#and i do get to be absurd and playful privately but it's so. obnoxious. how ironically patronizing it starts to get in public online spaces | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

kaurwreck · 10 months ago

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the vast majority of jokes that y'all insist are jokes are evidently jokes. but they're the same joke, scraped from surface impressions and regurgitated iteratively. there's humor beneath the outermost layer, too, and you're allowed to be clever, it's not illegal.

#i was unfortunately raised by very funny and clever people #and im a little too into comedy as a genre which isnt like a merit to my personality #but it's so hard to be playful with a dead horse that's impacted in the ground from the force with which it has been beaten #and i do get to be absurd and playful privately but it's so. obnoxious. how ironically patronizing it starts to get in public online spaces #to be told emphatically it's a joke!#since often either (1) i was also joking and you didnt get it but i dont think im entitled to your humor if it's not landing #or (2) i know but its the only thing anyone's saying and it wasnt funny the first 100 times either #but it would be impolite to say i know it's a joke but there are more interesting things to say or add or dig into here #so i dont! and i get that if someone isnt picking up what i have to put down it's my responsibility to move on #and then sometimes yall get real rude #anyway the secret (3)rd thing is where i did not get the joke lmao or i wasnt sure so i tried to for sincerity to be safe #which does happen #but in those situations too. im always impressed by how its turned around on the person who didnt get the joke.#and never a reflection of the quality of the joke #idk it's occurring to me that sometimes people may say joke when they mean that theyre being flippant and dont want to engage #in which case. why not say that.#anyway tl;dr being funny is a skill and im probably a little autistic

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