#not to be elitist but

[impostoradult]

today I am the victim of some particularly obnoxious bureaucratic bullshit

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

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

[asthedeathoflight]

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.*

[sardonic-simp]

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

[mamawasatesttube]

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

[pissmoon]

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

[relaxedstyles]

[art-of-firefly]

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.

[serrangelic-art]

imagine getting kidnapped by a death machine and all he does is criticize your music taste

[bixels]

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.

[hanihive]

[geekgirles]

Something tells me that's been his catchphrase since they were children.

[necroixe]

@ younger creepypasta fans, don't be worried about sharing what you make for the fear of people finding issue with it for existing. We like your art for what it is, and encourage you to keep making it, because that's what the core of being an artist is. The ability to write, draw, create, whatever it is that drives you, and literally nobody ever can take that away from you. Those kids with the shitty stories and self inserts built a fandom from the ground up, wrote and drew their characters just because they wanted to. If you don't care for it, make your own art, or move elsewhere.

The quote in anton's original post is incomplete, so here’s a better one— "find what you love, and let it kill you."

[alllgator-blood]

I’m not sure if you knew this already, but there’s a Cotl metal album now! So far, the Lamb’s and Leshy’s songs have been released! :D

I'M SO HYPED TBH I thankfully heard about this the night they announced it. The first thing I did was text my metalhead dad who played unholy alliance with me, and he was like "👍🏽 🤘🏽" which is basically the highest praise tbh

I was *HOPING* each character would get a different genre of song, but I think realistically they're gonna do that modern radio metal genre for all of them? I saw one of the animals as leaders dudes was on the project and was mentally punching drywall thinking about how cool it'd be to get a long ass shamura prog metal song.....FUCk. I'm like a mastodon/deftones/kgatlw diehard so while this album isn't what I'd normally listen to, I'm like inhumanly excited to hear the full thing in a few days. Here is what I think the bishops' favorite metal genres would be (sham's is prog, narinder's is nu metal, heket's is sludge/stoner, and leshy's is black metal. kallamar hates distortion guitar)

leshy is specifically watching this video btw

[songjay-ay]

Sometimes I contemplate the difference between Kai stans and Jay stans. Kai stans defend him with their life. like nooo he’s not selfish he’s just misunderstood he’s not mean how could u say that …. but Jay stans r like yeah he’s actually the worst guy ever let’s keep him that way. Thank god