In general or something in particular
Depends on context. A serious illness, a serious conversation, a serious movie all look different.
Or am I misunderstanding?
Seeing a lot of soldiers or law enforcement. Its either crime, suppression of protests, or coup.
Bad things happening.
When the jokes aren’t landin’
When Dad doesn’t joke about it.
When the cats start to glow or change colors.
“10,000-Year Earworm to Discourage Settlement Near Nuclear Waste Repositories (Don’t Change Color, Kitty)” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_cat#Cultural_impact https://emperorx.bandcamp.com/album/10000-year-earworm-to-discourage-settlement-near-nuclear-waste-repositories
A poop is serious when you have to take your pants off.
Gaming gets serious when your opponent in an online game is really talented and so you sit up and lean forward towards the screen.
When politicians refuse to talk about it.
Everything is serious all the time. Every day is a life or death situation. - Sincerely, Anxiety
My wife and I both enjoy teasing / lightly pranking each other. We had to institute a “safe word” to indicate when we’re being serious and not setting up a joke.
(The instigating event for that was right before I introduced her to my grandparents and I really needed to convince her that grandpa was hard of hearing but too proud to wear hearing aids, so she’d have to speak loudly and into his left ear, not his right.)
In 10 years of marriage, we’ve never once violated the trust of the safe word. If one of uses it, the other drops any skepticism and takes it as gospel truth.
I have the same thing with my best friend. It’s been almost 15 years now and we trust each other blindly if we use the word.
This is amaizing
