#those are just because im pretentious
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sorry to be a bit of a hater but i do wish youtubers weren't so scared of making their videos just like, "reviews", whys everything gotta be a "video essay" all the time. every day my recommendations are filled with 40 minute videos titled "_____: An Underrated Masterpiece" where the first like five minutes are reading the wikipedia definition of "masterpiece" in a somber voice with dramatic themed text on screen. please just tell me how good or bad you think something is and use the rest of the runtime to explain why. you dont need to put on all these airs
#i know the ahem. channel. of some awe....... that whole situation kind of scared people off from using the word review#but like we live in the future now. you can make a review. i believe in you#AND LIKE i like a good video essay!! but im picky. because i read academic shit for fun#when i see a capital E essay im expecting theses. im expecting sub headers. im expecting multiple examples AND footnotes with asides#(and i know this is a controversial topic but i do expect them to be long. because if you read aloud a 4 page journal article its gonna)#(take a bit of time LOL maybe i just read too much academia shit. but i dunno man. theres not a lot you can say about like a big huge)#(topic with multiple angles if you only have like 10 minutes. maybe i just talk too slow. i need to breath <3 )#theres other formats too. surveys. retrospectives. informative essays. persuasive essays. etc#and like i also read lots of reviews not just of like movies and books but of like gallery exhibitions and shit!! they can be extremely#interesting a lot of work and some really beautiful writing!! nothing wrong with a review!!! theyre important#but i do get annoyed with like. the odd air of pretention i see in a lot of video essays. especially cause its usually not backed up by#the content. i dont care for those airs in academia either. nor do i like it in documentaries#just talk naturally. you'll find your voice. there might be pretention in it in the end but it'll be yours#if im making sense. i hear a lot of people talking in a pretention that is not their own. something they put on because thats what they#think they should do. you need to find your own pretention. be pretentious in a way that feels natural to youuuuuu#hell im being pretentious. about this LOL but like its my own. it is a pretentiousness ive built over the past half decade#play around. write a blog. i dunno. find your voice dear youtubers. find your voice
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not to be obnoxious on main but classic literature is not global literature. it's western literature at best
#not to vague but like. name one book from my country i dare you guys.#sorry this set of posts just makes me so fucking mad. like i'm also guilty of this because my ass can't speak any other language but#books of importance from other countries outside of the western hemisphere. especially if theyre in a language which is not english#go largely ignored by the western world at large despite their importance to their countries of origin#and its a double standard to have to expect to know like. for the most part the literature of native english-speaking or european#countries. when i'm certain a lot of these people don't know any of our literature or their importance to us#its so fucking pretentious. like i wont say im not guilty of it as a monolingual english speaker so that list of classic literature#is whats most accessible to me but like christ. get your head out of your ass. they didnt even say something bad about the book. holy fuck#sorry im just so fucking pissed. and i know these people are white or some form of american canadian whatever#im not denying the importance of the book in question its just Your Experiences Are Not Universal. why dont you respect our literature#before demanding the same respect for 'yours'#'uhh but i didnt know about those bools and their history-' YEAH BECAUSE THEY DIDNT HAPPEN IN YOUR PART OF THE WORLD. ITS THE SAME OVER HERE#BUT IM NOT CALLING YOU OUT FOR IT AM I? EVEN THOUGH THOSE BOOKS ARE THE CENTER OF A MAJOR HISTORICAL EVENT IN MY COUNTRY#im so pissed.#woe be upon ye
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WHY DO ALL CHARACTER PLAYLISTS HAVE TO HAVE MUSIC FROM MOTHER MOTHER, MELANIE MARTINEZ, MITSKI, PENELOPE SCOTT AND FUCKING CAVETONE.
