AnasAbdin
styofa doing anything
Keni
taylor price
we're not kids anymore.
titsay
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if i look back, i am lost
Peter Solarz
Mike Driver
will byers stan first human second
Misplaced Lens Cap
dirt enthusiast
oozey mess
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
RMH
One Nice Bug Per Day
almost home
art blog(derogatory)
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@jadesabre301
You are just the sweetest, most fun CAPSLOCK PERSON and I'm so glad to know you even if your tab habits give me anxiety
they also give me anxiety re: if i forget to close the private tab first then i lose all my tabs and i am very sadly sitting at only 16 right now, helas for all the things I wanted to look at
I deeply respect and slightly fear how much you can squeeze out of an underwritten fictional character
is this about stenvar jk jk THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU i love my underwritten babies, i love giving them What They Actually Deserve
your enthusiasm is crazy contagious
I TRY TO BE A HARBINGER OF JOY :333333333
I am envious of your ability to tell a koala and a wombat apart.
i was literally looking at our li'l platypus stuffed animal earlier today thinking "i wonder how @loquaciousquark would get this one wrong"
Anonymously tell me something you think about me 💭
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memeception
WE’VE HIT TERMINAL MEME
@caesarianconfection
I’ve said “I hate this” so many times on this website, and never actually meant it, because “I hate this” is just shorthand for ‘this is an example of a meme given a twist I wasn’t expecting with intent to surprise’. Which is, in of itself, a meme on this site. God damn it.
But this… This is something else.
The rapidity of a meme’s introduction to its zenith to its decline is so rapid that in ten years, you’ll need a damn twenty-page manual to explain this. It’ll be as unfunny and hard to explain as jokes in Shakespeare plays, except even more inexplicable because fuck, at least Shakespeare’s jokes are usually about anal or fucking your mother, good wholesome sex jokes we can all get behind.
For the love of fuck, how do you explain loss.jpg? How do you explain gun?
….I THOUGHT THIS WAS A YMCA REFERENCE
it is a YMCA reference - that’s one of the 6 memes being represented here
ok let me see if i can break this down easily. YMCA is the easiest place to start - the song itself has become a meme over time with people changing the lyrics to reference other pop cultural events. so YMCA is meme one (1)
this first lyric replacement (”take the breadsticks and run”) is a reference to the tumblr meme ‘stuffing breadsticks into my purse’. i think everyone remembers that one so i wont bother to explain it. that’s meme two (2)
“man door hand hook car door” is a meme of its own, a creepypasta from i dont remember when. it was a terrible stupid retelling of the generic ‘stuck in a car while hook handed man tries to kill us’ story so the stupid title caught on for memorability. that in and of itself is meme three (3)
‘gun’ is… yeah i dont know how to explain gun. long story short you add gun to the end of a phrase instead of what you expect the last word to be. its shock funny. its everywhere but its popular to add to “man door hand hook car door” for.. some reason? gun is meme four (4)
and the thing is, this four meme combo is something thats gone around before. meme combos are, itself, a meme. which means taking this meme combo and mixing in another meme actually becomes meme five (5)
which leaves us at loss.jpg. loss.jpg was a terrible bad comic supposed to be about some tragic event, but it was presented so poorly literally no one takes it seriously, and for some reason recreating the four-panel setup has become popular. so thats meme six (6)
(but i need to add that this is the greatest version of loss.jpg i think i’ve ever seen. the initial ‘young man’ lines up with the guy bursting through the door, and the shock meme ‘gun’ matches the shock scene of the woman in the hospital and idk if OP even thought about that but it makes this just so much better)
I wasn’t going to reblog this, but @pagesofkenna‘s comprehensive meme-by-meme annotation is a thing of beauty and should be shared.
average tumblr post contains one meme, this post, which contains six, is an outlier and should not be counted
it might also just be a coincidence due to loss.jpg’s format but the whole white minimalist four-panel setup is also suspiciously reminiscent of those early 2000’s rage comics
I was getting a political compass vibe too
tag urself im man door hand hook car gun
This works better than I thought it would.
