#implicitly pretentious

[thischristianguy]

Yes that little Bruce Timm directed animation was better than three big budget movies

Go watch Shazam Superman: The Return of Black Adam

#superman #shazam #morality #be good #billy batson #black adam #implicitly pretentious #comics #Youtube

[questioningespecialy]

This mofo (Implicitly Pretentious) just dropped a Smallville video some hours ago. Mostly dropped the series during/after season 5, but this shit made me consider wasting my life away adding the series to the backlog. Definitely missed out on some interesting character arcs, but now I'm wondering why I dropped it in the first place. 🤔

Likely to watch the Talk Ville podcast instead tbh.

there be hella spoilers

The Videos (so far?):

Smallville Was Surprisingly Deep

When Smallville Lost its Mind

When Lex left Smallville

#Random Recommendation #tv series #Smallville #smallville spoilers #Implicitly Pretentious #Smallville Was Surprisingly Deep #When Smallville Lost its Mind #When Lex left Smallville #YouTube #no i'm not a fan #stop judging me

[agnesandhilda]

I need to watch the batman: a death in the family movie/game so I can rant about it here

#bolo liveblogs #I'm watching implicitly pretentious' video about it rn #for reference's sake I'm gonna say that while I find the branching paths interesting I do NOT expect to like the ''jason accepts bruce's #ideology and becomes a non-killing hero'' because what I like about him IS that he contrasts bruce so sharply and deals with his pain by #lashing out #if you do the narrative equivalent of making him talk like he's trying to get a good grade in therapy he simply won't be the same guy #they unseasoned my boy......

[cipher-fresh]

Video essays about Superman that I like:

Satirizing Superman & Superman: Collateral Damage by Overly Sarcastic Productions

Superman Isn’t Jesus 1, 2 and 3 by Pillar of Garbage

World of Cardboard and Holy Cow. by Implicitly Pretentious (and a bunch of other videos on the channel!)

I Spent the Night with Superman and Superman is a Love Story by HiTop Films

Superman 1978 retrospective by Rowan J Coleman and retrospectives for movies after that

#Superman #Clark Kent #dc #video essay #video

[utilitycaster]

not the same anon but in regards to Matt’s call as DM: i thought that there was a benefit? at least implicitly. like, it seemed to suggest that the process of awakening Ashton’s shard was hastened and they got to skip some steps in the same way that like you’d lower a DC if a player cast a relevant spell

Yeah - the exact way those powers get unlocked are left deliberately vague/milestone-based (a la the vestiges) but it does seem to have done something with that!

But also, while I do think that you should reward interesting moves, and this calls back to what I said about Taliesin and Travis as players, sometimes the reward is is delayed for a bit (Fjord being entirely powerless for four episodes) and sometimes the reward is “hey, you get a really cool fucking arc.” I know the latter sounds very annoying or pretentious to some people; very “well, you get the satisfaction of a job well done :)” but honestly? That’s what I want to see as a fan of actual play, at least. Sometimes the reward in D&D is “your friends will talk about this years later as a high water mark and you get to experience catharsis but also nothing bad happened to you in real life” and that’s super valid.

#answered #Anonymous #cr tag

[hawkogurl]

Even I don’t know what this post is about and there’s probably no way for me to say this without sounding a little pretentious and for that I apologize but here’s some Norman meta analysis.

In terms of the Great Raimi Norman Discussion, something I thank a god I don’t believe in every day hasn’t yet escalated to Discourse(tm), among the things I wish weren’t a factor alongside the entire movie of NWH is the entire concept of a character being irredeemable. In my personal opinion, redemption is change. There is no point at which a person is not capable of some sort of positive change, so there’s no point where someone is irredeemable. This is simplifying for the sake of brevity, but it gets my point across.

However by the standards of larger fandom, there tends to be a collection of specific things that label a character irredeemable. These tend to be bigotry of most if not any form, any form of abuse, and sexual violence.

Raimi Norman managed to tick off all three.

