#...and LAME humor

[deep-spacediver577]

[stervrucht]

How I feel after finally finishing that long-ass chapter...

[aquamonstra]

Imagine our beloved Lt. Commander Data learning about the concept of "doing something as a bit" in his quest to understand humor.

He starts carrying around a pocket full of loose bolts, washers, any random little metal bits he finds.

Anytime someone asks him about it, he just looks them straight in the eye and deadpan says, "Snacks."

So far only Riker and Geordi have laughed, but one sweet and gullible young ensign brought him a dull tungsten carbide drill bit "as a treat."

[wabbyhazzy]

Have Any of Adam's children done dad jokes to impress their dad?

Seth. But he just does it cause he also finds em funny

[allegras-sunflower]

[a-meh]

[st4nh3ighth4cksaw]

Happy Birthday Adam Faulkner- Stanheight ! ( According to my personal decision, his birthday is the 6th April )

[galaxynajma]

* Geto sitting on a bed of a love hotel hearing the sound of a door opening*

Geto: " you actually came I was starting to think you wouldn’t wait what are you wearing?"

* gojo wearing a monkey onesie *

Gojo: " what don’t I look sexy? I thought it was normal to dress up like animals for something like this "

Gojo: " besides you’re the one who’s obsessed with calling non sorcerers monkeys I thought it was very fitting for you "

Geto: " satoru.. *sighs *

Gojo: " what? How about you call me monkey G. satoru haha get it? What! That was funny "

Geto: " I’m going to go I think that’s for the best "

Gojo: " wait?! Are we not going to bang? "

Geto: " this is kinda of a turn off satoru "

Gojo: " well you don’t know what I’m wearing underneath~ besides this hotel is expensive we could just hang out watch a movie or something like we use to! "

Geto: " yeah I would like that I am starting to get curious about what’s underneath that onesie though "

[g0thsoojin]

🎧

[cosmicstarlatte]

[jav-uni]

I don’t follow 🧜‍♀️ but I went to check their blog. OMG The excuses they are making for these photos to fit into their narrative are extremely delusional.

Nonnie, I was going NOT going to share this because a really close “source” send it to me. I also have a kinda wedding pic too. Really cute, huh?

🤣

[livelyshrine]

“Hi. Aya here, breaking through the fourth wall. Don’tquestion it, I ask the questions around here. Speaking of, here’s one: why exactly do my ‘fans’ from the outside express their ‘affection’ by threats of violence, insults and talking about my uh… ‘fatty bird meat’. Is this how you people show affection? I think I appreciate that barrier a little more now. Please stay on your side. You’ll be hearing from my lawyer.”

[samrut]

Tolys has a collection of mugs with the lamest jokes and sayings on them. He thinks they are hilarious.

Nobody else does...

[aroaceleovaldez]

Okay these tags on this post reminded me of a HoO/TOA thing that I complain about a lot but I don’t think i’ve ever elaborated on here:

[Image ID: Tags from @fr0zenpepsi​ reading - “#and jason fUCKING DIES before he even get fixed like #you dont know how excited i was when the diorama thing was mentioned like #make him artistic too!! make him be into architecture too! #and he plays lacrosse???? #like his character has sooo much potential yet hes just a boring white guy :< #thats prolly why his death is pretty lame #it meant a lot to the plot but like do we even know who we lost?? #more than half of the fandom doesnt even like him bc hes just so plain :/ #also hazel is a queen and i love her shes literally the best” /end ID.]

One of the big issues I take with both HoO and TOA is that literally every death in both series feels cheap because death has lost consequence. For the majority of HoO it’s at least somewhat still of a risk, but even things like Tartarus feel extremely lackluster when we actually encounter them - Tartarus especially after we saw how much it affected Nico, but then Percy and Annabeth’s plot armor kind of negates all of the threat and it feels like they don’t actually experience much more than their usual threats down there or that it has any lasting effect on them. And after Leo’s “death” we’re basically solidified into “Death has no consequence” because we just finished a series with at least SIX INSTANCES of major or minor protagonist-aligned characters notably directly cheating or miraculously avoiding death (Jason, Hazel, Gwen, Frank, Jason again, Leo), not including also miscellaneous minor antagonists. Which is aggravating because you can make a “Hey, these characters can’t die!” plot work, especially if that’s the root problem they’re trying to solve! It does work in TLH and SoN! And we’ve even seen it before in Battle of the Labyrinth when Percy fights his half-brother!

