#this is slapstick right?

[realiv0]

#Ukraine #unbelievable #this is slapstick right? #they can’t be this incompetent #right? #well #self-sabotage #I’ll take it

[mewtwo24]

I finally finished reading the fourth volume of svsss in full, and thing is--the first time through I only read the bingqiu content because I was ravenous for more of their happy ending.

Turns out that was a perilous mistake.

Because I started reading the airplane extras. And I swear to god. MXTX is trying to kill me

What do you MEAN demon lord Binghe was sitting on his big fucking throne. All stoic and forbidding. Surrounded by his demon generals who don't know shit about human courtship. Asking them what he should do, fully demoralized by constant rejections from sqq, only to have airplane tell him to act more pathetic and needy. Which is already hysterically funny and insane, UNTIL LBH'S RESPONSE IS THIS, KILLING ME INSTANTLY:

LUO BINGHE. WHY DOES HE SAY IT LIKE: "I already tried that, didn't work--nothing works :/ not mean, not maidenly, not housewife, not spicy, not capable disciple. Is doubling down on clingy really all it will take? What's a born hater with only one love in his life to do????"

The dichotomy of him sitting there like 'how can I reach the unfathomable depths of shizun's heart?' A HEART HE'S ALREADY WON OVER, MIND and then in the Holy Mausoleum solving the puzzle without blinking and being like 'oh yeah you just have to hit the acupoints, no sweat.' Literally the comedy writes itself I'm so--

How am I supposed to be normal about this. MXTX understands the juicy quintessential queer joy of a person with the world's power at their fingertips wishing only for love. Willing to do anything to earn that love, when unbeknownst to them it's already been freely given. Totally not screaming and yelling and clawing at the walls

And that's not even touching airplane's uproarious account of events. The way he's like 'lol what's next, lbh and sqq are best friends now? smfh' only to see lbh TACKLE SQQ LOVINGLY. FOR SQQ TO BE BASHFUL ABOUT IT BUT SO SO FOND OF THE LITTLE SCAMP. This when we've been experiencing sqq's constant inner monologue of 'I'm so cool and so dignified about my role, truly the epitome of propriety and poser-level fortitude.' Meanwhile, in their universe:

Airplane constantly flaming???? Sqq and lbh in his observations????? His absolute bewilderment and confusion????? Legendary. No notes every single second of this shit was hilarious.

Airplane's comment that sqq + older adolescent lbh traveling together was just watching a couple in their honeymoon phase. OR the fact that lbh is exceedingly petty and refuses to share their food in the wake of airplane's interruption of their time together, until sqq relents sheepishly and insists airplane eat what's left (ONLY AFTER PLACATING LBH WITH MORE FOOD FROM HIS PLATE, SOBBING)

Watching airplane salivate over Mobei-Jun and acting like that's totally normal behavior. Finding out mbj and airplane got together first. Finding out sqq encouraged airplane. LIKE THIS. WHILE HE IS STILL IN DENIAL ABOUT HIS OWN FEELINGS:

Mobei-jun clearly thinking their arrangement is a forever thing, heartbroken his human abandoned him with all the hapless fury of a scorned wife swept away by false promises of fidelity. Airplane writing demons to be the type to beat up their crush lovingly and still unable to connect the dots about mbj's feelings. Mbj letting him go and respecting his wishes, only relenting when there's indication airplane was poorly processing his own feelings and didn't actually want to leave. Mbj caring for him and listening to him as soon as airplane voices what he needs directly and with clarity. None of these gays are functional and it's everything to me

Unrelated, but I physically can't hold this information in anymore:

I'm still reeling from younger lbh having his sexual awakening from the image of sqq wrapped in the immortal binding cables. Condemn me as you like he was so, so real for that.

And no I will not be taking any comments about how luo bingge couldn't bear to see luo binghe cherished in ways he never got to have and all the haunting implications of that. I will also not be taking any comments about luo binghe's instinct to look for sqq in that alternate universe, only to be shaken to the very core to be unable to find his shizun anywhere. The unspeakable and latent horror of his relentless mind likely piecing together what happened, but unable to say it; to suspect what is true, and live with the harrowing confusion of his double's actions. To blame himself, to assume that he had let his anger get the better of him in that world and result in unspeakable folly...