Taking into account the authorial intent, Norman is very much meant to be sexist, an emotionally abusive parent, and I personally believe it’s very very likely that the comment the Goblin made towards MJ at the end of the first movie was intended to be a rape threat, especially taking into account him ogling her earlier in the movie.

The thing that tends to occur with those three topics in media is that they feel too real and too close to home and connect too much with people’s personal experiences. This can result a lot in people who generally like or enjoy a character with those traits sort of feeling the need to minimize, deny, or entirely avoid the topic of those things because it can feel like a reflection on their personal character to like a character who is those things or make them feel like they can’t enjoy the traits of those characters that they do enjoy. Norman’s behavior with MJ isn’t acknowledging and people tend to swing towards saying Norman was a bad parent or a neglectful parent because the word Abusive is a point of no return for most people when it shouldn’t be.

This is incorrect and anyone who tries to make you feel bad for this is incorrect. Personal preferences aren’t morality.

I broadly do not enjoy this for all the prior stated reasons but also because I feel this is also a root cause for a lot of Good Old Fashioned Norman Woobification. With denying these topics, in particular his child abuse and sexism because I’m aware the third is debatable, people end up implicitly taking the responsibility he has for his actions as a 57 year old man who made all his decisions on his own away from him or otherwise minimizing what he did or trying to make excuses, once again because modern fandom morality is a plague and people think any of the above means they can’t like a character.

And even besides that, I personally feel that to perform meaningful analysis of his character you have to be willing to embrace and openly acknowledge the very shitty things he does all on his own of his own agency. That sort of full understanding of a character is pretty necessary. You’re able to come to more complete and more defendable positions. And while I, me, tumblr user hawkogurl might not agree with them, they’re gonna be better developed. I don’t need to agree with them. I believe exposing myself to opinions I don’t agree with is good for me. It prevents the development of an echo chamber.

I continue to have no clue what I’m saying with this post so I’m gonna stop here. Because I’ll feel weird if I don’t say it, this post isn’t even directed at anyone specifically, we’ve come a long way from 2021 NWH era fandom and most people tend to be willing to acknowledge he’s kind of the worst and I don’t need to agree with you to respect you.

#harryposting #harry osborn #raimiverse #raimi trilogy #spider man #spiderman #norman slander #kinda #Norman Osborn

[antisocialxconstruct]

I know I'm far from the only person talking about this concept (I've been on youtube before) but picking up DS3 again has me Pondering™, and I think I am extremely fascinated by the idea of games where the primary interest isn't a power fantasy or some other kind of uncomplicated "fun." Granted I think the question of "is it fun/is it supposed to be fun" isn't even really the best angle to be having the conversation from because that's such a profoundly subjective metric, but the lack of better vocabulary is exactly what makes it so fascinating.

Like, I would never say Dark Souls and Pathologic are in the same genre in the traditional sense, but I don't think it would be controversial to say they're both tapping into the same philosophy, which is to engage with the idea of struggle, and ultimately perseverance, in a setting that's implicitly understood to be hostile to the point of feeling directly adversarial toward the player. (From what I understand Fear and Hunger probably falls into this category too but I haven't played that yet.) I'd be really curious to know about other games that have this kind of sensibility outside the most obvious "souls-like" approach, and I'd be equally curious to see a broader conversation about both why people play them and why people make them.

Maybe it's a little pretentious but I feel like there's a whole sphere of the "are video games art" conversation that could be unlocked by examining this phenomenon more. Someone should really make a video essay about that

#ftr this is an open invitation to suggest other games you know of that are Like That #if you're so inclined #rom speaks

[drunk-poets-society]

Hello I’m thinking abt Catcher in the Rye again (comfort book fr) but I was talking to this guy who’s been my classmate since kindergarten but we aren’t really close, and we were talking about the book, because he was reading it and he had just the insanely dumb takes about it. One of his most common critique was that Holden “didn’t take any accountability” like bro?????? Did you even read the goddamn book? He is sixteen years old, neglected by his parents, processing the loss of his brother, was implicitly sa’d, all of these factors making him so depressed and aimless that he just. Left, wanted to get away from it all, didn’t know how to cope with these monumental things that had happened to him. The fuck kind of accountability is he supposed to take?

