree with or want to be involved in the war, same as him. And those two happen to get very close in their solidarity...

Thea

Dragonborn who is a proud member of the Companions, though admittedly not as keen on being Harbinger. Of all of them, she found herself closest to Vilkas, and that closeness led to him being the only one to notice that she was not a fan of her title - even if she repeatedly kept saying out loud that Vilkas was a better fit than her.

The two of them gradually built up a system of mutual assistance, where she could tell when he needed help and vice versa, and it helped her with getting more comfortable in her role. Much of her part was helping him as he went through struggles with his lycanthropy until he felt ready to go to Ysgramor's Tomb, and even during that, she remained by his side even as Hircine lashed out against them both. She never mentioned to him that Hircine ended up punishing her for her involvement in cleansing both him and Kodlak of their wolf spirits though, resulting in her being plagued with nightmares of the hunting grounds and losing control of herself periodically when shifted.

Seeing each other through their troubles made their bonds incredibly strong, and they were the firmest of friends - even if one of them happened to be a werewolf.

She didn't really know when the two of them started being a couple though. They never really discussed it - it just sort of... happened. They gradually found themselves spending more and more time at her house in The Pale, just north of Whiterun, than in Jorrvaskr... and before they knew it, they were married and had a family of their own. Poor uncle Farkas was constantly travelling between the two places just to play with their children.

#meg has done some drawing #hok oc Aelia #hok oc Drissa #hok oc Florian Livius #dragonborn oc elyse #dragonborn oc thea #I must admit I had a lot of fun drawing Thea mid-transformation into a werewolf. #And fucking hell why did I decide to give Drissa an ebony warhammer. The details needed were intricate and the reference images low res- #and i think that i've definitely settled on florian getting stubble #and Elyse. I can never make my mind up with her clothes. pfft. #And Aelia- I haven't drawn her in so long. mostly because I hate drawing Sheogorath's Regalia for the same reason I hate the ebony warhamme #actually i think a drawing of aelia was my first post on this account :) #aw shit i've put my drawing tablet away and noticed that I forgot Thea's scars and Drissa's torso ceasing to exist between her arm and ches

[look-at-the-stars-tonight]

This episode is passing the bechdel test solely because women are talking about the societal and technological advancement through socialism and it’s giving me whiplash 

#the orville #future unknown #they're going from 'oh my god im so excited that you're going to marry isaac!!' #to 'no society can truly advance until wealth and class cease to be dividing factors' #to 'what kind of dress are you going to wear??' #to #'All members of society must be treated equally regardless of their contribution to society. People have the fundamental right to live #and thrive.' #it's just wild

[robotpussy]

another year cannot go by with the occupation of Palestine still happening

#Israel must cease to exist

[invinciblerodent]

brb, i have to go and. make strangled noises at nothing real quick; it just hit me over the head how Wyll's use of the metaphor of dancing as a stand-in for romance and intimacy really just. accompanies him all throughout his story, and how perfect it is

I guess I should have expected a character like him, that's both deeply poetic in his speech and courtly in his upbringing, would come to idealize a chivalric romance a bit, and translate his feelings on/of love to an element of courting that's as ritualistic and processional as ballroom dancing, but sometimes just realizing the obvious can really knock you off your feet for a second

like. just like how there is almost a blueprint to a perfect storybook romance in both stories and -consequently- in his head (I think romance might even be one of the literary genres with the highest number of unwritten rules that need to be fulfilled for a work to count as a romance), there is also a fairly strict method to a court dance. There is a series of well-known and practiced steps that was laid out in advance, and one is to perform them in succession, and in sync with one's partner. If one of the parties doesn't know or doesn't want to follow the rules/steps, it gets... tangled, messy, and you both stumble. The dance and the relationship both fall apart. The happy ending of a tale is not reached without all the steps in-between being followed, and he so dearly wants his fairytale ending, his happy, fulfilled love, I just---

it's such a perfect metaphor, and what makes it even more perfect is that Wyll is ostensibly aware of it, and he chose it, purposefully, and i don't want to watch the Act 3 commitment scene because I've not yet done it myself and don't want to spoil it, but I would be so surprised if he a.) made no mention of storybook romances, or b.) didn't just straight up propose y'know

i'm (metaphorically) crying, if it were possible to play this game on six different characters simultaneously without getting bored or confused I fucking would

#squirrel plays bg3 #yet another way my Trevelyan works very well in this situation for me #oc: raymond trevelyan #back in the day i made him... actually very similar to what Wyll is now #he was a young man of noble birth who grew up idealizing the storybook heroes of legends and romances #and while he wasn't really that stuck on the 'perfect romance' bits; being not interested in the ladies at all... #the Noble Hero On A White Steed image and the Charming Knight Saving the Realms images did appeal to him immensely #he was gregarious and brave and chivalrous and overall just... trying his absolute best to be good #he wanted to be the a gallant hero and to experience a sweeping passionate love- both wooing and being wooed #which he did get! and he did eventually find his happy ending! #only... the stories rarely mention that heroes don't often live this far past the end of their own tales #when the evil is slain and the damsel is saved; the story simply... ends #the characters; they live on frozen in the perfect moment of true love's first kiss #and nobody really talks about what happens after- not until you must experience it for yourself #so now he's... a burnt-out ex-knight #a has-been hero whose usefulness ceased and his happy ending was torn from him by pointless intrigue #and I just LOVE the thought of him finding a new happy ending; of starting over with someone who'll rekindle his passions #and dance the night away with him #YAY FOR TAG NOVELS

[antiradqueer-john-egbert]

I JUST SAW A RADQUEER JOHN EGBERT BLOG YOU ARE NOT ME GO AWAY.

#STOP THIS TOMFOOLERY #CEASE TO EXIST #THERE IS BUT ONE WAY OF HONOR. I MUST KILL MYSELF/REF

[thequietabsolute]

No. The corpse of John Shakespeare does not walk the night. From hour to hour it rots and rots. He rests, disarmed of fatherhood, having devised that mystical estate upon his son. Boccaccio's Calandrino was the first and last man who felt himself with child. Fatherhood, in the sense of conscious begetting, is unknown to man. It is a mystical estate, an apostolic succession, from only begetter to only begotten. On that mystery and not on the madonna which the cunning Italian intellect flung to the mob of Europe the church is founded and founded irremovably because founded, like the world, macro and microcosm, upon the void. Upon incertitude, upon unlikelihood. Amor matris, subjective and objective genitive, may be the only true thing in life. Paternity may be a legal fiction. Who is the father of any son that any son should love him or he any son?

— James Joyce, from Scylla and Charybdis; Ulysses.

#james joyce #ulysses #homer #giovanni boccaccio #william shakespere #s&c has to up there as one of my favourite episodes in the book; a top 3 surely? ... top five certainly #Proteus obviously; Ithaca ... Calypso is a conspiracy of charm and a must; Oxen has opened up for me over the last few years too #Hades would have to be up there - alone it'd rival The Dead... Telemachus and Nestor are timeless; vital; mesmeric; haunting; irrepressible #also why are commas forbidden in tags yet the semi-c remains permissible? -- something dissonant in that #but yes; dah & sigh (!!) ... Ulysses will never pall or age or cease to offer up new discoveries for me #n.