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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

OwO?

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

you just… understand this. you do not get to explain it, nor would you be able to explain it. you simply understand the meme in and of itself.

imagine the valuable information my brain could be holding on to instead of all of this historical meme knowledge.

Preserve this thread for future memeologists, unearthing a server in the far future, because suddenly it will make 30% of Tumblr actually make sense to them.

I do think part of this is the writing as well, which is something I keep grappling with. Admittedly, I haven’t watched in a while and so am not familiar with Nate, but I do have issues with how both Ellis and Billy were introduced, wherein they immediately had beef with arguably two of the most beloved and sympathetic queer men on the show. (Matty and Ellis’ altercation was literally on the heels of his extremely sympathetic introduction in which the audience is primed to take his side.) 

This then frames Ellis and Billy in terrible lights: Ellis for being violent towards Matty, and Billy for having been part of Aaron’s torture in prison, something we saw in much detail, and then Aaron recounted for us in the moment and in subsequent episodes. Neither is great, and automatically feeds into the stereotype of black men being violent. 

Now, you can argue that white characters have been introduced in similar ways, and that’s fine and fair (mostly because I cannot remember any similar/recent introductions). But to do so is to ignore the implications that come with being a person of colour, which in turn brings me back to my main point: hire writers of colour. Because more often than not, we’re more than aware of the dynamics at play and we know how to write and avoid pitfalls. 

A lot of the race-based stuff that Emmerdale has tackled has been average at best, and as felt like a primer on issues that most people of colour are more than familiar with. (There is no way in hell that Ellis did not grow up already knowing that part of Jessie’s implicit defence of Billy is because she knows the world has already given him an unfair shake as a young black man. But I do appreciate and commend the effort of trying to educate a larger audience.) 

Tl;dr: Are you allowed to dislike characters of colour? Yes. Absolutely! But also examine where your hate is coming from, and also look at the context in which the show might be framing them. (Also, maybe why you have a problem with them, when you’re fine with similar traits and behaviours from a white character.) Jessie defending Billy, while annoyingly repetitive at this point, is not unlike Chas vowing to do whatever it takes to defend Aaron, because he’s her child and she loves him. 

Seconding the writing. One of my frustrations with Emmerdale is the way that (with the exception of Billy) race tends to be ignored except when needed for a plot point or set dressing. I mean, the Sharmas could all be replaced by white actors tomorrow and it wouldn’t change a single thing about the way they’re written, because them having brown skin is literally never acknowledged or reflected in the scripts. Like Rishi and Manpreet’s party - lovely Indian outfits all round, but not a single mention of their cultural heritage or what all of it means to them.

Ditto Jessie and the Caribbean wedding. It felt like the show was going ‘ooh, steel drums and rum cake, isn’t that exotic and fun?’ without ever acknowledging in the script what all of that actually means to Jessie. Were her grandparents immigrants? Does she have family in the Caribbean? Given that both of her previous husbands were black, did she have any concerns about marrying Marlon or frustration with the fact that he can’t relate to or fully understand a lot of what she and her sons experience?

For me, there’s a lack of lived/embedded reality in the way race is written on Emmerdale that almost certainly reflects the lack of diversity in the writers room. It feels like most of the time the writers are choosing to write in a completely colour-blind way (I’d bet money the fact that Nate isn’t white will never be mentioned), which undercuts the writing for non-white characters. I mean, I find it massively unrealistic that, say, Rodney hasn’t made an assumption about what sports Ellis is good at, or Bear Wolf hasn’t asked Priya where she comes from ('no, originally’).

I remember when Jessie first made a comment about Billy facing prejudice because he was black, and my first reaction was shock because holy shit, someone actually said it! Lots of people had written meta by that point about what Billy’s experience in prison would have been like as a black man, but I genuinely expected Emmerdale to just ignore it.

(Full disclosure - I don’t like Billy very much, in the sense that I don’t think he’s a very nice person. But I think that he’s interesting, nuanced and well-developed, with both sympathetic and unsympathetic qualities, and I think all of that is much more important for a soap character than being likeable. Jessie I like well enough, although I’m a little frustrated at how shallow she feels after 2 years on the soap - give her a friend! Nate just reminds me of Ross, who I couldn’t stand.)