He’s on the path of self destruction because he just doesn’t know how to properly process grief because 1) HIS PARENTS JUST KEEP SENDING HIM OFF TO BOARDING SCHOOLS INSTEAD OF YOU KNOW, TRYING TO PROVIDE ANY SORT OF COMFORT TO HIM AFTER THE LOSS OF A BELOVED FAMILY MEMBER and 2) he is literally sixteen years old bruh. why are you making him out to be an incel

He’s trying to preserve the innocence and naïveté and purity of childhood, he literally talks about it, literally talks about being the catcher in the rye who catches kids and saves them from falling too fast into the miserable trap of adolescence, the path he was forced to walk because of the incidents in his life like????????? How can you misread a character that badly

“Wawawawa he’s pretentious” and you aren’t? You’ve never felt the intense emotions that come with puberty? You’ve never experienced teenage angst? You came out of the womb with the maturity of a 50 year old? You literally write songs and play the guitar with a moody dark filter and sing (badly) and post it on Instagram, with half your face obscured by your unkempt, unwashed greasy ass hair because you’re trying (and failing) to embody the faux hippie aesthetic and Holden is the one who’s pretentious here. Right. Makes total sense.

#gosh it’s so frustrating yk #especially when someone who hasn’t experienced an ounce of trauma ever. eugh. #text #catcher in the rye

[maria-from-ga]

I don’t think people get MCU Spider Man is comic accurate. It’s just an adaptation of Peter ASM High School era - set for 2010s NYC

2010s Updates

High School

His supporting cast are Flash Thompson, Liz, Betty Brant, and Ned Leeds - all people he meets in his high school days & reflect modern Queens (one of most diverse places in USA)

He crushes on Liz and Ned/Betty dated

Goes to a specialized STEM school for high achieving students (NYC students test into HS- a genius like Peter would’ve gotten into a STEM school. But these aren’t like charter schools like Miles went to)

Hobbies

Peter Parker interests went from photography (60s) to vlogging (2010s)

J Jonah Jameson is an Alex Jones type (ppl bc of adaptations underrate how awful he is in comics)

Villains

His main antagonists are Vulture, Mysterio, and Green Goblin (appeared in the order they do in comics and are modernized)

Iron Man

Fantastic Four was the biggest hero name when Spider Man debuted. He tried to team up w/ them, that failed. But he teams up w/ Johnny Storm & disobeys him repeatedly lmao

Biggest MCU Hero was Iron Man. In Homecoming, Peter wants to be on his team, Avengers. But repeatedly disagrees w/ Tony

MJ

MJ wasn’t in the HS era but MJ was supposed to represent 60s counterculture & youth rebel at the time

But a 2010s youth rebel- a more introverted artsy type who is politically and socially aware. She’s unafraid to speak her mind & rejects societal expectations - sounds like Michelle Jones Watson

The day more people realized that MCU Spider Man is modern adaptation of Peter High School days is the day I know peace lmao

Source who are more detailed and interesting: @/duncann_donuts on TikTok and Implicitly Pretentious on YT specifically “All the Weird Ways to Adapt Mary Jane” & “In Defense of MCU Spider-Man”

#tom holland #zendaya #mcu peter parker #mcu spiderman #no way home #spider man #mary jane watson #peter x mj #michelle jones

[creativealmonds]

Heroics

In Justice League: Unlimited there is an episode that will always be my favorite: Patriot Act. Implicitly Pretentious on YouTube has a great video on it. Check him out for this and other DC analysis videos.

The reason I love this episode is that is shows what it means to be a hero. A few c-list heroes with no powers and Green Arrow get called in to sun for Superman in a parade celebrating heroes. There are police and firemen and these c-listers.

A super-powered general comes in and starts recking shop, saying how he wants to fight Superman to show that no one can challenge American power. Several people almost die due to his actions and other heroes, more c and b listers with no powers, are called in quickly but are defeated until there's only the general and Shining Knight. SH gets beat but the civilians they saved surround him.

