Unmarked spoilers below.
Lost for Words
- In Lost For Words 1.8, Verona gets fed up with mowing the lawn with an ancient, partially broken mower that has a power cord, and uses her new quill to change its name from 'Schmidt Lawn Mower' to 'Warmed Cow Shit'.
Stolen Away
- In Stolen Away 2.2, the Kennet trio and Miss have a conversation regarding Other patronage vs practitioner family as a method of gaining power. How does Miss avoid being seen? She talks to them from under the bridge they're on while sitting on a support strut, making it hilarious just from the Refuge in Audacity of it all.
- Verona almost falls off the side of the bridge trying to look for Miss.
Out on a Limb
- In Out on a Limb 3.8, when the trio spies on the goblins while preparing to rescue Brie, Toadswallow is seen singing a typically bawdy goblin songnote right up until he spots Snowdrop and changes the lyrics mid-song to make them more family-friendly.
- The Goblins cry out as if they've been grievously hurt when the nettlewhip Snowdrop is holding explodes into pink mist and laughter.
Leaving a Mark
- In Leaving a Mark 4.3, in order to prevent Melissa from running away, Lucy creates a barrier to prevent her from leaving. Cue Melissa trying to hobble away only to wind up in front of Lucy again and again.
- The Packing Up extra material is an itemised list of everything the trio brings with them. It includes Snowdrop's stuff, which consist of a broken pencil, 68 cents she scrounged up, a random, nonmagical dog tag, and a rusty fork that somehow manages to fall under hygiene, weapons, trickery and keys at the same time.
- Snowdrop screaming and running through the BHI while being chased by pissed-off brownies in 4.x.
- Snowdrop's Rule of Discourse picks at the Brownies pride when she doesn't ask for a Bonky Donk, and when they make one (while setting the kitchen on fire) she calls it good.
Nicolette, horrified: “If you keep telling them their work is inaccurate and terrible, they may lose their minds. They have something to prove, now.”
Back Away
- In Back Away 5.a Daniel decides to go randomly dance with Sharon while in Clementine's apartment, who's less than enthused about it, Clem's narrative comparing it to someone playing keep away.
- While the weird mummy plaque that comes into Clem's position is pretty creepy, its obsession with foreskins is pretty funny.
- In the supplementary material, we see Avery's compiled notes on fairies and goblins. The fairy stuff is serious information, but the goblins keep messing with her. Her notes show her frustration at discovering that the categories the goblins use to refer to each other are entirely made-up and there's no rhyme or reason to them, and a completely deadpan reaction to her finding out from Snowdrop that the "goblins" Cherrypop refers to as being even smaller and stupider than she is (so stupid they only react when you poke them or blow on them,) are actually dust bunnies.
- In 5.c after Clem and the Trio manage to talk Daniel down from becoming a fairy, he sarcastically expounds on Sharon being he and Clem's absolute favoritest person in the whole wide world when he's reminded that she's still waiting in the car, causing Lucy to remark that she's really missed sarcasm since it can be counted as a lie.
- Sharon spends most of 5.5 screaming and trying to get people's attention while threatening people with legal action, only for Clem and Daniel to either completely ignore her or snark at her.
Cutting Class
- When the trio have decided that one of them should take an Implement, Snowdrop offers the rusty fork that she packed back in Leaving a Mark. Lucy takes it, examines it seriously, then hands it back.
- In Cutting Class 6.6, the trio are talking to Matthew about the basic rituals...Verona: While we have you on the phone, we're considering the other key rituals, besides implement.Matthew: Alpeana’s happy to work with any of you three, if that’s your inclination.Verona: Wow. Are we that much of a broken-Lucy: Yes.Verona: -record?Lucy: Yes. Very yes. Oh my god yes. Yes.Avery: *whispering* I think maybe.