This was in my senior project
I’m not sorry.
EIGHT MEME COMBO
FATALITY
We have officially created a new language
I just had to do it to em
THIS FUCKING THREAD I’M GONNA CRY
I LOST IT AND MAN DOOR HAND HOOK CAR GUN AND DIDN’T EXPECT MORE I’M SOBBING
M E M E T E N
W o w
You know I had to
I hope you know this is the most cursed addition to my post, and I love it
THIRTEEN!?
SOMEONE EDIT THIS FROM THE ORIGINAL PHOTO SAYING “this one does not spark joy” TO THIS VERSION SAYING “this one sparks joy”
well i added my contribution : )
why—
IM SCREAMING
This is the most elaborate meme I have ever seen and damn am I concerned by how it makes sense.
“You’re in your 30s, but you still understand all this meme stuff?” “Oh yeah, sure.” “Can you explain it to me?” “I absolutely fucking cannot.”
One does not simply explain this
Edit:
Another freaking layer!!!
16 motherfucking layers
In the future someone’s going to ask me to explain this and I’m going to be at a loss.jpg for words
I’m not reblogging this because I want to. I’m reblogging this because sometimes you’re a witness to history whether you want to be or not, and you have to embrace that.
GUYS STOP!! IF WE CONTINUE ON THIS ROAD, THE MEME WILL BECOME TOO POWERFUL!
No keep going, let’s see if we can brake tumblr. If we do let’s use it to brake fb and twitter
You’re chaotic neutral I love it
What he said
Struck by inspiriation twice lads
My humble contribution
I love going through the notes of this and seeing my 16 layer version and 24 layer version circulating.
ive added my end of the chaos
Beautiful
@lowkeyjustvibing what the fuck did you just reblog?
I don’t fishing know
Has this been done yet?
had to contribute to tumblr history
Oh my god this is tumblr history
oh my god my mutuals are doing this too
Yes we are✨
my hand slipped oop
fool i posted my meme before you
oh okay then-
someone-
I dare some one to keep going.
I couldn’t scroll past this and not make an addition 😂
Thank you 😝🤣
i spent half an hour on this addition hope y’all are happy
My humble contribution
I made one
This was a journey, and I’m glad I got to experience it
I am sorry to say but the train named,“Last Remnant of my Sanity”, has officially left the station.
The sheer power of this thread has me quaking
I’ve reached rockbottom and here we are
Ok but I need someone who can actually make a meme to add on but do the Thor ragnorak meme where tumble is Hela and she’s like you can’t defeat me and Thor is that first original plane white meme and he says I know but he can and the fire guy is the most recent one. Thanks
you ask and you shall receive
I’m so glad this made it to my dashboard
So I decided to contribute as well…
I love how by the last ones the meme is almost unrecognizable in the layers
34 💖💖💖
We must never let this end
There are, SO MANY LAYERS to this meme, and I’m going to add more of them by fusing a few of the deepest memes I’ve seen so far XD
The memes here come from the following chains, starting from the bottom right:
This current chain with 35 layers before this.
This chain with 27 layers. By @cerbi-my-babyyyyy
This other chain with 35 layers. By @gay-girl-thing
This particular chain with 28 layers. By @thewintercavalier
Another chain with 27 layers. By @be-gay-cause-crime
This particular chain with 29 layers. By @theforgowolf
Yet another chain with 27 layers. By @thefirstjackal
And this last chain with 29 layers, yet again. @memermemedout
I wonder, how many layers does this meme have now with this fusion of memeceptions, 28, 36 or 43?
here you go
What the fuck is happening
the circle of life
@hellsite-hall-of-fame
the fact that the timestamps on the original thread are 2020 explains so much
This is the funniest fucking thing I’ve ever seen.
Perfect example of an untranslatable joke. 😂
@annalyia
Wake up babe, new octopus just dropped
He's such a little guy!
@moonlightink7 CREATURE
@lynne-monstr new tentacle friend!