These heroes aren't popular, a lot of them don't have powers, they use tech or some type of mythical artifact. The only thing that separates them from the policeman and the firemen are their costumes, their gear, and their origins. And throughout the episode of highlights different aspects of heroism. Vigilante gives some kids the job of rounding up people and getting them away from the area. Shining Knight saves a man from some ruble, and he says if there was a car in front of him. It shows that the heroes just help people.

Shining Knight gets beat very badly by the general, but even when he's bruised and broken and very much going to die, he still stands up and tries to help. When Green Arrow and Speedy run out of arrows, they still charge him with their bows. When S.T.R.P.E’s chest is exposed, he's still fights.

"Anyone can wear the mask." Miles Morales says in Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse. People usually take it as be a superhero but the way I see it is that to be a hero is to show humanity, to show the kindness in all people.

Not everyone is gonna be able to save a city by themselves or lift buildings, in My Hero Academia only the kids with the best powers can get into UA. In the beginning Toshinori says Midoriya could be a police officer since he's quirkless.

And I'd like to see how the DCAU would interact with this. Because not everyone can be a superhero, anyone can be a hero. Its in the small acts of kindness, in the things that won't matter or be written down in a history book of epics, but that will make someone's day and make them feel something good when they think back on it.

I haven't read the manga and the last I watched was around the end of Raid arc. In MHA, being a hero is a popularity contest about merch sales, photoshoots, whether a person uses their quirk with a liscene. It's a marketable brand of heroism that sells toys, funds hero schools and draws heroes into big cities to get good media coverage.

Midoriya and Toshinori are examples of doing good for the sake of doing good. The heroes in Patrol Act show that do be a hero is to be kind, to share the bit of humanity inside all of us.

#dcau #justice leauge unlimited #justice league #s.t.r.i.p.e. #star girl #crimson avenger #speedy #green arrow #vigilante #shining knight #patriot act #spiderman: into the spiderverse #miles morales #midoriya izuku #my hero academia #bnha #mha #my hero acedamia

[shadowwingtronix]

BW's Daily Video> Did DCAU Batman Create His Villains?

BW's Daily Video> Did DCAU Batman Create His Villains?

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#Batman #Batman: The Animated Series #Bruce Wayne #DC animated universe #DC Universe #DCAU #Fox Kids #Youtube

[olderthannetfic]

To the Blorbo anon who found all those prescriptive xReader authors. I feel you. I feel you so much. This is one of the reasons why I left Tumblr. Well that and seeing untrue shit posted about me by antis.

My Blorbo has been around for some years and is 'medium' popular I guess. Popular enough to have 'BNF's dedicated to him. (Though I roll my eyes at this term because the vast majority of them come across as pretentious and I don't know why people treat them like royalty or like they have access to character info the rest of us don't. For all their BNF fame I literally had not heard of any of them outside of Tumblr, but that's a post all in itself.)

At first Tumblr seemed like a really wholesome and friendly place (I'm talking about my fandom and Blorbo specifically here) but it soon became apparent that many people here were very possessive and also prescriptive over him. Ok fine. You do you. I'm also very attached to Blorbo and I'm also actually an xReader writer too. But. What quickly discouraged me on here was seeing all these mostly implicit, because they have to keep the veneer of wholesomeness and welcome alive, putdowns of other people.

One example, a very prominent BNF who blogs constantly about this character got an ask to recommend some good fanfics about Blorbo. Their answer? Hmmm, I don't know really. I don't read much because no one manages to get him right in fanfiction or capture his true character.

Another fan going off about how anyone who writes Blorbo in X particular way is ruining the character and obviously doesn't understand Blorbo, even though that particular depiction would be very consistent with canon.

It was little things like this that seem just annoying and minor but seeing them over and over became very discouraging longterm especially as someone who writes fanfic. These people will post pages and pages of headcanon and analysis which is fine, but then kind of implicitly insult anyone who sees things differently or not exactly the same as them. I think it's this need to claim Blorbo or mark their territory by implying no one could possibly understand Blorbo as well as them.