Gone Ahead
- In the 7.3 Extra Materials, when Wye asks why Alexander chose to use Bristow's "seed" instead of the "sweat" part of Bristow's literal "blood, sweat, and tears", Alexander remarks that Bristow sweats so easily and so much it probably wouldn't be of much value for passing on his Self. He then goes on to remark that he'd told the young lady he employed to harvest Bristow's seed that he'd probably be able to "produce" simply by her cooing over his titles and all the important people he said he knew.
- In 7.8, Estrella gets annoyed when an enemy practitioner ignores the fact that the setting runs on Rule of Three and continues attacking the same way after she's parried three of his attacks:"Stop at three like a self respecting practitioner," Estrella declared. She sounded legitimately annoyed.
Vanishing Points
- In 8.2, Clem complains about America's car, saying she finds it creepy due to all the ridiculous grungy mods on it. Shortly afterwards, she gives the trio a ride in her truck, which she has to explain is "the murder truck", as in it's haunted and actively murders people if you're not careful with it.
- She casually mentions she gave it a better engine.
Lucy: You upgraded the murder truck?Clementine: [Beat] I'll keep her out of trouble. - Avery, on a trip through the Ruins, is just so fed up with everything that she angrily explodes at a ghost with a ruined face, who quietly slinks away apologizing.Ghost: My face!
Avery: Shut up! Screw off! Geez! Have some manners, I'm talking with people here!
Ghost: But... my face?
Avery: I’m sorry that happened to you, but what do you want me to do about it? Do you want me to salt you? End that? That sucks, really, but I don’t know what else to do for you.
Ghost: So sorry... [stumbles away] - America's 'transformation' in Vanishing Points 8.a:Smoke exploded all around her, and in the trees, a goblin hurried to get out a scrapbook-style booklet and flip through pages, squeaking out orders as goblins hurried forward, pulling off outer layers to reveal the swimsuit ‘Meri was wearing underneath, or putting on other accessories, like spike-studded straps and belts. They squabbled here and there as they got entangled.
- There's also the hilarious reveal that Snowdrop's rusty fork is Cherrypop in her weapon form.
- In the 8.a Extra Materials, Lucy calls Matthew a boomer while admonishing him for offhandedly using a bird hitting a wind turbine as an example of the sort of ritual that creates an Other like Montague, only for him to correct her that he's a millennial.
- The group managed to leave Cherrypop at the BHI.
Shaking Hands
- In 9.1, Lucy has a horrifying nightmare of waking up to find out that a drunk driver hit Booker and Alyssa's car, killing them, which turns out to have been delivered by Alpeana. Much later in the chapter, Booker himself says that he had a really strange dream that he describes as "the longest, most intense drunk driving PSA ever."
- Cherrypop picks a fight with Cig, an inanimate object, and loses.
- In 9.8 Avery suggests giving the then nameless Peckersnot a name like Snoogie because it's cute. Him and the other goblins look at her as if she's gravely insulted them.
- In 9.10, Verona gets everyone to the Ruins with a memory of her and Lucy having a sleepover and watching a really inappropriate movie, leading to the following conversation:Lucy: Alright. My worry is you… you didn’t go berserk but you definitely jumped into that cellar and… operated on instinct? Is that right? This is like that cyborg woman tying into the mainframe and going all out on the penis demon.Avery: Wut.Lucy: From the Ruins portal. Sleepover memory.Avery: What the frigging kind of sleepovers were you guys having?
Summer Break
- It's a throwaway line, but in 13.5, one of the magic items Clementine gave Verona is a temporary tattoo that changes its appearance so people looking at it will see the person wearing it as a member of their particular group/religion/club and so on. Wearing this tattoo accidentally resulted in Clementine temporarily becoming a lieutenant in an international drug cartel.
- In Break 5, John is about to fight a demon-tainted familiar, and Breastbiter the Chonk gives him something to help because demon-tainted beings are just that dangerous, leading to this:Reid: Here. I don’t want a goblin to be a bigger man than me. A protective charm.Breastbiter: I'm much bigger than you. Do you want to know why?Reid: I'm sure you'll tell me.Breastbiter: You wear shirts. They constrain you and inhibit vital growth!Reid: Oh, we're talking about nipples again?Breastbiter: Of course. What else could we be talking about when talking about how size matters?Reid: I don’t think I’ll dignify this conversation by continuing it.
