17th-century-and-earlier revenge tragedy rewrites of famous narratives are becoming A Thing on Tumblr. Why should they have all the fun? Here is my current favorite, a summary of the deeply gruesome and nihilistic "The Madman's Tragedy" with discussion questions.

The struggle is real, T-Rex, the struggle is real.

Hold everything!

Courtesy of handful_ofdust, I just saw that

*kazoo fanfare*

KATE BEATON IS DOING HER THING AGAIN, ONLY THIS TIME WITH BROADSIDE BALLAD ILLUSTRATIONS and they are GLORIOUS check them out HERE

OK, you may proceed.

Long, excellent thread on Captain Awkward, about wanting your significant other to like the show you like. Funny, smart remarks from everyone, sometimes embarrassing because I recognize a lot of these behaviors. Both Why don't you like this show that is part of my personality? and Stop fucking telling me I have to enjoy this awesome thing! are ( Read more... )

I honestly can't tell. Is this intentionally or unintentionally funny? I think it's the second one, but I'm not sure. I have a hard time perceiving irony when there is that much eighties hair visible ( Read more... )

This sums up the things I liked about Harold Ramis. Sick humor from SCTV, 1977: "So You're Dead: Now What?"

Because we could all use a laugh: Anti-Joke Thor, with a follow-up of So Done With This Shit Tony.  Found via cleolinda's tumblr.

Thor is basically me right here, you realize.  Read the comments at the bottom as well.

Smeagol and Gollum have all the feels.

During an excellent party chez asakiyume, there was a moment when csecooney looked up a YouTube documentary on the baby-shoe bronzing process, in order to satisfy everyone's curiosity.

Afterward, I asked people to come up with subjects for inappropriate YouTube tutorials.  These are some of the options we invented:

( Cut for gross and horrifying. )

Every so often...

I take great pride in knowing better than Humon of Scandinavia and the World. 

Doesn't happen often, mind you.  I usually rely on her comics to give me a random-trivia education on the world outside America and I feel grateful for the news links which explain what the hell is going on in Scandinavia-centric comics.  Then again, ( Read more... )