#supercilious

[j-august]

"Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one's imperfections."

Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

#quote #quotation #Susanna Clarke #Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell #Dr Greysteel #Jonathan Strange #cats #useful #supercilious #moral utility #uncomfortable #sober #reflection #imperfections

[rub-the-rest-with-yellow]

Information

Édouard Manet 1879

At the café

Manet, with his combination of naturalism and impressionism, was great at capturing subtle emotions like indifference and melancholy. I tell people if they can't decide if something is a Renoir or a Monet, it might be a Manet, his style shared similarities with both.

#feeling dumb #supercilious #manet #french art #art memes #classical art memes #art #rub-the-rest-with-yellow

[dykeredhood]

Supercilious is just such a useful word

#and would y’all believe I learned about that term from Latin class in HS before I heard it in HMS Pinafore? #it conveys such a specific manner of prissiness #Rimsey posting #this is why I have a specific tag instead of clogging the Arnold Rimmah character tag with my own thoughts #personal #supercilious

[chronicowboy]

i know insults are merthur's love language, i know that, but god if it still doesn't get me how both of them can make a scathing insult sound so goddamn tender. like, fuck, in the crystal cave when arthur gets hit by that arrow and merlin says: "listen to me, clotpole. i don't care if you die, there are plenty of other princes. you're not the only pompous, supercilious, condescending royal imbecile i could work for. the world is full of them. but i'm gonna give you one more chance." that's a love confession !!!

#sami rambles #colin morgan absolutely bodied that little speech like fuck #don't believe me go and give it a little watch #never have i heard a man down more bad than merlin listing off all of arthur's worst qualities #but he's MY pompous supercilious condescending royal imbecile #YOU FUCKING IDIOTS YOU'RE IN LOVE #bbc merlin #merlin bbc #merlin #merlin x arthur #arthur pendragon #merthur

[birdstudies]

March 6, 2024 - Superciliated Wren (Cantorchilus superciliaris) These wrens are found in woodlands and scrub in parts of western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. Usually foraging in pairs, low in vegetation or on the ground, they feed on insects, though the details of their diet are unknown. They build round nests with long entrance tunnels in bushes or trees, often near wasp nests, or sometimes under the roofs of old buildings. Pairs build multiple nests, only using some for breeding and leaving the others unlined. Females lay clutches of two or three eggs.

#superciliated wren #wren #cantorchilus superciliaris #bird #birds #illustration #art #woodland #birblr art

[airyairyaucontraire]

it's just occurred to me that Team Rocket would freaking LOVE the Ballonlea gym leader Opal. She's theatrical and eccentric and demanding.

James: she's exactly how I want to be when I'm her age!

#they should pester her to adopt them #only to discover that this comes with an unexpected younger brother #that supercilious little shit Bede #nah they'd love Bede too #Jessie would mostly love him by fighting but that's her primary love language #James: you need to make allowances Jess - the poor little lad is but an orphan #and already rejected by the villainous boss he looked up to! #it's as if he was tailor-made for us to empathise with! #Jessie continues to fight with Bede but in winter nabs a local Alcremie and makes him snow ice cream #team rocket #pokemon swsh #opal pokemon #bede pokemon

[drawthething]

Google Map: In 500 metres, turn right

Me turning left on a different road: And what if I choose a better shortcut than that fricking long route you drew for me, hmm? What ya gonna do about it?

*spent an extra 40 minutes finding the way and reconsidering my life choices*

#the road i went for was actually blocked at the middle #i thought i knew better than technology. i really did #but i picked a fight with the wrong bot #and the universe punished me for daring to have such supercilious thoughts

[dinurdi]

Harry potter and the Cursed Child

Fellas, I got an idea. Maybe not new, but still:

What if... instead of rescuing Cedric they could look for REGULUS BLACK?!

I mean...that make sense, isn't it? Delphini is partly Black and Regulus is an interesting character with lots of stories that was untold in the books ☹️ Plus his sacrifice to defeat Voldemort.

