#unintentional hilarity

[kahran042]

Actual quote from the Boxcar Children. If I didn't know better, I'd swear that this wasn't originally in English.

[sohannabarberaesque]

A few words for such imagining this blog in foreign languages via Google Translate and similar

While some of you (especially in areas where English is not exactly the lingua franca) may be curious to know how this blog would read in different languages--a credit to Google Translate and a few other online software programmes capable of website translation--just be aware that these services rely on machine-based translation as may or may not involve Artificial Intelligence.

Meaning, ergo, that the ensuing translation into your chosen language may not actually be accurate and, more than likely, could wind up unintentionally funny, especially where the desire is one of "round-trip translation," where a word, phrase or expression--or, for that matter, webpage--is translated from English to another language, then back into English. (Itself calling to mind a story from the early days of computer development about where an attempt to translate the Apostle Paul's observation that "the flesh is weak, but the spirit is strong" from English to Russian, then back into English, came back as "The meat was rotten, but the vodka tasted excellent." But then, such were the limitations of computing before microprocessors and chip technology.)

Hence, this blog will not be liable for the consequences of how any translation attempts of same into other languages, especially so via online channels such as Google Translate, turn out--especially where Hilarious Consequences ensue as a result.

[ingravinoveritas]

The only thing that would've made this better is if Michael had somehow emerged from the Scottish wilderness and they shared that glass of whisky together in the firelight...

[pastlight]

loving the PowerWash Simulator background lore

[hestia-and-the-court]

[ID: The Behind the Name random name generator, which has given the name “Charizard Cockburn”. /end ID]

me: this is a background character who's in one scene, has two lines, and is completely irrelevant to the rest of the story. i am going to stop obsessing over what to name him and use the random name generator on behindthename.com. i am going to accept the first thing it gives me and move the fuck on.

behindthename.com:

[giftedpoison]

my favorite bit of comedy in TSC is one of the Trojans saying literally anything and Jean being like. . . why would anyone possibly allow this, the Coach must be insane.

and its like Laila and her boba obsession, the trojans having different majors, or the trojans not living on campus

poor guy just has no idea.

[youngerfrankenstein]

So there is apparently a way to save Kaze in Birthright. And he is actually dead. Oops.

[gascon-en-exil]

About halfway through the Super Mario RPG project, at least on the recording end of things, and I already know that it'd take a lot of convincing to get me to do something like this again. I really don't know how streamers and let's players record entire game playthroughs all the time...it's exhausting.

[hestia-and-the-court]

[ID: The words "Mesopotamia typo", except all the letters are red, capitalized, and on fire. /end ID]

a good sumerian inexplicably donated five packs of 500 temporary tattoos to the classroom, each pack featuring identical pictures of a different invasive species of bug

[funnyjokesstory]

The Sneezing Symphony Unleashing Hilarious Harmonies - Funny jokes

Once upon a time in a quiet city, there was a set of pals who had a peculiar talent for synchronizing their sneezes. They known as themselves The Sneezing Symphony. One sunny afternoon, the buddies accrued inside the park for his 

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[tomorrowusa]

Broligarchs – sounds like the name of a TV series that should be in development at HBO (if they're smart). Imagine a cross between Silicon Valley and The Regime. 🤨

As awful as a second Trump term may be, there will be the occasional odd bits of unintentional entertainment as well. Imagine the Department Of Greedy Egotists announcing cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans' Benefits, and Social Security around the same time the GOP Congress is voting to extend the earlier Trump tax breaks for the filthy rich. Hilarity (and chaos) will ensue.

[genericpuff]

All That Glitters is Not Feminism - An Analysis of LO's Brand of "Feminism" and What Remains of its Fanbase (A Prologue)

So I referenced a certain article in a recent reblog/ask response and I just need to talk about it because what the actual fuck-

This has to have been written by either a bot or a hater who's reached peak god tier level at playing the long con sarcasm game because NOTHING about this feels sincere or even factual. Much of it almost has to be read in a mocking tone for it to make any real sense.

It says "Lore Olympus" (literally in quotations) in just about every single paragraph over and over again and every single talking point revolves EXCLUSIVELY around Persephone, which I suppose comes as no surprise considering that seems to be all the comic - and its fanbase - cares about at this point.

