#this is a joke fwiw

[snakedevour]

also find it interesting that kabura has goat eyes? as far as i know goats and snakes don't really have any connection except maybe like. in imagery of baphomet. are the knights templar here

#this is a joke fwiw #even if i think it'd be neat #snakes can eat goats i suppose. maybe kabura is also someone eventually ruined by yumeko

[sixstepsaway]

just saw someone say "sorry for the long parenthetical" and cackled

coward, you should see my parentheticals! they're essays all of their own!

#this is a joke fwiw #i do not think that person is actually a coward lmao #pp

[turbo-overkill]

gonna post Fames with their whole ass out for free but blur their feet and include the full ver on my Kofi for 5€

#yeet talks #this is a joke fwiw

[nana-glass-chillhop-radio-hour]

Oh! Now that I've listened to 32 I can weigh in on if Hayward is hot now in good conscience.

My ruling:

Hayward is not any more or less hot than he was before, you all just have immense competency kinks. Which is normal and fine btw but I must point out that your experiences are not universal. some of us liked him even when disheveled and deeply pathetic. Some of us liked him especially when he was disheveled and deeply pathetic.

#As Hayward's 1 enjoyer I think my opinion should be taken very very seriously by all who have been troubled by this matter #my credentials are impeccable. see my novel length fanfic of Hayward undergoing personal growth under adversarial circumstances #(i am joking fwiw you don't have to like Hayward. i know he can't compete with faulkner lmao) #the silt verses #siltposting

[marley-manson]

I’m nowhere near finished with reading all this shit bc I’m having too much fun but after what I’ve read so far I’m feeling pretty validated about my take that what sets (most of) the Mash gay jokes somewhat apart from most other types of gay jokes is the positive framing, at least in the first half of the show.

There’s no shortage of gay jokes in 20th century American comedy, or comedians who play up their lack of masculinity, but usually, historically, those are self-deprecating or denegrating jokes, a kind of masochistic humour where the object of fun is the comedian himself, or the part he’s playing. Often it’s relatable - hey audience member, you also have failed to reach peak masculinity, let’s commiserate together through comedy - but it is a failure, not admirable.

Or, in other contexts, it’s just plain absurd. It’s funny because we would never truly doubt this guy’s masculinity, and the contrast between the camp/feminine role temporarily performed and the “genuine” masculinity underpinning it is the source of humour.

But that’s not the case in Mash, at least with Hawkeye. Hawkeye’s lack of masculinity is genuine, framed positively, and even treated as a source of pride. Hawkeye plays his feminine attributes up to piss people off, or to differentiate himself from the type of man the military espouses, or just because it’s who he is. And the show plays those attributes up to set Hawkeye in opposition to the violence of the military, which is often pointedly aligned with masculinity.

From Freudian jokes about guns, to Margaret’s admiration of the masculinity of the generals and CIA agents who turn her on, to Frank using guns and violence and military hierarchies as compensation for his lack of masculinity, to Margaret’s own masculinity going hand in hand with her adherence to military protocol, the sense of equating the military and masculinity is all over the satirical seasons.

And most of the main characters, but especially Hawkeye, are framed in admirable opposition to that military masculinity by emphasizing their non-masculine traits. Radar’s awkward childishness, Henry’s indecisiveness and lack of leadership, Klinger’s crossdressing, and Hawkeye’s... most things. Emotional displays, empathy, disdain for sports/mechanics/violence/most masculine activities, physical weakness, ready willingness to admit to weakness, desire to talk about his feelings, and of course, the onslaught of gay/effeminate jokes.

(Trapper is the most masculine of the first three seasons’ protags, but even he’s pointedly depicted as out of shape, willing to play feminine roles, and his gay jokes have the same purpose as Hawkeye’s. If Hawkeye is unmasculine and proud, Trapper is masculine and secure, demonstrating a more comfortable masculinity that doesn’t need to rely on violence and aggression to prove itself.)