Also it was a theory that Dumbledore spoke to Kricher in the 5th book and did find out about the cave with the locket and started searching. Like...Kricher give him just tiny piece of the story because he knew that Dumbledore would tell Sirius and that was against his master's order 🤯😭😭

#hp #hp fandom #harry potter #hp marauders #theory time #regulus black #Sirius secretly did love his baby brother so much but was too supercilious to admit that #I even can imagine that Lily wanted to persuade James to forgive Snape like James wanted to persuade Sirius to forgive his brother #It hurts

[seasurfacefullofclouds1]

If the Larrie fandom is good at anything, it’s making side blogs to mock Louis and his friends, with some added hatred toward other fans. “Hard liquor mixed with a bit of intellect”: maybe they mock Harry, too. It’s equal opportunity condescension all around.

#they feel so clever #such a weird mentality #I detest those supercilious snide accounts - and they’re all from the same festering sources

[dykeredhood]

It’s fun balking at things (that I generally consider to be normal wants/needs) because I was never really permitted to be an actual person when I was growing up

#made the mistake of telling my mother that we (group of ~11 year old girls) #at a sleepover had stayed up until like 4am #and from then I wasn’t allowed to have any sleepovers with anyone ever again #so yeah my fucking mistake for being so (apparently) delinquent and terrible #we stayed up that late/early eating chocolates I stg #i feel like I’ve not had as much experience being my own person compared to others #and I’ve surlily accepted that it’s not like I can fucking go back in time #it still makes me sad #OFC then later on when things got very dire and I had developed more of a spine #my father was somehow CONVINCED that I was going out robbing stores or something equally delinquent #instead of continuing to hold down my part-time minimum wage job at the craft store which I ENJOYED #fine it wasn’t at all great being a cashier but I tolerated it well enough gdi #I’m not inherently bad!!! i have my vices and my own rotten tendencies but I’m suitably polite and #only affect a general look of contempt because that’s what I learnt from my father! 😃🤩 #I’m supercilious for sure and I do consider myself to be a intellectual #considering the fucking BOORS I have to work alongside with in my department #we’re really getting into things tonight #this got away from me #personal #rant in tags

[padfootastic]

Being a Sirius Black stan is not enough, I need for the Jegulussies to never speak about him again because how do they always have the most horrific takes AND they say it with their full chest like it’s the most brilliant analysis alive when their conceptualization of the character begins and ends with him as a drama queen obstacle to their ship. Yes this is un-necessarily salty yet I am not sorry!

jegulussies omg 💀💀

i do agree like. some of the loudest takes on here act as if their half baked opinions r equivalent to like. canon? and it’s the weirdest bc they’re like ‘don’t care ab canon’ but they try so hard to establish their views as it and like,,,,ugh. yeah. annoying.

sirius has been entirely rewitten, first by the r/s fans and then the j/r side and it’s so annoying bc like, not to act like i’m the only authority on sirius black but also…ykno. ykno.

#sirius black #sorry to act all supercilious and stuff #but i don’t trust just anyone w my baby #so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #just gonna have to put up w it lol #i just. really wanna like jegulus ykno? #i’m not rly a fan of enemies to lovers but i still read a lot of it #but the ways it’s written most of the time just does not appeal to me #i’ve mentioned it before but i don’t like being a undermined. at all. in any scenario. #and that at happens so often #kills all my excitement. #pen’s asks

[laurelindebear]

I am not supposed to be working today because I don't work Fridays and it's a bank holiday and I've done my hours this week but I am anyway because I'm behind where I want to be and I am haunted by the full list of information fields for cataloguing procedure.

H...how do I somehow create an in-house document that contains the exact wording and formatting that should be used for every possible iteration of every piece of information that could/would/will be added to an object entry in a catalogue under every possible circumstance. I'm not sure that's physically possible.

For reference, there are no less than 101 fields that are listed in the recommended cataloguing procedure. I. I don't.

I'm going to have to simplify and streamline all of this, because our catalogue absolutely does not contain 101 informational fields yet alone more to describe what those 101 fields are. I'll be really jazzed when I'm sure the inventory is complete, to be honest. I'll probably do a stupid little dance that day.

#personal #work #museum work #cataloguing #I have gazed into eternity and it has looked back superciliously wearing pince-nez #I thought I could be pedantic but this is god-level stuff here #I feel genuinely changed as a person right now #also I've probably eaten too much chocolate today

[rudysassafras]

#quentin tarantino #heard quintin tarantino use this to describe chevy chase’s characters #vocabulary #he described them as supercilious assholes