A gag or a bit related to your story you're too committed to even if no one notice

[DekuKurohi]

Inside joke, meta-related things, running gags, stuff like that. Something related to the novels you put on here.

The one that is probably the most ridiculous for me is ranking (almost) everyone in terms of power level (based on who appeared/mentioned) for my current active novel in glossary aka the one place almost no one actually use let alone read through.

 

[gaylolis]

my chars are too lazy for running gags, probably more of sleeping gags

 

[Madkins]

All I do is crack jokes. I love comedy. There's too many to mention though. Every chapter is a skit unto itself.. I did commit to a joke I called, The rise of the Tittybots: Mechanical Mammary Milk... Probably sorry that I posted this now...

 

[Hoshino]

Consitpated. And I will not elaborate any further.

 

[l8rose]

Crystalborn

- Ava always thinks of Rowen as a "they/them" because when she found him, he was in a state where she couldn't tell his gender. She couldn't tell because he had been skinned and was missing most of his external bits but he got better. He's still cemented as a non-gendered person in her head and will probably be that way until the end of the story.​

Smith from Another Land

- Ara thinks the leaders of the religious group are the ones with the biggest hats because each one she got introduced to would have a slightly bigger hat.​

- Ara initially didn't know the language (and spent like 60 chapters learning it) so she would come up with swear combinations that either mixed the new language with one of her original ones or combine things together. So we'd get stuff like nug-humping fahleel or Andraste's flaming tongs.​

- Again, because of not knowing the language, I had excuses for writing the character saying things that were innocent in context but sounded dirty. I wholeheartedly committed to this throughout the early story.​

- Horny jokes. So many. Especially since the Qunari have actual horns.​

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Can't think of actual gags from my other stories but I do usually include a lot of puns.

 

[DaelyxLenAuphydas]

Every time Len reads anything, someone around him has to say "Huh, I wouldn't have thought you could read. You just don't seem like the type."

Like half my stories are elaborate bait and switches to try and get the reader to think it's going to be incest only to then swerve at the last moment and nope not at all.

"Ah yes, the Sky Warrior Cult, with all their Sky Warrior Colts."

Referring to all embarrassed characters as 'blushy bois' regardless of their gender.

No matter the story, Twilight will never get to finish reading the Compendium of Breezy Anatomy.


So yeah, I have a few.

 

[Jerynboe]

I have a goblin girl in my story who is, at best, ugly cute to the main character who is an elf. They are friends and colleagues, and she’s a major character. Her name is Rowe.

She is, by far, the most attractive person in the party if one controls for different species. She has TONS of stalkers (all goblins) who will go so far as to attempt to kidnap her in broad daylight. She shoots them, and is extremely casual about doing so not only because goblin culture do be like that, but also because she’s been putting up with this for most of her adult life. That’s why she always carries around guns in the first place.

If she is ever temporarily transformed to another species all of her extremely confused and concerned friends are going to understand her situation slightly better from then on.

 

[AnEmberOfSundown]

I slip song lyrics into dialogue and descriptions, especially if a certain song was inspiration for a specific scene. I'll also slip extremely dirty shanties in but cut the character off before they get to the worst parts.

 

[Worthy39]

I usually wrote third person omniscient, but when I wrote chapters with two specific characters in it together, I usually went third person limited, because the protagonist never actually learned this guy's name, and I used it as a way to show that. I refer to the guy by name in several chapters, he even gets his own chapter, but it's never mentioned in a single chapter the protagonist is in.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

My chapter titles are often references to songs or in-jokes (sometimes jokes so far "in" I have to explain them to my other personalities)

 

[DireBadger]

I use so many running gags that it's not even funny. I mean that literally, it's not funny because almost no one gets 4 or 5 layer jokes or plot elements.

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

I Applied For A Delivery Job And Got Turned Into A Flying Reindeer?! was written to be a parody of light novels that take themselves too seriously. It did it so good that most people just think it's a light novel that takes itself too seriously.

 

[MajorKerina]

What I like to do with jokes is like I have one character who is irrationally antagonistic towards columns and Colonades in the neoclassical style and I decided to make that silly little bit into something that actually has a reason for existing so I tend to start at funny and then turn it actually not as funny in hindsight. It tends to be the silly things character say that turned out to be foreboding.

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

I Applied For A Delivery Job And Got Turned Into A Flying Reindeer?! was written to be a parody of light novels that take themselves too seriously. It did it so good that most people just think it's a light novel that takes itself too seriously.

This book has been on my mind these past few days, and I remembered another joke that I'm pretty sure hardly anyone caught. In the final battle of the first book, Krampus casts a spell that eclipses the moon. This is that spell:

“Nolo multum in Nativitate Domini.

Unum tantum postulo.

Non curo munera.

Subtus arborem Nativitatis.

Ego iustus volo te esse meum.

Plusquam scire potuisti.

Da mihi quod volo.

Omnes volo pro Nativitate est tibi.”

 

[Cardon]

All Japanese female one-off side characters in Magical Girl Overtime are named after various magical girls.

It's a little awkward now that three of them became more important.

 

[RainyLiquid]

I don't think mine are that funny.

 

[Corty]

Most of my gags are something the readers are also running with.

But one gag I am doing every year is an April 1st chapter that has bamboozled them almost every time.

Even late readers, because they don't expect to run into it while going through it.