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Summer Writing
June, July, August
It's summer, some of you may even be on vacation, and up here in the northern hemisphere it's already way too hot. None of these things lend themselves to a lot of writing time.
But we are writers, are we not? Let's write then.
Summer writing means setting manageable goals, something we can fit in between all the other stuff. This may be a wordcount goal, or to work on the story for a certain amount of time. It may also be something else creative you want to do.
@mareebrittenford is working on a fancy spreadsheet for you, and I'm (@barbex) making a weekly image for you, where you can write down your goals for that week and get a little, optional, prompt for your current project.
We start on the first of June, and until then, I want you to think about what a realistic goal is for you for the first week. Make a post about it and tag this blog. Let's write together this summer.
~barbex
Oh yeah, and don't use generative AI, that would be totally beside the point of writing together. And also stupid.
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(background photo by Julien Lavallée on Unsplash)
the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.
the eight-year-old telling star wars mary sue stories at sleepovers the twelve-year-old filling notebooks with harry potter self-insert for her friends during math class the thirteen-year-old with her back pressed against her bedroom door while she feverishly scribbles the angstiest ending imaginable on the cowritten sailor moon fic that her friend is going to joss the second she gets it on the morrow the teenaged target cashier writing zutara on the back of receipts people didn't want the college grad sitting on a futon in her first apartment, regretfully writing one (1) glee drabble because she just can't help it the high school teacher filling up her friend's gchat log with fenris fic the newlywed sitting on her couch alone and sobbing onto her laptop as she processes her husband's deployment through shepard's eyes the newish mom wearing a sleeping baby on her back and rocking from foot to foot while she fills up post-it after post-it with jester and caleb the homeschool mom sitting on her bestie's couch and finally having a chance to unleash brittany the breton's feels about stenvar the newly working mom sitting on her bestie's couch writing elarwyn/gale in her bestie's tavstarion verse in exchange for help with said work the almost-forty mom breaking 100K for the first time ever on a veilguard fic that started with waking up from a dream and desperately writing down the plot hook before the kids came asking for breakfast and picking it up again after a month and a half of crazy lifeness, on the day when her eleven-year-old tells her, "I like to imagine stories I've read, but to put myself in them, too."
My old person take today is that I feel like people have normalized being on your phone every single moment including when you're spending "quality" time with others so much that they're defensive if someone isn't ok with it. Yes, you have a problematic relationship with your phone and social media if you physically cannot put it down for a couple of hours to like, have dinner with your friends. It's a show of respect for other people's time and energy as well as important to be present and connect with people around you. Your parents who told you no phone at the table were right for that one.
Midnight Pals: The Pope
Pope Leo: eyyy its me, da chicago pope William Peter Blatty: gasp! your holiness! Blatty: what an honor! i Blatty: i just Blatty: i just Blatty: wow! Blatty: [geneflecting wildly] just wow!
Blatty: c'mon everyone, show some respect! Blatty: it's the pope! Barker: cool, good for him Blatty: oh my god Blatty: he doesn't mean that, your holiness Pope Leo: eyyy its all good Blatty: [geneflecting intensifies] oh my god, he's got the patience of a saint!
Pope Leo: eyyy listen i got somethin' ta say Blatty: listen up people! the pope's got something to say! Poe: oh he's got an encyclical? Pope Leo: dat's right Pope Leo: yeah i got your encyclical right here!!
Pope Leo: ok listen up yous guys Pope Leo: da chicago pope is talkin' Pope Leo: first of all, be it known through alla da whole world of catholicism Pope Leo: dat the only way to eat a dog is wit' tomato wedges an pickled peppers Pope Leo: ketchup is heresy Blatty: very wise, very wise!
