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I cannot have a boyfriend because I would call him hotcock constantly
Good ending
GrowinWildontheFunnyFarm
#12 I started reading mythology when I was 5. I never really considered this either. What I did do was miss an entire vacation because I brought a Norse mythology book with me and read instead of seeing anything when I was 9.
arajad
#16 In Enchanted, at least, it was deliberate -- they were showing her becoming more conventional, even mundane, after starting out a blazing romantic.
ManOfEvil93
fallswinkingtothefloor
#32 what a sheltered life. Almost the entire point of being a gay man is to call absolutely EVERYBODY babe... Boyfriend, sister, mother, cops, the dog, The Pope, no exceptions
AyatollahBahloni
#11 Historical note: William the Conquerer was only called that long after 1066. He was commonly known as Willliam the Bastard (Guillaume le Bâtard).
Tadrakyn
So THAT'S how you get people to give you a better nickname....
normalizebeingalone
#1 growing up we had a combination Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut!! We called it KenTacoHut. It was magical.
Molvanian
#3 Your ability to solve problems with something is proportional to how well understood that thing is by your audience. We don't need an explanation on car engines because we understand them.
LotRs doesn't really solve any issues with magic, so the fact we know nothing about it doesn't matter. If Gandolf was the main character, and he destroyed the ring, and he constantly magic'd his way past problems, but we had no idea how magic worked or what it's limits were, the story would suck.
Molvanian
And I pick LotRs because that is specifically supposed to be mysterious and miraculous at times. Tom Bombadil literally exists to break the few rules that exist. Gandalf's (I realized I misspelled it earlier, so at least I know this post will get a lot of comments) resurrection doesn't come about because he cast 'not die' on himself, but is meant to be a religious event. But the various major conflicts of the book are not magic'd away.
slinkiisu
#48 like she'd notice
arthonnen93
#12 and beyond know what a banshee is in the modern (at least North American) understanding, they're not just creepy harbinger of death or cause of death. The Irish words "bean sidhe" (pronounced like "banshee") which translates pretty much to "fairy woman," and she would wail in mourning of the impending death that she could sense/foretell.
ThatSpaceMan84
#22 so Hangover 4?
justyouraveragepeacock
#22 and jack black ... somewhere in that movie- he'll be there, too.
OldmanSerious
#14 My late wife once said, totally seriously, "It's great they kept the mistakes to make the bloopers at the end!"
I. I didn't have a reply to that.
ForeveraKritik
#39 OK, but in all seriousness, some women have to use topical estrogen supplements, and you really shouldn't have sex too soon after application because, yes, you will absorb the estrogen through your penis.
phobosorbust
sure, but that's transfer of medication, not transfer of hormones through any and all vaginal contact like those cultists are freaking out about...
ThanksForTheThing
#7
Mechwarrior719
#35 I still want to know whom has dirt on whom that led to Bee Movie being made.
WarlockWithNoPatron
I think they did it just in the hopes of fucking with Tomska. Like how Sonic games are made exclusively to bother Aaron Hansen.
MichikoTheJungleFox
Probably a lot of drugs. Hollywood is rife with drugs.
TerrorAustralisIncognita
Big if true
MakeItBackAlright
Seinfeld has seen some real shit, apparently.
amp99
#3 Carl Sagan wants to discuss apple pie...
ThanksForTheThing
#7
WarlockSniper
#5
100% agree on Tracer. I got me some absurd body envy for her.
keyblader1985
#2 inaccurate dice always bug me. The four and five should be switched.
arajad
No, the five and the one should be switched. You can tell by how the four is oriented.
keyblader1985
2016ChevyMalibu
I think it’s a lot more disturbing and unrealistic that they showed someone falling in love with Jerry Seinfeld than a with bee
Sdogofdoom
#12 had a coworker say "you know weird shit right? What's the name of that dog that guards hell?" To which my immediate response is "CERBERUS ISNT WEIRD SHIT". Having asked around my less weird friends... apparently Cerberus isn't common knowledge.
And to be fair, I DO know the weird shit. Ask about humbaba and gilgamesh, scylla and Charybdis, what a mananangal is, or how loki once fucked a stallion and then gave birth to a many-legged horse that he gave to Odin as a gift.
Capum15
Those moments of "oh, right, this isn't *actually* common knowledge" are always fun to experience. Like when you make a joke, and then realize it's 7 fucking layers deep in Internet rabbit holes that requires far more context than you can be bothered to go over to understand.
Goblinshopkeeper
One of my cats names is Gil and is short for Gilgamesh and the stray tomcat I feed has always been a beast since I moved here so I called him Humbaba.
Goblinshopkeeper
Oh and two of my other cats are named Odin and Athena.
bazoopers
am I remembering correctly that Loki fucked that horse to distract it because its owner was about to win a bet with Odin and Odin was totalllllly reneging (or reneighing if you'd prefer) on that bet
Sdogofdoom
Something like that. A disguised jotunn made a bet that he could build asgards walls in a single year with just his horse for help. Three days prior to the year mark, they were almost done so Loki was told (as the person responsible for the bet) that he had to stop the completion. So he transformed into a mare and distracted the jotunns horse.
