#pretentious ass

[road2love]

whenever I'm watching a video recipe and they use those automatic electrical salt dispensers i stop watching

#pretentious ass

[sun-3-160]

"Any thing that you do other and eat, sleep, shit, fuck, and kill is a symptom of insanity" what are you even talking about man

#pretentious ass #youre lucky youre hot or id hate you #into the dark

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

#every time someones like ''AI will replace u" im like. u will have to fucking KILL ME #there is no replacement here bc i am not filling a position. i am just writing #and the writing is what i need to be doing #writeblr #this probably doesn't make sense bc its sooo frustrating i rarely speak it the way i want to #edited for the typo wrote it and then was late to a meeting lol #i love u people who mention my typos genuinely bc i don't always catch them!!!! :) it is doing me a genuine favor!!! #my friend says i should tell you ''thank you beta editors'' but i don't know what that means #i made her promise it isn't a wolf fanfiction thing. so if it IS a wolf thing she is DEAD to me (just kidding i love her) #hey PS PS PS ??? if ur reading this thinking what it's saying is ''i am financially capable of losing this'' ur reading it wrong #i write for free. i always have. i have worked 5-7 jobs at once to make ends meet. #i did not grow up with access or money. i did not grow up with connections or like some kind of excuse #i grew up and worked my fucking ASS OFF. and i STILL!!! wrote!!! on the side!!! because i didn't know how not to!!! #i do not write for money!!!! i write because i fuckken NEED TO #i could be in the fucking desert i could be in the fuckken tundra i could be in total darkness #and i would still be writing pretentious angsty poetry about it #im not in any way saying it's a good thing. i'm not in any way implying that they're NOT tryna kill us #i'm saying. you could take away our jobs and we could go hungry and we could suffer #and from that suffering (if i know us) we'd still fuckin make art. #i would LOVE to be able to make money doing this! i never have been able to. but i don't NEED to. i will find a way to make my life work #even if it means being miserable #but i will not give up this thing. for the whole world.

[sawgaybo]

I find it so funny that Amanda PRETENDS to suffocate Adam AND replaces him with a fake skeleton AND forces him to lurk in the shadows with his camera for years SIMPLY to keep Larry from finding love.

#they never canonically interact but I know Amanda wants to beat his pretentious ass #its a one way rivalry Gordon is not so secretly terrified of her #saw #saw franchise #adam faulkner stanheight #chainshipping #lawrence gordon #amanda young

[ride-a-dromedary]

Oh, my friends, don't ask me what your sacrifice was for.

There is a burden to being the survivor.

The witness to other's tragedies.

It only grows heavier with time.

#i will actually make a pretentious ass gifset thank you who's stopping me give me one good reason #Baldur's Gate 3 #bg3edit #gamingedit #bg3 spoilers #Halsin #otheredits #my stuff #this is for @roofgeese who annihilated me the other day #i have a whole ramble rant about halsin's being a survivor and carrying that guilt is enough of a compelling story in itself #without scrapped EA content - because this is guilt that *never goes away* even when perhaps the root is solved #but i will hold my tongue and sit in my corner because the parallel of this song with halsin #destroyed me even more than the impossible dream alignment did #i mean 'and i can hear them now/the very words that they had sung/became their last communion' *twitches* #'their screams...it's all i can hear' #halsin lost *everyone* important to him

[sorrelpaws]

talking about work drama

#fight club #the narrator #tyler durden #soapshipping #also idgaf what anyone says narrator is taller #yes its because edward norton is taller #but also if you want to be pretentious with me for a moment i think it also helps to solidify tylers... unconventional(?) masculinity #like the way tyler wears his slutty little outfits and slaps his friends ass and is like 3 cm shorter than the narrator but hes still #much more 'manly' #umm its i guess the irony of it all??? that tyler still manages to exude so much masculinity purely through his personality #im just saying words actually. i dont know what the point is

[lord-of-the-ducks]

Anyway, for me, the funniest part of the tumblr Dracula book club is that there’s WAY more Dracula nerds than I previously thought, and we’re all collectively waking up, looking at tumblr, and finding that our hyperfixation is suddenly relevant.

And then we all get to sit in the corner giggling at all the newbies who have no idea what they signed up for. I saw a post like “oh boy can’t wait to see everyone’s reactions to the polycule antics” and half of the tags were like “sorry, the what?”

#i say newbies affectionately btw #I’m happy to see so many people reading this book #and if I see one of those previously mentioned Dracula veterans trying to gatekeep this book I’m going to kick their ass #like I’m actually going to unleash my full fury on anyone who tries to be pretentious about reading Dracula before this #bram stocker's dracula #daily dracula #Dracula daily #Dracula

[macaulaytwins]

you’re in his dms, I’m ghosting him bc he didn’t know what the picture of dorian gray was. we are not the same

#let me be a pretentious ass about this #I had my head in my hands fr #light academia #tpodg #dark academia #the picture of dorian gray #you’re in his dms #shitpost #textpost #literature #classic lit #dorian gray #basil hallward #oscar wilde #books #reading

[maysrinn]

Of course they would sneak off

Coriolanus knows…of course he knows and Lucy Gray is telling the old man to go back to sleep- he’s just rambling and she’s about to make him meet his maker if he doesn’t shut up in the next 2 seconds.