For the first half or so of the show, Hawkeye’s feminine traits and jokes are most of what makes him likeable. We are wholeheartedly laughing with him as he laughs at the military, not at him. This fades to an extent as the show goes on and Hawkeye is framed as pathetic rather than admirable more often, in line with more typical unmasculine comedy protagonists, but during the satirical years the show really nails this vibe.

#mash #i've basically said most of this before but now i'm more confident about it lol #also imo the womanizing is a no hmo to an extent but at the same time it's part of how hawk is portrayed as cool and likeable #for his effeminacy - being unmasculine doesn't dissuade women and in fact sometimes actively attracts them like in the sniper when #he hooks up with a nurse while cowering in fear with her; or yk the myriad of eating out jokes #so it's a bit of a double edged sword but fwiw the fact that so many of hawkeye's gay jokes encompass men and women #(eg 'i love her.' 'it's a he.' 'i love him.') makes it less effective as a no hmo than it otherwise might be lol #marley on mash #mash gen #mash gs

[randomnameless]

The phrase “we have been aware of the high levels of competency from KT's writers, especially with their work for 3H” is worrying; i'm not going to shit-talk them just for thinking that 3H has a good story, especially when someone's standards for what makes a story good or not is subjective and could be different from ours, but KT's story-telling skills are never going to improve if people keep only telling them that Three Houses' deeply-flawed story was actually a narrative masterpiece, instead of a self-contradicting mess with plot points it introduces solely as gotchas and has no intention of ever following up on in any meaningful way, characters getting assassinated left and right to try and argue that female Ashnard might actually be right and not so different from them in terms of morality and goals (while they're in the middle of fighting for their lives and watching their friends die in battle because she decided to invade their home unprovoked and solely for a landgrab), and an over-powered villain group that should have ended the story long before it even started because the writers decided to give them a stockpile of magic nukes they can launch at anywhere in the world, which was also introduced solely for shock value and without them realizing how much of the story is ruined by making it so that the villains who want to kill everyone and take over the world can just nuke anyone they want (that isn't inside Garreg Mach when they launch it) with no consequences.

I just don't like what it means for the future of FE stories if the worst story in the series keeps getting praised as one of the best, even by separate developers, is all.

Wait and see anon!

For what it's worth, while Engage's sales are apparently not as stellar as Houses in the same timeframe (like House after month 1 and Engage after month 1?), Nopes totally crashed.

Amazon isn't the only market in the world, but in some places in the world (tfw not for amazon.fr) Nopes is now sold at around 15 bucks, which is ridiculous considering older games released on consoles still being in circulation are more expensive than this thing that is barely 1 year old(even the first FEW?).

Also, Engage was supposed to have been released earlier but Covid and Houses being released later than planned meant it was delayed, but Engage was supposed to be Fodlan's antithesis, at least writing wise - you'd think IS would have tried to retrofit more Fodlan themes (maybe more uwu maybe some villains aren't BaD and earl grey because they luf u) but they didn't.

Imo, fwiw, while KT apparently loved how Fodlan was received, IS is aghast and doesn't want to touch it within a 10 meters radius, only if it means selling units in FEH and even there, they sometimes retcon Fodlan units (hello F!Billy/Sothis) or challenge them in various FB (Brave!Supreme Leader, but also in the most recent one, Sylvain harping on his Crust being BaD...) clearly showing how they don't really want to follow KT's direction regarding those units - at times, it's almost as if the CoS receives more development in Heroes than in both Fodlan games!

So I'd like to see what IS has in store for the next FE games (or the next non remake FE game), even if in my opinion, given how Heroes has to retcon/finish the writing (Mercedes reveals more about her Adrestian family in FEH than in two of her games!) for characters just to sell them in the gacha game ffs, speaks volumes on what they think of Fodlan's writing.