To be fair, the jotun was promised Freya, the sun and the moon. Can't exactly live without those.
Ouroborus
Loki didn't mean to fuck the horse, but it was too fast and he could not get away.
MoonMoon89
#1 "I'm Doc, I work at the KFC! That was my brother, Xu. He works at Taco Bell..."
EmeraldLight
I just watched that episode 🤣
Muppetman18
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mystik42
0RocketCat0
"Excuse me, but isn't this bolton?" - "No, this is ipswitch." - "Well, that's british rail for you."
ParaspriteHugger
#4 as we learned from Isekai, cat girls see young men as prey.
myotteraccount
"The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World" is the best example of that i've seen so far. Strangely high number of sex scenes and nudity for a show unwilling to show nipples though.
Someshithead241
#3 Unfortunately there are many things in writing that just dont operate like real life. Real life is confusing, it has dead ends, it has pointless sections and threads that go no where.
Literature isnt real life. It's real life condensed into the important parts and given structure, understanding and escapism.
Everything within a book has to have purpose and reason, as well as give entertainment value. Not to portray real life.
Even books *about* real life, history books for example, do it
Someshithead241
Condense events down to the important parts, make it history distilled into a palatable format.
You dont hear about Hitlers every day life, what underwear he wore every day and every single detail like it was real life.
You hear the basics. Shit painter, got mad, fucked up a country, started war, went out like a bitch.
Fiction is the same. If you're adding a magic system, it has to have purpose. Detail is not *necessary* but it is if you want people to not pick out plot holes
Someshithead241
Or understand why they cant do certain things in the moment. That's the "fleshed out and understanding" part of magic. For instance if you show your character creating water in one scene, but strand them in a desert in another. You cant then have them dehydrating in the desert.
Not unless you flesh out *why* they cant create water from nothing like previously.
Since im already rambling, anyone writing historical novels will know that there is certain things that just cant be added.
Someshithead241
Because again, the distilled nature. It's clean, its how people expect. And sometimes those expectations are built in misconceptions.
The name Tiffany, is a common example. It's a very old name with long roots in history, but it feels too modern, so if you add it into a historical fiction book people will complain, even if its technically right.
Ouroborus
#39 The incels are not ok.
manyslayer
#44 Why not both?
manyslayer
The band is Jinjer for those curious.
Tolocamp
#15 A very good representation of average player heckling when playing RPG's. Got everything, ad hominem, pseudscience and crude logics.
AlexanderElcazorro
#1 Was dude being paid double, receiving minimum wage from both Taco Bell and KFC?
arkthan
when he swaps hats he also clocks out of the one company and in for the other
eadanke
I worked at a restaurant as a dishwasher, cook, and host and had different wages depending on the shift. So... like that but worse.
BlueDsc
#50 I listen to a couple youtube channels that read out stuff like R/AITA and it is fucking comical how many times they'll cover some comments that can be summed up as "You acted like any human would, you're the asshole." Some of those basement dwellers really expect people to behave like machines.
VeganFeministFlatEarther
It doesn't help that all of the ragebait default subreddits have been COMPLETELY filled with AI slop for the past year or so.
TheBigBadBonerBiter
They were already little more than a creative writing excuse for years prior, so that's not horribly surprising.
m26ffj4f4h0
#3 Frickin’ “hard magic” systems. Just go read some science fiction, ya dweebz!
KlatnYelox
Nope. I'm going to read fantasy sci-fi. Not space sci-fi. My favorite fantasy composition author surely won't eventually expand his distinct fantasy series into a sci-fi space travel crossover series....
Badprenup
Hey I don't care how well explained the magic system is, as long as the writer doesn't use it like a bottomless sack of deus ex machina
2graves
Ugh read a story where the magic system literally was just believing and following God at the end
Gegenschein
So they thought they were wizards, but they were actually clerics all along?
2graves
More of a forgotten magic system that only priests or evil used. Definitely a religious conversation allegory
PPlank
Read 'The Magic Goes Away' by Larry Niven. A good read and explains where mana resides and eventually is depleted like any other resource.
BrockEffingSamson
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wizard07ksu9000
Science fiction is a myth. There is only medieval fantasy and space fantasy. And how good of a story you can tell in whatever setting you choose.
Youhavinagiraffe
It's one way of doing things but definitely not the only way or an inherently "better writing" way to do it. People trying to apply Sanderson's laws of magic to everything like it's an objective test of good fantasy writing is really annoying and boring
Imperialist29
The best fantasy settings don't bother explaining the magic systems imo. Sanderson is good, but there were times reading mistborn and stormlight where I was just like "this is video game logic". It doesn't make a shit story better, ever. It can just give additional context to a good story. Fortunately Sanderson is a competent story writer, otherwise his systems would just be overwrought shlock.
2graves
That completely depends on the book and contract on how magic is being used. Discovering magic through school vs the street in the magicians is I awesome for example