#Puns puns puns

[marlynnofmany]

I was looking through old gifs and

This one's titled "mothpit."

[pilferingapples]

Actually it's tumblr and i can ramble on about this as often and as much as I like and it's making me happy today, so :

A theatre poster presented itself, adorned with the title of a tragedy from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to the bourgeois!" cried Bahorel. And Marius heard Combeferre reply:-- "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the bourgeoisie must be left at peace on that score. Bewigged tragedy has a reason for its existence, and I am not one of those who, by order of AEschylus, contest its right to existence. There are rough outlines in nature; there are, in creation, ready-made parodies; a beak which is not a beak, wings which are not wings, gills which are not gills, paws which are not paws, a cry of pain which arouses a desire to laugh, there is the duck. Now, since poultry exists by the side of the bird, I do not see why classic tragedy should not exist in the face of antique tragedy." (LM 3.4.3, Hapgood)

A vital note : " classic" tragedy means Neoclassical-- the old, formalized style of French plays , then still very much in control of the art scene. The Neoclassicals were the Dire Foes of the up and coming Romantic movement. So Bahorel's side of this is very direct: he's calling for the end of Neoclassical theater, like the scarlet Romantic theater kid he is. Combeferre is being more roundabout, but possibly even more insulting! The word Combeferre uses for " duck" is " canard" (because that's the French word for duck). But it was also the term for a certain kind of trashy pulp journal , especially ones claiming to be " true crime" type stories. " The Shocking Murder of So and So" kind of stuff.

So Combeferre is (a) equating the neoclassical repertoire, held up at the time as the pinnacle of classy good taste, to these cheap journals the Neoclassical fans would surely have loathed (or at least claimed to loathe; plenty were definitely buying them) , and (b) calling the Neoclassical repertoire the " poultry" in this summary-- something domesticated and made consumable and ridiculous , distorted out of shape with its original (c) saying it can't even do what it's supposed to do -- " a cry of pain which arouses a desire to laugh" is a big problem for a tragedy! So unlike Courfeyrac and Enjolras in the next passage, Bahorel and Combeferre aren't disagreeing; Bahorel has just gone " those fuckin' assholes" and Combeferre has responded by going all in on the WAYS they are assholes . This is Theater Nerd Solidarity XD

--It's also absurdly complicated, good grief, I don't blame Marius for being confused by this one at ALL :P

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

Thanks to @chansaw for the pun.

Happy New Year to all my Jewish Yellowjackets fandom friends and acquaintances.

[miyusketches]

Happy Valentine’s Day from yours truly <3

[therighthandofvengeance]

“You see, uh, Minbari humor is based not on physical danger or embarrassment or rejection like human humor, but rather on the failure to obtain, uh, spiritual enlightenment.”

Rebo, The Day of the Dead (S05E08)

You mean… verbal irony? As in, puns?

You mean to tell me that the people with a frequently pink, purple, and blue homeworld (and subsequent colorscheme) have an affinity for puns?

[caspersgraveyard]

if you have black eyes then your name is Ruru because

yeh kaali kaali aankhe tu ruru tu ruru

HAHAHAHA 5/5

[maluron]

Et là je regrette de ne pas avoir eu d'appareil-photo sur moi pour l'immortaliser : shout-out à l'ornithologue de service qui a collé sur sa pancarte trois photos de hiboux et une de l'autre connard là. Allez qui devinera quel sous-titre il leur a donné ? (Ou mieux encore, est-ce que quelqu'un était à la même manif' que moi et a pu le prendre en photo ? ça serait chouette. Chouette. Ah Ha. Littéralement.)

[cooking-with-hailstones]

The puns start coming and they don’t stop coming

So we’re all excited about Tears of the Kingdom coming out this spring (Hylia willing)

But we can have fun while we wait.

This started with ladyhoneydee sharing her bakery AU called “Tiers of the Kingdom”

Which resulted in me going onto rhymezone.com and inflicting this upon the world...

Hyrule's pride parade: Queers of the Kingdom

Post calamity, Link opens a brewery in Hateno: Beers of the kingdom

Zelda foregoes restoring the throne, instead deciding to open up a pub: It's called "Cheers of the kingdom"

A haircutting salon: Shears of the kingdom

(This one is vaguely nsfw) A clinic specializing in cervical examinations: smears of the kingdom

Link gets really into river management and dam building: Weirs of the kingdom

Link is a racecar driver, or maybe a cowboy: Either way, steers of the kingdom

Through some inter dimensional trickery, the works of the bard himself somehow end up in Hyrule: Shakespeares of the Kingdom

Link and Zelda go see an orthodontist after 100 years of not brushing their teeth: Veneers of the kingdom

Link and Zelda decide to check out the Hateno agricultural fair: Auctioneers of the kingdom

A handsome actor named Richard makes a cameo: Gere's of the Kingdom

(Someone should remove my access to rhymezone)

Other notable contributions from my partner, walkie-taco, splfguy, itsyaboy-lehoe, and sparrowsworkshop:

A mechanic's shop: gears of the kingdom

A haunted house: fears of the kingdom

Link and all his buddies: peers of the kingdom

Link and Zelda start producing wool: Sheers of the kingdom

Steampunk era Hyrule: Gears of the Kingdom

Zelda x Bambi Cross over : deers of the kingdom

Link and Zelda teach music theory: ears of the kingdom

(Again, vaguely nsfw) Link goes in to have his prostate checked: rears of the kingdom

The champions get into a meat cooking contest: sears of the kingdom

[fortunesrevolver]

When videogames give me power.

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

Subdominant Lottie Fs Laura Lee natural if you know what I mean

[thedankmemes]

[caspersgraveyard]

'i laughed yesterday' is 'michael hussey' in hindi

5/5 this is what I'm talking about people!!

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

@marzipanandminutiae

house is a girl you have to take care of her

[maluron]

Psst... les gens... à votre avis... combien de temps avant que les soi-disant ~activistes~ en-phase-terminale-d-internetite qui ne fonctionnent qu'aux buzzwords sans chercher à en savoir plus, accusent Germinal d'être PrObléMatique "parce que ça dépeint les abus du système sur des personnages mineurs" ?

[2649901]