I don’t usually make posts like this, but I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-intellectual junk lately, and I really think we need to put the word “pretentious” up on a shelf until people learn what it actually means.
It doesn’t describe someone who likes artsy-fartsy deep meaning media. People who are pretentious are fake. They’re posers trying to be sophisticated and unique, not like other girls. They pretend to only like stuff they think will make them sound cool when they talk about it. They want to act like they know something you don’t, and they want attention for it.
By definition, if you genuinely enjoy something, you can’t be pretentious. If it resonates with you, and you analyze it, and you don’t care what people think, that’s the polar opposite, actually. If you love obscure experimental prog music, if you watch underground high concept indie films through English teacher eyes, if you spend hours in a modern art museum reading each piece as a vessel for storytelling, if your backpack’s full of poetry books that inspire you, if you play underrated games that were someone’s passion project, if you have an interest in studying the classics or the masters, you are not pretentious.
Of course, some people just don’t like some stuff, and that’s fine, but that’s not what this is about. Don’t let anti-intellectuals shame you for enjoying things just because your interests are inaccessible to them, because they refuse to be brave and put effort into critical thinking. You’re not stuck up for refusing to overlook the craft of artists.
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... I can't do Dabi getting hit with a quirk that changes his sex in Mishap and also do a free floating fic where Shigaraki gets hit with the same kind of quirk and femdoms Dabi.... can I?
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Zoro knows what transgender is because he drunkenly lets drag queens and butches try to explain gender to him in gay bars and at parties
Sanji knows what transgender is because the brave citizens of the Kamabaka Kingdom forcibly educated him
Luffy does not know what transgender is because he thought you would grow a dick when you hit puberty if you wanted to be a boy (what sabo and ace told him when they were nine) and assumed tits worked the same way
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Sorry but I won't lie dude being like so cherubic and sweet looking as he thanks Xiao Lanhua for helping to essentially revive his heart and bring him back and then following that with And Now I Will Kill Everyone Who Has Ever Judged You Or Mistreated You- I Will Give You Back Your Home And You May Do With It Whatever You Please MY Angel is so. Like Noooooo don't commit genocide but also? The bad boy in a romance show being a sweetie to the girl he likes whilst speaking on that evil shit to everyone who's ever wronged her? Sorta everything to me right now.
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Aside from the nightmare fuel this would be a look for a live-action PPG thing.
…well, actually the nightmare fuel is pretty cool, too.
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that anon was wild ANYWAYS chenford’s gonna have 2 beautiful children and raise them together happily what are we naming them
omg ikr, wasn't that just bizarre? i was like "huh?!" 🤨 like i'm not saying they should start having kids this season cause even i think that's a bit of a far fetched plotline. but anyways i picture them with three kids. two whirlwind little girls, and a super sweet little mama's boy. i came up with a full name for their first daughter when i was writing my pregnancy fic (really lost the fuel to my fire for that though when i accidently deleted my previous main account a couple years ago, idk if i'll ever really get back to that one sadly 😔).
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not me spending the last decade being like no yeah totally cis gendered girlie thats meee while also being like,,,, i wanna be hot like a guy but in like a girl way ya know? *predominately wears more masc styles to balance out my v fem features and energy* *coats self in tattoos bc it makes my gender vibe happy in my brain* *changes pronouns to she/they and unlocks gender euphoria*
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so much of comphet discourse feels like it could be solved by bisexual women and lesbians like, realizing they have different experiences.
like i don’t blame bi women for having a negative reaction to “have u considered having a crush on men is fake” but as a lesbian who DID look at boys in my class and make the active *choice* to have crushes on them like. i think someone telling me that made me secretly bisexual would also cause a negative reaction in me yanno
if u read the am i a lesbian masterdoc and go “actually attraction to men feels good and cool for me, can’t relate” then cool! you’re probably not a lesbian lol. the lesbian masterdoc isnt saying “all women feel like this and are lesbians” it’s saying “if you can relate to this, it’s probably worth considering that you might be a lesbian”. and even if you CAN relate to stuff in the lesbian masterdoc but still feel that bisexual is the most accurate label for you, that’s fine too! its your sexuality nobody else should tell you what to do with it. it just seems wild to me to look at a tool that multiple lesbians have said is helpful and go “well this does not help me, a bisexual woman, so we shouldn’t use it”
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it is weird being an aromantic asexual who is incidentally attractive. like. i just came back from a concert with my friends who have known me for years and know that about me. some of the very few real-life friends who know that about me actually and i only told them relatively recently. regardless. the only reason i had bothered to bring it up w them is that they had seen me in SO many situations that telling them “i’m asexual” was if anything just clarification. just confirmation, like, don’t worry. it’s not an inability to attach to others or whatever. if you can’t tell. like they’d seen me be pursued by quite a few people in our time as friends and at some point it seems like a curious thing if i only ever seem to feel negatively about anyone who’s attracted to me, ever, no matter who it is. and they were understanding and i knew they’d be. yeah.
we were talking on the way back about bucket list concerts we’d still like to see. we saw stromae which was a really big one of mine (my fucking boy btw, i had an amazing time). i mentioned that i don’t have very many, as i’m rarely the person to be like “yeah, let’s go to a concert” unless i have people i know i wanna go with. like i’ve been meaning to see the jonas brothers w my sister and sisters-in-law ever since they came back because it’d be a fun thing for us since we always listen to them together.
but i would genuinely love to see super junior someday, like just for myself, wherever whenever if i was just able to get transportation (i don’t drive). i’ve loved suju for years but i got really back into them in 2020 in the pandemic as a sort of nostalgia comfort thing (but also the music they’ve put out in recent years is like, literally the best in their discography, they just keep getting better w age). and i had to go on this tangent to explain it, right?
in the first months of the pandemic, there was something weird happening to people psychologically. some kind of end-of-the-world loneliness. i mentioned that i had like 5 or 6 different people in my DMs at the time interested in me. not all of them men. and the friend who was driving said “you know, diana, if this were literally anyone else talking, i would think that this is some enormous humblebrag—”
and i like. didn’t even think about it that way. i was just trying to make my point that i had a serious thought in 2020 of like, when the world opened back up, just doing one (1) seriously manipulative thing in my life and convince one of those men who was thirsting for me to buy me tickets to super junior and go with me. it was hypothetical. this hasn’t happened and all but certainly will not. i would not feel good taking advantage of someone’s feelings like that.
but i had to go on a tangent even before that because i was like. oh my goodness. i didn’t even realize that was a humblebrag. i’m sorry. i’m just telling a story.
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