Oh completely agree! Especially in terms of the Sharmas. Just within the four of them (Rishi, Jai, Priya, and now Manpreet), there should be this huge wealth of experience and perspective that is simply... not there? Does Rishi care what traditions his kids follow? Did Jai, Priya, and Nikhil feel the need to assimilate amongst their peers growing up? And how do Jai and Priya relate to Indian culture? Just between my brother and I there’s a huge difference in how we approach and feel about things — and that’s within one family! (I still find it hilarious that none of them seemed to have an opinion about the pub’s curry night. Though that could be down to no one really being big on cooking.)

I appreciate the effort to bring in more inclusive characters, but it’s not enough to just represent people by the colour of their skin, you have to make an effort to depict their experiences too. Because it’s not just about the number of characters, it’s also about the quality of roles they’re written. (Are they simply wallpaper or do they have their own internal lives? Are they simply background characters or do they affect and drive plot?) For example, while I appreciate Nate being a character of colour, I don’t think it’s the smartest to have him, a black man, be introduced by successively sleeping around with a lot of female characters (this feeding in to another negative stereotype), followed by him breaking up one of the most beloved couples on the soap. On it’s own, it would be okay at best. But right now that’s three black men all brought in as initial antagonists to characters the audience is already rooting for, and as a pattern that’s not great!

It may seem like a lot of little, largely insignificant things, but over time that stuff builds up and can affect how we think and feel about certain issues, because it reinforces biases (negative or positive) we may not know we might have internalised. Soaps have such a wonderful reach in terms of audience, it’s a shame they’re not maximising it as best they can.

aaron in the background is talking about the plot of Black Panther and ending it in a wakanda forever sign

you can’t change my mind

@letthebluerain WAKANDA FOREVER

Robert looks super smitten because it’s just a segue into their discussion about Avengers: Endgame and Robert cannot believe he’s actually sitting here and discussing ten years of Marvel with his husband.

i mean, robert knows that is not exactly the sign, but aaron is trying. also aaron didn’t really care much for infinity war but now that he’s hooked as well, robert smiles knowingly the pain that the next two movies are about to cause. but that is the face of a man who is ready for a marvel movie marathon

Aaron rolled his eyes at the run time for Infinity War, but then came out gutted and annoyed that there wasn’t more.

Robert was already on his phone posting theories about happened during the wait between end credit scenes, and buying them (and Liv) tickets to a second screening.

They both enjoyed the scene with Thor’s arms. Neither of them likes to think about what would happen if they lived in the Avengers universe and Thanos snapped his fingers and the other was taken. (Murder. So much murder.)

robert has refused to watch all the endgame clips and trailers after that first one. liv keeps sending him memes about ant-man. look… LOOK. I am trying so hard not to dwell into my avengers au but it’s my fave thing to think about during the day when i have to do brainless data sorting stuff at work and i just sit there and come up wiht sad shit that i can jam into robert’s avengers au life. it’s fun.

Excuse me, but Robert watched the latest trailer after Liv told him it had a few seconds of Carol meeting Thor. (He also took her — and Aaron — to watch Captain Marvel as a reward for working so hard on her school work.) Both of them flipped out over it, even Aaron kind of joined in. Liv is now planning to name her potential dog, Goose. (Or Chewie after she reads the comics. Robert grows prouder every day.)

But yes. She totally sends him memes about Ant-Man and Thanos. Aaron finds it hilarious and has sent a few of them himself because he knows Robert would never ignore his texts.

A sitcom about the modern Greek gods where everyone is wildly miscast

Zeus is played by Michael Cera

😂😂😂😂 Hephaestus is Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

@seerofbirds has cast Danny DeVito as Aphrodite and @qrowxiii has cast Eddie Murphy as Ares, so this is shaping up to be a pretty great TV pitch and if anyone from Hollywood is reading this, could you also consider casting Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson as Hermes and Christopher Walken as Apollo, thanks.

Hera is Oscar Isaac because are you really going to cheat on Oscar Isaac, Michael Cera? Really? You’d do that? You’d look at that man’s face and chase tail somewhere else, Michael Cera, you sack of shit?

I’m dying this is fantastic I NEED THE WHOLE CAST

Hades is Whoopi Goldberg and Persephone is Jeff Goldblum and Demeter is Julie Andrews. Their interplay makes up 70% of the film and is all improvised.