RENGOKU KYOJURO IS NOT LISTENING TO BURNING PILE OR MY ORDINARY LIFE ( especially) WHO TF ARE YOU KID

#i know its extremely pretentious but i do not dislike thise bands i just dont know why everyone puts them in their playlists#and i know my hands arent exactly clean either i put radiohead in my rengoku playlist#kny#demon slayer#rengoku#but i am talking specifically playlists like “ stuff rengoku would listen to ” as an example#not songs that remind peoole of those characters because those are fine even if it has the same issue#im better than all of you /j /joking so much when i say this please dont attack me
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sorry for the james somerton jumpscare but im finally getting to finish hbomberguys video and the fact hes wearing this hat is painful to see. YOU DID CRIME. AGAINST YOUR OWN COMMUNITY! THATS NOT WHAT BE GAY DO CRIME MEANS!
#my post#james somerton#hbomberguy#im literally only at the halfway point in the video rn#im already in pain just from having seen the first half#especially the guy who had the harold avatar with antisemitic fans. help. what the fuck was that#the only person out of the first half of the video i knew was blair. i didnt even care about any of her videos except for like 5 of them lo#like. her video on the scouts. her video on salvation army#good to know those were also most definitely plagiarized#im absolutely dreading this second half. cause i actually used to watch james for a little while.#i havent watched him in months because he was exhausting to watch. like the way he talked and presented things was becoming a pain#like he sounded pretentious but i didnt know what it sounded like before. but he sounds pretentious when he talks
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rip my mom casually asking me what the worst shakespeare take i’ve ever heard was and unlocking a two hour rant at 3 am
#ive taken many shakespeare courses#and spoken casually about his plays with Many People™️#and read Way too many articles#i have heard more shit tier ass shakespeare takes than i would ever wish upon anyone#my least favorite does actually come from this website though <3#tumblr win (?)#i love it here but sometimes oooooohhh boy#i dont usually get worked up with any sort of disagreeing opinion#and im very good at being level headed about things in general#but GOD nothing gets on my nerves faster than shit takes about shakespeare#or just reading or learning in general#like ooohhh boy#my mom has a knack for asking me dangerous questions at inopportune moments#im half convinced she likes asking me about shakespeare when shes going to sleep#because my incessant chattering bores her enough to fall asleep easier😑#rude if true because i was repressing those takes and now that im thinking about them again IM too annoyed to sleep😤#god i wish i could be normal about shakespeare im so annoying#im So pretentious never speak to me
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Душу в зарю приковали к фонарю
#idk sorry for tag ranting but i just#every time i draw more or less personal stuff i feel like it has no soul#it sounds stupid but i have a feeling like the person who sees it will get nothing from it#its not pretty enough its not funny enough its not fandom enough its not moving enough its not telling enough its not useful enough#its not MEANING enough#and when i think about meaning i just feel pretentious and think of all of the existing art about the similar things#and feeling like a thief because im not the only person using fucking star imagery or something#and then i feel like i besides all those things done it worse#even if it was some 20-min emotional stuff like this art#and im not even starting about when i want to do something more fandom#well whatever#/#my art#personal#ukrainian#укртамблер#укртумбочка#my stuff#ukranian artist#digital art#digital drawing#digital painting#украрт
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namewise how do we feel about zane/zayne
#i like that its short esp the first one i like four letter names#i like that its only one syllable and i like that it has a ~weird letter~#i just dunno if it fits ive been stewing on it for months and i cant tell if i actually like it enough to be it yknow#i feel like it kiiiinda makes sense especially when i have the green on the left side of my hair (been too lazy to dye it lately)#it just feels kinda weird too tho like. maybe a little pretentious if that makes sense?#plus theres multiple characters i like with that name one of which i latched onto HARD in middle school (ninjago zane)#so im unsure if i actually like the name or am just associating it with those characters / am doing it for fandom reasons??#which i want to steer away from truth be told i have a weird uncle named dave so whenever someone used it for me#my brain would bypass homestuck (literally the reason i picked it) and remind me of my weird uncle (just some guy#who i had to threaten to unfriend so he'd stop sending me six trillion facebook game requests)#and who i then unfriended like a year later anyways#and it also has now been permanently ruined by the 2015 trans boy named dave jokes because it would be entirely accurate#idk. idk idk idk
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dude ok why are there are so many viral text posts on here complaining about zombie fiction that doesn’t call the zombies zombies in-universe? like first of all you can say the last of us it’s fine, there’s really nothing else recently majorly relevant you’d be complaining about, second of all who gives a shit? it’s such a minor worldbuilding detail and such a weird thing for people to fixate on and be like personally bothered by. i wouldn’t even be posting about this except i’m watching an old playthrough of the original tlou and i remembered how there’s like multiple vague posts in this vein and i just really don’t understand why people give a shit
#.#anyway hi how are you#to be clear i do literally get why it’s because they see it as pretentious or whatever#i just dont think its pretentious nor do i understand the concept of caring about dumb shit like that#unless those posts are about some other piece of fiction entirely and im missing something huge???