As I said, I am also an xReader writer but I let my stories speak for me. I don't engage with other Blorbo writers or even many fans tbh. I like my space and I just let people find their way to my fics through tag search and such and if they like them, great, if not then not. What can I do about it? Though just to feel a little proud, I've had many readers tell me my portrayal of Blorbo is extremely true to character and that they love how I portray him outside canon events. So I know that even though my views don't align with all the BNFs, I know that I'm not 'wrong' :)

Blorbo fans that won't tell you how he's supposed to be do exist and I hope you find them!

--

[bikenesmith]

a lot of what yall are labeling as "anti-intellectualism" is not anti-intellectualism, but just people expressing annoyance with pretentious behavior that is based entirely off ones consumption of "high culture" media

so many of the posts that get pontificated on are either implicitly or explicitly poking fun at pretentiousness + snobbery in specific. but the snobs in question would rather pretend that a rejection of their media hierarchies is a rejection of intellectualism at large

these bad faith readings are harmful because they begin to imply that the mere act of reading/watching/etc "classic" media (with all that definition's roots in white supremacy, sexism, and classism, mind you) as inherent to being intelligent or worth listening to

if you're a proud snob, then so be it! but let's not pretend it's anything more than that. let's not pretend snarking at people who think they're a donna tartt character because they've read the odyssey is akin to "the curtains were just blue" or the systematic defunding/devaluing of the arts

#transplanted from twitter lol #i see a lot of this on tumblr recently and its beyond annoying

[tomwambsgans]

i wanna say this is the last tangential post i'm making about the ortalan napkin as repression thing but i can promise nothing. anyway i somehow only just now also connected the umpteenth dot - of "but that's not how you're supposed to like it, greg."

like obviously it's about the ridiculous lifestyle of the obscenely wealthy and the rules you gotta follow to fit in and thus stay rich. you gotta indulge in the pretentious bullshit and not in stuff that poor people like etc etc

But it's also a line that fits so neatly into this episode being a thorough beginner's thesis on tom. he's implicitly but inarguably telling greg, here, that there's a flawed internal self that you must suffocate and a better one that you need to change into. you cannot just like whatever you like. there are certain things that you have to like. there is a correct way to feel. i've done it to survive, greg, and you will too. and that's the prologue to tom taking him out for an obscene dinner that they need to hide from the eyes of god, way more fitting in retrospect

#tomgreg #succession 1x06 #which side are you on? #tom wambsgans #mine #meta #like it's just only the logical succession to that that tom does not truly like what he claims to like #or that everything he openly likes. he has DECIDED to like #he does what he's supposed to and there is a real tom hiding underneath that shell #the little nudie turtle

[bug-the-chicken-nug]

it really is so hard to make headway on writing ideas for RWBY when your brain's internal council is like warring over whether your idea is genuinely clever or if you're just up your own ass being pretentious and fake deep

especially when you're already doing this for an AU of a show you always complain about, so you feel like you're running the risk of being like, a DOUBLE lowlife hack who turns out to be both pretentious AND a gigantic hypocrite for being no better than what they're criticizing.

so, to stop beating around the bush and be specific, I'm workshopping a character based on the Little Match Girl, but the character is a trans boy, and one of Beacon's top senior students.

Like.

If you know what Little Match Girl is about, I don't think you have to dig too deep to see what I'm playing at here, metaphorically.

But now I'm trapped in the continuous back and forth of "lol, typical fake deep wannabe made a trans person implicitly have a terrible and intolerant former life Yet Again, HOW original"

and "well, no, see, it's hopeful, because he survived, it's just the idea of him being a girl that "died", and now he's one of the best students at Beacon and he was able to find a support system and turned his life around for the better, and-"

"ohhhh, so you're going for inspiration porn, huh buddy? Ooohhh you're SOOOO cool, we got a REAALLL Emmy winner here folks, won't everyone PLEASE clap for the genius and tell them how smart they are???"