Athena is played by Amy Schumer (thanks anon!) and she defeats her enemies by being incredibly loud and annoying and plagiarising all their tactics and eventually they just give up in irritation. She only has 3 minutes of screen time and no dialogue. Thank fuck.

Heracles is played by Jesse Eisenberg because Michael Cera got to be Zeus. Sometimes they swap roles. No-one notices.

Poseidon is played by Daniel Craig but his only scene is when he reenacts the famous Bond scene with speedos.

Artemis is played by Robert Pattinson and all his lines are just slightly amended from Twilight. Dionysus is played by Helen Mirren. It is perhaps the only apt casting in the film.

To clarify, Hestia is absolutely played by Charles Dance, whose costume includes an apron which gets progressively dirtier throughout the series.

In the sitcom, which precedes the feature film and which focuses on certain myths every episode, Narcissus is played by John Goodman. Echo is played by Billy Crystal. 

Other episodes include the story of Eros and Psyche, played respectively by Jane Fonda and Shirley MacLaine, the story of Daedalus and Icarus, played respectively by Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern, and the story of Zeus overthrowing Cronus, in which Michael Cera as Zeus must defeat Cronus, as played by John Cena, in a battle of wits and muscle. Astonishingly, he wins.

this is all very good gud

but who is perseus and medusa? jason , Midas, circe, media, please I NEED TO KNOW

These are very important questions and I will answer them immediately.

Perseus and Medusa are played by Andy Samberg and Glenn Howerton. All their scenes together are just them one upping each other with improvised insults.

Jason and Medea are played by John Boyega and Meryl Streep, and all their scenes are so beautifully acted that they both get nominated for Oscars, despite the fact that one of Jason’s lines is “are you trying to fleece me out of the golden fleece?”, to which Medea replies “me, fleece you? Oh no, me dear.”

Midas is played by Steve Buscemi, obviously. For no discernible reason, everything he touches does not turn to gold, but copper alloy. This is possibly due to budget cuts. Due to their on screen chemistry, he bizarrely has several buddy cop style scenes with Jeff Goldblum’s Persephone.

Circe does not appear. If she did, she would be played by Audrey Hepburn, using that creepy CGI from the Galaxy adverts, but her estate refuse to give their permission.

Important updates:

(Anonymous suggests: Kelsey Asbille Chow playing Achilles, Michelle Obama is Thetis, Danny Trejo as Helen, Terry Crewes as Paris, and Adrien Brody as Hector. olvmpos says: Ganymede is played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and regularly benchpresses Michael Cera.)

Hey @teashoesandhair I’m not saying that I felt inspired and sketched Whoopi Goldberg and Jeff Goldblum as Hades and Persephone but that’s exactly what I’m saying

OH GOD THIS IS PERFECTION. THANK YOU. JUST THANK YOU. PHENOMENAL.

YOU’RE WELCOME BUT ALSO PLEASE HELP COS I CAN’T STOP

THIS IS GOING TO BE THE POSTER FOR THE SERIES, YOU HEAR ME

I’m mad that people are just reblogging the first post here because YOU’RE MISSING OUT ON THE MOST INCREDIBLE ARTWORK YOU’LL EVER SEE

Okay, I gotta ask, who’s the Hyacinthus to Christopher Walken’s Apollo?

I can already hear Apollo’s relevant lines in Walken’s distinct cadence, but I wanna know who he’s cradling, devastated, while crying out in anguish and also pausing at all the wrong places.

What a great question, and it brings me absolute joy to reveal to you that it’s Jackie Chan. He does all his own stunts. There is only one stunt, and it’s him collapsing into Christopher Walken’s arms. For some reason, there are explosions.

@wtfzeus

Oh my god 🤣

I mean can John Mulaney be Kronos or is that out of the question

It’s the answer to the question we were all asking, frankly. John Cena plays him in all the odd numbered episodes, as above, and John Mulaney plays him in all the even episodes. No-one mentions the difference. Ever.

I also have to recast Athena because I can’t even cast Amy Schumer ironically at this point. Paul Rudd is recast as Athena in episode 2 and no-one ever comments on it.