I also refuse to talk about how heartrending it is to hear Tianlang-jun weakly say "In the end, I really can't bring myself to hate humans." The implication that the foolishness of that hope and bright-eyed fondness--the very thing that put him through such unspeakable agony--couldn't be beaten out of him entirely. To discover that his faith in Su Xiyan hadn't been misplaced, to the contrary: his beloved hadn't scorned him at all, but rather fought to the miserable end to protect the fruition of their genuine feelings of love when she couldn't protect tlj or herself.

How MXTX has sqq deliberately draw parallels between their situation and that of ygy+sj and tlj+sx; desperately wishing it might not be too late for them. The concept of breaking cycles of abuse and harm pervasive throughout the newly devised story, how it evolves for the better only when love takes the place of power, pride, and domination. How the moment sqq chooses vulnerability instead of saving face, the genre shifts to the so-called "cringe" girly genre where most if not every character is more fulfilled, more true to themselves. How the "male-oriented" former genre was aimlessly sensationalized and sexualized, how it was a sustained performance of aspirational toxic masculinity. How men objectify other men without end. All of the unspoken gendered implications that come with that.

Anyways. Going to go put my head in a sandbox and try to process everything I just witnessed because even a second reading is not enough to find a modicum of closure.

#svsss #bingqiu #moshang #i swear to god this series is just 'gay man who doesn't know shit inflicting his delusional reality on everyone else and inciting chaos' #and literally it's slapstick levels of hilarious every single time; mxtx never change #also i fully agree that we did not get NEARLY enough mobei-jun and sqh/airplane content #the amount of mental illness to mental illness communication going on there was astonishing #mobei-jun being afraid of his uncle and bringing sqh because that's the only person he trusts fully (WAILING NOISES) #sqh having a tantrum but running away because for the first time he was honest about his needs + his dissatisfaction with catering to other #how that reflects his narrative compulsions and how he felt forced to warp more creative story paths for the sake of survival as a writer #how sqq's restoration of much of his original intent--as well as mobei-jun's acceptance of his needs--helps airplane begin to heal #how his happiness begins; how just like sqq he wanders in such confusion and denial before he's forced to realize what truly matters to him #SHREK VOICE: STORIES HAVE. L A Y E R S #it feels like modern day shakespeare and when i say that i don't mean it in a hollow elevating sense i mean it more like #mxtx just hits that perfect balance of poignance but also hilarious concentric circles of botched communication and brainworms #okay but real talk for a minute? .........;-; #the way lbh constantly struggles with such a crushing feeling that he'll be abandoned over any little mishap/thing/problem #really hit me where it hurts??? if only because its so clearly an anxiety that stems from original goods' upbringing #the way it becomes even more heartrending when you think back to all the sect leaders clamoring that he should have been killed as an infan #that he should have been aborted as a fetus--insisting right in front of him that his birth was a mistake and a disgrace #over having demon blood in his veins. like my god that scene is so viscerally upsetting i struggle to read it #the way its so easy to see the demons as a manifestation of otherness in precipitated form #how both sqq and sqh are influenced by human rhetoric without evening meaning to--assuming the worst against their better judgment #how both sqq and sqh both struggle with their own otherness in different ways and only find solace when they begin to accept who they are #how their lovers (lbh and mbj respectively) both are willing to navigate those confusing waters with them #how both demons love them as they are--accept them as they are despite how difficult forgiveness of perceived betrayal is for them #ty mxtx for changing my brain chemistry #as i get older i have such a fondness for the messiness of thematic queer self-discovery and growth into self-acceptance #that and how youth can so easily be defined by perfectionistic self-harm and the violence of repression

[latenightsundayblues]

I headcanon Stu as being good at lying because of his huge number of friends and good grasp on social interactions but this fucking scene just cracks me up. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

Look at him. Biting his nails like a scared scooby-doo character. Minimal amount of sweat. Pointing at Randy like that one 100% vegan fried chicken soyjak.

