#sidesplitting

[mattapsi]

(The Ageing Hippy ( a.k.a. Matt Apsi ))

[sepetajmikolikomehoces]

Well I scored today...

[transmorphobots]

this was part of a set I don't think I'm going to finish but its still one of my favorites. Sidesplit, my beloved (he/she/it)

[lostlegendaerie]

the headless horseman is my new blorbo

[bobbiedlifeinphil]

Why Math Books Look Sad #Shorts

[eyebrowpunk]

I do think it is a shame that Melusine debuted after Dreamer already fell off of FGO

[txttletale]

sinfest hasnt been fun to read ever since the guy became a straight up nazi. i miss the era of sidesplitting homophobia and transphobia. i miss the gender riddler

[victimsofyaoipoll]

Round 1

Propaganda Under Cut

Chi-Chi

I think the fandom has had a turnaround on her in recent years, so the Chi-chi abuse has abated quite a bit from what I've seen, but for the longest time your standard Goku/Vegeta fic included SOME manner of sidelining her HARD, if not outright villainizing her or killing her off for convenience. Fuck, I'm guilty of it, even. I've seen meta and fics that go on and on about how she's abusive or ignorant or a bad wife or an overnearing mother or useles, and seen episodes where she's put aside as a gag, the nagging wife of Goku. Poor Chi-chi...she is so great and pure-hearted and stong-willed and yeah she's a bit of a tiger-mom and her name is a pun for tiddies but she loves her family and kicks-ass and she was done so dirty by the franchise and the fans for so long I wanna marry her.

Being a victim of yaoi is just one of the many ways Chi-Chi gets fucked over by the fandom. She also gets degraded for being a nag (wanting her family to be safe and not fight) and stopping her son from reaching his full potential (not wanting her son, who is anywhere from 5 to 11 depending, to be killed in a big alien fight). In this case, though, she gets killed off, divorced, or otherwise fucked over so her husband Goku can bang local genocidal maniac and fandom babygirl Vegeta. Bulma (who is canonically Vegeta's love interest) gets some of this too, but Chi-Chi's treatment tends to be worse since the fandom hates her already.

She's the wife of the main character Goku who is poorly written and consistently presented as a domineering nag as part of that classic sidesplitting routine. The very creator of the manga himself has admitted he hates drawing her and only kept her around as a punishment to himself. Because she's a loud woman people will shove her aside and completely ignore her to ship Goku with his rival Vegeta (which does also involve neglecting Vegeta's wife Bulma but more people at least like Bulma as a character.) She is consistently demonized by the fandom and I have even seen some go so low as to as to ignore her so they can ship Frieza, one of the biggest and most obviously evil antagonists of the franchise, with Goku.

Every Supernatural Woman

Supernatural is so mean to women and committed to queerbaiting but it still gives Sam and Dean lovers to kill. The writers kill and villainize them and the fans get the few that remain

wincest and destiel shippers cannot handle the idea of their blorbos having a Woman THREATENING their SHIPS god FORBID

It literally used to be a running joke that if a female character got introduced you knew she was going to die soon because fans would react so negatively to her "stealing" one of the boys away from the big ship, whether it be destiel or wincest

[vintagerpg]

They can’t all be winners. This is The Phantastical Phantasmagorical Montie Haul Dungeon (1982). The front cover claims not Gamelords as the publisher, but No-Shamelords Unlimited. That gives you an excellent sense of the humor that you will encounter inside.

Like Compleat Tavern, this is a zine-sized book. It presents [deep breath] the Pyramid of Pallapot the Peripatetic, a senile old mage, and is, basically, one big goof in the style of, I dunno, say, those April Fool’s issues of Dragon Magazine I roll my eyes at so hard. I don’t really understand the compulsion RPG folks have for producing stuff like this occasionally, but honestly, I also don’t understand why they almost always leave me cold. RPGs can certainly be funny — Paranoia, Honey Heist and more do it intentionally, and I don’t know a single game I’ve ever run that hasn’t had at least one moment of sidesplitting laughter. But it seems like typing up these sorts of one-of joke modules drains any humor that might have been there out of the proceedings. They remind me of paperback books you’d use to see that would collect one-liner jokes. They try too hard to nail the punchline when really they should just be concentrating on setting up the gags for the players to riff on. Dismaying.

You might doubt me. Here, let me give you an example. One room riffs on Monty Python and the Holy Grail, because of course it does. There’s a black knight you can defeat by hacking to pieces. The twist is that he’s the film’s knight’s younger brother, who is cursed to do everything backwards, like Bizarro, sort of. His actual name is “Knight Black The.” God, that hurt to type out.

Yea, no, I can’t go on.

[ericdeggans]

My Best TV of 2022: A (Unexpectedly) Long List

This is not a problem I expected to have, early in 2022.

Back then, the quality of TV shows was so disappointing, I considered writing one of those cranky, old-school critic’s columns complaining about how the glut of shows in our modern, streaming-fueled media environment was ruining everything.

I should have just waited around a bit. Because, even though I was mightily disappointed by some of the biggest TV projects on the docket – everything from CNN+ to Lords of the Rings: Rings of Power (the repetition in the title should have been warning enough) – lots more TV shows surprised and delighted me this year. Too many to fit on a top ten or top 12 list.

In fact, there were too many to fit on this excellent roundup prepared by me and five other critics at NPR.org (we each got about eight choices). And I will fess up now – I didn’t vibe with FX’s Reservations Dogs in its first season, so I didn’t keep up with the second and it’s not on my list. Many apologies to devoted fans of a show I’m very glad exists and so many love. But I’m not among you devotees (at least not yet).