On top of that, FE16 was the first game where people received surveys/mails from Nintendo/IS asking them if they understood the game... - so despite Fodlan selling well (better than expected?), imo it's clear the writing isn't to praise, at least for IS, and they don't want anything to do with it (Nopes' DLC was scrapped, when shiny!Rhea's sprite was datamined, so either they made an useless sprite, either this sprite might have been used in a future DLC?)

They can still butcher a future remake (plz no jugdral) by adding pointless supports between units and trying to uwu more than needed the red emperor - or add an OC waifu du jour who will sell merchs and try to uwu her if she is on the side of the red emperor - but I feel like we will see where they will go with a brand new game (since Heroes's writing is... as consistent as a fog and basically circles around "women sad'n'lonely*, men evyl", female playable OC simps after the avatar and is useless in the resolution of the plot because Alfonse will finally find a mc guffin way to defeat the villain of the year).

*i truly hope Vero isn't any indication to what the writing of the future games will be, like heavy retcons from her first apparition to "i was brainwashed and akshually everyone supports me from my home even if i send them to death against askr because the voice in my head told me to do it" because that'd suck, but vero is a young woman, thus she could be monetised for alts, figurines and even DLC content in a main game!

#anon #replies #fwiw even the main redshit subs seems to be tired of the 'uwu stellar writing uwu' #i mean some people on the main sub #and call out the crap writting and incoherent plot points #I'm not joking about the CoS or at least Nabateans lol #they receive more love in FEH than in both games combined #especially Rhea which makes me happy #and billy too! #also lol@the shitstorm when Cyril was released #bcs some people didn't get the memo that Gonerils had him work without being fed in the main games #but here FEH puts it in your face through his own lines and Sharena's description #sure it's not too much because it's FEH and Cyril is a grail unit thus didn't get any FB #but it's better than the nothing he got in Nopes #and the bonkers supports and endings he can have in Houses that completely elude the topic #even Hubert in his support comments on how Adrestian Nobles treated Petra when she was brought to Adrestia #but in Cyril's support it's never mentionned he's just insulted and that's it #no one mentions how that certain house has almyran servants they forgot to feed #top tier writing uwu or is it just not throwing dirt on a waifu who can sell alts? #character rant #FE16

[krispdreemurr]

my realistic newsletter prediction is that we're probably not going to get many "shipping" related things outside of alphyne and "joke" ships (like sans and reigen). toby said in one of the previous newsletters that he's going to be cutting back on smaller game dev updates, so i'm thinking we may get more things like notes on collabs, toby's secret base article from famitsu, or merch news.

second kikiyama interview. this time they actually go to Denny's.

#fwiw my thoughts on the dating sim idea were that it would all be stupid jokes. #no actual shipping. maybe dating hud

[hanamiyama-basketball-club]

friday afternoon is no time to find out about canon teen titans go boostle. currently mentally derailed trying to come up with a catchy LUG-style acronym for "gay in teen titans go"

#yeah yeah also LUG is both showing my age and problematic but shhh puns are more important #I wouldn't call someone that I would simply make a joke about booster gold having a boyfriend in another canon you don't know him #fwiw I mostly still think about “lesbian until graduation” bc I was desperately hoping to get to be lesbian before graduation #and now I'm gay. life is complicated idk what to tell you

[ocularpatdowns]

“charlie work” is proof that the gang canonically all share one single brain cell

#iasip #i’m sorry if someone has made this joke before #fwiw mac has never had the brain cell #void journal

[sabakos]

"hey remember when people were calling themselves malakas bc they misinterpreted what that word meant"

translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=malakas&op=translate

My word, guess I gotta be a wanker every day in Greece so I can get bulked up for my time in the Philippines!

#the other half of the joke anon is in on being that “μαλακός” seems to be a word you could adopt for LGBT reasons if you don't know #fwiw a more appropriate ancient greek word that doesn't mean “wanker” in modern greek would be uh... my url

[obstinatecondolement]

I wrote a mostly gen, with background canon ships, ensemble cast fic that has the jumping off point Sam justifying her decision to let the ghosts use the internet with supervision to Jay that I posted last night.