Pope Leo: now second of all Pope Leo: i gots some words about all this here AI Pope Leo: in fact it reminds me of a quote by da smartest guy i've ever known Blatty: ah yes yes Blatty: you speak of Jesus Christ of course Pope Leo: nope Pope Leo: i'm talkin' gandalf Blatty:
Blatty: what Pope Leo: dat's right Pope Leo: in da immortal word of gandalf da gray Pope Leo: "It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set" Pope Leo: think about it
GRR Martin: hey jirt did you hear JRR Tolkien: what? Martin: you got quoted by the pope Tolkien: i got quoted by the pope? Martin: yeah Tolkien: THE pope? Martin: yeah Tolkien: the pope in rome?? the holy pontiff??? god's ambassador on earth????? THAT pope??????? Martin: yeah
Tolkien: well well well Tolkien: now look who's laughing! Tolkien: hmm hey clive CS Lewis: what Tolkien: remind me, has the archbishop of whatever ever quoted aslan? Lewis: Tolkien: i'm sorry i can't hear you Tolkien: what was that again? Lewis: no Tolkien: ha ha that's what i thought!
Tolkien: oh it's no big deal Tolkien: just the top guy in catholicism talkin' about gandalf Tolkien: nope nope not a big deal at all Tolkien: sorry you can never experience that, clive CS Lewis: Tolkien: but that's what you get for picking anglicanism Tolkien: lmao loser ass religion
CS Lewis: hey! it's a perfectly valid faith! Tolkien: yeah whatever Tolkien: "anglicanism" Tolkien: lol you don't even know what you're getting
Earth’s Scapegoat and her Sacrificial Lamb
3rd Place Play-off — Match 1 / 1 — Ketheric Thorm vs. Minthara Baenre
General Ketheric Thorm is an Undead with elven ancestry and appearance, the Chosen of MyrkulMyrkul, and one of the leaders of the enigmatic Cult of the Absolute. He serves as one of the main antagonists in Baldur's Gate 3.
"j.k. simmons voice. come on. that alone buys him points."
"he makes act 2 feel coherent. every weird thorm relative, every bit of moonrise, every piece of the shadow curse stuff points back to him somehow. also the whole “would raze the world for his daughter” thing is just such a strong horrible character core. awful man. excellent villian."
vs.
Nightwarden Minthara Baenre is a recruitable Companion who can be romanced by characters of any gender. She is a Lolth-Sworn Drow and an Oath of Vengeance Paladin with the Noble background. Ruthless in service of the Absolute, she commands a camp of goblins planning an attack on the Emerald Grove in the name of their god. Initially hostile, she can be re-encountered during Act Two and saved from execution.
"there’s no clowning around with her. she’s intense, she’s ruthless, she’s fully committed to the Absolute at that point, and she makes the whole attack-on-the-grove path feel way more real because she actually seems capable of pulling it off"
"she makes act 1 feel way more serious. also shes got that really good “says horrible things in a calm voice” thing going on which always works on me as villian material. just very very effective bad vibes tbh."
Which antagonist do you prefer?
Ketheric Thorm
Minthara Baenre
jk simmons rights
FINAL — Match 1 / 1 — Orin the Red vs. The Emperor
Orin the Red is the Chosen of Bhaal and one of the leaders of the enigmatic Cult of the Absolute and serves as one of the main antagonists in Baldur's Gate 3.
"my love my darling the light of my life. She is The villain. She's a poor little meow meow. She flays people to make art. She loves what she does. She's never had a chance to do anything else. She could be disguised as anyone, but she loves being herself. She's the poet of all time. She has a flail in her hair. She's perfect."
vs.
The Emperor is a Mind Flayer who appears in Baldur's Gate 3. It plays a key role in the main story, but its identity is intentionally obscured until later parts of the game, allowing the player character to ultimately decide for themselves if they want to know more about it, and whether or not it is trustworthy.
"sorryyyy but i love a character where half the fandom is like “he cared about you in his own way :(” and the other half is like “that manipulative freak needs to be put in a blender” and the answer is basically yes <3 that is GOOD CHARACTER MATERIAL. he’s charming, calm, helpful when it suits him, and all the while there is this constant horrible question hanging over every interaction like okay… what do you ACTUALLY want from me. and i love that the game never gives you a nice easy answer to that. he is intimate in this super invasive way. he’s in your head, in your dreams, in your decisions, acting like the only reasonable person in the room while hiding fifty things at once. nightmare man. excellent villain."
