#darkly humorous

[galaxymagitech]

Jason (Age 12): I’m not gonna die from inhaling cigarette smoke, quit worrying, B.

Jason (Age 15): *dies from smoke inhalation*

Jason (Age 19): Well, it wasn’t the cigarettes.

#i find it darkly funny that people probably told Jason smoking would kill him #and then he died from smoke inhalation #irony i guess? #incorrect batman quotes #batman #dc comics #dc #dcu #jason todd #incorrect quotes #incorrect batfamily quotes #batfamily #batfam #incorrect dc quotes #humor

[musings-from-an-elder-goth]

Happy 94th birthday to John Astin!

creaturesfromelsewhere 03-30-2024

#John Astin #gomez addams #the addams family #darkly inclined #goth #goth style #goth aesthetic #goth humor #happy birthday #creaturesfromelsewhere #musings from an elder goth

[ardenrosegarden]

#amnesia the bunker #the difference between those two entries in joubert's journal... #from ''sigh. again with this shit'' to ''IT'S NEVER BEEN MORE OVER THAN IT IS NOW'' #it's a good choice and complements the atmosphere in-game really well imo #but if you're reviewing all the notes detached from it there /is/ a darkly humorous aspect to it adfghjk #shakespeareomnibus #amnesia

[unmarkedhelicopter]

The funniest thing about seeing both the FBI and the FBC take on the case of Alan Wake is how it really highlights just how the FBC totally operates on its own level of ethics and procedure as a government entity. Saga and Casey SHOULD have brought Wake to a hospital immediately after finding him, and probably shouldn’t have held him in their makeshift office and interrogated him without legal rep. However, Estevez laments not just locking Wake in a containment chamber the minute she found him like her gut told her too. Their extrajudicial decisions are Not The Same

#you could discuss the level of existential threat the fbc fights against and how that impedes on the legal rights of the individual I guess #but that sounds exhausting and the fbc doesn’t exist #and there’s already important discussions like that about our actual law enforcement #so I’m choosing to find this darkly humorous instead #alan wake 2 #alan wake 2 spoilers #aw2 spoilers

[sketching-shark]

hmmmmmmMmMMMMM so lego show spoilers ahead & good chance this is just me misunderstanding things and/or being too harsh on a silly goofy lego show and/or hanging onto an increasingly dwindling hope that Monkie Kid will give a better explanation for the Monkey King’s behavior than they’ve so far done beyond “Sun Wukong’s a impulsive idiot 5 eva,” but does it seem to anyone else that in the process of making a number of the villains from Journey to the West more relatable that it’s resulted in Sun Wukong just coming off as worse and worse? (to say nothing of the “intelligent” part of “intelligent stone monkey” seems to be getting dissolved in favor of hyperfocusing on the ol’ chaotic/impulsive characterization but that’s a conversation for another day).

Like in the og classic one of the things that makes the Monkey King a fascinating character is that he IS very violent, BUT his violence always has a clear reason with clear thinking behind it & which he’s often shockingly honest about. So to give a few examples! Why did Sun Wukong wage his havoc against heaven? Because heaven sent an entire army against him after he ruined one(1) banquet. Why did he attack the yaoguai kings of the Lion-Camel ridge? Because they were planning to eat the Tang monk (and had already eaten tons upon tons of other humans like holy HELL the description of their actions & their cave is gnarly). Why did he murder the Six-Eared Macaque? Because the Six-Eared Macaque attacked his pilgrim family, aimed to murder-replace him, and was using SWK’s monkey family as his personal tools to do so. So this SWK is a murderer many times over as he himself freely admits, but he tends to have pretty clear & dare I say understandable reasons for being a murder monkey.

But in Monkie Kid? Well, turns out that Sun Wukong convinced his sworn brothers to attack heaven again AFTER his havoc in heaven, and presumably thus got them all in a heap of trouble/trapped in an evil scroll for something he instigated! Why did he attack the other yaoguai kings? I guess he’s just a power-hungry jerk who betrays everyone now! Why did he murder the Six-Eared Macaque? Ditto the previous quote.