Who is it, Sid? The sad little sopping wet kitten of a man with a wounded leg or the completely uninjured 6"4 tall nuisance throwing him down the porch?

#matthew lillard nails slapstick comedy with his facial expressions alone #I know sidney was panicking in that scene but like😭😭😭😭ITS SO FUNNY #I also always wondered what happened out there when she closed the door #they even stop banging on it at one point #did they just stand there and go like “😬😬😬😬crazy weather today right” #scream #scream 1996 #stu macher #scream fanart #latenightsundayblues art tag

[classicsonic]

this fucking guy

#(i like. somewhat loosely traced the right image for the sketch this was mainly to fuck around with shading) #dr starline #sth #slapstick!

[ekingston]

Your reply on ao3 about your wife’s screenshot and being a cheerleader stuck with me, because I’ve realized I don’t actually articulate enough how amazing some writers (read: you) are. I finished the most recent chapter of soup (after eleven-thousand unacceptable distractions), and I was going to plunk together a quick comment that would absolutely not do enough justice to express the genius I find your writing to be. So instead I opened a google doc and started smashing my keyboard which resulted in a pretty long-winded... something, but allow me to fan-girl for like, a second:

The quality and style of your writing floors me every time. There is an effortlessness about it that makes it totally and completely bingeable but also something that gives a little more each time I read it. For me, it’s the most replayable form of literature: I can go back for the plot, for the character rapport, for the punchy dialogue, or for the voice of the narrator. It fits all the moods. It charms me. It amuses me. I want to hug it.

Your work excites me, and when I think of authors and works that excite me, I’m lumping you in with like, Heartburn which is an all-time favorite for that exact reason: I can binge it in a day or go back and sip on it and discover something clever and witty and just impossibly gorgeous in execution.

And speaking as someone who CANNOT for the life of me write something that doesn’t eventually tumble into a vat of angst, I also just adore the way you manage tension without losing the light-hearted reading experience. Holiday wine is a masterpiece, AND I think Soup is almost better because you juggle so much more: the chorus of characters are taking on their own plot lines, the stakes are higher, you add danger and adventure, you weave a more complex, interconnected storyline, and you massage it all beautifully to act as a supporting cast to the core of the story.

Which brings me to the trope (and a complete tangent): miscommunication. Like, ok look… I usually can’t stand it. But that’s mostly because of the execution: the obvious interruptions, the clear misdirection and disregard for natural intuition, the not asking the right questions, the very blatant ham-fisted forcefulness of it just… I can’t.

AND THEN YOU WENT AND MADE A MASTERCLASS OF IT.

You took every complaint you didn’t know I had and put in the work to make it believable. Kara is charmingly oblivious but not for lack of trying. She perfectly talks past Nia and Alex and Lena not just once but every. time. and every time is just so well-conceived and articulated and *gesticulates hands in the air wildly trying to find the right word* gah. The world of her confusion and misguidedness is so believable and commendable and *gesticulates again* gah. This is the absolute genius of the work. I will give kudos till I’m blue in the face about the story as a whole, but I will die on the ‘Easter crushed the miscommunication trope’ hill.

And this is just ONE EXAMPLE of how you knock it out of the park every single time. I could go on about how solidly you write the characters, how charming your prose is, how epic your one-shots are, or how I don’t even care that I can’t trust your chapter count anymore but this is already a run-on and I'm running out of air.

I don’t know how you write, if there is one draft or a million, if you just stream–of-conscious this into existence, or if you summon the words through a ouija board, but it’s brilliant and commendable and THANK YOU for doing what you’re doing.

so. this message is. a miracle? and you are a GIFT. and i’m not going to be able to elaborate much beyond that, because unlike you, i am terrible; at writing attentive notes, at handling compliments, and—hilariously, maybe, since i’ve finally started thinking of myself as a writer again after a decade of self-loathing false starts—at writing down my thoughts in an easily digestible way.