But HoO basically nullifies all consequence the characters face from MoA onwards and post-BoO “death” carries no weight, because by this point we have so many excuses to get around it or avoid it or come back from it that who cares! And this continues to be a thing post-TOA! Even just in the plot summary of Chalice Of The Gods we’re introduced to YET ANOTHER “Cheat death!” item! And I’d bet we’re gonna get one in TSATS too cause we’re almost guaranteed to see Damasen again, and the like one singular myth that exists referencing Damasen also specifically mentions an herb called “the flower of Zeus” that can revive things from the dead.

And it’s extra annoying because in TOA we keep getting character deaths shoved in our faces and told we should care about them, but either they’re characters we have little to no emotional connection to (such as, like, All Of Camp Jupiter in Tyrant’s Tomb when the camp is threatened and we’re told we should care, but we’ve barely seen the camp at all besides beginning of Son of Neptune and beginning of Mark of Athena, and the only living characters we get to actually see in Camp Jupiter from before TOA are Gwen, Dakota, Don the Faun, and our HoO protagonists.)

And Jason’s death is particularly annoying because a.) He’s essentially cheated death twice already [Piper bringing him back from either death or near-death when he accidentally witnessed Hera’s true form, and then his whole spear injury that was slowly killing him but was healed with [checks notes] the power of friendship], and b.) the scene DIRECTLY PARALLELS HIS FIGHT WITH MIDAS. Which, you know, he WON. VERY EASILY. And you can’t even argue “oh but this time Piper and Apollo were right there so he couldn’t have done the same thing!” because PIPER AND LEO WERE THERE WITH MIDAS. Heck, so was Lit! Who also survives and comes back in TOA! So not only is there no excuse for Jason to have not somehow miraculously avoided death (alongside every other TOA character, basically), but he SHOULDN’T HAVE DIED IN THE FIRST PLACE because THAT’S NOT A FIGHT HE SHOULD HAVE LOST! Him losing that fight is directly contrary to what we know about his character! And “he shouldn’t have lost that fight and died” doesn’t feel tragic here, it’s just aggravating! It’s just bad writing! And there’s no way around it because nobody cares about characters dying by that point in the series anyways because it doesn’t mean anything! We’ve had too much random death fodder in HoO (like the Hunters) directly alongside characters experiencing little to no consequence when they should from their experiences (Percy & Annabeth in Tartarus, literally every character nearly dying, etc.). The only characters we do see experience any kind of lasting consequences from near-death experiences are Hazel having blackouts in Son of Neptune (which are magically erased by Mark of Athena) and Nico being heavily implied to be permanently physically disabled after Tartarus (which is half-ignored when not plot relevant in TOA and completely ignored in the short story Un Natale Mezzosangue, which gives me reason to suspect it will also be ignored in TSATS). Not to mention Frank’s curse is also randomly erased in Tyrant’s Tomb, which is extra stupid because by following the logic of that scene his curse should have been lost back in Son of Neptune when he freed Thanatos, because he was using his curse for the same exact reasons with the same exact mindset. He literally did his character arc twice. Whatever.

HoO and TOA are just such a mess writing-wise of Rick trying to haphazardly incorporate as many myths as he can with zero attempts at cohesiveness that it doesn’t make any sense (I invite you all to read just the Team Statue chapters of BoO and take a moment to process how absolutely nonsensical it is) and he fails to consider the consequences of including certain myths, both in terms of how their aspects will impact the larger plot and also the historical context behind those myths and if how they’re being applied is offensive.

TL:DR: Jason’s death is stupid from literally every angle and HoO and TOA have a problem with literally any kind of narrative consequence.

[euesworld]

"Sex is good, but she's draining me dry.. I need to drink 20 glasses of water a day just to keep moisture in my eyes. I will have a 30 pack of abs by the end of the month, it may not look like it though but trust me.. they are under my gut. My mouth always tastes like vagina and I don't know why, ok.. maybe I do and that was a lie. When I eat it, I don't wash my face so every time I lick my lips I can get a taste.. she's so horny that I can't keep up, it's like running on the highway trying to race a truck. She says I am malnourished and that I need to eat, but she only feeds me bowls of kitty.. I think she's a demon and I wanted to go to church to be saved, but every Sunday she ties me to the bed like some kind of sex slave."

Hahahaha.. poem jokes about my sex life. Not untrue but we both like to exaggerate a little, haha.. - eUë

[loweffortartist]

FIGHT