Listen, I’m only 6 episodes into the podcast, but you can’t tell me this isn’t just Welcome to Night Vale
REMEMBER SKIP-IT FROM THE 90’S
my weapon of choice during school yard fights
DnD campaign but the only weapons are 90′s toys @riskpig
Distance weapon: those sky dancer propeller toys.
I’ll allow it.
I have but two words:
Are those a weapon or piece of armor?
Party walks into the inn to rest and the pub looks like
Perfection.
I ride into battle on one of these
Animal Companions
Fresh combat
Monks have to use these
Wizard’s Spell book
Warlock Patrons
Archfey
Fiend
Celestial
Great Old One
The undying
THE B A R D
It got better since I last saw it
This is so weird bc being born in 1997 I saw all these toys… old, dirty, and faded by the sun
it’s so weird to think of them as new and current toys rather than the relics of a bygone age
Currency
Dungeon:
the party embarks upon a laser quest
for those who feel uneasy but don’t remember, that feeling is correct
I got a concussion from a skip-it once.
I saw a wall get shattered with a skip it at a birthday party
I broke a light fixture with one of those sky dancer things, and definitely cracked myself in the ankle with the skip-it more than once.
The only thing more deadly to ankles were razor scooters
NEW VIDEO: “A Day with Menstrual Cramps” 💥 This was an experience. https://youtu.be/gL5Rt9ycRBU
This funny video of Ryan George, Julie Nolke, and me was released one year ago today!
Sound up! 😂🏴😂🏴😂🏴
I know a thing or two about being Wicked and green! 🧹 We released "Queen of Hearts vs. Wicked Witch of the West" five years ago TODAY!
Ok wow, it’s finally here!
The Sarah Scribbles Hidden Art Game!
We've literally transformed my art into a world that you can explore for free. Your task is to find every cat hiding in each layer of this world. Just when you thought it was over... BAM! Another cat. 🐈⬛
If you need a 5-minute break to relax, check it out and let me know what you think in the comments and feedback form!
P.S. Send this to your favorite cat person (everyone knows one!)
Don't know how many times I've showed a non-Tumblr person a Tumblr post and had the whole thing derail because the poor soul actually read someone's user name.
"Why does it say--" *squints at the screen* "....aziraphale's flaming cock??"
"Oh no uh, ignore that."
Sound designing a vampire being hit in the face with a shovel is... challenging. Who would've guessed.
[Audio transcript: Ben Galpin voicing Jonathan Harker from Dracula by Bram Stoker. He says, "There was no lethal weapon at hand, but I seized a shovel which the workmen had been using to fill the cases, and lifting it high, struck, with the edge downward, at the hateful face," followed by a cartoon "bonk" and the Wilhelm scream. End transcript]
Last time I did a run of these they sold out in a day. Yes, I ordered way more this time, and in larger and smaller sizes.
Send pictures while wearing it in front of a sunset or holding your performance improvement plan.
I’m every one in this
MAN 1 (in a high pitched, whiny voice) Look what you’ve done to my peonies!
WOMAN (angrily) They’re marigolds!
MAN 2 God! I think she’s right! They are marigolds!
MAN 1 I may not know my flowers, but I know a (yells in her direction) bitch when I see one!
It’s back!
I looked this up because I had to know what it’s from. It’s a film called The Gay Deceivers (1969), and it’s about two straight men who, seeking to avoid the draft, claim to be gay, but then have to keep up the pretense when the army places them under surveillance.
The man in the red cardigan in the clip was played by Michael Greer, who was openly gay himself - unusual for the time. He actually worked closely with the director and rewrote much of the film’s dialogue to reduce the homophobia and make it more realistic. As a result it’s quite progressive for its time, having a gay character, played by a gay man, living in a happy same-sex relationship, which is more than a lot of media offers us today.
Plus the clip is delightful.
I just looked it up on wikipedia and fucking
The twist is that even after the pair is caught, they are not inducted into the military. The Army investigators assigned to watch them are themselves gay and are trying to keep straight people out of the Army.
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I need people to stop blaming the death of movies on “quips”. A quip is just a funny line of dialogue. That’s all. Like I just saw a post talking about quips and the death of movies and brought up Pirates of the Caribbean as an example of a better movie and yes it is but also that movie is FULL OF QUIPS. I just rewatched The Princess Bride. It’s all quips. Every single line. And it’s a masterpiece.
Movies suck when people don’t care about the art they’re making. That includes them not caring about their quips. Which is why a lot of comic relief dialogue ALSO sucks now. But the problem isn’t that funny dialogue exists.
The Princess Bride is almost all quips, but it’s all sincerity. Every aspect of the plot is ridiculous and yet no movie dialogue has ever gone as hard as “I want my father back, you son of a bitch”
people recognize the problem contained within Whedon-style quippyness without knowing the term for the actual issue so they say “quips” when they mean “bathos”
another problem with quips that’s a little harder to analyze and explain is the quips are all in the author’s voice, NOT the characters’.
steve rogers, natalia romanoff, james barnes, tony stark, pepper potts, and bruce banner are people from radically different walks of life, and should therefore have extremely different styles of communication, despite all off them nominally speaking the same language (english). they should have different senses of humor, different senses of where the boundary lies between irreverence and insult, different boundaries, different sore spots, different goals as well as different methods of communication.
the fact that all these characters banter the exact same way, i.e how joss whedon thinks is funny, is incredibly shallow and grating.
steve grew up as a challenging little shit, who was also very small and poor, and he did it in 1920′s-30′s brooklyn new york. he regularly got his ass kicked. tony stark is also challenging and provocative, he’s a shit stirrer, but he grew up rich as all fuck. no one was beating the piss out of him in a dirty alley. tony has grown up surrounded by sycophants, rich enough to get away with whatever amount of bad behavior he wants to pull; steve grew up poor and disabled in a society that openly advocated for the death and degradation of the weak and unfit. why the fuck would they enter a conversation the same way? why would they deliver a snappy retort the same way? natasha romanoff is a spy, she’s manipulative, she’s always watching to see how a joke lands, she’s always conscientiously tuning herself this way and that to get results. she doesn’t have the luxury of casual defiance, or unthinking obnoxiousness, or even standing by her principles and pissing off someone she hates. again, why would she be tossing off little asides the same as tony, or even the same as steve?
the princess bride is sincere, and the characters still banter in their own voices. fezzik is cautious and methodical, inigo is weary and incredulous, vizzini is desperate to impress everyone with his own intelligence and in so doing often sounds like a complete twerp, buttercup is so incredibly pissed off she doesn’t have any brain cells to spare for joking around, and westley is here to ruin everyone’s day. and it works! the characters have great banter because they’re striking sparks off each other, not meshing like identical cogs in a machine.
humor is about subverting expectations, about breaking up patterns, about confrontation and absurdity. you can’t get that from a blandly uniform pulp.
I have never heard anyone summarize Westley’s character so perfectly in a single line
It’s not just that all of the characters of the Avengers use the same quippy banter, but that if you didn’t hear who said what quip, you would be hard pressed to identify who said it.
It’s fun to see when they actually pull of comedy, without resorting to quips that could have been said by anybody. Heck, The Marvels was a good, funny movie, that was just saddled with having to carry an “end of the world/universe” MCU plot on it’s back.
THE WAY IT KEEPS GOING AHHH JAHAHDNCNE
