Parody in your stories

[BiscuitHammer]

Even in my submissions that aren't in Humour/Satire, I have a difficult time not injecting parody or variants thereof into my stories. I wrote a scene where one of my tritagonists had a dream, and in that dream, she had to defend her lifestyle choices from Santa.

While he gave her a psychic dressing down, not only did Santa pin her and give her a lot of Christmas cheer, but he did it while singing a parody of 'Beauty School Dropout' from the movie musical 'Grease' to her. The song was titled 'Big-Titted Airhead', and he had a chorus of sexy girl elves singing backup while he ravaged Jeanie.

Jeanie protestesed the whole time, but still let him go to town on her, because she is indeed a big-titted airhead. THAT she doesn't even try to deny. When she wakes up, she takes the dream as a sign that when she goes to L.A., she should fuck Frankie Avalon.

I can't help it, I am powerless before the urge to do weird shit like that. I need to do something else wacky and Christmas-y this year as well.

How about the rest of you? Does anyone else have a nigh-on crippling compulsion to parody things in their stories?

 

[oggbashan]

I have written full-on parodies as stories - parody of Kipling's Just So stiories and Swift's Gulliver's Travels and a couple of poems as me and as jeanne_d_artios.

 

[SimonDoom]

I wrote one story in this vein, a parody/spoof of a BTB story, written in a mock-Mike Hammer detective style. Some liked it and thought it was funny. Some hated it. Humor is tough to pull off on this site, I think, because people's senses of humor vary so much, and for many, humor and eroticism don't mix.

I haven't written any more stories like that since.

 

[BiscuitHammer]

for many, humor and eroticism don't mix.

Jeez, aside from historical fiction and warfare, parody is pretty much the only other trick I've got in my scribing bag. I have a decent following (small, but loyal, I guess), and they endure my humour pretty much constantly.

Maybe they've just developed Stockholm Syndrome at this point- I've broken them, and they laugh because it's all they've got left inside them. They're empty, desiccated husks, and mad, gibbering, Lovecraftian laughter is what remains.

I owe literature an apology, without the handshake buzzer of contrition.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I've got three humour and satire stories, each of which takes the piss about some element of Lit or other; they've all gone down pretty well with readers.

But in my other stories - erotica and comedy don't mix, so I don't go for laughs.

Most people don't get satire at the best of times, and many Yanks and Poms don't get Australian nuance. God knows how non-English speakers even start to understand. Canucks come closest, I reckon, Kiwis too.

 

[BelleCanzuto]

How about the rest of you? Does anyone else have a nigh-on crippling compulsion to parody things in their stories?

While I enjoy reading a good parody, my sense of humor just doesn't work the way it would need to in order to write a good parody.

Honestly, all of my stories have been a lot less funny than I am in person (and I'm only moderately funny in person)*

*unless I've exceeded my allotment of caffeine, then I'm fucking HILARIOUS

 

[KeithD]

I don't use parody in erotica. I don't think they go together.

 

[RetroFan]

I use humor and parody in almost all of my stories.

For example, in my story 'The Unsuitable Girlfriends' I poke fun at vegans by making one of the girlfriends a vegan who refuses to eat honey as it involves keeping bees in an apiary, and who brings pre-prepared vegan food with her to the farm where she is staying with her boyfriend's family over Christmas. She also has a dog - a large male German Shepherd called Rainbow - which she has trained to eat vegan and who wears a gay pride rainbow collar. Yes, a vegan dog named Rainbow that wears a gay pride collar. The girl takes the dog into the bathroom with her when she goes to the toilet much to the dismay of her boyfriend's mother, and it generally makes a nuisance of itself by chasing the chickens, throwing up over the floor, attempting to hump many things including the Christmas tree and pees all over boyfriend's father, who needless to say isn't very happy.

The girl also owns a cat which cannot be converted to veganism as it is medically unsound. The cat does not appear in the story but rather stays with her gay brother, as he and his boyfriend don't celebrate Christmas as it isn't inclusive of all cultures.

 

[MichaelGH]

There was one story in which I purposely wrote a less than ideal sex scene and then after that addressed the audience by asking if that wasn't what they wanted. Then I wrote a super over the top one.

Feedback for that story has been mixed. I'll go to bat for it though.

 

[Voboy]

I like parody, but I love satire.

Almost everything I write, even boilerplate work stuff where I’ve dredged deep into the Jargon Toilet, has some satire in it. I enjoy it when it’s subtle.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I don't usually write comedy stories, but I think a little humour can be a spice to an otherwise-serious story, and occasionally that comes in the form of parody. In my first story here there's a scene where the protagonist is trying to hush her libido by channelling cricket commentary, which inevitably turns into Sexy Cricket Commentary.

 

[RetroFan]

You can make some scenes both funny and sexy.

For example, in one of my stories a bumbling pervert is obsessed with getting his pretty cousin's worn panties out of her laundry bag and smelling them. The opportunity arises and he does just this, but makes a huge error and in fact gets his sister's panties out of her laundry bag and sniffs them. When he finds out about his blunder, he freaks out, throws up and has an Oedipus-like reaction, grinding at his eyes as though trying to blind himself.

However, after recovering from this shock, he simply continues looking for his cousin's dirty laundry, and when he finds it gets her panties out and smells them while jerking off. This scene could be seen by some as funny, others as erotic and others would find it both a turn on and amusing at the same time.