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unopenablebox · 8 months ago

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every now and then one of my mutuals starts getting into something that one of my other mutuals has had a like self-directed home dissertation level of obsession with for years, and i still don't know anything about it either way but it's very funny learning what a normal trajectory of somebody experiencing it would be like

#it's not that i know anything myself it's that i never paused to consider what someone learning about it for the first time would say #rather than the incredibly involved academic inside baseball dispute-connoted remarks from which all of my knowledge is derived.#actually at least one of you is the first mutual on one topic and the second mutual on another topic. a lot of my tumblr friends are way up #on extremely specific long-running humanities research controversies in some way or other i guess. that does track.#imagine you only know about pastry technique from watching someone from afar as they beef with everyone else on earth about like #the exact air humidity ratio you should have for [whatever at this point i ran out of pastry knowledge to use in this example]#and then out of the blue someone else starts being like. hey i just learned to laminate croissant dough!#and it's like. i can't do that either. but the way you're mostly saying words i know or can look up is deeply uncanny to me.#box opener

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