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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so our warm up doodle kinda got out of hand
@dragon-spaghetti we were the anon djdjdj we wanted to draw mlp and honestly ur art inspired us so here we are
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speaking of cool fashion today on drawings i never posted heres something from a while back
I doodled some cute girls in cute outfits, these aren't like OCs or anything they just exist
I also gave em dino plushies because you can never stop me
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Confession:
When I tell you if they hadn’t humbled and radicalized this stubborn man the way they did over two seasons I would not love him. Crosshair fr kinda ugly ??😭 he was fine when he had hair in season one, we love a silver fox ok, but so thin omg. He seems kinda beefier a lil bit now but a bald ass bitch with that mangled scar and I’m-?? Chile personality/character > looks any DAY because whew this one 😮💨
Sometimes the Me I was before I got into this show looks at the Me I am now like bitch is this your man?? 🤨 THIS??
😭 girl why you couldn’t fall for handsome sergeant Hunterrrr you fuck, or stromg Polynesian man Wrecker or Information Technology BadBatch who low key looks like Jude Law 😭
Omf I take it all back he’s just so pretty??? I’m crying??
What even is this post?? I’m losing it 😭 it’s so unhinged and word vomity
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WAIT I GOT ANOTHER ONE!!!!!!!!! top 5 story themes that you love to see!
this is so funny bc i almost sent u this before i decided on sending characters instead. i might be taking this a little outside of what u meant idk but
self sacrifice/destruction of the self. when a character either sees themselves as unimportant or sees their goal as more important than their own self and before they realize it theyve not only hurt themselves but the consequences are ingrained in the whole narrative to an extent it cant be ignored. it hurts me deeply but i love it
unconditional support. i would say power of friendship but the execution is important to me. im thinking like the end of okami here the whole even in the face of ur darkest hour there are still people who think of u and believe u can still do ur best. makes me cry. someone should invent that in real life
isolation as horror. i dont just mean in a strange place with no one around. i mean someone experiencing something no one else will believe & having to live with it. being around infinite other people but unable to connect with them. whatever theyre dealing with they have do it alone and not for a lack of calling for help.
morality in dealing with the unreal. isekais where the person is aware they're in a story or game whereas they themselves are very real. whats the right way to deal with the world theyre now in. if it comes to a decision of hurting themselves or the world theyre now in, which do they choose. which is the 'right' choice. fascinating to me. (thinking like oneshot here or kamitsubaki city with the vwp girls feels similar to this to me)
obsession. letting a curiosity consume them as they dive in too deep trying to figure it out. focusing too hard on something it distracts from what's immediately important. needing a specific other person in their life so much they dont function right at the mere uncertainty of the other continuing to be there.
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