can i say it’s the nicest thing i’ve ever gotten from someone who isn’t (yet?) a close personal friend? that the timing of it was almost implausibly perfect because it arrived in the middle of the deep breathing exercises i was doing after being made aware of some deeply stupid twitter discourse around Soup that was going on right as i was getting ready to post its final chapter?

i think i’ll stick to the important stuff: like THANK YOU. like how your (AMAZING) note completely obliterated the bad stuff and made me excited not just to wrap up this fic, or even to jump into the next, but about doing it all in the first place. that it was a very needed reminder of what an immensely privileged position i’m in to be able to put something out online that brings people (you) enough joy that you want to come tell me about it. and, obviously, that the specific things you chose to highlight are extraordinarily flattering, and i am absolutely not immune to that kind of thing.

i went back and forth on publishing this ask because it feels almost embarrassing, and boastful. but whatever, you know? you made me feel good about my writing again and provided important perspective and ultimately you put thought and effort and overall awesomeness into it and i’m not going to hide that away when you intended it to be shared.

thank you. SO MUCH.

#also i’m totally going to cheat and add: #MISCOMMUNICATION MY BELOVED #if you’d told me a few years back that i was going to write a slapstick-adjacent romantic comedy of errors #i would have died a little inside #i LOATHED drama that only existed because people refused to open their mouths and speak to each other #you don’t know how thrilling it is to hear that you do too & that you think i got it RIGHT 🥳 #anyway you. are a hero. #i’m going to be thinking about this one for a while! #ps it’s the ouija board. 100% #ask me things! #eqt-95 #TSOS #YMHW

[poisonousquinzel]

protective wifey

#like the way He wouldn't even check on her but pamela didn't hesitate #and like its literally harley's First comic appearance and it being with pamela just #❤️💞❤️💞❤️💞 #special to me #harley quinn #harleen quinzel #poison ivy #harlivy #pamela isley #dc comics #how i wish we got more of regular pamela with her in the btas comics and not the clone 😭😭 #cause this? this is the same energy as the pamela from the Harley & Ivy episode #and we deserved them in their own duo comic that wasn't pushed onto a backburner for years #and used for outdated slapstick and constant gross sexualizing from the horrid crusty mind of br*ce t*mm #but who's surprised cause he's a fucking weirdo 💀 #literally one of the worst comics I've ever read. on the same level with the Harvest one. #and dont @ me cause I'm right. I ain't tolerating BT & PD defenders in this household. #i thank them for creating Harley and that is IT #Arleen Sorkin was the inspiration she was the voice she was The Moment. if I'm thanking and Appreciating anyone its her. #Arleen made Harley who she is because she was Harley. she wouldn't have been the same character if not for Arleen existing #and if not for her voice acting. others can voice Harley but Arleen made her come alive. #Arleen understood the assignment. a lot of others don't. they use one voice and that's Harley. #its high pitched enough and she says puddin so they call it quits cause clearly their work is done.

[todayisafridaynight]

Thoughts on Daigo x Ryuji?

Very funny ryuji was impressed with daigo clocking his guys and wanted to get takoyaki with him only to entirely forget who he was and be indifferent to him five years later

#snap chats #in that vein it is very hilarious daigo wanting to throw down. as is his right #id be pissed too if i got a gun planted on me and i had to go away for shit i didnt do #WHICH JUST REMINDED ME OF THE IRONY OF LIKE. cause onea daigo’s guys suggested daigo bring His Gun #but homeboy was just Naw. ACTUALL unluckiest dude ever #thats about as far as i go with thinking about them though #i dont really see any interesting dynamic between them. to me #they are funny in a slapstick way tho but yeah thats it #to me.

[zo1nkss]

I finished the episodes at a snail pace because I can't do anything at normal human speed and here are my brief thoughts post-binge:

ep1 > Honestly terrified me. I love seeing Ed in his evil era but I hated watching all my beloved crew suffer for it.