Playing a Part
- In 15.5, Avery's summoning of Queen Sootsleeves, punctuated by Verona's thoughts.Avery: Sootsleeves, who emerged from the womb with a torch in hand! Sootsleeves, who emerged from the womb with the horse she’d ride forevermore, never to dismount!Verona, narration: Poor freaking mom.Avery: Sootsleeves, who emerged from the womb with her kingdom, castle and citizen all!Verona, narration: Geeeeez.
- Queen Sootsleeves turns her horse into a car, and then decides to leave via second story window. Because of The Masquerade, she has to wait an awkwardly long time before she can actually drive through the window.
Gone And Done It
- In 17.y, Tanner's writing on the wall spells out the extremely helpful warning 'Oh no'. Tanner and Wye complain over how vague and unhelpful it is, especially when it updates to 'Still oh no'.
Wild Abandon
- Lucy comes home to her newly Aware mom in 18.1 and finds out Cherrypop of all people had chased her out of the kitchen be causing a racket and demanding to see Snowdrop.
- In 18.4, while doing her demesne challenge for Kennet Found, Verona and Easton pettily snipe at each other in ways that remind you that despite the stakes of the current Lordship battles, and Verona's competence, they're still 14 year olds. It ends with Verona and Easton having an art contest with the spirits themselves giving the victory to Verona, and her unceremoniously kicking Easton out into Kennet Found soon afterwards. One stand out moment is when Verona asks Easton if he's done sucking Musser's dick and he answers:Easton: If I could drink a potion, become a woman, and be Abraham Musser’s next wife, or someone equivalent, a little less old, I would suck that dick with fanatical zeal, for all the perks, fortune, standing, and everything else I could get by doing it.Verona: *stops drawing and stares at him*
- 18.b starts with Biscuit selling drugs in Kennet Found. It begins with her showing off poorly filled out documents and ends with her hiding from Miss, who is upset that she was selling drugs to her foundlings.
- Biscuit sells a magical knife that only wounds as much as you pretend it hurts.
Biscuit: "I'll tell you guys how it works if you agree not to share. Yeah? Cool! The less you act like it hurts, the less damage it does! Let some other schmuck try it on himself for laughs!"Man in Bandages: "I could pretend it hurts and make the damage worse?"Biscuit: "Yeh, I guess. But you could use a regular knife-"Man in Bandages: *Pulls out money*- Douglas Did It steals Biscuit's thunder by doing all of the stuff Biscuit clams her drugs can let you do.
- 18.9 has the hilarious revelation that Franky's goat is part of a pattern that makes it a Hero. Also, while Avery's doing the Alcazar of the goat:If she fuzzed her eyes, she could see this as a tree in eternal bloom, forged in goat.
Crossed With Silver
- The Tearaway Kid helps Avery by dressing himself and Connor as dragons... except Connor can't quite get the hang of his costume.The Dad Dragon spewed fire out its backside, then panicked as its back feet rested in the flame, stumbling forward. Its face caught in the branches around its head, and it collapsed, spewing out more flaming diarrhea. It made a feeble sound, interrupted partway through when the branches broke and its face whapped against the ground.
- Verona and Charles team up to make an Other who will become a Lord. Naturally, they start arguing over how the Lord should look.Verona: Can you make him a skinny dude? Or maybe more gender neutral, for the ‘balance’ aesthetic?Charles: I don’t know what goes into that.Verona: You’re nigh-omniscient within your domain. Look, doofus.Charles: First of all, that’s not in my domain.Verona: Try harder.Charles: Second of all, I’m creating a being from fundamental forces of this universe, from centuries-old powers and precedent, and giving it the ability to manipulate time, fate, war, all to enforce a Law of Parity. And you want to quibble over aesthetic?Verona: Heck yeah, aesthetic. Step it up, Chuck. Make them badass, while you’re at it.