I really love (/s) how Persephone's "evolution" is being naive and then 'blossoming' into an independent woman who relies entirely on the rich man who groomed her to solve all her problems.

Also all she's done since becoming Queen of the Underworld is abuse lower class people. That's the stuff feminist dreams are made of <3

While we're talking about the main leads, "poster child" is definitely a word for Hades, I think a more appropriate term would be "literal child". And boy howdy, 'god of consent' sure is a title to give the guy who ripped out a lower class satyr's eyeball and beat him half to death.

This man owns slaves, btw. And both he and his "powerful wife" are equally horrible to lower class people, especially women.

This is hands-down the funniest section of the article and we're only three bullet points in.

Thetis and Persephone have never even so much as spoken one word to each other outside of the courtroom that Thetis technically put her in after plotting against her for an entire season.

Eros is a man. Nothing wrong with that but it comes with the unintentional icky hilarity of implying that because Eros is the gay best friend, that means he's a woman.

They literally don't read this fucking comic-

Everyone always relies on this weird talking point of Demeter not being able to "let Persephone go"... y'all, she just didn't want Persephone to outright move to Olympus, she wanted her to commute. That was it! That was literally the only problem! She wasn't preventing Persephone from pursuing a higher education or telling her she wasn't allowed to work, she literally fucking encouraged it! And with the added later context of Persephone killing a bunch of mortals - and, ironically, the fact that Persephone was assaulted/put in harm's way by TWO SEPARATE MEN in the first two days of her time in Olympus - yeah, I don't blame Demeter for not wanting her daughter to move cold turkey actually LOL

Also hilarious that they claim Rachel has turned "tradition" into "innovation" when the only thing she's managed to do is set back modern feminism in her young adult readers by 80 years and re-establish misogynist brainwashing in her adult ones. Rachel, your fanbase was literally shipping a victim of abuse with her abuser just a few days ago.

oh boy this is uh

this is some cult shit ngl

and the "rewriting the script of Greek mythology" part is VERY concerning knowing what we know about Lore Olympus and who it was written by. This is literally cultural appropriation, full stop, and it exists because Lore Olympus - and works like it, made by people like Rachel - exists.

I can't even commit to the original theory that this was written by a bot because it all feels very pointed and intenetional. This is being written by someone who, at the very least, REALLY sucks at media analysis and writing, because the entire article is just "Lore Olympus, buzzword, Lore Olympus, buzzword, buzzword, Lore Olympus", it's like a white knight incantation for guilty virtue signallers who have zero clue what they're talking about. And at worst, yes, it's appropriation from someone who doesn't mind taking a culture's stories and myths and promoting their erasure by people outside of the culture like Rachel.

And that's it, that's literally the article lmao

*EDIT: There was a section here before addressing the writer of the article from a very opinionated POV that, while isn't unusual for what I do here, did feel necessary to remove after I was contacted by the article writer who addressed the flaws in their original article and is now seeking to correct them with revisions/an article rewrite. So I felt it only fair as a compromise to at least remove that section as it really doesn't have a whole lot to do with this post as a whole and can be removed without entirely ruining the flow of this analysis. If/when that article is rewritten, I'll be revisiting this post and my overall analysis !

And honestly, it's all really telling, because this does accurately reflect the state of the LO fanbase.

Not only do many of the people who defend this comic like it's their job not pick up on the blatant misogynist tones that are going on in its narrative (I can't even call them "undertones" anymore, they're no longer that subtle) but whether or not they even read the comic at all is up for debate with how much stuff they tend to get wrong in their own arguments and justifications. And this is something that's VERY regularly seen in the fanbase discussions, readers will constantly be unaware of things that happened because they skimmed through it at lightning speed just to see if Hades and Persephone kiss and so they can get the top comment on Webtoons so they can be "ahead of the fanbase". It's no wonder that Rachel has gotten used to getting away with retconning things because her fanbase didn't even read what she established the first time.