Now there is some slight indication that this betrayal of his former sworn brothers was because he was literally tortured into submission by heaven, but this only comes in a brief hint, while again the focus seems to be on how thoroughly Sun Wukong hurt and failed literally everyone he’s ever cared for up into the show’s present. And this has been true for the past couple of seasons. IDK, maybe this will all end with him being the ultimate example of “even if you are struggling with crushing grief and guilt & feel like you need to solve everything by yourself you need to accept help & tell people things,” but for the time being it’s honestly just making the Monkey King seem like someone who’s incapable of doing the right thing or changing for the better and who no one would possibly want to interact with.

Kind of does make the sudden concern for SWK that characters who clearly hate his guts or have some beef with him show when he gets locked in the evil scroll weird. Like, why do you care?

#monkie kid spoilers #monkie kid #might be darkly humorous if at least one character was like 'okay! problem solved! :D' #but that might be a little too dark for a kid's show & not keeping with whatever message flying bark is aiming for efgerseawrf

[pandorasboxoftreasures]

Recom Quaritch if he was his dead dad - Part 1:

Spider: Please, don’t do this! This is wrong! What you’re doing here is...

Quaritch: SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE! *Shoots the Tsahik himself* 

*Sips coffee watching the village burn from the deck of the SeaDragon after the Ta'unui confessed*

#darkly funny #dark humor #avatar #jc avatar #james cameron's avatar #avatar 2009 #avatar the way of water #the way of water #avatar 2 #avatar twow #atwow #avatar movies #avatar colonel #Colonel Quaritch #colonel miles quaritch #Miles Quaritch #avatar quaritch #recom quaritch #na'vi quaritch #quaritch avatar #spider avatar #avatar spider #spider socorro #spider atwow #miles socorro #avatar rda

[creaturesfromelsewhere]

My people.

#florida mugshots #dark humor #darkly inclined #florida gothic #creaturesfromelsewhere #creepy #florida humor

[talentforlying]

you'll always know when i actually have a little time to write constantine because that's when the peaky blinders rewatch begins.

#( ooc. ) OUT OF CIGS. #been watching fargo + hannibal back to back for the last three days and now it's home to the blinders #GOD those tight-knit storylines fuck. i love the writing in those shows. westworld too #gotta love darkly humorous tv series about power plays mindgames and mistakes borne of arrogance #anyway the paper deadline is done for and now it's just finals left to handle!! i am nearly fucking free!!

[neuro-stasis]

So, uh, my first attempt at fighting Cazador didn't go well

#it's kind of darkly humorous how I got hit with sleep and spent two turns snoozing right next to Astarion #unable to help him #and nobody else could reach him in time #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #bg3

[deathbind]

I was getting thrown off for a bit thinking I'd removed too much conflict from Serot's first life (because you need some kind of conflict for character purposes). But no, I didn't. I just forgot the Anactaci were not an easy order to found. He was a ghul lord first, and ghul lords were deeply mistrusted during his lifetime. Some people even blamed them for the appearance of the kheprer. Their efforts against the kheprer, led by him, were a step toward changing that, but nothing happens over night. Ghul Lords also weren't united; they tended to work alone or with an apprentice.

I mean, Serot had a massive undertaking. He had to unite the ghul lords and keep them united. He had to change an entire culture's mind about necromancy. He was also altering Soshist + Meketi eschatology and funerary rites. Mummification had been a part of their rites for ages but not necromancy or the philosophy he presented alongside it. I can honestly say he didn't even plan for the Anactaci to become part of the priesthood, although he was amenable to it once it was proposed.

He ended up doing a lot more politicking than he'd ever thought he would. He went from a nobody farmboy from some backwater to one of history's greatest icons. I can't even say that Meresankh's support made things easier. It definitely gave him an opening to the halls of power and someone driving him ever forward, but Meresankh's motivations were selfish as well. Not entirely but significantly enough. And anyway, Meresankh needed Serot as much as Serot needed them. Perhaps even more. They were a young, untested monarch who had yet to challenge their regent's power. They needed a promising young hero like him to give them an edge. I'd say they even played a key role in pointing Serot toward the Anactaci joining with the Manthu; that would give Meresankh an ally in the priesthood, further solidifying their power.

