#not to be elitist but
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today I am the victim of some particularly obnoxious bureaucratic bullshit
#is a Masters degree from the London School of Economics#comparable to a Masters from a US school?#the city of Philadelphia needs me to send them third party proof (which costs like $150)#before they'll consider me for a job#not to be elitist but#surely a school like LSE should just be on some pre-approved list#this is a fucking scam
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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"
just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible
#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order#at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers#90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent#like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries#but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate#and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something#cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare#and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity#and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media#and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons#and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators#instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period#anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives#so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world#(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin#oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value#and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the#important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)
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sketched this out at jury duty actually
#i sat there for eight hours and wasn't called at ALL. even for selection >:(#death note#light yagami#l lawliet#lawlight#i don't ship them that hard tbh#i just like to cheer for classic yaoi as i'm rewatching this series#yippeeeeeee love at first sudden-death mind game 🎉🎉🎉#edit: omg multiple ppl have pointed out the hand (positively)...#i've been wondering why it's getting so much attention... it's probs bc i over-rendered it since i was worried it looked bad LOL#edit 2 months later: i'm glad DN is still enjoyed by so many people!! it's rly nice to see 😭#also i saw notif for a reply that started with “shipping light with L while the former is only-” but it doesn't show up under the post#so i can't read the rest... tumblr saving me from something vile truly. i assume it's about age#btw this character is a magical serial killer#like be fr LMAO i think there might be other issues here!!#the elitist morally bankrupt 17 y/o murderer with a god complex can have a little crush#as a treat <3
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Still thinking about none houses left grief, and while I understand where people are coming from, "it took me out of the world" is just... Really not a relevant criticism here. Like, that line is SUPPOSED to be jarring. It is supposed to be kind of darkly funny, but the point isnt for you to laugh. Its not trying to be a punchline. The point of that line IS to "take you out of the world" because the point is that *this world isn't what you thought it was.*
#if it startled you that something so irreverant and lowbrow would come up in a high fantasy serious world#...then maybe ask yourself if this is really a serious high fantasy world#also i do think its just elitist that everyone complains about the tumblr references and not the word for word bible quotes#like maybe the author was trying to make a point about why you accept that catholicism is a cultural constant but not memes?#maybe take a step back and ask yourself what kind of cultural artifacts you think are important enough to be worth mentioning#tlt#htn#the locked tomb#harrow the ninth#tlt spoilers
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Sometimes I think about the how Friends and The Office are insanely popular sitcoms and it reminds me that the average American is stupid as fuck
#not to be elitist but#both of those shows are hot garbage#they’re not even so bad they’re ironically good#they’re just :|
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i still can't believe that "you should read comic books in the comic book fandom" is somehow some kind of spicy hot take tbh. comics are cool and some of them have my best friend superman in them. and if that's not enough they even have lois lane. what's not clicking
#rimi talks#sorry. just saw a fuckign post. WOW.#someone: ''reading comic books is fun and its not that hard to get started!''#the notes for some reason: you ableist fucking elitist gatekeeping asshole--#HELLO???????#my brothers in christ you are the ones in the comic book fandom WHY ARE YOU HERE IF YOU DONT LIKE COMIC BOOKS...#making this post feels vaguely like swinging a bat at a hornets nest but the fact that it does is also fucking insane#this is not a hot take this is a basic ass white bread take. what is in the water out here.
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#neil degrasse tyson#climate change#climate crisis#climate action#the elite#elitist#elitism#wealthy privilege#entitled people#entitlement issues#trump#donald trump#trump 2024#democrats#president trump#florida#california#globalism#leftist#leftism#science#fraud#physics#college#education#tucker carlson#dan bongino#joe rogan#aoc#bernie sanders
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Yes 'elitism' and genre purism in music scenes can be ridiculous at times but the way some people talk about it is like they think it should be illegal to criticize music
#i find 'anti elitism' way more annoying bc these ppl victimize themselves n act like a joke on a band they like is bullying them personally#+they're hypocrites about it often. they do shittalk music they dislike themselves but its not 'elitism' when they do it#bitching about 'metal elitists' is 'let ppl enjoy things' for sabaton fans like good 90% of times#if u cant enjoy it bc strangers on the internet shittalk u were never a fan to begin with. hope this helps!
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The only way to adapt The Silmarillion and make it good is through an animated series. No live adaptation would ever be able to live up to it, or manage to put on screen both the grandiose locations and otherworldly characters.
But no one is ready for this conversation yet.
#the elitist part of Tolkien readers would be furious but who care#this is the hill i'm ready to die on#the silmarillion#tolkien
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imagine getting kidnapped by a death machine and all he does is criticize your music taste
#my art#mario#paper mario the origami king#pmtok#pmtok hole punch#dj toad#i adore hole punch for being an accurate representation of reddit music elitists. what a legend.#paper mario
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#republican assholes#maga morons#traitor trump#crooked donald#Republican elitists#republican oligarchs#republican family values#republican hypocrisy#never trump#Republicans hate you
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The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.
#also idk how to tell you this but even if it were true. wealthy children potentially sacrificing their educational careers to protest is#a good thing actually. idk how to tell you that caring about people from other nations is good#personal#“this war has nothing to do with most students cuz nobody's getting drafted” idk how to explain to you that we should be angry#that our tuitions of 10s of thousands of dollars that we pay every year for an education is being used to fund a genocidal campaign#also the implication that if you go to a uni institution you are automatically privileged by participation no matter your bg#i didn't /want/ to go to this school. i was supposed to go to a school with an art/animation program. but i realized my immigrant#parents have been working their whole lives to get me here. and turning the opportunity down would be a disservice to their sacrifice#this is getting into convos of “what 2nd gen kids owe their parents” which is different for everyone but. yeah#i just get pissed off at seeing people misrepresenting student bodies as “wealthy” and “privileged” and “elite” when it's such a blatant li#i remember a year ago a friend told me they can't fly home to hong kong for winter break because the plane tickets are too expensive#so they have to find temporary housing around the area#last quarter for a film doc class my film partner made a doc on a small group of marxist grad students from india discussing praxis#during a rally a few months ago in response to police presence the coalition invited palestinian students to speak about their experiences#and lead songs and read poems they wrote. these are STUDENTS. are they elitist too?#this is not to disregard my own personal privilege either.#this whole narrative's just to rationalize a lack of empathy to me. seeing a 19yo student get shot by a rubber bullet and your first#reaction is “HAW! HAW! bet richy rich didn't see THAT coming when she put on her terrorist hood!”#newsflash. these big uni campuses are HAUNTED by the violence of past protests and revolutions and police brutality. we know.#why do you think these coalitions have been making reinforced barricades at record speed
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#let me be pretentious manga elitist#whatcha gonna do#and all of them have top tier anime adaptations#iyashikei#yokohama shopping log#yokohama kaidashi kikou#aria#hakumei to mikochi#hakumei and mikochi#mushishi#manga aesthetic#manga recommendation
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rich kids party except its them:
1) kevin day
2) nathaniel wesninski
3) jean-yves moreau
4) riko moriyama
5) jeremy knox
6) allison reynolds
#horrifying grotesque elitist squad#dark academia and they kill riko#random post i fr was just listing down potential rich kids if there was a moriyama party w affiliated families and they met there#add on if i forgot someone 🤔#aftg
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Something tells me that's been his catchphrase since they were children.
#he might be an opportunistic elitist manipulative leech#but damn if he can't be fun to watch#helluva boss#helluva boss season 2#helluva boss spoilers#mastermind#andrealphus#stella goetia#vivziepop#vivzieverse#vivziemind#vivienne medrano
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