Today I learned that the tag “laugh rule” refers to a rule where if you laugh you have to reblog something. Not me being on this site for years and years and thinking that people were making a joke about living under laugh rule the way you would live under, say, mob rule.
I’ve literally used the tag and been thinking to myself “ah yes, laugh rule. where humor is king and the memes you trade are the currency of empire”
tom brady is so funny because he could have retired last season at a nice height while everyone in sports was out there sucking his dick calling him the GOAT but nooooooooooo he had to throw a fit and renege on his retirement to play one more season because some sports journalist on twitter broke that he was retiring before he could say it himself and now look at him. his hot supermodel wife left him, he had a losing record, lost the wildcard game, choked so badly in his final game in front of tom cruise that cruise left early, everyone knows he’s a little bitch, his team hates him, gronk already retired, and he’s stuck announcing his retirement via a front facing direct to camera video on twitter. the eagles are back in the super bowl. couldn’t have scripted it better myself. mwah.
"use commas" this "learn how to spell" that. you fools. the very core of linguistics is the change that you so despise on account of lacking any sort of knowledge or foresight. you imbeciles. we the linguists laugh at your little commas and dots that you throw around in your playpen. you think it matters? you think any of this matters? the only thing you should even slightly care about is if you can understand or interpret the core of the message. you hold up the punctuation system as you do the values of the past, thinking it sacred, much like a false idol. you will never be free if you dont stop policing the victimless crimes we've made up. you will never ascend.
Omnipotent Villain: “Look pathetic little hero! See how outmatched you are? What do you have with you that could possibly beat my un-killable army?
Hero (who learned about their status at max 5 years ago): “You’re right. All I have is childhood trauma, the bare minimum of training for this moment, one special magical weapon, the weight of the world on my shoulders, an unfounded sense of nobility pushing me to go on despite unknowable odds, and the power of friendship.”
Villain (whose omnipotence extends to a good working knowledge of fictional tropes): “Uhhhhhhhh…..”
Hero: “Come now! I have bid goodbye to my doomed love interest and am prepared to die for my cause!”
Villain: “I’m just gonna….. go…. Check something.”
************CUT TO SECRET THRONE ROOM OF BIGGER, WORSE, SECRET SECONDARY VILLAIN PREPPING FOR THE SEQUEL********
Villain 1: “My Lord! We must retreat and give up the scheme! The hero is unbeatable! They have arrived to battle armed with an ancient protection!”
Villain 2: “What kind of protection My Servant? A special suit of armor? An immense spell?”
Villain 1: “Worse my lord. So much worse.”
Villain 2: “Name it!l”
Villain 1: “My Lord they had *shudders* plot armor.”