Here's my list of fave shows from 2022, in no particular order. It’s by design very subjective, so I welcome debate, but it’s about what touched ME on TV this year:

Andor (Disney+) – Started slow, but turned into a masterful reinvention of the Star Wars universe, focused on the gritty, merciless beginnings of the Rebel Alliance. Who knew a Star Wars show with no lightsabers, no Jedi Knights and no Force could be just what the franchise needed? REVIEW

Atlanta (FX/Hulu) – The last two seasons, both released this year, weren’t nearly as impactful as its first two. But this show remains an excellent showcase for creativity and ambitious storytelling in portraying the lives of a quartet of Black millennials.

Here’s a Q&A I moderated w/Atlanta cast and producers at SXSW

Better Call Saul (AMC) – This Breaking Bad spinoff stuck the landing in series finale that capped both the origin AND ending stories of criminal lawyer Saul Goodman. REVIEW

Abbott Elementary (ABC) – Sidesplitting mockumentary-style comedy about teaching in a Philadelphia school that is so good, because it’s absurd humor is so close to the actual truth. PROFILE of star Quinta Brunson.

The Patient (Hulu) – Steve Carrell delivers his most impressive dramatic role as a therapist interrogating his own messy personal history while kidnapped and forced to help a serial killer. REVIEW.

The U.S. and the Holocaust (PBS) -- Star documentarian Ken Burns reveals how antisemitism in America busted the myth that the U.S. was always on the side of the angels as Adolf Hitler took power in Germany and began implementing his Final Solution.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount+) – Focused on the Starship Enterprise 10 years before James T. Kirk would take command, it’s a welcome return to a rollicking, adventure-a-week series that recalls the spirit of the original Trek series better than any other modern reboot/revival. REVIEW

Severance (Apple TV+) - for review, click here

Only Murders in the Building (Hulu) - REVIEW

Euphoria (HBO) - for review, click here 

A League of Their Own (Prime Video) -REVIEW

This is Us (NBC) - interview w/creator Dan Fogelman here

Sidney (Apple TV +) - REVIEW here

Under the Banner of Heaven (FX/Hulu) - for review, click here

We Own This City (HBO) - for interview w/EP David Simon, click here

Barry, season three (HBO) - for review, click here

Stranger Things (Netflix) - REVIEW

We Need to Talk About Cosby (Showtime) - PCHH discussion here

Harley Quinn (HBO Max) - 

The Sandman (Netflix)

As We See It (Prime Video) - REVIEW

The Good Fight (Paramount+)

The Dropout (Hulu) - 

The Crown (Netflix) - DISCUSSION here

The Handmaid’s Tale, season 5 (Hulu)

Ozark, season 4 (Netflix) - REVIEW here

Ms. Marvel (Disney+)

[heckyeahponyscans]

So my favorite podcast is 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back, a comedic book club which features two of the Rifftrax guys reading "books we don't expect to like". There's a lot of interactivity, with listeners sending in "Dumb Sentence of the Week", reader-written fanfiction to try to fool them in the "Real or Fanfic" segment, and it's just a really good time.

If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, now is the perfect time to start listening because they just unveiled the newest book and it is SIDESPLITTING.

It's called "The Adventures of the Teen Archaeologists"; the physical copy is hard to find but you can find it online. You know the scene in The Room with "you're my favorite customer / hi doggy"? It's like if there was a whole book like that. Except with more repetition.

Babatunde said, “This is Samirah our daughter and Jabril. Jabril is my wife Oluremi’s father.” Jabril said, “Hello. I am Oluremi’s father. Babatunde is my son-in-law. Welcome to our home. This is my granddaughter Samirah. She is seventeen years old.”

EXTREMELY NATURAL DIALOGUE.

The first chapter is already wild, as they start by introducing the teen characters and then abruptly cut to their parents with "Anthony was thankful that his wife wasn’t hurt badly. He realized just how close he came to losing her."

And they NEVER EXPLAIN THAT, the book is like "Then they went home to their teenage children" and it's never brought up again.

[taylorswiftstylequestions]

misheard lyrics: I thought the line in So High School was "I'm trying to staple my sides" because she was laughing so much? you know... sidesplitting laughter. having her in stitches. I didn't even question it

“I didn’t even question it” did it for me L O L

My thing is that I don’t have misheard lyrics as in I hear incorrect words more that I hear smush and I just Phoebe Buffay tra la la my way through a certain line.

[transmorphobots]

Dread Captain Sidesplit (He/him/She/Her). Originally apart of New Cybertronia's Autobot Forces until he staged a mutiny on board her ship. Dreadshadow took advantage of the chaos to do a little liberating of cargo and they ended up teaming up more permanently after that. He can split into two different vehicles rather than triple-changing. Sidesplit tends to always have a good attitude and a smile on her face though that might have something to do with his background as an experimental Transformer. She often has a soft spot for Experiments as well. He captains the supply and trading ship Deft-Hand Shuffle.

[bobbiedlifeinphil]

My Box On The Head Testimony #Shorts

[metamelonisle]

if i was a wizard i would ruin so many people’s lives in ways so unimaginable and sidesplitting that my very name brings both abject horror and uproarious laughter because Any One Of Us Could Be Next But If It’s Not Me Then God It Will Be So Fucking Funny