"Well, no, they're still a person with flaws who isn't just tirelessly happy and 'inspiring' all the time, and it's not like them being trans even comes up a lot-"

"Oh so sounds to me like you've got internalized transphobia, and you're minimizing something important about him, which makes you a Bad Person after all, then! Who could've guessed! (Except anyone who has eyes)"

and so on and so forth, and it is Agon'd Knee.

#rwde #rwby

[pureamericanism]

I've seen, in recent months, a few people online talking about the 'spirit' or 'character' of landscapes, and this is a topic I have Strong Opinions about. I do not trust my intuition about the character of people much at all, but I trust my intuition about the character of landscapes implicitly. A skeptic might say that this is because landscapes don't have a 'spirit,' and thus my intuitions can never be proven wrong. Well, perhaps, but I'm going to indulge myself anyway.

In particular, the Appalachians have a reputation for being dark and sinister and forboding, and have for about as long as English speakers have known about them. Obviously the trope of the darksome woods is very old in European culture, and makes sense for an agricultural civilization for whom forest clearance directly leads to greater wealth. But the reputation of the Appalachian mountains is a separate thing, distinct in kind and degree from that of the Yankee's North Woods, the southern pinelands, or the forests of the mountain west. All of those were 'tamed' by American industry and literature. But no amount of coal-mining, railroad-building, or poetry-composing has dimmed the folkloric reputation of the Appalachians as a landscape haunted by dark forces. There's certainly a Marxist perpective that it's just because they're remote and full of poor people, but there's plenty of remote places with lots of poverty that do not have this reputation for the land itself being anti-human.

Over the past few years, I've had the opportunity to spend much more time in Appalachia than I ever previously had, and I've come to believe that this bit of American belief is wrongheaded. The hills and forests of Appalachia do not seem at all sinister to me, but instead give an impression of great peace. The hills and forests are old here, old and powerful beyond measure, to be sure, but I find them kindly, as if they had found in their great age an acceptance of the ways of things and that sense of Oneness With All Things we are told mystics strive for. Yes, I do find all forests (at least, all temperate forests) kindly to me in particular, because I love them so much and they condescend to return the favor. But I can still recognize that certain trees (spruces in general and Sitka spruces in particular; and willows in general and sandbar willows in particular) have in them a deeply inhuman spirit, inimical to us and perhaps to all animal life. But I find nothing like this in the Appalachian forests, and it is perhaps notable that they are crowned by red spruces, probably the least sinister member of the genus.

But there is a sinister geography in the region, and one that probably explains the ill reputation of the whole area. It's not the hills, though, and not the forests. It's the rivers. The Ohio river and all her tributaries seem to me to carry a dark, ferocious, brooding energy, that leaks out into the landscape immediately adjacent even farther than their floodwaters. To the physiognomist of landscapes, these constricted valleys seethe with angry inhuman spirits. When the morning fog rolls in from the river to blanket Portsmouth, Ohio, it's a very different feeling from the same thing happening in the San Francisco Bay. And since these valleys are also the corridors through which all human traffic in the region moves, all who travel in or through the area take this impression with them, however subconsciously.

This sees some reflection in folklore, too: the most famous 'cryptid' of the area, the mothman, was sighted around Point Pleasant, WV. For people from New York or Chicago, this is just one more random Appalachian mountain town, doubtlessly full of hillbillies. But no, Point Pleasant is a low-lying, (ex-)industrial river town. The great tragedy the mothman is associated with was even the collapse of a bridge over the Ohio River itself!

This may all be silly, pretentious gobbledygook. It's definitely silly and pretentious. And even if it isn't gobbledygook, I'm not occultist enough - or even necessarily believing enough in the supernatural - to speculate why this is, what causes this, or if it's anything more than a wannabe poet's fancy. But I still trust my readings of landscapes, and would like to see the vocabulary of the good and kindly hills (especially as contrasted with the cruel and violent valleys) enter the repertoire of Appalachian landscape writers.

#gobbledygook #appalachia #america