I remember someone saying “mad scientists in fiction aren’t scientists because there’s never a control group”
I think if you’ve created an elixir that turns people into goat men you have sort have gone past the need for a control group. The control group is not going to placebo themselves into goat men. You can probably not run the control group, and safely assume that none of them would have turned into goat men. That said, having a control group for that would make the mad scientist seem extra crazy and be really really funny, especially if he was carefully testing them for goat like features from the dyed water they drank instead of the elixir
#story ideas I will never write #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #got a point there #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
A fantasy book where many characters have dramatic High Fantasy epithets, but for incredibly non-dramatic reasons.
An adventurer known as The Herald of Dawn, but it’s because she tends to wake up naturally at 4 or 5 am and every single fucking time wakes up the whole damn camp before sunrise by banging pots and pans together while making herself breakfast.
A nobleman known as The Lord of Shadows, but it’s because his land is shaded from all sides by cliffs and mountains and all the other nobility are roasting this guy for not being able to grow or farm anything on his shitty, shady, no-sunshine-having estates.
A courtesan known as The Emerald of [location], but it’s because the county she was born in is known for manufacturing forged jewels and gemstones, and so far she is the fakest pretty thing to ever come from there.
An assassin known as The Kiss of Death, but it’s because he has somehow acquired every single known and documented STD in his mouth.
The Dark Huntress, named so to distinguish her from The Blonde Huntress.
A prince known as The Raven Prince, but it’s because he’s autistic and can and WILL tell you everything that is known about ravens, for five hours straight.
The Fallen King, named for falling off his horse, and deciding to build his kingdom there (because his horse ran off).
The Chosen One, ruler of a democratic state
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#overly literal interpretations #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #illness tw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Consider: Who Would Win-arguments, but instead of fighting each other, it’s two characters with somewhat similar skillsets, facing each other in something neither of them have experience in.
Geralt of Rivia vs Aragorn, son of Arathorn (book versions of both for clarity); which one of them would win in a match of table tennis?
#I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
this is the teaser image and actual title of an upcoming horror movie, by a director who thinks cgi is overused and too fake looking already so it’s probably going to be pretty funny
This went from “funny meta joke” to actually top tier monster concept the moment I just learned that the gator is canonically made of bad cgi in-universe. It is created when laptops get dumped in the swamp. The characters will recognize that it is a CGI entity and it will presumably have powers and abilities in accordance with that.
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#alligators #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog
I’m sure you understand this very well and don’t need me to tell you, but I also need to somehow express my appreciation for the fact that “a perplexed, slightly worried and completely enthralled expression of an entomologist checking up on his favorite bug and finding it doing tax returns on a little calculator” is an objectively completely hysterical way to describe the facial expression of any human regarding another, and an especially hilarious way to describe Havelock Vetinari when looking at Sir Samuel Vimes in particular.
he even stopped shaking the container to just watch the lil bastard for a change !
thank you sm, I’m very pleased yall are having fun with this <3
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#I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #Discworld #fanfic #(I poked around and this is apparently a thingy in the style of Disco Elysium) #(with Tumblr polls voting on which response option Vimes takes next) #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Hoping praying that somewhere out there is a shrimp therian who knows how to fry rice
I knew there was justice in this cruel world…
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#food #overly literal interpretations #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #(…I can’t quite tag this ”it got better” because it got better *before the first post left my queue*) #(so I am simply replacing that post with this new-and-improved version) #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Found another idiotic accounting mistake from my predecessor that I have to fix and I was like “WILL THE SPECTER OF THAT MAN’S INCOMPETENCE EVER CEASE TO HAUNT ME” and my coworker was like “Why do you talk like that”
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#””why do you talk like that”” #man I *wish* I could talk like that #that excuse for communication called speech #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
[Image ID: Tumblr tag from anidorikiladratalianna reading: #no stop that’s the narrative talking /End ID]
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#I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
One of my favorite hobbies is thinking about the fucked up implications of this fantasy world map my parents got me for christmas
[Image ID: photo of a map. On the left side of the map is Middle Earth, with the Shire and Mordor labeled. To the direct right of Mordor is Whoville.]
I FOUND THE FULL ONE AND ITS SO MUCH MORE CHAOTIC.
HYRULE SHOOK ME TO MY CORE!
THIS WORD HAS TWO KINGDOMS RULES BY A BEING IN A TOWER!
The existence of Oz and Neverland is wild too. Does this mean that there is a REAL Earth outside of this? Could Wendy hang out in Westeros?
Where the wild things are: the destroyed isle of Numenor????????
I was going to point out Numenor but I just realized Westeros is Aslan’s Country and I cannot stop laughing
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#maps #juxtaposition #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what
I have about a hundred ace/aro flag condoms left over from Pride and now I need to figure out what to do with them.
Market them as water balloons
That was the joke, but I still have about a hundred of them left.
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#asexuality #aromanticism #juxtaposition #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #nsfw? #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what
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