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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y’all are so weird. if you hate the way i characterized regulus in ahb! then,,, stop reading it? no one is forcing you to read it?? you can just put it down,,, you know that right???? who has the gun to your head making you click next chapter??? you can just stop reading it at any time. no really, trust me!
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MXTX MC conflicts go:
Yi City: my boyfriend thinks I am a prolific murderer and specifically murdered a bunch of people his bff loves to get back at him. also that I tricked him into doing murders with me, for enrichment. I did all those things but did not anticipate having a feeling about his feelings.
Scum Villain: my boyfriend thinks I want to kill him but I don't.
MDZS: my boyfriend thinks I hate him but I don't.
TGCF: my boyfriend doesn't know I exist but I'm worried that once he finds out he's going to find my eyepatch ugly and my cavern of effigies offputting.
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something something gojo being hunted as the last one of his kind (elf?vampire?) because everyone died and he never was the strongest, only in theory. he never saved anyone. he was doomed from the start. armies of humans swarm him and at the very last moment, the kind where he’s feeling an emotion he only felt the first time he died, he stumbles upon a cottage.
it stands quietly with the rest of the forest. veins of tree branches spiraling around, enclosing it in a warm embrace. a house made of wood standing with the rest. the only thing that keeps him from storming in is, well, you.
sprawled on the front porch with a duvet sliding off, you make eye contact with the towering figure before letting out one, shrill scream.
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I’m not actually that invested in green-blooded Shadow, however, wouldn’t it be fucked up if on the ARK the only blood Shadow has seen is his own.
Wouldn’t it be fucked up if after a normal day of being tested on, after lying down on a cold metal table being poked and prodded with needles and scalpels and machines that do who knows what once he gives the OK (because I do think if Shadow was tested on he had a choice. I think Gerald would always ask for Shadow’s consent before experimenting on him. I just think Shadow would never say no. This is for Maria, after all, and Shadow would always agree to something that’s for Maria), after seeing his neon green blood drain into bags above him for what feels like the millionth time, the raid happens.
The raid happens and now Shadow is made aware that blood is red. Humans bleed red.
He then has all the time it takes for an escape pod hurtling through space to reach earth to try and reconcile this fact.
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Fun fact: Takeuchi the guy who wrote those MineDai RGGO stories said that he thinks Mine and Daigo should be together. Like yeah bro. We got that memo loud and clear already
(if you have a link to where he said that id LOVE to see it btw)
YEAH he made that pretty fucking Obvious.
you know……with the combined power of takeuchi wanting minedai to be together and yokoyama being super into mine and wanting to bring him back…………you see where im going with this
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whenever i see someone draw amity holding a can of monster just know that i am holding your hand respectfully because yes. that fits my headcanon. you are so real and right. she would drink monster. she would.
but you have it wrong!! she wouldn't drink the original one, no. she would habitually drink pipeline punch or peachy keen. why?? because. because i said so.
i am looking at you with my gay eyes to tell you she would love pipeline punch monster and i swear by that. pass it on.
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