what is the most absurd tag on SH

[abu_nur]

so i was updating my work tags, and while endlessly scrolling i noticed very wierd and specific tags. but i found stuff like:
- sleeping, best story ever for sure. if your story lack this tag your characters are not sleeping, they just lay in bed menacingly.
- unreliable narrator, i mean i get how this one can be funny if done right, but i can already it being used as an excuse for bad writing (maybe i shall use it then)

this post is for fun, don't take it to the heart if you use any of them.

 

[beast_regards]

The tags are like a cake.

 

[abu_nur]

The tags are like a cake.

Elaborate mister

 

[beast_regards]

Elaborate mister

The cake is a lie.

 

[aToTeT]

so i was updating my work tags, and while endlessly scrolling i noticed very wierd and specific tags. but i found stuff like:
- sleeping, best story ever for sure. if your story lack this tag your characters are not sleeping, they just lay in bed menacingly.
- unreliable narrator, i mean i get how this one can be funny if done right, but i can already it being used as an excuse for bad writing (maybe i shall use it then)

this post is for fun, don't take it to the heart if you use any of them.

I like sleep. It has good pacing, gets me to the next chapter in a very satisfactory manner (or nightmarish, as the narrative is wont).

I don’t mind a character who lies to me narrating, or who misses vital information because of their biases; but some of the better ones also break the fourth wall: Cusco from the Emperors New Groove comes to mind — and outside of the strict narrator: characters who lie to me and leave me in uncertainty can rather shape a narrative (Willy Wonka).

I’m not sure what the deal with Average-Looking Protagonist is myself.

I narrowly understand Beautiful protagonist or Ugly: I’ve seen both written with that being the core them of a work… but average?

I don’t even know how you make a story out of an ‘Average Looking Protagonist’.

 

[Valmond]

I like sleep. It has good pacing, gets me to the next chapter in a very satisfactory manner (or nightmarish, as the narrative is wont).

I don’t mind a character who lies to me narrating, or who misses vital information because of their biases; but some of the better ones also break the fourth wall: Cusco from the Emperors New Groove comes to mind — and outside of the strict narrator: characters who lie to me and leave me in uncertainty can rather shape a narrative (Willy Wonka).

I’m not sure what the deal with Average-Looking Protagonist is myself.

I narrowly understand Beautiful protagonist or Ugly: I’ve seen both written with that being the core them of a work… but average?

I don’t even know how you make a story out of an ‘Average Looking Protagonist’.

Saitama my friend, Saitama. ?

 

[aToTeT]

Saitama my friend, Saitama. ?

That man cannot be called average looking since he went bald!

There are some moments where he unleashes his cool factor, and it’s like the art puts him through the Dragon Ball filter, and— there are too many muscles. So many muscles! He’s a muscle bananza in a a bright yellow peel!

The rest of the time he’s drawn 2-dimensional to everyone else’s 3.

I adore One’s style, it’s all sorts of juxtaposed and fun. I just wish my husband liked Mob Psycho (he doesn’t, and I don’t understand why at all).

Contrasting art styles are such fun, especially driven to extremity (my favourite web comic right now is The Greatest Real Estate Developer— I have never laughed so much)

 

[Valmond]

That man cannot be called average looking since he went bald!

There are some moments where he unleashes his cool factor, and it’s like the art puts him through the Dragon Ball filter, and— there are too many muscles. So many muscles! He’s a muscle bananza in a a bright yellow peel!

The rest of the time he’s drawn 2-dimensional to everyone else’s 3.

I adore One’s style, it’s all sorts of juxtaposed and fun. I just wish my husband liked Mob Psycho (he doesn’t, and I don’t understand why at all).

Contrasting art styles are such fun, especially driven to extremity (my favourite web comic right now is The Greatest Real Estate Developer— I have never laughed so much)

Oh yeah, you know there is a very good fan made project.

Something you might like.

 

[JayMark]

I’m not sure what the deal with Average-Looking Protagonist is myself.

I narrowly understand Beautiful protagonist or Ugly: I’ve seen both written with that being the core them of a work… but average?

I don’t even know how you make a story out of an ‘Average Looking Protagonist’.

Challenge Accepted: I have two stories that use this tag.

 

[aToTeT]

Challenge Accepted: I have two stories that use this tag.

Now this I have to see :0

Is it the evil wizards turned me into a girl one of them? I hope so. That sounds… like it could be fun!