Let Slip
- During Avery and the Garricks' attempt at the Cakewalk, they're trailed by another Finder. Avery's narration then abruptly switches to detailing an old conversation she'd had with Olivia about how to describe a woman's chest, just so she can explain how absolutely stacked the new Finder is. Just the sight of her chest is enough to make one of the Garricks say that he might join Wunderkand, at which another Garrick says that if he did, he'd better get used to giving back rubs and shoulder rubs.
- In 20.4, the story begins with the Dog Tags telling Lucy about the time John ended up making sexy poses after Fubar stole his clothes so Yalda and the other Dogs could laugh.
In Absentia
- When the trio and Snowdrop are on a Path, Snowdrop chats with a couple of Others running a diner, resulting in this hilarious line.Other: Oh lovely, we heard how you and your human dealt with Wonderkand. They would have corporatized and privatized one of our main travel hubs.Snowdrop: *smiling awkwardly* I’m actually all about capitalism, baby.
- The trio turn the Laws against Charles by creating an Other and sending it to him to challenge him for the Carmine Throne. In a move that seems to be purely to irritate the living shit out of Charles, they gave the little guy ninety-nine titles and specifically made him to recite all of them at any opportunity, including being interrupted or not having the listener's full attention. As that part of the chapter continues, Charles' frustration becomes more and more obvious, even when he can speed up time to skip having to listen to most of them.
- Just before the fight at the sword moot, we get this bit of banter and Lucy's reaction.Grayson Hennigar: Fuck, man. They really fucked you up. Did you donate your nuts to charity before this or is that on the schedule for later?Anthem Tedd: If I'm donating my nuts, it'll be a posthumous gift to a museum.Grayson: After I kill you, I can make that delivery with all the necessary care and ceremony.Lucy, narration: Why do these things always get a little bit gay? Or sexual?
- And then during the fight proper, Anthem shoots at Grayson seven times with a six-shot revolver, aimed at all his chakras, with the seventh aimed at his groin.
- When Charles arrives to the Alabaster's domain after the Assembly has replaced the Doe, Guilherme takes the time to take Charles to task on his fashion sense.Guilherme: With vast power, the ability to shape how you appear, to be giant or small, titan or mouse, you choose to be this unkempt? A fur coat with no shirt, hair and beard shaggy? Charles, you no longer have the excuse of being forsworn.
Go for the Throat
- The girls decide to create a homunculus to block scrying from Charles or the Belangers. They create a homunculus shaped like a deformed version of Alexander, who babbles nonsense and/or insults Charles whenever someone tries to scry on them. And they name it "Alexanderp".
Finish Off
- In Finish Off 24.11, a bogeyman tells Lucy that "People like [her] don't talk to people like [him]. People like [her] are bought by people like [him], to keep in a cellar for when [he] want[s] to practice [his] knife skills." Lucy then glares at him, and the bogeyman hastily backpedals and says that it's not a bigotry thing, he's just an elitist.
- A reader realised, and Wildbow confirmed, that this particularly classist Abyss-dweller is actually a bougie-man.
Other
- The 2021 April Fools
chapter is dark and dramatic at first, starting with the title that makes it seem like Wildbow accidentally posted a chapter meant for an arc six chapters past the present one. Verona and Avery are dead, as are most of the Kennet Others. Guilherme has fallen to Winter, Edith has absorbed her Doom, Lucy has taken John as her familiar out of desperation, and all these ragtag survivors band together to try and take on the murderer of the Carmine Beast and the new Carmine... Clem's murder truck, being driven by Cherrypop. For extra amusement, while the first part is written in Wildbow's usual style, there's a distinct drop in quality after the reveal that just makes the whole thing even more ridiculous.- The whole thing is revealed at the end to be All a Dream by Cherrypop while watching a superhero movie, which adds a new layer upon rereading and realizing all the Stealth Puns setting up everyone on the protagonist's side as The Avengers (2012).