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leigh bardugo, ma'am, are a virgil and dante from the divine comedy slasher
#im like 100 pages into the ninth house. i can tell who wants who. and i know that those pretentious gits came up with la divina comedia#based nicknames - which is actually kind of basic. give me something more i used to quote dante in my advanced mathematics classes!#when i was 13! because that was an adrenaline rush compared to strolling through all the infernal circles and i miss it so much#but still. i am just imagining her being like. well theyre going to have a romance that is probably going to involve death and guts and all#and you know who else had That? dante and virgil#because menatlly i am still 13 (no i did not think virgil and dante had gay sex when i was 13. i did think dante was a loser)
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i hate mental health content like "heal your inner child 🥺" what if i HATE that thing and want to beat it to a pulp. is that allowed because i think that would fix me
#and yknow what i could probably say something like ''im only hitting you to death with a brick because i love you 💞''#and it would probably fucking believe me. lmfao#i hate even thinking about it. that's not me that has nothing to do with me and i hate being associated with this atrocity.#who allowed it to exist. fuck you#sorry for ranting but any time i go looking for self help content this Thing comes up somewhere and it's so fucking pretentious.#just seeing the words ''inner child'' anywhere fills me with rage i dont know.#WHAT IS IT AND WHY IS IT CLAIMING TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH ME. FUCK OFF.#it's probably one of those tiktok therapy concepts that gets disproven after a few months tbh.#it's not ''healing'' to think about and all i feel is vitriolic rage. i want to claw out its eyes and hair i want to chop it into pieces#and burry the pieces in different locations and erase it from existence and memory wipe everyone who ever interacted with that waste of air#sorry.#vent tw#i dont know what else to tag it.#tw vent
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hi <3 while im propaganda-ing u on my music taste can i recommend u not known at this address from the distant voices project? it's an album of songs by small scottish artists and it is so so good- some tracks id recommend in particular are 'rendezvous with war paint' , 'dining room hospital' & 'i wont follow him to the grave'
#this album is about. 5 layers deep down one of my music rabbit holes and it could have been even more if id gotten round to listening#to emma pollock when i found her on first edition. because shes on this too#incredible#idk listening to weird music is one of the greatest joys in my life.#fuck it keep clicking through those associated artists until you end up somewhere like here it is so fun. to me#nyxtalks#(obligatory im not pretentious about my music i also love bastille & shit. this rabbit hole began with daughter who r pretty big)#(i just really like to rep the little guys)
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Cotton candy and cookie dough!✨
cotton candy— do you prefer savory or sweet food more?
I almost said sweet for this, but tbh as I was typing I realized that's not actually true anymore, lol. I still have a major sweet tooth, but I've started leaning more towards savory food lately.