______

Little random sketch idea that popped into my head after reading a comment of coriolanus locking clementine in her room to prevent all sorts of meetings with Nathan but momma said “sike” while opening the door for her T^T

#tbosas #snowbaird kids #clementine does what she wants #and dad can kiss her ass #lucy gray just fuels the chaos #because her husband is a pretentious hypocritical ass

[thatlittleegyptologist]

I say this because I've been drinking with my dad for six hours and people we're with keep asking about my dead ass mother and how we're coping (shit as hell thanks for asking): but goddamn sometimes I have to take the W on my vocab skills, because I'm drunk as hell and I'm still better than someone who's had weeks to edit something. I don't want to inflate my ego because I'm just some woman on the internet, but at some point I have to acknowledge that...no I know I'm better than what I'm reading rn (she says reading academic articles at midnight).

#did you need to be that pretentious? nooooope #lord you have several degrees but you didn't need to show your whole ass #you can be smarter than people without being a dick hot damn dude #I'm smarter than a lot of people but also dumb as hell and I know it #I should be allowed to be a greek philosopher now just based on this and the discipline it takes to spell when I can barely see

[jiangwanyinscatmom]

I am once more begging fic writers to stop using "orbs" and just fucking say eyes. Orbs does not make an attractive alternative at all and whoever told you it was, was lying.

#fucking orbs my ass #they're not orbed shaped unless you literally pulled it out for a disection #orbs stfu it's eyes don't be pretentious #you use orbs to describe eyes I am automatically ruling out you know how to write a story decently

[pansyfemme]

trying to flirt with a bts stan like yeah haha i loved them in the celibacy gif they really slayed there

#disclaimer: i would not flirt with a pop stan of any sort #i dont hate their music i just think my pretentious indie music ass would clash so much with that kinda music fan lifestyle

[bloggingboutburgers]

Am I the only person violently annoyed by the X files scully/mulder thing

like i haven’t even watched more than a season, and haven’t watched it in years— but something about the director INSISTING it was platonic, making an affectionate m/f relationship and still having it be platonic, refusing for years to make it romantic— that’s special. That is dear to me.

and then the viewers got attached to “sculder” (including a lot of people from the LGBTQ community, surprisingly*) and rioted until it became canon. I’m not an avid follower of X files, I just found this out a couple years ago and was incensed. Like— it wasn’t the director who made them romantic. THEY WERE SUPPSOED TO BE Platonic!!! Fuck!!!! FUCK!

*sculder fans cited that Sculder was a lot like LGBTQ relationships with the ‘romantic chemistry’ the creators kept denying and refusing the audience any romantic interaction. People like to go “haha the director of this show is delusional they are obv. in love look at how they look at each other-“ *gunshot*

want to clarify I have nothing real against sculder fans, just sculder itself

Sorry for rant :(

I never did watch the X Files so I had no idea, but reading this, seems like I dodged a bullet huh --"

#quoting myself like a pretentious ass: #don't forget they shared screentime #for most people that's enough #x files #shipping culture #anon

[mugentakeda]

an easy way to describe the fundamentals of zuko and irohs dynamic is that iroh is a tea drinker and zuko is a coffee drinker forced to tea drinker

#idk if coffee exists in the atla universe but black coffee would change zukos life for the worst #actually i think zuko would like sweet teas or teas with things like honey and cream in them #but iroh is a pretentious douchebag that appreciates the natural flavors and complexities of a properly brewed cup of tea #and also it gives him an excuse to give zuko some weird tea proverb he pulled of out his ass #It may sound simple but it actually explains everything along w everytime theyve butt heads over anything ever. #atla #iroh #zuko

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History • James Hall

#quote #mask motif #idk how to tag this #chat come get this pretentious ass bread #juniper likers eat this shit up w me #really im only posting this so i can reblog it to my side but whatever you guys can taste it too. 💕

[hiding-under-the-willow]

Not to be slightly pretentious about my own art for a second but I'm up thinking about the repeated visual imagery I've developed in my wkm fanart

Specifically the twin stars as Celine and Damien post WKM, particularly in their relation to Wil. How it's about them haunting the narrative. How it's about them still being there in Dark and yet not being there at all. How it's about the ways Wil still sees them in everything. How he misses them and how he carries on with that weight, with their legacy (the same reason I often draw him with star motifs of his own. Always carrying them with him in his own little ways.)

#atlas.art #atlas speaks #i wonder sometimes how many people pick up on it bc everytime i think about this shit it drives me a little insane #they are everything to me do you get it #the fucking 'Woke Up New' Wil drawing still gets me despite all the ass jokes people made about it for this specific reason #it was the first and arguably most effective use of this symbol considering it set the standard for it's meaning #also yes the stars were also a part of the reason i drew the barbie outfit drawing lmao have fun never looking at that one the same again #also not included here but slightly relevant is the google drawing with the stars #considering the specific ideas i have about google's path towards humanity and its relationship to Dark and his humanity so #anyways I'm done being pretentious now probably i swear