Will say I'm so fucking excited about Archie. Not sure I feed into the "TealOranges breakup" it honestly feels more like an open type thing. Like there aren't a lot of expectations idk. That's just my interpenetration of what we've got so far tho!

ep2 > Truly so much happened this episode that it's hard to condense my feelings into something digestible. Like I do feel bad for Izzy, but he's right in ep3 when he says he and Stede caused this and I think that's about where I stand on things. I do think he fucked around too close to the sun and now he's finding out how hot it can burn, but it still sucked to see Ed acting that way no matter who was getting the short end of the stick. I don't want to preemptively invent discourse that doesn't exist but I'm nervous about how yt ppl will react. Going to enjoy Ed getting to be a villain for five minutes tho because he rlly got his moment to be an absolute royal fucking bitch about a breakup. He got the rampage montage and that's awesome rock on man.

ep3 > what can I say? HANDS. MERMAID STEDE. Stede literally called Ed back from death. He literally led him back and Ed chose life because Stede was waiting for him. Stede wanted him around. I'm so not okay rn.

#Void Rambles #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2e1 #ofmd s2e2 #ofmd s2e3 #they're right that WAS the corniest reunion episode I've ever fucking seen #I hope it was scrumptions for that one rando reviewer who has 0 taste #we never get mainstream corny romcoms #also #the slapstick vibes were so intense #the way Stede jumped over board then flapped his arms in the air before falling #Ed's montage of killing Hornigold who turned out to be himself #Stede killing Izzy in his fantasy dream and then getting farted on #everything everything everything #lucius' uber dramatic survival story #becoming a human puppet (ugh poor Luci) #so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so many emotions #Jim x Archie true real #I'm rooting for polyamory my fingers are crossed so hard

[honorthysalad]

can’t believe they didn’t have Yoshiki connect his experience with being possessed to that one guy who broke into the school grounds and killed himself.

#I also doubt he’s going to connect it for the old man he also just watched die #Idk I just feel like we missed a window of opportunity #Because it’d seem insincere for him to only make the connection now right? Like it feels like a lot of time has passed even #if it’s only been 2 days. It’s going to be coming a whole volume later. The audiences sense of time is skewed #And like the diner scene is so tonally jarring? The slapstick faces and casual air to everything #And I guess it’s supposed to be scary but it literally made me laugh so hard seeing the ghost under the table #And the ghost going ‘YOOOOOO’ also sent me #“I won’t treat death lightly anymore” #“Huh? Someone died? When did that happen? Anyway I have to study for my math test” #I’m not saying I want Yoshiki to be crippled emotionally every time something bad happens #But just like acknowledging the tragedy of an innocent person being forced to do something like that and offering empathy? #Because Yoshiki could’ve suffered the exact same fate. He only didn’t because he aligned himself with ‘Hikaru’ #the summer hikaru died #hikaru ga shinda natsu #hgsn #hgsn spoilers #idk you’re free to disagree with this. Emotional scenes are just what I like and ‘spooky scary ghosts’ aren’t #So obviously I’d prefer an emotional scene over yet another ghost trying to tickle Yoshiki #My hgsn shit

[applecherry108]

Can’t remember if I reblogged that screenshot of the rotten tomatoes fnaf rating that’s like, fans screaming “it’s not for you!”

Because I just watched the fnaf movie.

Truly, it was not for the layman. 😂 I enjoyed it. I’m not sure I would classify it as a good movie, but it was technically wonderful and I greatly appreciated the seriousness and care that the filmmakers took with it. It could’ve so easily just been a shitty jumpscare mess but they took the time to actually build it up. The lore is different (from what I understand) but I liked that they reworked it into a story that better fit the film medium. Bc let’s face it, fnaf lore is long, insane, and complicated as hell. But the film told a structured story that, yeah, maybe some filmgoers will enjoy more than others by virtue of knowing what the actual lore is, but I’m one of those people. So I liked it. 😂

Only complaint is, of all the little Easter eggs and musical cues, I’m sad that we didn’t get to hear the music box toreador march. 😢