Rachel's fanbase was literally defending the romance ship of an abuser and his victim on the newest FP episode preview. When that FP episode came out two nights ago and Hera said, point blank, that he didn't love her but abused her, I could only think of that portion of the fanbase who was very audibly simping over Kronos in the IG comment section. Are they actually having their moment of shameful clarity now? Or are they just gonna move the goalposts and pretend that didn't happen?

I don't want to say anything bad about Shelby here because she really seems like she's fighting for her life on this site that she's trying to get off the ground, but a lot of her other articles also come across as very one-note while being peppered with buzzwords that make it seem like what she's talking about is "progressive" when it really isn't. Case in point, Lessons in Chemistry has been commonly criticized for not actually appealing to the demographic that its Mary Sue-ish main character is supposed to represent - women in STEM career fields.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Lore Olympus is not 'feminism', it's white feminism that is designed to appeal to predominantly heterocis white women who think the solution to misogyny is to willingly submit to it and accept the status quo - that it's "empowering" if the woman is smiling and having all her needs paid for by a man. Sure, I can accept that different women will be looking for different relationship dynamics, some women genuinely are happy being in a relationship where they support their husbands first and foremost. But can that truly be called feminism? Or is the real feminism the choices we make along the way that we should be given the freedom to make?

It says a lot about the folks who tend to regularly prop up LO on a pedestal like this as some "revolution in feminism" despite the contrary after spending more than just 30 seconds skimming the attention-grabbing art, and Shelby is just one of many. She's not the worst of the bunch, though.

That goes to someone else who I want to give proper light to in their own essay. Someone who definitely earned a good stern talking-to this past week and has, thankfully, had consequences dished out to her for her horrible actions towards queer POC writers.

If you know, you know. If you don't, buckle up.

[hestia-and-the-court]

[ID: Two asks from treeofwhimsy. The first one reads “It autocorrected” in all caps. The second reads “Aviary” in all caps as well. /end ID]

kal is it possible you want a boy to take you on an abortion slash aquarium date ? cant tell from the state of my dash right now

GIRLIES WHO WANTS TO TAKE ME ON AN ABORTION DATE !!!!!!

[tornrose24]

Looking back, that promo for what would ultimately be the series finale for TGAMM has unintentional hilarity because the shot with Molly contained a major spoiler.... which was hidden by the shot of Scratch of all people.

And of course, the shot in question? It's of Molly figuring out who Scratch's human identity is. And Scratch is used to block that photo out.

[gizkalord]

thoughts on tales of the empire:

morgan's episodes:

It was enjoyable, but I don't think it was as good as I hoped it would be. My favorite out of her episodes was probably the first one—great atmosphere with the Nightsister massacre, we got to see another Dathomir clan, and her desire for revenge (and her need for safety) ultimately putting the others in danger was a good ending for it. The following episodes were... ehhhh. Seeing Thrawn was cool but I still don't really understand why joining the Empire and joining Thrawn plays into her quest for revenge—Grievous is long gone, so it's like, is this a "revenge against the whole world" kinda thing? Is it a desire for security and safety that's disguised/manifested as pursuit of power? There's some implication that she was searching for a sense of community in episode 2 as well.

So I feel like their angle is that her trauma subconsciously drove her to make these bad decisions, but I just don't think it's explored enough in-depth here to make the impact that it should.

barriss' episodes:

It suffers a little similarly in that there's a lot of ground covered in a very short amount of time, but Barriss is a more established character and it ended up fulfilling a lot of the hopes I had for her post-TCW which I'm happy about! I like that it emphasizes that her heart was in the right place and that her personality was always on the gentler side (the unintentional hilarity of Inquisitor Barriss trying to do Jedi things lmao) but desperation/despair drove her to stray from the path initially.

I REALLY, really liked her last episode—there was something understated but beautiful about those final scenes. It's somewhat Allegory of the Cave ish? And there's sort of a visual parallel to the Ilum caves too. I didn't expect Lyn to be redeemed but I liked how it was executed. Barriss' ultimate fate was ambiguous but I think the point was that they were both saved in the end :)

[fuckedupwizard]

the unintentional hilarity of reading wang baoxiang's narration where he's like "my brother literally cared about a BIRD more than me :(" after reading the part in the first book that tells you esen also cared about his pet bird more than his human daughters. in fact the bird was also his daughter, and his favourite one.