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This rapid slide from attempted machismo to sweet tender feelings is what happened to the show, too.

I still think it’s hilarious that the reason nobody ever figures out Superman’s secret identity or where he lives or what he does when he’s not saving the planet, is because he already told them all the Kryptonian stuff that can’t be tied to any of his human friends or family. I guarantee you the in-universe wikipedia article on Superman lists his name as Kal-El and the “personal life” section says that he lives full-time at his private fortress of solitude at the north pole. Nobody in the world looks at Clark Kent and thinks “oh my god, maybe he’s superman!” for the same reason nobody ever starts to suspect that their coworker who looks KINDA like Barack Obama is actually secretly Barack Obama – They know who Barack Obama is and know what he does and they know their coworker Greg is Greg and not Barack Obama. They have no reason to assume Barack Obama secretly moonlights as Greg The IT Guy at their workplace even though they’ve never seen Greg and Obama in the same place. At best, “Greg is secretly Obama” would be a running joke at the office, and the same is true at the Daily Planet. “Kal-El of Krypton, who lives in a CRYSTAL PALACE at the NORTH POLE and whose dayjob is SUPERMAN, sometimes puts on a suit and pretends to be a clumsy reporter and lives in a one-bedroom walkup in Metropolis” is a ridiculous concept to anyone who doesn’t already know it’s true

comedowntheroad-blog

@unpretty

roachpatrol

“Hey, that— that guy, in the corner, is that— is that Superman?”

Clark looks up from his computer at the new intern. “Oh, no,” he says. “You caught me.”

“Clark, you pull this shit every time, man,” his desk neighbor Steve says. “Shut the fuck up.”

“No, the kid’s right, I’m Superman,” Clark says. He gets out of his seat and cracks his back out. “I guess we’re gonna have a superhero fight.”

“Clark, sit back down.”

“Nope. Superhero fight.”

“Clark if you don’t sit the hell back down and finish your article by lunch I am going to tell Perry on you.”

Clark points at the intern. “You get off easy this time, buddy,” he says, and sits back down.

“So…” the intern says, very lost. “Uh…”

“That’s Clark,” a slightly older and more experienced intern says. “He’s Superman’s asshole twin.”

beka-tiddalik

The funniest part is when Clark does this in front of Jimmy Olsen, who is just staring in disbelief as Clark talks about using his superpowers to help Ma Kent on the farm in a sarcastic tone of voice, when Jimmy knows for a fact it’s 100% true, that is what Clark did last weekend.

Intern: “Ahahahah Superman in Kansas tilling the fields at superspeed, that’s a good one. What, if the tractor breaks down, do you just pick it up and take it back to the barn?”

Clark: “Nah, between my ex-ray vision and my heat vision I can generally find whatever the problem is and do a spotweld if necessary so long as I know where to get the parts - once had to nip over to South Korea because I didn’t want to wait 6 weeks for the ship to get there.”

Intern: “Bahahaha classic, Clark you are so funny! Superman fixing tractors with his heat vision, oh that’s a good one.”

Jimmy: “…”

beneaththebrim

hey for tgcf, can you explain the phrase “with heavenly official’s blessings, no paths are bound”? i don’t get the meaning behind it 😅

Sure!

To start with, the Chinese phrase is:

天官赐福，百无禁忌！

(tiān guān cì fú, bǎi wú jìn jì!)

So, it’s based on a couple different things:

First, the ‘tian guan’ part actually comes from a particular Daoist deity (called Tianguan), although in TGCF, it refers to any generic official in heaven. The full phrase ‘tian guan ci fu’, for Daoists, is a prayer for blessings from the god Tianguan, who presides over fortune and is associated with the Shangyuan festival (I got this info from this twitter post zhang made--see that post and this wikipedia page for for more info about Tianguan).

As for the second part, it’s a chengyu (that is, a four-character idiom) meaning ‘all taboos are off/anything goes/nothing is taboo’ (although Suika translates it as ‘no paths are bound’). It was recorded in the Qing Dynasty in Fan Yin’s Yue Yan. (Source)

As for how this phrase relates to the themes of TGCF--in chapter 3, we first have Ling Wen saying the first four characters and Xie Lian saying the second four--Ling Wen is basically saying good luck, while Xie Lian is replying in a carefree manner--I think his main point in saying ‘anything goes!’ is to convey that Ling Wen doesn’t have to be so polite to him; it won’t make a difference in his luck. Xie Lian is used to not thinking much of himself and getting caught in all sorts of misfortune--he’s been through the worst, so nothing is taboo to him anymore.

And, over the course of the novel, we see that indeed, nothing is taboo for most of the heavenly officials--they all have skeletons in their closets. So, it’s a bit tongue-in-cheek, pairing a prayer for good fortune from the oh-so-holy heavenly officials with the phrase ‘nothing is taboo’. Xie Lian is thought to be the worst, most taboo and unlucky god, but in the end he is actually the most honest and most generous.

The phrase comes full circle with the ending lines of Ch.244--previously, Xie Lian has been suppressed by all sorts of taboos, so no one in their right mind would worship him. But, with Hua Cheng’s help in exposing the wrongdoings of heaven and freeing Xie Lian from his shackles, it becomes possible for Xie Lian to once again accept prayers and bestow blessings, without any taboos in the way.

So,

By heaven official’s blessing, all taboos are off!

(art from manhua, slightly altered by me to make the crop less awkward :P)

tributary

this is the funniest possible start to a “stop calling me an antisemite 😡” post i’ve ever seen

humphul-deactivated20241215

i love you christians. i love you tinsel. i love you frankincense and i love you donkeys

piedude

userautumn

being on this website when you don't care about the gay incest show (half man), the other gay incest show (supernatural), the gay firefighter show, or the gay hockey show is kind of just like... ok ....... ok....... well at least there are pictures of trees. birds in trees, even. at least there's that.

theres-a-hole-in-my-wall

did somebody say birds

calidotgov-deactivated20240108

congratulations piracy

livefromtheloam

Ad agency: Please don't steal the King's potatoes, no matter how easy it is.

