Rest in peace, Ms. Lillis.
06/07/2024
Wishing you all a blessed Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus!
JOKE-OGRAPHY:
1. The Sacred Heart: In Catholic tradition, the month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a devotion which sees Jesus's heart as a symbol of God's boundless love for humanity. Moreover, the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus is being celebrated today (June 7th) this year.
2. Original Imagery: The Sacred Heart is depicted as a human heart wreathed by thorns (like Jesus's crown of thorns) and divine flames/light, with a bleeding wound in the side (a reference to Jesus's postmortem spear-wound), and topped off with a cross (for obvious reasons).
3. My Imagery: In this piece, I depict the Sacred Heart in three stages, separating the symbolism into simple parts and relating them to Jesus's Passion, death, and resurrection.
4. Wordplay: A few years ago, I was struck by the similarity between the words scared, scarred, and sacred, and knew I had to use them together for some kind of wordplay. I just didn't know what kind of wordplay would fit. I usually use my wordsmithing for dumb jokes, but this felt like it needed a different approach, so I waited and wondered until an idea finally hit me just in time for the Month of the Sacred Heart!
5. Fun-Fact: I think this piece marks the first time I've depicted Jesus crucified in Tomics. It's not in my usual style or tone, but that's because those are geared towards comedy, and this is meant to be reverent.
Caduceus Vibes
Jaune: Why are you wearing women's clothes?
Mercury: Uh... Just because?
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Mercury: (Bridal carried by Jaune) Y'know, if the internet saw us right now, they would be having FITS!
Jaune: What are you talking about?
Mercury: We must go to different websites, I guess.
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Mercury: (Tied up with Jaune) If you don't quit squirming, I'm going to "unload my shells" right into your "sword sheath"! And by sword sheath, I mean-
Jaune: WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!
Mercury: WHAT?! I'm a red-blooded young adult male! It's friction and junk-ology and spandex grinding against leather and JUST PLEASE stop wiggling your bondage rope-
Jaune: WOULD YOU JUST SHUT UP SO I CAN THINK?!
Mercury: DON'T YELL AT ME! That's totally one of my turn-ons!
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Mercury: You saved me~!
Mercury: Just remember, anytime you need hole-filling-
Jaune: Aaand you ruined it!
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Jaune: We are NOT your dads!
Mercury: Don't listen to Daddy Arc, Kiddo~!
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Mercury: Oh no... You drank TOO MUCH succubus juice!
Jaune: (Dancing) Actually, this is the most free I've felt in MONTHS! GET UP HERE! That is, unless you're rhythmically challenged~!
Mercury: YOU DARE QUESTION MY MOVES?! Fine! These ladies want the Merc? (Dancing) THEY'RE GONNA GET THE MOUTH~!
Jaune: BRING IT!
Mercury: (Dancing against Jaune) You... You're really putting on a show, dude!
Jaune: This will never, EVER happen in my life again! I might as well enjoy it~!
Mercury: You sunshine-assed little maniac~! DANCE, YOU FOOL, DANCE~!
Cinder: How long do you think we can make them do this~?
Pyrrha: Until it bores us~.
Cinder: You're alright, Nikos.
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Jaune: ...Why are you holding my hand?
Mercury: It helps me focus...
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Jaune: (Holding Arkos art) Uh, what is this?
Mercury: (Yoink!) NOTHING! Just some fan-art~!
Artist: No, it's true! You were in love-
Mercury: Yeah, with me~!
Jaune: I don't know if I believe you.
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Jaune: MERCURY?! Argh... Figures...
Oscar: I... I don't understand... The spell was supposed to summon your soulmate... I must have messed up the spell!
Jaune: Soulmates?! We're just friends, Oscar!
Mercury: That's what YOU think! But this proves otherwise. It's science!
Jaune: It's not science; it's magic!
Mercury: Oh, you old softie~! Looks like this spell worked juuust fine~!
Immortal Thor #10 - "Getting the Ax" (2024)
written by Al Ewing art by Carlos Magno & Matthew Wilson
"Love, friendship, kindness. That doesn't make me weak. It makes who I am."
why is "mummies are so rare bc the british ate them" always presented as like a morbid fun fact and not an example of heinous racism and dehumanization of people of colour to the point of cannibalism. a little bit odd if im honest.
i don't know if this already made it into here but genuinely
Reblog daily for health and prosperity
it helps me to remember when i get sad about how annoyed lydia gets in s4 is that she’s fourteen at that point so she is ACTIVELY going through puberty. and we’re all kind of annoyed with the world at that point, even the people we love.
that's very true. she's also known him for years at that point, and he can be uhh a lot. he can't get away with displaying his huge flaws as often as he used to, lydia doesn't allow it, and when he DOES get away with it, the episode ends with lydia disappointed and even outright mad at him. Midnight Scum in particular is so hard to watch, you can see her losing respect for him as the episode progresses and...then it ends. episode over. beetlejuice is horrible, what did we expect?
but yeah season 4 is. whoof man.
sure, you can chalk up part of it to teenage hormones making her more irritable, but i really do think she's just like, at her limit sometimes. i can't blame her, i too want to strangle him a lot of the time and i'm not even the one putting up with his shit, babysitting him or having to deal with the consequences of HIS actions.
this isn't Critter Sitters anymore, she is simply not having it and she won't make a cute little excuse for him "oh he makes me laugh and eats bugs hee hee"
season 4 lydia reacting at his jokes like 😒🙄
she's probably heard that one a thousand times by now. beetlejuice is a static character; he doesn't change, he doesn't go through character development, he doesn't learn his lesson (outright refuses to) but lydia DOES change. and she will continue to change as she grows older. and i KNOW this is a sad theory but i can't help but think that, as she grows and moves forward, she's just...gonna leave him behind.
it'll be hard for her not to. not only is she starting to make her own life and will continue to get busier and busier and not having time to hang out with her ghoulish best friend...she's also maturing. something beetlejuice has never done, and seemingly never will. and as she grows more mature, those puns and pranks and hijinks will become less funny, and his lying, clinginess and refusal to grow will become more evident. season 4 has lydia expecting better of him and being let down, constantly. if it's exasperating for us imagine how it must be for her.
at what point does it become too much? how often has lydia sat and thought about this kind of thing? considering how intelligent and sensible she is for her age, probably more than a few times. this dead guy inadvertently saved this depressed little girl by becoming friends with her and giving her the confidence to be herself and make her own friends. does she know that though? beetlejuice does, he saw it when they showed him the reality in which lydia never meets him. but lydia has no idea (and he will never tell her) so sometimes i wonder if she's missing that key aspect of why he's so important in her life. it's possible she might've come to the same conclusion herself; but even then, these things can be hard to remember when you're having to, once more, clean up after him and the messes he gets them into because his chaotic impulses are always stronger than him. you can tell she's very tired of this. and she will become even more so as time passes.
best friends forever though.
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...right?