There Was No Punch Line: Expectation subversion contest?

[HectorBidon]

Jaded ex-pat settles in an out-of-the-way town and tries to forget the woman who jilted him. She shows up there unexpectedly, fleeing danger, alongside her husband, whom they'd both thought dead when they had their passionate affair. Ex-pat's love for her is rekindled, her feelings for him never died. He arranges safe passage for the husband. Then puts her on the plane beside him.

"It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."

 

[DEFCOM5]

Male Student finds porn video of female teacher she did while in college. After class is over, he approaches her and show her the video. She asks "what you want?". He smiles and gave her a thumb drive. "Run the program on the drive and it will delete any version of that video on the net and dark web.' She looks at him surprised. "You are the best math teacher I ever had. I don't want you distracted by a non-consensual blackmails to do unspeakable things."

 

[liliput1]

Male Student finds porn video of female teacher she did while in college. After class is over, he approaches her and show her the video. She asks "what you want?". He smiles and gave her a thumb drive. "Run the program on the drive and it will delete any version of that video on the net and dark web.' She looks at him surprised. "You are the best math teacher I ever had. I don't want you distracted by a non-consensual blackmails to do unspeakable things."

That’s still kinda hot…

 

[TheExperimentalist]

Male Student finds porn video of female teacher she did while in college. After class is over, he approaches her and show her the video. She asks "what you want?". He smiles and gave her a thumb drive. "Run the program on the drive and it will delete any version of that video on the net and dark web.' She looks at him surprised. "You are the best math teacher I ever had. I don't want you distracted by a non-consensual blackmails to do unspeakable things."

That’s still kinda hot…

Yeah. To be honest, that story could still go in the direction of "but her gratitude, coupled with the fact that he hadn't demanded, or even asked for, anything naughty, made her want him even more."

 

[DEFCOM5]

That’s still kinda hot…

Thank you. I did not think it was at all

Yeah. To be honest, that story could still go in the direction of "but her gratitude, coupled with the fact that he hadn't demanded, or even asked for, anything naughty, made her want him even more."

In her gratitude, she tutor him when he needs help and have her husband coach him on his soccer skills

 

[liliput1]

Yeah. To be honest, that story could still go in the direction of "but her gratitude, coupled with the fact that he hadn't demanded, or even asked for, anything naughty, made her want him even more."

Especially if she just dwells on it occasionally and bumps into him a few semesters later.

He did say she was distracting.

 

[DEFCOM5]

Especially if she just dwells on it occasionally and bumps into him a few semesters later.

He did say she was distracting.

Sorry, poor English here. He did not say she was distracting. He said he did not her to be distracted by a blackmailer

 

[liliput1]

Sorry, poor English here. He did not say she was distracting. He said he did not her to be distracted by a blackmailer

Oh, yep. That’s true.

Still, people have weird reactions to an escape from something. The brain and limbic system want to celebrate survival. That’s why in the movies the FMC and the MMC start boning right after they survive an accident or a chase. It’s a trope but it’s one of the more true ones.

 

[DEFCOM5]

Still, people have weird reactions to an escape from something. The brain and limbic system want to celebrate survival. That’s why in the movies the FMC and the MMC start boning right after they survive an accident or a chase. It’s a trope but it’s one of the more true ones.

Thank you for educating me. I never liked that trope but I did not know that it had science behind it.

 

[liliput1]

Thank you for educating me. I never liked that trope but I did not know that it had science behind it.

“Celebration of life” is the most charitable way I can describe those scenes. Makes them a little less annoying.

But really it’s a trauma response, less creepy than Stockholm Syndrome, but still creepy..

 

[AStrangeDesire]

You know, the joke's on all of us.

Some desperate author, in the worst slump of their writing 'career' is going to stumble on this thread in the future, and go, 'Holy shit, if I just turn these around, this thread is a treasure trove of successful tropes. I'm set for life with story ideas!'

 

[BeechLeaf]

Struggling hack writer finds crabbed bookshop they'd never seen before in an alley they'd passed by every day without noticing. Goes in, is amazed by all the musty, creaking volumes, and one in particular seems to be leaning out to attract their attention: Ye Literoticka Compendium of Anti-Tropes, personally signed by the Mad Arab Abdul Al-Hasread. Flicking through it with excitement, hack writer realizes the potential, snaps it up, goes home. Gets home, realizes they must have left their shopping in the bus (potatoes, carrots, tea bags, chocolate biscuits, Literoticka Compendium dumped on top).