cookie dough— do you prefer jewel tones or earth tones? (so, do you like cool toned colors more or warm, earthy colors more)
I usually prefer cool tones, but my general preference really just boils down to "I like black"
#the best food ive ever had in my life were these clams in a white wine sauce at Domenica in the Roosevelt hotel in New Orleans#im not a big fan of sea food#mostly becauase its so hit or miss and i only really trust its been prepped right when im at nicer restaurants#which is pretentious as fuck i know#anyways im in new orleans with my parents and grandmother#we orded the clams because we saw them on someone else's table and thought they looked good#i try one becauase I'll try anything once#immediately i see god#its so fuckin good#there is a few seconds of us all quietly losing our shit because these are fuckin divine#and then we stop talking and do nothinf but shovel clams in our mouths#its just us groaning a how *good* they are#when they were gone we literally used the shells to scoop up the sauce and drank it#we completely forgot every manner our southern mama's beat into us#those clams struck some ancient primal instinct in us#they were so good yall#and now the horrible reveal:#THEY AREN'T ON THE MENU ANYMORE#I ALMOST CRIED WHEN I FOUND OUT#my answer
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no 3 least favorite op fandom member gotta be the dudes who comment "oda said that zoro would kill any of the straw hats if luffy told him to ☝️🤓" SHUT UP
#yeah zoros incredible sense kf loyalty is pretty cool snd all. BUT STOP SAYING THIS UNDER ANY VIDEO THAT FEATURES HIM IM GOING INSANE#second and first least favorites are#the people who dislike/say a character is bad because theyre weak or not good in a fight#and those who clearly didnt watch the same anime i did and completely ignore the political themes#just anyone with a surface level view I Guess..s.... god i feel pretentious#pps op#any comment that starts with “oda said”? Not listening
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not to be a tumblr user but For M IS one of the poems ever . and i have read some poems
#vwoop.noises#i read the guys actual poem book that for m is published in too#its kind of funny#modern poem books in general are kind of funny because people are at its core Just Saying Stuff#There is one where the narrators partner becomes a houseplant . I understand the point of this I think as I give it a second look#But also. Also those are words. I love poetry#im a pretentious authorguy I can take a step back Okay. Ok.
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getting my parents to watch succession has been a morbidly fascinating experience. theyre both very smart people whose opinions i respect BUT. when it comes to tv specifically. they watch so much stuff that's shoddily made and have such low expectations for the medium/the level of artistic intent that can be behind it as a result that my mom was just telling me "i can't tell if the show wants me to hate them or wants me to feel bad for them" Jennifer. I know if this was a book you would not be asking me this question like there's actually a chance this show is actually the shittiest possible version of itself when its like that
#idk shes an artist so when i framed it like that she was like ohh. lol. ok yeah. like its a question worth asking but the answer is uh.#sort of neither of those things and yet both at the same time but better. HJBASKANLKJSNDF#i get why people have low trust in writers to actually be saying the complicated thing these days because trust me. I have low trust too#but ig the difference is i know more of what to look for to actually build that trust w the writers bc. personal experience. than they do#like my mom knows more about visual art than me in the same way lol#so am i just a pretentious asshole? Perhaps!#but also im right bc this is one of the myriad reasons the writers are striking in the first place lol#alex lore
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being a horror fan is actually still eating in the kitchen even though its got windows and its midnight and half of the lights are off and youre watching a video about undertale, a game that may be wholesome but still carries an eerie vibe, which gives you a tinge of distress, ever looming in the background of your emotional buffet. as the video plays an upbeat tune you pretend to be not scared by the dark like a child and dance along. you remember to not be an ass and clean up after yourself, but the visualizations approach in the windows. the possibility of some terrifying creature or even just a vision occuring is slim, yet it still gets to you. you walk, almost on your tip-toes back to your room, acknowledging the silliness of your childish irrationalities. this always occurs, every time you do this, not with the exact scenario, but almost every night. each time slightly raising your heartbeat.
damn i started writing a y/a novel in there somewhere, sorry.
another option is you thinking beetle fighting is cool even though you hate bugs
#horror#scary shit#me being a little poo poo baby child#that was probably really pretentious#sorru#i feel like sometimes i try to imitate other peoples modes of speech to match certain scenarios because when i hear those modes of speech#they are correct when used so i try and copy that and it ends up messing with how im trying to talk and convey information and a lot of#times it accidentally just happens and i sound like a loser (see above) and i kinda hate it for that. happens when i write essays for#school too. i end up saying some real word salad-esque shit because i watch too many video essays#god im so silly#sorry*
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