"he’s not just some big final-boss-type evil where you immediately know where you stand. he’s manipulative in a much more annoying and effective way than that. also i think he benefits a lot from how personal he feels. this isn’t some distant villain in a tower somewhere, this is a guy who keeps inserting himself directly into your space"
Which antagonist do you prefer?
Orin the Red
The Emperor
THANK GOODNESS LET'S GIVE OUR GIRL HER DUE
I was thinking of a book character last night, and just how crazy his life was. So I'm going to tell you what he went through then tell you the character's name. If you figure it out I like you.
He was the son of a leader of a clan, and as a baby his mother and half the clan were murdered by pirates while his father was off finding provision.
His father, stricken with grief, left his son in the care of the boy's grandmother. So he could go hunt down the Captain that took the life of his wife. Leaving his sword for his son to remember him by.
As a child, he was playing too far away from his clan, sword in hand. When his grandmother found him it was too late. A warlord party found the both of them and kidnapped them to be slaves. The warlord stole his father's sword.
His grandmother died as a slave.
He spent his teen to young adult years as a slave. Until he had enough and started to push back. He ended up in a prison's pit but made some friends that allowed him to escape. Meeting a young woman who was trying to save her brother from the prisoner pit.
They made a plan to return to the young woman's village and raise up an army to take down the warlord. On their journey to do this they made many friends who would also aid them in fighting this war. Slowly and quietly, he fell in love with the young woman. Wanting to spend his life with her.
Many friends were lost, he was determined to get his father's sword back.
During the final battle as the fighting raged on he watched as the warlord took the love of his life, and launched her into a wall crushing her skull, killing her. He only saw red as he leapt from the walls. Fighting the warlord and winning, retrieving his father's sword. Despite his friends' kindness and plead for him to return to the village with them he couldn't. Not without his love.
So he became a wanderer, and he stayed a wanderer into his 30s until he stepped onto another warlord's land. He was bound and taken because he was a commoner who dared carry a weapon. The warlord's punishment was to take his father's sword and break it in half, and be thrown into a prison cell for a couple of years. And he was there for a few years.
Until he met a new friend, that helped him escape. Meeting with the old leader of the lands who was forced out and hiding. She, having a small group of allies, and more rolling in, tasked him with another journey to get more support to defeat the warlord. He willingly did it again, meeting a man that fixed his father's sword, rebuilding it with meteorite metal.
He also happened upon a man who was once a friend of his from his original clan. He too had also been enslaved by pirates.
After he was able to get more recruits they journey back to their allies.
The final battle happens and he wins but is seriously injured and goes into a coma for several weeks. When he wakes up he chooses to stay with his allies and friends this time and help them build a home for themselves in the area.
Years go by and he's now in his 40 to 50s progress is being made to the village, our warrior traded his sword for a hammer. Wanting to create rather than destroy.
One day a young girl comes to the village. She is kind and sings a little tune that catches his ear. A song that tells the tale of his father. He never thought to ask his friend from his clan about him. He had already passed, years of enslavement took his life early.
So he sets out on one more quest to return to his home clan. Taking the young girl, and the friend that helped him escape with him.
They make it to his original home, and their waiting for him was one of his father's friends. He never left hoping one day his friend’s son would return.
He was able to tell the tale of our warrior's father. He was able to get his revenge but at the cost of his own life.
Satisfied with this the group returns back to the village taking the older friend with him. He never tells his new home about what happened to him as a young man, but the love he lost. They wouldn't find out until generations later.
Despite this our warriors become a hero to the village and his legacy is passed down for generation to generation. And he is still kind throughout all of it.
And the craziest thing about this warrior's story is he's a mouse.
This is Martin the Warrior from The Redwall series, one of my favorites of all time!
@annalyia