 

[liliput1]

Struggling hack writer finds crabbed bookshop they'd never seen before in an alley they'd passed by every day without noticing. Goes in, is amazed by all the musty, creaking volumes, and one in particular seems to be leaning out to attract their attention: Ye Literoticka Compendium of Anti-Tropes, personally signed by the Mad Arab Abdul Al-Hasread. Flicking through it with excitement, hack writer realizes the potential, snaps it up, goes home. Gets home, realizes they must have left their shopping in the bus (potatoes, carrots, tea bags, chocolate biscuits, Literoticka Compendium dumped on top).

See also: “The warnings are at the end of the spell”

 

[DEFCOM5]

“Celebration of life” is the most charitable way I can describe those scenes. Makes them a little less annoying.

But really it’s a trauma response, less creepy than Stockholm Syndrome, but still creepy..

I always found these scenes so annoying and unnecessary. In many movies the MFC and MMC character getting together had little to the story.

 

[DEFCOM5]

You know, the joke's on all of us.

Some desperate author, in the worst slump of their writing 'career' is going to stumble on this thread in the future, and go, 'Holy shit, if I just turn these around, this thread is a treasure trove of successful tropes. I'm set for life with story ideas!'

Except that their stories will be undifferentiable from the tons of other stories based on tropes that make up the daily update of Lit new publications. So the slump will continue for our desperate author ....

 

[Britva415]

Hmm. Therapists. 50 years ago I had a problem with getting too close too fast with women I dated. My therapist worked hard to fix this, pushing the concept of "sportfucking", that every woman I was intimate with was not auditioning to be my next wife. That obviously stuck with me, and she is referenced multiple times in my latest series along with the very useful technical term. It is a technical term used by professional personal counselors, right?

If there were a punchline to this, it's "she wanted you to sportfuck her."

 

[liliput1]

If there were a punchline to this, it's "she wanted you to sportfuck her."

Where’s my spray bottle?

NO.

 

[Voboy]

In her gratitude, she tutor him when he needs help and have her husband coach him on his soccer skills

And by "she did tutor him," you mean... she actually does just tutor him. Like, in calculus.

 

[liliput1]

And by "she did tutor him," you mean... she actually does just tutor him. Like, in calculus.

But she does put him on the same group project with the young lady he keeps blushing around.

 

[TheExperimentalist]

But she does put him on the same group project with the young lady he keeps blushing around.

So she's going to teach him how to get the girl using the power of math? Wait... The Mathematics of Love... is the teacher actually Hannah Fry? (I guess that would have to go in FF&C though...)

 

[anthrodisiac]

Isekai story: Guy is transported to a whole new world, surrounded by all these hot monster girls. But none of them want to fuck him or can even understand a word he says, and he gets an infection and dies because his immune system isn't built to handle the ecosystem.

 

[liliput1]

Isekai story: Guy is transported to a whole new world, surrounded by all these hot monster girls. But none of them want to fuck him or can even understand a word he says, and he gets an infection and dies because his immune system isn't built to handle the ecosystem.

Ooooh. So sad.

Alternatively he’s just small and cute and they infantilize him and he’s not into that or submission so he’s just miserable all the time.

I’m not a baby! I’m a full grown man! Umm… I can’t reach my cup on the counter, can you get it for me?

 

[anthrodisiac]

Ooooh. So sad.

Alternatively he’s just small and cute and they infantilize him and he’s not into that or submission so he’s just miserable all the time.

I’m not a baby! I’m a full grown man! Umm… I can’t reach my cup on the counter, can you get it for me?

That'd be super tropey, though.

 

[DEFCOM5]

And by "she did tutor him," you mean... she actually does just tutor him. Like, in calculus.

Absolutely!

But she does put him on the same group project with the young lady he keeps blushing around.

She might do that because the young lady is excellent at math

So she's going to teach him how to get the girl using the power of math? Wait... The Mathematics of Love... is the teacher actually Hannah Fry? (I guess that would have to go in FF&C though...)

Math is a beautiful thing. I love it. I wish I had a hot female teacher in my old studying days instead of decrepit old guys

 

[DEFCOM5]

Isekai story: Guy is transported to a whole new world, surrounded by all these hot monster girls. But none of them want to fuck him or can even understand a word he says, and he gets an infection and dies because his immune system isn't built to handle the ecosystem.

At first he tries to mansplain everything and tell them how he is here to save them .... then he dies .....