And heyo—alteration is the supreme power based on a world I made when I was very young: what use have creation and destruction when alteration is so much better?

I wonder if that was inspired by star ocean 3… but I don’t remember focusing on Symbology… hm.

Regenerating asphalt sounds… sticky. Without mercy indeed!

Neat sci fi, and some absurdist fun.

Gonna keep that tab open for later.

Oh yeah, you know there is a very good fan made project.

Something you might like.

Got it open on YouTube tab, app/whatever. I’ll have a looksie later; thanks ^_^

 

[Deleted member 84247]

i can already it being used as an excuse for bad writing

Me who uses this tag:

 

[JayMark]

Now this I have to see :0

Is it the evil wizards turned me into a girl one of them? I hope so. That sounds… like it could be fun!

And heyo—alteration is the supreme power based on a world I made when I was very young: what use have creation and destruction when alteration is so much better?

I wonder if that was inspired by star ocean 3… but I don’t remember focusing on Symbology… hm.

Regenerating asphalt sounds… sticky. Without mercy indeed!

Neat sci fi, and some absurdist fun.

No, the 'Evil Wizards' protagonist is comely.
Alteration power doesn't get enough respect. Average looking protagonist suffers too much here. Funny I did play TTEOT a long time ago. But probably not a direct inspiration in this case.
The other average tag is the romance satire about 'Trillionare Vampire Lord Alpha Wolves' which I'm writing to balance my mood after I write chapters for Altertion.

 

[abu_nur]

I like sleep. It has good pacing, gets me to the next chapter in a very satisfactory manner (or nightmarish, as the narrative is wont).

I don’t mind a character who lies to me narrating, or who misses vital information because of their biases; but some of the better ones also break the fourth wall: Cusco from the Emperors New Groove comes to mind — and outside of the strict narrator: characters who lie to me and leave me in uncertainty can rather shape a narrative (Willy Wonka).

I’m not sure what the deal with Average-Looking Protagonist is myself.

I narrowly understand Beautiful protagonist or Ugly: I’ve seen both written with that being the core them of a work… but average?

I don’t even know how you make a story out of an ‘Average Looking Protagonist’.

Average looking is just like all the school manga out there "i am just an average guy, with average face, and average presence" i added it cuz my mc isn't quite the looker and it will make the story show up when ppl search the tag (which i think they do mostly) but anyway it's mainly for romantic stuff tbh.

Me who uses this tag:

I knew you was secretly evil!!!

 

[Deleted member 84247]

I knew you was secretly evil!!!

It's no secret. I am the queen of the night.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

- unreliable narrator, i mean i get how this one can be funny if done right, but i can already it being used as an excuse for bad writing (maybe i shall use it then)

this post is for fun, don't take it to the heart if you use any of them.

Unreliable Narrator can be very effective for horror as well (H. P. Lovecraft employed this in a few tales). And I have a story I'm working on (at chapter four and crawling slowly so probably won't surface for a while) where the narrator is very unreliable. I think he's even lied to ME (in a first person MS)...

Oh, and as for "Sleep" - there was a TV series called, IIRC "Awake" - the MC was a police psychiatrist I believe or something like that who had been in a car accident a year or so before the show started. In the accident, he lost his wife; he was struggling as a single father dedicated to his job - until he went to bed and woke up in a world where he was in a different position in the department (maybe just a regular detective or something? been a while) - and had lost his daughter in the accident.
In each life, he kept finding elements of the current story mystery that led to him solving it at the end of one or two episodes - and deepened the mystery of his dual lives; you also got to see a little of his mind unravelling because he was getting almost no real sleep.
That series would, perhaps ironically, given the title, likely merit the "Sleep" tag.

 

[RedMuffin]

The cake is a lie.

I feel offended somehow.

 

[abu_nur]

It's no secret. I am the queen of the night.

Good thing i am a solar servant

 

[Golden_Hyde]

I don’t even know how you make a story out of an ‘Average Looking Protagonist’.

probably you're not a well-versed reader in Japanese LN/WN. They have their own standard of what's average for a character, and sometimes they also have a defined characteristics of what's considered "average", without to the extent of labeling him/her apathetic.

 

[beast_regards]

I feel offended somehow.

Muffins are little cakes.

 

[JayMark]

Muffins are little cakes.

Muffins are lies.