Can we talk about Robert’s relationship with Chas and Paddy? Because that development honestly takes my breath away

It’s insane because they warned Aaron off him several times, and then he straight up attempted to kill both of them. But as time has worn on, his sheer love and devotion to Aaron has shown them just how ride and die Robert is for him, thus allowing them to feel some respect, concern, and affection for him as well? 

Paddy covered for Robert as he fled the Mill post-Valentine’s last year and then stood in that kitchen probing Aaron about his clearly still lingering feelings. Chas helped put together their dream wedding ceremony, even down to the tabletop decorations of their dreams! They cancelled their trip because Robert nearly died, and paid for their extended marital sexcapade honeymoon. Now they’re sat there telling them that they should be patient and that they will have more kids. 

Yes and I’m sure Chas didn’t believe Robert when he said  that that Aaron was everything to him, but Robert proved himself… then after the reunion happened and Aaron told them at the pub… they weren’t really surprised… because they knew that it would happen. They knew that they would find their way back to each other… it was only a matter of time. 

And the second proposal? When Robert went to Chas and Paddy to have their blessing… I mean…. Chas was genuinely happy for them, 

Then when Aaron didn’t bring Seb back and they had that row, and Paddy heard everything, and then he gave advice to Robert??? I mean PADDY GAVE ADVICE TO ROBERT? Like that happened…. on screen….. and don’t even get me started on their wedding and how Chas said that Aaron hit the jackpot with Robert…. 

I have lots and lots of feels about these things. 

I always try and give them some leeway because they didn’t see the extent of what we saw, you know? Chas wasn’t there when Aaron collapsed at the scrapyard and she never saw the worry in Robert’s eyes and what it took for him to finally be able to say the word “boyfriend” in regards to Aaron, even if it was a lie to a nurse to simply confirm his whereabouts. (Oddly enough, Chas did get a front row seat to Robert’s worry post first engagement, when Aaron nearly died, and even how much it tore Robert up when Aaron was in prison.)

But I do love that they’ve accepted the inevitability of Robert and Aaron’s relationship. It’s why I can never really hate Alex. (Don’t get me wrong, I do not enjoy him.) He was proof that you could give Aaron the most perfect man on paper, but his heart will always choose Robert. He’ll always pick him, because on so many levels, it’s something they’ve both had to fight for; against each other, the world, and themselves. And I like to think that Paddy and Chas, a couple who has had to face their own share of ups and downs, sees and respects that. 

Part of the reason they were so happy for Robert and Aaron is probably that they get to see Aaron and Robert really putting in the effort -- and not just on themselves, but in terms of Liv and Seb and making sure they’re cared for as well. This time they went in more than aware that they had all kinds of baggage (they even had Gerry living on the sofa!) but they kept talking and listening and working on it, and at the end of the day that’s all either Chas or Paddy could want in terms of a partner for their son: someone who knows how amazing Aaron is and is willing to put in that effort. So in many ways, Aaron and Robert have both hit the jackpot, and Chas and Paddy were just stating the obvious!  

OMG are we the same person?? I’m so glad you love all these shows too.

Of course I’ve seen all these shows and I completely agree. Near the end Fringe got hella confusing but I’ve rewatched the begining so many times. When Peter finds out what Walter did and how he’s not technically his son. It made me forever treasure anytime he called Walter dad because although Walter could screw up a lot of the time he really did love Peter. Peter and Olivia re one of my all time favorite relationships because they just fit. I don’t even know how to describe it.

Smallville just was written so wonderfully. I watched it when it was still airing and I just absolutely love where they went with Clark and Tom Welling to me will always be Superman m he was cast so we’ll and I really enjoyed how we got to see his character grow and evolve to the Superman we know. Lois Lane was an absolute treasure she was badass and snarky and I loved her. I really enjoyed how their relationship evolved from being friends and her support for what he does. I also loved that he didn’t learn to fly until the end of the show and that we got to see Kara and her struggling to fit in and teach Clark about Kripton.

Class was strange but I really enjoyed most of it but detained has to be my all time favorite episodes because we get to see them having to confess some of their inner most thinking without being able to control the context and we get to see how it leads to the finale and them all being separated which was brilliant. We also got to see Charlie struggling with being in a confined space and the realization that his boyfriend’s and friends think he’s strange and they don’t fully understand what he’s been through. The secene where he uses that cabinet of souls was so heartbreaking because you could tell he really didn’t want to use it but he knew that if he didn’t good people would end up dead. Then the scene where he shot April so that he could become the shadow king and insure that the planet wouldn’t be wiped out.

