the new batch of love for john mulaney here on tumblr has got me thinking how critical costume design is once again. john mulaney is a good comedian, but so much of his power comes from how his humor plays off how he’s dressed. we don’t expect a man dressed like a 1960s news announcer, all clean scrubbed and tight-wound professional, to describe in minute detail the visit where a doctor shoved a hand up his ass. imagine any iconic john mulaney set but given in jeans and a t-shirt, and is it as funny? i don’t think so. his humor spreads like wildfire on this website because the image of a man in a buttoned-up shirt and a tie and slicked back hair with fairly narrow lapels on his three-piece suit is fucking hysterical when paired with “years later I’d be in college about to go down on some
rockin’ twink and i’d be like what would leonard bernstein do”
well I do recall a comedian telling about how he accidentally joined the russian mafia on a school trip in college, and this was made more believable by the fact that he was shirtless with a beer belly while telling this story
since someone asked
Frick thank you so much
THE MACHINE
But the latter is *also* an example of costume deliberately
and knowingly contrasted with story to humourous effect.
I need this for the otherworldly office where my boss is
literally the Grim Reaper and I have a secret crush on him and we all
chainsmoke cigarette brands that haven’t been manufactured for eighty years on Earth.
there are a lot of weird kinky stories in ancient greek mythology but can you imagine how fucking weird it would be if you walked into pygmalion’s workshop to commission some art and found him hardcore making out with some statue like a hipster in a museum
Well, according to Ezekiel 1 they might look something like this…
According to Daniel 10 something like this…
According to Isaiah 6…
In Ezekiel 10…
Again in Ezekiel 10…
Basically, when the people writing Scripture tried to describe what they saw when they saw an angel… they run into the end of their imagination… they can never quite seem to fully explain it because they had trouble even comprehending what they saw, let alone being able to describe it to someone else.
Yeah, that’s usually how people responded to seeing them in the Bible…
There’s a good reason why angels’ standard greeting is ‘Do not be afraid’.
I used to listen to this radio show and one thing I remember because it was so funny was a Christmas special where an angel showed up to tell the shepherds about the birth of Christ. The conversations went:
Angel: “FEAR NOT.”
Shepherds: *screaming*
Angel: “I SAID FEAR NOT.”
Shepherds: *screaming LOUDER*
Angel: “WHAT PART OF FEAR NOT ARE YOU NOT UNDERSTANDING?”
So demons are fallen angels but they don’t look scary because they’re fallen, that’s just what all angels look like…
Maybe that’s why so many Christians see visions of Saints or the Virgin Mary instead…like Jesus is all…no, no see being human made me realize sending Angels might not be the best idea. I don’t know if humans can handle this. So I’m gonna just send mom
Jesus: It’s either Mom or the thousand eyed flaming wheel, Dad, do you really think the humans are gonna be chill with that when they’re terrified of spiders already?
God: Hey now, some of those spiders eat birds.
Jesus: …Dad…
God: …To be fair, Australian wildlife was my dark creation phase.
Some artwork I did for the recent “Tales from the Yawning Portal” D&D5E rulebook. Please let me know what you think!
OK, I need to know about the Inca Mummy Centaur, and the
suspiciously undecayed lady covered in cobwebs.
But the salt circle would have to have a break in it so the
demon could enter in the first place; and it would have to be structured sort
of like a lobster trap so that the aperture is easy to spot from outside, but
hard to find again once you’re in the trap. Alternately, you could just mix
some soda and holy water and leave it out to poison the demons. It all depends
on whether you’re trying to destroy them or live-trap them.
Mooncustafer 