Not that Serot is someone who can be easily led. He loved Meresankh. He overlooked a lot of their worst traits because of that love. But, he is a deeply principled individual, and when something rubs against those principles, he does not compromise. He will defend them fiercely against anyone. Which is really what caused their falling out. It wasn't just fear over how influential Serot had grown, although that contributed. It was that Meresankh couldn't control Serot, and their trust issues were too profound to simply have faith in him. They needed control; they needed assurances; they needed safeguards. But, it would never be enough — and anyway Serot wouldn't give that to them. He'd give them a lot but not that.

#OOC / HOLLY. #anyway I think it's darkly humorous for Serot to return to Meket and be showered with adoration #and know there are all these great admiring stories about his lives #when he was a more controversial figure during his first life than they remember #and none of the subsequent lifetimes they know of were rosy either #he's like. people tried to kill me. several times in my first life. #in subsequent lives? they succeeded. I was assassinated more than once. #sb: remember when you blessed this humble corner of the city with your presence in your first life 🥰 #Serot: yeah they spit on me like camels #sdkfhgkjs anyway back to AC:O I go for a bit

[juniperhillpatient]

at the heart of scream there is an element of black comedy & I have not forgotten that for my au but like. it’s very black comedy. pitch black.

#I feel like only some people will get my humor at parts of this & that’s totally fine #in my opinion there’s parts of scream (canon) that could be seen as darkly funny #but also could just be taken at face value as horror #so that’s often what I’m going for #chapter 8 is a RIDE #this is the chapter I’ve most been looking forward to aside from the final chapter #it’s hilariously dramatic & insane & you get so many (I hope) satisfying reveals #eeeeeee #scream au

[thanatosdetesreves]

Tumblr made me wonder why was the titanic trending and now I'm going to hell with you all

#people are so darkly funny #the prime of dark humor #we're going to hell #titanic #oceangate #titan submarine

[musings-from-an-elder-goth]

Vampire bat? Sure. They're fuzzy and cute.

Leech? Not so much.

creaturesfromelsewhere 9-15-2023

#dark humor #goth humor #goth #darkly inclined #gothgoth #goth gf #not mine #creaturesfromelsewhere #musings from an elder goth

[itwoodbeprefect]

i was watching mash season 2 episode 20, and right somewhere at the start there's one of those classic camp announcements that just sort of get thrown into some episodes and are always done by the voice of a character we never meet, and it goes, "attention, all personnel. since there are no casualties again today, tonight's midnight movie will be seen at nine o'clock this morning. also, midnight will be cancelled" and it just hit me over the head with a sudden moment of ohhhhh. the people who make welcome to night vale definitely used to watch mash.

#also. this explains some of why both this (before tumblr fandom) tiny podcast and a show from half a century ago #are/were big hits with the tumblr crowd. if it's queer and just objectively very darkly weird in its humor... how could this website resist #god i keep saying this but. i should start listening to wtnv again #* #mash #wtnv

[geese-howards-transscriber]

Adam "Lemme" Smasher. Does that mean anything to you.

#cyberpunk: edgerunners #cyberpunk 2077 #adam smasher #i need the 'lemme smash' video remade in sfm with adam as the male bird now #it'd be very darkly humorous i think

[chamerionwrites]

Me, after spending the last decade or so well aware that I exhibit classic trauma responses yet existing in the weird state of doublethink that is "yeah yeah I'm not denying it but I'm still going to mostly tiptoe around calling it that because every time it just causes crushing guilt-spirals": If I had known that all it took was rereading the first three chapters of this book to breezily and painlessly arrive at lmao you're traumatized bro then I would have done it a long time ago

#it is not in fact that simple but LOL #glad we got that out of the way. only took the better part of my adult life. #brain weasels are darkly funny little bastards if your sense of humor tends toward the absurd #my posts