I also watched Haven live and I fell in love with Nathan and Audrey because same the fact that he can feel her touch and no one else is the stuff of soulmates. His friendship with Duke and the evolution that it goes through throughout the series is major becuasebit shows how both of them as characters have grown. Like how Nathan hot the tattoo because he knew that someone with the tattoo would kill Duke and in the end he did but it was in such a different context and it pained him to have to do that. The ending where Audrey comes back as someone else because she knows that no matter who she is or who’s memories she had she will always love Nathan was beautiful. I’m still so bitter that we never got to find out anything else about the Colorado Kid/ James because he was their son and neither of them got the opportunity to be with him.

Haha I really love that you’ve also heard of these. I tried to think of shows that would appeal to you based on what I know you like so I’m very glad that you’re also a huge fan and I now also have the urge to rewatch all of these shows.

Hey! @fireangel5683 (Sorry about the late response!)

But yesssss. Omg. Peter’s slow acceptance of Walter as his dad and our Walter doing his best to be a good father was so moving. The season finale made me cry so hard when they had that moment acknowledging all that. (Or at least I vaguely remember a moment like that?)

I think we might be the same person because I loved all those things about Smallville as well! I know some people were annoyed that he didn’t fly earlier, but I thought saving it for the end was perfect. It showed Clark growing into becoming a hero and being inspired by Lois and her desire to be a great journalist.

Class had some great issues at the centre of it which I wish they could have explored further? Like I loved that Charlie had that decision to make. It was such a hard one but such a compelling one to watch? I was literally just thinking about that episode last week where they explore what it means to have faith or something like that? (I think it was the second last episode?) I also appreciate that despite everything Charlie and Mattieusz were able to have a happy and sweet relationship. (I’m a big fan of queer people getting happy genre-adjacent romances.) Man... the more I think about the show the sadder I am that they didn’t get a second season.

And OMG. Haven. It’s SO exciting to meet someone else who can talk about this! And yes! Nathan and Duke’s growth is definitely one of the things I think about when I look back on the show. I love that Nathan was the one who eventually killed him, because it was so full circle and the only way it could go. Gah! And as you mention it, I just realised the other thing that I love about Nathan and Audrey: they literally are soulmates who fall for each other no matter what? Like how he went back in time and Sarah fell for him too? (And of course Audrey’s new self! I also dug that they got a second chance with James again because they didn’t get a chance to raise him?)

A thing I used to think about the season finale after Audrey went into the Barn was if it would have given Audrey time to get to know James since his existence and hers were so tied to it? I used to headcanon the possibility of James and her revisiting her past lives and both of them getting to know each other as they figured out how to get back to Nathan. I’m mostly satisfied with the Colorado Kid stuff, and I’m actually quite happy with how everything wrapped up (all the troubles going back) but I don’t know if I was satisfied by all the stuff about Audrey’s mother and father?

AND ELIOT ASKED Q TO TOUCH HIS BUTT. But it comes off the back of him saying, you can’t touch a king without his permission, pls hug me Q. Yeah, it’s to break the tension, to bring back the ease between them, but it shows that what Eliot said was true, he bonds quickly and time is an illusion. BUT, he’s also selective about who he bonds to. He doesn’t want Penny to touch his butt, or Alice, or Josh. Just Q. Maybe Margo if he can’t sleep and he needs her to hold his butt, IDK. I just imagine that’s what she’d do for him.

AND OH MY, OT, it reminds me of when Margo says after 2 months without dick she sounds like Quentin, but it could also be she sounds like Quentin after he’s had no dick in 2 months. (It’s canon that Q thinks people should think about dicks)

AND SOMETHING ELSE THAT’S BEEN BUGGING ME. Alice says that Q is the one she loves and he leans in to accept her kiss BUT he doesn’t say anything back. During Under Pressure, his part that he’s singing with her is about two hearts separated and that could be about them but it could just as easily be about him and El.

None of what I’m saying has relevance to what you’re saying which is probably why I’m the Eliot to your Q. You’re talking about horcruxing and I’m over here whore-crotching.