Regular people: Wait, the King has easily stolen potatoes? How do I get in on this?

Internet users who have been stealing potatoes for years: We made a machine that picks so many potatoes and also that machine is free. Enjoy!

commandtower-solring-go

Ad agency: you wouldn't steal a movie?

10 year old me with 0 income and no movie: YOU CAN STEAL MOVIES????

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[Image ID: Headline from IFLScience reading: "You Wouldn't Steal a Movie" Advert May Have Led To More People Stealing Movies /End ID]

geekysteven

teaboot

Fun fact! Both the music and the font in that ad were incorrectly sourced and did not provide compensation to the creators

al-kol-eleh

Rabbi Poupko

muttsandmustelidae

From the Nashville Zoo’s fb page! Here’s the petition, please please please take a moment to add your name (even if you’re not from Nashville!). If you are from Tennessee, contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center. This is an AZA accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals, we NEED to protect it. Make your voice heard!

muttsandmustelidae

Because people will pay attention to cute animals, here are some of the critically endangered/endangered species housed at the Nashville Zoo!

The Amur Leopard and Clouded Leopard (which recently celebrated its 50th cub born at the zoo!)

The Sumatran Tiger

The Red Ruffed Lemur and Ring-Tailed Lemur

The Cotton-Top Tamarin and White-Cheeked Gibbon

The Colobus Monkey and De Brazza’s Monkey

And the Mexican Spider Monkey!

Look at them!!!! Look at them and fight like hell to save them!!!!

mariacallous

redpandarascal

in conversation about white people who go to Japan and expect their knowledge of anime to culturally carry them, I was once posed with “it’s like if there was a Japanese guy who was obsessed with spongebob and came over here and thought he could get by just communicating in spongebob quotes.” This is a false equivalence because if such a man existed we would crown him king. We’d love him. Americans would fucking love that. sometimes I get sad that this isn’t a real guy I can invite to a party.

hong--zhi--zhu

frustratedasatruar

rainbowgod666

Ok the last one got me laughing actually

unsolicited-opinions

Alicia Lapp is running for Governor of California and wants to deport all Zionists.

Later, she admits her problem is with "hebs"

She's a Republican.

She poses with a burning Israeli flag here.

partyinvalhalla

OFC she uses 'le happy merchant'

shakebelton

the problem with israel is that they had so much goodwill following oct 7 because it was really such a horrific attack. all they had to do was respond more or less in kind and then sit back down and everything would be great. but no, they just couldn't stop killing and invading all their neighbours, and then that wasn't enough and they are just pissing off half the world for no good reason. like idk i think it's so easy not to accept stolen ukrainian grain from russia. the first time they were like oh you were too late to tell us this grain was stolen (ukraine was not too late). but now it's the second time already, and they started with "you did not tell us" (did too, and also this is literally the second time), then moved on to "you told us but there's no proof it's true" (there is lmao), and finally just ended up with "fuck you, don't tell us we can't buy stolen grain from russia and therefore finance their war against you". like literally i just think it is so easy not to do these things. and yet

ido100

...These are a lot of words for "I hate Israel but not the Joos I'm not a Nazi!"

Also "killing and invading their neighbors?" Did you not know Hezbollah and Hamas were the ones to attack Israel in the first place, after Israel had given them time and time again, the chance to not be psychotic Jew haters? Hamas were given resources and cash and what did they do with it? Initiate the worst attack on the Jewish people since the holocaust.

Hezbollah made the north's life a living hell for decades and you expect Israel to show them any goodwill?

I will ask you this- will I see you condemn Iran or North Korea for doing far worse? For executing innocent civilians or legalizing rape?

jewishgay4il

lmaooooo

ALLL THEY HAD TO DO was murder and rape and behead and dismember and kidnap children just like my little blorbos!!!!!!! THEN no one would hate them [for waging a war they did not start, endangering their own soldiers in attempts to minimize civilian casualties, using taxpayer funds to provide aid they KNOW will be used to hurt them, spending millions providing healthcare to those who orchestrate the murder of jews (and their allies)]

do you hear yourselves.

tryingto-survivethis

Good will?????? WHERE?! There were anti Israel protests onmy campus calling it a genocide on OCTOBER 10th!!!! Israeli retaliation didn’t even BEGIN until October 12th. What planet are you on????

imyourbadjew

People were celebrating while the October 7th attacks were still underway.

Fuck off

the-library-alcove

I saw people on this very site cheering in the comments of a video of an Israeli child hostage being abused by Hamas militants on the day of the attacks. What "good will"?

maimonideznuts-temporary

People chanted "gas the Jews" and protested against lighting the Sydney Opera House in the Flag of Israel, on the same day as the Massacre. There was never good will, there was celebration.

soloorganaas

every june I get extra defensive about being jewish simply because the queer community and antisemitism are now so inherently intertwined. it's a time of year where we're all supposed to gather and hug and dance in collective joy and unite in our care for each other but that's now impossible when the vast majority of the community explicitly hate jews. I'm not going to write the 10000th post detailing how and why. we've been doing that for years and the community still don't care. all we get is anger and denial and being pointed to tokenistic antizionist jews and being told be more like them. accept it and be quiet. we will not tolerate your existence otherwise

soloorganaas

and honestly I don't wanna hear any well-intentioned apologies or stories of allyship. if you're not demanding from a queer org why someone is allowed to sell 'globalize the intifada' art at their pride event then nothing is going to change