#that being said getting smacked across the face with the living tombstone during the credits was GREAT 😂😂 #I did hear that markiplier was supposed to be the guard at the beginning but honestly? I’m kinda glad he wasn’t in it #the matpat cameo was great but it was also very short and sweet #not to insult mark and any acting skills he may have but I feel like putting him in right at the beginning would’ve cheapened the whole thng #I know we all love a good markiplier shriek but that would’ve been too comedic and almost slapstick for the tone of the movie #now if they’d had him as say. a podcaster explaining the mystery of Freddy’s if Mike had bothered to do any research #THAT would’ve worked imo. ‘hello everyone and welcome back….to part (absurd number) of our series on Freddy fazbears etc etc’ #honestly that intro is more iconic than the scream. the scream would’ve been like. matpat’s cameo just him going MYUUUUUSIC MAAAAAAAN #apple talks #to the tune of spam

[carcarrot]

and then immediately afterward hit myself in the face with the edge of a folded cardboard box

#YEOWCH! #things are really looking up for me today #although honestly theres nothing like a bit of cartoon-level mishaps to brighten your day #i have no choice but to laugh at my own slapstick comedy #anyway if there were a rake around id step on it and it would hit me like THWACK right in the face

[thesteriuswife]

my voice claim for Lucerne is the "stereotypical but also somehow the Only gay man in a series where women straight up do not exist" guy from Sa.ber J Mario.nette

#📜 muse's voice #Hope's OCs #The primary target for slapstick comedy.... #There's a reoccurring 'joke' with him that he's actually Extremely underweight but it just makes me sad. I'll feed him. #If u watch this and ur like 'but there's girls right there': they are robots 😱 #They're the titular marionettes #They act more human cuz they have something called a 'maiden drive' is the premise #Youtube

[rotg-goc-headcanons]

@revive-the-fandom this sounds interesting!! Any elaboration?

#rotg #you’re right a ton of people see him as being a massive prankster #but canonically the only evidence we have is his sister telling him that he “’always plays tricks!’ #the more I think about it the more I feel like jacks idea of a prank is more in line with like. looney tunes slapstick. #not great in practice esp with kids #jack frost #tell me if I’m being invasive btw!

[mundycide]

i downloaded the movie little nemo: adventures in slumberland. what have You 👊 done today

#mundy txt #i actually did that yesterday afternoon that was a lie #i did yesterday go to a local play of a comedic take of the hound of baskervilles and i did in fact laugh many times bc i am easy #lots of good slapstick #and as i was leaving the actors came out right behind me and it frightened me bc actors are beasts that should be feared #i am scared of theatre ppl they belong on the stage not right behind me

[direwombat]

on its surface fingers in the father's soil is a supernatural western/horror story but actually it's just an excuse for me to write syb and her daddy canonically as the shittiest buddy cop duo in the world

#they're so fucking funny #imagine if you could kill your dad. but he doesn't stay dead and he just sasses you after he's done digging himself free from his grave #and he's only helpful SOME of the time. mostly he's just there (at best) or in the way #henri is a shitty dad but to be fair syb (or billie i suppose) is a shitty daughter right back to him #whining wombat #verse: fingers in the father's soil #it's actually just slapstick comedy #henri says something that mildly annoys billie and she shoots him in the head #she continues on to the next town and a few days later henri sidles up to her at the bar and picks up the conversation like nothing happene

[mayamelodyegg]

a bunch of krugchitas based on the little pochita bumpers after each chapter in the manga and different krugston universe episodesssss

name them all ! name them all ! :]c

#krugston #chainsaw man #maya's art tag #getting the dasher pochita right was so hard lmao i forgot how pochita stood upright for a solid 3 minutes #anyways the references ARE #first row: the slapstick video (more of a general krugston x pochita drawing tho) the giant mech fight video and then the tragedy video #second row: the 'bit of a problem' video . the kruggy plush promo and then the dhmis parody vid #third row: 'i messed up...' followed by the wheel that appears after he gets his shit kicked in by dasher in the doctors appointment video #the last pochita is the alien in the ps1 animation vid #fourth row: the 'how to be miserable' video with the three clones that proceed to kill themselves followed by a different portion of the #doctors appointment vid (the part with the trapped dude with the huge sword) . and of course. finally. dashchita herself #these tags are killing me bye