It's fairly lighthearted, no real plot to speak of, but I think it's pretty canon typical and I like it a lot.

#ghosts cbs #ghosts us #ghosts cbs fic #my fic #I told my sister some of the jokes and she said 'you know you *should* be on chopped' fwiw

[2hufacts]

new old Omori tweet just dropped and I'm gonna keep it real I don't think she's beating the allegations

#this isn't a callout post or a cancellation #fwiw I think they're just edgy jokes from the early 2010s #but man against the internet she's not winning that case

[kaesaaurelia]

I am begging people to stop making "ironically" homophobic jokes on social media. Every single instance I've seen of this has actual homophobes, transphobes, and white supremacists who eat that shit up and reblog/qrt with transphobic suibait and eugenicist dogwhistles. I just saw an actually funny post with a homophobic dog meme added into the reblogs and the dude who added it was fully a homophobic antivax transphobe who also reblogged a joke about how mass shootings are false flags. He is not your fucking friend and he didn't add the homophobic dog meme in the spirit of gentle intracommunity ribbing. He wants you and your friends to die.

Make your "lol I'm homophobic! It's funny 'cause I'm gay!" jokes among friends if you want to -- in-group humor can be great! -- but remember that on the wilds of the internet or when directed at strangers it all just looks like regular homophobia out of context, and also, sometimes what you assume is just ironic is actually earnest homophobia.

#kaesa op #venty post #politics bs #not singling out the person who rb'd it because i don't want to be like 'how dare you personally not vet all your reblogs?' #that is not what this is about #this is about irony and sincerity often looking the same #also fwiw in my Misspent Youth (tm) I definitely made my share of 'ironic' antisemitic jokes #I know that other Jews saw them and were hurt by them #looking back I do not know how many of the people laughing were aware that I was Jewish #I definitely did not mean the shit I said but it did cause people to feel unwelcome #so my intent doesn't excuse it at all #self-deprecating jokes are a big thing in Jewish culture #but in the context of internet conversations that was lost and I just looked like a dickhead #and again: caused people to feel unwelcome and unsafe in the community I was part of

[evermoredeluxe]

I think I've heard someone (maybe Jaime) say that no one really calls her Tay and "T" is actually reserved for her real besties

well i’ve seen selena and ed call her that, and she refers to her dad using it. i remember gigi once posted a story calling her ‘T’ and im not saying that you’re wrong anon, just telling you how i view it haha

#fwiw i use ‘t’ rarely #i mostly call her taylor and when im joking i’ll call her ‘swift’ lol #anonymous #replies

[deadmomjokes]

If you ask me, Your Mamma Jokes are cheap and over-rated, just like your mamma.

My mom's not cheap, she cashed in and bought the farm! And she's not over-rated either; in fact, she's six feet under!

Get it? Cuz she's dead.

This post brought to you by the English language's preoccupation with and innate fear of death.

#death tw #dead parents tw #been a hot minute since my last dead mom joke #forgive me if they're not up to par at the moment #currently writing this during my therapy session #somehow i think when my therapist mentioned ''coping techniques'' #slinging cheap puns about my dead mother wasn't quite what he had in mind lol #(therapy was for the depression not the dead mom thing tho fwiw)

[in-bituin-the-stars]

hi! sorry, this is super out of nowhere and you don't have to answer, but do you have an artfight?

i mostly just use it to draw for other people than get my own stuff so it's not really something i really want to share, but thanks for the interest :] (smiley)

#i reblogged that one refs post but that's more a silly joke to myself #oh and i know worries about it aren't always rational but FWIW this is a very ok question to ask! reblogged a post about it after all #i know *I'm* also looking out for blogs doing artfight #asks